bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Analisis Pelaksanaan Kegiatan Proyek Penguatan Profil Pelajar Pancasila (P5) Sebagai Upaya Penguatan Keterampilan Kewirausahaan Siswa SMA pada Fase E
Authors: Sasmi Rinda Rahmanisa , Krisnawati Krisnawati , Khotimah Khusnul , Setiawan Tri Susanto , Shiha Salisa Nun
Published: February 2025

Pembelajaran berbasis proyek pada Proyek Penguatan Profil Pelajar Pancasila (P5) merupakan strategi dalam Kurikulum Merdeka yang salah satunya dirancang untuk mengembangkan keterampilan kewirausahaan. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis pelaksanaan P5 dengan tema kewirausahaan, mencakup faktor pendukung, tantangan, dan dampaknya terhadap keterampilan siswa. Pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif digunakan dengan tahapan meliputi pembentukan kelompok, perencanaan ide usaha, desain logo dan banner, produksi, hingga pemasaran produk. Data dikumpulkan melalui observasi, survei, dan dokumentasi. Hasil menunjukkan sebagian besar kelompok berhasil mencapai tingkat penjualan rata-rata 75% dari total produksi, dengan faktor pendukung utama berupa peran aktif guru, kerjasama kelompok, dan lingkungan sekolah yang mendukung. Kendala yang dihadapi meliputi keterbatasan waktu dan bahan baku, serta tingginya permintaan konsumen, yang diatasi melalui sistem pre-order. Kegiatan ini memberikan pengalaman berharga bagi siswa dalam mengembangkan kreativitas, kemampuan berinovasi, dan kepercayaan diri, sekaligus mempersiapkan mereka menghadapi tantangan dunia kerja di masa depan. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa P5 terbukti efektif sebagai sarana untuk mengintegrasikan pembelajaran kewirausahaan dengan penguatan karakter siswa.
Mengenal Warisan Budaya Surabaya melalui Diorama Edukasi pada Program P5
Authors: Hidayah Athalia Eka Nur , Laila Luthfiyaul , Ma'arij Isri'il , Rifai’ Anang , Deta Utama Alan
Published: February 2025

Kota Surabaya yang menjadi salah satu kota yang penuh sejarah dan kaya akan kearifan lokal memerlukan upaya serius untuk melindungi dan menghidupkan kembali kekayaan lokal, nilai-nilai ini lambat laun akan memudar dan kehilangan relevansinya di tengah masyarakat. Melalui Proyek Penguatan Profil Pelajar Pancasila (P5) yang bertujuan untuk mengajarkan sejarah dan melestarikan kearifan lokal dengan mengintegrasikan dengan seni, salah satunya melalui pembuatan diorama dengan teman kearifan lokal Kota Surabaya. Kegiatan P5 dilaksanakan di salah satu sekolah menengah atas Kota Surabaya dengan subyek peserta didik kelas XI. Proyek ini dilaksanakan kurang lebih selama enam minggu. Salah satu hasil diorama peserta didik yang tidak hanya menarik secara visual tetapi juga mampu mengomunikasikan nilai-nilai sejarah dan pemanfaatan barang bekas kepada penikmat seni diorama adalah diorama mengenai Monumen Bambu Runcing. Penerapan metode ini memiliki dampak positif terhadap pemahaman peserta didik tentang kearifan lokal. Hasil dari proyek ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa peserta didik tidak hanya dapat menghasilkan karya seni yang menarik tetapi juga dapat belajar menghargai nilai-nilai budaya lokal. Hal ini menjadi bukti bahwa pendekatan pembelajaran berbasis proyek merupakan metode yang efektif untuk mengintegrasikan pendidikan budaya ke dalam kurikulum sekolah. Selain memberikan pengalaman belajar yang bermakna, kegiatan ini juga mengembangkan keterampilan kreatif, kolaboratif, dan kritis peserta didik, yang menjadi fondasi penting dalam menghadapi tantangan era Society 5.0.
Generasi Cerdas dan Demokratis: Penerapan Proyek Penguatan Profil Pelajar Pancasila di SMA Melalui Yel Yel Suara Demokrasi
Authors: Arisanti Aini , Septiningtyas Dian Tri , Habibbulloh Muhammad
Published: February 2025

Pemahaman dan penerapan nilai-nilai Pancasila dalam kehidupan sehari-hari sangat penting dalam pendidikan saat ini. Salah satu bentuk implementasinya adalah melalui Proyek Penguatan Profil Pelajar Pancasila (P5), yang dalam penelitian ini diwujudkan melalui pembuatan yel-yel bertema demokrasi di tingkat SMA. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis penerapan P5 dalam menanamkan nilai demokrasi serta dampaknya terhadap karakter dan keterampilan sosial siswa. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data melalui observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi di salah satu SMA di Surabaya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kegiatan ini meningkatkan pemahaman siswa tentang demokrasi, memperkuat keterampilan sosial seperti musyawarah dan kerja sama, serta mendorong kreativitas dalam penyusunan lirik dan gerakan yel-yel. Temuan ini menegaskan bahwa kegiatan berbasis P5 dapat menjadi strategi efektif dalam mengintegrasikan pendidikan demokrasi dan penguatan karakter di sekolah. Implikasi penelitian ini memberikan wawasan bagi institusi pendidikan untuk mengadopsi metode serupa dalam menanamkan nilai-nilai Pancasila pada siswa.
中国企业 "走出去" 社会责任研究报告 = CSR report on Chinese business overseas operations
Authors: Liu Baocheng , Zhang Mengsha
Published: February 2025

