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Adapting Museum Workflows to Accommodate Omic-based, Multi-species Occurrences from Environmental Samples
Authors: Meyer Chistopher , Snyder Rebecca
Published: September 2022

Natural history museums play a critical role in curating global anthropological, biological and geological diversity. Museums host more than voucher samples for comparative identification purposes. They host a suite of derived products and associated information, which cascade from these records of diversity in time and space. Increasingly, museums capture whole communities through curation of environmental samples and their derived data. Environmental samples are defined as material samples that yield multi-species occurrence records that cannot be sorted into traditional independent lots and whose membership can only be determined by downstream analytical processes, usually based on the generation of DNA sequence profiles. These materials include samples such as filtered water; feces, gut dissections or gastric lavage; scraped and blended settlement plates; as well as sediment, ice or soil cores. Given the level of ongoing and predicted global change, through the curation of these environmental samples, museums provide time capsules of diversity and longitudinal breadth to examine temporal patterns in phenology, range shifts, species interactions and diversity loss or gain. The future of natural history museums is likely to expand from providing inventory-like services to more observatory functions. They should provide strategic windows to the past by partnering with place-based observatories or targeted regions of predicted change.

Rather than individual specimens, environmental samples represent entire systems as events, defined by space and time. Thus, these environmental samples are explicitly event-centric. The cascade of derived information, protocols and handling steps, as well as analytical processes and their associated metadata, needs to be tracked via the minting of persistent identifiers at each material sample and derived data step.

Efforts are underway through collaboratively funded programs like the iSamples Cyberinfrastructure group, funded by the US National Science Foundation, to semantically map these various material samples while capturing their parent-child relationships. Moreover, museums, such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, are scoping and examining existing systems of record, metadata models and mapping workflows, with particular emphasis on environmental samples. These event-based samples create new challenges for historically taxonomically-siloed departments pertaining to custodianship, permitting, versioning of biodiversity occurrence records based on improved reference libraries, and future use and reuse of these material samples. Management systems are being augmented or adopted to encompass these new workflows to ensure that today’s samples can support tomorrow’s science in service to a sustainable future.
HPLC-DAD assay of flavonoids and evaluation of antioxidant activity of some herbal mixtures
Authors: Savych Alona , Marchyshyn Svitlana , Polonets Olha , Mala Olga , Shcherba Iryna , Morozova Liubov
Published: September 2022

Medicinal plants and their combinations can influence various links of the pathogenetic mechanism of diabetes mellitus type 2 and its complications, due to the wide range of biologically active substance that they accumulate. Flavonoids deserve particular attention through their antioxidant properties. Three samples of herbal mixtures (sample 1 – Inula helenium rhizome with roots, Helichrysum arenarium flowers, Zea mays columns with stigmas, Origanum vulgare herb, Rosa majalis fruits, Taraxacum officinale roots; sample 2 – Cichorium intybus roots, Elymus repens rhizome, Helichrysum arenarium flowers, Rosa smajalis fruits, Zea mays columns with stigmas; sample 3 – Urtica dioica leaf, Taraxacum officinale roots, Vaccinium myrtillus leaf, Rosa majalis fruits, Mentha x Menthapiperita herb) were tested for flavonoid content and antioxidant properties.

Using HPLC-DAD analysis the content of flavonoids was evaluated and an antioxidant activity by DPPH-radicals scavenging, ferrous ion chelating capacity and ferric reducing power were established for the herbal mixtures. Rutin prevails in sample 3, its content was 2745.66±0.21 μg/g; luteolin – in samples 1 and 2, its content was 371.31±0.07 μg/g and 313.48±0.13 μg/g, respectively.

Flavonoids attribute to the antioxidant activity of the herbal mixtures, which was confirmed by DPPH radical scavenging assay, ferric reducing power assay and ferrous ion chelating assay. The highest antioxidant capacity was found for sample 3 – IC50 of inhibition of DPPH radicals was 301.65±2.67 µg/mL compared to control – ascorbic acid (119.24±2.35 µg/mL), the ferric reducing power was 0.382 at 100 µg/mL compared to ascorbic acid (0.412 at 100 µg/mL) and IC50 of chelating capacity was 206.59±2.48 µg/mL compared to EDTA-Na2 (110.55±1.93 µg/mL).
Lycoris insularis (Amaryllidaceae), a new species from eastern China revealed by morphological and molecular evidence
Authors: Zhang Si-Yu , Wang Hao-Tian , Hu Ying-Feng , Zhang Wei , Hu Song , Shao Jian-Wen
Published: September 2022

