bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Vrais et faux Néron après juin 68 : imposture et imaginaire politiques
Authors: Cosme Pierre
Published: October 2021

La personnalisation croissante du pouvoir dans le monde romain à partir du Ier siècle avant n. è. a favorisé le développement de l’imposture politique. Mais après la mort de Néron, on voit pour la première fois se manifester des imposteurs cherchant à se faire passer pour un prince ayant régné et dont, en outre, la mémoire a été condamnée. Ces impostures invitent donc à s’interroger sur les attentes qu’elles exprimaient chez certaines populations de l’empire. Elles permettent d’appréhender une image du prince idéal différente de celle que l’on trouve habituellement dans les œuvres des auteurs issus de l’aristocratie romaine. Vespasien a dû ainsi tenir compte de la popularité de Néron dans l’Orient romain, où lui-même fut proclamé empereur.
Constantin et les païens : un dominus très libéral
Authors: Puech Vincent
Published: October 2021

Constantin a lui-même adopté le christianisme dès 312, mais il prit garde que la population de l’empire restait majoritairement païenne. Dans le domaine du culte impérial, il chercha à prohiber les sacrifices sanglants, mais se résolut à accepter d’autres manifestations et offrandes héritées du paganisme. La fondation de Constantinople reposa d’abord sur des cérémonies païennes, l’implantation de cultes romains et la préservation des cultes locaux. Enfin, la vaste gamme des cultes païens fut largement tolérée, à l’exception de pratiques jugées moralement dangereuses, qu’il s’agisse de magie, de divination ou de déviances sexuelles.
« Un chef vénérable et bienveillant et un père, pas un prince »
Authors: Arbo Agnès Molinier
Published: October 2021

Hérodien dans son œuvre a conscience de certaines mutations funestes qui affectèrent l’Empire contemporain, comme la multiplication des princes adolescents et l’émergence de la figure de l’empereur soldat. Face à ces phénomènes, il célèbre une figure de gouvernant âgé appelé à une certaine fortune historiographique.
Princeps inlitteratus
Authors: Zecchini Giuseppe
Published: October 2021

Questo testo indaga il Leitmotiv del principe incolto da Cesare a Teoderico: un buon principe deve possedere virtù civiche e militari, ma deve evitare di dedicare troppo tempo alla cultura; Traiano fu l’esempio perfetto di tale principe; dopo di lui con Adriano prevalse la figura del principe letterato, con M. Aurelio del principe filosofo e, nella tarda antichità, del principe teologo; il principe incolto torna con Teoderico, il re romano-barbarico, che non a caso ebbe Traiano per modello.
Les vêtements de Caligula : un monstre s’habille
Authors: Anglade Laurent , Éloi Thierry
Published: October 2021

L’empereur Caligula porte le vêtement prétendu identitaire d’une dépravation morale des institutions républicaines. Car à Rome, la vérité de l’individu civilisé, c’est notamment sa toge ample et solennelle. Le vestiaire de Caligula bien au contraire est l’antithèse des normes extérieures de l’élégance urbaine. Sa toge est rarement adaptée aux fonctions requises par les espaces culturels de la politique et de la collectivité. Les historiens romains du règne de Caligula construisent une image dégradée par l’inversion ou la confusion des impératifs du corps en public. De tels dispositifs ne sont pas des éléments d’exactitude historique mais des stéréotypes favorisés par la classe sénatoriale pour mieux préparer la fabrication d’un « monstre » qui s’exclut de la société des hommes par la décomposition de sa tenue extérieure.
César hors de sa litière : le prince parmi les citoyens
Authors: Montlahuc Pascal
Published: October 2021

Lorsqu’il était à Rome ou en Italie, l’empereur devait, en théorie, être visible et accessible à l’ensemble d’un populus dont il était le mandataire : il devait marcher parmi les citoyens, interagir avec eux ou garder sa maison ouverte. Dans les faits, sa présence fut variable et peut être interprétée à l’aune de l’ambiguïté intrinsèque qui fait de l’empereur à la fois un monarque et un citoyen. Considérer la position ambivalente d’un primus inter pares qui devait demeurer un aristocrate « comme les autres » autant qu’un civilis princeps – c’est-à-dire le premier de tous les citoyens – conduit à distinguer des cercles de l’accès à l’empereur (amici, sénateurs, plébéiens). Cela attire aussi l’attention sur l’« inaccessible accessibilité » quotidienne d’un monarque qui devait se comporter comme un privatus républicain dans un régime qui ne l’était plus. Témoin des recompositions de la politique et du politique à l’époque impériale, la présence ambivalente du prince pouvait alimenter son charisme.
Le prince hors de Rome
Authors: Hurlet Frédéric
Published: October 2021

