bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A szakértői bizonyítás aktuális kérdései – Kézikönyv a szakértői tevékenységről és a szakvéleményről szakértőknek és jogászoknak
Authors: Szombati Ivett
Published: September 2022

Aim: The purpose of this study is to present Mónika Nogel's monograph with the aim of making the potential readership aware of its main values.Methodology: The article was prepared based on the analysis of the monograph described.Findings: The presented monograph analyzes the current issues of expert activity with scientific precision, and can also help the daily work of experts and legal practitioners working with expert opinions.Value: The paper presents review and evaluation of the monograph ,,Current Challenges of Expert Evidence – Handbook for Experts and Lawyers”, writen by Mónika Nogel. The book was published in 2020.
Potenciális terrorista elkövetők kockázatelemzése
Authors: Lohner Klaudia , Csomós István
Published: September 2022

Aim: In this study we would like to examine the role of risk analysis in the field of intelligence and national security work.Methodology: By reviewing the domestic and international literature, we will be able to list the types and areas of application of risk analysis.Findings: From risk assessment of violence to risk analysis tools specifically used in the fight against terrorism, we are intended to examine based on purely professional judgment, purely statistical and mixed (Structured Professional Judgment) approaches of risk analysis.Value: In our research, we conclude that a so-called structured professional approach seems to be the most rewarding way to assess the risk of potential terrorists, and we see the combination of theoretical and practical knowledge and the inclusion of psychological expertise as the specificities of well-functioning risk assessment tools.
A szakértő szerepe a személyi állapotot érintő perekben
Authors: Hegedűs Ákos
Published: September 2022

Aim: The expert evidence is perhaps one of the most costly and time-consuming means of evidence. However, a consistent expert opinion is decisive. Still, the evaluation of it has always been an argued issue. With the change of the procedural rules’ legal practice got answers to many questions while new questions have arisen. In the heart of changes are the rules of expert evidence in actions related to personal status.Methodology: In addition to the identification of the need of change coming from the legal practice, this study analyses the direction, significance and effect of the change.Findings: The actions related to personal status require different approach from the property disputes. In doing so formalised solutions mean the rapidity. Personalised method of taking of evidence still needs a high degree of flexibility.Value: This study can only define tendencies. The correctness of these tendencies shall be judged by the results of the practice. Still, the most important is to achieve a broader evaluating analysis of the expert evidence.
A kockás papírtól a digitális e-jegyzőkönyvig
Authors: Erdélyi Katalin
Published: September 2022

Aim: Forensic experts shall keep a report of the examination carried out to establish the origin of the handwriting. The study guides the reader to the author’s own electronic examination report through the temporal changes of the Hungarian handwriting expert reports.Methodology: The electronic report is a software currently under development that provides an interface to explore the characteristics of handwriting and collects the data in a computer database for later analysis.Findings: The stored data can be processed by algorithms, from which mathematical, statistical, probabilistic, and computational results useful to experts can be obtained.Value: The primary task of the e-report is to allow the exploration and recording of handwriting features in a simple and effective way, and secondly, to inform the examining expert about the tendencies, habits, and contexts of handwriting in order to increase the objectivity of handwriting examination.
Látens és manifeszt hatások a rendészeti felsőoktatásban
Authors: Baráth Emőke Noémi
Published: September 2022

Aim: The study analyzes the functions of the education system, focusing on the training of police officers in the Hungarian higher education system. The examined educational functions can be explained not only by the internal features arising from the peculiarities of the training systems, but also by the manifestations of the social needs towards them, ie latent and manifest functions are created. It is important to go around the reproduction of culture, that is, cultural reproduction, aspects of shaping the personality of individuals, themain possibilities for reproducing or changing the social structure. We need to analyze the possibilities of performing various direct “service” functions as well as the functions that generate social change. In order to fulfill the listed tasks, there are significant economic, state and social interests, in the collision of which the individual functions may also conflict with each other.Methodology: In this study, we analyzed the functions of Hungarian law enforcement higher education using quantitative and qualitative methods. Career choice motivations and values of police students were examined using questionnaire data and Liker scales.Findings: The examined educational functions can be explained not only by the internal characteristics arising from the peculiarities of the training systems, but also by the manifestations of the social needs of them. The scholarship and the future secure job also have a motivating effect on police students, so the activation of a vision function has a strong effect. The transmission of values in higher education requires continuous monitoring during the training, as the students participating in it want to enter the police career with a changing background, vision and motivational tools.Value: The study presents the Hungarian data of an international research. It examines in detail the evaluation of graduate students enrolled in law enforcement higher education in terms of professional values, professionalism, and vocation. We assume that expertise, responsibility, and conscious career choice can contribute to the development of a stable professional identity, which can still be formed at university and thus the manifest effect of education is emphasized. The study also analyzes how the impact of full-time police officers on professional work and how education can positively influence it can be started with a pluralized attitude.
Nemzetközi Rendészeti Figyelő VII.
Authors: Erdélyi Katalin , Zsákai Lénárd , Dulai Péter , Csizner Zoltán , Mátés Gábor
Published: September 2022

