bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
INTERPRETING MOET'S 2018 GENERAL EDUCATION ENGLISH CURRICULUM
Authors: Van Van Hoang
Published: February 2023

In this paper as the chief developer of the document, I will attempt to interpret and clarify some essential points of the General Education English Curriculum (GEEC) promulgated by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) on December 26, 2018. Three questions raised for exploration are: (1) “What are the backgrounds to the development and promulgation of MoET’s 2018 GEEC?”, (2) “What are the prominent characteristics of MoET’s 2018 GEEC?”, and (3) “How is MoET’s 2018 GEEC structured and why is it structured in the way it is?” These questions will be addressed in detail throughout the paper.
EMI FOR ENGINEERING-TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS IN VIETNAM: CHALLENGES AND SUGGESTIONS
Authors: Quang Dong Lam , Thi Ngoc Le Phan , Thi Tuyet Nguyen
Published: February 2023

The paper aims to shed light on EMI challenges from the perspective of engineering-technology students at various universities in Vietnam where EMI is in current and popular usage. A total of 307 questionnaires were delivered and returned, among which 288 were qualified, and 27 respondents were selected for in-depth interviews. Data from the questionnaires and interviews were analyzed along with information gathered from respondents’ journals. The findings indicate that Vietnamese engineering-technology students encountered different EMI-related challenges, typically subject matter content and vocabulary. They suggest several solutions, such as teachers using both Vietnamese and English rather than solely English in EMI classes. It is hoped that learners' perceptions of the difficulties they encountered and their proposed solutions to cope with such difficulties will help relevant stakeholders to make appropriate adjustments to the teaching methods and content accordingly, which is the key message that this study yields.
Postmodernism and its Most Prominent Foundations in Western Thought: A Critical S tudy
Authors: Fadhil Rashad
Published: February 2023

Western thought has a clear impact on Arab and Islamic arena. Western ideas, philosophies, and visions have an impact on the world today. Therefore, this research addresses and identifies the concept of postmodernism, and its most prominent characteristics that distinguished this philosophy, as well as the most prominent foundations that resulted from it, and which led to the transformations that took place in the contemporary world today, from solidity and stability to fluidity and permanent change, and from certainty to suspicion, and from Optimism into nihilism, and these great transformations that occurred in the history of Western thought led to the production and foundations of relativism, which became a feature of postmodernism, as the truth and the tendency to uncertainty and uncertainty were undermined, and it became a saying that there is no single fixed measure of right and wrong, which is the most prominent statement in This thought, and as a result of it, all mental and cognitive axioms were questioned, such as religion, man, beauty, the universe, politics, history and so on. The feature of nihilism also emerged as one of the most prominent features of this thought, as the absurdity, darkness and loss of meaning made life a general feeling and perception about this world, and this feeling we find. According to most postmodern philosophers in their writings, the characteristic of deconstruction came as a given that the philosophers of this thought relied on to deconstruct the certain axioms and knowledge that are central and stable, and these foundations were generalized to include Ga Political, economic, social, cognitive, and other aspects.
The impact of charitable work on self-preservation and money
Authors: Hussain Zainab , Abdullah Basma
Published: February 2023

Praise be to Allah, the owner of benevolence and generosity, the venerable giving, the possessor of blessings, and prayers and peace be upon my role model, the best of all creation, Muhammad (may  Allah bless him and grant him peace).

    The Islamic Sharia has given great attention to every means that leads to the preservation of necessities in terms of existence and non-existence. It has also paid great attention to the most powerful means that affect the preservation of necessities, which is (charitable work). All of this is that charitable work is very important and should be done seriously and with great enthusiasm, and the idea of charitable work is rooted in Islamic law in the Holy Qur’an and the honorable Sunnah of the Prophet, and among the most important things that help one to do charitable work:

A - Religious motive.

b- Adapting to the morals of our Prophet Muhammad (may  Allah  bless him and grant him peace).
Heritage Languages Acquired, Learned, and Used among Kalimantan University Students, Indonesia: A Perception
Authors: Utomo Aries
Published: February 2023

Heritage language is a language taught and learned from parents. It was integrated from generation to generation. In Kalimantan, heritage languages are very various and has developed due to many influences from internal and external factors. This research aims (1) to describe how students perceive the languages(s) they acquired, learned, and used and (2) to describe their use and perceptions on heritage languages maintenance. This research was a qualitative statistic. In collecting data, the researcher employed interview, questionnaire, and observation. In analyzing data, the researcher relied on Miles and Huberman model for qualitative data and statistic formulas for quantitative data. Based on the findings, it was found that (1) students perceive the languages they acquired, learned, and used in specific ways from the three languages mastered, such as involving in a language community, communicating with family members, friends, including learning from TV or film, and (2) students feel happy to use their HL to communicate with people with different backgrounds and show their identities. Therefore, it can be concluded that students acquire, learn, and use their languages into various ways, while maintaining those languages, they tend to involve in a language community and family members. Indeed, students from various ethnic backgrounds can make the learning process meaningful by knowing many local languages and cultures in a classroom.
Lexical Cohesion in English – Indonesia Machine Translation Output: The Realization of Manual Post-Editing
Authors: Sugiarto Bambang Ruby , Siregar Bahren Umar
Published: February 2023

