bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The effect of social media ads on election outcomes
Authors: Bär Dominik , Pröllochs Nicolas , Feuerriegel Stefan
Published: April 2024

Social media has become a key communication channel in politics and allows for political advertising with wide reach yet low costs. However, the effect of political ads from social media on election outcomes is largely unclear. Here, we aim to estimate the association between online political advertising and election outcomes during the 2021 German federal election. For this, we analyze a unique, large-scale dataset of 21,641 political ads from Facebook and Instagram that received ~126 million impressions. Using regression analysis, we show that political advertising on social media has a positive relationship with a candidate's election outcome and may even sway elections. All else equal, ~200,000 additional impressions are predicted to increase a candidate's votes by 2.1%. Generally, establishing causality in the context of election outcomes is difficult. Here, we use a state-of-the-art causal sensitivity analysis, which allows us to evaluate how unobserved confounding may affect our estimates. We find that the estimated effects cannot be reasonably explained away, which implies that social media ads have a causal effect on election outcomes. Together, our results highlight the significance of social media for election outcomes.
The Impact of Social Safety Net (SSN) as Social Protection for the Lives of Poor and Vulnerable in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Authors: Salam Mohammad Fakhrus , Masrur Habibur Rahman , Bhuiyan Mohammad Shakil
Published: April 2024

This study aims to investigate the impact of various Social Safety Net Programs (SSNPs) including pension schemes on the lives of poor and vulnerable in Sylhet district. It is a qualitative study and it uses methods such as in-depth interview, focus group discussion and content analysis to understand the changes in the economic, social well-being of individuals living in poverty and vulnerability. Sylhet is one of the regions of Bangladesh with least poverty rates. However, due to natural disasters like floods affecting the area almost every year leaves thousands of lives on the brink of vulnerability and causes tremendous losses to the poor. The study therefore reveals both the improvement in the lives of disadvantaged population in the area as well as shed light on the factors influencing the programs’ effectiveness such as floods, corruption etc. It also reveals people’s attitudes towards the recently-introduced pension scheme and participants’ expectations from the program. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the impact of social safety net programs such as pension scheme, with factors causing hindrances to expected outcomes, offering valuable insights for policy makers working to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable living in the district.
Microwave photonic devices based on RF to optical bandwidth scaling with microcombs
Authors: Moss David
Published: April 2024

We demonstrate high-resolution photonic RF filters using an RF bandwidth scaling approach based on integrated Kerr optical micro-combs. By employing both an active nonlinear micro-ring resonator (MRR) as a high-quality micro-comb source and a passive high-Q MRR to slice the shaped comb, a large RF instantaneous bandwidth of 4.64 GHz and a high resolution of 117 MHz are achieved, together with a broad RF operation band covering 3.28 to 19.4 GHz (L to Ku bands) using thermal tuning. We achieve programmable RF transfer functions including binary-coded notch filters and RF equalizing filters with reconfigurable slopes. Our approach is an attractive solution for high performance RF spectral shaping with high performance and flexibility.
Parents Home Learning Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Colaizzi Method
Authors: Guimba Wardah D. , Navarez Berthylyn Y. , Pintac Jumelee P. , Nalla Adelyn S. , Daguisonan Lotis B. , Mojica Cherrilyn N.
Published: April 2024

Numerous Filipino families grapple with challenges due to home learning amid the pandemic. This study delved into parents' experiences and strategies regarding their children's secondary education at home. Utilizing Colaizzi’s descriptive design, data was gathered through interviews. Eight parents from Tambulig, Zamboanga del Sur, with children in secondary home learning and no household COVID-related health issues, participated. Results revealed that while prioritizing their children's education, parents faced daunting challenges, leading them to opt for home learning. Balancing educational needs, work, and household duties posed significant hurdles. Concerns arose regarding distractions in modular and online setups, such as noise and peer influence. Despite these obstacles, parents remained committed to supporting and fostering a conducive learning environment at home, adhering to government safety measures.
Research Transparency in 59 Disciplines of Clinical Medicine: A Meta-Research Study
Authors: Sofi-Mahmudi Ahmad , Raittio Eero , Uribe Sergio E , Khademioore Sahar , Zeraatkar Dena , Mbuagbaw Lawrence , Bouter Lex , Robinson Karen A
Published: April 2024