企业的社会责任指企业主动满足公众对其的道德期待或自 愿为社会作出额外贡献的行为。随着全球企业社会责任运动的发 展，各类倡议、规范和立法层出不穷。在改革开放政策和自身发 展需求的推动下，中国企业加快了“走出去”的步伐。但部分外 国政府对中方的战略意图尚有疑虑，海外公众对中国企业的责任 表现仍有微词。中国企业亟须提高风险管控、内部治理、公共沟 通等能力，进而实现与诸多利益相关者的互利共赢，树立负责任 的全球公民形象。
É possível educar o pensamento? O Programa de Filosofia para Crianças de M. Lipman
Authors: Silva Josué Cândido da , Silva Amanda Santos da
Published: February 2025

Um dos pontos centrais do Programa de Filosofia para Crianças (PFC), criado por Matthew Lipman, é a proposta de uma educação para o pensar através do ensino de filosofia. Se, por si só, a ideia de ensinar filosofia desde as séries iniciais já é inovadora, seu enfoque pragmático de melhorar as habilidades cognitivas das crianças e adolescentes através do diálogo filosófico ainda soa como um desafio timidamente realizado. Neste artigo, pretendemos discutir a proposta de uma educação para o pensar e a crítica dos pressupostos da educação formal, além de investigar porque a filosofia seria a disciplina mais adequada para realizar essa tarefa. Em seguida, exploraremos os conceitos de habilidades cognitivas e comunidade de investigação e a relação dos mesmos com a linguagem. Por fim, discutiremos as críticas feitas ao PFC e a nossa resposta a elas, reconhecendo o alcance e os limites de cada uma delas.
Em defesa da filosofia e de uma educação para o pensar: incertezas e desafios para a escola
Authors: Fávero Altair Alberto , Santos Antônio Pereira dos , Oliveira Julia Costa
Published: February 2025

O presente ensaio tem por objetivo apresentar a importância da filosofia na perspectiva educacional a partir de Matthew Lipman e Martha Nussbaum. Com o objetivo de analisar a reflexão filosófica defendida por ambos os autores, procura-se problematizar o papel desempenhado por um ensino formativo, humanístico e que se articula diretamente com os modos de ser, pensar e agir. As questões norteadoras do estudo são: porque é relevante defender a filosofia nas escolas? O que estes autores pensam sobre diálogo, pensamento crítico e investigação? Quais são as contribuições da filosofia para a sustentação de uma escola que favoreça o respeito às diferenças e conscientize para o bem comum? Para responder essas provocações, o ensaio está estruturado em três partes, na primeira é demonstrada de forma bem objetiva, o cenário de crises e incertezas que a escola vêm passando, em seguida é apresentado os traços da filosofia como educação para o pensar a partir de Matthew Lipman, na terceira  parte, através do pensamento de Martha Nussbaum, evidencia-se que diante de uma crise sem precedentes no âmbito da educação, é necessária a defesa de uma pedagogia socrática, ao contrário de um ensino sob o prisma da modernização escolar voltada  ao gerencialismo neoliberal. Desde esta perspectiva, temos a firme convicção em sustentar o ensino de filosofia como disciplina necessária para o pensamento crítico, por meio da investigação e do diálogo. Tendo em vista essas questões, nas considerações finais retoma-se a problemática realizada e aponta-se desafios que fomentam a construção do conhecimento para a vivência da cidadania e sustentação da democracia. Essa pesquisa é de caráter teórico-bibliográfico, amparada numa metodologia qualitativa e ancorada no método analítico-hermenêutico.
As possibilidades de pensar a educação e a formação docente pelo PIBID: experiência com as visualidades na educação
Authors: Amâncio Brunno , Romanazzi Carolina
Published: February 2025

O presente relato traz reflexões sobre como o Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência (PIBID) têm um papel importante na formação docente. Apresentamos dois relatos que emergem da atuação no PIBID de Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro realizado no Colégio Estadual André Maurois e da Universidade Federal Fluminense realizado no Colégio Estadual Joaquim Távora e no Colégio Estadual Aurelino Leal. Pensar o ensino da filosofia como uma experiência intermediada por filmes é o ponto fulcral deste relato. Igualmente importante é o processo formativo docente que programas como PIBID proporcionam. Usamos como referência filósofos que se debruçam sobre o ensino da filosofia como experiência do pensamento, bem como documentos que nos permitem entender os objetivos da criação do programa.
O Ensino de Filosofia na Sociedade do Desempenho: implicações tecnológicas neoliberais na escola e a importância das emoções na aprendizagem
Authors: Andrade Rafael Douglas Sousa de
Published: February 2025

