bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Le quarantième anniversaire de la Convention sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination à l’égard des femmes
Authors: Grosbon Sophie
Published: March 2022

Ce texte présente la Convention sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination à l’égard des femmes, traité international sexo-spécifique et généraliste adopté il y a tout juste quarante ans. Il met en valeur ses dispositions novatrices du point de vue de la théorie des droits fondamentaux, mais il en montre également les lacunes, liées à une conception encore trop andronormée des droits humains, qui oublie le droit des femmes à un libre épanouissement et qui autorise de funestes réserves. La pratique du Comité pour l’élimination de la discrimination à l’égard des femmes tend cependant à combler ces manques au fil de ses interprétations.
« Répondre et rassurer » : quelques enseignements à propos du premier avis consultatif de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme
Authors: Szymczak David
Published: March 2022

Rendu le 10 avril 2019, le premier avis consultatif de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme est riche d’enseignements. D’une part, et en première lecture, concernant la réponse apportée à la juridiction interne qui avait sollicité l’avis. D’autre part, et plus largement, s’agissant de la façon dont la Cour de Strasbourg paraît envisager la nouvelle compétence consultative prévue par le Protocole n o  16. En ce sens, il semble possible d’avancer que, par son premier avis, la Cour européenne cherche à la fois à « répondre » et à « rassurer ».
L’interaction judiciaire ou l’institutionnalisation du dialogue avec le Protocole n° 16 (analyse de la première saisine par la Cour de cassation de France)
Authors: Ludet Daniel
Published: March 2022

Le 10 avril 2019, la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme, saisie par la Cour de cassation française, a rendu son premier avis consultatif dans le cadre du Protocole n° 16. Se référant au droit au respect de la vie privée de l’enfant au sens de l’article 8 de la Convention et à l’intérêt supérieur de l’enfant, elle a dit dans quels cas et conditions le droit interne doit offrir à un enfant conçu par gestation pour autrui une possibilité de reconnaissance d’un lien de filiation avec la mère d’intention.
Changements climatiques et droits humains : l’affaire Urgenda
Authors: De Schutter Olivier
Published: March 2022

Dans un arrêt du 20 décembre 2019, le Hoge Raad des Pays-Bas confirme les décisions des juridictions inférieures faisant obligation à l’État néerlandais de prendre toutes mesures propres à réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre des Pays-Bas d’au moins 25 % pour 2020, en comparaison avec le niveau des émissions de 1990. Il prend appui pour cela sur les articles 2 et 8 de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme, qui garantissent respectivement le droit à la vie et le droit au respect de la vie privée et familiale. L’arrêt constitue une avancée historique. Ce commentaire rappelle pourquoi les changements climatiques menacent gravement les droits humains. Il décrit les efforts que la communauté internationale a faits afin de contraindre les États à ralentir la progression des émissions de gaz à effet de serre : c’est en soutien de ces efforts qu’intervient l’arrêt du 20 décembre 2019. Il examine, enfin, le raisonnement suivi par le Hoge Raad. Il aborde à cet égard l’interprétation qu’il fait de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme. Il évalue également la pertinence des arguments mis en avant par le gouvernement néerlandais afin de contester l’obligation de relever le niveau de son ambition d’atténuation du changement climatique, fondés notamment sur la faible contribution du pays au réchauffement planétaire – de manière telle que des efforts supplémentaires de l’État néerlandais ne sauraient avoir qu’une incidence minime sur le climat – ; sur l’idée qu’en imposant à l’Exécutif de relever le niveau de son ambition de réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre, le juge s’immiscerait dans le domaine réservé des autres pouvoirs constitués ; ainsi que sur l’obstacle que constituerait pareille immixtion pour la conduite des négociations internationales. Il conclut sur la promesse que l’arrêt du 20 décembre 2019 constitue pour que s’ouvre une nouvelle ère dans la lutte contre les changements climatiques : une ère où cette lutte ne sera plus seulement le monopole des gouvernements, qui en définiraient seuls le rythme de progression, mais deviendra l’affaire de la société entière.
L’ordre public et la sécurité nationale comme instruments de contrôle étatique en matière migratoire : quelles limites la jurisprudence européenne fixe-t-elle à l’exercice de ces prérogatives étatiques ?
Authors: Macq Christelle
Published: March 2022

L’ordre public est un élément central des législations nationales relatives aux étrangers. Les notions d’ordre public et de sécurité nationale sont omniprésentes en droit des étrangers tant au niveau européen qu’au niveau national. Ces notions ne sont pas clairement définies et leur plasticité offre aux États une large marge de manœuvre dans l’exercice de leurs prérogatives de contrôle de l’entrée et du séjour des non-nationaux. La présente contribution sera consacrée à une analyse des contours que les Cours européennes posent à l’exercice de ces prérogatives étatiques.
Le droit à un recours effectif des sociétés en liquidation et le droit de l’Union européenne
Authors: Cariat Nicolas , Martin Thomas
Published: March 2022