Value: The international outlook draws readers' attention to the exciting topics of policing theory and law enforcement. It introduces the role of the human factor in forensic expert activity; we receive an assessment of international organized crime based on new criteria; we can study the world of assassinations; we meet video surveillance of public areas, and finally we talk about a specific area of ​​self-defense. Methodology: The methodologies draw attention to the human factors of expert errors, introduce economic aspects in the investigation of the causes of organized crime, recommend the so-called "scenario" method for analyzing criminality, present the effects of community supervision on populations with multiple disadvantages, in violent physical conflicts they call for an examination of mental reactions. Findings: Scientifically proven knowledge of individual law enforcement research topics can be more complete and useful for practice if researchers rely on methods that are well suited to the investigated phenomena. Value: The particular topics of law enforcement, examined with sufficient competence, can contribute to more effective protection of public safety.
THE UKRAINIAN ECONOMY OFFSHORING: ESTIMATION OF FACTORS’ IMPACT AND DEVELOPING MEASURES TO COMBAT
Authors: Hobela Volodymyr , Podra Olha , Batyuk Bogdan , Levkiv Halyna , Hynda Oksana
Published: September 2022

The study is devoted to the Ukrainian capital outflow analysis, finding main reasons, consequences and working out the recommendations. The purpose of the study was to research the reasons of offshoring, except tax avoidance, to estimate their impact on the state economy and develop the ways of economy de-offshoring based on the main results of the study. The main reasons, positive, negative effects and threats of economy offshoring were identified. The main reasons for offshoring other than tax avoidance were highlighted. Based on empirical, theoretical, and static research, it was found that a corporate raiding, an imperfect legal environment regarding the protection of property, intellectual property and high level of political risks have a significant impact on the economy offshoring. The influence of various factors (x1, x2….xn) on capital outflow was estimated on a base of correlation analysis. According to the received results the main ways of Ukraine’s economy de-offshoring within the formation of institutional and legal support of de-offshoring were developed. Scientific methods such as general and special methods of cognition, methods of economic and statistical analysis, deduction, and the method of theoretical generalization were used in the study.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS IN PRINTING INDUSTRY
Authors: Kaminskytė Radvilė
Published: September 2022

The printing industry today faces major challenges posed by increased competition, rapid technological development, shortage of specialists, declining product circulation, and more. An appropriate and effective business management system helps to reduce the risk of all these factors. This article presents a study aimed at investigating enterprise resource planning systems for printing industry and making suggestion for development opportunities. The object of research is the ERP system in printing industry. This paper presents an empirical study conducted using the survey method and uses two types of this method: a questionnaire survey and an interview. The research is summarized by qualitative and quantitative methods, based on the results of the research the ways of solving the problem are presented and the ERP improvement scheme is formed, the proposed knowledge management module is presented. These suggestions can help processes in companies and be more competitive in the market. This article highlights the importance of continuous improvement of business management systems.
The Effect of Psychiatric Comorbidity on Healthcare Utilization for Youth With Newly Diagnosed Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Authors: Davis Alaina , Faerber Jennifer , Ardalan Kaveh , Katcoff Hannah , Klein-Gitelman Marisa , Rubinstein Tamar B. , Cidav Zuleyha , Mandell David S. , Knight Andrea
Published: September 2022

Objective

To examine the effect of psychiatric diagnoses on healthcare use in youth with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) during their first year of SLE care.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study using claims from 2000 to 2013 from Clinformatics Data Mart (OptumInsight). Youth aged 10 years to 24 years with an incident diagnosis of SLE (≥ 3 International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, codes for SLE 710.0, > 30 days apart) were categorized as having: (1) a preceding psychiatric diagnosis in the year before SLE diagnosis, (2) an incident psychiatric diagnosis in the year after SLE diagnosis, or (3) no psychiatric diagnosis. We compared ambulatory, emergency, and inpatient visits in the year after SLE diagnosis, stratified by nonpsychiatric and psychiatric visits. We examined the effect of childhood-onset vs adult-onset SLE by testing for an interaction between age and psychiatric exposure on outcome.

