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Save or Spend? Western and Eastern Economic Discourses in Russian Fiction of the 19th Century
Authors:   Bielefeld University, Günther Hans
Published: October 2021

According to Max Weber, protestant ethics with its active secular asceticism had a decisive impact on the development of capitalist economics whereas the contemplative Orthodox tradition did not favor the idea of active domination of the world. The economic discourse of the Russian nineteenth century literature reflects the widely spread discussion about the future of Russia, which, compared to advanced Western capitalism, was in the position of periphery. On the one hand, authors are aware of the fact that the adoption of certain Western economic concepts is inevitable in Russia, yet on the otherhand they fear the loss of cultural identity. Gogol and Goncharov, the authors of such famous works as The Dead Souls or Oblomov, are inclined to approve certain elements of capitalist economy – they will be treated under the catchword «economize» –, whereas the idea of anti-economic «spending» of money is characteristic of Dostoevsky´s novels such as The Gambler or The Adolescent. A special position may be ascribed to Tolstoy’s economic «minimalism» which has its roots in peasant ideas of natural economy and Western authors like Proudhon or Rousseau.
Patterns of literary name-giving strategy and the uncertainties of identity
Authors:   Eötvös Loránd University, Hetényi Zsuzsa
Published: October 2021

This is the third paper in the series of my papers on the subject of name and identity. Leaving aside the widely discussed topic of the so-called “telling names”as well as the history and philosophy of the name in general, I focus on the authorial naming strategies within the paradigm of signs and symbols of the cosmopolite émigré pattern and against the ambivalent motif of wandering, eternal home-searching and home-avoiding on behalf of the intellectuals forced out of their native home by external or inner motivation. Obvious motifs such as suitcases or passports as well lesser known biblical allusions or phantom-cities extend the name-paradigm which includes specific narrative and rhetoric strategies, among them those that aim to distort the author’s identity and highlight the elusiveness of her personality. The subject of the essay is broad, interdisciplinary, analytical, and theoretical at the same time – because it concerns the very core of the theory of interpretation and the theory of the text as well as the relation of authorship and naming strategies of fictitional characters.
The “Interplanetary” Artistic and Artificial Languages in Literature and Art of the 1900–1920s (Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alexander Bogdanov, Alexey Tolstoy, Brothers Gordins)
Authors:   Univeristy of Zurich, Burenina-Petrova Olga
Published: October 2021

In the history of culture, projects of artificial languages were mainly associated with the search for some universal and, if possible, ideal means of communication, as evidenced, in particular, by the projects of Rene Descartes, John Wilkins, Johann Martin Schleier, Ludwik Zamenhof, Edgar de Waal, Jacob Linzbach, and others. In the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries, not only scientists but also science fiction writers, the first of whom was H.G. Wells, offered illustrations and sketches of fictional artificial languages. The esssay mainly examines cases of artificial languages employed for interplanetary communication that take place in Russian science fiction novels (“The Red Star” by Alexander Bogdanov and “Aelita” by Alexey Tolstoy). In addition, it covers experiments in the field of inventing an interplanetary language by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in a number of popular science and fiction works, as well as by Wolf Gordin in his works on the pan-methodological language of AO. In line with the philosophical ideas of Roland Barthes about the discourse of power, as wellas considering two types of sociolects and, accordingly, two types of languages (encratic and acratic), artificial languages are classified as acratic, since they are usually created in order to confront the mechanisms of power as such. The projects of the artificial and artistic (fictional) languages of the early twentieth century not only an attempted to find a language of communication between the inhabitants of different planets; they also urged to invent a universal means of language communication that would bring together the people of the East and the West who were separated by revolutions and wars.
Creative Meeting on Stage of Three Artists: Eden Palashovsky, Nikolay Evreinov, Eva Zeisel (Episodes from the History of the Hungarian Theatrical Avant-Garde)
Authors:   Budapest Business School, Kalafatics Zsuzsanna
Published: October 2021

Experimental theaters led by Ödön Palasovszky stand out among the attempts to renew the Hungarian theatrical culture of the 1920s. He was the central figure of the creative community that worked under different names, but the performances were results of a collective work. Contemplating on the nature and possibilities of theatrical art, young experimenting artists set themselves the goal of creating a reflective art aiming at the creation of a new society. In search of new ways of expression, they turned to various forms of cabaret, revue, compere-entertainer, choral genres, simultaneous play based on the principle of montage and eurhythmics, and they used many scenic innovations. In my paper, I will focus on the analysis of the staging of Nikolay Evreinov’s monodrama The Theater of the Soul. The performances of the Extraordinary Stage (Rendkívüli Színpad) were built around the typical problems of the modern human. The play by Evreinov was performed only once, on October 3, 1928, during the evening of Happy end. On of the contributors to the stage design was Eva Zeisel (Éva Striker, 1906–2011), who worked in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, and later became a world-famous ceramist in the USA. Since the scenery depicting a living organism was presented on the stage as part of the action, the performance may be considered one of the most original experiments in the Hungarian avant-garde theater history.
From Elbe to Volga. In the Labyrinth of Cultural Boundaries
Authors:   Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Szczukin Vasiliy
Published: October 2021

