bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Factors Related to Anemia Prevalence among Women of Childbearing Age in the Period of Global Pandemic
Authors:   Shifa College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Hammad Muhammad , Fardoos Sadaf ,   Riphah Institute of pharmaceutical sciences, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Arif Rasikh ,   Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Rasheed Anmol ,   Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Published: August 2023

Health authorities in Pakistan in collaboration with local and foreign non-government organizations are working hard to achieve the targets set by World Health Organization in 2012, that is, to reduce anemia prevalence and its related factors. However, due to the prevailing COVID-19 crisis, all resources and attention were diverted toward it, which led to ignorance of existing basic health issues. This study assesses anemia prevalence and its related factors among women of childbearing age in the period of global pandemic. A time-lagged, cross-sectional survey was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire among 1,702 volunteer women aged between 15 and 49 years across five major cities of Pakistan from January 2021 to December 2021 using the non-probability consecutive sampling technique. Blood sample results were analyzed to determine prevalence and anemia severity. The chi-squared test and multiple logistic regression were performed to examine the relationship and effect of related factors with hemoglobin levels using SPSS version 26. Among the 1,702 respondents, 788 (46.3%) were non-anemic and 914 (53.7%) were anemic. Anemia prevalence in Karachi was slightly greater (n=294, 55.48%) compared to other cities, and the mean hemoglobin level was 11.98 ± 0.92 g/dL. The chi-square test and multiple logistic regression indicated that the respondents’ employment status, mother’s profession, family income, living conditions, chronic health conditions, use of iron and folic acid supplements, junk food, source of drinking water, and knowledge about anemia and its preventive measures were associated significantly with anemia during the pandemic. Results confirmed that anemia is a multi-factor health problem and that it was totally ignored during the COVD-19 pandemic, as the prevalence increased during the pandemic. Therefore, more attention should be paid to anemia surveillance, anemia awareness programs, and mobilization of community health workers and volunteers to reach a wide range of the population, including women of childbearing age even during the pandemic. Keywords: COVID-19, anemia, related factors, women of childbearing age, prevalence, Pakistan
Mental Illness Treatment Non-Adherence: A Perpetuating Factor of Homelessness among Indigenous People
Authors: Adelekun Ademiniyi , Seffah Kofi D , Salib Korlos , Dardari Lana , Taha Maher , Dahat Purva , Toriola Stacy , Satnarine Travis , Zohara Zareen , Franchini Ana Arcia
Published: August 2023

Mental illness correlates with homelessness, and a vicious cycle exists between the two. Breaking this vicious cycle will entail propagating effective interventional mental illness treatment modalities which need to be adhered to by the patients. Non-adherence to mental illness treatment, even if socio-economic supports were provided, perpetuates homelessness. Homelessness among indigenous people is higher when compared to non-indigenous people in countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. This study aims to look at the extent to which non-adherence to mental illness treatment perpetuates homelessness and also the socio-cultural, medical practice, and policy implications. A retrospective literature review was carried out, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline. Relevant articles were sourced from the PubMed, Google Scholar, and Cochrane Systematic Review databases. The Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) thesaurus was employed to identify relevant concepts. The Boolean method was used to combine the keywords to create a uniform search for articles across the databases. Included articles were free full texts published between 2003 and 2023 in the English language. Fifty-three articles were obtained, and the information obtained confirmed that non-adherence to mental illness treatment would impede recovery and perpetuate homelessness. This article developed a graphical illustration of the homelessness – mental illness vicious cycle and the adjacent mental illness treatment non-adherence and adherence pathways. This illustration could be useful for future studies to better conceptualize mental illness engendered homelessness and the interactions between medical treatment and other variables like housing and intergenerational trauma. This study concludes and recommends that indigenous people-centred policies and Interventional approaches that take the indigenous people’s sensitivities and proclivities should be formulated, propagated, and constantly reviewed to address perpetual homelessness. It is recommended that healthcare practitioners should be aware of and respect these socio-cultural sensitivities and proclivities.
On the Coloniality of Modern Law
Authors: Esmeir Samera
Published: August 2023

The article investigates modern law in its colonial career as it consisted in two paradoxical itineraries. Colonial rule developed under the auspices of governing through modern positive law as it claimed independence from religion and the administration. But the colonies also surfaced as zones of lawlessness, administrative measures, arbitrariness and excessive exceptions. Rather than posit the second itinerary as exceptional to the general first one, notwithstanding how constitutive the exception may be of the rule, this article examines a number of legalities that exemplified these two itineraries in colonial Egypt and theorizes them as co-existing modalities of juridical power that shared similar objectives and fields of intervention. In particular, under historical investigation are legalities that managed agricultural labor through penal/administrative measures. It is argued that these legalities co-existed with positive and liberal legal institutions. Agricultural legalities were “pervasive legalities,” enhancing modern positive law’s production of a gapless legal order that aspired to capture limitless terrains of social life. This legal history reveals that the hallmark of modern colonial law did not consist in substituting a regime of separation of powers and codification for that of pre-colonial fusion or administrative legalities. Rather, the historical achievement of modern law consisted in its “elastic positivism,” that is to say, in wedding positive law to pervasive legalities as both served to dominate the social: the first from the independent terrain of codified law and the second from the material domains of social life. This hallmark of gaplessness and pervasiveness is what made modern law fit for colonial rule.
Private Law Codification, Modernization and Nationalism: A View from Critical Legal History
Authors: Pihlajamäki Heikki
Published: August 2023