L’étude de l’itinérance du prince consiste d’ordinaire à retracer le parcours qu’il avait choisi et à étudier les effets de cette mobilité sur les populations provinciales, ainsi que l’image que le pouvoir impérial livrait de lui-même à cette occasion. Cet article inverse l’analyse traditionnelle en présentant les effets politiques de l’absence du prince de Rome depuis Auguste jusqu’à Commode. Il ressort qu’il n’y avait pas un seul modèle en matière de mobilité du pouvoir impérial. Si certains princes ne quittèrent pas l’Italie tout au long de leur principat, d’autres voyagèrent dans l’Empire et jusqu’à ses frontières plus ou moins longtemps. L’objet de cette étude est de souligner à quel point la relation entre le prince et Rome était ambivalente. La décision de quitter Rome, qu’elle fût motivée par des raisons politiques ou militaires, créait au cœur même de l’Empire un vide auquel le pouvoir impérial chercha à remédier de différentes manières : d’une part en s’y faisant représenter par des hommes de confiance et en donnant à ceux-ci un statut légal (magister equitum sous César, préfet de la Ville ou préfet du prétoire par la suite) ; d’autre part en entrecoupant plus ou moins fréquemment ses voyages de retours à Rome afin de ne jamais délaisser en permanence la capitale de l’Empire romain – et de ne plus jamais reproduire le contre-modèle expérimenté par Tibère pendant son séjour décennal à Capri.
Le comportement du prince lors des spectacles de la Rome impériale
Authors: Forichon Sylvain
Published: October 2021

La conduite et les réactions du prince lors des spectacles sont l’objet de nombreux commentaires dans les écrits de plusieurs auteurs de l’époque impériale. Si l’on ne peut pas encore parler d’étiquette comme dans les cours européennes de l’époque moderne, il s’avère néanmoins à la lecture de ces témoignages littéraires que certains comportements étaient réprouvés, du moins par les auteurs de ces textes. C’était le cas notamment lorsque le prince se donnait publiquement en spectacle, que ce fût dans un théâtre, un cirque ou un amphithéâtre. L’analyse des sources révèle qu’un bon prince devait faire montre en ces lieux de moderatio, tant dans l’intérêt qu’il manifestait pour les jeux que dans ses réactions face aux réclamations de la foule. À l’inverse, le mauvais prince se signalait par ses excès, notamment par son engouement excessif pour les jeux qui le poussait parfois à se produire en public comme cocher, histrion ou gladiateur, ou encore par l’usage d’une violence inappropriée ou disproportionnée à l’encontre des autres spectateurs.
Princeps as popularis
Authors: Rutledge Steven H.
Published: October 2021

The princeps was always obliged to maintain his position through popular support, a support that Augustus assiduously built in the course of his tenure as emperor, in part to maintain a firm hand in the face of senatorial power. Augustus, therefore, established the important principle that the princeps could best rule if he maintained amicable relations with the urban populace that no one dare challenge. At times when such support was challenged, our sources, Tacitus in particular, view it in terms of the conflicts of the late Republic, when populares and optimates competed for power. The language and imagery used to understand the conflicts at certain points during the early principate, particularly under Augustus, Tiberius, and Nero (and arguably, beyond), are evocative of the turbulence and partisan strife of the late republican period, and the imagery of factionalism, along with the invocation of names associated with that epoch, betray the lingering trauma of the previous age.
Le prince et le Senatus Populusque Romanus sous le Haut-Empire
Authors: Doze Philippe Le
Published: October 2021

Cette étude s’intéresse à la manière dont le prince s’est inséré, au début du Principat, dans les institutions héritées de la République. Cette dernière n’était pas un régime politique, contrairement à la monarchie, l’oligarchie ou la démocratie, mais une forme de sous-système autonome par rapport à lui. Le SPQR était quant à lui une sorte d’interface, par lequel la res publica trouvait à s’incarner dans un status. Il supposait l’agir-en-commun et était perçu comme un obstacle à la dominatio. D’une certaine manière, il symbolisait l’ADN politique de Rome. Cela ne préjugeait pas du status. Avec la mise en place du Principat, le prince a été contraint de s’accommoder de la présence de ce SPQR, émanation de la res publica, essentiellement en lien avec les revendications du Sénat. Les comices continuèrent de fait à jouer un rôle dans le processus de décision, mais sous une forme ritualisée, comme un rappel de sa souveraineté formelle. Le Sénat, composé de la melior pars du populus, fut également durablement associé au pouvoir, selon des modalités variables. Le débat sur le positionnement du prince au sein de la res publica est à l’origine d’une idéologie « républicaine » qui fit face à une idéologie princière, sans que l’on doive l’interpréter comme une opposition au Principat.
Panthéons de femmes
Authors: Cerquiglini-Toulet Jacqueline
Published: October 2021

Pourquoi des panthéons de femmes se mettent-ils en place à la suite du succès du De claris mulieribus de Boccace ? L’article cerne les deux modèles qui se rencontrent : le modèle originel, chronologique et historique, de Boccace, et le modèle concurrent, spatial et démonstratif, proposé par Christine de Pizan dans La Cité des Dames. Il analyse les raisons de ce succès : la nouveauté de la matière, qui met en avant les qualités, positives ou négatives, de femmes dans des domaines où on ne les attend pas, et la plasticité de cette matière : renouvelable et actualisable qui permet d’intégrer les femmes contemporaines. Traduites du latin ou écrites en langues vernaculaires, ces vies de femmes célèbres vont au-devant d’un lectorat féminin.
Pour le lustre des seigneurs
Authors: Delzant Jean-Baptiste
Published: October 2021