Background: Transparency in health research is crucial as it allows for the scrutiny and replication of findings, fosters confidence in scientific outcomes, and ultimately contributes to the advancement of knowledge and the betterment of society.Aim: We aimed to assess five transparency practices in scientific publications (data availability, code availability, protocol registration, conflicts of interest (COI) and funding disclosures) from open-access articles published in medical journals.Methods: We searched and exported all open-access articles from Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)-indexed journals through the Europe PubMed Central database published until March 16, 2024. Basic journal- and article-related information was retrieved from the database. We then assessed five transparency practices in the articles using the rtransparent package in R.Results: The analysis included 2,002,955 open-access articles from SCIE-indexed medical journals (open-access percentage=59.0%). Of these, 87.5% (95% CI: 87.4%-87.5%) disclosed COI and 80.1% (95% CI: 80.0%-80.1%) disclosed funding. Protocol registration was declared in 6.6% (95% CI: 6.6%-6.6%), data sharing in 7.6% (95% CI: 7.6%-7.6%), and code sharing in 1.4% (95% CI: 1.4%-1.4%) of the articles. More than 76.0% declared at least two transparency practices, while all five practices were declared in less than 0.02%. The data showed an increasing trend in all transparency practices since the late 2000s. Articles published in journals with higher impact factors and articles receiving more citations had increased odds of COI and funding disclosures, as well as data and code sharing. There were notable differences in transparency practices across the disciplines.Conclusion: While most articles had COI and funding disclosures, adherence to other transparency practices was grossly insufficient. To increase protocol registration, data, and code sharing, much stronger incentives and mandates are needed from all stakeholders.
What you saw a while ago determines what you see now: The effect and temporal dynamics of awareness priming on implicit behavior
Authors: Zheng Zefan , Trübutschek Darinka , Huang Shuyue , Cai Yongchun , Melloni Lucia
Published: April 2024

The perceptual content (e.g., seen a happy vs. seen a sad face) and also subjective visibility (e.g., whether the stimulus is visible or not) of a given (liminal) stimulus is influenced by the history of previously consciously experienced stimuli. This effect on subjective visibility, termed awareness priming, suggests that findings from a large body of literature on unconscious processing might be confounded by conscious awareness. However, those literatures on unconscious processing used implicit behavioral measures of unconscious processing. The challenge is only valid if previous visible stimuli (not just physically salient) also affect implicit behavior, e.g., response priming. Here, we used Continuous Flash Suppression (CFS) to probe the limits and temporal dynamics of awareness priming effect. We showed that prior conscious exposure to two Chinese words increases both visibility and discrimination accuracy, and also improves the response priming of words presented just at the visibility threshold. A correlation analysis revealed that this effect is only driven by the high visibility of the previous stimuli but not high physical saliency. Our results strongly validated the challenge from awareness priming to the literature on unconscious processing. Moreover, we found a different temporal dynamic for how previous visible exposure to a word affects current perception: previous short-term exposure (1-10 back trials) to a visible word only enhances discrimination accuracy of the same word in the current trial, whereas long-term exposure (10-30 back trials) exclusively elevates visibility. This novel finding suggests that areas higher in the processing hierarchy, with larger temporal receptive field, contribute to consciousness, while areas lower in the cortical hierarchy contribute to objective discrimination.
Evaluating Large Language Models in Psychological Research: A Guide for Reviewers
Authors: Abdurahman Suhaib , Ziabari Alireza S. , Moore Alexander , Bartels Daniel , Dehghani Morteza
Published: April 2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly used in scientific research, be it to analyze data, generate synthetic data, or even to write scientific papers. This trend necessitates that journal reviewers are able to evaluate the quality of works that utilize LLMs. We provide reviewers of psychological research with a comprehensive guide on evaluating research that uses LLMs, examining their dual roles of automating data processing and simulating human data. Essential considerations for reviewers are highlighted, focusing on the evaluation of methodological rigor, the importance of replicability, and the validity of results when employing LLMs. We offer practical advice on assessing the appropriateness of LLM applications in submitted studies, emphasizing the need for transparency in methodological reporting and the challenges posed by the non-deterministic and continuously evolving nature of these models. By providing a framework for critical review, this guide aims to ensure high-quality, innovative research within the evolving landscape of psychological studies utilizing LLMs.
Social Network Diversity Leads to More Flexible Speech Perception in School-aged Children
Authors: Kutlu Ethan , Apfelbaum Keith S , Sorensen Eldon , Oleson Jacob , McMurray Bob
Published: April 2024

Every day, listeners encounter a wide range of acoustic signals. Successfully solving this variability problem allows them to interpret these signals accurately. While this mechanism tends to be less effortful for adults, children need to learn stable categories in the face of such variability. It is unknown to what extent general maturation or diversity of the input plays a role in shaping different speech categorization profiles that children can employ. Here, we tested school-aged children’s speech categorization with a continuous speech categorization task called the Visual Analogue Scaling (VAS) task. We measured the linguistic diversity in each child’s social environment through a social network analysis. We found that increased linguistic diversity led to more flexible and gradient speech categorization. On the other hand, less diverse linguistic input led to more categorical speech categorization. We argue that these findings have implications for speech perception as well as linguistic diversity research.
Social Media Use is Predictable from App Sequences: Using LSTM and Transformer Neural Networks to Model Habitual Behavior
Authors: Peters Heinrich , Bayer Joseph , Matz Sandra , Chi Yikun , Vaid Sumer Sumeet , Harari Gabriella M.
Published: April 2024