Results

We identified 650 youth with an incident diagnosis of SLE, of which 122 (19%) had a preceding psychiatric diagnosis and 105 (16%) had an incident psychiatric diagnosis. Compared with those without a psychiatric diagnosis, youth with SLE and a preceding or incident psychiatric diagnosis had more healthcare use across both ambulatory and emergency settings for both nonpsychiatric and psychiatric-related care. These associations were minimally affected by age at time of SLE diagnosis.

Conclusion

Psychiatric comorbidity is common among youth with newly diagnosed SLE and is associated with greater healthcare use. Interventions to address preceding and incident psychiatric comorbidity may decrease healthcare burden for youth with SLE.
Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Transition-Age Young Adults With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry
Authors: Smitherman Emily A. , Chahine Rouba A. , Bitencourt Nicole , Rahman A.K.M. Fazlur , Lawson Erica F. , Chang Joyce C.
Published: September 2022

Objective

To evaluate patient-reported care utilization and outcomes among young adults with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), including factors associated with complete transfer to adult rheumatology.

Methods

We included young adults with JIA enrolled in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) Registry from 2015 to 2019 with age ≥ 18 years at their last clinical site visit. We used data from the CARRA Registry Long-term Follow-up program, which follows inactive CARRA Registry patients and collects patient-reported information through phone surveys. We compared the characteristics of respondents with complete and incomplete transfer to adult rheumatology care at their first Long-term Follow-up phone survey.

Results

We identified 540 young adults with JIA; 187 (35%) responded to the Long-term Follow-up phone survey. The 54% of respondents with complete transfer to adult rheumatology were slightly older and reported more self-assessed disease activity, morning stiffness, and pain compared to those with incomplete transfer. Biologic use was high at both timepoints and did not differ by transfer status. Patients who completed the transfer were more likely to have private insurance and be actively pursuing postsecondary education compared to those with an incomplete transfer. Across the cohort, 65% reported problems with pain or discomfort and 45% with anxiety or depression.

Conclusion

Young adult respondents with JIA in the CARRA Registry commonly report persistent medication use, but still report more problems with pain as compared to population norms. Additional work is needed to understand how best to address comorbid pain around the period of transition to adult care.
Gamma radiation effects on vitamins, antioxidant, internal and molecular structure of Purslane seeds
Authors: Hasanin Soad , ELshahawy A. G. , El-Shora Hamed M , El-Bediwi Abu Bakr
Published: September 2022

Purslane contains the highest amount of omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, and has better nutritional quality. Gamma irradiation is harmless and dependable method for refining the shelf life and nutritional quality of the stored seeds. The aim of this research is to study the influence of irradiation by gamma on structure, ascorbic acid and phenolic content of Purslane seeds. The results show that, ascorbic acid, phenolic content, carbohydrate and protein content in Purslane seeds decreased after exposed by gamma rays. Super oxidase dismutase, fat and fiber content in Purslane seeds increased after exposed by gamma radiation. The shape, size, interconnection and arrangement of molecules in/or around benzene ring in Purslane cells changed after exposure to gamma radiation.
Construction of a three commitment points for S phase entry cell cycle model and immune-related ceRNA network to explore novel therapeutic options for psoriasis
Authors: Xu Jingxi , Li Jiangtao
Published: September 2022

While competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) play pivotal roles in various diseases, the proliferation and differentiation of keratinocytes are becoming a research focus in psoriasis. Therefore, the three commitment points for S phase entry (CP1–3) cell cycle model has pointed to a new research direction in these areas. However, it is unclear what role ceRNA regulatory mechanisms play in the interaction between keratinocytes and the immune system in psoriasis. In addition, the ceRNA network-based screening of potential therapeutic agents for psoriasis has not been explored. Therefore, we used multiple bioinformatics approaches to construct a ceRNA network for psoriasis, identified CTGF as the hub gene, and constructed a ceRNA subnetwork, after which validation datasets authenticated the results' accuracy. Subsequently, we used multiple online databases and the single-sample gene-set enrichment analysis algorithm, including the CP1–3 cell cycle model, to explore the mechanisms accounting for the increased proliferation and differentiation of keratinocytes and the possible roles of the ceRNA subnetwork in psoriasis. Next, we performed cell cycle and cell trajectory analyses based on a single-cell RNA-seq dataset of psoriatic skin biopsies. We also used weighted gene co-expression network analysis and single-gene batch correlation analysis-based gene set enrichment analysis to explore the functions of CTGF. Finally, we used the Connectivity Map to identify MS-275 (entinostat) as a novel treatment for psoriasis, SwissTargetPrediction to predict drug targets, and molecular docking to investigate the minimum binding energy and binding sites of the drug to target proteins.
Removal of DBP from evening primrose oil with activated clay modified by chitosan and CTAB
Authors: Pan FG , Wang MQ , Xu JY , Yang CX , Li S , Lu YF , Zhang YD , Liu BQ
Published: September 2022