Lexical cohesion is fundamentally dependent on linguistic cohesiveness. However, whether lexical coherence remains as texts are translated from English into Indonesian has yet to be determined. Considering this, the purpose of this study was to characterize the structure of the lexical cohesion in English-Indonesia Machine Translation (MT), and Post-Editing (PE) outputs and determine whether there were any differences in the use of lexical cohesion. A qualitative descriptive study was conducted. The fifth book in J.K. Rowling's (2013) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix contains the data used in this study. Baker’s (2018) equivalence at the word, above word, grammatical, and textual level, and Halliday & Matthiessen (2014) model of lexical cohesion were used to analyze and interpret the data. It was found that there aren't many differences between the lexical cohesion used in the ST, MT, and PE. While the study explores the application of lexical cohesion, additional problem equivalences, such as those at the word and above-word levels, are added to the PE recommendation.
Association of the choroidal vascularity index with myopic traction maculopathy: A preliminary case-series report
Authors: Quiroz-Reyes Miguel Angel , Quiroz-Gonzalez Erick Andres , Quiroz-Gonzalez Miguel Angel , Lima-Gomez Virgilio
Published: February 2023

The choroidal vascularity index (CVI) is derived from the novel technique of assessing the choroidal vasculature by quantifying vascular flow using optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. Several retinal and choroidal diseases have been characterized using this index. However, no study has established the association of CVI with myopic traction maculopathy (MTM). This study aimed to investigate the association of CVI with different stages of surgically resolved MTM. We performed a consecutive, interventional, one-surgeon, and case-series study of 6 eyes of six patients enrolled between April 2017 and June 2022. One normal emmetropic eye (emmetropic control), one healthy myopic vision (healthy myopic control), and four surgically resolved myopic eyes at different stages of MTM (surgery group) were evaluated using OCT. The OCT images were binarized, and the total choroidal area (TCA, mm2), vascular luminal area (LA, mm2), and choroidal stromal area (SCA, mm2) were quantified using ImageJ software. The CVI (%) was calculated as the ratio of LA to TCA. The primary outcome measure was the association of the CVI with the best-corrected visual acuity in either of the study eyes. The baseline patient characteristics were similar (P > 0.05), except for visual acuity, which was better in the control eyes (P < 0.05). The CVI was 68.2% in the emmetropic control eye and 61.5% in the healthy myopic vision, whereas the mean CVI in the surgical group was 47.8% (40.9–53.3, min to max) (P = 0.07).
Master brickmakers in i7th-i9th century Balakhna
Authors: Казарина Н. И. , Макаров И. А.
Published: February 2023

Статья посвящена изучению кирпичного производства в Балахнинском уезде Нижегородской губернии XVII-XIX вв. Особый интерес представляют документальные свидетельства, касающиеся жизни мастеров кирпичного промысла, тех событий, которые меняли социальный статус мастеров, их достаток и оказывали влияние на развитие промысла. Для исследования были использованы архивные материалы XVII-XVIII вв., статьи и сообщения Нижегородской губернской ученой архивной комиссии конца XIX - начала ХХ в.

The article examines the craft of brickmaking in Balakhna uezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate from the 17th to the 19th century. A special focus is made on documentary evidence concerning the work of master brickmakers, as well as on the events which changed their social status and income, or had profound impact on the development of brickmaking. For our sources, we turned to archival materials of the 17th and 18th centuries, and to the materials and articles published by Nizhny Novgorod Governorate Academic Commission for the Archives at the end of the 19th and in early 20th century.
The impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth of regions of the Russian Federation
Authors: Vasilyeva R. I.
Published: February 2023

One of the priority goals for the state policy is ensuring sustainable economic growth. The theory of fiscal federalism argues that fiscal decentralization fosters both regional and national economic development by providing the opportunity to coordinate regional needs and national policy goals. The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of fiscal decentralization on the economic development of Russian regions. The analysis was conducted with panel data for 83 regions for the period 1996–2019. The simultaneous quantile regression approach with bootstrapping standard error was used for econometric modelling. The results of the study show that fiscal decentralization does not contribute to the economic development of more prosperous regions of the Russian Federation, whereas in less developed regions, fiscal decentralization indicators have a significant negative effect on the gross regional product per capita. Based on the results obtained, proposals aimed at improving state policies were made.
The attitude of Moscow youth to the topic of patriotism in domestic cinema
Authors: Kulikova O. A. , Ryabovicheva A. S.
Published: February 2023