Le droit d’une société en liquidation à un recours effectif contre une décision d’une institution de l’Union européenne ayant provoqué sa mise en liquidation implique de l’autoriser à agir devant la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne, à l’initiative de ses anciens organes de direction, lorsque l’introduction de pareil recours par son liquidateur est rendue impossible ou théorique par les règles nationales qui encadrent le mandat dudit liquidateur.
Unicity of transcendental meromorphic functions concerning differential-difference polynomials
Authors: He Zhiying ,   Department of Mathematics, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China, Xiao Jianbin , Fang Mingliang
Published: March 2022

Let $ f $ and $ g $ be two transcendental meromorphic functions of finite order with a Borel exceptional value $ \infty $, let $ \alpha $ $ (\not\equiv 0) $ be a small function of both $ f $ and $ g $, let $ d, k, n, m $ and $ v_j (j = 1, 2, \cdots, d) $ be positive integers, and let $ c_j (j = 1, 2, \cdots, d) $ be distinct nonzero finite values. If $ n\ge \max \{2k+m+\sigma+5, \sigma+2d+3\} $, where $ \sigma = v_1+v_2+\cdots +v_d $, and $ (f^n(z)(f^m(z)-1)\prod _{j = 1}^{d}f^{v_j}(z+c_j))^{(k)} $ and $ (g^n(z)(g^m(z)-1)\prod _{j = 1}^{d}g^{v_j}(z+c_j))^{(k)} $ share $ \alpha $ CM then $ f \equiv tg $, where $ t^m = t^{n+\sigma } = 1. $ This result extends and improves some restlts due to [1,10,14,15,19].
Residual based attention-Unet combing DAC and RMP modules for automatic liver tumor segmentation in CT
Authors: Bi Rongrong ,   Department of Software Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Rongcheng 264300, China, Ji Chunlei , Yang Zhipeng , Qiao Meixia , Lv Peiqing , Wang Haiying ,   School of Automation, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China
Published: March 2022

Purpose: Due to the complex distribution of liver tumors in the abdomen, the accuracy of liver tumor segmentation cannot meet the needs of clinical assistance yet. This paper aims to propose a new end-to-end network to improve the segmentation accuracy of liver tumors from CT. Method: We proposed a hybrid network, leveraging the residual block, the context encoder (CE), and the Attention-Unet, called ResCEAttUnet. The CE comprises a dense atrous convolution (DAC) module and a residual multi-kernel pooling (RMP) module. The DAC module ensures the network derives high-level semantic information and minimizes detailed information loss. The RMP module improves the ability of the network to extract multi-scale features. Moreover, a hybrid loss function based on cross-entropy and Tversky loss function is employed to distribute the weights of the two-loss parts through training iterations. Results: We evaluated the proposed method in LiTS17 and 3DIRCADb databases. It significantly improved the segmentation accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods. Conclusions: Experimental results demonstrate the satisfying effects of the proposed method through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, thus proving a promising tool in liver tumor segmentation.
Recurrence after treatment of arteriovenous malformations of the head and neck
Authors: Linh Do-Thi Ngoc ,   Department of Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery, Viet Duc Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam, Khanh Lam , Dung Le Thanh , Ha Nguyen Hong , Son Tran Thiet , Duc Nguyen Minh ,   Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam,   Department of Radiology, 108 Military Central Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam,   Department of Radiology, Viet Duc Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam,   Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hanoi National University, Hanoi, Vietnam,   Department of Radiology, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Published: March 2022

Objective

Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are aggressive diseases with a high tendency to recur. AVM treatment is complex, especially in the anatomically difficult head and neck region. This study analyzed correlations between extracranial head and neck AVM presentations and the frequency of recurrence.

Methods

We retrospectively assessed AVM recurrence among 55 patients with head and neck AVMs treated with embolization and resection between January 2008 and December 2015. Recurrence was defined as any evidence of AVM expansion following embolization and resection. Patient variables, including sex, age, AVM size, AVM location, stage, and treatment modalities, were examined for correlations with the recurrence of head and neck AVMs. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 20.0.

Results

A total of 55 patients with at least 6 months of follow-up following AVM treatment with embolization and surgical resection were enrolled in this study. During follow-up, 14 of 55 patients experienced recurrence (the long-term recurrence rate was 25.5%). Sex, stage, AVM size, and treatment modality were identified as independent predictors of recurrence. Recurrence was less likely following the treatment of lower-stage or smaller lesions and did not correlate with age or location.