The present paper introduces a novel approach to studying social media habits through predictive modeling of sequential smartphone user behaviors. While much of the literature on media and technology habits has relied on self-report questionnaires and simple behavioral frequency measures, we examine an important yet understudied aspect of media and technology habits: their embeddedness in repetitive behavioral sequences. Leveraging Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and transformer neural networks, we show that (i) social media use is predictable at the within and between-person level and that (ii) there are robust individual differences in the predictability of social media use. We examine the performance of several modeling approaches, including (i) global models trained on the pooled data from all participants, (ii) idiographic person-specific models, and (iii) global models fine-tuned on person-specific data. Neither person-specific modeling nor fine-tuning on person-specific data substantially outperformed the global models, indicating that the global models were able to represent a variety of idiosyncratic behavioral patterns. Additionally, our analyses reveal that the person-level predictability of social media use is not substantially related to the frequency of smartphone use in general or the frequency of social media use, indicating that our approach captures an aspect of habits that is distinct from behavioral frequency. Implications for habit modeling and theoretical development are discussed.
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value
Authors: Xue Xiaojuan , Pourtois Gilles
Published: April 2024

Threat-related stimuli can capture attention. However, it remains debated whether this capture is automatic or is modulated by the goal-relevance of emotion. To address this question, we compared attentional biases to emotional faces using a dot-probe task (DPT) where emotion was never goal-relevant (Experiment 1, n = 40) or made directly task-relevant by means of interspersed induction trials (Experiments 2-3, n = 40 and 41, respectively). Moreover, the contingency between the DPT and induction trials was either partial (Experiment 2) or full (Experiment 3). Eye-tracking was used to ascertain that the emotional cue and the subsequent target were processed with peripheral vision. Experiments 1 and 2 both showed that negative faces captured attention, with faster target processing for fear valid than fear invalid trials, but also for happy invalid than happy valid trials. Importantly, this preferential spatial orienting to negative emotion was not observed in Experiment 3, where the goal relevance of emotion was high. However, in that experiment, fearful faces produced a specific attentional bias during the DPT, which was mostly driven by the induction trials themselves. Collectively, these results suggest that when goal relevance of emotion is high, the rapid and automatic orienting toward negative emotion vanishes. Nonetheless, in this situation, fearful faces exert a distinct modulatory influence on the control of spatial attention.
Relative Effects of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes on Behavior: Meta-Analysis and Test of Key Moderators
Authors: Phipps Daniel John , Hagger Martin S , Hamilton Kyra
Published: April 2024

Based on dual process models of attitude, we investigated the unique effects of implicit and explicit forms of attitude on behavior and, critically, effects of conditions and contextual moderators expected to determine the relative strength of each form on behavior in a meta-analytic synthesis of studies. Specifically, we tested effects of salient methodological (e.g., implicit attitudemeasure characteristics, behavior measure characteristics, presentation order), conceptual (e.g., conceptualization of explicit attitude, degree of conscious control, social desirability concerns, target behavior), and sample-related (e.g., age) moderators on the relative effects of each attitude form on behavior. A systematic literature search identified 720 studies and 1108 unique samplesreporting useable effect size data on relations between attitude forms and behavior. A proposed model specifying unique effects of attitude forms on behavior was estimated using multi-level meta-analytic structural equation modeling. Moderator effects were tested by estimating the modelacross groups of studies at each level of the moderator. Consistent with prior research, we found unique averaged effects of both forms of attitude on prospectively-measured behavior controlling for past behavior, with a larger effect size for explicit attitudes. Both attitude forms partially mediated the past behavior-behavior effect. Moderator analyses revealed few variations in effectsof each form of attitude on behavior in most cases. Findings indicate generally consistent small unique effects of implicit attitudes on behavior across contexts and samples. However, high levels of residual heterogeneity were observed in the effect sizes after accounting for moderators signal the need for high-quality primary research that systematically tests moderator effects.
Global Care Policy Index 2021 Country Report: Cambodia
Authors: Bou Dolphie , Paul Anju Mary
Published: April 2024