Private law codification is not as indispensable to continental legal culture as standard legal histories would have us believe. Law was modernizing roughly at the same time, and in the same way, in Western countries that did not codify private law, including the common law world and Scandinavia. This suggests a connection between the legal history of regions with and without codification; in this exercise in critical legal history, I argue that the engine driving the modernization of Western law has been legal scholarship, not legislators and their codes. Moreover, the idea of a European civil code may struggle today at least partly because the civil code never had the monopoly over European legal development standard legal histories have assigned to it. The article thus illustrates the relationship between comparative legal history and critical legal history; critical legal history may not be comparative by definition, but it almost always is comparative in fact, at least in the broad sense of comparative legal history exemplified here.
Facing Terror Together: Public Agents and Civic Worth
Authors: Yankah Ekow
Published: August 2023

Fearful that moments of great public emergency will create public norms that callously trade the lives of citizens as mere commodities, Harel invokes Kant to undergird the conclusion that actions taken in emergencies can only be taken as a private citizen. Doing so, however, misses the ways in which we can reason together about immense sacrifice as a polity without reducing fellow citizens to commodities and ratify actions taken in the public name. Focusing on the Aristotelian value of franchise, our full-blooded place in our civic polity, affirms that even in the worst of times, we stand together as fellow citizens.
The Varieties of Ancient Legal History Today
Authors: Ando Clifford
Published: August 2023

The article surveys, contextualizes and explicates the arguments of the eight papers featured in the forum on “The New Ancient Legal History” in 3:1 Critical Analysis of Law (2016).
In Dialogue with Criminal Responsibility
Authors: Lacey Nicola
Published: August 2023

In this response, Nicola Lacey enters into dialogue with the symposium contributors, identifying and commenting on some of the key themes which they have raised about the treatment of criminal responsibility in her book. These include the problematization of progress narratives; criminal law’s capacity to counter—and to reinforce—inequality; the scope for further development of gender and comparative analysis; the appropriate degree of contextualization; and the relationship between historical interpretation and philosophical analysis in the methodology of criminal law theory.
Law and Economism
Authors: Kwak James
Published: August 2023

Classical law and economics was the most important movement in legal scholarship in the past half century, producing innovative new approaches to many subjects such as antitrust, torts, and contracts. It also had tremendous influence outside the academy by reshaping the way many judges interpreted the law. As a historical phenomenon, law and economics was part of the larger story of economism—the belief that simplistic economic models accurately describe reality and should serve as the basis for policy. Law and economics, like economism in general, was cultivated and propagated by conservative foundations and think tanks. It paid off by providing a conceptual vocabulary that judges could use to advance various conservative causes, such as limiting plaintiffs’ rights and rolling back government regulations.
Practicing Queer Legal Theory Critically
Authors: Thomas Kendall
Published: August 2023

This introduction to the Critical Analysis of Law special issue on queer legal studies excavates three conjugal artifacts: an academic manuscript delineating interracial and same-sex marriages as loci of state surveillance and unfreedom; a TED Talk on same-sex marriage as irrefutably queer; and the United States Supreme Court decision holding same-sex marriage a constitutional right. These artifacts, along with their singular referent (state-sanctioned marriage), point to what is or should be critical about the interdiscipline of queer legal studies: theorization not only of the subjectification of subjects of gender and sexual regulation (spouses, singles, you and me), but also theorization of the subjectification of power (here, state power and state formation). What kind of state, and what kind of power, materialize through the governance of sex, intimacy, and coupledom? This methodological imperative complements and productively conflicts with the contributions of this issue, all of which turn their gaze away from the subjectification, domestication, or normalization of the usual, sexual minoritarian suspects, but only some of which explicitly articulate the state-making power of sex and gender.
Algorithmic Transparency and Explainability for EU Consumer Protection: Unwrapping the Regulatory Premises
Authors: Grochowski Mateusz , Jabłonowska Agnieszka , Lagioia Francesca , Sartor Giovanni
Published: August 2023

