bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
PRIORITY DETERMINATION OF SUBMARINE TYPE AS DEFENSE OF ARCHIPELAGIC WAR WITH FUZZY AHP METHOD AND BCR ANALYSIS
Authors: Hutabarat Dani , Mulyono Udisubakti Cipto , Ahmadi Ahmadi , Hartoko Priyadi
Published: June 2021

This thesis describes the application of the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (Fuzzy AHP) approach and Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) analysis in submarine selection. Submarines as Main Defenses System which are highly strategic in their procurement are directed at realizing a deterrence strategy and a strategy of balancing with state actors that have the potential to threaten the sovereignty of the Indonesian state. Apart from threats, the procurement of submarines also considers Indonesia's geographic constellation and the government's wishes, such as the interest of the minister of defense during working visits to countries that offer their submarines. The first step in procurement is to make an analysis in terms of selecting submarine alternatives, both analysis of information and identification of various important and interrelated requirements regarding data from submarine alternatives that will be selected later. Uncertainty from the government is a fuzzy'nes decision, so this condition can be resolved with the Fuzzy AHP approach and strengthened by BCR analysis, so that the results can provide a higher contribution. The results obtained from the Fuzzy AHP method are the priority order of selecting alternative submarines, namely Y-Class (0.398), W-Class (0.220), X-Class (0.191) and Z-Class (0.191). Where the results of the importance of the main criteria are sequential starting from the Strategic Requirement (Strareq) criteria of 0.409, Operation Requirement (Opsreq) of 0.318 and Technical Requirement (Techreq) of 0.273. Meanwhile, based on the BCR analysis, the Y-Class submarine was also selected with a BCR value of 1.512232936.

 

Keywords: Fuzzy AHP method, BCR Analysis, Submarine Selection.
THE INFLUENCE OF COMPETENCY FACTORS, CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND MOTIVATION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF NCO PERSONNEL PROSPECTIVE FOR THE INDONESIAN NAVY'S DIKTUKPA STUDENTS
Authors: Kurniawan Eko , Suparno Suparno , Bandono Adi , Purnomo Joko
Published: June 2021

Improved personnel performance will bring progress for the institution to be able to carry out its duties. Therefore, efforts to improve personnel performance are the most serious challenges for leaders because the success in achieving goals depends on the quality of the performance of human resources in it. The purpose of this study was to analyze the variables that have an effect on improving the performance of the Indonesian Navy's Diktukpa students Candidates including competence, career development and soldier motivation. The method used is a quantitative method with Structural Equation Model (SEM) analysis and AMOS software. The results showed that the competency variable had an adequate influence on performance although it was not significant. The soldier career development variable has a significant effect on the performance variable of the NCO soldier candidates for the Indonesian Navy's Diktukpa students. The soldier competency variable has a very significant influence on the motivation of the NCO soldier candidates for the Indonesian Navy's Diktukpa students. The soldier career development variable has a significant influence on the motivation of the NCO soldier candidates for the Indonesian Navy's Diktukpa students. The soldier's motivation variable has a sufficient influence on the performance of the NCO soldier candidates the Indonesian Navy's Diktukpa students even though it is categorized as less significant. The analysis of the results can be used as a basis for input in the formulation of strategies and policies as well as efforts to improve the performance of Naval Air Force candidates for the Indonesian Navy's Diktukpa students, given the very important function of the presence of NCO members who are the liaison between officers and enlisted. By increasing the performance of Naval Forces candidates for the Indonesian Navy's Diktukpa students, it will automatically improve the performance of the Indonesian Navy organization. 

Keywords: Competence, Career Development, Motivation, Employee Performance, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM).
A Quasi-Experimental Study of Cosmetic Outcomes on Shave Excision for the Treatment of Acquired Melanocytic Nevi: A Pakistani Tertiary Care Hospital Experience
Authors: Noreen Ayesha , Javed Muhammad Aslam , Amin Sadaf , Sarfraz Zouina , Raza Vishal farid , Rashid Tariq
Published: June 2021