While Cambodia’s labor laws do provide for maternity leave and some related benefits, Cambodia scored poorly for Sub-Index A due to the absence of provisions for paternity leave, dependent care leave and flexible work arrangements. Cambodia’s domestic workers are explicitly excluded from the country’s labor laws but owing to new regulations aimed at protecting some of their working conditions, the country scored better on Sub-Index B. Cambodia is rated as “Maturing,” with a total score of 3.71.
Comparing elite and citizen attitudes towards the differentiated implementation of EU law: Evidence from a large-N survey of citizens, politicians and bureaucrats
Authors: Moland Martin
Published: April 2024

Transnational regulatory harmonisation is a key building block of the international legal order. However, little is known about how elite and citizen views of it differ. Using data from a Norwegian survey from 2023 this article finds both citizen-elite and intra-elite gaps in perceptions of legal harmonisation. First, citizens are significantly less likely to support legal harmonisation than bureaucrats. In contrast, the article finds that their views of it are similar to those of all but the most Eurosceptic politicians. Furthermore, while the attitudes of bureaucrats only differ significantly from those of strongly Eurosceptic politicians, bureaucrats with a ministry or legal background hold views of legal harmonisation significantly different from those of other civil servants. Future studies of public and elite opinion of international cooperation must thus theorise more clearly how the elite-citizen gap may vary for different elites, and empirically test how these differences manifest across policy areas.
Investigating Critical Thinking in ELT Textbooks: A Systematic Literature Review of Textbook Evaluation Studies
Authors: Soe Thiri
Published: April 2024

The pivotal role of critical thinking and its integration in English language education are synthesised through systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis studies in the areas of pedagogical interventions, teaching methods, and assessment methods. However, there is little evidence of systematic literature review on the integration of critical thinking into English language teaching materials such as textbooks. In this study, 41 empirical textbook evaluation studies published between 2010 and 2021 were reviewed from critical thinking perspective. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of English textbook evaluations on critical thinking integration, to identify critical thinking frameworks applied, and to look for possible research gaps among the studies. An extensive literature search was conducted by applying Xiao and Watson’s (2017) eight-step systematic literature review method. From a collection of 41 empirical studies, this review focuses on such four aspects as applied critical thinking frameworks, findings, recommendations, and the language levels and content areas of the textbooks studied. The results revealed that (1) Bloom’s Taxonomy and Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy were most frequently applied critical thinking frameworks, (2) integration of higher-order thinking skills in textbooks was less common than lower-order thinking skills, (3) textbook assessment occurred primarily at the middle and high school levels more than at other levels, and (4) methodological considerations regarding the reliability and validity of the coding process in textbook content analysis received little attention. This study contributes a synthesised literature background of English textbook evaluation with recommendations for methodological improvements in future studies.
Probabilistic Analysis of English Dative Constructions in Academic Writings of English EFL Learners
Authors: Bozdağ Fatih Ünal
Published: April 2024

Grammatical patterns in learner writings are among the most investigated topics in second/foreign language acquisition, gaining particular momentum thanks to corpus studies. English dative constructions are among those for which comprehensive literature is also available, consisting of different perspectives to explain the linguistic phenomenon on various theoretical grounds. However, except for rare instances, the foci of interest have constantly been on comparing learner data to native speaker data, particularly in terms of frequency of use in the second/foreign language learning environment. Different from other studies, the current study investigated English dative alternation in learner data with a probabilistic point of view, scrutinizing 27 learner corpora of learners with different L1s. Results showed that differences in learners’ native languages had little added value to variations among learners. Moreover, a tendency similar to priming the verb ‘give’ in dative constructions was observed for the other variables in the construction.
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Bi-/Multilingualism
Authors: Chłopek Zofia , Pradela Jacek
Published: April 2024

Nowadays, many children all over the world are raised with more than one native language. The aim of the present study was to investigate how parents/caregivers evaluate the language competences of children growing up with two or more languages from birth or from very early in life. The results indicate that the language skills of young bi-/multilinguals are generally perceived to be comparable to those of their monolingual peers, though they are typically asymmetrical. Cross-linguistic influence is a common phenomenon which does not raise parents’ concern. The outcomes also point to certain factors which may shape children’s language competences.
Reading, Discussing, and Sharing: Creation of a Vibrant Transnational Online Learning Community through the International Book Club
Authors: Case Emerson , Kaczmarek Agnieszka , Zatylny Sebastian
Published: April 2024