Na contemporaneidade da era digital, sujeitos são solapados pela pandemia tecnológica que emprega em suas vidas novas maneiras de agir e pensar. A sociedade do desempenho é produto desse novo período. Cobranças excessivas e excesso de positividade marcam sujeitos adoecidos com patologias psicossomáticas, tais como ansiedade e depressão. No contexto escolar, tal realidade é exponencial, devido às cobranças sobre discentes, negação de emoções que não seguem a lógica do desempenho e “irrelevância” de disciplinas que questionam esse devir social. A reflexão presente neste artigo pondera o ensino de filosofia como marco emancipatório do fenômeno supracitado e, além disso, possui o objetivo de salientar a importância de considerar as emoções dos alunos como ferramenta auxiliadora da aprendizagem, em contramão ao nexo de um corpo social dominado pelo desempenho. A metodologia guiadora da pesquisa é teórico bibliográfica crítica. O presente estudo divide-se em 3 tópicos que examinam a realidade digital na vida humana, bem como as inferências na realidade escolar e o ensino de filosofia como prática resistente sobre a acriticidade. Como resultado, concluiu-se que, a lógica neoliberal de desempenho tecnológica é um utensílio poderoso na formatação dos sujeitos e na expropriação e exploração de um indivíduo envolto do capitalismo de vigilância e capitalismo da informação. Ambos os fenômenos são oriundos desse meio tomado pela realidade digital e que afetam, diretamente, o ambiente escolar. Contudo, o ensino filosófico, respaldado na importância de ponderar a realidade e as emoções discentes, evoca-se como magistral forma de resistência e perseverança na formação da criticidade.
Apresentação do Dossiê Ensino de Filosofia sob o Impacto das Tecnologias Digitais
Authors: Wilke Valéria Cristina Lopes , Freire Antonio Julio Garcia
Published: February 2025

Testemunhamos hoje diferentes consequências decorrentes do modelo de negócios das Big Techs e, por conseguinte, do modo como o trânsito informacional pelas infovias é realizado. Esse último fenômeno é basicamente marcado pelos algoritmos e pelo formato mercadológico, que abrem espaço para a disseminação de conteúdos desinformativos, ou com alto teor da toxicidade das informações circulantes, que têm, por um lado, impactado o campo do ensino de Filosofia e, por outro, provocado o questionamento e também o desenvolvimento de estratégias e recursos que podem ser implementadas para promover o pensamento crítico e a prática responsável entre os e as estudantes.
African Philanthropy: Kicking Away the Scaffold
Authors:   SIVIO Institute, Murisa Tendai
Published: February 2025

As the field of ‘African philanthropy’ grows, there is an emerging divergence of what the term actually means. There are three notable tendencies in trying to answer this question; first, there is a school of thought which states that African philanthropy is about the growth of a new set of resources (financial and otherwise) that are purely African in terms of source. The second tendency argues for the inclusion of non-African resources provided by philanthropy foundations from elsewhere outside towards causes on the continent. Finally, others argue that the source of funding is not the real issue, but instead, the focus should be on where it is deployed and, in this case, it is African because it has been deployed to causes on the continent. Beyond the contestations around ‘definition by source of resources’, there is a tendency to include all forms of solidarity carried out within communities as part of African philanthropy. These differences are not immediately obvious, but it is essential to mention that if not resolved, the subject or rather African Philanthropy, faces the risk of being superfluous without a coherent agenda. In this brief essay, I propose to carry out a number of things, first to revisit the subject of concepts. What does the term African philanthropy mean? Should we be concerned about the inherent challenges of a loose and broad definition? Secondly, I propose to explore the possibilities of African philanthropy as both a moment/space and a movement towards a rethinking of the continent’s development path. The gatherings under the banner of ‘African Philanthropy’ have grown in number and so has their popularity. Could it be the place for re-imagining Africa’s transformation?
A importância da nutrição para o paciente com atrofia muscular espinhal (AME)
Authors: Santos Barros Bianca , Tarcinalli Souza Débora , Francisqueti-Ferron Fabiane
Published: February 2025