The article is devoted to the theme of patriotism in Russian films from different time periods. The authors point out that such films are being created in order to foster love and respect for the Motherland; however, there is an emerging problem of a decline in the popularity of domestic films on such topics and that of the lack of interest in the topics among young people. The contradiction lies in the fact that such films are becoming increasingly relevant, mainly due to the overall political situation and changes in Russian film distribution. Meanwhile, there is a lot of talk about the quality of domestic patriotic films. Questions are being raised as to which films are of higher quality, what ideas should be popularized among the population, whether such movies really evoke a sense of pride in the Motherland or only ridicule, and whether they are effective in the framework of patriotic education programs. To assess the current situation, the authors of the article collected and analyzed youth representatives’ opinions on the topic of patriotism in domestic cinema. The results of the study allow to form an idea of how works of cinematic art can be used for educating citizens and moving the culture forward.
The role of social institutions in shaping taxpayer behaviour
Authors: Tikhonova A. V.
Published: February 2023

The article is devoted to the assessment of the impact that the social institutions of family, education and business have on taxpayer behaviour of natural persons. Special emphasis is placed on novice taxpayers, namely graduates, as they are most exposed to the impact of social factors. A laboratory experiment in the form of a survey of Russian students, conducted in 2021, served as the main research method. In order to process the results obtained, correlation and regression analysis, structural analysis, and the method of tabular presentation of data were used. It was found that the level of influence that the institutions under study have on tax behavior is different, that of the institution of family being the weakest. Respondents’ answers indicate that the joint influence of the institutions of education and business is much stronger. The results of the study can be used by the Federal Tax Service of Russia to develop a strategy for interacting with taxpayers as well as to implement the policy on legalization of business entities’ income. Prospects for further exploration of the topic are linked to the possibility of conducting a more detailed experiment that would include an extended list of questions. Such list will allow to assess the impact of a larger number of social institutions on taxpayers’ behavioural motives.
The emergence of new international organizations in the context of digital transformation of the world economy: myth or reality?
Authors: Starodubtseva E. B. , Medvedeva M. B.
Published: February 2023

Not only does the process of digitalisation in the broad sense affect individual enterprises and smaller financial organizations, but it also has a direct impact on international economic organizations’ operations. This is manifested both in the need to introduce digital technologies into their activities and to a greater extent in the need they experience to adapt themselves to new realities. The range of actors in the world economy is expanding, the role of transnational corporations is changing, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for the state to regulate production and circulation at the national level, which generates the necessity of creating additional opportunities for international regulation. To a certain extent, existing levers of influence used by international organizations are outdated and require serious revision. The question thus arises as to which one of the following directions for the system’s development should become the main one: reforming existing organizations, establishing fundamentally new ones or combining the two options. The purpose of the article is to analyze current changes in international economic relations, caused by the digital transformation, and to identify the key ways to improve the institutional architecture of the world economy.
Project approach to the development of rural tourism
Authors: Andreeva M. V. , Kryukova I. V. , Yakovleva E. N.
Published: February 2023

The authors of the article provide an overview of scientific approaches to the definition of the essence and role of event and gastronomic tourism against the backdrop of the rural tourism promotion currently carried out. The interrelation between all the aforementioned types of tourism and the expediency of their joint development are substantiated. The necessity of holding events in order to smooth out the seasonality of rural tourism and attract tourists interested not only in standard services of rural guest houses but also in entertainment events is proved. Special emphasis is placed on the application of the project approach to the process of creating events. A description of the festivals held in the Vologda region is provided. The main problems of the implementation of project management at the municipal level are identified. The possibility of holding gastronomic festivals within the clusters operating in the region is considered. The example of the «SyrFest» gastronomic festival is used to demonstrate a possible project structure designed for such event.
Weighted multivariate curve resolution – alternating least squares based on sample relevance
Authors: Ahmad Mohamad , Vitale Raffaele , Cocchi Marina , Ruckebusch Cyril
Published: February 2023

Alternating least squares, within the multivariate curve resolution framework has seen a lot of practical applications and shows its distinction with its relatively simple and flexible implementation. However, the limitations of least squares should be considered carefully when deviating from the standard assumed data structure. Within this work we highlight the effects of noise in the presence of minor components, and we propose a novel weighting scheme within the weighted multivariate curve-resolution-alternating least squares framework, to resolve it. Two simulated and one Raman imaging case is investigated, by comparing the novel methodology against standard multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares and essential spectral pixel selection. A trade-off is observed between current methods, while the novel weighting scheme demonstrates a balance, where the benefits of the previous two methods are retained.
Models of Polaron Transport in Inorganic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Titanium Oxides
Authors: Morita Kazuki , Golomb Matthias , Rivera Miguel , Walsh Aron
Published: February 2023