This chapter examines cultural and mental boundaries that run through the territory of Central and Eastern Europe. The study showed that cultural, linguistic, mental differences and some specific features of political regimes as well depend on three main factors. The first of them is the historical-imperial factor. It is impossible to understand the passage of modern cultural boundaries without correlating them with the boundaries of the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Byzantine ecumene, Austria-Hungary, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Romanov Empire and other similar historical phenomena. No less important is the second factor – synchronic or state-political, since the actual belonging of the individual to a national state and social groups imposes certain imperatives on their cultural behavior. The third factor in the emergence of cultural boundaries is the regional and local one. Awareness of one's small homeland is no less important than identification with any particular country. The author of thischapter examines the facts of coincidence of modern cultural borders with such historical frontiers as the borders of the Roman Empire, the Curzon and Huntington lines, and the old borders of the three empires on the territory of the modern Poland.
The Aletic Republic – A Fictional World as Inspiration for the Real World Beyond Borders
Authors: Özgür Selim
Published: October 2021

In our everyday life, as we work or travel, we are always confronted with many kinds of borders: political ones when we travel to other countries, or cultural ones, when we meet people with different backgrounds or lifestyles. We generally take these borders as something natural or let alone as something sacrosanct. And although in the Western civilization, we are aware of the fact that we have big difficulties in accepting the other‘s point of view or her way of life, we rather reinforce the borders and isolate ourselves from influences alien for our traditional or so-called pristine world. How could people of different cultures, religions, or languages manage to live together in the most harmonic way possible? Music is one kind of art which inspires and unites people across borders, but so does imagination: The Aletic Republic as a fictional republic transcends a world from imagination into a tangible place full of persons, landscapes, stories, poetry, and moods.
An Analysis of State-of-the-art Activation Functions For Supervised Deep Neural Network
Authors: Nguyen Anh , Pham Khoa , Ngo Dat , Ngo Thanh , Pham Lam
Published: October 2021

This paper provides an analysis of state-of-the-art activation functions with respect to supervised classification of deep neural network. These activation functions comprise of Rectified Linear Units (ReLU), Exponential Linear Unit (ELU), Scaled Exponential Linear Unit (SELU), Gaussian Error Linear Unit (GELU), and the Inverse Square Root Linear Unit (ISRLU). To evaluate, experiments over two deep learning network architectures integrating these activation functions are conducted. The first model, basing on Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), is evaluated with MNIST dataset to perform these activation functions.Meanwhile, the second model, likely VGGish-based architecture, is applied for Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) Task 1A in DCASE 2018 challenge, thus evaluate whether these activation functions work well in different datasets as well as different network architectures.
Afandi.19421058.sister.1
Authors: Akbar Afandi
Published: October 2021

Afandi.19421058.sister.1
SpecAugment++: A Hidden Space Data Augmentation Method for AcousticScene Classification
Authors: Wang Helin , Zou Yuexian , Wang Wenwu
Published: October 2021

In this paper, we present SpecAugment++, a novel data aug-mentation method for deep neural networks based acousticscene classification (ASC). Different from other popular dataaugmentation methods such as SpecAugment and mixup thatonly work on the input space, SpecAugment++ is applied toboth the input space and the hidden space of the deep neuralnetworks to enhance the input and the intermediate feature rep-resentations. For an intermediate hidden state, the augmentationtechniques consist of masking blocks of frequency channels andmasking blocks of time frames, which improve generalizationby enabling a model to attend not only to the most discrimina-tive parts of the feature, but also the entire parts. Apart fromusing zeros for masking, we also examine two approaches formasking based on the use of other samples within the mini-batch, which helps introduce noises to the networks to makethem more discriminative for classification. The experimentalresults on the DCASE 2018 Task1 dataset and DCASE 2019Task1 dataset show that our proposed method can obtain3.6%and4.7%accuracy gains over a strong baseline without aug-mentation (i.e.CP-ResNet) respectively, and outperforms otherprevious data augmentation methods.
Jiwa Menurut Ibnu Sina
Authors: Arfian Arfan
Published: October 2021

Ibnu Sina adalah salah satu filosof muslim abad pertengahan yang mempunyai andil besar terhadap perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan baik di barat maupun di timur terutama dalam masalah filsafat, psikologi, matematika, fisika dan metafisika serta ilmu agama lainya. Pandangannya mengenai falsafah emanasi, al-nafs dan al-wujud ia tetap tidak melepaskan diri dari pandangan gurunya al-farabi namun ia telah mengembangkan dan menyempurnakan dengan metode logika yang sempurna dan mudah di pahami, ibnu sina berusaha memadukan antara pemikiran plato, Aristoteles maupun neoplatonisme, walaupun keaslian pandangannya sebagai seorang filosof muslim yang besar tetap tampak.islam sangat menghargai akal manusia karena akal adalah daya fikir atau proses pikiran yang lebih tinggi yang berkenaan dengan pengetahuan, daya akal budi, kecerdasan berfikir. Para filosof bersepakat bahwa akal memiliki kedudukan yang lebih tinggi. Dalam hal ini Ibnu Sina membagi daya (akal) teoritis (al-‘alimah) kepada empat tingkatan yaitu; al- ‘Uqul al-Hayyulaniyyah material intelec, akal material, al-‘Uqul bi alMalakah, Fakulty Intelec atau akal dalam kapasitas atau akal bakat, Al-‘Uqul bi al al- fi’l akal dalam aktualitas atau akal aktual, dan al-‘uqul al-mustafad (acquired intelec) atau akal perolehan yang disebut dengan al-‘aql mustafad dan dengan akal tersebutlah otak manusia terhubung dengan Tuhan.
RPS TEKNOLOGI BETON
Authors: iye risman
Published: October 2021