A atrofia muscular espinhal (AME) é uma desordem neuromuscular genética rara, subdividida em 5 tipos, com diferentes formas de manifestação, sintomas e intensidade da doença. Do ponto de vista nutricional, crianças com AME são mais suscetíveis a alterações do estado nutricional, como desnutrição e obesidade, com risco significativo de morbidade para ambas. Ainda, evidências crescentes sugerem anormalidades metabólicas em pacientes com AME, como metabolismo de ácidos graxos alterado e tolerância à glicose prejudicada. Assim, o fornecimento eficaz de nutrientes e a vigilância nutricional devem ser priorizados em crianças com AME. O objetivo desse trabalho foi apresentar a relevância da nutrição no tratamento de crianças com atrofia muscular espinhal. Alterações do estado nutricional e de composição corporal são comuns em pacientes com AME. Problemas de alimentação e deglutição bem como constipação, distensão abdominal e doença do refluxo gastroesofágico são relatados em todos os tipos de AME. Deficiências de vitaminas e minerais também são comuns, além de quadros de alterações no metabolismo glicídico, lipídico e de aminoácidos.  Conclui- se que o portador da atrofia muscular espinhal necessita de tratamento específico e individualizado, além de uma equipe multiprofissional envolvendo nutricionista, fisioterapeuta, terapia ocupacional, psicólogo e fonoaudiólogo, entre outros, devido às diversas complicações existentes.
Thank you NHS 🙏
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

So what happened was, I’d been having some chest pains for a while and sleeping badly but didn’t think too much of it. Like many parents, we were struggling to balance the competing demands of two full-time jobs with an extra one called homeschooling small children. [1] It was stressful but we were trying, as you do in a pandemic, to get through it one day at a time.
Blogging a Book about Bio-Ontologies
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

If you wanted to write a guide to Biomedical and Biological Ontologies [1], especially the

what

,

why

,

when

,

how

,

where

and

who

, there are at least three choices for publishing your work:

Journal publishing

in your favourite scientific journal.

Book publishing

with your favourite academic or technical publisher.
Scott Marshall on Interoperability
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Scott Marshall is visiting Manchester this week, he will be doing a seminar on Friday 5th June, here are some details for anyone who is interested in attending:

References

Ruttenberg, A., Rees, J., Samwald, M., &
Join us to discuss the implications of the Open AI codex on introductory programming Monday 4th July at 2pm BST
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Automatic code generators have been with us a while, but how do modern AI powered bots perform on introductory programming assignments? Join us to discuss the implications of the OpenAI Codex on introductory programming courses on Monday 4th July at 2pm BST. We’ll be discussing a paper by James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly and James Prather [1] for our monthly SIGCSE journal club meetup on zoom.
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Googling For
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Twenty one years ago this month, in May 1987, Irish rockers U2 released their classic Joshua Tree single, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For. Those twenty one years have seen incredible technological change: the adoption of desktop computers, mobile phones, the birth of the Web and the widespread use of search engines like Google.
Fußball ist ein einfaches Spiel, bei dem 22 Spieler gegeneinander spielen und zuletzt immer die Deutschen gewinnen
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

If you are not interested in Football Science [1,2], look away now. Normal service will be resumed shortly.

Professor Gary Lineker has an intriguing idea: The earliest source I can find for this infamous quote is an article in the

Berliner Zeitung

from 1996 [3] –  in German, obviously. The English original is unfindable at the BBC where it probably came from. Strangely appropriate, nein? So it’s Germany vs.
Open Access Day: Why It Matters
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Today, Tuesday the 14th of October 2008, is Open Access Day. Like many others, this blog post is joining in by describing why Open Access matters – from a personal point of view. According to the wikipedia article Open Access (OA) is “free, immediate, permanent, full-text, online access, for any user, web-wide, to digital scientific and scholarly material, primarily research articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
Congratulations Matthew Horridge!
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

So, congratulations are due to Matthew Horridge, Bijan Parsia and Ulrike Sattler from The University of Manchester for winning the keenly fought best paper prize at the International Semantic Web Conference [ISWC 2008] in Karlsruhe for their paper “Laconic and Precise Justifications in OWL”. An abstract of the paper is reproduced below: But what does it all mean?
Join us virtually in Durham to discuss Computing Education Practice (CEP) on 6th Jan 2022
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

The ACM Computing Education Practice (CEP) conference is aimed at practitioners and researchers in computing education, both within Computer Science departments and elsewhere. The conference provides a platform to share and discuss innovations and developments in the practice of computing education. CEP is a community, not just a series of proceedings; everybody is encouraged to participate even if they are not presenting.
Olympic Science: The Long Jump to Conclusions
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

If Science were an Olympic sport, which events would scientists excel at? During the Beijing Olympics in 2008, I wondered what Olympic activities scientists would be good at, with a list of events. This satirical post was kindly re-published [1] by the learned American Physical Society (thanks guys!) in their newsletter, though some of the proposed events look a […]
The Webolution Will Be Televised
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

The American poet and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron once famously remarked that The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [1]. Science has undergone its own quiet revolution since the invention of the Web back in 1990. This has slowly but surely changed scientific communication, not just a Revolution but a “Webolution” [2] if you like. The recent addition of television to the Web means that, to paraphrase Gil, the Webolution

will

be televised.
On this day, twenty years ago, 10th September 2001
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

