bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The role of ethnic identity in children’s selective trust in others
Authors: McDonald Kyla P.
Published: May 2021

The present research examined the roles of informant ethnicity and early ethnic identity development in guiding children’s selective trust across scenarios, comparing White and Chinese Canadian children with children adopted from China by White parents. Experiments 1 and 2 investigated children’s selective learning from two contrasting sources that differed in race (White versus Chinese) and spoken accent (native versus foreign accent). Experiment 1 (White experimenter) indicated that the White children preferred to learn from White informants when race was the only cue to ethnic group status; no preference was observed when race was pitted against accent. The Chinese and adopted children showed no learning preference. Children’s social preference for same-race peers was associated with a preference to learn from same-race informants. Experiment 2 (Chinese experimenter) had similar findings, except that there was no relationship between children’s racial preference and selective learning. Experiment 3 explored children’s selective credulity toward misinformation from a single source. The Chinese children were credulous toward both Chinese and White (native- or foreign-accented) informants but the White and adopted children were not credulous or skeptical, regardless of the informant’s race and accent. The present findings contribute to our understanding of how ethnic intergroup attitudes develop in children of different ethnic and social-status backgrounds, including minority-status children that reside with majority-status parents, and provide practical implications for real-world issues related to children’s eyewitness testimony in forensic contexts.
Resilience in Suburban Toronto Suburban Renewal in the Face of Future Uncertainties
Authors: Smith Adam D.
Published: May 2021

This thesis envisions a new suburban approach based on future uncertainties in environmental, economic and social conditions. The review of responses suggest that resilience building is a viable option for such uncertainties and therefore, focus has been placed on Toronto's suburban housing stock, despite criticism for its fragility and inability to function or change in a future without cheap energy. Although it is often argued that low density neighbourhoods will be unsustainable in a future of environmental uncertainty and that they will not endure the coming crises of peak oil and climate change, Toronto's suburban building stock is ideal for resilience building and will in fact be a vital aspect of Toronto's durability in an uncertain future. This thesis examines different aspects of resilience building in regards to environmental, social and economic uncertainty including: localisation over globalisation, economies of well-being, an ecological systems approach, and rethinking zoning regulations and by-laws. This new vision for the suburbs serves not to replace them with dense urban models, but to maintain and add to suburban qualities while also provoking new ideas for introducing resilience into our built environment.
Predictive energy management and control for renewable energy plus battery energy storage systems
Authors: Syed Irtaza Mohammad
Published: May 2021

Renewable energy (RE) is one of the solutions to rising energy demands and growing environmental concerns. However, due to the intrinsic intermittency of RE resources, generated power is irregular and the supplied energy is intermittent. Intermittency renders RE systems non-dispatchable and can cause energy surplus and shortage. RE surplus can translate into curtailment and shortage can cause supply and demand issues. Curtailment wastes RE and supply and demand issues result in loss of load compromising service quality and system reliability.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) is the widely accepted solution to mitigate the negative impacts of intermittency. However, this solution has relied on the conventional energy management and control (EMC) techniques that: 1) cause curtailment, 2) cause supply and demand issues, 3) cannot exploit BESS potential, 4) use RE passively (if and when available), and (5) are suitable only for readily dispatchable generation systems.

This work proposes predictive EMC (PEMC) over conventional EMC (CEMC) to predictively perform EMC of RE systems (photovoltaic (PV) and wind) plus BESS (RE-BESS). PEMC predictively optimizes resources, makes control decisions and manages RE system operations based on the present and future (forecasted) load (or commitments) and RE potential over 24 hours horizon. PEMC 1) minimizes curtailment (maximize RE proportions), 2) minimizes supply and demand issues, 3) exploits BESS potential, 4) uses RE proactively (instead of operating on the mercy of weather), 5) compensates for forecast errors, and 6) maximizes savings (or revenue).
Investing In Yourself: Entrepreneurial Journalism In The Digital Age
Authors: Schtern Jeremy
Published: May 2021

This dissertation is grounded in a Critical Political Economy of communication theoretical framework in conjunction with extensive, qualitative interviews with eighteen emerging journalists, three journalism educators from different types of
journalism schools (academic, vocational, hybrid) and four editors from different types of news organizations (legacy, public broadcaster, digital first media) in order to navigate between institutional structures and the agency of individual actors. This work examines how the current structural configurations of the news media industry are impacting how emerging journalists negotiate the expectations that they develop personal brands online, including their perceived control and autonomy over their work. It also aims to understand how journalistic training and hiring practices in news media organizations are changing given the financial uncertainty of the industry. The death of the advertising business model, the increasingly precarious nature of the journalism workforce, and an increased reliance on social networking sites for distribution, referred to as the ‘new media environment’, are shaping the way news is produced and the ways in which emerging journalists are able to achieve paid employment.
This dissertation presents an original inquiry into the online brand building and professionalization practices of emerging journalists. This study finds that as journalists are increasingly required to personally brand themselves and act as entrepreneurs, the governing values of the profession and the work of doing journalism has changed greatly. It was found that the notion of journalistic autonomy is complex and contradictory as journalists prefer the freedoms that are afforded from working in a freelance capacity but are also compelled to use social networking sites for professionalization and must engage in self-promotion and personal branding.
The findings further demonstrate that emerging journalists must undergo layers
of what the researcher refers to as visibility labour, which refers to the layers of unpaid labour, the processes of self-commodification and personal branding that emerging journalists must undertake to promote themselves, gain recognition and build audiences around themselves in attempts to build a sustainable career and resist precarity. This dissertation considers policy responses and proposes ways forward for the news industry, journalism education, and for journalists themselves.
A talent management future for economic immigration in Canada: building on best practice diversity/inclusion and intercultural competence training
Authors: Roos-Walker Ezekiel
Published: May 2021