Conclusions

AVMs of the head and neck are among the most challenging conditions to manage due to a high risk of recurrence. Early and total AVM resection is the best method for preventing recurrence.
Back to School
Authors: Erdemli Özge , Demirkasımoğlu Nihan , Güner Demir Tuğba
Published: March 2022

This chapter aims to gain in-depth knowledge of the doctoral experience of older graduate students. For this purpose, a phenomenological study was conducted. Ten students aged 40 and older who are studying in graduate education were interviewed. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive and content analysis techniques. Findings revealed that being a doctoral student aged 40 and over has both advantages and disadvantages. Almost all of the participants try to complete their education simultaneously with their profession. In addition, they have heavier family responsibilities than the younger doctorants. This factor leads to a distraction and division in their motivation. However, it is clear that being in the university environment, acquiring new perspectives, and producing something new gives satisfaction to the participants despite the existing difficulties. On the other hand, young doctorants' insufficient professional experience makes older PhDs advantageous in terms of integrating their professional experience with doctoral education.
The Future of Fake News
Authors: Kazem-Stojanovic Halima
Published: March 2022

This chapter examines the growing issue of fabricated news, specifically looking into the trend toward deep fakes. It extends its discussion to the use of bots and trolls to influence media distribution. It underscores the importance of fact-checking now and in the future, as many media organizations run the risk of propagating false information. It ends with a note on appropriate regulatory actions to consider.
The Social and Technological Revolution in Sports Journalism
Authors: Johnson Phylis
Published: March 2022

This chapter examines how future cultural and technological dynamics will expand the popularity of physical and electronic sports not only in the U.S.A. but will provide opportunities for international expansion and the rise of global fan communities. While physical auditoriums will be designed to accommodate massive crowds, they will also ensure that they take into account future challenges, such as re-occurring pandemics and volatile weather. New technologies will provide immersive experiences at home as well as spectacular views of field action from any bleacher seat.
Moon Media
Authors: Johnson Phylis
Published: March 2022

This chapter takes a leap forward and reimagines what it will mean to colonize the Moon and one day even Mars. It investigates advances in technology and attempts to configure how traditional and new media will accommodate the needs and interests of those populating or commuting to new territories in space. What would it be like to report from the Moon? The latest trends and research in science and future studies help to provide a portrait of the possibilities and challenges ahead.
Visual Journalism and the Future of News Consumption
Authors: Korani Tina
Published: March 2022

This chapter reviews the rise of immersive technologies, with a particular emphasis on visually immersive forms that have only begun to be implemented in newsrooms and social media platforms over the past decade. The road leading to today's technology has been a long and winding one, and it will likely take a while before the public views news as an immersive experience. This chapter will also serve to introduce the customization and personalization of new technologies in the future, as well as the problems that may accompany them over the next 20 to 40 years and beyond.
Radio Space Wars
Authors: Johnson Phylis
Published: March 2022

This chapter examines how radio will continue to adapt to the tremendous technological and social challenges of the future. Sound is still one of the most underrated and unexplored areas of the future, yet speculations indicate that it will have a major impact on our future. Its simplicity, yet significance, is perhaps its greatest advantage over all media.
Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Authors: Feldman Alicia , Grant-Smith Deanna
Published: March 2022

Qualitative comparative analysis allows for the breadth of analysis associated with quantitative data and the depth of case knowledge provided by qualitative analysis. In particular, fuzzy-set qualitative analysis (fsQCA) provides a nuanced analysis of data and offers actionable insights. Despite this, fsQCA has been underutilized in the social sciences. This chapter explores the application of fsQCA in the social sciences. The authors advance an argument for its wider adoption due to fsQCA's ability to disentangle the causal complexity involved in person- and policy-based contexts by applying a set-theoretic understanding of causation. The chapter provides an introduction to fsQCA for readers unfamiliar with the approach and advocates for its suitability within a broad range of social science studies.
A Hybrid Multiple-Attribute Decision-Making Model Under Complex Q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Hamy Mean Aggregation Operators
Authors: Naz Sumera , Akram Muhammad , Saeed Aatifa
Published: March 2022

The concept of complex q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (Cq-ROFSs) serves as an extension of the current complex orthopair fuzzy sets, including complex intuitionistic fuzzy sets and complex Pythagorean fuzzy sets. Hamy mean (HM) aggregation operator is a useful tool to model the interrelationship between attributes. In this contribution, the traditional HM is generalized to aggregate complex q-rung orthopair fuzzy information, and a multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) approach is proposed to solve decision-making problems with complex q-rung orthopair fuzzy information. Firstly, the complex q-rung orthopair fuzzy Hamy mean (Cq-ROFHM) operator and the complex q-rung orthopair fuzzy dual Hamy mean (Cq-ROFDHM) operator along with its weighted forms are proposed. Moreover, to deal with MADM problems, a novel approach is developed based on the proposed HM operators under complex q-rung orthopair fuzzy framework. Lastly, a numerical model is described for the selection of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to demonstrate the use of the generated technique and exhibit its adequacy.
Some New Distance and Similarity Algorithms for Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets With Application in Decision-Making Problems
Authors: Ejegwa Paul Augustine , Onyeke Idoko Charles
Published: March 2022