La contribution se concentre sur les cycles monumentaux peints à l’intérieur des demeures seigneuriales du centre et du nord de l’Italie, à la fin du XIVe et au long du XVe siècle. Représentés sur les murs, souvent en pied, les hommes et les femmes illustres peuplaient les résidences privées comme les édifices publics des pouvoirs communaux ou princiers. Leurs images se déployaient au sein d’une culture où la liste était une façon d’appréhender le monde, où le catalogue de biographies devenait une manière de comprendre l’histoire et d’écrire le présent. Les cycles d’hommes illustres ornèrent les domus des seigneurs car la rigidité de leur structure sérielle associée à l’adaptabilité de leur matériau – le choix des figures du passé et du présent – permettait le développement des discours articulés. Les dimensions commémoratives, célébratives et généalogiques de tels ensembles furent utilisées par des régimes qui reposaient sur un groupe familial de plus en plus restreint. Ils les enrichirent encore de la profondeur temporelle qu’ils rêvaient d’acquérir.
Una genealogia per descrivere l’attualità
Authors: Irace Erminia
Published: October 2021

Dans cette contribution l’on s’est proposé d’examiner la place que tiennent les « hommes illustres » du le domaine militaire dans l’Italia illustrata de Biondo Flavio. La tradition classique des viris illustribus, le renouvellement connu par ce genre au cours de l’humanisme et l’apport d’un autre ouvrage de Biondo, le Historiae, permettent de saisir et examiner les différentes façons utilisées, dans cet ouvrage, pour désigner les commandants militaires vécus au cours des xive et xve siècles. Dans le sillon de l’importante recherche d’Ottavio Clavuot, on a envisagé l’emploi des constructions rhétoriques du discours, notamment celles de la généalogie, dont Biondo s’est servi pour souligner l’importance des condottieri dans l’organisation militaire et politique et, de ce fait, pour interpréter les caractéristiques les plus importantes de son temps.
Les hommes et femmes illustres sous presse
Authors: Rideau-Kikuchi Catherine
Published: October 2021

Le genre des panthéons d’hommes et de femmes illustres connaît une postérité imprimée certaine à l’époque incunable et jusqu’au début du xvie siècle. Cependant, pour beaucoup de ces textes, le passage du manuscrit à l’imprimé n’allait pas de soi. Les imprimeurs cherchent à anticiper la vente de leurs éditions, ce qui influence largement leurs choix éditoriaux. De plus, le changement de média ne provoque pas immédiatement des changements de mise en page et de mise en livre. Ces modifications se font progressivement, en lien avec le public visé par les imprimeurs et éditeurs. Les textes de Plutarque et de Boccace connaissent ainsi un réel succès, qui en transforme progressivement les usages et les lectures au fil des éditions et rééditions, tandis que les Vies des hommes illustres de Pétrarque, difficiles à catégoriser par les imprimeurs, ne font l’objet qu’une seule édition incunable.
Les Essais de Montaigne : monument des « excellens hommes » de la Renaissance
Authors: Balsamo Jean
Published: October 2021

Dans les Essais, Montaigne a tracé un portrait de lui-même, qui prenait place dans une galerie de portraits représentant certains « excellens hommes » de l’Antiquité et de son temps. Leur éloge contribuait à définir par réfraction son propre éthos de gentilhomme prudent et d’artiste génial, capable d’une admiration critique. Nous examinerons ici les portraits de lettrés contemporains, Giraldi et Castellion, Pibrac et Paul de Foix, Amyot, et surtout celui, paradoxal dans un univers héroïque masculin, de Marie de Gournay, à la fois modèle de la parfaite lectrice et de la parfaite amie.
Les Hommes illustres de Charles Perrault (1696-1700) : nation, siècle, média
Authors: Rabinovitch Oded
Published: October 2021

Les Hommes illustres de Charles Perrault, un recueil de biographies qui glorifient le règne de Louis XIV, introduisent plusieurs innovations dans ce genre, en raison surtout de l’inclusion des artistes et des hommes de lettres et de l’usage du vernaculaire, mais aussi du fait du cadre chronologique restreint et de l’importance accordée à l’appartenance politique des personnages. Cet article démontre que ces innovations, habituellement attribuées à Perrault, relèvent cependant d’une démarche collective, appuyée sur l’édition des gravures de luxe, et qu’il est possible de relativiser le rôle de Perrault dans la production de l’œuvre. De plus, une étude des sources déployées par Perrault montre l’ampleur de ses dettes envers de nouvelles formes d’écriture biographique, en lien avec le nouveau paysage médiatique de la deuxième moitié du xviie siècle.
Des livres aux objets et vice versa
Authors: Ghermani Naïma
Published: October 2021

Au milieu du xvie siècle, Charles Quint introduisit dans l’Empire la mode des armures de parade. L’armure conférait au corps du prince une dimension héroïque. Parallèlement, vers 1550, les princes allemands commencèrent à collectionner les armures notamment au château d’Ambras où Ferdinand de Habsbourg fonde une brillante collection. Le cœur de sa collection est constitué par la fameuse « chambre d’armes des héros », composée de plus de 120 armures de héros vaillants. En 1601-1603, l’armurerie héroïque est l’objet d’une somptueuse publication en latin et en allemand intitulée l’Armamentarium heroicum. Le titre et les portraits, qui s’y trouvaient, alternent avec des récits biographiques qui rattachaient l’ouvrage à la tradition des hommes illustres. Cette référence explicite à ce genre littéraire permet de comprendre le statut spécifique de ces objets qui revêtaient ainsi un usage esthétique et symbolique étroitement lié à la littérature chevaleresque.
Design of Context Cluster and Load Balanced Video Recommendation System in Cloud Computing
Authors: Hanumantharaju R.  , Sowmya B. J.  , Aparna R.  , Shreenath K. N.  , Srinivasa K. G. , Sharanya B. S. K.
Published: October 2021