Lycoris insularis S.Y.Zhang & J.W.Shao, a new fertile diploid species from coastal provinces in eastern China is described. This new species is most similar to L. sprengeri in morphology and has been misidentified as the latter for a long time. However, it can be distinguished from the latter by the relatively longer perianth tube (1.5‒2.5 cm vs. less than 1.3 cm), a characteristic that was overlooked before. Phylogenetic analysis, based on complete plastid genome, showed that L. insularis is not genetically related to L. sprengeri in the genus. The former was a sister group of L. sanguinea, while the latter was closely related to L. longituba and L. chinensis and they were respectively located on different clades that were separated at the base of the phylogenetic tree. The chromosome number of L. insularis is 2n = 22. At present, as the new species is relatively widely distributed and the wild population can normally reproduce by seeds, we evaluate it as LC (Least Concern) according to criteria of the IUCN Red List.
Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Solskyia Solsky, 1881 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Akidini) from China
Authors: Bai Xing-Long , Liu Jing-Ze , Ren Guo-Dong
Published: September 2022

Two new species of the genus Solskyia, S. infossatasp. nov. and S. lhozhagasp. nov., are described and illustrated from Xizang, China. Solskyia lhasana is redescribed and figured based on a male, and new material of S. caporiaccoi and S. parvicollis from China is documented. The ecology and biology of adults and larvae is briefly introduced. Furthermore, photographs of habitat, and a key to Chinese species are presented.
Droits et devoirs du RSA : l’impact des contrôles sur la participation des bénéficiaires
Authors: Chareyron Sylvain , Le Gall Rémi , L’Horty Yannick
Published: September 2022

Le RSA est une prestation sociale destinée à soutenir les ménages les plus pauvres couplée à un soutien à l’insertion professionnelle ou sociale. L’accès à cet accompagnement est un droit qui implique en retour un devoir pour le bénéficiaire : le non-respect des démarches est passible de sanctions sous la forme de réduction ou de suspension du versement du RSA. Cet article évalue l’effet de l’envoi d’un message d’avertissement de réduction de l’allocation adressé à l’allocataire sur ses démarches d’insertion vers l’emploi et son maintien dans le dispositif du RSA. Les résultats montrent que l’avertissement augmente la participation aux démarches d’insertion et les sorties du RSA. L’effet de l’avertissement apparaît d’autant plus important sur la participation aux démarches que les allocataires sont éloignés du marché du travail. Classification JEL  : D02, I3, J24, M38.
Oscillatory behavior of solution for fractional order fuzzy neutral predator-prey system
Authors: Abuasbeh Kinda , Shafqat Ramsha , Niazi Azmat Ullah Khan , Awadalla Muath
Published: September 2022

The goal of this study is to see if there is a solution for the fuzzy delay predator-prey system (FDPPS) with Caputo derivative. To begin, we use Schaefer's fixed point theorem to obtain results for the existence theorem of at least one solution in a Caputo FDPPS where the initial condition is also represented by a fuzzy number on fuzzy number space. We also determine the necessary and sufficient conditions of solutions for the system. Several examples are also presented to explain the oscillatory property and the existence of a solution.
Modeling effects of matrix heterogeneity on population persistence at the patch-level
Authors: Fonseka Nalin , Goddard Ⅱ Jerome , Henderson Alketa , Nichols Dustin , Shivaji Ratnasingham
Published: September 2022

Habitat loss and fragmentation is the largest contributing factor to species extinction and declining biodiversity. Landscapes are becoming highly spatially heterogeneous with varying degrees of human modification. Much theoretical study of habitat fragmentation has historically focused on a simple theoretical landscape with patches of habitat surrounded by a spatially homogeneous hostile matrix. However, terrestrial habitat patches are often surrounded by complex mosaics of many different land cover types, which are rarely ecologically neutral or completely inhospitable environments. We employ an extension of a reaction diffusion model to explore effects of heterogeneity in the matrix immediately surrounding a patch in a one-dimensional theoretical landscape. Exact dynamics of a population exhibiting logistic growth, an unbiased random walk in the patch and matrix, habitat preference at the patch/matrix interface, and two functionally different matrix types for the one-dimensional landscape is obtained. These results show existence of a minimum patch size (MPS), below which population persistence is not possible. This MPS can be estimated via empirically derived estimates of patch intrinsic growth rate and diffusion rate, habitat preference, and matrix death and diffusion rates. We conclude that local matrix heterogeneity can greatly change model predictions, and argue that conservation strategies should not only consider patch size, configuration, and quality, but also quality and spatial structure of the surrounding matrix.
Des vérités kinesthésiques en danse
Authors: Leroy Christine
Published: September 2022

Le syntagme « philosophie de la danse » fait surgir une tension aporétique : soit le philosophe esthéticien évince le danser pour réduire la danse à la réception de son spectacle, soit il assimile la danse à une pensée ou un langage – ce qui est bien mal connaître l’absentement du concept en danse, supplanté par autant d’intuitions locomotrices. À titre alternatif, je soutiendrai que la pratique de la danse est révélatrice des dimensions non conceptuelles de la vérité, qualifiables d’ « intuitions claires et évidentes » et posées comme condition même de toute connaissance par Descartes ; ou « vérités du cœur » de même valeur que les connaissances rationnelles selon Pascal.
Which Sociology of Urban Tourism in the Day After Viral Society?
Authors: Andrade Pedro
Published: September 2022