One of the key questions regarding the integration of economic immigrants into Canadian labour markets is the role that employers will play, especially given the forthcoming changes that will formalize Expressions of Interest (EOI) as intrinsic to the selection process. Immigrants are not a social or financial burden, but as is proven through self-reported hiring practices and projections of many industry-leading employers, a hugely important investment that adds layers of value to workforces in Canada. This enthusiasm to hire foreign-trained professionals is not matched by an enthusiasm to fund the development of their skills, particularly 'soft' skills such as cultural competency and teamwork, in a context that is alien to them. To explore the potential for expanding programs that optimize the performance of multicultural workplaces, address regional labour shortages with targeted immigration, and accelerate the role of talent management in the profile of human resources departments, this study is a demonstration of potential in Canada for a much more integrated, cross-sector, solution-focused economic immigration strategy.
A Polymer to Detect Explosives : Towards an Effective Sensor Material
Authors: Katić Sofija
Published: May 2021

There are upwards of 100 million landmines in over 70 countries. Nitroaromatic vapours emanate from landmines and a need exists for a sensitive and robust sensor for their detection. It is the goal of this study to develop a thin, reusable, fluorescent film composed of ß-cyclodextrin polymer crosslinked with epichlorohydrin, for the detection of nitroaromatics. The fluorescent moiety, 2-naphthol, (sensing function) was incorporated into the ß-cyclodextrin-epichlorohydrin polymer (trapping function). Fluorimetry, FTIR and ¹H NMR were employed to characterize the polymer and examine whether 2-naphthol was covalently linked to the ß-cyclodextrin polymer network. Fluorescence quenching studies were conducted using a nitroaromatic compound, nitrobenzene, to determine the quenching efficiency. The characterization studies indicate that 2-naphthol is incorporated into ß-cyclodextrin-epichlorohydrin polymer. A difference does not seem to exist in the quenching efficiency of free 2-naphthol, 2-naphthol:ß-cyclodextrin complex and the polymers by nitrobenzene.
Displaying fashion: the scenography of fashion in retail and museums
Authors: O’Connor Parker John Campbell
Published: May 2021

Fashion retailers and fashion exhibitions are at a pivotal moment in 2019 as both accommodate changes including the decrease of in-person shopping and the increased visitorship of fashion exhibitions. At the heart of both spaces, however, is the display of fashion –whether simple or grandiose. This project looks further at the similarities of displaying fashion in both spaces, with possible consequences and potential futures for each space. It brings together extensive literature and field visits to nearly 100 different spaces, with a creative installation of a third type of space integrating both museums and retailers as a possible solution for the future
Bioactive coatings for direct skeletal attachment applications for lower limb prostheses
Authors: Rodríguez Omar
Published: May 2021

To tackle the current drawbacks with metallic implants used in direct skeletal attachment,
novel bioactive glasses are considered as implant coatings in order to reduce bacterial infections
and promote bone cell growth. Silica-based and borate-based glasses, with increasing amounts of
titanium dioxide at the expense of either silica (for the silica-based glasses) or borate (for the
borate-based glasses), respectively, were synthesized and characterized to determine the
parameters that define a glass capable of inhibiting bacterial growth, stimulating cell
proliferation and offering mechanical stability when enameled into a surgical alloy. The effect of
substituting the glass backbone with titanium dioxide, in both glass series, is also investigated
with respect to its effect on both biocompatibility and mechanical properties of the resultant
glass/implant constructs.