Nowadays, in online social networks, there is an instantaneous extension of multimedia services and there are huge offers of video contents which has hindered users to acquire their interests. To solve these problem different personalized recommendation systems had been suggested. Although, all the personalized recommendation system which have been suggested are not efficient and they have significantly retarded the video recommendation process. So to solve this difficulty, context extractor based video recommendation system on cloud has been proposed in this paper. Further to this the system has server selection technique to handle the overload program and make it balanced. This paper explains the mechanism used to minimize network overhead and recommendation process is done by considering the context details of the users, it also uses rule based process and different algorithms used to achieve the objective. The videos will be stored in the cloud and through application videos will be dumped into cloud storage by reading, coping and storing process.
Intelligent Framework With Controlled Behavior for Gene Regulatory Network Reconstruction
Authors: Bansal Bhavana , Nanda Aparajita , Sahoo Anita
Published: October 2021

Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) are the pioneering methodology for finding new gene interactions getting insights of the biological processes using time series gene expression data. It remains a challenge to study the temporal nature of gene expression data that mimic complex non-linear dynamics of the network. In this paper, an intelligent framework of recurrent neural network (RNN) and swarm intelligence (SI) based Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) with controlled behaviour has been proposed for the reconstruction of GRN from time-series gene expression data. A novel PSO algorithm enhanced by human cognition influenced by the ideology of Bhagavad Gita is employed for improved learning of RNN. RNN guided by the proposed algorithm simulates the nonlinear and dynamic gene interactions to a greater extent. The proposed method shows superior performance over traditional SI algorithms in searching biologically plausible candidate networks. The strength of the method is verified by analyzing the small artificial network and real data of Escherichia coli with improved accuracy.
Optimizing Connection Weights in Neural Networks Using Hybrid Metaheuristics Algorithms
Authors: Bousmaha Rabab , Hamou Reda Mohamed , Amine Abdelmalek
Published: October 2021

The learning process of artificial neural networks is an important and complex task in the supervised learning field. The main difficulty of training a neural network is the process of fine-tuning the best set of control parameters in terms of weight and bias. This paper presents a new training method based on hybrid particle swarm optimization with Multi-Verse Optimization (PMVO) to train the feedforward neural networks. The hybrid algorithm is utilized to search better in solution space which proves its efficiency in reducing the problems of trapping in local minima. The performance of the proposed approach was compared with five evolutionary techniques and the standard momentum backpropagation and adaptive learning rate. The comparison was benchmarked and evaluated using six bio-medical datasets. The results of the comparative study show that PMVO outperformed other training methods in most datasets and can be an alternative to other training methods.
An Improved Text Extraction Approach With Auto Encoder for Creating Your Own Audiobook
Authors: Rajkumar Shakkthi , Muthukumar Shruthi , Aparna S. S.  , Gladston Angelin
Published: October 2021

As we all know, listening makes learning easier and interesting than reading. An audiobook is a software that converts text to speech. Though this sounds good, the audiobooks available in the market are not free and feasible for everyone. Added to this, we find that these audiobooks are only meant for fictional stories, novels or comics. A comprehensive review of the available literature shows that very little intensive work was done for image to speech conversion. In this paper, we employ various strategies for the entire process. As an initial step, deep learning techniques are constructed to denoise the images that are fed to the system. This is followed by text extraction with the help of OCR engines. Additional improvements are made to improve the quality of text extraction and post processing spell check mechanism are incorporated for this purpose. Our result analysis demonstrates that with denoising and spell checking, our model has achieved an accuracy of 98.11% when compared to 84.02% without any denoising or spell check mechanism.
Analysis of Regular Patterns in Un-Weighted Directed Graphs
Authors: Gupta Anand , Thakur Hardeo Kumar , Jain Anmoll Kumar , Rustagi Prakhar
Published: October 2021

Time evolving networks tend to have an element of regularity. This regularity is characterized by existence of repetitive patterns in the data sequences of the graph metrics. As per our research, the relevance of such regular patterns to the network has not been adequately explored. Such patterns in certain data sequences are indicative of properties like popularity, activeness etc. which are of vital significance for any network. These properties are closely indicated by data sequences of graph metrics - degree prestige, degree centrality and occurrence. In this paper, (a) an improved mining algorithm has been used to extract regular patterns in these sequences, and (b) a methodology has been proposed to quantitatively analyse the behavior of the obtained patterns. To analyze this behavior, a quantification measure coined as "Sumscore" has been defined to compare the relative significance of such patterns. The patterns are ranked according to their Sumscores and insights are then drawn upon it. The efficacy of this method is demonstrated by experiments on two real world datasets.
A Novel Approach of Product Recommendation Using Utility-Based Association Rules
Authors: Stuti Stuti , Gupta Kanika , Srivastava Nishant , Verma Ankita
Published: October 2021

An exorbitant source of data is easily available but the actual task lies in using this data efficiently. In this article, the aim is to analyse the significant information embedded in the customer purchase behaviour to recommend new products to them. Our proposed scheme is a two-fold approach. First, the authors retrieve various product correlations from the vast library of user transactions. Based on these product correlations, utility based association rules are learned which depict the customer purchase behaviour. These rules are then applied in a recommender system for novel product suggestions to the customers. With improved utility based mining the paper tries to incorporate the usefulness of an item set like cost, profit or any other factor along with their frequency. In this paper the authors have deployed the rules discovered from both the conventional Frequent Item Set Mining and Improved Utility Based Mining on an e-commerce platform to compare the accuracy of the algorithms. The obtained results establish the efficacy of the proposed algorithm.
Analysis and Outcome Prediction of Crowdfunding Campaigns
Authors: Kaur Parmeet , Deshmukh Sanya , Apoorva Pranjal , Batra Simar
Published: October 2021