The contemporary pandemic conjuncture may lead to a ‘viral society', an unprecedent social paradigm involving deep economic, political, and cultural transformations. To cope with this globally unstable situation, it is urgent to deconstruct and reconstruct knowledge (e.g., through a social and sociological Encyclopedia of Viral Tourism addressing a particular genealogy of research on tourism studies and to be disseminated via a Virtual Sociological Museum). The author invokes here recent debates and his own personal research. Epistemologically, the pertinence of a hybrid and open research and several theoretical topics and case studies on tourism are discussed, for example, tourism articulated with the COVID-19 pandemic and the encounter of this viral tourism conjuncture with the war in Ukraine, which defines a new breed of war tourism. Regarding methodologies, the author converses on Hybrid Discourse Analysis and Visual, Virtual, and Viral Methods, such as sociological comics, video papers, artistic sociology, and sociological augmented reality.
Circumstance and Opportunity
Authors: Bandeira Miguel Sopas de Melo , Corais Filipa Assis
Published: September 2022

The pandemic has impacted several aspects of urban life in cities, from the elementary and essential daily living in the public space of its resident community to the collapse of tourism, which, until 2020, was in ascending progress in the case of Braga and which has repercussions on the entire economy. In this context, several cities took the opportunity to experiment with 'pop-up' measures (i.e., opportunity-based, rapidly implemented, low-cost, temporary, and experimental) to transform public space by allocating it to pedestrians and urban living. This chapter explores two experiences tested in Braga, during the pandemic, which, by their latent capacity of catalysis in other areas, glimpse and enhance a transformation in the mobility of the city in a future scenario.
Redefining and Reframing a City
Authors: Colapinto Cinzia , Finotto Vladi , Pavan Daniela , Pranovi Fabio
Published: September 2022

The Venetian landscape is as much a product of its economic activities, past and present, as of its physical environment. Tourism is the main source of income for the city, and also a challenge: the enormous pressure exerted by visitors is creating distorted incentives for inhabitants to abandon the city to the point that depopulation and environmental harm are the most relevant issues in the city's political agenda. The chapter delves into the case of Venice to explore the themes of urban revitalization as a process of framing and social mobilization. In particular, the authors focus on the role of higher education institutions in triggering urban change and on the nature of actors engaged in the transformation of the social fabric of a city. Based on the experience developed within a European project aimed at revitalizing and rethinking cities, the chapter explores the potential of HEIs in transforming cities, the hurdles and critical factors that might inhibit their contribution, and the strategies that can facilitate their engagement in processes of social and economic transformations.
Management of the Health Crisis on Social Media by Hoteliers in Europe
Authors: Viallon Philippe , Dolbeau-Bandin Cécile , Picot Jérémy , Krebs Viola
Published: September 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic was a major phenomenon with strong health, political, economic, and social consequences. But the health crisis was also coupled with an equally powerful communication crisis. This double crisis has of course had an impact on the world of tourism. Since mobility has been partially authorized again in Europe, hoteliers are looking to win back their customers, especially on these same social media. What is the place of the pandemic in online communication? How can the subject of the crisis be raised without scaring customers? Are the modes of communication different depending on the category of the hotel? Based on 10 hotels of different categories taken at random in Paris, London, Berlin, and Rome, the study seeks to analyze the informational policies implemented online by individual hoteliers. The results show that the variables “country” or “category” are not significant; there are strong differences from one hotel to another, which highlight a greater or lesser capacity or interest in using these communication tools to promote the establishment.
Workplace Harassment of Restaurant Workers
Authors: Yordanova Silvena Dencheva , Strachan Hannah
Published: September 2022

Today all people become victims of harassment in one form or another. Harassment at work is a very hot topic nowadays as lot of women are objects during their work. The chapter is focused on presenting the essence of harassment and how it can take place in a kitchen. The first part discussed harassment and mobbing in the workplace. The methodology part presented a study conducted among women chefs and kitchen staff. The study was conducted through online questionnaire and included 39 respondents. Besides this, an interview with 13 women chefs has been performed. The study aims to understand if there is harassment in the kitchen and what forms it takes. It also aims to understand how women as chefs are perceived in their job positions and how they are harassed. The results show that women chefs have been victims of different forms of harassment in the kitchen.
Modifications of BiVO4 Semiconductors for Oxidation of Water and Detoxification of Organic Waste
Authors: Ghosh Sangeeta , Hajra Paramita , Sariket Debasis , Ray Debasish , Baduri Swarnendu , Bhattacharya Chinmoy
Published: September 2022