The principles of transparency and explainability are landmarks of the current EU approach to artificial intelligence. Both are invoked in the policy guidelines as values governing algorithmic decision-making, while providing rationales for existing normative provisions, on information duties, access rights and control powers. This contribution addresses the debate on transparency and explainability from the EU consumer market perspective. The consumers’ position relative to algorithmic decision-making is considered, and their risks concerning mass surveillance, exploitation, and manipulation are discussed. The concept of algorithmic opacity is analyzed, distinguishing technology-based opacity that is intrinsic to design choices, from relational opacity toward users. The response of EU law is then considered. The emerging approach to algorithmic transparency and explainability is connected to the broader regulatory goals concerning transparency in consumer markets. It is argued that EU law focuses on adequate information being provided to lay consumers (exoteric transparency), rather than on understandability to experts (esoteric transparency). A discussion follows on the benefits of transparency, on its costs, and on the extent to which transparency can be implemented without affecting performance. Finally, the merits of a transparency-based regulation of algorithms are discussed and insights are provided on regulating transparency and explainability within the EU law paradigm.
Notified But Unaware: Third-Party Tracking Online
Authors: Larsson Stefan , Jensen-Urstad Anders , Heintz Fredrik
Published: August 2023

Drawing from conceptual studies on transparency, particularly with regard to market complexity, user literacy and resignation, this article studies and analyzes the practices of third-party data collection online. Empirically, we map third-party trackers on a sample of Swedish websites in five sectors (media, retail, banking/insurance, public sector, and health), and the trackers are compared to lists of known trackers to determine their main purpose. These results are then used in digital focus groups divided into high-trust and low-trust individuals, to better understand how everyday consumers perceive and cope with the tracking infrastructure. The main results indicate that third-party tracking is omnipresent online, particularly for media and retail sites, showing that data-driven markets depend on the collection, sharing and trade of consumers’ personal data. Furthermore, despite regulatory provisions promoting clearer notifications and designs within the EU, many users are still highly unaware of the data collection practices and their underlying purposes. The results indicate a weak consent base for data collection and a market structure and data collecting practices that are highly non-transparent. We recommend more active supervisory authorities, and more stringent requirements primarily in relation to the obscure ad tech infrastructures to improve transparency and promote consumer awareness.
Charting the Skies from a Moving Earth: Relativity and Position in Comparative Law
Authors: Fisher James C.
Published: August 2023

This article brings the insights produced by comparative legal analysis to bear on comparative legal discourse itself, in order instructively to recontextualize enduring methodological debates taken to concern the “philosophy” of comparative law. It grounds several such methodological arguments in fundamental positions of legal theory and philosophy, reflecting in doing so on the broader philosophical consequences of specific positions, and emphasizing the resulting problems of incommensurable positionality. It challenges the unvoiced but widely exhibited assumption within comparative law that sufficient reflection, abstraction and care can avoid the privileged reification of contingent legal concepts and categories. It explores the inevitable positionality of all comparative inquiry particularly in connection with the comparatist’s status as both product and reconstituter of legal facts and ideation. It introduces a focus on relative perspective, urging increased attention to how the axioms of general jurisprudence which ground methodological positions within comparative law express a system of law’s relative position within the legal historical process.
Pengaruh Ekstrak Bawang Putih (Allium sativum Linn) terhadap Penurunan Tekanan Darah Pada Lansia dengan Hipertensi di Wilayah Kerja UPTD Puskesmas Peureulak Kabupaten Aceh Timur
Authors: Desreza Nanda , Erawati Erawati , Masthura Syarifah
Published: August 2023