Humongous volumes of data are being generated every minute by individual users as well as organizations. This data can be turned into a valuable asset only if it is analyzed, interpreted and used for improving processes or for benefiting users. One such source that is contributing huge data every year is a large number of web-based crowd-funding projects. These projects and related campaigns help ventures to raise money by acquiring small amounts of funding from different small organizations and people. The funds raised for crowdfunded projects and hence, their success depends on multiple elements of the project. The current work predicts the success of a new venture by analysis and visualization of the existing data and determining the parameters on which success of a project depends. The prediction of a project’s outcome is performed by application of machine learning algorithms on crowd-funding data stored in the NoSQL database, MongoDB. The results of this work can prove beneficial for the investors to have an estimate about the success of a project before investing in it.
A New Content-Based Search Mechanism for Image Retrieval Search Engine
Authors: Jasmine K. S.  , Raj Rishav , Naik Mahalakshmi Mabla
Published: October 2021

In the growing world of technology, where everything is available in just one click, the user expectations has increased with time. In the era of Search Engines, where Google, Yahoo are providing the facility to search through text and voice and image , it has become a complex work to handle all the operations and lot more of data storage is needed. It is also a time consuming process. In the proposed Image retrieval Search Engine, the user enters the queried image and that image is being matched with the template images . The proposed approach takes the input image with 15% accuracy to 100% accuracy to retrieve the intended image by the user. But it is found that due to the efficiency of the applied algorithm, in all cases, the retrieved images are with the same accuracy irrespective of the input query image accuracy. This implementation is very much useful in the fields of forensic, defense and diagnostics system in medical field etc. .
Hybrid Query Expansion Model Based on Pseudo Relevance Feedback and Semantic Tree for Arabic IR
Authors: Mazari Ahmed Cherif , Djeffal Abdelhamid
Published: October 2021

In this paper, the authors propose and readapt a new concept-based approach of query expansion in the context of Arabic information retrieval. The purpose is to represent the query by a set of weighted concepts in order to identify better the user's information need. Firstly, concepts are extracted from the initially retrieved documents by the Pseudo-Relevance Feedback method, and then they are integrated into a semantic weighted tree in order to detect more information contained in the related concepts connected by semantic relations to the primary concepts. The authors use the “Arabic WordNet” as a resource to extract, disambiguate concepts and build the semantic tree. Experimental results demonstrate that measure of MAP (Mean Average Precision) is about 10% of improvement using the open source Lucene as IR System on a collection formed from the Arabic BBC news.
An End-to-End Efficient Lucene-Based Framework of Document/Information Retrieval
Authors: Ben Ayed Alaidine , Biskri Ismaïl , Meunier Jean-Guy
Published: October 2021

In the context of big data and the 4.0 industrial revolution era, enhancing document/information retrieval frameworks efficiency to handle the ever‐growing volume of text data in an ever more digital world is a must. This article describes a double-stage system of document/information retrieval. First, a Lucene-based document retrieval tool is implemented, and a couple of query expansion techniques using a comparable corpus (Wikipedia) and word embeddings are proposed and tested. Second, a retention-fidelity summarization protocol is performed on top of the retrieved documents to create a short, accurate, and fluent extract of a longer retrieved single document (or a set of top retrieved documents). Obtained results show that using word embeddings is an excellent way to achieve higher precision rates and retrieve more accurate documents. Also, obtained summaries satisfy the retention and fidelity criteria of relevant summaries.
Restoring SAR Images Using Effective Image Restoration Approach
Authors: Vaishnavi P.  , Gladston Angelin
Published: October 2021

Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus satellite images presents an important data source for many applications related to remote sensing. An effective image restoration method is proposed to fill the missing information in the satellite images. The segmentation of satellite images to find the SLIC Super pixels and then to find the image Segments. The Boundary Reconstruction is performed using Edge Matching to find the area of the missing region. Peak Signal to Noise Ratio and Root Mean Square Error using with boundary reconstruction and without boundary reconstruction to evaluate the quality and the error rate of the satellite images. The results show the capability to predict the missing values accurately in terms of quality, time without need of external information.The values for PSNR has changed from 25 to 90 and RMSE has changed from 180 to 4 in Red Channel of an image.This indicates that quality of the image is high and error rate is less.
Maxmin Data Range Heuristic-Based Initial Centroid Method of Partitional Clustering for Big Data Mining
Authors: Pandey Kamlesh Kumar , Shukla Diwakar
Published: October 2021

The centroid-based clustering algorithm depends on the number of clusters, initial centroid, distance measures, and statistical approach of central tendencies. The initial centroid initialization algorithm defines convergence speed, computing efficiency, execution time, scalability, memory utilization, and performance issues for big data clustering. Nowadays various researchers have proposed the cluster initialization techniques, where some initialization techniques reduce the number of iterations with the lowest cluster quality, and some initialization techniques increase the cluster quality with high iterations. For these reasons, this study proposed the initial centroid initialization based Maxmin Data Range Heuristic (MDRH) method for K-Means (KM) clustering that reduces the execution times, iterations, and improves quality for big data clustering. The proposed MDRH method has compared against the classical KM and KM++ algorithms with four real datasets. The MDRH method has achieved better effectiveness and efficiency over RS, DB, CH, SC, IS, and CT quantitative measurements.
Predicting Marathi News Class Using Semantic Entity-Driven Clustering Approach
Authors: Saini Jatinderkumar R. , Bafna Prafulla Bharat
Published: October 2021