The present paper reports on the findings from the first four years of an ongoing, longitudinal study which examines the experiences and perceptions of Polish college participants in the International Book Club, an extension of a campus common read program at an American university. More specifically, the paper examines participants’ experiences with the book, both inside and outside the classroom, and examines their opinions about the issues discussed in each year’s book selection, their attitudes toward that issue and whether or not their attitude toward the issue was changed through this experience, their attitudes toward public discussions and whether or not their attitude toward public discussions was changed through this experience, and whether or not reading the book and participating in the club helped to improve their English-speaking abilities. Quantitative data, in the form of a nine-statement survey, and qualitative data, in the form of a nine-question open-ended questionnaire, were collected and analyzed. While a great deal of the literature on common read programs has explored the experiences of participants within the North American context, there is a dearth of research outside of that context, including the Polish context. The present study attempts to ameliorate this situation. The main findings from the study show that, overall, participants enjoyed the experience of reading the book and that participation in the program has been beneficial for them, including getting them to read more, to engage in discussions more, to think more deeply about more diverse topics and issues, and perhaps most importantly, to im­prove their English language abilities.
Mental fitness as a modern trend in physical culture
Authors: Bolotnykova T. H. , Reznichuk I. A. , Kushnirenko A. O. , Chron A. M. , Stepanchuk V. V.
Published: April 2024

The article examines mental fitness as a modern trend in physical culture. It is noted that "fitness" is the pursuit of optimal quality of life, which includes social, mental, physical and spiritual components. It is determined that mental fitness is a great way to relieve stress, improve not only physical but also mental health, alleviate psychological problems and get rid of many diseases. Mental fitness includes stretching, balancing, breathing, and relaxation exercises. It is emphasized that mental fitness is one of the safest forms of exercise. It includes yoga, Chinese wushu gymnastics and its varieties, stretching, European Pilates, Feldenkrais, Loban, Alexander, Kalan Pinkney (Callonica) and other programs; all of them are largely based on the principles of Eastern health systems. All Eastern systems are characterized by the active involvement of mental activity, concentration, conscious breathing, meditation and relaxation. It is concluded that in order to improve the health and level of physical activity of students of higher educational institutions, it is necessary to use popular areas of mental fitness - Pilates and fitness yoga, which are valuable in the field of physical training.
Formation of future specialists in the specialty of human health and physical recreation of the ability to use the indicator of a person's blood group
Authors: Megalinska Anna , Bilyk Zhanna , Bilyk Valentina , Tokarskyi Davyd
Published: April 2024

One of the urgent issues of training specialists in the specialty "Human health and physical recreation" is the formation of skills to carry out valeodiagnosis and valeocorrection according to the blood group indicator. The author's rehabilitation program requires individualization using personality parameters. One of the parameters of individualization is the indicator of a person's blood group. The purpose of the presented research was to create a methodical set of laboratory works for the disciplines "Sports biology with the basics of sports genetics", "Diagnostics and health monitoring", "Fundamentals of sports pharmacology and phytology". A chemical model of blood group determination and hemagglutination reaction has been created, which allows you to visualize the mechanism of blood group determination using monoclonal antibodies without the use of human blood. The presented model also demonstrates multiple allelism, the law of purity of gametes, the process of inheritance of blood groups. The paper also presents the results of an experiment on determining blood groups using plant lectins and an algorithm for determining blood groups using lectin-containing extracts of the four-winged licorice, mouse pea, Japanese sophora, and meadowsweet. Laboratory works "Blood groups and personal portrait of a person" and "Individualization of lifestyle according to the map of blood groups" were developed based on literary data. The work also presents the results of a pedagogical experiment. Data processing statistics show that the laboratory method increases the level of students' knowledge by 24.7%.
Tennis. Analytics when applying the most powerful shot
Authors: Suprunenko Mаksym , Kolomieitseva Olha
Published: April 2024

Actuality. Many coaches mistakenly assume that the flight of the ball on a straight line trajectory with a flat feed and impact will hit the tennis net. As a result, it is considered that adolescents do not need to teach a flat serve, but to teach immediately spin serve with the rotation of the ball.

Purpose of the article: to show analytical and theoretical researches of flat shots in tennis their ability for the best application.

Methodology. Integration of knowledge of various sciences and their methods to solve the problems of physical education and sports training.

Scientific novelty. An analytical method over of calculation of descriptions of motion is brought by means of kinematics. Factors affecting the trajectory of the ball's flight have been educed. The analytical dependence of the instantaneous and final speed, range and altitude of the ball on the mechanical parameters without taking into account the air resistance is derived. The analytical analysis of these shots is expounded with initial velocity, depending on the angle of slope to horizon under that there is a blow to the ball in the distance h from the plane of court. Correcting coefficients over are brought. A percent on that actual speed can change in a flat blow and serve is given. The advantages and disadvantages of these strikes are given. The terms of implementation of flat serve, her advantages and defects, are examined.