The photoelectrochemical water splitting process has a lucid and efficacious impact, which emulates the natural photosynthesis process by converting solar energy into chemical energy. The construction of a PEC system can convert H2O to H2 or CO2 to C-based fuels. To achieve artificial photosynthesis, rate-determining kinetics of the OER is regarded as a highly efficient photo-anode. BiVO4 grabbed strong attention as a photoanode in the communal of PEC. Owing to a moderate bandgap and the Earth-abundant nature of the constituents, it is considered an inexpensive n-type semiconductor for PEC H2O splitting. This chapter discussed the recent progress of BiVO4-based photoanodes fabrication, including control in the surface, effects of dopant, different synthesis techniques, co-catalyst, etc. Typical unbiased tandem devices of a photoanode system in the presence of BiVO4 are also reflected. The report also demonstrated the photocatalysis principles regarding the degradation of organic pollutants.
Synthetic Methods of Nanomaterials
Authors: Nagarale Deepak Vasant
Published: September 2022

The word “nano” is from the Greek word “nanos” meaning “dwarf.” It is a prefix used to describe “one billionth” of something. A nanometer (nm) is a billionth of a meter or a millionth of a millimeter. This chapter started with an introduction to nanoscience followed by what nanostructure is and its applications of nanotechnology (basic idea) and various size-dependent properties of nanomaterials. In this chapter, some unique properties like 1) semiconducting nanoparticles and 2) metallic nanoparticles are explained with examples. Synthesis aspects of nanomaterials also need to be understood using bottom-up and top-down approaches including mechanical alloying and shape and size control of nanomaterials. In the current scenario, the research and development of nanotechnology is very active globally, and nanotechnologies are already used in many products. Further, nanotechnologies are also being developed for use in environmental applications (e.g., clean-up of environmental pollutants).
Socially Active Humanoid Robots (SAHRs) in Healthcare
Authors: Ali Farida Ashraf , Majumdar Sayon
Published: September 2022

Socially active humanoid robots (SAHRs) are designed to communicate and interact with humans in humancentric environment using speech, movements, gestures, or facial expressions to communicate with their users following some set of social behavior while providing their assistance. Just like humans interact in an adaptive manner with others by changing their speech, tone, and body language intuitively, such type of adaptive behavior can be developed in SAHRs to get a human-like rich interaction capabilities. Therefore, a lot of research work and studies are going on to replicate various behavioral aspects of humans into SAHRs, so that human-robot interaction can be improved further. Besides interacting with humans, humanoid robot should be able to perform the assigned tasks remotely and also in real time with better accuracy. Thus, these social robots designed can be used in a diversified field of applications like education, healthcare, entertainment, communication, constructions, medical, collaborations, hazard management systems, etc.
Digital Twin Technology Characteristics Design Implications and Challenges for Healthcare Applications
Authors: Neelima K.  , Satyam  , Nagarajan Ashok Kumar , Teja Neeruganti Vikram
Published: September 2022

Digital twin technology evolved initially for production and engineering with Industry 4.0. But now it has entered into various fields like healthcare, aviation, etc. The digital twin models the state of a physical entity or process. The DT continuously predicts the status of defects or failures by closed loop optimization. Due to big data storage capabilities, data fusion algorithms, and artificial intelligence algorithms, DTs are capable of assessing any hidden patterns or unknown correlations, and with self-healing mechanisms, predictive maintenance approach is used to overcome them. In the healthcare applications, DTs of patients and medical devices virtually replicate the patient's physical characteristics or changes in body for correct diagnosis and treatment.
Biosignal and Image Processing in Telemedicine
Authors: Vasanth Raj P. T.  , Archana N.  , Sudhakar J.  , Vijayaraj A.  , Uma Haimavathi K.
Published: September 2022

Bio-signals are signals that are recorded from the human body which can be electrical (e.g., ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG), electromyogram (EMG), and so on. Analyzation can be carried out by storing these signals, which will be helpful for monitoring. For example, when a physician wants to know about the regularity of heart sound, they use stethoscope through which heart's sound can be acquired. Medical snaps generated through various imaging modalities have high resolution which increases storage capacity and requires extra bandwidth for transmission. An attacker who corrupts or modifies a medical picture during its transport over an open access network might cause variations in diagnosis. To transmit the image securely from trespassers, the image has to be encrypted. This helps us to transmit photographs in a compressed and secured manner.
Medical Physics and Its Applications
Authors: K. Pradeep , S. A. Priyanka , Selvaraj Sriram , B. Subha , E. Balaji
Published: September 2022