Document management is a need for an era and managing documents in the regional languages is a significant and untouched area. Marathi corpus consisting of news is processed to form Group Entity document matrix Marathi (GEDMM), Vector space model for Marathi (VSMM) and Hysynset Vector space model for Marathi (HSVSMM). GEDMM uses entity group extracted using Condition random field (CRF). The frequent terms are used to construct VSMM using TF-IDF. HSVSMM uses synsets using hypernyms-hyponyms and synonyms. GEDMM and HSVSMM use dimension reduction by selecting significant feature groups. Hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) is used and a dendrogram is produced to visualize the clusters. The performance analysis is carried out using several parameters like entropy, purity, misclassification error and accuracy. The clusters produced using GEDMM shows the minimum entropy and the highest purity. A random forest classifier is applied and the results are evaluated using misclassification error and accuracy.
Fate and toxicity of ferric ferrocyanide with cyanogenic and non-cyanogenic plant species
Authors: Kang Dong Hee , Qian Xuejun
Published: October 2021

Iron cyanide complexes are common contaminants at former manufactured gas plant sites. Although combined forms of cyanide have low toxicity, iron cyanide complexes can be decomposed to HCN through photolysis. This experiment was designed to evaluate the efficiency of phytoremediation and investigate potential toxic effect for iron cyanide complexes (i.e., ferric ferrocyanide) using the cyanogenic and non-cyanogenic plants in soil. Results showed that Sorghum (a cyanogenic plant) had the highest cyanide degradation in the root zone with the removal of approximately 32% while Switchgrass (a non-cyanogenic plant) and Flax (a cyanogenic plant) had 21% and 17% removal, respectively, with 4% dissipation in unvegetated soil. It was found that roots had higher cyanide concentrations than plant shoots. Water-soluble cyanide and the weak acid dissociable (WAD) fraction in the soil had increased at the end of the experiment, suggesting that plant may enhance the mobility and bioavailability of cyanide by root exudation. The risk associated with the leaching of cyanide compounds was assessed with the toxicity assay (Microtox). However, results indicated that the leachate from the pots was not toxic.
Conceptualisation of Ubuntugogy as a Decolonial Pedagogy in Africa
Authors: Omodan Bunmi Isaiah , Diko Nolutho
Published: October 2021

The concept of ubuntugogy appears as an ordinary grammatical prowess to some, while it also remains unknown to many. This conceptual paper attempts to conceptualise ubuntugogy, not only as indigenous teaching and learning but also as a decolonial pedagogy with liberating potentials. An assumption exists that today’s pedagogical process in Africa is still laced with subjectivism, and it fails to challenge the Eurocentric hegemony that lies within school systems.  The failure to address Eurocentrism explicitly leads to the need for ubuntugogy. Ubuntugogy, therefore, needs to be unpacked for better understanding. That is, this study is not to challenge the hegemony of westernised classrooms and their pedagogical process in Africa but to conceptualise the hidden potential of ubuntugogy to fill out the limited literature of the concept in the world of academics. Hence, the study provides answers to questions such as; what is ubuntugogy? What is the epistemology of ubuntugogy? What are the transformative tendencies of ubuntugogy, and how does ubuntugogy relevant in 21st Century classrooms? The study concluded that the idea of ubuntugogy is to create a learning environment where everyone feels empowered, encouraged and free from the burdens of Eurocentric and Americentric imposition with an open tendency of knowing and being human.
İLİŞKİSEL PAZARLAMA FAALİYETLERİNİN İNOVASYON STRATEJİLERİNE ETKİSİ
Authors: DİŞLİ BAYRKATAR Eda , AYYILDIZ Hasan
Published: October 2021