This study aimed to assess the cosmetic outcomes of shave excision for the treatment of acquired melanocytic nevi in a Pakistani tertiary care setting.
In total, 120 patients were enrolled in this study. All patients underwent shave excision upon being administered with intra-lesional local anesthesia (2% lignocaine with adrenaline). The lesion was shaved with a 15 number Bald Parker blade. Hemostasis was secured by pressure and 20% aluminum chloride solution. The final cosmetic outcomes (excellent, acceptable, or poor) were assessed three months post-shave excision. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS, v22. Data were evaluated using chi-square tests, and the phi coefficient. A P value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant to determine associations of age and gender to cosmetic outcomes.
The mean age of included patients was 29.7±7.4 years. There were 30 (25%) male and 90 (75%) female patients. Out of these, 35 (29.2%) patients had excellent outcomes, 75 (62.5%) patients had acceptable and 10 (8.3%) patients had a poor outcome. The associations of gender and age to dermatological outcomes post-excision were significant (P<0.001). Sufficient evidence was collated to determine a relationship between age (Pearson Chi-Square = 113.94) and gender (Pearson Chi-Square = 97.143) to cosmetic outcomes (P<0.001). The phi (?) coefficient also confirmed the significance of positive associations between the cosmetic outcomes to gender and age (?= 0.974).
Shave excision presents as an exceedingly useful and inexpensive method for the removal of acquired melanocytic nevi especially in a low and middle-income country like Pakistan.
Projektbericht: 'Forschungswerkstatt zur Erstellung einer Digitalen Edition'
Authors: Frohne Bianca , Piotrowski Swantje
Published: June 2021

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich anhand eines Praxisbeispiels mit den Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Bildung im Kontext der Hochschullehre. In Form eines Projektberichts wird das Format einer
'Forschungswerkstatt zur Erstellung einer Digitalen Edition' vorgestellt. In diesem Lehr-Lern-Versuch wurde den Studierenden anhand einer engen Theorie-Praxis-Verzahnung die methodische Herangehensweise für
die digitale Aufbereitung von Quellenmaterial vermittelt. Als thematische Grundlage wurde der Umgang mit 'Tod und Sterben' in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit gewählt. Die Studierenden (ab dem 4. Semester)
befassten sich mit Leichenpredigten, Autobiographien und Familienbucheinträgen und untersuchten anhand ausgewählter Beispiele die Aussagemöglichkeiten und -grenzen dieser Quellen für das Seminarthema.
Dazu bereiteten sie Auszüge aus handschriftlichen, nicht-edierten Quellen inhaltlich und formal auf, nahmen eigenständig Recherchen und Transkriptionen vor und bereiteten die Texte für die Überführung
in eine digitale (Teil-)Edition vor. Ziel der 'Forschungswerkstätten' war es nicht nur aufzuzeigen, welchen Mehrwert Digitale Editionen im Prozess historischen Forschens und Lernens haben, sondern
vor allem, wie Studierende digitalisierte Quellen für die eigene Forschungen und Publikationen auswerten und in weiteren Projekten anwenden können.
Hemşirelik ve Ebelik Öğrencilerinin 21. Yüzyıl Becerilerinin Bazı Değişkenlere Göre İncelenmesi
Authors: KARADAŞ Ayşe , KAYNAK Serap , ERGÜN Sibel , PALAS KARACA Pelin
Published: June 2021

Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı hemşirelik ve ebelik öğrencilerinin 21. Yüzyıl Becerilerinin bazı değişkenlere göre incelenmesidir.

Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı ve kesitsel tipte olan araştırmanın örneklemini bir Devlet Üniversitesine bağlı Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesinde öğrenim gören ve araştırmaya katılmayı kabul eden 625 hemşirelik ve ebelik öğrencisi oluşturmuştur. Veriler, tanıtıcı bilgi formu ve 41 madde ve beş alt boyuttan oluşan Çok Boyutlu 21. Yüzyıl Becerileri Ölçeği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Veriler SPSS 21.0 programında sayı, yüzde, ortalama ve standart sapma ve bağımsız gruplarda t testi kullanılarak değerlendirilmiştir. Anlamlılık düzeyi p
Improvising Reconciliation
Authors: Charlton Ed
Published: June 2021

Improvising Reconciliation is prompted by South Africa’s enduring state of injustice. It is both a lament for the promise, since lost, with which non-racial democracy was inaugurated and, more substantially, a space within which to consider its possible renewal. As such, this study lobbies for an expanded approach to the country’s formal transition from apartheid in order to grapple with reconciliation’s ongoing potential within the contemporary imaginary. It does not, however, presume to correct the contradictions that have done so much to corrupt the concept in recent decades. Instead, it upholds the language of reconciliation for strategic, rather than essential, reasons. And while this study surveys some of the many serious critiques levelled at the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996-2001), these misgivings help situate the plural, improvised approach to reconciliation that has arguably emerged from the margins of the cultural sphere in the years since. Improvisation serves here as a separate way of both thinking and doing reconciliation. It recalibrates the concept according to a series of deliberative, agonistic and iterative, rather than monumental, interventions, rendering reconciliation in terms that make failure a necessary condition for its future realisation.
PGC 38025: A Star-forming Lenticular Galaxy with an Off-nuclear Star-forming Core
Authors: Chen Zhengyi , Gu Qiu-Sheng , García-Benito Rubén , Zhang Zhi-Yu , Ge Xue , Xiao Mengyuan , Yu Xiaoling
Published: June 2021