On this day twenty years ago, September 10th 2001, the following things did

not

exist: Euro coins and banknotes; real physical €uro currency was released the following year in January 2002 [1]The iPhone, iPad, iPod, iOS, smartphones and tablets. A new device called the “iPod” was released the following month in October 2001, swiftly followed by a tsunami of mobile devices and iThings.
World Cup Chemistry: How heavy is the FIFA trophy?
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Have you ever wondered how heavy all that Gold and Malachite is in the FIFA World Cup Trophy is? Professor Martyn Poliakoff from the Chemistry department at the University of Nottingham and his partner in crime Brady Haran over at the fantastic Periodic Table of Videos explain: Which just leaves one question, who will be lifting it this year? Lúcio? Cristiano Ronaldo? Philipp Lahm? Fabio Cannavaro?  Denis Caniza? Steven Gerrard?
Podcast profiles of peculiar and provocative personalities
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

What do the following people have in common? Lady Gaga Michael Gove Dilma Rousseff Prince William Mark Zuckerberg Colin Firth Sayeeda Warsi If you think you know, leave a comment below.
Blogging Professors: Douglas Kell at the BBSRC
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

To add to the growing list of big boffins with blogs, Professor Douglas Kell has launched his BBSRC hosted blog. So has blogging finally gone from an innovative underground movement to grown-up mainstream everyday technology, as recently suggested in

The Economist

? How many more senior scientists might we see blogging in the future?
Happy Christmas Lectures 2011: Meet your Brain with Bruce Hood
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

The holiday season is upon us which means it’s time for the Royal Institution Christmas lectures. This year the lectures are on the meaty subject of how our brains work and are delivered by psychologist Professor Bruce Hood from the University of Bristol [1,2]. Broadcast over three episodes at 8pm on BBC4  (27th, 28th and 29th December) […]
Ensemblog: The Ensembl Weblog
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

The Ensembl Weblog provides news, views and announcements about the Ensembl Genome Browser. The blog has been going for a few years now, but I have only just become aware of it thanks to a recent Ensembl Genome Browser Tutorial by Bert Overduin. Catching up on posts from Ensemblians this year, Ewan Birney wrote a piece about The Gene Love-in last week and Paul Flicek briefly described the 1000 Genomes project back in January.
New music? No thanks, we’re stuck in the fifties / sixties / seventies / eighties / nineties / noughties
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

If you’ve filled your boots with the wall-to-wall glastonbury festival coverage, you might find it curious that many people have little or no interest in new music, choosing instead to listen to the artists they liked in their formative years and loyally sticking with them for life. John Peel put it another way: People do […]
Nettab 2009 Day One: Bio-wikis (and football)
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

A brief wiki-report and some wiki-links from the first short and introductory day of Network Applications and Tools in Biology (NETTAB 2009) in Sicily where there was a tutorial on

Technologies of wiki resources and bio-wikis

delivered by Paolo Romano and Elda Rossi.
Scientific research reveals the best* curry house in Manchester!
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Curryology, the branch of science that deals with curry, is an established discipline with a long and distinguished history.
The wildness and freedom of using natural language with joy and pleasure
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

It’s easy to undervalue the importance of natural languages like English because we use them everyday. Scientists and engineers can be particularly bad at this, often overlooking the importance of written and spoken language. It probably doesn’t help that in the UK, and many other countries, many students choose either an exclusively scientific-mathematical path OR an arty-humanities path through their education, especially in the latter stages.
Who Owns Science?
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

This thing called Science, whatever it is, who actually owns it? Scientists? Technology companies? Industrial Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical companies? Investors? Shareholders? Governments? Universities? Philanthropists? Charities? Publishers? Joe Public?
Join us to discuss teaching programming to Physics students on Monday 13th June at 2pm BST
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

print(’Hello World!’) is all very well but it doesn’t help physics students solve the Schrödinger equation. Join us for our next journal club meeting on Monday 13th June at 2pm BST where we’ll be discussing a paper by Lloyd Cawthorne on teaching programming to undergraduate Physics students. From the abstract: All welcome. As usual we’ll be meeting on zoom, details are in the slack channel sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/join-us.
Kenjiro Taura on Parallel Workflows
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Kenjiro Taura is visting Manchester next week from the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at the University of Tokyo. He will be doing a seminar, the details of which are below:

References

Miyao, Y., Sagae, K., Saetre, R., Matsuzaki, T., &
Some pros and cons of using bookdown and quarto to write books
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

There’s a community of people here who use the R language to get stuff done known as the R Usergroup Manchester (RUM). We meet monthly to learn from each other. At the last meetup on 29th June, I gave a joint talk with Stavrina Dimosthenous about quarto.org and its predecessor bookdown.org. Following Stravrina’s quick introduction to Quarto, I gave a lightning talk about some of the pros and cons of using bookdown to write books.
Join us on Zoom to dive into online interactive textbook publishing on Monday 12th June at 2pm BST
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