Menurut Permendikbud No. 49 Tahun 2014 Rencana pembelajaran semester (RPS) ditetapkan dan dikembangkan oleh dosen secara mandiri atau bersama dalam kelompok keahlian suatu bidang ilmu pengetahuan dan/atau teknologi dalam program studi. Rencana Pembelajaran Semester (RPS) adalah dokumen perencanaan pembelajaran yang disusun sebagai panduan bagi mahasiswa dalam melaksanakan kegiatan perkuliahan selama satu semester untuk mencapai capaian pembelajaran yang telah ditetapkan. Di perguruan tinggi perangkat pembelajaran yang digunakan oleh pengajar atau dosen dikenal dengan Rencana Pembelajaran Semester atau disingkat RPS. Rps Fakultas teknik universitas Iqra Buru mata kuliah teknologi beton
Social functioning in individuals affected by childhood maltreatment: establishing a research agenda to inform interventions
Authors: Pfaltz Monique , Halligan Sarah , Haim-Nachum Shilat , Sopp Roxanne , Åhs Fredrik , Bachem Rahel , Bartoli Eleonora , Belete Habte , Belete Tilahun , Berzengi Azi , Dukes Daniel , Essadek Aziz , Fares-Otero Natalia E. , Iqbal Naved , Jobson Laura , Langevin Rachel , Levy-Gigi Einat , Lüönd Antonia , Martin-Soelch Chantal , Michael Tanja , Oe Misari , Olff Miranda , Ceylan Deniz , Raghavan Vijaya , Ramakrishnan Muniarajan , Sar Vedat , Spies Georgina , Wadji Dany , Wamser-Nanney Rachel , Schnyder Ulrich , Seedat Soraya
Published: October 2021

In individuals with a history of child maltreatment (CM), impairments in many domains of social functioning are well-documented but poorly understood. We summarize evidence for the detrimental effects of CM on social functioning and present key research recommendations focused on: 1. Identifying alterations in specific inter- and intra- personal processes (e.g., regulation of closeness and distance) that underlie problems in broader domains of social functioning (e.g., lack of perceived social support) in individuals who have experienced CM; 2. Examining whether alterations in specific processes and their link to broader social problems are modulated by internal and external situational factors; 3. Assessing social processes through laboratory studies and in vivo interactive approaches; 4. Adopting an interdisciplinary, lifespan perspective to assess bio-behavioral and environmental effects of CM within and across generations, using multi-method assessments; 5. Establishing global research collaborations to account for cultural and ethnic influences on social processes. Understanding the mechanisms that underlie problems in social functioning, as well as cultural and ethnic influences, might inform the implementation of effective prevention programs. Moreover, the proposed research is critical to develop interventions that help affected individuals build stable and nurturing relationships. Such relationships can – likely through buffering the effects of chronic stress and corresponding allostatic load – foster resilience and improve mental and physical well-being, thereby reducing not only personal suffering but also the societal and economic costs of CM and its consequences.
Patient Data Security System Using Finger Vein Authentication
Authors: Saleh Akuwan , Suudewanda Anum Faticha Mayrizkiya
Published: October 2021

The technology of using finger vein patterns is a biometric system that has a high level of security. By using the identification of blood vessels found on the human finger, when this data is needed it can be accessed immediately, and there is no possibility of being lost or forgotten. The condition of the blood vessels in the human body, precisely in the fat tissue, also makes it difficult for data to be stolen. A person's health data is quite crucial data. So we need a good security system. By using this blood vessel authentication, the data can only be accessed by the person concerned. With a finger vein pattern that is not easy to duplicate so it is suitable for creating a security system. In this research, we take advantage of the advantages of the finished vein pattern to create a patient data security system in the hospital. The system is made by utilizing one of the algorithms of an artificial neural network. This algorithm is oriented towards changing the value of weights and biases in the training process. From the training process, a model of an artificial neural network system is generated. The best labeling is for one finger vein identity, one label. The average time required for image recognition is 2.4 seconds. The best rejection result is 100% and the best acceptance is 81.67%.
A Low-Compexity Deep Learning FrameworkFor Acoustic Scene Classification
Authors: Pham Lam , Tang Hieu , Jalal Anahid , Schindler Alexander , King Ross
Published: October 2021