The pollution of phthalic acid esters (PAEs) in edible oils is a serious problem. In the current study, we attempt to remove dibutyl phthalate ester (DBP) from evening primrose oil (EPO) with modified activated clay. The activated clay, commonly used for de-coloration in the oil refining process, was modified by chitosan and hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB). The modifications were characterized by SEM, XRD, and FT-IR. We further tested the DBP adsorption capacity of CTAB/chitosan-clay and found that the removal rate was 27.56% which was 3.24 times higher than with pristine activated clay. In addition, the CTAB/chitosan-clay composite treatment had no significant effect on the quality of evening primrose oil. In summary, the CTAB/chitosan-clay composite has a stronger DBP adsorption capacity and can be used as a new adsorbent for removing DBP during the de-coloration process of evening primrose oil.
Evaluación del confort térmico y la calidad de aire en centros docentes públicos en Madrid. Estudio de tres casos durante un año
Authors: Gallego Sánchez-Torija Jorge , Arranz Beatriz , Oteiza Ignacio , Alonso Carmen , Martín-Consuegra Fernando
Published: September 2022

El confort térmico y la calidad del aire en los centros docentes son dos parámetros que deben ser estudiados en profundidad. Tienen consecuencias en la salud de las personas cuyo cuerpo está en desarrollo y en los resultados de aprendizaje que se obtienen en los espacios educativos. En este trabajo se toman datos de concentración de CO2 y temperatura en un total de ocho aulas que pertenecen a tres centros docentes públicos durante un año con el objetivo de analizar la situación, determinar las causas que influyen en los aspectos mencionados y ofrecer medidas para corregir las desviaciones registradas y mejorar la calidad del ambiente interior en las aulas. Los datos obtenidos muestran que durante un tercio del tiempo lectivo las concentraciones de CO2 superan los valores límite establecidos y que durante más de dos tercios del tiempo lectivo los valores de temperatura se encuentran fuera de la zona de confort.
The body as memory and resistance in Marton Robinson's performance art
Authors: Solano Sofía Vindas , Shelby Gabriela Sáenz
Published: September 2022

This essay proposes an analytical approach to the video-installation performance "Don't tell my right hand what my left hand does" by the Costa Rican artist Marton Robinson. To showcase the complexities of this piece, we analyze the artist's live performance of the same name that took place in Costa Rica in 2021. Robinson`s work challenges and expands the diversity of meanings and strategies around video installation performances. The artist uses his body as a living archive and challenges the traditional conceptions of the role of documenting and filming the performance, thus contributing to the debate about how this type of artistic practices are recorded, documented, and archived. Robinson's work is an interesting case to address the fine line between the definition of performance and the immediacy of the body in a particular time and space, and the purpose and definition of the resulting testimony of the live-action in Central American contemporary art.
El “arte latinoamericano” en el cruce con la globalización: un acercamiento al arte contemporáneo de la Colección Phelps de Cisneros
Authors: Battezzati Agustina
Published: September 2022

La Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros es una institución con sedes en Nueva York y Caracas abocada a la colección y a la promoción de arte latinoamericano. Si bien la colección es reconocida por su conjunto de obras abstractas de Latinoamérica, también ha comenzado a coleccionar obras que rotula bajo la categoría de arte contemporáneo. El objetivo de este artículo es contribuir al análisis de cómo la categoría de arte latinoamericano se actualiza a partir de la proliferación y la difusión del arte contemporáneo en los centros globales. A partir del estudio de una donación realizada por la Colección Phelps de Cisneros a una serie de museos en el año 2018, este trabajo aborda las implicancias en cuanto a la circulación y a la difusión de las producciones culturales de América Latina en el contexto de la globalización.
Product Design and Innovation: Manufacturing SMEs in Santiago de Chile
Authors: Mendez Ruben , Meythaler Amparo
Published: September 2022

This descriptive review paper has been developed from an interdisciplinary approach. It focuses on the essence of the contribution and impact of design in permanent collaboration with economic science, both in its theoretical conception and application in the company. The authors whose works were revised for this paper, declare design as a project activity from areas such as entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, which are essential for the change of the productive matrix, taking Chile as a study reference. It is concluded that design is a projective discipline that manages creative processes within the company in order to introduce concepts of innovation that directly affect the product, and from there to develop strategic content in SMEs that facilitate the work of the entrepreneur in guiding added-value processes that generate opportunities for expansion and growth in the market.
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Approach to Design Management
Authors: Kramoliš Jan , Šviráková Eva
Published: September 2022