The textbook has long been a mainstay of education. Although online textbooks can give students easy (and sometimes free) access to increasingly interactive resources, authors have a bewildering array of tools and publishing models to select from.
Does Android Dream of Electric Sheep?
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

With more than three million Android devices activated on the 24/25th December 2011 [1] and something like 200 million (or more?) Android devices in total, there are nearly enough droids around to build a primitive brain. With all that processing power out there, I can’t help but wonder, like Philip K. Dick did, Does Android Dream of Electric Sheep? […]
Bio-Ignorance: Communicating Biology to Computer Scientists
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Many computer scientists and software engineers are not familiar with basic biology or bioinformatics. Many biologists and bioinformaticians are not familiar with basic computer science or software engineering. This article points to some resources that can help with the former, and asks, what can be done about the latter?
You Know OBO? Let’s GO!
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

According to their website “The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry is a collaborative experiment involving developers of science-based ontologies who are establishing a set of principles for ontology development with the goal of creating a suite of orthogonal interoperable reference ontologies in the biomedical domain”. This week they are having a workshop in Cambridge, to bring myself up to speed, here is a quick name check of some of the
Happy 30th birthday 30 something
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Last week, the 18th Feburary, was the 30th birthday of 30 something, the second album by Sarf Londoners Jim Bob and Fruitbat. Better known as

Carter USM

, their album was released in 1991 on Rough Trade Records, and was a commercial and critical success. Back in 1991, my school friends and I were bracing ourselves for our rapidly approaching A-level exams that summer. To avoid revising and escape boredom we used to go to live gigs.
Join us to discuss the feeling of learning ❤️ (vs. actual learning) on Monday 4th April at 2pm BST
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Learning can be an emotional process and we often don’t realise when we are actually learning. When you’re listening to an expert explain something well, it’s easy to mistake the speaker’s smooth delivery for your own understanding. You might

feel

like you’re learning, but

actual

learning is often hard work and feels uncomfortable.
Join us to discuss learning sciences for computing education on Monday 12th April at 2pm BST
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Learning sciences aims to improve our theoretical understanding of how people learn while computing education investigates with how people learn to compute. Historically, these fields existed independently, although attempts have been made to merge them. Where do these disciplines overlap and how can they be integrated further?
Blogging Professors: Big Boffins with Blogs
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

I’ve been hunting all over the interweb looking for Professors that have blogs. While it would be a good thing if there were more, (see the science blogging challenge 2008), there are surprising amount of big boffins that already blog. I should say that by

big

, I mean (full) professor.
Seven things to do at CERN if you’re not a Physicist
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Even if you’re not a Physicist, there is plenty to see and do above and below ground at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Home to the worlds largest experiment on what is arguably the worlds largest machine near Geneva in Switzerland, CERN is a very inspiring place to visit. Consequently, CERN and the […]
An Open Letter to David Rutley MP on the Geek Manifesto
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Mr David Rutley MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear David,

The “Geek Manifesto” and the importance of science in politics

Please find enclosed a copy of a new book by Mark Henderson, titled “The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters”. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
What’s The Story, Coding Glory?
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

If the Gallagher brothers were software engineers: “All your dreams are made, when you’re chained to the tracker and the software trade” —Noel Gallagher Tomorrow never knows what it doesn’t know too soon. References Noel Gallagher (1995) Morning Glory in (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? Creation Records
Janet Street-Porter on the Internet Revolution
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

I’m not much of a fan of Janet Street-Porter, neither am I a regular viewer of the BBC Money programme but right now they are screening an interesting series of three half-hour programmes on the impact of the internet on newspapers, books and television. It’s a familiar tale of the power-and-money struggle between old media and new media that, if the first programme is anything to go by, is worth watching.
Scifoo: Geek Out! Le Geek, C’est Chic…
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

As well as big famous superstars at Science Foo Camp (scifoo), there is a chance to meet and “geek out” with younger engineers and scientists like Vince Smith, Aaron Schwartz and Vaughan Bell.

Aaron Schwartz and the open library project

On Sunday at scifoo, Aaron (of archive.org) gave a quick demo of the Open Library.
One hundred albums you might enjoy listening to
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Any list of

100 best

anything is going to be riddled with biases, flaws and omissions, but here’s a list of albums you might enjoy listening to from 100best.music.apple.com. I’ve posted them here because my family are listening to three albums a week throughout 2025, and discussing them as we go. The albums are listed in reverse order of “greatness“ below, as we’re starting from the top.
CoderDojo, CodingDojo or CodeJo?
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

A dojo (or a dōjō) is an event where people train to perform a given task. So for example, software engineers organise code dojos to hone their skills in making software. The term has become widely adopted, so much so, that you’ll often find many flavours of dojo in your local area. In Manchester, there […]
Join us to discuss why minimal guidance doesn’t work on Monday 2nd November at 2pm GMT
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Minimal guidance is a popular approach to teaching and learning. This technique advocates teachers taking a back seat to facilitate learning by letting their students

get on with it

. Minimal guidance comes in many guises including constructivism, discovery learning, problem-based learning, experiential learning, active learning, inquiry-based learning and even lazy teaching.
Mephedrone: Entity of the Month
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Release 68 of Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is now available, with 549,319 total entities, of which 21,075 are fully annotated.
Classic paper: Montagues and Capulets in Science
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

In preparation for a joint seminar I’ll be doing with Midori Harris here at the EBI, here’s a classic paper [1,2] on the social problems of building biomedical ontologies.
Burn semantic Web, Burn!
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Taking down A.I. town?