Hipertensi sebagai salah satu penyakit tidak menular sampai saat ini masih dijuluki sebagai The Silent Killer karena gejalanya sulit dikenali bahkan sering tidak menunjukkan gejala dan tanpa keluhan. Berdasarkan data dinas kesehatan provinsi Aceh tahun 2021 hipertensi di Aceh tertinggi terdapat di kabupaten Bireun mencapai 26.373 jiwa, sedangkan Aceh Timur berada di urutan ke delapan dengan prevalensi 27,73%. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh pemberian ekstrak bawang putih (allium sativum linn) terhadap penurunan tekanan darah pada lansia dengan hipertensi di wilayah kerja UPTD Puskesmas Peureulak Kabupaten Aceh Timur tahun 2022. Desain penelitian Quasi Eksperimen, yaitu One Groups Pretest-Posttest. Populasi seluruh lansia di wilayah kerja UPTD Puskesmas Peureulak Kabupaten Aceh Timur, sampel berjumlah 15 responden. Penelitian dilakukan pada tanggal 02 s/d 15 Agustus 2022. Hasil penelitian bahwa penurunan tekanan darah pada lansia dengan hipertensi sebelum pemberian ekstrak bawang putih (Allium Sativum Linn)berada pada kategori hipertensi (100%), penurunan tekanan darah pada lansia dengan hipertensi sesudah pemberian ekstrak bawang putih (Allium Sativum Linn) berada pada kategori normal (53,3%). Pengaruh penurunan tekanan darah pada lansia dengan hipertensi sebelum pemberian ekstrak bawang putih (Allium Sativum Linn), tekanan darah (sistole) diperoleh nilai p-value 0,000< =0,05, sedangkan tekanan darah (diastole) diperoleh nilai p-value 0,000< =0,05.Kata kunci: Ekstrak Bawang Putih, Tekanan Darah, LansiaOne of the non-infectious diseases claimed as the silent killer is hypertension. Hypertension tends to have no particular signs or symptoms because the symptom is hard to recognize and sometimes undetected. Based on the statistical data from Aceh’s Health Department in 2021, Bireun regency wast the highest number of people with hypertension (26.373). While in comparison, East Aceh ranked eighth with a prevalence of 27, 73%. This study aims to know how garlic extract (Allium Sativum Linn) impacted on elderly’s blood pressure. The Quasi-experimental design with one group pretest-posttest was used in this study. The population was all the elderly in Public Health Center (UPTD) Peureulak, East Aceh. The sample was 15 elderly with hypertension. This study was carried out from 2 – 15 August 2022. The finding revealed that before consuming garlic extract (Allium Sativum Linn), the elderlys' blood pressure was classified as 100% hypertension. While after the treatment, the blood pressure was indicated as normal at around 53,3%. From the study, the effect of garlic extract (Allium Sativum Linn) shows a definite trend. Changes in the elderly’s blood pressure steadily declined as characterized by the systole 0,000<ᵃ  =0,05 and diastole with the p-value score of 0,000<ᵃ =0,05.Keywords: Garlic (Allium Sativum Linn) Extract, Blood Pressure, Elderly
Android-based Marketplace Application for Surakarta Local Products
Authors: Baronio Nodas Constantine , Prasetyo Sri Yulianto Joko
Published: August 2023

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many companies suffered losses, leading to a reduction in employees and adversely affecting the community's economy. A significant portion of the local economy depends on the sale of locally produced goods. Moreover, the rapid advancement of information technology has intensified business competition, further impacting the development of local products. Unfortunately, the potential of information technology, particularly Marketplace platforms, to boost the economy and facilitate transactions between customers and sellers has been overlooked. To address these issues, this research aims to develop a Marketplace application to assist the community in selling and promoting their locally made products. The research involves several stages, including analysis, design, simulation prototyping, implementation, monitoring, and management. The result of this study is an Android-based Marketplace application designed to support the sale of local products.
Vascular Leiomyoma Arising From the Nasal Floor Misdiagnosed as a Nasolabial Cyst in an 74-Year-Old Patient
Authors: Lee Jong Hwan , Son Seung Yup , Lee Kun Hee
Published: August 2023

Leiomyoma is a benign tumor that originates from smooth muscle and can develop anywhere in the body where smooth muscle is present. However, leiomyoma arising in the head and neck region are very rare. We experienced a case of a 74-year-old male patient with a right nasal floor mass. The patient complained of bleeding from the right nasal cavity, nasal congestion, and discharge. On physical examination, a relatively smooth-surfaced, well-demarcated mass was observed in the right nasal floor. Preoperative imaging was interpreted as a right nasolabial cyst, and endoscopic excision was performed. Histologic examination confirmed it to be vascular leiomyoma. The patient was followed up for 6 months postoperatively and remains stable with no recurrence of symptoms. We report a case of vascular leiomyoma arising from the nasal floor that was mistaken for a nasolabial cyst in a 74-year-old patient.
Espectro de placenta acreta. Reporte de caso
Authors: Rojas-Pillaca Ramiro , Salinas-Alvarado Pablo Alberto , Saccsa-Cangalaya María Ruth , Tipe-De la Cruz Gisela
Published: August 2023

Introducción. El espectro de placenta acreta es el resultado de una patológica invasión de la placenta al útero, según la profundidad y extensión de la invasión; lo cual produce manifestaciones clínicas como el sangrado por vía vaginal, que puede llegar a terminar en histerectomía y muerte materna. Reporte. Paciente gestante de 34 años con 31 semanas de gestación, procedente de Ayacucho, acude por presentar sangrado profuso por vía vaginal y antecedente de dos cesáreas, por lo que se decide culminar gestación y realizar histerectomía, se confirma por anatomía patología el diagnóstico de placenta increta. La paciente evoluciona favorablemente y es dada de alta con control ambulatorio. Conclusión. El tratamiento de elección de la placenta acreta que invade miometrio continúa siendo la histerectomía debido a la elevada mortalidad y la hemorragia postparto que desencadena, por lo que es de vital importancia un diagnóstico y manejo temprano.
Multiple Radiologic Findings in a Simple Blunt Thoracic Trauma
Authors: Sidipratomo Prijo , Pandelaki Jacob , Widjaja Samuel , Jason Jason
Published: August 2023