Conclusions. Most powerful and at the same time most difficult for implementation flat shots at that a ball is not given by a rotation are considered. It is necessary to take into account that rectilineal and curvilinear trajectories outbowed only in a vertical plane are named flat. A trajectory of flight of the ball sent by a player can be different. The decisive influence on it is the rotation of the ball during its flight. The rotation of the ball during its flight has a decisive influence on it. Factors affecting the trajectory of the ball's flight have been clarified.
Physical fitness of youth students and state of readiness for military service
Authors: Trachuk Serhiy , Pidleteychuk Roman , Milko Nataliya , Syrotyuk Serhiy
Published: April 2024

Among the main state tasks of improving the physical education system, experts single out the orientation of the programmatic and normative foundations of the physical education system of different age groups of the population. Physical fitness and readiness of schoolchildren for military service is a very relevant issue not only in the discussed and mechanisms of action. In the context of our state, the physical training of schoolchildren today is primarily the ability of citizens to protect, defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine and ensure the borders defined by international law. The presented vision regarding the physical fitness of its members and the model of physical fitness of student youth. The preparation of youth for military service is emphasized on the following points: in modern conditions, the preparation of Ukrainian citizens for military service is one of the main directions of state policy, and therefore the preparation of youth for the defense of the Motherland remains one of the factors of strengthening the state's defense capability; Currently, there is a positive trend in the attitude of citizens towards the need for initial military physical training in general educational institutions. This indicates the need to strengthen military-patriotic work with students; in the conditions of an increase in military personnel who serve under a contract, as well as a reduction in the terms of service under the draft, the question of the mobilization reserve often arises. The model of the physical training system in the military, which should be oriented towards a high initial level of physical fitness of the youth, intensification of the physical training process, increasing the level of general physical fitness of servicemen, priority development of the military-applied orientation of the physical training process, sports orientation of the physical training process, ensuring the functional readiness of the body each serviceman to perform service and combat tasks. The contribution of each component of the integral assessment of the physical readiness of young people, such as general physical fitness, special physical fitness, military- applied physical fitness and the state of the cardiovascular system, was determined. Filling the model with specific results in motor tests to determine the sufficiency or insufficiency of certain aspects of preparedness and the orientation of the means of physical training of an individual young man to achieve the appropriate standards.
The level of technical and technical-tactical skill of girls engaged in boxing at the stage of preliminary basic training
Authors: Chernokolenko A.V.
Published: April 2024

The article presents a study on determining the level of technical and technical-tactical preparedness of young female boxers from the "boxing school", direct blows and defense against them. The level of preparedness was carried out according to control tests, which were determined by boxing coaches and given in the previous studies of V.G. Savchenko, N.G. Dolbysheva, A.V. Chernokolenko, O.V. Shevchenko (2022). The obtained results indicate the "average" level of training of female boxers according to 5-level assessment criteria, which are developed on the basis of the use of the arithmetic mean and sigma deviation. The results of the study proved the insufficient level of technical and technical-tactical preparation of young female athletes who are engaged in boxing at the stage of preliminary basic training. . This can be explained by the fact that, firstly, the coaches do not carry out concentrated control over technical and technical-tactical preparation, secondly, in the educational and training sessions in the process of learning and improving the technique of performing strikes, defensive and attacking actions, they use standard physical exercises and methodological approaches. Therefore, a systematic correction of preparation for the selection of blocks of physical exercises is necessary to improve the technique of performing various types of movements, direct blows and protection against them, taking into account the anthropometric data of female athletes, their level of preparation, detection of errors during control tests and combat distance.
SUPERVISED IDENTIFICATION OF ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNI STRAINS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
Authors: Mohd Tamrin Mohd Izzuddin , Mahamad Maifiah Mohd Hafidz , Che Azemin Mohd Zulfaezal , Turaev Sherzod , Mohamed Razi Mohamed Jalaldeen
Published: April 2024

In hospital environments around the world bacterial contamination is prevalance. One of the most commonly found bacteria is the Acinetobacter Baumannii. It can cause unitary tract, lung, abdominal and central nervous system infection. This bacteria is becoming more resistance to antibiotics. Thus, identification of the non-resistance from the resistance bacteria strain is of important for the correct course of treatments. We proposed to use the artificial neural network (ANN) for supervised identification of this bacteria. The mass spectra generated from the liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LCMS) will be used as the features to train the ANN. However, due to the massive number of features we applied the principle component analysis (PCA) to reduce the dimensions. Less than 1% of the original number of features utilized. The hand out validation method confirmed that the accuracy, sensitivity and specificity are 0.75 respectively. In order to avoid selection biasness in the sampling, 5-fold cross validation was performed. In comparison, the average accuracy is close to 0.75 but the average sensitivity is slightly higher by 0.50.
REDESIGN BUSINESS MODEL OPTIONS FOR "UNIVERSITY OF THE FUTURE" AND STAYING RELEVANT IN THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AGE
Authors: Ahmad Dahlan Abdul Rahman , Ibrahim Jamaludin , Mohamed Jalaldeen Mohamed Razi , El Mohajir Mohammed
Published: April 2024