Polarons are a type of localized excess charge in materials and often form in transition metal oxides. The large effective mass and confined nature of polarons make them of fundamental interest for photochemical and electrochemical reactions. The most studied polaronic system is rutile TiO2 where electron addition results in small polaron formation through the reduction of Ti(IV) d0 to Ti(III) d1 centers. Using this model system, we perform a systematic analysis of the potential energy surface based on semi-classical Marcus theory parameterized from the first-principles potential energy landscape. We show that F-doped TiO2 only binds polaron weakly with effective dielectric screening after the second nearest neighbor. To tailor the polaron transport, we compare TiO2 to two metal-organic frameworks: MIL-125 and ACM-1. The choice of ligands and connectivity of the TiO6 octahedra largely vary the shape of the diabatic potential energy surface and the polaron mobility. Our models are applicable to other polaronic materials.
The Chemical Bond in H2: An Orbital Exchange Calculation
Authors: Merrithew Paul
Published: February 2023

This paper extends the orbital exchange method calculation of H2 to include the possibility of a [HH, H+H-] resonance. The impact of the resonance on the orbitals overlaps and on the kinetic energy is described. The bond energy for H2 is found by varying the parameters associated with the compression (orbital reduction) and polarization of the 1s bonding orbitals of H and H-, and the extent of resonance, to obtain the maximum bond energy with the bonding overlap less than or equal to 1.0. The solution finds a binding energy, De, of 4.752 e.v. at a bond length of 0.733 with resonance fraction of 0.377. This is to be compared with the accepted value for De of 4.75 e.v. at 0.741. The success of this calculation strongly supports the hypothesis that overlapping bonding orbitals are not completely distinguishable and the efficacy of the orbital exchange method.
Heterogeneously Catalyzed Decarbonylation of Thioesters by Supported Nanoparticle Catalysts
Authors: Matsuyama Takehiro , Yatabe Takafumi , Yamaguchi Kazuya
Published: February 2023

This study demonstrated a heterogeneously catalyzed system for decarbonylation of various aryl thioesters to produce thioethers and CO by utilizing CeO2- or hydroxyapatite-supported Ni or Pd nanoparticle catalysts. The Ni catalysts showed high catalytic activity, while the Pd catalysts possessed excellent functional group tolerance.
AN ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE IN INNER MONGOLIA AUTONOMOUS REGION: A CASE STUDY OF BAYANNUR CITY
Authors: Yu Lu , Cai Huan
Published: February 2023

As the main carrier of information, language signs can be seen everywhere in public, such as various shop signs, guideboards, warning signs, billboards and posters. However, people rarely pay attention to them and the meaning they embody. Linguistic landscape is one of the hot topics in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. Therefore, based on the research framework of Rosenbaum’s investigation of Keren Kayemet Street in Jerusalem, Israel, this paper intends to investigate the linguistic landscape of public signs in Bayannur City of Inner Mongolia, in order to understand the language use in the linguistic landscape of Bayannur City. In addition, relevant empirical data can provide some reference for the language planning and language policies of the City language Commission and government departments.
STUDENTS’ PREDISPOSITION TO BEING A VICTIM OF INTERNET CRIME IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS OF NIGERIA
Authors: Tolulope OJO Odunayo
Published: February 2023

The intensive and pervasive use of the use of the internet among the youth is an incontrovertible fact. Electronic or cybercrime among the youth has figuratively become endemic beating most security preventive networks and putting online users at the risk of becoming unsuspecting victims. This paper examines students’ Students’ Predisposition to Being a Victim of Internet Crime in Tertiary Institutions of Nigeria. The study employs quantitative research methods, 150 students were selected using multistage sampling procedure. Data were gathered on User’s purpose of using Internet and predisposition to internet Victimization; and Student Socio-economic status and Victimization Experience. Data were analyzed using frequency counts, percentage and correlation analysis. information from the respondents revealed that, students who engaged in online banking had been victimized at least in which their accounts was debited by unknown person without their knowledge/ consent and also, those who engaged in chatting and performing e-business transaction with high social economic status are more susceptible to e-victimization experience, more so, users’ motives of surfing internet are directly related to their vulnerability to victimization experience. Finally, from the study, it was observed that there is positive relationship between individual socio-economic status and their victimization experienced. The study concludes that students who engaged in online banking transaction, both via app, point of sales POS or e-transfer is exposed to fraudsters and more vulnerable to internet fraud experiences therefore recommended that student should try as much as possible not to display wealth or any of their socio-economic information on social media.
PERFORMANCE OF PROMISING EARLY VARIETIES OF SUGARCANE (SACCHARUM SPP. HYBRID COMPLEX) AND THEIR ROLE TO BOOST SUGAR INDUSTRY UP IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA
Authors: Mahata Goutam
Published: February 2023