Blunt thoracic trauma is one of the main contributors to trauma-related deaths, with the broad possibility of pathological chest injury. Imaging plays an important role in detecting most of internal organ injuries. Here we presented a 56-years-old male with progressive chest pain following blunt chest trauma several days prior without any early intervention. Chest radiograph showed rib fractures, pneumothorax, atelectasis, and raised left hemidiaphragm. Further CT scan evaluation identified additional hemothorax, subcutaneous emphysema and confirming the fourth to tenth rib fractures, pneumothorax, and unilateral hemidiaphragm elevation. As seen in our case, chest radiograph is crucial in initial evaluation of chest injury, usually through identification of pathological landmark. While chest radiograph is limited to one projection, CT scan provide a global evaluation of a region with a high sensitivity and specificity in detecting and confirming most of the injuries. Thus, one must not overlook any lightly appeared blunt thoracic trauma while optimizing the use of radiography and CT scan for the evaluation of injuries.
A Study on Children’s Literature Set in the City: Focusing on Ruth Sawyer’s Roller Skates
Authors:   The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Kim Hokyung
Published: August 2023

This article examines children’s life in the city in Ruth Sawyer’s Roller Skates in light of New Historicism. It understands the literature on the connection between texts and their historical contexts. Its critics are interested in power, gender, race and socially marginalized people in texts. Focusing on interpreting the social, cultural and political factors in the text through the lens of New Criticism helps readers understand better the author’s intention. Traditionally, children’s literature has not paid attention to urban as the setting for child characters’ play and activities with hygiene problems and air pollution. Roller Skates, set in New York in the late 19th century, describes Lucinda Wyman’s city adventure on roller skates. The city already became a multicultural society with the increasing immigrants. Lucinda befriends with her neighbours and her empathy eventually enhances multicultural competence. The novel implies that a child-friendly city can be a good city for the citizen. This study suggests that using the environment is more important than the simple division between rural and urban.
A Study on Aspect of the Expressive Writing by University Students: Using Text Mining and Semantic Network Analysis
Authors:   The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Han Juyeon
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this study is to analyze writing aspects in 110 expressive writing results conducted in liberal arts at D University using text mining and semantic network analysis. To this end, 110 pieces were finally selected for analysis. The analysis target went through a text preprocessing process such as synonymy combination and elimination of non-terms, then extracted key words and analyzed the connection relationship through network analysis. As a result of the analysis of the frequency of keywords, 'thought', 'exercise', 'friend', 'people', and 'life' were emphasized, and as a result of the analysis of the language network, “Exercise-Health-Soccer-Military-Taekwondo-Confidence,” “Picture-Draw-Admission,” “Friends-Friendly -Thanks,” and “Music-Enjoy-Singing-Sharing” were the main cluster words. As a result of the study, the author's self-expressive writing as a university student appeared in ways of individual internal reflection, self-identity formation, self-healing, emotional expression, and self-consolation. Examining university students' expressive writing aspects in liberal arts is meaningful in that it can be an opportunity to identify the characteristics of university students with clear environmental changes, seek classes necessary for future liberal arts education, and further explore their individual lives.
Exploring the Causes and Solutions of Free-Riding in Team Collaboration Learning: Expert Solutions Based on Systematizing Prior Research
Authors:   The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Kim Suyeon , Kim Minjeong
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this study is to systematically analyze the causes of free-riding in team collaborative learning situations and explore practical solutions for various causes of free-riding. Data on the experiences of 270 students from universities in the Seoul metropolitan area who have undergone collaborative classes were collected regarding their experiences of free-riding. The data were reviewed through expert Focus Group Interviews (FGIs) to discuss and derive final solutions. The results indicated that it is important for instructors to detect free-riders early on and provide appropriate scaffolding tailored to the attitudes and characteristics of identified free-riders. In the proposed solutions, emphasis was placed not only on improving positive perceptions of collaboration during and after the collaboration process but also on maintaining team morale. Additionally, the study aimed to establish solutions through scaffolding based on factors related to early detection of potential causes and prevention of free-riding. It is hoped that the results of this study will serve as a helpful resource for instructors leading team collaborative learning in dealing with free-riders.
Colonial Duality of Gyeongseong Cherry Blossom Viewing in Japanese Colonial Era: Focusing on the Novel Planted a flower tree but
Authors:   The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Kim Borim
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this paper is to look at the background of the introduction of cherry blossoms in Japanese colonial era and the purpose of the introduction of the Japanese Government-General of Korea from the perspective of colonial use to facilitate rule over Koreans. Through the analysis of primary historical sources such as the newspaper feed of the time and Lee Taejoon's novel, Planted A Flower Tree But, we first looked at how Japanese colonial era cherry blossoms were introduced and why they were introduced, and secondly, we looked at the representation of cherry trees in Lee Taejoon's novel. As a result of the study, cherry blossoms were introduced in Joseon in 1907 and spread through the process of acceptance and resistance. The colonial duality of cherry blossoms can be considered through the relationship between Japanese and wealthy Koreans who embraced cherry blossom viewing and the poor in Gyeongseong, which had no choice but to be alienated from such cherry blossom viewing in the novel.
A Study on the Effect of Service Quality of Cultural and Artistic Contents of Public Institutions on Viewing Satisfaction: Focusing on Moderating Effect of Culture and Arts Involvement
Authors:   The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Kim Heeyoung , Park Myungsun
Published: August 2023