Borate-based glasses exhibited greater processing windows compared to the silica-based
glasses, making them more desirable for coating applications. They also exhibited superior
performance in terms of their in vitro bioactivity and biocompatibility, over their silica-based
counterparts, due to their higher solubility and greater ability to inhibit S. epidermidis and E. coli
bacteria. Specifically, glass BRT0 (control borate-based glass, with no titanium incorporated)
exhibited an inhibition zone against S. epidermidis of 17.5 mm and a mass loss of 40% after 30
days, with BRT3 (borate-based glass, with 15 mol% titanium incorporated) exhibiting an
inhibition zone against S. epidermidis of 7.6 mm and a mass loss of 34% after 30 days.
Furthermore, borate-based glasses with greater titanium dioxide contents exhibited superior
mechanical properties (e.g. bulk hardness, and critical strain energy release rates), which could
be attributed to their more closely matched coefficients of thermal expansion with the titanium
alloy substrate, Ti6Al4V, to which they were adhered. The critical strain energy release rates in
mode I for the silica-based coating/substrate system ranged from 6.2 J/m2 (for SRT0, control
silica-based glass with no titanium) to 12.08 J/m2 (for SRT3), whereas for the borate-based
systems they ranged from 10.86 J/m2 (for BRT0) to 18.5 J/m2 (for BRT3), with the increase for
the borate-based glasses being attributed to the presence of compressive residual stresses in the
coating after application.
Voluntary Energy Programs and the Evaluation of Factors Influencing Corporate Participation: A Case Study in the Commercial Sector
Authors: Mulé Cahterine
Published: May 2021

This study examined the factors that had the greatest influence on companies joining the Building Owners and Managers Association of Toronto Conservation and Demand Management Program, the experiences of the participants in the program, and the level of program satisfaction the participants had. The study also assessed what qualities the program had that deterred businesses from joining. Surveys and interviews were conducted to examine the reasons for joining, as well as the reasons for not joining. Survey results showed that companies joined the program primarily for financial incentives and environmental improvement. In-depth interviews showed cost effectiveness and return on company investment as drivers for joining. Survey results also showed participant satisfaction with the program; however, analysis of the interview data revealed dissatisfaction with program due to several administrative difficulties and a long payback period. Upfront capital cost was a major challenge in energy program participation for non-participants.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Direct Liquid Application for Reducing Chloride Inputs to Ryerson Campus and Urban Areas in Toronto
Authors: Duffin Kevin
Published: May 2021

In the winter of 2018/19, Ryerson University began a pilot project which saw the implementation of Direct Liquid Application (DLA) of road salts in select areas within its campus. This study evaluated the reductions in chloride applications that occurred due to the pilot, as well as estimated the chloride reductions that could occur if the project was expanded at Ryerson and if other organizations in Toronto were to adopt DLA. This was done through an analysis of recorded road salt application rates on Ryerson campus. The analysis revealed that the incorporation of DLA into Ryerson’s maintenance program reduced chloride inputs to Ryerson Campus. The analysis also illustrated that similar ‘savings’ could be expected if DLA were expanded to the rest of campus, Green P parking lots, GO train stations, and TTC streetcar waiting areas. Recommendations for future DLA implementation are given.
Exploring urban accessibility scores using multi-criteria decision analysis techniques
Authors: Racovali Anna
Published: May 2021

This paper explores alternative methods in which an urban walkability score may be determined. Walk Score is a popular urban accessibility index which determines the walkability of a neighbourhood or specific address by measuring the proximity of the location to nearby services and amenities. Traditional walkability scores, such as Walk Score, are limited because of their inability to vary the importance of being in proximity to certain services and amenities. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) techniques, specifically simple additive weighting (SAW) and ordered weighted averaging (OWA), provide a geographic approach to determining the walkability of an area and allow users to determine the weights of importance of all services and amenities. MCDA-based walkability scores were calculated and compared to one another and to Walk Score. Both SAW and OWA methods created similar walkability indexes for dissemination areas throughout Toronto. However, the MCDA results could not be directly compared to Walk Score, as there was a significant difference between the value ranges of the scores. Thus, the 140 Toronto neighbourhoods were ranked from most to least walkable for the MCDA-based methods and Walk Score, based upon each method’s respective scores. Upon comparison, it was evident that both Walk Score’s methodology and the MCDA-based methodologies resulted in similar outcomes of walkability rankings for Toronto neighbourhoods
Changes to Food Service Within Super-Regional Shopping Centres in Toronto
Authors: Truong Brian
Published: May 2021

This research explores how the changes in food services have affected super-regional shopping centres in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area between the years of 2014 and 2019. As shopping centres have begun to shift some of their operations away from traditional retailers and begun to invest in food services throughout the centre. The research examines seven food service categories and how each of them affect the overall trade areas of the shopping centre. Trade areas were created through a 60:40 weighting system for the attractiveness of each shopping centre, with 60% going to retail while 40% going to food services. The results of this study indicated that a growth in Fast-Casual, Gourmet Food, and Impulse food services across all shopping centres. While trade areas of shopping centres have seen mixed results due to the growth of food services.