The physics behind biomedical devices plays a very wide range of roles in healthcare technology, not all of which are included in this chapter. Human health and well-being is improved due to a variety of medical devices. In such equipment, concepts of physics are applied for design and development. In the healthcare field, medical physicists are found in various departments of hospitals for quality patient care in oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine, audiology, cardiology, physiological monitoring, and others. As the geriatric population progresses, the need for novel solutions to manage age-related diseases increases especially related to nuclear medicine. To combat this, intense design and development in medical devices are important for ontological treatment using radioisotopes in chemotherapy and radiation therapy. This ultimately leads to suboptimal treatment outcomes necessitating long-term care. Physics involved in the above treatment procedures and ontological equipment is very important to decode in the healthcare field.
Laser-Based Dynamic Optical Vortex Analysis for Remote Patient Health Diagnosis
Authors: Thomas Dennis , Benny Anish , Kumar S. N. , Thomas P. C.
Published: September 2022

Lasers can be used to obtain optical speckles by shining collimated laser beam on an optically rough medium and collecting the scattered light on a CCD camera. These optical speckles are formed as a result of random additions of scattered waves from microscopic particles under motion. They may also be generated numerically assuming the random addition of phases at any spatial location. Optical vortices are points on these speckle fields with undefined phase and zero intensity. In this chapter, the optical vortex densities and trail lengths are computed and compared for different phase correlations. The temporal de-correlation behaviour of the speckle was modelled to follow three different variations. Optical vortices were identified on them after applying a 2D Hilbert filter algorithm. The optical vortices were tracked along the 2D sections using a nearest neighbour locator algorithm. It is shown quantitatively that the optical vortex trail length is larger for the slowly de-correlating phase sequences in all three cases. This could be combined with IoT and cloud for remote patient health monitoring.
E-CRM in Digital Payment Services
Authors: Hoda Najmul
Published: September 2022

Supported by technology, digital payment expanded at a rapid pace in the last decade, constantly reducing cash transactions across the world. Across the world, the shift to digital payments witnessed a dramatic rise due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the benefits look to surpass the shortcomings, the adoption of digital payments is still affected by barriers of different kinds for different stakeholders, mainly the customers. Customer relationship management is a strategic tool that aids in retaining and improving customers' experiences. More importantly, the developments in electronic customer relationship management like the inclusion of social media, various communication channels, and web-based tools may facilitate customer adoption and satisfaction. Therefore, the role of e-CRM in digital companies needs detailed scrutiny from theoretical and practical perspectives. This chapter provides an overview of the current state of the digital payment industry and proposes a framework for the integration of e-CRM in digital payment companies.
The Relationship Between E-Service Quality, Ease of Use, and E-CRM Performance Referred by Brand Image
Authors: Kamal Sara , Naim Arshi , Magd Hesham , Khan Shad Ahmad , Khan Farheen Mujeeb
Published: September 2022

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship of e-service quality (ESQ) and ease of use (EOU) to electronic customer relationship management (E-CRM), which is referred by brand image (BI). This study presents the relevance of e-commerce (E-COM) in the business world especially in the pandemic situation and how ESQ, EOU contributes in building E-CRM. To show the relation between variables, the authors have applied scattered methods under correlation analysis. The sample was asked various closed ended questions in the domain of ESQ for E-CRM, EOU for E-CRM, ESQ for BI, EOU for BI. The results showed that there is a relationship between BI and E-CRM, ESQ and BI, ESQ and E-CRM, EOU and BI. There is no direct relation between EOU and E-CRM, but BI can facilitate in building the E-CRM. Also, the results show the direct relation between ESQ and E-CRM referred by BI.
Brand Extension in FMCG Sector Through Social Media Enabled CRM and Investigating Its Impact on Brand Equity
Authors: Verma Rinki , Kumar Manoj
Published: September 2022

Web technologies have enabled companies to have a personalized and interactive relationship with the customers, thus engaging customers in improved experience. The disruptive free tools and techniques of social media are used to foster effective E-CRM. Companies like ITC, HUL, P&G, and many multinational companies are using the existing brand name for new product launch as a marketing strategy for brand extension and therefore exploiting brand equity amongst loyal customers. The study is an effort to examine the effects of FMCG ITC Aashirwaad Social CRM brand extensions strategies on customer engagement behaviour and brand equity. The study further investigates the effect of product extension perceived fit, brand image, brand experience, and brand love on customer engagement behaviour. To test and validate the proposed model, the present study has employed structural equation modelling with a sample size of 462 respondents. The findings show that Social CRM brand extensions strategy does affect customer engagement and brand equity.
Entrepreneurial Marketing of E-CRM in SMEs
Authors: Najar Mahjabeena , Misbah Malik , Yaqub Humara , Bilfagih Mehraj
Published: September 2022

Marketing in medium and small-scale enterprises (SMEs) is altogether very different to marketing as proposed theoretically for large organizations. This chapter is dedicated to the gathered research on the effect and impact of IBTs on the customer relationship management (CRM) activities (i.e., e-CRM) of SMEs in Gurgaon. A cocktail method approach including online in-depth interviews, online questionnaires, and projective techniques was followed. Of 286 respondents, factor analysis was carried out leading to communication with customers and management of customer information being processed as the main area within the e-CRM in SMEs. In order to provide better communication and information management abilities to varying customers, SMEs are following relatively simple IBTs. It is harder to consolidate customer information into decision making than just the communication side of it. In SMEs, e-CRM tries to be adhoc rather than strategic.
Alert-Driven Customer Relationship Management in Online Travel Agencies
Authors: Chan Mimi Mei Wa , Chiu Dickson K. W.
Published: September 2022