This paper considers Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Design Management. More precisely the relationship between design management and business prosperity. The study is based on quantitative research conducted in January 2019. The main issues are transformed into research questions. These research questions are further evaluated into several hypotheses, which were statistical tested. The results suggest that (as presumably expected) there is a correlation between well-managed design management and business prosperity. The results were analyzed across the size of companies, with regard to B2B/B2C/B2G. The limitation of research results is seen mainly on a limited number of samples coming only from the Czech economy. The research did not in depth identify the precisely the term "business prosperity". Sometimes prosperity is labeled by increasing profits, sales, market share, or brand value. The originality of the paper lies in the uniqueness of the research and the possibility of utilization of its results on other economies similar to the Czech Republic.
Memories of the Future: a design technology by scenarios
Authors: Hindrichson Patricia Hartmann , Cattani Airton
Published: September 2022

Scenario Planning allows the investigation of alternative futures being useful in contexts characterized by high volatility and uncertainty. Particularly within the boundaries of Design, the way of thinking through scenarios has been incorporated into design methods to explore future contexts at certain points in the design process. However, we question whether scenario thinking could be an integral approach during the project's lifetime structuring a design technology through comprehensive and systemic mechanisms. Therefore, the present work aimed to share the research of a Design Technology by Scenarios and its application in a design workshop entitled Memories of the Future. The project network was formed by the “Protagonists of the Future,” a group movement orchestrated by the Santa Maria Development Agency supported by UN-Habitat to promote urban development in a sustainable and collaborative way. The results indicate that the co-creation of scenarios as a design technology resignified the actions of the protagonists in the local ecosystem encompassing multiple dimensions: the history and purpose of the project (story); the path necessary to achieve the goals of sustainable development in the city (path); the roles to be performed by the different protagonists involved (actors); and tangible results in the participating communities (evidences).Keywords: design methods, scenario thinking, design-driven innovation, participatory design.
Study on Medical Image Detection Using Deep Learning
Authors: Garg Ruchi , Kumar Sushil , Gupta Sonali
Published: September 2022

The growing development of deep learning and its increasingly widespread use signals a trend to convert to a new standard in each application area, consolidating itself as a general purpose technology. In the general analysis of innovations based on the use of deep learning on different applications of medical images, it can be inferred that its use is increasingly widespread and that it is driving greater innovations and transformations at an increasingly greater speed. Additionally, it is evident that the use of deep learning in medical imaging for the diagnosis of various anomalies incorporates a significant number of the elements and methodological and organizational aspects identified under this study (e.g., invention methods from the perspective of application of deep learning). Therefore, this study emphasizes various aspects of deep learning models to have opted as a ready reference while examining the medical images as a de-facto standard.
Stress Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques in IoT Environment
Authors: Chehal Dimple , Gupta Parul , Gulati Payal , Madaan Rosy , Bhatia Komal Kumar
Published: September 2022

Employment of various sensors used in IoT can help create a sustainable urban life. Rapid advancements in IoT have made human existence smarter. Smartness may be associated to office, home, networks, energy consumption, agriculture, education, retail, and even healthcare. Smart health management addresses its populations, such as tracking routine activities, obesity, nutrition intake, heart rate, glucose level, oxygen level, body temperature, or even stress level monitoring. Stress is a condition which is being faced by people irrespective of their age, gender, or profession. But its identification at an early stage can help in preventing the consequences. This work presents nine machine learning techniques for identifying stress using the SWELL dataset. Hence, automated classifiers were utilised to predict working circumstances and stress-related mental states and were compared for accuracy for three stress conditions (no stress, interruption, and time pressure).
Smart Prediction of Pulmonary Diseases Using Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
Authors: Gupta Tanvi , P. Supriya P.
Published: September 2022

As a result of global urbanization and the drive for more sustainable and livable cities, smart cities are becoming increasingly significant. It is widely known that air pollution exists all around us as a result of numerous automobiles on the road, stubble burning, and industrial air pollution, all of which impair our health, particularly our lungs. Chronic diseases are growing more common as our society ages. Chronic respiratory problems such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) impact millions of people globally, and the number is growing every day. COPD, for example, afflicted roughly 251 million individuals worldwide in 2016, and claimed the lives of 3.17 million people (i.e., 5% of the population). There are many distinct sorts of the pulmonary diseases: COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, asthma, and lung cancer, to name a few. This chapter explains the three machine learning algorithms that helped to diagnose pulmonary diseases based on the dataset.
Recent Developments of Smart Hospitals and Challenges
Authors: S. Kannadhasan , R. Nagarajan , C. Jisha Chandra , J. Manjushree Kumari
Published: September 2022