Keywords: Food Services, Shopping Centres, Huff Model, Toronto
Remote sensing assessment of glacial loss and vegetation change from 1989 to 2016: Pond Inlet, Nunavut
Authors: Pennell Ruby R.
Published: May 2021

The climate change phenomenon occurring across the globe is having an increasingly alarming effect on Canada’s Arctic. Warming temperatures can have wide spanning impacts ranging from more rain and storm events, to increasing runoff, thawing permafrost, sea ice decline, melting glaciers, ecosystem disruption, and more. The purpose of this MRP was to assess the climate-induced landscape changes, including glacial loss and vegetation change, in Pond Inlet, Nunavut. A time series analysis was performed using the intervals 1989-1997, 1997-2005, and 2005-2016. The two methods for monitoring change were 1) the Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) to detect glacial change, and 2) the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to detect vegetation change, both utilizing threshold and masking techniques to increase accuracy.
It was found that the percent of glacial loss and vegetation change in Pond Inlet had consistently increased throughout each time period. The area of glacial loss grew through each period to a maximum of 376 km2 of glacial loss in the last decade. Similarly, the area of the Arctic tundra that experienced vegetation change increased in each time period to a maximum of 660 km2 in the last decade. This vegetation change was characterized by overall increasing values of NDVI, revealing that many sections of the Arctic tundra in Pond Inlet were increasing in biomass. However, case study analysis revealed pixel clustering around the lower vegetation class thresholds used to classify change, indicating that shifts between these vegetation classes were likely exaggerated. Shifts between the higher vegetation classes were significant, and were what contributed to the most change in the last decade.
The observations of higher glacial melt and increases in biomass are occurring in parallel with the increasing temperatures in Pond Inlet. Relevant literature in the Arctic agrees with the findings of this MRP that there are significant trends of glacial loss and vegetation greening and many studies attribute this directly to climate warming. The results of this study provide the necessary background with regards to landscape changes which could be used in future field studies investigating the climate induced changes in Pond Inlet. This study also demonstrates that significant landscape modifications have occurred in the recent decades and there is a strong need for continued research and monitoring of climate induced changes.
Racialized elders issues and approaches for serving Canada's immigrant elders
Authors: Mustafa Arafat
Published: May 2021

Using a narrative approach to qualitative research, this study involved interviewing three East African seniors about their perceptions of long term care facilities. The participants shared their insights into long term care facilities, the lack of services and systemic barriers that they face as racialized elders in Canada.

Key words: racialized minorities, elders, seniors, long term care, systemic barriers
Privacy by design : principles as a foundation to a more secure Internet of Things
Authors: Al-Rejleh Mohamad Oubai
Published: May 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a revolutionary concept that emerged in the late 21st century, whereby everyday objects such as household items, cars, and wearables, equipped with sensors and (Radio Frequency Identification) RFID chips, can communicate with the internet and to their physical surroundings. These chips allow the connected items to share information, and allow the user to collect information about his/her “quantified self”, measuring personal data such as habits of usage, lifestyle, and location through internet networks. IoT enabled devices are
designed to collect, store, share, and analyze of highly personal data ubiquitously and in real time. However, with this new affordance of connectivity, comes a potential loss of privacy for users, as ever increasing sets of personal data are collected and tracked. As such, there is a pressing need for privacy considerations to be embedded within the early stages of design of connected devices and networks.
Short term stock price forecasting with application of neural network
Authors: Liu Jiayin
Published: May 2021

With the world’s rapid economic growth and the expansion of stock market, it produced a large amount of
valuable data information. That data become an important investors in stock investment analysis subject Thorough analysis the short-term stock price forecast problem and comparing a variety of stock price forecasting method, on the basis of BP neural network (BPNN) [1] and principal component analysis (PCA）[2] and genetic algorithm and the feasibility of short-term prediction of stock price .BP neural network can use the study of historical stock market data, find out the inherent law of development and change of the stock market, so as to realize the future stock price data changes over a period of time.
ZigBee standard implementation for a wireless temperature system
Authors: Samrai Ritchinder R. S.
Published: May 2021

This project is concerned with the application of the ZigBee communication standard for implementing a temperature measurement system. Due to ZigBee's low-power and low data rate features, it is ideal for analog sensor systems. Digi's ZigBee devices called XBee are used in this project. The XBee devices meet all the ZigBee standard. The XBee device has the advantage of being programmed with API firmware (application programming interface). XBee's API provides fast and reliable communication between the remote stations and the base station. The remote station has three different modules: power supply, temperature sensor and XBee device. The power supply is designed to output 3.3V. The temperature sensor is designed so that the output stays within the XBee's maximum analog input voltage range of 0V to 1.2V. The XBee device is programmed as a router. The base station has three different modules: Arduino microcontroller, LCD display and XBee device. The Arduino is programmed to receive the analog readings from the XBee device and convert them into temperature readings The temperature readings are displayed on the LCD display. The XBee device is programmed as a coordinator. The design successfully worked for 3 remote stations and 1 base station.
Cryptographic hash functions for image processing
Authors: Iftikhar Shafaq
Published: May 2021

In this paper, a novel algorithm based on hash function for image cryptography is proposed. In this algorithm, the key idea is to encrypt half of the image using data from the second half of the image and then apply it to each other. This scheme can achieve high sensitivity, high complexity, and high security. The sole purpose is to improve the image entropy.
Analysis of impact of machine-type-communication on human-type communication over wireless communication networks
Authors: Sidhu Parampreet
Published: May 2021