Currently, online travel agencies (OTA) allow their customers to make timely travel reservations anytime and anywhere through websites and mobile technologies. Customer service is vital to the success of any tourism and hospitality business, including online travel agencies. One major challenge that online travel agencies face is continuously declining customer experience because this may result in a high customer churn rate. Customer relationship management (CRM) is a strategy used by most organizations to increase customer lifetime value by selecting customers and maintaining their relationships. Delivering timely and consistently higher customer service levels are the goal of every OTA, and they need to evolve and implement a new approach to address customer issues proactively to increase customer retention and loyalty. This study analyzes some common CRM workflows of OTAs and proposes an alert-driven approach to CRM to enhance their effectiveness in creating satisfying customer experiences and retaining customers.
Towards Purposeful Technology-Integration Practices
Authors: Choi Cynthia
Published: September 2022

The purpose of this chapter is to assess the extent of technological pedagogical content knowledge of preservice teachers. Using the TPACK survey developed by Schmidt et al., participating preservice teachers self-assessed their TPACK knowledge. Participating preservice teachers were part of the first cohort required to take an instructional technology course in the undergraduate initial certification program due to revised program requirements. Results indicated that more than 80% of the survey participants agreed that they “can teach lessons that appropriately combine content area, technologies, and teaching approaches.” To further understand these self-reported data, TPACK constructs discussed in this exploration focus on three of the seven domains—TCK, TPK, and TPACK. Actionable considerations for preservice teachers are proposed, including a professional development learning module to build teachers' TPACK knowledge.
Engage Teacher Leaders to Design Inclusive and Inquiry-Based Practices
Authors: Du Xiaoxue , Breazeal Cynthia
Published: September 2022

COVID-19 has presented new challenges for all teachers, especially teachers of students with special needs. Students have struggled with online learning environments with limited opportunities for social interaction and resources. The study investigated a co-design process to help teacher leaders to design inquiry-based learning with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The study utilized the convergent parallel mixed methods approach to analyze both qualitative and qualitative data to capture how teacher leaders introduced inquiry-based learning in the school community. The quantitative analysis revealed shifts in terms of teachers' ability to design inquiry-based projects that integrated AI. The qualitative analysis showed that the growth pattern of teacher leaders might be dependent upon (1) the usefulness of AI, (2) teachers' attitudes about the role of the teacher as a designer, and (3) perceived leadership support. The study provided a co-design process to engage teachers in designing inquiry-based projects during the pandemic times.
Virtual Instructional Rounds in Teacher Preparation Programs: Exploring Anti-Bias Practices
Authors: Birch Rebecca , Truesdell Elizabeth A.
Published: September 2022

This chapter describes a participatory action research project that leverages partnerships to implement virtual instructional rounds (VIRs) to engage preservice teachers in collaborative mutual learning via internet-based video platforms. Preservice teachers observe and reflect on specific skills related to anti-bias practices for diverse student populations and then apply these practices to their own inclusive learning environments. Data were collected through structured observations, surveys, and focus group interviews. Findings indicate a mutually beneficial learning experience between preservice teachers and statistically significant data supporting implementation of anti-bias education and other pedagogical practices. This study can serve as a model for other teacher preparation programs seeking to use collaborative technologies to experience reciprocal learning.
Designing Digital Assessment Strategies in Teacher Preparation
Authors: McVey Michael H.
Published: September 2022

Against an ecosystem where online tools and digital applications for assessing student learning have become increasingly refined and powerful, this chapter discusses the challenges of preparing teacher candidates to infuse technology into their teaching practices through the use of several conceptual frameworks and the intentional development of a digital assessment strategy intended for an online learning environment. This case study examines an educator preparation program (EPP) with a structured approach to creating digital assessments, both formative and summative, followed by the task of developing an online learning experience in their own course shell. This EPP makes use of a typology of assessment strategies that fall along a continuum of potential learner responses from convergent to divergent and includes a post-hoc analysis to examine trends in the ways teacher candidates approach the challenge of creating a digital assessment strategy. This chapter concludes with a series of implications for EPPs.
Embedding Assistive Technology in Teacher Education
Authors: Drelick Alicia M.
Published: September 2022