This chapter introduces some new distance and similarity measures for PFSs which resolve the inaccuracies observed in the existing measures. The objectives of this work are to introduce a new distance and similarity measures for PFSs, encapsulate the measures in an algorithm, and explore their applicability in some decision-making problems. Numerical experiments are supplied to ascertain the superiority of the new distance and similarity measures over the existing measures. Some decision-making problems such as students' career placement and pattern recognition represented in Pythagorean fuzzy pairs are addressed using the new distance and similarity measures coded with JAVA programming language.
Tanimoto Similarity Coefficients Measuring Bipolar q-Rung Picture Fuzzy Information and Their Applications
Authors: Kamacı Hüseyin , Petchimuthu Subramanian
Published: March 2022

In this chapter, the concepts of bipolar q-rung picture fuzzy set and bipolar q-rung picture fuzzy number are introduced. Moreover, the fundamentals of bipolar q-rung picture fuzzy sets and bipolar q-rung picture fuzzy numbers are studied. Relatedly, some basic operations, aggregation operators, and relations on the bipolar q-rung picture fuzzy sets/numbers are derived. The intuitive definition of Tanimoto's similarity coefficient is proposed to measure the similarity between two bipolar q-rung picture fuzzy sets. Finally, it is shown that the proposed Tanimoto similarity measures can be used to deal with the problems of medical diagnosis and pattern recognition under the bipolar q-rung picture fuzzy environment.
An Intuitionistic Fuzzy Entropy Measure and Its Application in Multi-Attribute Decision Making With Incomplete Weights Information
Authors: Bhardwaj Reeta , Sharma Amit , Mani Naveen , Kumar Kamal
Published: March 2022

Fuzzy sets, as well as their extension intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS), are more effective and appealing tools for expressing quantitative complexity throughout the decision-making process, and they have gotten greater attention from researchers in recent years for new study directions. Keeping the advantages of IFS, this chapter proposes a novel information measure to measure the fuzziness of IFS known as entropy measure (EM). The various notable features of the proposed EM are also presented. EM is a very useful tool to determine the attribute's weight during the multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) process. Therefore, in this chapter, the authors propose a new MADM approach by using the proposed EM where the attribute's weights are absolutely unknown. Finally, the proposed MADM methodology is applied to solve the real-life MADM examples. Comparative studies are also given to show the advantages of the proposed MADM methodology. The proposed MADM methodology can overcome the weaknesses of the existing MADM approaches.
Quadripartitioned Neutrosophic Soft Graphs
Authors: Hussain S. Satham , Hussain R. Jahir , Rosyida Isnaini , Broumi Said
Published: March 2022

The neutrosophic quadripartitioned soft model is a hybrid model by combining neutrosophic soft sets with quadripartitioned sets. This work concerns with the quadripartitioned neutrosophic soft graphs for treating neutrosophic soft information by employing the theory of quadripartitioned neutrosophic soft sets with graphs. Operations like Cartesian product, cross product, lexicographic product, and strong product of quadripartitioned neutrosophic soft graphs are established. The proposed concepts are explained with examples.
Significance of Forensic Accounting Techniques in Corporate Governance
Authors: Kamwani Suleman Sherali , Vieira Elisabete , Madaleno Mara , Azevedo Graça Maria do Carmo
Published: March 2022

This chapter intends to contribute to the analysis of forensic acounting (FA) techniques through a bibliometric review of the existent literature in order to understand the current state of FA research as well as to contribute to the analysis of the influence of FA on corporate governance. Although FA is a modern discipline, in recent years its relevance has been growing very quickly, with the aim to study the use of accounting skills to investigate fraud, embezzlement, and other irregularities hidden as financial transactions. However, no recent study tries to update the current state of the research over this topic. To do so, the authors conduct a bibliometric analysis. The study describes the evolutional research studies published in the digital library Scopus between 2005 and 2020 and compares the results obtained in evolutionary terms. Considering only the FA publications, the Scopus analysis led to a total database of 192 documents. However, this sudy focuses on the research that relates FA and corporate governance concentrating the bibliometric analysis in the Scopus database.
An Assessment of Forensic Accounting Skill Competencies for Minimizing Corporate Fraud and Damages
Authors: Goel Ankur
Published: March 2022

Forensic accounting is a key emerging field for strengthening the corporate sector of any economy. Forensic accountants have to be well equipped with multiple skill competencies to act as catalysts for enhancing and leveraging on the best corporate practices in terms of minimizing the possibilities of fraud, damages, scams, and scandals all around the globe. Aspiring professional accountancy students are nowadays highly inspired and motivated to build their career in forensic accounting, and also there is an immense scarcity of talented people, specifically in the Indian context in this domain. Literature demonstrates the availability of a variety of skill competencies as required for proficiency in the same domain. The author in this chapter primarily explored the multiple skill competencies with the help of secondary data and further assesses them by reducing all skills to the most basic and relevant ones with the application of factor reduction technique through SPSS after collecting the primary data (survey method) from the chartered accountancy students in Meerut City, India.
An Evaluation of the Relevance of Forensic Accounting on Fraud Detection in the Nigerian Public Sector
Authors: Dalegan Hawal Olayiwola , Ishola Abdullahi Omogbolahan
Published: March 2022