In this study, after subdividing their service quality factors around cultural and artistic contents of public institutions, we investigated which service quality factors are the main factors that lead to public satisfaction with viewing public cultural content, and the moderating effect of viewing frequency. As a result of the study, first, the difference in viewing satisfaction according to the final academic background of the study subjects and the frequency of visits to the culture and arts center was significant. Second, all of the service quality factors of cultural and artistic content were acting as static influencing factors of viewing satisfaction, and among them, tangible was the strongest static influencing factor. Third, it was found that there was no moderating effect according to the individual cultural and artistic involvement of the public. This researcher suggested that the tangible quality elements of the culture and arts center need to be improved first to improve the quality of culture and arts content in public institutions today.
How to Converge Smart Pole Functions for the Better Urban Life?
Authors:   The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Kim Soyon , Lee Bong Gyou , Cho Ji Yeon
Published: August 2023

Smart cities are being actively adopted in major cities to address urban issues and secure growth drivers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, former research had focused on the technological aspects of smart cities or discussions related to user perceptions, lacking comprehensive discussions that consider socio-cultural and institutional characteristics. This study aims to analyze Smart Pole as one of the most crucial infrastructures in smart cities, to identify key factors for successful adoption and utilization, and to explore strategic approaches. To this purpose, we employed a Socio-Technical Systems(STS) approach. We analyzed Seoul and Gangwon Province cases comparatively. As a result, this study confirmed the need for a systematic strategy that integrates urban characteristics, citizens' cultural background, and demand to install Smart Poles appropriate to the urban environment. This study contributes by expanding STS theory and confirming the significance of considering socio-cultural contexts in establishing strategies for the adoption of new ICT infrastructures such as Smart Pole.
The Effects of Consumer’s Knowledge about Beauty and Determinants of Purchase on Satisfaction with Fundamental Cosmetics
Authors:   The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Park Sewon , Lee Soonhwa , Lee Sangwon
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the beauty knowledge and purchase decision factors of consumers of cosmetics affect the satisfaction of using basic cosmetics. For the study, an online survey was conducted targeting 306 cosmetics consumers. As a result of the study, beauty knowledge of the consumer was less than 13 points out of 30 points, and consumers with a high level of beauty knowledge showed higher levels of satisfaction with basic cosmetics, the need to learn beauty knowledge, and purchasing decision factors than consumers with a low level of beauty knowledge. In addition, it was confirmed that consumers with a high level of beauty knowledge considered quality the most important, and when compared to consumers with a low level of beauty knowledge, they depended on the brand and were less satisfied with purchasing through usage information (reviews). Accordingly, we suggest the necessity of preparing plans for consumers to cultivate beauty knowledge in order to consume cosmetics with high consumer satisfaction.
Meaning of Marriage Migrant Women’s Self-help Community Through Oral-Life History: A Case Study of Marriage Migrant Women’s Self-help Community ‘Talk to Me’
Authors:   The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Oh Minjung
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this study was to review the implications of the marriage migrant women’s self-help community for individuals and society through an oral life history. For this purpose, the study used D.G. Mandelbaum’s framework of analysis such as dimensions of life, turnings and adaptation. In dimensions of life, it has a meaning as an arena for acceptance struggle and that for the solidarity platform. At the turning point, the marriage migrant women attempted to solve the very delicate problems facing them in their real life, and therefore, they perceived the self-help community as an arena for their transformation from ‘otherness’ to ‘subjectification’ as well as that for a financial support. In the life of adaptation, they attached a meaning of space for solving the social problems. After all, it is deemed necessary to support and finance the marriage migrant women’s self-help community as a social value space to develop Korean society into an inclusive multi-cultural society.
A Study of Buddhist Semiotic Analysis on Lee Bul’s
Authors:   The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Cho SungHai
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Buddhist semiotic in  series, one of Lee Bul's representative works. The research question was set as ‘What is the Buddhist semiotic in Lee Bul's  series?’ The essence concepts of Huayan Buddhism, the dependent origination of the dharma realm and nature origination, as well as the Jehaengmusang/selflessness, Ilchegaego/suffering, Yeolbanjeokjeong/Nirvana were assumed as the Buddhist semiotic. These five were deductively coded and analyzed in NVivo 14. As a result, the dependent origination of the dharma realm and nature origination were intuitively recognized at the superficial level. In the case of the former, it was visually and linguistically captured through the image of the Indra network and title. In the case of the latter, it was revealed as an external image against the dualism. The features of Jehaengmusang and Ilchegaego were perceived in a complicated form. The former was gradually presented according to the process of raw fish dying, rotting, disappearing, and being reincarnated as an art work. The latter was expressed in a multifaceted way with the use of specific materials and techniques. Entering the world of Nirvana was realized by multiple appreciation, namely comprehending the other five truths.
The Influence of Thinking Tendency, Symbolic Consumption, Fashion Involvement on the Attitude and Purchase Intention of Online Fashion Shows: Focused on the Louis Vuitton
Authors:   The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Wang Kayiy , Park Hyun joo , Jun Jong Woo
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this study is to discuss how viewers from different cultures and social backgrounds, symbolic consumption tendencies, and fashion involvement affect Louis Vuitton's attitude toward online fashion shows and purchase intentions It was verified through the SPSS 23, and showed the results of the following results. First, gender and monthly income was feeling positive influence on online fashion show. Second, the trend of accidents showed that there are influence on online fashion and purchasing intentions on online fashion. Third, symbolic consumption orientation showed that the intention of purchasing attitudes and purchasing intention to purchase online fashion. Fourth, fashion participation has positive influence on online fashion and purchase intention to purchase. Finally, the attitude toward online fashion show showed positive impact on purchasing intentions.
Development of a surrogate model for uncertainty quantification of compressor performance due to manufacturing tolerance
Authors: Rendu Quentin , Salles Loic
Published: August 2023