As educators serve increasingly diverse student populations who experience barriers to access, foundational knowledge of assistive technology (AT) is vital for pre-service education majors. This chapter reviews key legislation concerning assistive technology in school settings, current practices, and barriers to AT implementation rooted in both K-12 and pre-service teacher training. The author will highlight emerging practices to embed AT instruction into general and special education teacher preparation programs along with key topics to address. Armed with increased knowledge and comfort of assistive technology tools afforded at the pre-service level, informed educators can create a more inclusive classroom by removing or reducing barriers to accessing the learning environment.
Taxing the Golden Glitter
Authors: Sharma Arun , Sharma Poonam
Published: September 2022

The desire to diversify the investment basket has always been a crucial trump card in managing a portfolio – be it for nations or for individuals. Investment in gold has turned out to be a historical element in this selection. The desire to earn handsome returns coupled with stability of investment ensured its relevance in portfolio management strategies and decisions. The present study has made an attempt to study this fascination via a two-pronged analysis of determinants behind investor choice for gold investment as well as its taxation aspect. The analysis helps to contribute towards suitable policy implications for practice.
Escalate the Returns With AI-Based Technical Analysis Before Investment in the Stock Market
Authors: V. Vishal , Kumar Vivek , Sharma Rishi , Trehan Mohita
Published: September 2022

Over the last few years, stock trading has become a center of attention, which can largely be attributed to technological advances. Investors search for tools and techniques that would increase profit and reduce the risk. Therefore, the trend prediction of the stock market price is always a great topic for researchers from both technical and financial perspectives. More recently, machine learning techniques have been examined to determine whether they are able to improve market forecasting compared with traditional methods. In the age of big data, deep learning for predicting stock market rates and patterns is now much more popular than before. In this chapter, the aim is to maximize the results by utilizing machine learning stock market prediction analysis based on synthetic neural network, SVM, using genetic algorithms together with other artificial intelligence methods. Given the recent volatility in the stock market as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors believed it would be a good idea to make use of machine learning to predict near-future stock market trends.
The US Capital Markets
Authors: Kumar Santosh , Ra Prasanth Kumar , Kumar Sarvesh
Published: September 2022

The largely neglected retail investor groups are doing the unprecedented action in the USA. The purpose of this chapter is to draw readers' attention towards the trend of household investments in the capital market and its key drivers. This chapter studies the change of household financial behavior over the last 30 years. This chapter draws attention to the investment patterns in the financial asset class. The study finding suggests that gradually household finances have strengthened during the last three decades of financial prosperity and it has enabled the household to invest more in corporate securities, thus allowing the household to participate in the financial market. The major investment determinants include growth in disposable income, lower unemployment rate, lowering interest rate, etc., although a lot of changes driven by qualitative factors such as access to market through technology interventions are difficult to quantify.
ESG, Stock Prices, and Firm Value
Authors: Tandon Dinesh , Bansal Rajni
Published: September 2022

The authors examine whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays an important role in improving market value in emerging markets such as India. Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) criteria are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the CSR and its impact on business equity. In particular, corporate governance policy adversely affects the business value of environmentally friendly companies. In addition, although management systems significantly increase the market value of conglomerates, investors do not value the management practices of other companies significantly. These findings reflect the impact of improving the value of structural changes of previous management. This work contributes to the literature primarily by examining the positive relationships of CSR testing in emerging markets. This affects important policies and market well-being where governments play a key role in developing CSR. The strong impact of CSR measurement on family businesses may provide an economic basis for Indian government intervention in reforms.
Market Efficiency and COVID-19
Authors: Sachdeva Kanika , Sareen Charu Kapoor
Published: September 2022

The present study intends to examine the nature of the Indian stock market by examining the randomness of daily market returns and the influence of COVID-19. To achieve this purpose, the daily closing prices of BSE Sensex and Nifty Fifty have been taken for the period between July 2019 to June 2020, and the same is divided in two parts, one before COVID-19 (Period I July - Dec. 2019) and another during COVID-19 (Period II Jan – June 2020). The JB test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, run test, unit root test, and autocorrelation test have been used to test the time series data. The results of the study highlighted that data is not normally distributed, and it is observed to be more volatile in Period II. The study concludes that Indian stock markets do exhibit a weak form of market efficiency and generally do not follow random walk in both periods. The study implies that the recent pandemic did not impact the behavior of Indian stock markets to a great extent. The results of the study might be useful for investors and corporate executives in framing business policies.
Linkages Among Cryptocurrencies
Authors: Inder Shivani
Published: September 2022

This chapter investigates the linkages and connections between different cryptocurrencies. Johansen cointegration and network analysis is employed to examine top eight cryptocurrenices (i.e., Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Stellar, Cardano, Tether, XRP, Ethereum Classic, and Chainlink). The study documents evidence to support cointegration among different cryptocurrencies. The study finds that cryptocurrencies Ethereum Classic, Chainlink, Dogecoin, and Bitcoin are connected as one group, and XRP, Stellar, and Cardano are connected as another group whereas Tether does not fall under any group and indicates no connection with other cryptocurrencies considered.
Interplay Consequences of COVID-19 on Global Environmental Sustainability
Authors: Danish Mir Sayed Shah , Senjyu Tomonobu Shah , Sabory Najib Rahman , Mikhaylov Alexey
Published: September 2022