With the advent of new wireless technologies, it is expected that the use of Machine-Type Communication (MTC) will significantly increase in next generation wireless networks. Wireless communication networks are considered to support MTC due to their availability and existing infrastructures. As these networks are designed and optimized in a way that they fit best for Human Type Communication (HTC), there is a need of an efficient radio re- source management (RRM) to accommodate MTC traffic without affecting the regular HTC traffic in the network. In this thesis, a continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) model-based RRM scheme is proposed to analyze the impact of MTC traffic on HTC traffic in wireless communication networks, in terms of blocking probability and channel utilization. Numerical results are provided, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed RRM scheme in providing the quality of service (QoS) isolation between HTC and MTC traffic.
Performance evaluation of mixed SCTP and TCP traffic over last hop wifi
Authors: Naith Qamar
Published: May 2021

The use of the internet has increased significantly with the continued increase in wireless communication devices. Recently, there is a large number of research contribution focused on Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). Multi-homing is an important feature of SCTP which improves the communication performance by usage of multiple paths during association establishment, and it can bring significant improvements of throughput.
In this thesis we evaluate the performance of SCTP and TCP traffic in the WLANs and we investigate the SCTP multi-homing to improve the communication performance in WLANs. We conducted some experiments to evaluate the performance of SCTP multi-homed host under various channel bit rates and mobility speeds. The results indicate that when the intensity of background traffic increases the SCTP multi-homed host with higher channel bit rate has better performance. In addition, the SCTP multi-homed host with using lower mobility speed has higher performance (throughput, delay and packet loss).
A Canadian perception of the nursing practice, research, and theoretical implications associated with Autologous Cell Transplantation
Authors: Fredericks Suzanne , Da Silva Monica
Published: May 2021

Heart failure is a progressive disorder. An estimated 400,000 Canadians are diagnosed annually with heart failure, and a quarter experience severe heart failure that is unresponsive to medical therapy. Autologous cell transplantation (ACT) has been proposed as a new approach for cardiac repair, and holds enormous potential for the regeneration of injured myocardium cells. Currently, ACT is under investigation in Canada. The use of ACT as a treatment alternative for heart failure patients has been established over the past 5 years across Europe and the United States. This paper will present a Canadian perception of the nursing practice, research, and theoretical implications associated with this new and innovative therapy.
Delivering a patient education intervention using both the internet and telephone: A discursive presentation.
Authors: Fredericks Suzanne , Martorella Géraldine
Published: May 2021

Post-discharge, patient education interventions have been implemented in the cardiovascular surgical population, in which the education is delivered over the telephone. This intervention has shown to be effective in reducing anxiety. However non-significant results have been reported for knowledge acquisition, performance of self-care behaviours, and symptom management during the first 3 weeks of recovery. An internet-telephone educational intervention is presented in this paper as an alternative to usual cardiovascular surgical, post-discharge patient education. It was reasoned that a combined internet-telephone intervention would decrease nursing workload, provide patients with increased access to information, and reduce the number of hospital readmissions and complications experienced during the post-hospital recovery period. A presentation of the intervention is provided where the components are individualized to reflect the learning needs of the individual patient. This is followed by a discussion of the various considerations for the intervention’s design and implementation as they relate to age and socio-economic status is also identified.
An examination of the post-discharge recovery experience of patients who have had heart surgery.
Authors: Fredericks Suzanne , DaSilva Monica
Published: May 2021

Background: Although resources to promote recovery following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) and Valve Replacement (VR) surgery are provided, over a quarter of all patients are being readmitted to hospitals with post-operative complications experienced during the first 3 months of recovery. A possible reason for the high rate of readmission following heart surgery is the quality of patient engagement in the performance of self-care behaviours. In particular, patients who have had CABG and/or VR may not be fully engaged in the required self-care behaviours during their first 3 months of recovery. Research Question: This review was conducted to address the clinically relevant question: What is the post-operative recovery experience of the individual who has had CABG and/or VR?.
Methods: A review of studies that examined the post-operative recovery experience of patients who had CABG and/or VR was conducted. Results: Findings suggest the type of post-operative complication identified during the first 3 months of recovery following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) and Valve Replacement (VR) was either cognitive or cardiac in nature. As well, the number of self-care behaviours patients engage in during their hospital discharge was slightly less than the number of behaviours patients performed while in hospital.