The Semantic Web is (quote) “a new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers”. It will “unleash a revolution of new possibilities” using a magical “new” artificially intelligent technology called ontology. So says a much-cited article in Scientific American published back in May 2001.
Where have all the women gone?
Authors: Hull Duncan
Published: February 2025

Computing is too important to be left to men, but where have all the women gone? While women continue to play a key role in computing they are currently under-represented in Computer Science. How can we change this and what evidence is there for practices that get more women into computing? We discussed this paper by Briana Morrison

et al

[1] on Monday 7th February at journal club.
Serbian consumer's perception of bread quality
Authors: Bajkanović Jovana , Vujasinović Vesna , Nikolić Kosta
Published: February 2025

Bread as we know it today originated in 10,000 BC. The life cycle of this food has changed over time. It was regarded as a divine gift and a culprit for many of the diseases prevalent in contemporary society. This research aims to see which factors have the greatest influence on the consumers' perception of the quality of bread, taking into account that in Serbia in recent years there has been a decline in the demand for this food. After data collection and processing, 310 respondents from the territory of the Republic of Serbia participated in the research. The survey was conducted anonymously, with data collected online via Google Forms. The obtained results suggest that sensory attributes have the greatest influence on quality perception. However, the research also revealed that the respondents were not informed about this food's nutritional and health aspects. Given that Serbia is a country with unique traditional bread varieties in nearly every region, and where the skill of bread-making is handed down through generations, future research should aim to inform consumers about the nutritional and health aspects of these traditional foods.
The Application of Stochastic ICIM Model in the Decision-Making Processes of Insurance Product Management
Authors: Simonka Zsolt , Krčová Ingrid , Horniaková Veronika
Published: February 2025

Background: The significance of this study arises from the increasing complexity of managing insurance products, driven by the need to accurately model and predict the occurrence of insured events and associated risks. These processes are relevant not only to life insurance companies but to any institution offering personal insurance and supplementary coverages, such as banks, brokerage firms, and others. Existing literature highlights extensive possibilities for the application of stochastic processes in various fields, including finance, biology, and environmental engineering, with notable applicability in insurance. Purpose: This article aims to explore the application of stochastic models in the decision-making processes for managing insurance products. Specifically, it focuses on the development and utilization of multi-state models for pricing selected insurance products and analysing the impact of parameter changes on the amount of regular net premium. Study design/methodology/approach: We start with the traditional 'Healthy-Dead' model, which we extend to include the 'Sick' state. By restricting the transition from this state to the 'Healthy' state, we obtain a three-state 'Healthy-Sick-Dead' model for incurable critical illness. This is a non-homogeneous Markov process characterized by the respective transition probabilities. Actuarial calculations of transition probabilities are based on specific statistical data from an unnamed insurance company. The resulting regular net premium represents the real (net) price of the supplementary insurance product for incurable critical illness. Findings/conclusions: The main findings suggest that incorporating stochastic models into the creation and management of insurance products allows for more accurate predictions of insured events and better risk assessment. The introduced three-state model provides a robust framework for pricing supplementary insurance due to incurable critical illness. The analysis demonstrates how changes in transition probabilities affect the amount of net premium, underscoring the importance of precise parameter estimation. Limitations/future research: The study's limitations include reliance on accurate historical data, which may not fully capture future trends and changes in health outcomes, as experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Future research should explore the integration of a larger amount of real data and advanced computational methods for their processing. Additionally, extending the model to include the 'recovery' transition would enhance its applicability for 'all' types of critical illnesses. The creation of such an insurance product would, however, assume the availability of a large amount of high-quality data (Schmidt, 2021).
Socially responsible behavior of companies from the young generation perspective : An empiric study from four European Union Member States
Authors: Blahušiaková Miriama
Published: February 2025