This chapter outlines the essentials of COVID-19 and its relation to environmental mitigation. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the ranking concern of climate change distress, and it is ranking as the first global priority to be adequately tackled. However, the pandemic demonstrates with economic, social, and cultural constraints. Still, climate change and environmental pollution have been ignored as the utmost precaution while their impact is more severe in the long run. This chapter evaluates available opportunities for environmental sustainability in the pandemic era. At the same time, the most significant aspect of solid waste, especially clinical waste, is critical for limiting pandemics and preventing future consequences of improper waste management. Sustainable production relies on criteria that ensure affordability, accessibility, use efficiency, safety, disparity, and other factors of production, supply, distribution, and consumption that are efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly.
Lessons From COVID-19 Conferring Environmental Re-Engineering Opportunity
Authors: Danish Mir Sayed Shah , Senjyu Tomonobu Shah , Sabory Najib Rahman , Mikhaylov Alexey
Published: September 2022

This chapter presents re-engineering environmental sustainability opportunities within constrained pandemic situations that suggest solutions. Climate change disaster and COVID-19 socio-economic impacts are leading nations to dramatic tragedy. Simultaneously, increasing demand for energy are due to population, political competition, and industrial growth globally. At present, the pandemic attracts more attention due to its immediate effect. Ignoring climate change can have a worse consequence not only on the present but for the future generation in the long run. Therefore, re-engineering the current pandemic situation with a futurism outlook for saving the world will enable nations to transform and rethink strategies, policies, procedures, processes, and any actions that can cope with present and possible future pandemics and climate change tragedies.
BODIPY Dyes in Solar Energy
Authors: Cetindere Seda
Published: September 2022

Solar energy shows great potential in the future energy market due to its essentially unlimited supply and renewable, cheap, and clean nature. Among the third-generation solar technologies that are able to harvest light and convert it to electricity are dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), organic solar cells (OSCs), and inorganic-organic hybrid solar cells also known as perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Among the various organic dyes, BODIPY (4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene) dyes have been recognized as promising candidates for solar cells due to their intrinsic advantages such as sharp and strong absorption near 500 nm, which is leading to efficient light-harvesting capability, diverse modification on the core structure at all positions and with any desired functionality, long excited state lifetimes, excellent photo-stability, and good solubility in organic solvents. This chapter will focuse on studies of BODIPY dyes in solar energy technology.
Do Remittance Inflows Increase Energy Security Risk in the Long Run?
Authors: Karasoy Alper
Published: September 2022

This chapter examines the long-run effect of remittances on energy security risks of Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia in a bi-variate setting by utilizing the DOLS, FMOLS, and CCR estimation methods for the 1980-2018 period. The empirical findings of this chapter show that remittances and energy security risks are cointegrated. Additionally, the estimation results show that remittances significantly aggravate energy insecurities in selected MENA countries in the long run. Further, the results of this chapter reveal that remittances' role in increasing energy insecurity should not be overlooked. Therefore, the author proposes that remittance inflows can be utilized as a long-term integral instrument in combating energy insecurity issues and developing new energy policies.
Progress and Determinants of Renewable Energy Development in India
Authors: Jana Sebak Kumar , Singh Khushboo
Published: September 2022

For sustainable development of energy, renewable energy can play a pivotal role. In order to meet the huge requirement of electricity in India, massive addition to the installed electricity-generating capacity is required. The major objectives of the present study are (1) to find the progress of renewable energy development in different states of India, (2) to find the determinants of renewable energy development in India, and (3) to assess the scope of renewable energy development in the states of India. The study finds that there is state-wise disparity in the development of renewable energy in India and also reveals that renewable energy potential (MW) and real gross state domestic product of the states are significant factors in state-wise renewable energy development in India.
An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Intention of Tourism and Hospitality Undergraduates in Sri Lanka
Authors: Biyiri Edina Wiligas , Dissanayake D. M. M. I.
Published: September 2022

Entrepreneurship development is one of the most significant factors in the economic development of a country. However, when compared to other countries in Asia, Sri Lanka reports a low entrepreneurial rate. Thus, this study's primary focus is to analyze the tourism undergraduates' entrepreneurial intention and the challenges faced by the undergraduates to start a business. To achieve the objectives, both quantitative and qualitative approaches have been adapted. The population of the study comprises all the tourism undergraduates in state universities of Sri Lanka. A sample of 166 tourism undergraduates has been surveyed. The findings indicate that the tourism undergraduates have a moderate level of intention to start their own business and perceived feasibility and perceived desirability significantly influence their entrepreneurial intention. Tourism undergraduates perceive financial difficulty as the major challenge to start a business. Implications for educators and governmental bodies and future research directions are highlighted.