In this paper, we presents a low-complexitydeep learning frameworks for acoustic scene classification(ASC). The proposed framework can be separated into threemain steps: Front-end spectrogram extraction, back-endclassification, and late fusion of predicted probabilities.First, we use Mel filter, Gammatone filter and ConstantQ Transfrom (CQT) to transform raw audio signal intospectrograms, where both frequency and temporal featuresare presented. Three spectrograms are then fed into threeindividual back-end convolutional neural networks (CNNs),classifying into ten urban scenes. Finally, a late fusion ofthree predicted probabilities obtained from three CNNs isconducted to achieve the final classification result. To reducethe complexity of our proposed CNN network, we applytwo model compression techniques: model restriction anddecomposed convolution. Our extensive experiments, whichare conducted on DCASE 2021 (IEEE AASP Challenge onDetection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events)Task 1A development dataset, achieve a low-complexity CNNbased framework with 128 KB trainable parameters andthe best classification accuracy of 66.7%, improving DCASEbaseline by 19.0%.
Robust Deep Learning Frameworks For Acoustic Scene and Respiratory Sound Classification
Authors: Pha Lam Dang
Published: October 2021

Although research on Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) is very close to, or even overshadowed by different popular research areas known as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Speaker Recognition (SR) or Image Processing (IP), this field potentially opens up several distinct and meaningful application areas based on environment context detection.The challenges of ASC mainly come from different noise resources, various sounds in real-world environments, occurring as single sounds, continuous sounds or overlapping sounds.In comparison to speech, sound scenes are more challenging mainly due to their being unstructured in form and closely similar to noise in certain contexts. Although a wide range of publications have focused on ASC recently, they show task-specific ways that either explore certain aspects of an ASC system or are evaluated on limited acoustic scene datasets. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to contribute to the development of a robust framework to be applied for ASC, evaluated on various recently published datasets, and to achieve competitive performance compared to the state-of-the-art systems.
Task 1A DCASE 2021: Acoustic Scene Classification with mismatch-devices using squeeze-excitation technique and low-complexity constraint
Authors: Naranjo-Alcazar Javier , Perez-Castanos Sergi , Cobos Maximo , Ferri Francesc J. , Zuccarello Pedro
Published: October 2021

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) is one of the most popular problems in the field of machine listening. The objective of this problem is to classify an audio clip into one of the predefined scenes using only the audio data. This problem has considerably progressed over the years in the different editions of DCASE. It usually has several subtasks that allow to tackle this problem with different approaches. The subtask presented in this report corresponds to a ASC problem that is constrained by the complexity of the model as well as having audio recorded from different devices, known as mismatch devices (real and simulated). The work presented in this report follows the research line carried out by the team in previous years. Specifically, a system based on two steps is proposed: a two-dimensional representation of the audio using the Gamamtone filter bank and a convolutional neural network using squeeze-excitation techniques. The presented system outperforms the baseline by about 17 percentage points.
O gato Toddy: acordado ou dormindo?
Authors: Lobo Matheus Pereira , Carreiro Alex Kevyn dos Anjos
Published: October 2021

Apresentamos uma adaptação do gato de Schroedinger tanto na forma de um circuito quântico como em sua contraparte analítica, com o objetivo de introduzir a computação quântica no ensino médio.
KAJIAN GEOGRAFI BAHASA DAN DIALEK DI SULAWESI TENGGARA: ANALISIS DIALEKTOMETRI LANGUAGES OF GEOGRAPHICAL LANGUAGES AND DIALECT IN SOUTHEAST SULAWESI: ANALYSIS OF DIALECTOMETRY
Authors: iye risman
Published: October 2021

AbstractThe language uniqueness of each region shows an identity of its region, so it is important to do astudy that can clearly show its uniqueness. This study aims to describe the phenomenon of language usage in several vernaculars in Southeast Sulawesi by applying a triangular dialectometry analysis. The instrument of this research uses dialectometry approach. Data collection methods uses a method of field fucking (direct field method). Data of this research is analyzed by using triangle dialectomentry method. This method uses the numbers as a basis for sorting. The results showed that the overall observation point that analyzed by using dialectometry, entered in the four formulation categories, namely the formulation below 20% (no language and dialect differences, ie between the Wakatobi language Kaledupa dialect and Tomia dialect), formulation 31-50% (the difference subdilek, that is between Pancana Language and Kioko Language), formulation 51-80% (dialect difference, ie between the Wakatobi language, Tomia dialect and Pancana language; Pancana language and Wakatobi language, Kaledupa dialect; Kioko language and Wakatobi language, Tomia dialect; Wakatobi language, Tomia dialect and Cia-Cia; Cia-Cia Language and Kioko Language; Kioko Language and Tolaki Language), and formulations 81 and above (language differences, between Tolaki and Cia-Cia languages).
Spectrum Correction: Acoustic Scene Classification with Mismatched Recording Devices
Authors: Kosmider Michał
Published: October 2021