Several key studies have shown that the higher education sector is in need of new business models in order to stay relevant and sustainable in the New Digital Age. Pressures and drivers of change â€“ funding, changes in the technology and Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), digital socio-economy, and business model, to name a few â€“ that demand institutional change by re-examine its existing business model and value proposition, if success is to be sustained over the long term. The digital changes are dynamic and complex. This paper adopted the design and system thinking approach. Strategy canvas with business modeling tools such as the Environmental Map (EM), Business Model Canvas (BMC) and Value Proposition Design Canvas (VPC) are modeling tools used to design, evaluate alternative business models and value propositions. The tools allows us to design business model options that create value for the business, and value propositions that create value for the customers, thus enabling the creation of sustainable businesses. In this paper we explore the use of business modeling tool to analyse, formulate, and design sustainable business models for the University of the Future (UotF) in facing the New Digital Age challenges and opportunities. Depending on the value proposition offered to targeted customer segments, this paper has established generic business model prototypes for UotF in the facing the challenges and opportunities created by the New Digital Age and 4IR. In our opinion these generic prototype options will help university decision makers, planners and relevant stakeholders to continuously enhance and customise sustainable, agile, and competitive business models.
Cyber Security Awareness Among Secondary School Students in Malaysia
Authors: Zulkifli Zahidah , Abdul Molok Nurul Nuha , Abd Rahim Nurul Hayani , Talib Shuhaili
Published: April 2024

It is people’s choice to go online without worrying about their presence being at the stake. However, there are too many unknown cyber risks and threats of attack in different forms coming ahead. These cause their presence along with personal data are dangerously at risk. Moreover, the access to the cyber spaces are unlimited and unrestricted to all levels of ages. If this situation is ignored, it will create more unpredicted and new cybercrimes as well as more increasing the existing ones. This paper explores on understanding the level of cyber security situational awareness among secondary school students, their teachers as well as their parents in Malaysia. Both physical and online survey methods were deployed to administer the data collection exercise. The target groups were divided into three categories: students (secondary students aged 13-16 years old), teachers and parents. A different questionnaire set was designed for each category. The survey topics/areas included Internet and digital citizenship knowledge. Respondents were selected from certain areas throughout the Klang Valley area in Malaysia. The results show most of the respondents are aware of the cyber threats and risks of being in cyber space, but a very few of them take actions on security measures of being online. The findings and recommendations from this awareness study are fundamental to develop a model for secondary school students to understand the security risks and threats associated with the Internet throughout their years in school. Early exposure and awareness will help ensure healthy cyber habits among millennials and their environment in Malaysia.
FREEMIUM MULTI-SIDED PLATFORM BUSINESS MODEL: MOSQUE KITCHEN AS A SOURCE OF FREE FOOD, EMPLOYMENT AND EMPOWERMENT OF B40S FOOD-PRENEURS
Authors: Ahmad Dahlan Abdul Rahman , Jamaludin Ibrahim
Published: April 2024

COVID-19 crisis has pushed more low-income or poor B40 urban Malaysian families into poverty, based on the“Families on The Edge” UNICEF report dated October 2020. The poverty rate of these B40 urban families in 2020 is higher than 2019, with 50% of the families living in absolute poverty. 70% of these households had affected their ability to meet their basic living expenses. 37% said that they are struggling to purchase enough food for their families, while 35% are unable to pay their bills on time. This paper adapted the Design Thinking (DT) methodology. DT includes conducting literature review, benchmarking, and interviews to understand and define the key B40s problems; ideation of possible solution options, validation of solution options by various customer segments; and to suggest a conceptual freemium multi-sided platform business model as a possible solution. An initial business model using Business Model Canvas (BMC) framework was formulated; tested and validated by various customer segments. Hence, the main contribution of this paper is to offer a validated conceptual business model in transforming current mosque kitchen (or mKitchen) as a potential in (a) providing job employment while reskilling, empowering, and nurturing the B40s as food entrepreneurs, (b) providing free food for the needy B40s communityby the B40s food-preneurs, and (c) generating income for the masjid via rental of kitchen facilities. This is to turn the B40 community from Zakat receivers to Zakat contributors. The conceptual mKitchen freemium multi-sided platform business model with platform network effects can be customised for implementation by mosques and community centres.
IMPLEMENTATION OF OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA IN ASIAN COUNTRIES: A REVIEW
Authors: Mohamad Puad Noor Hazwani , Suhaimi Mohd Adam , Hussin Husnayati
Published: April 2024