Remote monitoring is a healthcare tool that enables physicians to stay connected to their patients from afar and offer treatment anytime it is needed. The sensing devices may be worn, implanted, or sensors in the surrounding environment can be linked to the internet, allowing physicians and caregivers to deliver patients with effective and timely medicine. This application is used to remotely monitor the patient's vital parameters using sensors, gadgets, and items in their environment. The patient's essential data is transferred and exchanged in real time between the patient and the caretakers. Its primary use is in the treatment of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease monitoring, asthma, and so on. In many sectors, recent technological advancements and connectivity have resulted in the rise of internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Cultural Bias and Its Implications for Discipline Disparity
Authors: Seegars Wilsando
Published: September 2022

Minority students in both urban and suburban school settings within the United States are subject to harsher and more frequent disciplinary actions than their white counterparts. Implicit bias and lack of cultural awareness contribute to a large disparity in discipline referrals for Black males in particular. Through the application of Critical Race Theory and Racial Threat Theory, this chapter examines the historical influences that have created confirmation bias in the education environment as well as the prevalence of zero-tolerance policies that exist in schools with large minority populations. Data gathered from the 2017 Civil Rights Data collection reported to the US Department of Education were used to highlight the discipline trends of six US school districts.
Building an Agenda for Restorative Justice Practices in Education
Authors: Kirby Morgan D.
Published: September 2022

Punitive disciplinary policies in schools have drastic effects on student performance and success among minority students. These disciplinary policies have a direct impact on the school-to-prison pipeline issue in America. In recent years, restorative justice practices have been implemented in schools to replace punitive disciplinary policies like the zero-tolerance policy. However, to truly see the benefits of restorative justice practices in schools, there needs to be an increased awareness of its principles and benefits. This study examines how restorative justice discourse on Twitter can build an agenda for increased awareness of restorative justice practices in schools and policy changes regarding punitive discipline practices.
From Courageous to Unapologetic Conversations About School Discipline Disparities
Authors: Adams Anthony Troy
Published: September 2022

This chapter asserts that too much commentary has been given to school disciplinary disparities with few remedies for mitigating the problem. The time has come to move from courageous to unapologetic conversations about disciplinary disparities. Data furnished by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, for the school year 2017-18 estimates that 11,205,797 youths missed school days from our nation's public schools due to out-of-school suspensions. The average school year is roughly 182 days. Thusly, 61,570 students per day missed invaluable instructional time due to out-of-school suspensions. Black/students of color, males, and students with special education identification are especially vulnerable. This chapter summarizes the extant literature; discusses the core issues, controversies, and problems; highlights the correlates associated with school disciplinary disparities; and proposes several unapologetic and radical recommendations for reducing disparities.
Silver Linings
Authors: Tat Cristina , Gay Sean Eric Kil P. , Colpitts Bradley D. F. , Stones Thomas P. , Dickerson Lucas A. , Rakhshandehroo Mahboubeh
Published: September 2022

This chapter explores the experiences of six educators and course coordinators working within an English for academic purposes (EAP) program at a private university in Western Japan. The authors leverage an action-research approach to examine their own narratives surrounding the challenges of adjusting to emergency remote teaching (ERT) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors wrote narratives regarding the daunting task of using digital tools to convert face-to-face content into ERT. The authors coded each other's narratives and then used the auto-hermeneutic approach to analyze the data to find recommendations for improving pedagogy and practice. The chapter offers insight into best practice for those embedded in EAP or other similarly interconnected, multi-faceted content higher education programs. The results suggest educators need to help cultivate greater institutional, faculty, and student competency with educational technologies and to explore evidence-based pedagogy related to online learning to prepare for future instances of ERT.
Social Impact of Digital English Language Learning Environments
Authors: Aloka Peter J. O.
Published: September 2022

The chapter analyzed opportunities and challenges of engaging in fully online teaching. The opportunities for online learning include personal enabler factors; use of metacognitive and compensation strategies; increased interactive and motivating sessions; increased amount of leisure time; teachers' technological and pedagogical knowledge; use of collaboration, networking, and communication initiatives; availability and use of modern technologies; and flexibility of learning. The challenges reported include digital divide as a hindrance to students, insufficient online resources and platforms for online teaching, poor adaptation among students, inadequate information technology skills and resilience among teachers, behavioral and individual personality challenges, lack of social interaction among students, increased anxiety and depression among students, loss of interests and motivation to learn, and finally, inadequate parental supervision. Parents should create a smart environment for home-based teaching and learning.
A Multi-Tiered Professional Learning Approach to Build Middle Leaders' Capacities to Lead During Times of Crisis and Beyond
Authors: James Freddy , Pierre Lee-ann
Published: September 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic created a need to transform the content and delivery of professional learning for middle leaders. This chapter discusses an innovative multi-tiered professional learning approach to build middle leaders' capacity to lead during times of crisis and beyond. It explores how the approach works and its impact on middle leaders. Data were collected via online surveys and feedback from live interactive professional learning sessions. The chapter proposes the approach as a model to build collective middle leadership capacity to lead in times of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as for and in emergencies. The findings from data collected show that the multimodal platforms, such as social media lives, websites, webinars, YouTube, and Zoom that were used to deliver professional learning, fostered collaboration, knowledge, and skill acquisition and built and improved the well-being of middle leaders. Additionally, the multi-tiered professional learning approach built a global professional learning community of middle leaders.
Holistic Professional Learning in Times of Crisis
Authors: Furlong Denise M. , Spina Carly M.
Published: September 2022