The increasing sophistication of fraud has necessitated the use of forensic accounting tools to facilitate successful investigation. Perpetuation of fraud in the Nigerian public sector has reached alarming levels. This problem motivated the discussion on whether forensic accounting can facilitate detection and prevention of fraud in Nigeria. This chapter evaluates the relevance of forensic accounting on fraud detection in Nigerian public sector using a case study of Bayelsa state. This chapter finds that forensic accounting enhances fraud detection. The chapter consequently recommends that professional accounting bodies should constantly conduct forensic accounting training for accountants, and there is a need for the inclusion of forensic accounting in the syllabus of all the tertiary institutions offering accountancy in Nigeria. Further, the services of forensic accountants should be engaged more in Nigeria.
Forensic Accounting Is a Necessity in Today's Corporate World and Not an Extra Option
Authors: Rehman Ali , Hashim Fathyah
Published: March 2022

In today's business environment, fraud is the main cause of organizational failure, which results in reputational damages and can also lead to the closure of the organizations. Forensic accounting with appropriate skills, knowledge, and mindset can perform proactive tasks towards mitigating fraud risk and can raise red flags even before the occurrence of fraudulent transactions or events. With the utilization of fraud triangle theory and forensic accounting theory, this chapter is focused on the preventive and detective role of forensic accounting which will highlight the importance of this function as a permanent feature in any organization. This chapter will also highlight the problems associated with the non-availability of forensic accounting in the current organizational culture and will also provide related recommendations. This chapter can be beneficial to regulators, organizational governance management, and standard-setting bodies towards drafting or amending the laws and regulations and inclusion of forensic accounting as a permanent element for all organizations.
Removing the Screen
Authors: Lyons Nina , Smith Matt
Published: March 2022

This chapter outlines an operational definition for a range of experiments that will examine a number of visual aesthetics to identify ways to influence mental models to test how well they will communicate to the user. Utilising principles for semiotics and visual communication, the aim is to create a number of small interaction experiments that will be meaningful and resonate with the user so that they will understand how users want to interact with objects without relying on conventional interaction paradigms. As these experiments will be a mixed methods approach with equal emphasis on quantitative and qualitative data and will utilise a code book of visuals, the operational definition becomes the blueprint that will ensure a consistent procedure that will contain a full description of procedures and actions required to observe and measure the experiments. This will allow for a high level of transparency and replicable set of experiments.
Digital Transformation
Authors: Kumar Dinesh
Published: March 2022

Digital marketing and strategy are often thought of as using modern internet and communication technologies in a company's business operations. Companies have used such technologies to communicate with stakeholders, reduce costs, engage customers, and so on. Even today, many digital marketing courses focus on gathering views on brand content, gaining followers, or making users click on links and advertisements. Likewise, many companies wrongly understand that digital marketing is simply about using modern internet and communication technologies in conducting business or spreading their message. This chapter explains that digital technologies offer an opportunity to businesses to re-invent themselves by keeping customer experience firmly in focus. If they do so, they stand a much better chance of surviving and thriving in a considerably changed marketing environment. Transformation must occur in their business model, organisation structure and processes, people and culture, and above all, their focus on solving customer problems.
Music Streaming
Authors: Brito Flávio Augusto , Vieira Diana Aguiar
Published: March 2022

The eased access to new digital technologies allowed for new possibilities, with content streaming being one of the most expressive digital consumption and business models in the phonographic industry. Following, brand-new discussions regarding the consumption habits of its users took place. What is not yet clear is the consumption dynamics on these new platforms, particularly, when referring to exploration scenarios, the most relevant tools and what role factors such as familiarity and taste play in the discovery process of the existing catalogue. The intent is to comprehend the expressiveness of these music streaming platforms, what dynamics come to play referring to exploratory behaviours, and which tools or mechanisms are the most important in this process. Following data collection of 264 respondents through a survey, the results indicate both the popularity of streaming platforms and the respondents' high exploration tendencies, with existing features like playlists being the most significant tools to discover the catalogue.
Leveraging Social Media Tools for Business Purposes
Authors: Ahuja Vandana , Alavi Shirin
Published: March 2022

Human beings are increasingly social, and the growth of social media is a function of increased urbanisation, internet penetration, and digitisation, which have witnessed an increase in the number of internet users, active social media users, unique mobile users, and active mobile social users. This chapter will enable readers to appreciate the concept of social media and details the most significant social media tools that can be used by business organisations and brands and then proceeds to identify the benefits of social media to businesses and individuals.
Development of an Eye Response-Based Mental Workload Evaluation Method
Authors: Tran Cong Chi , Yan Shengyuan
Published: March 2022