Machine learning algorithms, when trained on audio recordingsfrom a limited set of devices, may not generalize well to sam-ples recorded using other devices with different frequency re-sponses. In this work, a relatively straightforward method is in-troduced to address this problem. Two variants of the approachare presented. First requires aligned examples from multipledevices, the second approach alleviates this requirement. Thismethod works for both time and frequency domain represen-tations of audio recordings. Further, a relation to standardiza-tion and Cepstral Mean Subtraction is analysed. The proposedapproach becomes effective even when very few examples areprovided. This method was developed during theDetectionand Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events(DCASE)2019 challenge and won the 1st place in the scenario with mis-matched recording devices with the accuracy of 75%. Sourcecode for the experiments can be found online
syukur menurut Al-Ghazali
Authors: Ali Khaidir
Published: October 2021

Modernisme yang telah memisahkan manusia dari kesempurnaan diri telah membawa mereka kepada kehancuran. Kehidupan manusia dari dulu sampai sekarang kadang-kadang mengarah kepada hal yang baik atau sesuai dengan apa yang diinginkan, tetapi kadang juga ada yang tidak baik atau tidak sesuai dengan apa yang kita harapkan. Masalah lainnya di era modern adalah korupsi. Akan tetapi, ketika muncul pertanyaan yang mendasar tentang eksistensi kehadiran manusia di muka bumi muncul untuk mendapatkan jawaban, apa hakikat manusia hidup di dunia?, maka seakan-akan kehidupan modern yang berteknologi menjadi tidak ada artinya. Mengenai masalah ini, Terapi syukur dapat dinamakan sebagai sebuah latihan mental untuk membiasakan perilaku positif dalam rangka memanfaatkan pemberian Allah dengan penuh totalitas. Menurut Al-Ghazali, Syukur mencakup ilmu, hal dan amal. Ilmu yang dimaksud adalah pengetahuan tentang nikmat yang di anugerahkan oleh Allah sang pemberi nikmat (al-mun’im). Hal adalah rasa (afeksi) gembira yang terjadi akibat pemberian nikmat. Sedangkan amal perbuatan adalah melakukan apa yang menjadi tujuan dan yang disukai oleh Allah sang pemberi nikmat.
E-Service Quality and Corporate Image on Customer Perception
Authors: Nugroho Rizqy Aji
Published: October 2021

Perkembangan teknologi mengakibatkan persaingan di bidang bisnis tidak dapat dihindari, sehingga perusahaan perlu mengetahui langkah-langkah yang tepat agar tetap bertahan dan mampu bersaing dengan perusahaan lain yang sejenis. Salah satu langkah yang dapat dilakukan perusahaan adalah dengan menerapkan teknologi pada proses bisnisnya. Teknologi sudah menjadi kebutuhan masyarakat. Penerapan teknologi diharapkan dapat mempermudah, mempercepat proses transaksi, menghemat biaya, waktu, tenaga dan dapat menjangkau pasar yang lebih luas. Manfaat teknologi bagi perusahaan adalah memperluas jangkauan pasar menjadipasar nasional dan internasional, mengurangi biaya pemrosesan, distribusi dan penarikan informasi yang akurat dan real-time. Sedangkan keuntungan bagi pelanggan seperti akses 24 jam ke sejumlah besar barang dan jasa.
PTPRC expression associates with survival in triple negative breast cancer.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: October 2021

We mined published microarray data (1) to understand the most significant gene expression differences in the tumors of triple negative breast cancer patients based on survival following treatment: dead or alive. We observed significant transcriptome-wide differential expression of protein tyrosine phosphatase, receptor type, C, encoded by PTPRC when comparing the primary tumors of triple negative breast cancer patients dead or alive. Importantly, PTPRC expression was correlated with recurrence-free survival in basal subtype breast cancer, a molecular subtype sharing significant overlap with triple negative breast cancer. PTPRC may be of relevance as a biomarker or as a molecule of interest in understanding the etiology or progression of triple negative breast cancer.
Retractions in academic publishing
Authors: Lab SDAG
Published: October 2021

Retractions in academic publishing
The impact of non-target events in synthetic soundscapes for sound event detection
Authors: Ronchini Francesca , Serizel Romain , Turpault Nicolas , Cornell Samuele
Published: October 2021

Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events Challenge 2021 Task 4 uses a heterogeneous dataset that includes both recorded and synthetic soundscapes. Until recently only target sound events were considered when synthesizing the soundscapes. However, recorded soundscapes often contain a substantial amount of non-target events that may affect the performance. In this paper, we focus on the impact of these non-target events in the synthetic soundscapes. Firstly, we investigate to what extent using non-target events alternatively during the training or validation phase (or none of them) helps the system to correctly detect target events. Secondly, we analyze to what extend adjusting the signal-to-noise ratio between target and non-target events at training improves the sound event detection performance. The results show that using both target and non-target events for only one of the phases (validation or training) helps the system to properly detect sound events, outperforming the baseline (which uses non-target events in both phases).The paper also reports the results of a preliminary study on evaluating the system on clips that contain only non-target events. This opens questions for future work on non-target subset and acoustic similarity between target and non-target events which might confuse the system.
A brief discussion on High-entropy alloys vs Compositionally Complex alloys
Authors: Saha Mainak
Published: October 2021