Amaç: Bu çalışmada, ilişkisel pazarlama faaliyetlerinin keşifsel ve artırımsal inovasyon stratejileri üzerindeki etkisinin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu doğrultuda ilişkisel pazarlama ile ilgili literatürde yer alan mevcut ölçeklerden faydalanılarak ölçek geliştirilmeye çalışılmıştır. Yöntem: Ölçek geliştirme aşamasında hem tümden gelim hem de tümevarım yöntemi tercih edilmiştir. Bu çerçevede yarı yapılandırılmış mülakat tekniği ile Türkiye’de mobilyacılık alanında önde gelen üç büyük firmada istihdam edilen toplam 9 yöneticiden elde edilen veriler ile içerik analizi yapılmıştır. Nihai aşamada 34 maddeden oluşan ölçeğin yapı geçerliliğini test etmek amacı ile anket formu hem yüz yüze görüşme tekniği hem de çevrimiçi anket tekniği kullanılarak çeşitli sektörlerin pazarlama departmanlarında çalışan yöneticilere ulaştırılmıştır. Toplamda 351 çalışandan geri dönüş sağlanmıştır. Ölçek geliştirme çalışmasından sonra araştırma hipotezlerinin test edilmesi amacıyla Kayseri, Ankara ve Bursa'da (İnegöl)bulunan mobilya firmaları ile anket yapılmıştır. Veri temizleme işleminden sonra toplam 315 anket araştırmaya dahil edilmiştir. Araştırmanın verileri IBM SPSS 25 ve IBM AMOS 24 paket programları kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Hipotezlerin test edilmesinde regresyon analizi kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: Keşfedici faktör analizi sonucunda ölçeğin 16 maddeden oluştuğu ve dört faktörlü bir yapıda olduğu belirlenmiştir. Regresyon analizi sonucunda rakip odaklılık, müşteri odaklılık ve müşteri katılımı boyutlarının keşifsel ve artırımsal inovasyon stratejileri üzerinde olumlu yönde ve anlamlı düzeyde etkisinin olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Özgünlük: Bu araştırma sonucunda; geçerlilik ve güvenilirliği tatminkâr düzeyde bulunan ilişkisel pazarlama faaliyetlerini ölçebilecek 4 boyutlu ve 16 maddelik bir ölçek geliştirilmiştir. Ayrıca inovasyon stratejileri ve ilişkisel pazarlama faaliyetleri arasındaki ilişki ampirik olarak Türkiye’nin önemli sektörlerinden biri olan mobilya sektöründe test edilmiştir.
Development and characterization of 20 microsatellite markers in spotted sea bass (Lateolabrax maculatus) and cross-amplification in related species
Authors: Fan Sigang , Huang Hao , Wang Pengfei , Yan Lulu , Zhao Chao , Qiu Gaofeng , Qiu Lihua
Published: October 2021

The spotted sea bass (Lateolabrax maculatus) is an economically valuable cultured fish species in China. In this study, 20 novel polymorphic microsatellite loci of L. maculatus were isolated from genomic data and characterized using 40 wild individuals. The number of alleles and the effective number of alleles ranged from 2 to 12 (average of 5.1000) and from 1.180 to 8.000 (average of 3.3097). The observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.083 to 0.875 (average of 0.4405) and from 0.153 to 0.875 (average of 0.5633), respectively. Deviation from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was observed in 11 loci (P < 0.05). Polymorphism information content ranged from 0.141 to 0.862 (average of 0.5265) and most loci were heterozygous. Cross-amplification trials in two cryptic congeneric species, the largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, and the barramundi, Lates calcarifer, achieved successful amplification of 16 primers. The microsatellite markers developed in this study could be used for research on genetic breeding of L. maculatus and genetic relationships among tested taxa.
Methods of Attracting Foreign Investments to the National Economy
Authors:   PhD applicant, Tashkent State Economic University, Zikirullaeva Nilufar Dilmurod qizi
Published: October 2021

The implementation of innovative processes at the modern level and the dynamic development of the national economy on this basis today are impossible without the intensive attraction of foreign investment. The volume of foreign investment is one of the indicators characterizing the degree of integration of the country into the world community and depends on the attractiveness of the investment object. The following article is devoted to the ways of attracting foreign investment in the national economy.
Environmental Management System and Performance in SMEs. Evidence from the Abruzzo Region
Authors: Boffa Danilo
Published: October 2021

Abstract
The paper aims at investigating the potential effect on economic and financial
performance caused by the adoption of an environmental management system
ISO14001certification, by SMEs in Abruzzo region, which represent a significative
case study due to the environmental capital that characterizes the whole region.
From the Signaling Theory perspective, the adoption of such international
environmental management system certification “signals” to the firm’s stakeholders,
the engagement in adopting a sustainable management system, contributing to
reduce information asymmetry and consequently, positively influence economic
and financial performance.
Considering a panel dataset of a total sample of 490 SMEs located in Abruzzo
(observed from 2011 and 2019), constituted by 212 ISO14001 certified firms and a
control group of 278 firms, selected comparing size, age and geographical location
of the main group of analysis, the results show how economic and financial
performance are positively related to the adoption of an environmental management
system certification.

JEL classification numbers: O40, O44.
Keywords: ISO14001, SMEs, Environmental Management System, Signaling
Theory, Abruzzo.
The Feasibility of Mandatory Vaccination Program Under the Malaysian Legal Framework for Education Sector
Authors: Zahari Hariz Sufi Bin , Syed Azman Sharifah Nur Asmaa' Binti , Zulkipli Zuhaira Nadiah Binti , Abd Rani Ahmad Ridhwan Bin
Published: October 2021

The spread of the COVID-19 virus has been halted partially due to the vaccination program around the globe. However, such initiation has been actively under attack by a portion of society that believes vaccination is not the way out of the pandemic. A similar notion of anti-vaccine has slipped through Malaysia, particularly in the education sector, as they refuse to be vaccinated. This has been contributed by the lack of legal provision that regulates vaccination in Malaysia. Based on the literature and scientific data on the effectiveness of vaccination programs in curbing the spread of COVID-19, this paper aimed to weigh the legal argument on the possibility of imposing mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in Malaysia’s education sector to eradicate this deadly disease virus permanently. This paper embarked on a comparative, doctrinal analysis methodology where secondary data were collected and analysed. Literature from primary and secondary sources such as the laws, guidelines, textbooks, journal articles, government reports, newspaper articles, and online sources from multiple jurisdictions was analysed. The outcome of such analysis is laid down in a narrative design in highlighting the importance of mandatory vaccination within the education sector. This paper proposed hard and soft approaches on imposing mandatory vaccination programs within the education sectors in Malaysia is highly recommended, considering that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risk of eradicating COVID-19 in Malaysia.
Identifying Students’ Needs Towards the Provision of Social Support in Online Learning
Authors: Junaidi Juhazren , Tasir Zaidatun
Published: October 2021