This study proposed an eye responses-based mental workload (E-MWL) evaluation method in nuclear power plants (NPPs) when performing the task via a user interface control. The fuzzy theory was used to combine four eye response indices using the entropy weight method. Then, the E-MWL method was validated through experiments by comparison with the NASA-TLX rating and performance measures indices in two different tasks of the State Oriented Procedure (SOP) in NPP. The correlation analysis results between the NASA-TLX and eye response indices showed that four eye response indices used in this study were correlated significantly with the NASA-TLX, indicating that these indices may develop the E-MWL method. The E-MWL score results indicated that it is highly correlated with NASA-TLX and performance measures indices in two different tasks of SOP in NPP. This has proved that E-MWL is an objective method suitable for evaluating and predicting human mental workload (MWL) for interface control task in NPPs.
Green Innovation in the MENA Healthcare Industry
Authors: Issa Helmi , Jabbouri Rachid
Published: March 2022

Drawing on the knowledge-based perspective, this research developed and tested a model consisting of five technological innovation characteristics (relative advantage, complexity, compatibility, observability, and triability) as antecedents, green innovation as a mediator, sustainable competitive advantage as an outcome, and government environmental support as a moderator. A survey was administered to 305 participants from the Middle Eastern healthcare sector and 305 participants from the North African healthcare sector. The findings were antagonistic to what was hypothesized by revealing heterogeneity rather than homogeneity in technological and green innovation perceptions. This research calls for the implementation of newly developed rather than adopted green innovation strategies across the Middle East and North Africa.
The Impact of Information and Communication Technology Factors on the User Intention to Participate in the Sharing Economy
Authors: Ye Pinghao , Liu Liqiong , Tan Joseph
Published: March 2022

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of system and interaction quality, security factors, trust and perceived ease to use on the user intention to participate in the sharing economy. Information and communications technology (ICT) promotes the development of a sharing economy. Such influential factors include system and interaction quality, security factors, and ease of use of ICT. In this work, a questionnaire survey was administered with 318 sharing economy users with multiple hypotheses investigated via a structural equation model (SEM). Results show that system and interaction qualities have a significant positive impact on the perceived ease of use (PEU). Safety factors and group psychology also have significant positive effects on perceived trust (PT). Altogether, PEU and PT have significant effects on the users’ adoption of a sharing economy. The paper contributes to the sharing economy and consumer behaviour literature in a comprehensive perspective.
Individual Dexterity and Psychological Empowering Leadership for Digital Workplace
Authors: Adhiatma Ardian , Fachrunnisa Olivia , Sudarti Ken
Published: March 2022

This research aims to test a concept of individual dexterity in improving individual performance for the digital workplace. Individual dexterity is the ability of individuals to explore fingers and other senses when in contact with information technology devices (finger dexterity) and exploit the idea or ideas to complete the work independently (manual dexterity). A number of 150 respondents who work in creative industries and using information technology-based communication tools to finish their daily job involved in this research. Data was collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using SmartPLS. The results show that individual dexterity is able to predict the performance of individuals who work in a digital environment. In addition, psychological empowering leadership and individual readiness to change play a role as a significant trigger to the formation of individual dexterity which then increases individual performance
The Effects of Cognitive Apprenticeship and Co-Regulated Learning on Improving Student Computer Problem-Solving Skills and Learning Motivation
Authors: Wu Ying-Tien , Shen Pei-Di , Lin Chih-Hsien
Published: March 2022

This study makes use of online teaching in this environment and adopts it for use in a required computer skills course with Cognitive apprenticeship (CA) and Co-regulated learning (CRL) teaching methods to improve students’ computer skills, learning motivation, and experience of online learning. The subjects of this study are first-year students of a non-information-related department at a private university in northern Taiwan. A total of four classes comprising 111 students participated in the research. The CRL and CA group (C1, n=24) concurrently received CRL and CA treatments; the non-CRL and CA group (C2, n=25) received only the CA teaching method, and the CRL and non-CA group (C3, n=40) only the teaching method of CRL. The non-CRL and non-CA group (C4, n=22) served as the control group. The results show that the use of CA can significantly improve students’ computer skills; however, the expected effects of CRL were not found in this study.
Are Satisfied Customers Willing to Pay More for Extra Services?
Authors: Su Xin , Ma Xin , Xiang Panwei , Akram Umair
Published: March 2022

5G service refers to the mobile services built on the 5th generation telecommunication technology. It enhances end user experience of mobile internet surfing significantly. The high bandwidth of 5G technologies offers vendors opportunities to provide more value-added services to their customers and therefore improve the revenue. However, the competition in this market is intense. In order to survive and finally get some payback, the vendors need to analyze the acceptance of 5G services from their consumers' perspective. In this paper, the authors use the extended TAM model to investigate the 5G service acceptance in China. They conducted a survey to test their model and got the results to support their argument. The study has both theoretical contribution to the people who would like to do research in this area and practical contribution to managers who would like to provide 5G services to their customers.
Small Hydro-power Plants and Disturbances to Environment: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Authors: Wickramaarachchi Nishani Champika , Rathnayaka Chamil Bandara , Thilini Malka
Published: March 2022