Lenticular galaxies (S0s) were considered mainly as passive evolved spirals due to environmental effects for a long time; however, most S0s in the field cannot fit into this common scenario. In this work, we study one special case, Sloan Digital Sky Survey J120237.07+642235.3 (PGC 38025), a star-forming field S0 galaxy with an off-nuclear blue core. We present optical integral field spectroscopic observation with the 3.5 meter telescope at Calar Alto Observatory, and high-resolution millimeter observation with the NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array. We estimated the star formation rate (SFR = 0.446 M
⊙ yr−1) and gaseous metallicity (12 + log(O/H) = 8.42) for PGC 38025, which follows the star formation main sequence and stellar mass–metallicity relation. We found that the ionized gas and cold molecular gas in PGC 38025 show the same spatial distribution and kinematics, while rotating misaligned with stellar component. The off-nuclear blue core is locating at the same redshift as PGC 38025 and its optical spectrum suggest it is H ii region. We suggest that the star formation in PGC 38025 is triggered by a gas-rich minor merger, and the off-nuclear blue core might be a local star formation happened during the accretion/merger process.
Multifluid MHD Studies of the Ionospheric Magnetic Flux Ropes at Mars
Authors: Xie Lianghai , Lee Lou-Chuang , Li Lei , Zhang Yiteng
Published: June 2021

We use a multifluid MHD model to study the formation of the small-scale magnetic flux rope (MFR) in the ionosphere of Mars. It is found that a straight flux tube can turn into a twisted MFR during its sinking into the lower ionosphere, caused by the differential compression at different parts of the tube. Further studies show that the MFR is not a force-free structure, in which there is always a pressure gradient force to balance the magnetic force. Moreover, we find that the ionospheric ions inside the MFR can be squeezed out from the two ends of the MFR, with an outflow flux of about 3.5 × 107 cm−2 s−1, which can play an important role for the ion escape from Mars. In addition, we find that both the sinking speed and the ratio of the ion gyroradius to the tube radius can affect the characteristics of MFR. An MFR can be more quickly formed for a larger sinking speed, but it can be also more quickly filled by the ambient ions. Oppositely, the MFR is more difficult to be filled when the ratio of the ion gyroradius to the tube radius is smaller. Once the MFR is filled, the compression is prevented by an outward pressure gradient force, and both the field strength and the rope helicity begin to decrease. Our results can explain the different altitude dependences of MFRs observed at Mars and Venus.
Proton Energy Spectra of Energetic Storm Particle Events and Relation with Shock Parameters and Turbulence
Authors: Chiappetta Federica , Laurenza Monica , Lepreti Fabio , Consolini Giuseppe
Published: June 2021

The proton energy spectra of 23 energetic storm particle (ESP) events of various types, occurring either in association with (16 events) or in the absence of (7 events) solar energetic particles (SEPs), are investigated by using data from particle instruments aboard STEREO A in the energy range from 84.1 keV to 100 MeV. The obtained spectra were fitted with several known functions. Out of the 12 ESP events occurring in association with SEPs and quasi-perpendicular shocks, the Weibull distribution provides good fits to the spectra over the whole energy range in five cases. For the other seven events it fits the high energy tail, with lower energies explained by the power law predicted by the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA). Conversely, for the four SEP-associated ESPs at quasi-parallel shocks, a double power law better reproduces the observed spectra. Moreover, a significant correlation of the downstream turbulence level is found with the background subtracted Weibull parameters for quasi-perpendicular shocks, and with the proton peak value in the intermediate energy range of 4–6 MeV for all 16 considered shocks. Our results suggest that the downstream turbulence is a relevant factor in particle acceleration and that stochastic acceleration (SA) can be a plausible mechanism for reacceleration at interplanetary shocks. In the seven cases not associated with SEPs, an Ellison–Ramaty form fits the observed spectra, consistently with a DSA process, suggesting that a strong shock and/or a high energy particle background should be present for the SA to be at work.
The CHIME Pulsar Project: System Overview
Authors: Amiri M. , Bandura K. M. , Boyle P. J. , Brar C. , Cliche J.-F. , Crowter K. , Cubranic D. , Demorest P. B. , Denman N. T. , Dobbs M. , Dong F. Q. , Fandino M. , Fonseca E. , Good D. C. , Halpern M. , Hill A. S. , Höfer C. , Kaspi V. M. , Landecker T. L. , Leung C. , Lin H.-H. , Luo J. , Masui K. W. , McKee J. W. , Mena-Parra J. , Meyers B. W. , Michilli D. , Naidu A. , Newburgh L. , Ng C. , Patel C. , Pinsonneault-Marotte T. , Ransom S. M. , Renard A. , Scholz P. , Shaw J. R. , Sikora A. E. , Stairs I. H. , Tan C. M. , Tendulkar S. P. , Tretyakov I. , Vanderlinde K. , Wang H. , Wang X.
Published: June 2021