Conclusion and Relevance to Clinical Practice: As close to half of the sample reported some form of cognitive impairment within the first 3 months following surgery, it is possible that this impairment may have influenced the type and number of self-care behaviours performed. Therefore, further research is needed to determine the best time to educate patients during their recovery following hospital discharge.
Sustainable approach toward synthesis of green functional carbonaceous 3-D micro/nanostructures from biomass
Authors: Tavangar Amirhossein , Tan Bo , Venkatakrishnan Krishnan
Published: May 2021

This study proposes a novel technique to synthesize functional carbonaceous three-dimensional (3-D) micro/
nanocompounds from agricultural by-products using femtosecond laser irradiation. Biowastes of rice husk and
wheat straw are value-engineered to carbonaceous structures in a single-step process under ambient conditions.
Our results demonstrate that by controlling the laser fluence, structures with a variety of different morphologies
from nanostructures to microstructures can be achieved. Also, the results indicate that altering the laser processing
parameters influences the chemical composition of the synthesized structures. This sustainable approach presents
an important step towards synthesizing 3-D micro/nanofibrous compounds from biowaste materials. These
structures, as-synthesized or as nanocomposite fillers, can have practical uses in electronic, sensing, biological, and
environmental applications.
Patient demographics and learning needs: Examination of relationship.
Authors: Suzanne Fredericks
Published: May 2021

BACKGROUND: Limited research has examined differences in patients' learning needs in relation to demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, level of education, and culture. Yet such knowledge is essential to develop postoperative educational interventions that are tailored to patients' needs.
STUDY PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between learning needs and the demographic characteristics of patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. METHOD: A descriptive design was used.The sample of convenience included 38 patients who met eligibility criteria. MAJOR RESULTS: Statistically significant relationships were found between the patients' age, gender, and cultural background, and learning needs (p<.05) and not between the learning needs and level of education.

APPLICATION: These preliminary highlight the importance of attending to learning needs of patients with different backgrounds in order to improve self-management following CABG surgery.
How Corporations Deal with Reporting Sustainability: Assessment Using the Multicriteria Logistic Biplot Approach
Authors: Galindo Purificación V. , de Noronha Vaz Eric , de Noronha Teresa
Published: May 2021

This paper suggests a new methodology capable of accessing in detail the contribution of companies to countries’ sustainability related to economic performance. The concept of sustainability has been brought up in several debates, leading to a clearer understanding of its progress in recent decades. The most adequate indicators to achieve a unique value to define sustainability have been identified. However, specific behaviors of economic agents such as exist in particularly large organizations, have rarely been exposed and evaluated regarding their positive or negative contribution to the increase of sustainability throughout the world. This paper proposes an integrated approach incorporating an evaluation of the positive and negative contributions to sustainability by means of a logistic biplot application. This allows the creation of a summarized index that combines all single sustainability indicators. These synthetic indices allow the positioning of each of the companies in a geometric representation for an original exploration of the sustainability paradigm. The supplied method permits accessing and evaluating information concerning specific behaviors of economic agents such as big companies. In our paper, we have followed the engagements towards sustainability of big corporations, individually or as groups, across the different activity sectors in Portugal and Spain.
Design With Nature 2.0 – A Geodata Infrastructure Approach to Map Overlay
Authors: Rinner Claus , Düren Martin
Published: May 2021

McHarg's "Design With Nature" was a precursor of the layer model in modern geographic information systems. We are reviewing the layer overlay approach from a geospatial data infrastructure (GDI) perspective and experiment with weighted map overlay using Web map services. A case study for natural hazard risk assessment for Southern Quebec illustrates this visual approach to multi-criteria analysis using online mapping. We conclude with a call for more research on thematic mapping and its use for decision support within GDIs.
Is gold open access the only option for nurse researchers?: Questioning the efficacy of this unrestricted publication access approach.
Authors: Fredericks Suzanne
Published: May 2021

Open access is unrestricted access to academic, theoretical, and research literature that is scholarly and peer-reviewed. Two models of open access exist and have been identified as: 1) gold and 2) green. Gold open access is based on the principal of providing open access throughout all stages of the publication process. Green open access, also called self-archiving, is the second, and most frequently used form of open access publishing. This type of open access involves placing an already published article into a repository that is created by either an institution or an author in order to provide unrestricted access. Self-archiving is a more economic and efficient means of granting open access to scholarly literature. In spite of these advantages, gold open access continues to thrive. This paper questions the need for gold open access publishing, in light of the significant advantages associated with self-archiving.
Islamisasi Teori Konsumsi Masyarakat Muslim Modern
Authors: Rosyida Sabila , Nadhira A'yun
Published: May 2021

Since the spread of modernization to all corners of the world, human life, especially Muslims, has undergone many changes regarding perspectives and behavior towards various kinds of individual and community groups. All aspects of life in terms of religion, social, economy, education, culture experience drastic changes. One of the effects of modernization has led to large-scale economic changes, especially in people's consumption behavior due to the abundance of objects of service, and the availability of material goods on the market. So that the purpose of consumption in modern society is not only to fulfill the needs of life but also for pleasure and desire and mere satisfaction. Not only that, the consumption behavior of the community, especially the Muslim community, no longer fits the spiritual dimension of their religion, but is influenced by the capitalist concept that bases everything on materialist measures. So that their lives are based on the ideology of hedonism, the main purpose of which is only to obtain material pleasures and pleasures. Thus, Islamization of consumer behavior is needed to free Muslim society from secular doctrine and materialistic nature. And Islam offers the concept of maslaha and the nature of moderation based on Islamic economic ethics on this consumption theory. The method used is qualitative research methods with library research (library research). The data in this study were obtained using the documentary method, to look for data on consumption behavior of modern society, consumption theory, concepts and processes of Islamization, sourced from books, journals, the internet, and papers. Data analysis methods used are inductive, and comparative descriptive analysis.
Islamisasi Ilmu Pengetahuan Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas Dan Isma’Il Raji Al-Faruqi
Authors: Ruchhima Ruchhima
Published: May 2021