High-entropy alloys(HEAs) are of great interest in the field of materials science and engineering. Unlike conventional alloys, which contain a maximum of 2 base metals, this new category of materials consists of multi-principle elements and the possible number of alloy compositions, in case of HEAs, is outstandingly higher than that for conventional alloys. Here, a review on the high-entropy alloys, has been provided, on the issue whether the earliest definition of High- Entropy alloys, proposed in 2004[2, 4], is consistent with one of the 4-component equiatomic Compositionally complex alloys exhibiting a “High-entropy” effect.
Curiosity-driven exploration: Diversity of mechanisms and functions
Authors: Ten Alexandr , Oudeyer Pierre-Yves , Moulin-Frier Clément
Published: October 2021

Intrinsically motivated information-seeking, also called curiosity-driven exploration, is widely believed to be a key ingredient for autonomous learning in the real world. Such forms of spontaneous exploration have been studied in multiple independent lines of computational research, producing a diverse range of algorithmic models that capture different aspects of these processes. These algorithms resolve some of the limitations of neurocognitive theories by formally describing computational functions and algorithmic implementations of intrinsically motivated learning. Moreover, they reveal a high diversity of effective forms of intrinsically motivated information-seeking that can be characterized along different mechanistic and functional dimensions. This chapter aims at reviewing different classes of algorithms and highlighting several important dimensions of variation among them. Identifying these dimensions provides means for structuring a comprehensive taxonomy of approaches. We believe this exercise to be useful in working towards a general computational account of information-seeking. Such an account should facilitate the proposition of new hypotheses about information-seeking in humans and complement the existing psychological theory of curiosity.
Shared motivations, goals and values in the practice of personal science - A community perspective on self-tracking for empirical knowledge
Authors: Senabre Hidalgo Enric , Ball Mad Price , Opoix Morgane , Greshake Tzovaras Bastian
Published: October 2021

Some individuals do not limit their self-tracking efforts to passively collecting and observing gathered data about themselves, but rather develop it into forms of self-research and self-experimentation, also called “personal science”. This type of N-of-1 research is relevant to the fields of personal informatics, patient-led research and social studies of science, but as a knowledge generation practice is still poorly understood. To fill this gap, we conducted 22 semi-structured interviews to investigate the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of individuals engaging in personal science activities, as well as shared goals and values present in self-research communities. Our analysis is based on a conceptual framework that integrates previous approaches in self-research, as well as in connection with citizen science, the scientific ethos and cooperation in peer production. We identify how self-researchers seek to go beyond personal metrics about their health and wellbeing regarding data provided by wearables, are engaged over time by individual involvement in technology and scientific-related activity, and collaborate following similar goals and values when learning and sharing empirical knowledge with peers. In this sense, personal science can be understood as an example of a more participatory and inclusive scientific culture driven by self-reflection, critical thinking and openness.
‘Peace is not just the suspension of war:’ peace communication on Twitter
Authors: klimasauskaite aiste
Published: October 2021

‘Strategic communication is something we are very bad at’, tells us a tweet from the Geneva Peace Week. One of the examples of strategic communication is public engagement content on Twitter. Empirical studies, however, never looked at public engagement content about peace on Twitter. In turn, I use grounded theory approaches to explore and map peace communication among seven research organizations and events in the West. My data set comprises a total of 9,874 tweets in English. Thematic coding with Atlas.ti results in 4,274 codes that are grouped into 63 distinct themes. I find sustainable peace as the main type of peace in data. Yet, the themes that presumably contribute to it – health, accountability, trust, and transparency, among others – are marginal. While gender is among the dominant themes, it emerges disconnected, with a lack of meaningful integration of it in other topics such as health or participation. A pattern emerges of the level of view that is mainly positioned on the global, with the local, community, family left at the margins.
Possibility of potential herbal-drug interactions in elderly population
Authors: Kafeel Huda
Published: October 2021

Medicines are variable in composition and quality, which may have an impact on their interaction profile still as a result of the reliability of reports regarding them. As such, the potential for herb-drug interactions increases in elderly population. For this instance we conducted a survey based study in which 208 patients were surveyed belonging to different areas of Karachi. These people were of different age groups ranging from 40-60 years old. They were asked to answer a face to face questionnaire based on the concurrent use of the conventional medicine and herbal drugs and their possible interaction based side effects. Our results sho ws that out of 208, 124(59.6%) volunteers prefer treatment with herbal and allopathic medicines, 138 (66.3%) use medications on daily basis while 70 (33.7%) don’t use on daily basis. And 56 volunteers were at high risk of potential herb-drug interaction, among them 32.7% have dynamic interactions and 21.2% have kinetic interactions in their medication regime. Out of 208 volunteers 89% were experiencing adverse effects (self reported). Since a significant number of herb-drug interactions were detected in elderly patients, it is suggested that health care professionals and consumers should be aware of the potential herb-drug interactions and health care professionals should question and advice their patients on their use of herbal medicines.
Variation in the origin of left testicular artery and drainage of right testicular vein
Authors: Harshitha M.S , V.K Chethan Kumar
Published: October 2021

During routine dissection of 65 year old male Indian cadaver posterior abdominal wall, variations in the testicular vessels were observed. The left testicular artery arose from the left accessory renal artery, which originated from the ventral aspect of abdominal aorta. There were two right testicular veins which drained to right renal vein.
In vitro antibacterial activity of essential oils from Lamiaceae species
Authors: Kumar Vinod , Mathela C. S. , Panwar Amit
Published: October 2021