In gas turbines and jet engines, stagger angle and tip gap variations between adjacent blades lead to the deterioration of performance. To evaluate the effect of manufacturing tolerance on performance, a CFD-based uncertainty quantification analysis is performed in this work. However, evaluating dozens of thousands of rotor assembly through CFD simulations would be computationally prohibitive. A surrogate model is thus developed to predict compressor performance given an ordered set of manufactured blades. The model is used to predict the influence of tip gap and stagger angle variations on maximum isentropic efficiency. The results confirm that the best arrangement is obtained by minimizing the stagger angle variation between adjacent blades, and by maximizing the tip gap variation. Another finding is that the best arrangement yields the lowest variability, the range of maximum efficiency being 4 times sharper (resp. 2 times) than worst arrangement for stagger angle variations (resp. tip gap variations). Not measuring manufacturing tolerance, or not specifying any strategy for the blade arrangement, lead to variability as large as the worst arrangement.
Life insurance as supplemental social security
Authors:   Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, ABERNIKHINA Iryna
Published: August 2023

Introduction. Life insurance arises from the need for individuals to provide financial protection and security for themselves and their families. It can be used as a tool for accumulating financial resources and as a means of pension planning. Life insurance in Ukraine remains less developed compared to other European countries due to low confidence in insurance companies, a difficult economic situation in the country, and the lack of proper legislative regulation in this area of insurance. Problem Statement. The increasing proportion of elderly people, according to demographic projections, determines the corresponding requirements for reforming primarily the social security sphere, and life insurance could become one of the effective ways of supplemental social security. Purpose. To highlight the potentialities of using life insurance as supplemental social security. Methods. We used general scientific and special methods, i.e. analysis, synthesis, grouping, description, comparison, theoretical generalization, and abstract-logical methods. Results. It is emphasized that life insurance inherently aims at additional protection and support of the financial and social welfare of the population. It is noted that in most developed countries, life insurance is integrated into the social security system. It is proved that life insurance in Ukraine is not a mandatory part of the social security system, but is available on a voluntary basis through insurance companies. The number of insured citizens and life insurance contracts concluded by life insurers in Ukraine during the last 5 years has been analyzed. Research of the voluntary life insurance market in Ukraine has been conducted and an overview of the programs offered by insurance companies according to the classes of insurance has been made. Conclusions. Life insurance as an opportunity for supplemental social security has a significant potential in our country. However, the impact of some negative factors, in particular, military aggression, and an underdeveloped stock market hinders the development of the voluntary life insurance market and the possibility to expand the share of the insured population of our country. Taking into account statistics, which are aggravated by the military situation in the country, there is a need for clearly defined legislative conditions for the use of life insurance as a supplemental method of social security.
Optimizing Voronoi-based quantifications for reaching interactive analysis of 3D localizations in the million range
Authors: Levet Florian
Published: August 2023