Background: Since adopting the Non-Financial Reporting Directive, companies have been required to report information on environmental, social, and employee matters. After adopting the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and its gradual transposition into the European Union (EU) Member States' national legislation, the Environmental Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting requirements are becoming stricter to ensure transparency and comparability of reported sustainability information, to prevent greenwashing, and to ensure that companies behave in a socially responsible manner to the environment, society, and governance, and report this information in the Sustainability Report. Purpose: The paper aims to analyze how the young generation from four different EU member states perceives companies' socially responsible behavior and what importance they give to various attributes of corporate social responsibility. Study design/methodology/approach: To meet the paper's purpose, a standard methodology of legislation and literature review was performed. Afterward, a questionnaire survey was conducted in which the attitudes of the young generation to the socially responsible behavior of companies were investigated. Software SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS programming language have been used for the analysis. Findings/conclusions: The research results showed that the young generation perceives social responsibility in companies' behavior and takes it as a competitive advantage in the market. The results, among others, showed which aspects of responsible business are the most important for the young generation. The young people were able to name socially responsible companies, and according to their responses, they would prefer to buy products or services from companies that behave responsibly to society and the environment, even if these products or services were more expensive. Limitations/future research: The paper analyzes the attitudes only of the young generation which can be a limited factor in the research. More detailed analysis within all the age groups could bring different results. The number of respondents is another limitation.
Megaevents: Afterlife: The issue of ephemeral transition
Authors: Ljujić Anja , Jović Emilija , Stefanović Jovana , Risić Milan , Vaništa-Lazarević Eva , Marić Jelena
Published: February 2025

The development of mega-events as a means of connecting the city to the world has led to the emergence of sports mega-events in the programmatic aspect, while the spatial consequences for the city result in intense and massive transformations of urban zones. These transformations involve the development of urban areas, generated by various internal and external influences. The term "mega-event" encompasses a broad range of events, and in the context of this paper, it examines the phenomenon of large-scale sports events of an international and temporary nature, which, due to their dimensions, require significant infrastructure modifications and the construction of new spatial structures, often on the city's periphery. Temporary redefinition of the peripheral landscape leads to the rapid development of this territory, ephemeral transitions, and induced centralization, or ad hoc transformation of the liminal territory into a built megastructure that meets the short-term needs of the planned mega-event. The clash between artificial urban structures and the natural periphery creates a collision of two systems that must coexist, potentially threatening the integrity of the periphery, which, despite its lower level of urbanization, remains an integral part of the city's ecosystem. In this context, the question arises: What are the consequences of structures built for mega-events after their intended use? How are the impacts of these transformations articulated concerning the security system of the territory in terms of sustainability, economic impact, and physical safety? The focus of this paper is on examining the resilience of the periphery and identifying the dangers of ephemeral transitions. The aim of the research is to establish a link between the periphery and the urban phenomenon of ephemeral transitions. In this research relevant examples of projects carried out in the peripheral contexts of cities for the purpose of mega-events are analysed, observing various planning approaches for such projects, including temporary pavilion structures, reusable infrastructure networks, or typological transformations of built spaces. The paper examines the integration of selected examples into the existing context, their contribution to the long-term development of that context, and the aspect of safety of the structures that continue to play a role in the area's life after their singular purpose.
Abandoned objects detection by integrating GIS and artificial intelligence in urban security
Authors: Peulić Aleksandar , Sandić Dejan , Jovanović Dušica , Stojković Sanja
Published: February 2025

This paper investigates the application of advanced computer vision, specifically the YOLO algorithm, in the domain of urban security using Edge Device and GIS technology. The focus is on the detection and identification of abandoned items such as suitcases, backpacks and bags, which are often important for assessing security risks in urban environments, including schools, as well as the potential detection of weapon use. Through data analysis and implementation of the YOLO model on an Edge Device, we investigate the real-time effectiveness of the system in detecting these objects in public places such as airports, train stations, squares, and school complexes. We also integrate GIS technology for geolocation and analysis of detected objects in the urban environment. The paper also analyses the practical implications of such a system for improving security and effective response to potential threats in urban areas. Through the study of this topic, the goal is to improve safety and prevention strategies in modern urban environments.
Smart energy city as an urban energy problems' solution
Authors: Šekarić-Stojanović Nevena
Published: February 2025

Urban development is inseparably linked to meeting the energy needs of urban populations. The ongoing energy transition, among other things, aims to improve lives of citizens in a sustainable and climate-friendly manner, but it also brings along certain challenges that can affect everyday lives of urban populations. The spillover of energy challenges from the national to the local level does not leave cities immune to these challenges. Bearing this in mind, solutions aimed at addressing energy problems in urban areas are increasingly gaining importance. This paper thus considers the concept of the smart energy city as one of the potential solutions to urban energy problems. The aim of the paper is to present the key characteristics of the concept and highlight the ways in which smart energy city can potentially contribute to solving energy problems in urban environments. Additionally, the goal is to identify smart energy cities' examples of positive practice, as well as criticisms directed at this concept. The key research techniques used to analyse the concept of the smart energy city include literature review of scientific publications, official reports from international and non-governmental organizations addressing this concept, as well as secondary data analysis. The author concludes that the concept of the smart energy city has the potential to uniquely integrate processes of urbanization and energy transition with the goal of enhancing quality life for citizens in urban environments, with the necessity of intersectoral policy development with complementary goals.