Essential oils from Calamintha umbrosa and Nepeta species viz. N. leucophylla; N. hindostana; N. ciliaris and N. clarkei (family Lamiaceae), was tested against six bacterial strains. To evaluate the correlation between the antimicrobial activity and the essential oils, PCA and HCA analysis was done. PCA and HCA analysis of the antibacterial activity revealed that essential oils of Nepeta species had a strong and broad spectrum antibacterial effect against bacterial strains of P. aeruginosa and S. scandidus. The N. leucophylla oil showed higher activity against Gram-negative bacteria P. aeruginosa (10.5 mm, MIC 10 µL/mL) and K. pneumonia (9.1 mm, MIC 45 µL/mL) among all Nepeta oils which may be due to presence of active antimicrobial iridoids compounds.
Pharmacological and phytochemical studies on Acacia modesta Wall; A review
Authors: Sarwar Wajid
Published: October 2021

The use of plants with therapeutic properties is as ancient as human civilization. Acacia modesta belongs to family Fabaceae and is a deciduous tree which has medium or small size. Traditionally, it has been used to treat leprosy, wounds, dysentery, venereal diseases, cough, body weakness, bacterial infections and backache. Many pharmacological activities have been reported viz. antibacterial, antifungal, anti-hyperglycemic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-platelet, anti-termite, antioxidant, brine shrimp cytotoxicity, haemagglutination, insecticidal, phytotoxic and spasmolytic. While various flavonoids, terpenoids, alkaloids, tannins, non-protein amino acids, fixed oils and cyclitols have been isolated from this plant. This review is an attempt to provide adequate information on ethno-medicinal uses, general morphology, pharmacological and phytochemical properties of the plant.
Tuberculosis Verucossa Cutis of Hand: A Case Report
Authors: M Prathyusha , Sainudheen Amila , Puthean Sandra
Published: October 2021

Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (TBVC) is exogenous paucibacillary cutaneous tuberculosis (CTB) and is the third commonest type of CTB. Clinically, TBVC usually begins as isolated or multiple warty papules, and soon acquires a verrucous plaque and are usually located in the extremities. Here we report a case of 41-year-old South Indian woman presenting with occasional pruritus, erythematous scaly nodules and warty plaques on the back of right hand following nail prick. A positive Mantoux test, skin biopsy showing granuloma and related epidemiologic, clinical and histopathologic data with an excellent response of patient to the treatment confirmed TBVC.
COVID-19 and Skin (A New Chapter in Dermatology)
Authors: Henry Daniel , Henry David
Published: October 2021

COVID-19 pandemic has spread all around the world. The new corona virus  also poses novel challenge for all physicians including dermatologists.  Dermatological conditions in COVID-19 can be associated with the infection itself, due to use of protective equipments like PPE kits, use of hand sanitizers. So with an understanding of COVID-19 and association of skin conditions , we can provide better treatment to our patients.
Digital Support for Indigenous Research Methodologies
Authors: Clapham Kathleen , Hasan Helen , Fredericks Bronwyn , Bessarab Dawn , Kelly Peter , Harwood Valerie , Senior Kate , Longbottom Marlene , Dale Elizabeth
Published: October 2021

Research undertaken by outsiders into issues of concern to Aboriginal communities frequently ignores community culture and the knowledge embedded within Aboriginal communities. Methodologies are adopted which perpetuate the colonialist mindset of non-indigenous Australians leading to failed solutions to Aboriginal problems. This paper describes an Aboriginal-led community-based research project, exploring the role of Aboriginal Australians in caring for, and transforming, their own communities. It focuses on the roles that Information Systems can play when providing an accessible platform for Aboriginal voices. The authors conducted an in-depth case study of one Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO), the Illawarra Koori Men’s Support Group (IKMSG). The research consisted of a social network analysis (SNA) of the inter-organisational links of the IKMSG; interviews and focus groups with members of the IKMSG and the co-design of their first website. The prominence of the IKMSG in the SNA maps suggests that its work in the community is highly respected and that the model produced by this research can act as a guide for success in other ACCOs. The findings have been used to develop a theoretical model of Aboriginal community engagement and intervention. This model can enable authentic outcomes to projects which address Aboriginal concerns and support the conduct of community-led research in Aboriginal communities.
Perancangan Sistem Informasi Ujian Online Berbasis Website pada SD Integral Hidayatullah Depok
Authors: Jaya San
Published: October 2021