Social support has been found to play an important role in retaining learning and contribute to better understanding and performance among students. This study aims to determine the needs and requirements of learners or students towards the provision of social support in online learning. Random sampling technique was used to select 10 students enrolled in an ICT-based course at one of Malaysian university as respondents. The instrument for this study was a semi-structured interview questions adapted from the works of Sarason et al. (1987). Thematic analysis was performed on the transcribed interview to allow visual interpretation and understanding of the context from each response. This study found that the students had often received and prefer to get social support while learning online. The reasons for their preference were for motivation, understanding, information searching and affirmation. The students were also identified to have preference for social support from the instructor more than from peers and the learning content. Overall, Informational Support is the most expected type of social support by the students. This study provides findings that would assist in the provision of social support through the design and development of an online learning environment.
Is The Covid-19 Vaccine Halal? Revisiting The Role of National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) and JAKIM
Authors: Abdul Aziz Norazlina , Sulaiman Siti Sarah , Roslan Muhammad Azril , Ku Yusof Ku Mohd Amir Aizat
Published: October 2021

The urge to be vaccinated has increased rapidly during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Resorting vaccine products is seen as the only way to break the chain of COVID-19 spread and eventually stop the pandemic. To this dire need, many consumers face the dilemma to be vaccinated or to opt-out of the vaccination program when the safety issues of vaccine products are widely circulated. The Muslim consumers, particularly, experiences double worry on the issue of safety and halal status of the vaccine product. Due to the emergency call to have the vaccine in the market as soon as possible, the innovation and production were carried out in an expedited manner, and the necessity to have the vaccine be certified as halal was bypass. When the news on the vaccine product uses non-halal ingredients reaches the Muslim community in Malaysia, they were taken aback and demanded immediate answers from the authorities. Thus, in addressing this issue, this study intends to critically analyse the role of NPRA and JAKIM in ensuring the safety and halal status of a product with the aim of suggesting a review of the existing role. This article adopts a qualitative research methodology where interviews will be the supporting method to a library-based and doctrinal study.
The Adequacy of Data Protection Laws in Protecting Personal Data in Malaysia
Authors: Noor Sureani Nurkhairina Binti , Awis Qurni Atikah Shahira Binti , Azman Ayman Haziqah Binti , Othman Mohd Bahrin Bin , Zahari Hariz Sufi Bin
Published: October 2021

With the burgeoning technology, Malaysia has seen a staggering number of data breaches and data leaks within this past decade alone, with no signs of the trend decreasing. This has raised questions on whether the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA) adequately protects the personal data of Malaysians. With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, data has been collected on a larger scale than before, with more frequent data leaks occurring. Hence, this study aims to analyse the adequacy of the PDPA by benchmarking it to the United Kingdom’s (UK) Data Protection Act 2018, which have seen a decrease in data breaches since the implementation of the new legislation. In this context, personal data refers to information processed or recorded that relates directly or indirectly to a data subject, who may be identified from the information and may include sensitive personal data. The study uses a doctrinal analysis methodology to best explore the ideas and concepts within the literature available regarding the protection of personal data. The study also employs a comparative analysis methodology by comparing the scope and application of Malaysian and UK legislation for benchmarking. The findings suggest that there are improvements to be made for the PDPA to be adequate.
Perilaku Membeli dan Pilihan Makanan dalam kalangan Generasi Milenial: Suatu Sorotan Awal
Authors: Fahrudin Fahmi Ilman
Published: October 2021

Artikel ini merupakan hasil analisis dan pemikiran berdasarkan literatur mengenai pilihan makanan dan perilaku membeli dalam kalangan generasi milenial. Generasi milenial dengan penguasaan teknologi informatika dan media sosial kini memegang kendali trend makanan di seluruh dunia. Gaya hidup yang serba cepat dan praktis mempengaruhi perilaku mereka dalam hal membeli dan selanjutnya berpengaruh terhadap pilihan makanan. Pilihan makanan generasi milenial kadang kala tidak lagi mempertimbangkan apakah makanan tersebut sihat atau tidak. Hal ini kerana pilihan makanan lebih disebabkan oleh gaya hidup, sub budaya popular dan pengaruh media sosial. Diperlukan suatu tindakan yang komprehensif untuk memperbaiki literasi generasi milenial mengenai pengurusan kewangan, perilaku membeli, pilihan makanan dan makanan yang sihat.
Family Addressing System in Malay and Arab Languages: An Analysis of Sociolinguistic Clash
Authors: Zakaria Muhamad Zaidi , Mohamad Isa Abdul Azim , Abdul Majid Muhammad Arsyad , Abdullah Ibrahim , Ammar Asma'
Published: October 2021

This study is a first attempt to comparatively study the addressing system in Malay and Arabic societies, which is an important element in communicating and interacting. This analysis uses lexicological and sociolinguistic approaches. The study found that the family addressing system in Arabic is viewed as more complicated and complex than the address forms used within the Malay society. This will cause difficulty and confusion in determining the appropriate meaning match for the terms. As a result, translators and anyone else involved in the process of moving the meaning of a word between Malay and Arabic should be cautious and always refer to the term’s meaning before assigning a match so that the receiver or reader of the translation do not become confused.