Sugarcane provides raw materials to the sugar industry (Khaitan India Ltd located at Plassey, Nadia) in West Bengal having very low cane crushing ability (69,000 Metric Ton) & recovery (5.1%) during 2017-18 leading to poor paying capacity to farmers. The main objective of this study is to introduce the newly released promising varieties of sugarcane with high sucrose and high recovery of commercial cane sugar and further testing of the varieties most suitable for this region. Replacing the existing old varieties like BO 130 and promoting early promising varieties is in urgent need to boost up the sugar industry is also one of the important objectives of this study. In this context, a field experiment was conducted during 2017-‘18 and 2018-’19 crop season at Sugarcane Research Station, Bethuadahari, Nadia, West Bengal, India to assess the performance of promising early varieties of Sugarcane on yield and quality of juice. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design with five early varieties (viz. CoLk 94184, CoSe 01421, Co 0232, CoB 99161 &CoSe 95422) and BO 130 as check with four replications. The data were recorded on single cane weight, number of millable canes, cane yield, brix (%), sucrose (%), Commercial Cane Ssugar(CCS%) and CCS yield. There were significant difference among the varieties for yield and yield attributing characters. Pooled analysis of the results showed that the early variety CoLk 94184 recorded the maximum Commercial Cane Sugar (CCS) yield (10.23t/ha) followed by CoB 99161, CoSe 95422, CoSe 01421 and Co0232, whereas minimum CCS yield (6.28t/ha) was found with the standard variety BO 130. Therefore, the replacement ofthe existing standard varieties with the promising new early varieties would be most economic and profitable and can easily boost up the sugar factory by increasing the recovery (%) and able to produce sugar of improved quality.
REVIEW ON POST-HARVEST HANDLING OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES TO MINIMIZE LOSS
Authors: Budhathoki Prashna , Pandey Shreejan kumar , Magar Prajwal Darlami
Published: February 2023

Post-harvest handling is carried out only after the harvest of fruits and vegetables. The harvesting method varies according to the nature of the crop and also based on the availability of resources. Fruits and vegetables have a limited shelf-life. So, they must be harvested at the proper stage of maturity. Post-harvest quality and shelf-life of fruits and vegetables mainly depend upon handling practices and various treatments been carried out after harvest. Poor handling practices and lack of various treatments lead to post-harvest loss. Losses in vegetables mainly occur due to direct packaging without removal of field heat, harvesting at an improper stage of maturity, etc. while losses in fruits mainly occur due to improper methods of harvest, packaging, etc. Proper handling practices like cleaning, sorting and grading, pre-cooling, packaging, storage, and transportation leads to minimization of loss. Also, various techniques like the application of modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) help in reducing the activity of microorganisms and increasing shelf life. The data were collected from different relevant sources.
PHOSPHORUS INCREASES GROWTH AND FLOWER PRODUCTION OF GLADIOLUS (GLADIOLUS GRANDIFLORA L.)
Authors: Biswas Ram Chandra , Mannan Md. Abdul , Kabir Md. Yamin
Published: February 2023

Phosphorus (P) is a key mineral for growth and flower production of gladiolus. An experiment was conducted at the Field Laboratory of Khulna University with four P levels (0, 150, 300, 450 kg ha-1) and three gladiolus variety (Kolmilota, Red Beauty, White Queen) to investigate the effect of phosphorus and variety on growth and flower production of gladiolus. The experiment was set out in randomized complete block design following three replications. Phosphorus increased growth, flowering, corm and cormel production of gladiolus. The highest number of spike (81111 ha-1) was obtained from the 150 kg P ha-1 and the lowest (69444 ha-1) from control (no P). The highest yields of corm (5.244 t ha-1) and cormel (2.578 t ha-1) were recorded from 450 kg P and 300 kg P, respectively while the lowest yields of corm (5.111 t ha-1) and cormel (1.861 t ha-1) from control treatment. The highest corm and cormel yields were obtained from White Queen (5.258 t ha-1) and Kolmilota (2.430 t ha-1), respectively. Both the variety White Queen and phosphorus level 450 kg ha-1 resulted higher net return and benefit cost ratio suggesting cultivation of White Queen with 450 kg P ha-1 for better production of gladiolus.
ECONOMICS OF ONION SEED PRODUCTION IN WESTERN RUKUM, NEPAL
Authors: Modi Bishal , Bhattarai Keshav , Khatri Deepak , Basnet Bikas , Bk Asbin
Published: February 2023

Onion seeds are a promising sub-sector for boosting productivity, poverty alleviation, food and nutrition security in Nepal although they are high-value and low-volume commodities. Our study is useful to estimate the economics of onion seed production in the Salyan District of Nepal. Sixty household respondents were randomly selected using cluster sampling for primary data collection through pre-tested semi-structured questionnaires, field surveys and verified by focus group discussion. Multiple linear regression and indexing techniques were used to analyze data on the SPSS program. Our study shows that the average cost of production of onion seed per kg NRs 622.83 with revenue NRs 400. The benefit-cost ratio was 0.64 for onion seed production indicating the loss caused by severe price fluctuations in recent years due to biotic stress, the influence of Indian seeds, an unhealthy chain of seed pricing and marketing. The cost of labor and plant protection is statistically significant with onion seed productivity. To boost onion seed production productivity and profitability, efficient and cost-effective resource management is required. Our study strongly suggests stakeholders and policymakers focus on price determination, integrated market linkage, input, and technical assistance to the farmer.
EFFECT OF PRE-HARVEST FACTORS ON POSTHARVEST QUALITY OF HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Authors: Thokar Namrata , Kattel Dipak , Subedi Sabnam
Published: February 2023