Abstrak

Islamisasi muncul karena kekhawatiran intelektual Muslim yang melihat umat Islam berada dalam krisis akibat penerapan ilmu pengetahuan Barat yang berbass sekuler. Konsep sekuler dalam ilmu pengetahuan tidak sesuai dengan umat Islam karena memisahkan agama dari ilmu. Intelektual Muslim yang gencar mengagas Islamisasi adalah syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas dan Isma’il Raji Al-Faruqi. Keduanya sama-sama beranggapan bahwa ilmu pengetahuan Barat tidak bebas nilai karena berisi ide-ide, nilai-nilai dan doktrin dari kebudayaan dan peradaban Barat. Makalah ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui latar belakang, konsep, dan langka-langkah dalam proses Islamisasi ilmu menurut pandangan Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas dan Isma’il Raji Al-Faruqi. Makalah ini merupakan penelitian kepustakaan dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif.

Kata kunci: Islamisasi, Al-Attas, Al-Faruqi.
Muhammadiyah dan Al-Washliyah di Sumatera Utara; Sejarah, Ideologi, dan Amal Usahanya
Authors: Zebua Ali Marzuki
Published: May 2021

Minangkabau and Mandailing are two different ethnicities. Minangkabau ethnicity has a modernist dominant Muslim and has a matrilineal tradition. While the Mandailing ethnic group has a conservative dominant Islam and has a patrilinear tradition. Of the two ethnic groups, two large organizations were born on the island of Sumatra, namely Muhammadiyah from the Minangkabau ethnic group identified with Pemuda and Al-Washliyah from the Mandailing ethnic group identified with Kaum Tua, both of which had major influences in education, culture and health and politics. . In this case, it is necessary to see how history, ideology, and charitable endeavours from these two large organizations influence change at the local and national scale.

Minangkabau dan Mandailing adalah dua etnis yang berbeda. Etnis Minangkabau memiliki pemeluk Islam yang dominan modernis serta memiliki tradisi matrilinear. Sedangkan etnis Mandailing memiliki pemeluk Islam yang dominan konservatif serta memiliki tradisi patrilinear. Dari dua etnis ini terlahir dua oragnisasi besar di pulau Sumatera, yakni Muhammadiyah dari etnis Minangkabau yang diidentikkan dengan Kaum Muda dan Al-Washliyah dari etnis Mandailing yang diidentikkan dengan Kaum Tua, yang keduanya memiliki pengaruh besar baik di bidang pendidikan, kebudayaan maupun bidang kesehatan dan politik. Terkait dengan hal ini kiranya perlu melihat bagaimana sejarah, ideologi dan amal usaha dari dua organisasi besar ini yang mempengaruhi perubahan pada skala lokal maupun Nasional.
Sejarah Perkembangan Pemikiran Gerakan Salafiyah
Authors: Suhilman Suhilman
Published: May 2021

Salafiyah is reform movement focusing on the matters of akidah and Islamic puritanism. The Islamic teaching should not be treated as a doctrine (das sein) in the society but it should be actualized as stipulated by al-Qur’an and Hadis (das sollen).
Analisis Perbandingan Aturan Penghapusan dan Pencegahan Kekerasan Seksual Menurut KUHP dan RUU Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual
Authors: Mahabbati Suci , Sari Isna Kartika
Published: May 2021