Over the last decade, single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) has revolutionized cell biology, making it possible to monitor molecular organization and dynamics with spatial resolution of a few nanometers. Despite being a relatively recent field, SMLM has witnessed the development of dozens of analysis methods for problems as diverse as segmentation, clustering, tracking or colocalization. Among those, Voronoi-based methods have achieved a prominent position for 2D analysis as robust and efficient implementations were available for generating 2D Voronoi diagrams. Unfortunately, this was not the case for 3D Voronoi diagrams, and existing methods were therefore extremely time-consuming. In this work, we present a new hybrid CPU-GPU algorithm for the rapid generation of 3D Voronoi diagrams. Voro3D allows creating Voronoi diagrams of datasets composed of millions of localizations in minutes, making any Voronoi-based analysis method such as SR-Tesseler accessible to life scientists wanting to quantify 3D datasets. In addition, we also improve ClusterVisu, a Voronoi-based clustering method using Monte-Carlo simulations, by demonstrating that those costly simulations can be correctly approximated by a customized gamma probability distribution function.
Screening of sensitive in vivo characteristics for early keratoconus diagnosis: a multicenter study
Authors: Chen Xuan , Cao Huazheng , Huo Yan , Song Jiaxin , Zou Haohan , Li Jing , Hou Jie , Wang Yan
Published: August 2023

Purpose: To analyze and compare sensitive in vivo characteristics for screening early keratoconus.

Methods: This multicenter, case-control study included 712 eyes, after matching for age and biomechanically corrected intraocular pressure, from three clinics in different cities. The keratoconus (n = 288), early keratoconus (n = 91), and normal cornea (n = 333) groups included eyes diagnosed with bilateral keratoconus, fellow eyes with relatively normal topography with unilateral keratoconus, and normal eyes before refractive surgery, respectively. After adjusting for central corneal thickness, differences in vivo characteristics were analyzed among the three groups. The in vivo characteristics were measured by Pentacam and Corvis ST. Fifty-four indices were evaluated to screen for a sensitive index for the detection of early keratoconus.

Results: Significant differences were observed in 26 of the 36 corneal biomechanical indeces between the early keratoconus and normal corneas. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of tomographic and biomechanical index, Belin/Ambrósio deviation, and Da in differentiating keratoconus from normal cornea was 1.000. Among the top five indeces of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for detecting early keratoconus, the corneal biomechanical-related index accounted for 80% (4/5), including A1 dArc length, highest concavity radius, A2 time, and tomographic and biomechanical index, of which the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of A1 dArc length was 0.901.

Conclusion: A1 dArc length and several corneal biomechanical indices are highly sensitive for the detection of early keratoconus, even in the absence of topographic abnormalities. Ophthalmologists should focus on the clinical application of corneal biomechanics and combine corneal tomography for the timely and accurate detection of early keratoconus.
Recombination between coronaviruses and synthetic RNAs and biorisk implications motivated by a SARS-CoV-2 FCS origin controversy
Authors: Mueller Siguna
Published: August 2023

The urgent need for improved policy, regulation, and oversight of research with potential pandemic pathogens (PPPs) has been widely acknowledged. A 2022 article in Frontiers in Virology raises questions, reporting on a 100% sequence homology between the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site (FCS) and the negative strand of a 2017 patented sequence. Even though Ambati and collaborators suspect a possible inadvertent or intentional cause leading to the FCS insert, the related underpinnings have not been studied from the perspective of potential biorisk policy gaps. A commentary on their article contests the low coincidence likelihood that was calculated by Ambati et al., arguing that the sequence match could have been a chance occurrence alone. Additionally, it has been suggested that the odds of the recombination event may be low. These considerations seem to have put many speculations related to any implied viral beginnings, notably from a research setting likely outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, to rest. However, potential implications for future disasters in terms of biosafety and biosecurity have not been addressed. To demonstrate the feasibility of the Ambati et al. postulate, a theoretical framework is developed that substantially extends the research orientations implicated by these authors and the related patent. It is argued that specific experimental conditions, in combination, could significantly increase the implied recombination profile between coronaviruses and synthetic RNAs. Consequently, this article scrutinizes these largely unrecognized vulnerabilities to discuss implications across the spectrum of the biological risk landscape, with special attention to a potential “crime harvest.” Focusing on insufficiently understood features of interaction between the natural and man-made world, vulnerabilities related to contaminants, camouflaging, and various misuse potentials fostered by the digitization and computerization of synthetic biology, it highlights novel biorisk gaps not covered by existing PPP policy. Even though this work does not aim to provide proof of the viral origin, it will make the point that, in theory, a convergence of under-appreciated lab experiments and technologies could have led to the SARS-CoV-2 FCS insert, which analogously could be exploited by various threat actors for the clandestine genesis of similar or even worse pathogens.