Hydro-power generation is prominent as a renewable, alternative, clean and green energy source of power generation in Sri Lanka, compared to solar power, wind and biomass. Among the available sources, Sri Lanka has many Small Hydro Power Projects (SHPPs) in rural areas. However, public protests in the recent past against the SHPPs rose because of their negative impacts on the environment. Many researchers view environmental influences as a result of activities of hydro-power plants, yet the findings deviate from the location and focus on the nature of the project. Therefore, this paper intends to analyze the residents’ perceptions on environmental impacts related to three rural projects from Padiyapelella, Manakola and Elamulla areas in the Nuwara-Eliya District. The sample included sixty families and five responsible experts, purposely selected from the affected areas. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire, observations, and interviews. Descriptive statistics, average response value comparisons and content analyses were used to analyze the data. Results reveal that more negative effects are observed at the construction stage, and they diminish with the completion while a few tend to continue. SHPPs projects have a major impact on the soil structure and, secondly, the adverse effects on other environmental components such as biodiversity, water, and tranquility Findings underline the importance of preliminary studies in minimizing the harmful effects to enhance more benefits from establishing SHPPs.
SONDAGGI FILOLOGICI SULLE CARTE DI ALESSANDRO VOLTA
Authors: Bianchi Viola
Published: March 2022

Through the presentation of some philological surveys conducted on the manuscripts of Alessandro Volta, the essay presents some weaknesses of the National Edition of his works and letters and indicates some possible prospects for a new edition.
Influence of first- and second-generation antipsychotics on anthropometric parameters of male psychiatric patients
Authors: Nkondo-Ndaba Maseqhala P. , Joubert Pierre M. , Ballyram Theona , Janse van Rensburg Charl
Published: March 2022

Background: The use of antipsychotic medication, particularly second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease in people with severe mental illness (SMI). Few studies have compared body measures of people with SMI taking first generation antipsychotics (FGAs) to those taking SGAs.Aim: We compare body measures between long-term male inpatients using either FGAs or SGAs.Setting: The study was conducted at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, in Pretoria, Gauteng.Methods: A total of 30 patients were selected from a list of male inpatients and were included in our study. Each participant had the following anthropometric measures done and these were compared between the two groups: Waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI), waist to hip ratio (WHR), waist to height ratio (WHtR) and hip circumference (HC). Hospital records were used to record demographic variables, diagnosis, comorbid disease and psychotropic medication for each participant.Results: Participants in the FGA and SGA groups had similar body measures, resulting in similar BMI, WHR and WHtR. Participants had a mean HC of 100.5 cm, 95% confidence interval (CI) (97.68, 103.22). BMI ranged from 21.87 kg/m² to 37.65 kg/m², with an overall mean of 28.5 kg/m², 95% CI (26.69, 30.22). Participants had a mean WHtR of 0.59, 95% CI (0.56, 0.61). Participants had a mean WC of 100.6 cm and 95% CI (96.26, 104.87), and the mean WHR of both groups was 1.0.Conclusion: Participants using FGAs and SGAs had similar body measures, and these indicated that this sample of male inpatients with SMI is at high risk for CVD.
The mediating role of self-efficacy of managing chronic disease between the dual-mode of self-control and the fatigue in breast cancer patients undergoing postoperative chemotherapy
Authors: Gao Yuping , Sun Dong , Yu Chenge , Qin Fawei , Li Fuxia , Jiang Yugang , Du Chunling , Liu Meifeng
Published: March 2022

Background:

Fatigue is prevalent in breast cancer patients undergoing postoperative chemotherapy, which seriously affects physical and mental health. The present study aimed to investigate the relevance of fatigue, the self-efficacy of managing chronic disease (SEMCD), and the dual-mode of self-control (DMSC) in patients.

Methods:

Three hundred and seventy six breast cancer patients undergoing postoperative chemotherapy participated in this cross-sectional study. The General Information Questionnaire, Fatigue Scale-14 (FS-14), SEMCD-Scale (SEMCD-S), and DMSC-Scale (DMSC-S) were utilized to survey. Pearson correlation analysis and structural equation modeling were used for the statistical analysis of the correlation between the variables and mediating effects.

Results:

A total of 372 valid questionnaires (98.94%) were returned. The total fatigue score of FS-14 was (10.84 ± 1.80), the SEMCD-S score (30.05 ± 15.18), and the DMSC-Scale score (73.35 ± 9.49). Furthermore, physical fatigue was negatively correlated with the SEMCD-S and problem solving (r = −0.764 ~ −0.680, P < 0.01). Mental fatigue correlated positively with poor delay of gratification (r = 0.134, P < 0.05), and the SEMCD-S was also negatively correlated with the impulsivity, distractibility, and poor delay of gratification dimensions (r =-0.229~-0.130, P < 0.05). SEMCD correlated positively with problem-solving and future time perspective (r = 0.695~0.790, P < 0.001). In addition, SEMCD partially mediated the effect between the DMSC and fatigue (β = −0.335, P < 0.01), with the mediating effect accounting for 51.25%.