Educators' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated the critical necessity for responsiveness to their professional learning beyond academics. This qualitative study explores the perceptions and experiences of different subgroups of educators (teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators) with respect to their professional learning opportunities during this time. The participants completed an anonymous electronic survey that collected information through both closed- and open-ended questions to provide space for educators to share their voice regarding professional learning practices. Accessibility, relevance, consistency, and choice are the main factors that educators reported would make professional learning meaningful and effective; this was more evident than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authentic examination of feedback, consistency of ongoing support and training, and implementation of initiatives with fidelity are critical to educator engagement and growth through professional learning.
Design Principles of Profitability Accounting and Accounting for Consistent Financial Management
Authors: Ali Ijaz , Sharma Raj Bahadur , Baig Asif , Khan Imran Ahmad
Published: September 2022

One of the reasons for the advocacy of consistent financial accounting is the influence of IFRS, which emphasizes the position of investors and considers it important to eliminate the asymmetry of information between investors and management. The accounting treatment is required to harmonize the information that management uses to make management decisions with the financial accounting information disclosed to investors. The part of the decision that is made by the company based on the actual business situation, as referred to in IFRS, is required to be made by management using a method for making management decisions and evaluating business performance. This type of financial accounting (institutional accounting) is what is called the management approach. In the future, the demand from companies for an accounting system that is consistent with financial management is expected to increase. In this chapter, the authors examine the modern significance of profitability accounting from the perspective of the design concept of accounting that is consistent with financial management.
Incorporating Corporate Social Responsibility Into Decision Making
Authors: Husam Alharbi Habbab
Published: September 2022

There is a clear correlation between a company's business model and its financial decisions, such as investment and financial planning, in the case of successful companies with established CSR and sustainability initiatives. Increasing the knowledge of accounting managers about the strategic significance of environmental concerns is another key step once the concept of company-specific sustainability has been developed. One solution is to integrate decision makers into interdisciplinary strategy teams. This chapter presents concrete tools with which accounting managers can promote and support sustainable, strategically planned corporate management.
Implementation of Financial Reporting in the Romanian Public System According to International Accounting Standards (IPSAS)
Authors: Ciurea Maria , Ileana-Sorina Rakos
Published: September 2022

This chapter illustrates some aspects regarding the financial-accounting activity in the Romanian public system and obtaining a more realistic image of the financial reporting for the entities of the public system. The objectives of this chapter are to conduct an analysis on the implementation of financial reporting in the Romanian public sector in accordance with the requirements of International Public Sector Accounting Standards, which should include increased transparency and coherence, comparability of financial information, improved decision making, as well as the correct and real management of all approach arising therefrom. The issues presented by the author are based on the local and international specialized literature and university and specialized studies related to the treated topic. Thus, through the contribution brought, a new theoretical-empirical framework is created, which facilitates the identification of new ideas, themes, and debates of the aspects related to the financial-accounting reporting.
Balanced Scorecard
Authors: Staras Adela Ioana , Breaz Teodora , Fulop Melinda Timea , Topor Dan Ioan , Căpușneanu Sorinel
Published: September 2022

This chapter deals with developing a strategic map for improving the performance of medical services using the balanced scorecard (BSC). The main objectives of this chapter are to present the conceptual approaches of the balanced scorecard, the implementation and use of BSC in medical services, the advantages and limitations of BSC implementation in medical services. Based on the literature, the authors present the interpretations brought by specialists to the balanced scorecard concept and analyze the degree of implementation and use of BSC in medical services. A case study on the development of a strategic map for improving the performance of health services with the help of BSC is presented. Considering the factors that influence the size of medical organizations, the authors also present the advantages and limitations of adopting and using the balanced scorecard. The chapter ends with the general conclusions regarding improving medical services performance using BSC.
The Impact of IT Technologies on Management Accounting
Authors: Husam Alharbi Habbab
Published: September 2022