Ujian ialah salah satu pendekatan yang bertujuan untuk proses evaluasi pembelajaran yang direncanakan untuk mengukur tingkat pencapaian siswa sebagai pelajar sehingga pendidik dan pelajar dapat mengetahui tingkat kemampuanya.Tujuan mendasar dari penelitian ini ialah membuat sistem informasi ujian online berbasis website menggungakan Framework Codeigniter dan database MySQL pada SD Integral Hidayatullah Depok. Metode penelitian yang dipakai ialah metode kualitatif deskritif untuk mencari fakta dan informasi asli. Teknik pengumpulan informasi yang digunakan ialah dengan menggunakan pengamatan (observasi), wawancara (intervieuw), dan studi literatur, sesuai dengan topik masalah, sedangkan metode pengembangan yang digunakan yaitu metode waterfall. Ujian yang berjalan di Sekoalah Dasar Integral Hidayatullah Depok pada awalnya masih menggunakan teknik tradisional, khususnya tes dilakukan secara langsung dan personal di ruang kelas dengan lembar soal dan jawaban yang dicetak oleh pihak sekolah. Merebaknya kasus Covid-19 menjadi titik awal permasalahan tatanan kehidupan mayarakat, termasuk dampaknya terhadap sistem pendidikan di Indonesia, dampak dari semua ini mengharuskan aktivitas belajar dilakukan secara online, salah satunya adalah sistem ujian. Untuk mengatasi masalah terkait penulis memberi saran dan menarik kesimpulan untuk mengembangkan sebuah program Sistem Informasi Ujian Online berbasis website menggunakan Framework Codeigniter dan database MySQL di SD Integral Hidayatullah Depok, yang mana bisa digunakan untuk mendukung ujian secara online.
ANALISIS TINGKAT KEPUASAN NASABAH TERHADAP WEBSITE PEGADAIAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE TAM
Authors: Nuraeni Nia
Published: October 2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis pengaruh perceived usefulness dan perceived ease of use terhadap behavioral intention to use dalam penerapan tingkat kepuasan nasabah di PT. Pegadaian (Persero). Penelitian ini berjenis kuantitatif deskriptif dengan sumber data menggunakan data primer. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 30 orang nasabah di PT. Pegadaian (Persero) Dengan alat analisis yang dipakai menggunakan SPSS ver. 24. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa secara parsial perceived usefulness tidak berpengaruh dan tidak signifikan terhadap behavioral intention to use dan perceived ease of use berpengaruh dan signifikan terhadap behavioral intention to use. Sedangkan secara parsial perceived usefulness dan perceived ease of use berpengaruh dan signifikan terhadap behavioral intention to use dengan tingkat koefisien determinasi sebesar 86,4% sedangkan sisanya 13,6% dijelaskan oleh variabel-variabel lain yang tidak diteliti dalam penelitian ini
Očevid, rekonstrukcija i vještačenje požara
Authors: Papić Nenad
Published: October 2021

U radu su opisane metode koje se koriste prilikom utvrđivanja mjesta nastanka i uzroka požara, kao što su očevid (pregled mjesta događaja), rekonstrukcija i vještačenje izuzetog materijala.
Prikazan je jedan realan slučaj požara iz rada vještaka za tehnička vještačenja koji opisuje primjenu navedenih metoda prilikom utvrđivanja uzroka požara u stambenom objektu - obiteljskoj kući.
U parničnom postupku zbog naknade štete uzrokovane požarom, vještak je dobio zadatak da na temelju podataka iz sudskog spisa utvrdi uzrok predmetnog požara. Vještaku je pored sudskog spisa dostavljen i materijal koji je izuzet prilikom očevida. Na temelju podataka koji se nalaze u spisu i vještačenja izuzetog materijala, vještak je dao svoj pismeni nalaz i mišljenje koji je branio na sudskoj raspravi. Zbog izvođenja novih dokaza predloženo je da se provede očevid i rekonstrukcija na mjestu događaja požara.
Na temelju rekonstrukcije zaključeno je da je požar buknuo zbog kvara na električnoj instalaciji objekta koji nije posljedica montaže električnog brojila.
A Life in History: Making the Team
Authors: Reid John
Published: October 2021

This article traces the author’s path from early life in the United Kingdom to graduate school in Newfoundland and New Brunswick and then to a series of faculty positions – ultimately, at Saint Mary’s University. Early work in the seventeenth-century history of northern New England gave way to a more broadly comparative approach to this era and, eventually, to an effort to coordinate imperial, colonial, and Indigenous history in northeastern North America. A variety of career uncertainties and evolutions also led to involvement in the history of higher education, the history of Atlantic Canada, and the history of sport. Through it all, collaborative work developed as a recurrent approach, with Atlantic Canada themes frequently underpinning responses to a variety of historiographies.
SHORT-TERM RENTAL PLATFORMS: AIRBNB IN V4 COUNTRIES
Authors:   Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Moskevská 54, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, Peterka Pavel , Rod Aleš ,   Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Moskevská 54, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, Soběhart Radek ,   Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Moskevská 54, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
Published: October 2021

The concept of sharing economy, is naturally a source of new challenges. These challenges and potential problems must be solved by the regulator in cooperation with the platform to the satisfaction of all stakeholders involved. To do so an overview of the presence of short-term rental platform Airbnb in V4 is necessary. According to the latest data from 2019, the total number of individual short-term rental offers through Airbnb in V4 countries reached 104 400 in 2019. Approximately 4.63 million visitors made use of accommodation offered in V4 countries. In countries of V4 in 2019, guests spent on accommodation and services in the neighborhood of the accommodation space itself 1.202 billion euros.