Open Government Data (OGD) is data gathered and processed by public sector or government agencies and made available to the public via a web portal. Many countries have implemented OGD in order to promote economic growth and social development (e.g., the UK, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, Netherlands, etc.). The purpose of this paper is to examine the implementation of OGD in a few Asian countries based on previous research, in order to understand the challenges and experiences of OGD implementation in these countries. Analysis was done on the relevant literature and online resources. The findings indicate that there are many benefits gained from the OGD implementation, at the same time there are challenges that need to be overcome before realizing these benefits. Additionally, it was found that there are several factors that contribute towards successful OGD implementation in those selected countries. Another finding is that there is not many past research related to OGD implementation in Asian countries, hence it can be concluded that OGD research in this region is still at infancy.
THE USE OF ROBOTS FOR DELIVERY OF PACKAGES IN FOOD INDUSTRIES AND ITS IMPACT ON JOB LOSS
Authors: Yaqubi Naser , Abubakar Ibrahim Adamu
Published: April 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have developed rapidly in the last few years, both in terms of the resources and outputs they produce. The robots that work in the food industry contribute significantly to the transportation of food packages from one location to another. The main task of the robots in the food industry on which this research focuses is delivery of packages. Before the implementation of robots in food industries and in delivery packages, it was done by human beings. Now that the robots are utilised, human beings will lose their jobs. This might not necessarily be the case or there might be some unforeseen issues. That is why this research aims to investigate the influence of system quality, information quality, and business value on the delivery of packages by robots in replacing people's jobs. This study applied a quantitative research method in order to achieve all of the research objectives. A total of 310 participants took part in the survey. Based on PLS-SEM analysis, the path coefficient of system quality to business value was examined by hypothesis one (H1), and it was shown to be supported. It is clear that the relationship between system quality and business value is significant because there is a strong link between system quality and business value. Furthermore, the path coefficient of information quality to business value was investigated in hypothesis two (H2).Our second hypothesis is supported by the p-value being significant and positive. Hypothesis three (H3) is significant, as evidenced by the fact that it is supported. As a result, there are important connections between the use of robots and business value. Finally, the business value, which is a dependent variable, has a positive and significant relationship with all independent variables of this research. There is a strong path coefficient link from business value to system quality, information quality, and the use of robots. In the measurement model, there are substantial disparities between the industries with high levels of working experience and those with less working experience of robots. Information quality, use of robots, and business value all have positive and significant influences on the use of robots in the food industry (delivery of packages by robots). Furthermore, the analyses of PLS-SEM also show that system quality has a positive relationship but not a significant impact. Technological skills are highly important in order to improve and adopt delivery of packages by robots in the food industry. In addition, the findings of this research contribute to the literature on robots’ implementation in the food industry and also contribute to limited empirical research on assessing the delivery packages by robots in food industries on replacing people's jobs.
EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AMONG GRADUATES IN BANGLADESH
Authors: AL-MAMUN ABDULLAH , Olowolayemo Akeem , Wani Sharyar , Sofiadin Aidrina
Published: April 2024

Unemployment, especially among graduates, is a big issue not only in individual countries but also globally. Digital entrepreneurship is proposed as a way to mitigate, if not completely remove, the hardships of unemployment for both individuals and governments. It has been demonstrated that becoming an entrepreneur is a conscious decision that necessitates a great deal of thought and planning. The current study incorporates cognitive and behavioural school of thought principles to develop a model that connects digital entrepreneurship education to graduate entrepreneurial intention. The attribute approach appears to imply that entrepreneurship is a privilege associated with certain characteristics, and digital entrepreneurship education will assist in the development of entrepreneurs. In light of the above findings, the current study examined the impact of digital entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship among Bangladeshi graduates using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). The proposed framework illustrates that entrepreneurship education is a conscious strategy and that there is a link between digital entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship intention, which is mediated by personal attitude (PA),subjective norm (SN), perceived behavioural control (PBC), and entrepreneurial decision (ED). This study employs a quantitative approach to address a methodological gap in the literature, which usually evaluates simply entrepreneurship intention instead of the actual process of entrepreneurship. Data were collected from several university students representing several study disciplines in Bangladesh and structural equation modelling was used to test the hypothesized model and structural relationships. The empirical findings and recommendations show that graduates' entrepreneurial intentions have a positive impact on their attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, and entrepreneurial intentions, and that this information can assist policymakers, government officials, entrepreneurship experts, and lecturers decide to include digital entrepreneurship courses in higher education institutions.