Postharvest quality of the products refers to the market quality, table quality, appearance quality, nutritional quality and many more. All the quality such as size, shape, texture, taste, free from insect pest and diseases are the key pre-harvest factors affecting the postharvest quality .Pre-harvest factors also have great effects on growth and development of plants. Quality of fresh horticultural produce are the combination of characteristics, attributes, and properties that give the value for food and enjoyment to consumers. Pre-harvest factors consists of genetic, environmental, cultural and physiological components. The genetic characteristics and physiological status of the commodity help to determine the typical postharvest behavior and quality of the produce. Various farmers, scientists, specialists of these field should work together in order awareness, knowledge to ensure to optimized the pre-harvest factors for higher production of quality horticultural products. The main aim of these review is to learn about the pre-harvest factors that affect the postharvest quality of products. It was also concluded that by these study we can clearly understand these pre-harvest factors in order to maintain the postharvest quality of product.
A REVIEW ON POST-HARVEST PRECOOLING METHODS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Authors: Subedi Sabnam , Kattel Dipak , Thokar Namrata
Published: February 2023

Precooling is the process of reducing field heat from fresh produce immediately following harvest in order to slow down metabolic processes and minimize degradation before marketing or storage. In post-harvest systems, precooling is a crucial step in preserving high-quality fruits and vegetables. The upkeep of desirable, fresh, and marketable produce is probably the most crucial activity. There are seven main techniques for pre-cooling fresh produce: evaporative cooling, vacuum cooling, forced air cooling, ice chilling, and room cooling. All methods require the ability to remove the typical heat gain in the facility as well as the refrigeration capacity to lower the temperature of the produce within the required period. The objective of this review is to present the most recent data on precooling techniques and to encourage their use in the fruit and vegetable business. All of these techniques operate using various mediums. Cold air is used in forced-air cooling and room cooling, cold water is used in hydrocooling, ice is directly in contact with items when they are packaged, water evaporates in vacuum cooling, and liquid nitrogen is used in cryogenic cooling. As a result, precooling has been discovered to be the most crucial of all the processes required to maintain any acceptable, fresh, and marketable fruits and vegetable production.
Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta Complications and its Management
Authors: Sugiyama Takuya , Tomita Keisuke , Ishida Kenichiro , Maruhashi Takaaki , Matsumura Yosuke
Published: February 2023

Numerous complications have been reported regarding the use of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA). Complications can be broadly classified into the following six categories: arterial access-related, REBOA catheter insertion-related, balloon positioning-related, balloon inflation-related, balloon deflation-related, and sheath placement and removal-related. REBOA operators must be knowledgeable about these possible complications and their management, along with its utility. A strong commitment to using REBOA safely and complication-free is essential to the skillful use of REBOA.
Ting, minne og identitet hos Inghill Johansen
Authors: Seiler Thomas
Published: February 2023

Things play a crucial role in Johansen’s short prose. However, they do not have an independent life as has been the case in Kafka’s prose, instead they are to be understood as memorial objects linked to their users. The aim of the following paper is to discuss this relationship more in detail, by considering the sceptical attitude of the narrator toward language as a medium of communication.
Skandynawska reklama komercyjna. Budzące kontrowersje u polskiego odbiorcy medialnego zderzenie stereotypowego postrzegania Skandynawii z jej obrazem w przekazie reklamowym
Authors: Lusińska Anna
Published: February 2023

Advertising is a product of culture and, at the same time, creates culture. Advertisements often refer to symbols and myths, but also to stereotypes, i.e. socially established, “rigid” views, ideas about reality consisting of someone else’s opinions, which are deeply rooted in human consciousness. Using such images – both native and foreign – for commercial purposes, advertisements can distort them to affect the recipient. The aim of this article is to identify and analyse selected Scandinavian commercial advertisements considered controversial in terms of confronting the stereotypical perception of Scandinavia by the Polish and Scandinavian media recipient with the image of Scandinavia contained in the message. The study also makes an attempt to evaluate this type of communication.
Automatic covariates selection in dynamic regression models with application to COVID-19 evolution
Authors: Ezquerro Ana , Aneiros Pérez Germán , Oviedo de la Fuente Manuel
Published: February 2023