Dewasa ini, bentuk-bentuk kekerasan seksual semakin berkembang. Aturan hukum yang ada saat ini belum cukup mengatur terkait kekerasan seksual tersebut. Maka dibentuk Rancangan Undang-Undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual untuk mengakomodasi perlindungan hukum terhadap kekerasan seksual di Indonesia. Studi perbandingan antara Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana dengan Rancangan Undang-Undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual ini bertujuan untuk mereformasi aturan hukum terkait kekerasan seksual yang ada di Indonesia. Metode yang digunakan penulis adalah analytical method, yaitu memulai studi perbandingan dengan menganalisis perbedaan yang ada di antara Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana terkait kekerasan seksual dengan Rancangan Undang-Undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual. Rancangan Undang-Undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual dipilih sebagai pembanding karena RUU ini dibuat untuk menjangkau kekerasan seksual yang bentuknya terus berkembang di Indonesia. Akan tetapi kehadiran RUU ini menimbulkan polemik di tengah masyarakat. Oleh karena itu, perbedaan kedua aturan ini perlu dianalisis agar dapat diketahui solusi terbaik di antara keduanya. Rancangan Undang-Undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual merupakan aturan yang berperspektif korban. Rancangan Undang-Undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual juga merumuskan upaya pencegahan dalam kekerasan seksual. Karena pencegahan kekerasan seksual merupakan hal yang sangat penting dalam upaya menghapus kekerasan seksual. Dalam rangkaian penanggulangan dan upaya penghapusan kekerasan seksual, seluruh sektor termasuk masyarakat memiliki peran dalam penghapusan kekerasan seksual. Dari hasil studi perbandingan ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa Rancangan Undang-Undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual dapat mengakomodasi penghapusan kekerasan seksual, sehingga sebaiknya dilakukan reformasi hukum untuk menanggulangi kekerasan seksual di Indonesia.
Fatwa DSN/MUI tentang Pengalihan Utang
Authors: Ruchhima Ruchhima , Lahuri Setiawan bin
Published: May 2021

DSN sebagai lembaga yang berwenang mengeluarkan fatwa juga telah mengeuarkan beberapa  fatwa transakasi muamalah dengan menggunakan hybrid contract,  salah satunya yaitu Fatwa DSN MUI Nomor 31/DSN-MUI/VI/2002 tentang pembiayaan take over atau pengalihan utang. Metode pendekatan yang dipergunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah yuridis normatif dengan menitik beratkan pada data kepustakaaan atau data sekunder yaitu suatu penelitian yang secara deduktif dimulai analisa terhadap fatwa-fatwa. Tidak semua alternatif pada fatwa DSN-MUI tentang pengalihan utang digunakan dalam transaksi pengalihan utang yang dilakukan nasabah dan lembaga keuangan syariah. Kurang mendalamnya fatwa yang dikeluarkan DSN-MUI mengakibatkan simpang siur pemikiran dan pendapat oleh para praktisi, sehingga munculnya akad baru yang mana tidak sesuai dengan syariah terjadi di lapangan.
Studi Persepsi tentang Zakat Perniagaan di Kalangan Pengusaha Batik di Kota Sungai penuh
Authors: Susanti Susi , Hamzah Ali , Sari Maila
Published: May 2021

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan Pengetahuan masyarakat tentang zakat perniagaan terutama di kalangan pengusaha batik di Kota Sungai Penuh . Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif kualitatif yang mengkaji tentang hukum zakat perdagangan dalam Islam yang mengarah pada pemahaman pengusaha batik tentang zakat perniagaan serta kendala yang dihadapi leh para pengusaha batik terhadap zakat perniagaan. Temuan penelitian ini bahwa Persepsi masyarakat khususnya para pengusaha batik di Kota Sungai Penuh masih sangat minim, bahkan ada di antara mereka yang sama sekali tidak mengetahui apa itu zakat perniagaan dan cara perhitungan zakat perniagaan jika sudah mencapai nisabnya. Kendala atau hambatan yang dialami oleh masyarakat adalah: (a) kurangnya pengetahuan tentang zakat, (b) kurangnya kesadaran akan pentingnya membayar zakat perniagaan atas usaha yang dijalaninya.
Park Avenue & East 53rd Street
Authors: Newland Paul
Published: May 2021

Park Avenue & East 53rd Street is a film about the Seagram Building and a New York City street corner on which it stands. It features a voice over by Asheq Akhtar, camera by Tom Lecky, synthesizer improvisations by Ben Edwards (aka Benge), and archival footage from the film Birth of a Building (provided by the Hagley Museum and Library). Drawing primarily on the geographer Doreen Massey’s theoretical work on space, Park Avenue & East 53rd Street is an experimental, poetic attempt to use digital video and sound to explore the ways in which a specific urban location might develop a character (or characters) – through a process of ‘becoming’ - that could not have been imagined by architects and planners. The film also seeks to examine how far representations might affect the identity or even the life of an urban space. The film asks: what are the potential ‘uses’ or ‘potentials’ or ‘experiences’ of architectural spaces, as opposed to their original plans and design intentions? Employing contemporary iPhone footage of a street corner by the Seagram Building in New York City (a celebrated corporate architectural structure emblematic of modernity and US capitalism), alongside stock documentary footage of this building being constructed in the late 1950s, Park Avenue & East 53rd Street uses a voice-over to examine links between personal memory, nostalgia and loss, but also poetry, visual representations, architectural design, history, and the everyday rhythms of an urban place. By writing the voice-over/voice-off to be performed in a variety of modes of delivery – such as personal reminiscence, dialogue, academic lecture, omniscient expository narrator (direct address) – and mixing this voice with an evocative synthesizer soundtrack that serves to evoke the rhythms of the modern city as industrial complex - the film becomes a meditation on how far specific places in cities might be understood to be in a process of ‘becoming’ (Massey), and how representations can facilitate this ‘becoming’.