Conclusion:

Through SEMCD measure, it was found that DMSC indirectly influences fatigue levels in breast cancer patients undergoing postoperative chemotherapy.
Applications of artificial intelligence in radiophysics
Authors: Li Cuihua , Liu Hongyan , Li Peilin , He Jia , Tian Xiufang , Gao Wei
Published: March 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an important role in radiation oncology. One of the most important applications is in radiotherapy physics. In this field, it has improved the automation of radiotherapy plan design and quality control (QC), thereby promoting and ensuring individualized precision treatment. This article reviews the applications and research on AI in the physics of radiotherapy and projects the prospects of AI in the following aspects: radiotherapy plan design, radiotherapy quality assurance, and QC, organs at risk contouring, dose prediction, etc.
Marital status independently predicts survival of patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma
Authors: Li Kai , Wang Fei , Wang Jianqing , Fan Caibin , Sun Jian
Published: March 2022

Background:

To evaluate impact of marital status on survival of patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC).

Methods:

Data of patients diagnosed with UTUC from 2010 to 2015 were identified and retrieved from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. The impact of marital status on overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) was analyzed using Kaplan–Meier survival curve method and compared with the log-rank test. Multivariate survival analysis of OS and CSS was conducted using the Cox proportional hazards regression model.

Results:

A total of 4520 eligible patients with UTUC were included in this study. The 5-year OS rates of married patients, never-married patients, and separated, divorced, or widowed (SDW) patients were 47.3%, 43.7%, and 39.2%, respectively (P < 0.001), and the corresponding 5-year CSS rates were 57.7%, 55.2%, and 51.5%, respectively (P = 0.005). In multivariate analyses, marital status was an independent prognostic factor for OS (P < 0.001) and CSS (P = 0.002) of patients with UTUC. Compared to married patients, never married (hazard ratio [HR], 1.187; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.016–1.386 for OS; HR, 1.102; 95% CI, 0.877–1.385 for CSS) and SDW (HR, 1.205; 95% CI, 1.094–1.327 for OS; HR, 1.309; 95% CI, 1.131–1.514 for CSS) patients showed poor OS and unfavorable CSS.

Conclusions:

Marital status was an independent prognostic factor for OS and CSS in patients with UTUC. Married patients with UTUC experienced longer OS and a more favorable CSS than their never married and SDW counterparts.
Endoscopic decompression for lumbar spinal canal stenosis
Authors: Lim Kangtaek , Sardhara Jayesh
Published: March 2022

Laminectomy and fusion were surgical options to decompress neural structures and provide more space for the spinal cord in a stenosis patient with severe leg pain and progressive neurologic signs, such as numbness and weakness. The evolution of endoscopic spinal surgery techniques has created advantages for patients who require a laminectomy. The authors present a unique technique for endoscopic access to the central and lateral recess pathology as a minimally invasive procedure, which provides a good visualization. We performed two cases of endoscopic spinal surgery for single-level and consecutive three-level lumbar spinal canal stenosis using an 8 mm outer diameter, 5.5 mm working channel, 10° angled lens spinal endoscopic system (percutaneous stenoscopic lumbar decompression, MaxMore Spine Company, Unterföhring, Germany). Optimized endoscopic drills, forceps, and Kerrison punch were used to remove bony pathology and ligamentum flavum under direct endoscopic visualization. The first case had a narrow canal space in the L4/L5 segment with severe numbness at the same dermatome and did not respond with adequate conventional treatment. The second case had three-level canal stenosis with severe back pain and leg weakness. The purpose of this paper is to describe the technique, the efficacy, and feasibility of unilateral endoscopic laminectomy and bilateral decompression via posterior approach in lumbar spinal canal stenosis. Moreover, in this article, we present the technical details on endoscopic procedures and the prevention of complications and management during operation for spinal canal stenosis.
Standard Approach to Identifying and Defining Functions for Systems Development and Safety Assessments
Authors: Darrah Paul D.
Published: March 2022

The Safety Assessment Process, defined by SAE ARP4761 and associated regulatory guidance and the system development process defined by SAE ARP4754 are built on an understanding of the functions performed by a system or systems. [1, 2] These recommended practices do not provide, or reference, specific guidance regarding function definition, though they do provide some conventional airplane examples. ASTM E2013-20 describes function identification principles for cost evaluations, but does not consider how functions are used in safety assessments.[3] Without a systematic process for establishing and describing functions for safety assessments, the application of the development and safety assessment processes can be complicated by inappropriate function selections. Such functions may be overly inclusive, applied at the wrong level of abstraction, or might not describe the intended behaviors adequately. While these concerns can be managed as developers gain experience with these processes, the continually increasing complexity of system behaviors and the introduction of multi-vehicle “swarms” promises to increase these concerns.

This paper proposes a process to assist the system or product developer with identifying and describing functions at each level of abstraction used in describing the architecture. This includes establishing system boundaries and checking the appropriateness of the resulting function lists.