This work introduces a new approach in time-series analysis field for automatic co- variates selection in dynamic regression models. Based on [1] and [2] previous study, a forward-selection method is proposed for adding new significant covariates from a given set. This algorithm has been implemented and optimized in R as a package, and it has been applied to multiple simulations to validate its performance. Finally, the obtained results from the IRAS database of Catalonia are presented to analyze the COVID-19 evolution.
Design and Evaluation of a Cross-Lingual ML-based Automatic Speech Recognition System Fine-tuned for the Galician Language
Authors: Froiz-Míguez Iván , Blanco-Novoa Óscar , Fraga-Lamas Paula , Fustes Diego , Dafonte Vázquez José Carlos , Pereira Javier , Fernández-Caramés Tiago M.
Published: February 2023

In recent years Machine Learning (ML) strategies have proven to be useful to automate numerous classification and pattern detection tasks in diverse fields thanks to the increase of computational power in hardware. One of such fields is the Automatic Speech Recog- nition (ASR), which can use ML architectures to transcribe human speech into readable text. The Word Error Rate (WER) obtained with ML strategies can become relatively low while providing quick responses, reaching accuracy levels that approach human tran- scription accuracy. However, one of the main drawbacks in traditional architectures is the high demand of transcribed data to obtain a low WER in training. This kind of data is particularly hard to be achieved due to the high dependency on human processing. Luckily, a new framework proposed in 2020 (wav2vec2), considerably reduces the need for audio labelling thanks to the use of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with self-supervised training on cross-lingual unlabelled audios of multiple languages and the ability to fine- tune the obtained results with labelled audios of a specific language. Thus, the framework can obtain results that outperform previous architectures by using much smaller audio datasets with transcriptions. This paper presents an ASR system based on wav2vec 2.0 that is fine-tuned for Galician, a language which currently only has small audio datasets available. Such a system is evaluated with a spontaneous speech dataset of approximately 1 hour from the Galicia Parliament, showing a relatively low WER (18.61%).
Testing and Analysis of Self-Sovereign Decentralized Digital Identity Technology
Authors: Santos-Cabaleiro Pablo , Rivera-Dourado Martiño , Vázquez-Naya José Manuel
Published: February 2023

The emergence of the Internet has generated new functionalities in our daily lives: data sharing, people communication or even the creation of a new “digital life” within the virtual world. Nowadays, each user visits many websites and web applications, in which the owner companies stores certain information from the user to be able to use the services offered. As a result, the user’s digital identity is scattered in many websites databases. During the last few years, some solutions have been developed, proposing a new digital identity solution that is known as Self-Sovereign Identity. This solution allows the decentralization of the user personal data and the self-sovereign identity management using blockchain technology. This paper shows a proof of concept of a simplified self-sovereign identity system that allows the user to manage their personal data with different external and compatible web services.
Latency Evaluation of an IoT Bluetooth 5 Opportunistic Edge Computing System
Authors: Niebla-Montero Ángel , Froiz-Míguez Iván , Fraga-Lamas Paula , Fernández-Caramés Tiago M.
Published: February 2023

There are more and more IoT devices that need to be interconnected with each other to perform compute-intensive tasks due to their limitations in terms of storage, computing power and energy consumption. However, IoT devices encounter the problem of the lack of wireless connectivity in places where they are deployed or where they are traveling through. A solution to this problem consists in the use of opportunistic systems, which provide connectivity and processing resources efficiently by reducing remote communications to the cloud. Opportunistic networks are considered useful both in IoT scenarios where the cloud becomes saturated (e.g., due to an excessive amount of concurrent communications or to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks), as well as in those areas where wireless communications coverage is not available, such as it frequently occurs in rural areas or during natural disasters, wars or when other factors cause network outages. This paper presents the design of a novel opportunistic Edge Computing system based on the use of Bluetooth 5 and Single Board Computers (SBCs). To illustrate the performance and feasibility of the proposed system, latency tests are presented. For such latency tests, an experimental testbed was built by communicating two separate IoT networks (each network consisted of an IoT node and an opportunistic Edge Computing gateway). The tests calculated the time of message propagation from one end node to another. The obtained results show that the developed system obtains latencies between 850 and 1200ms, depending on the scenario, which make the solution viable for many application scenarios with low latency requirements.
The impact and Consequences of Deepfakes in Cyberspace on the Social Environment
Authors: Manuel García , Sá Vítor J. , Veloso Gomes Paulo , Marques Antonio , Pereira Javier
Published: February 2023

We live in an era daily inundated with information, and the economy of attention makes us far from the truth. The present study has its core to study the creation, use and sharing of videos originated by artificial intelligence that can make it appear that a person says or does something, although he has never said or done anything of the kind. This content is called deepfake. The problem is the way this content is propagated, which for the untrained eye it can be seen as authentic. Quantitative research was carried out, through an inquiry and a literature review.
Region of interest-bounded COVID-19 lung screening using images from portable X-ray devices
Authors: Lizancos Vidal Plácido Francisco , Moura Joaquim de , Ramos Lucía , Novo Jorge , Ortega Marcos
Published: February 2023