Because changes are quick in the digital age, the decision maker will actively seek the optimal solution for managerial accounting that he considers satisfactory and will put it into practice as soon as possible, given the conditions for materialising the decision. The use of digital programs and technologies to simulate the company's managerial accounting decisions can avoid these shortcomings, at least for a short period of time. This chapter illustrates that, in an increasingly digitalis environment, it is generally recognised that the use of IT technology in management accounting is critical for every company. Properly managing stakeholders' increasing expectations also contributes to the confidence required for a firm to survive and develop.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Smart Visualization, Presentation, and Study of Architecture and Engineering in the Urban Environment
Authors: Giordano Andrea , Huffman Kristin Love , Bernardello Rachele Angela , Perticarini Maurizio , Basso Alessandro
Published: September 2022

This research experiments the theme of cultural heritage (CH) in architectural/engineering fields, located in urban space. Primary sources and new tactics for digital reconstruction allow interactive contextualization-access to often inaccessible data creating pedagogical apps for spreading. Digital efforts are central, in recent years based on new technological opportunities that emerged from big data, Semantic Web technologies, and exponential growth of data accessible through digital libraries – EUROPEANA. Also, the use of data-based BIM allowed the gaining of high-level semantic concepts. Then, interdisciplinary collaborations between ICT and humanities disciplines are crucial for the advance of workflows that allow research on CH to exploit machine learning approaches. This chapter traces the visualizing cities progress, involving Duke and Padua University. This initiative embraces the analysis of urban systems to reveal with diverse methods how documentation/understanding of cultural sites complexities is part of a multimedia process that includes digital visualization of CH.
Phygital Heritage Experiences for a Smart Society
Authors: Vespasiano Luca , Brusaporci Stefano , Franchi Fabio , Rinaldi Claudia
Published: September 2022

Starting from a recognition of the progressive settlement of the conception of cultural heritage through years, and the role that digital technologies have played, the contribution analyses how ICT (information communication technology) solutions, altogether intended, could provide a new human centrality in interpretation and presentation of cultural heritage. This opportunity is provided from the experience of INCIPICT project (INnovating CIty Planning through Information and Communications Technology), developed in L'Aquila since 2012. Within its framework, several reflections and applications on the field of cultural heritage have been developed to achieve results in terms of theory and praxis on the route toward a culture-based smart society.
Digitization of Cultural Heritage
Authors: Zerbi Andrea , Mikolajewska Sandra
Published: September 2022

Cultural heritage represents the identity of people and, as such, is a fundamental element of our lives. The numerous projects carried out in recent years in the field of CH digitization have shown that the operation of dematerialization may be considered an essential tool for its preservation, conservation, and enhancement. Since advanced technology allows to valorize artifacts and bring a positive impact on the people's life to whom they belong, in the context of Society 5.0 it can be considered as a key tool. Starting from the analysis of the state of the art in the field of digitization, the main goal of the present study is to investigate the role that this process can take on within the complex process of valorization of monuments. To this aim, a research carried out on the Farnese Theatre will be illustrated. Particular attention will be paid to the methodological choices made for the creation of an extremely versatile three-dimensional model and for its possible uses.
Interactive Virtual Participation for Opera and Theatre Using New Digitization Information Systems
Authors: De Luca Daniela
Published: September 2022

Society 5.0 has implemented the use of new digital technologies, overcoming traditional active learning systems with means and methodologies that extend the involvement of the digitized user. This trend has revolutionized how organizations and companies deliver their services through interconnected and interoperable platforms. The prevalence of new media has led to the adoption of applications that exploit gamification techniques and serious games to transfer reality into new virtuality. The contribution analyses procedures and methodologies that can be adapted to digitalize cultural heritage, focusing on the theatrical and musical entertainment sector (i.e., opera and theatre). During the COVID-19 pandemic, cultural organizations received significant containment measures to cancel events and openings. Therefore, investing inaccessible and reality-like digital applications through advanced participatory techniques reduced financial and target losses. In this way, the shift from the digital model to the interactive service model for sensory experiences skills the Citizen 5.0.
Virtual Representations for Cybertherapy
Authors: Ugliotti Francesca Maria
Published: September 2022

The development of serious games has enabled new challenges for the healthcare sector in psychological, cognitive, and motor rehabilitation. Thanks to virtual reality, stimulating and interactive experiences can be reproduced in a safe and controlled environment. This chapter illustrates the experimentation conducted in the hospital setting for the non-pharmacological treatment of cognitive disorders associated with dementia. The therapy aims to relax patients of the agitation cluster through a gaming approach through the immersion in multisensory and natural settings in which sound and visual stimuli are provided. The study is supported by a technological architecture including the virtual wall system for stereoscopic wall projection and rigid body tracking.