X-ray analysis of the lungs was the main method to assess the degree of affliction of SARS-COV-2. Due to the high contagiousness of this pathology, this assessment was conducted using portable X-ray devices. Automatic methodologies were proposed to compensate the image quality of said portable X-ray devices. However, these methodologies were shown to be exploiting external information (such as pacemakers or ventilators present in the images) to determine the severity. For this reason, we present a methodology specially designed to reduce the effect on an automatic methodology of these extraneous artifacts. We extract the lung region and we perform a screening of the presence of the pathology using only the pulmonary region. Finally, to ascertain the performance of the system (and provide explainability to the clinical experts), we generate the corresponding activation maps. The presented methodology has achieved a more than satisfactory performance in all the scenarios and the activation maps clearly indicate that the system is successfully using information from the lung region while excluding elements unrelated to the disease.
Virtual Reality Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Biofeedback System for Glossophobia
Authors: Correia António , Veloso Gomes Paulo , Donga João , Marques Antonio , Pereira Javier
Published: February 2023

The fear of public speaking is one of the most common social phobias causing anxiety problems in many people.

In this context, this project focuses on developing a tool capable of helping mental health professionals using virtual reality as a controlled environment in expository therapies, in this case applied to Glossophobia.

To enhance the creation of self-control mechanisms in these patients, the use of virtual reality is explored with the aid of Neuro and Biofeedback, allowing the visualization in real time of the physiological response to the stimuli of the virtual environment.
Chemical Master Equation model to predict the COVID-19 epidemic spread
Authors: Pájaro Manuel , Alonso Antonio A. , Otero-Muras Irene
Published: February 2023

The COVID-19 pandemics has shown relevant stochasticity in the spread of viral in- fection. Here, we formulate the dynamics of the epidemics spread as a stochastic SIR model, handling the compartmental model (of the SIR type) as a set of chemical reactions, and applying the Chemical Master Equation that describes the dynamics of the equivalent stochastic chemical reaction system. In this way, the solution (evolution of the probability distribution over time) can be obtained via the classical Stochastic Simulation Algorithm. The proposed methodology has been used to predict the COVID-19 evolution in small and medium size municipalities of Galicia.
Annotated Dataset for Anomaly Detection in a SDN infraestructure
Authors: Otero Dans Anxo , Carneiro Díaz Víctor Manuel
Published: February 2023

Software-Defined Network (SDN) is an emerging architecture which objective is to re- duce the limitations of traditional IP networks by decoupling the network tasks performed on each device in certain planes by controlling and managing the whole network from a centralized location. However, this centralization also introduces new inefficiencies and vulnerabilities, such as those related to southbound and northbound controller interfaces, which often negatively affect security. In the past years, Machine Learning (ML) tech- niques have been implemented in SDN architectures to protect networks and solve security problems but sometimes it is difficult to obtain the right characteristics in real time. In this paper, we introduce a flow-based anomaly detection system in which the controller itself is in charge of receiving, analyzing and classifying the traffic by extracting a group of flow features.
EEG Analysis of the Construction of Empathy Towards People with Schizophrenia, After Exposure to Virtual Reality Environments
Authors: Marques André , Veloso Gomes Paulo , Sá Catarina , Marques Antonio , Pereira Javier
Published: February 2023

Schizophrenia is considered a complex syndrome, with multifactorial neurodevelopmental alterations. Empathy is a complex fundamental component of human emotional experience, which influences one's emotions and behavior. On the Electroencephalogram, an activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is characterized by a decrease in alpha activity. The main objective of this work is to understand if the immersive tools of Virtual Reality influence the electrical activity of the brain and the heart. The two immersive tools were able to increase empathy, mainly by altering prefrontal brain activity as well as heart rate.
Low-cost, scalable IoT technology for real-time streaming network auditing
Authors: Fernández-Arruti Gallego Pedro , Mosteiro Vázquez Alejandro Manuel , Dafonte Vázquez José Carlos , Nóvoa Manuel Francisco Javier
Published: February 2023

Nowadays, the security of companies’ assets and network infrastructure is very impor- tant for the proper development of their commercial activity. Large companies are capable of dealing with existing cyber threats, but small and medium-sized companies do not have the necessary budget. Existing security solutions are aimed at large companies, which can invest a lot of money in cybersecurity and have experts qualified of managing them. For this reason, we have created a network auditing tool capable of evaluating the security status of corporate networks and aimed at small and medium-sized companies. This allows us to obtain real time data through streaming techniques and, in addition, it is low cost, scalable, modular and easy to use, designed so that non-expert personnel can understand the security status of their company.
Assistant Robot for Gait Rehabilitation in People with Disability
Authors: Lagos Rodríguez Manuel , Becerra Permuy José Antonio , Pousada García Thais
Published: February 2023

The aim of this work has been the programming of a low-cost mobile robot that acts as a complementary tool in the therapeutic sessions of gait rehabilitation for people with physical and cognitive disabilities. The robot has an assistive function, being able to guide, accompany and motivate the person during the completion of a route previously designed by a therapist.