We present the design, implementation, and performance of the digital pulsar observing system constructed for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). Using accelerated computing, this system processes independent, digitally steered beams formed by the CHIME correlator to simultaneously observe up to 10 radio pulsars and transient sources. Each of these independent streams is processed by the CHIME/Pulsar back-end system, which can coherently dedisperse, in real time, up to dispersion measure values of 2500 pc cm−3. The tracking beams and real-time analysis system are autonomously controlled by a priority-based algorithm that schedules both known sources and positions of interest for observation with observing cadences as rapid as 1 day. Given the distribution of known pulsars and radio-transient sources and the dynamic scheduling, the CHIME/Pulsar system can monitor 400–500 positions once per sidereal day and observe most sources with declinations greater than −20° once every ∼4 weeks. We also discuss the extensive science program enabled through the current modes of data acquisition for CHIME/Pulsar that centers on timing and searching experiments.
Security force assistance advisory team inputs and outcomes
Authors: Kompan Jaroslav , Hrnčiar Michal
Published: June 2021

The article discusses the importance of security sector reform. The aim of the article is to present the potential of the concept of security sector reform as a NATO tool for prevention and resolution of internal conflicts on the real example of the deployed military advisory team of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic to the ISAF operation in Afghanistan. The authors focus on the orientation in the topic and correlation and causal anchoring of the topic in the introduction and the first part of the article. The second part presents the initial situation of the deployment of the Slovak advisory team in the ISAF operation. The third part and the discussion summarize lessons identified from the deployment of the advisory teams of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic. It also illustrates the conceptual framework, conditions and axioms for optimal and effective security force assistance within the efforts of the security sector reform as an important part of the stabilization and reconstruction concept.
Multimodality for Passive Experience: Effects of Visual, Auditory, Vibration and Draught Stimuli on Sense of Presence
Authors: Honegger Fabian , Feng Yuan , Rauterberg Matthias
Published: June 2021

Adequate use of multimodal stimuli plays a crucial role in help forming the sense of presence within a virtual environment. While most of the presence research attempts to engage more sensory modalities to induce a higher sense of presence, this paper investigates the relevance of each sensory modality and different combinations on the subjective sense of presence using a specifically designed scenario of a passive experience. We chose a neutral test scenario of “waiting at a train station while a train is passing by” to avoid the potential influence of story narrative on mental presence and replicated realistic multimodal stimuli that are highly relevant to our test setting. All four stimuli - visual, auditory, vibration, and draught - with 16 possibilities of combinations were systematically evaluated with 24 participants. The evaluation was performed on one crucial aspect of presence – “realness” to reflect user presence in general. The perceived realism value was assessed using a scalometer. The findings of main effects indicate that the auditory stimuli had the most significant contribution in creating the sense of presence. The results of interaction effects suggest the impact of draught stimuli is significant in relation to other stimuli - visual and auditory. Also, the gender effects revealed that the sense of presence reported by female participants is influenced by more factors than merely adding more sensory modalities.
Des experts au royaume du storytelling : Disneyland raconte son art
Authors: Boittiaux Johan
Published: June 2021

L’article conjugue l’approche sémio-pragmatique de Roger Odin et les travaux attentifs à la culture populaire et aux enjeux d’autorité de marque qui s’y jouent afin d’observer la manière dont le storytelling peut lui-même se représenter. Dans deux webséries publiées sur Youtube , Disneyland Paris emprunte à deux formats de visite filmée, le documentaire et le vlog, dans lesquels le storytelling s’érige en compétence valorisable. En considérant le storytelling comme un dispositif et pas seulement une pratique, l’objectif de l’article est de définir le rôle de ces formats choisis dans l’affirmation par Disneyland Paris d’une compétence institutionnelle à produire du storytelling.
Complexité et dynamique du sens : interrelations entre pragmatique cognitive et pragmatique interculturelle
Authors: Moeschler Jacques
Published: June 2021

Cet article a pour ambition de jeter un pont entre la pragmatique théorique, et plus spécifiquement la pragmatique cognitive (Théorie de la Pertinence) et la pragmatique interculturelle. Nous montrerons que dans les deux cas, un élargissement des problématiques s’est opéré lors de la dernière décennie, conduisant à une extension de l’agenda de la pragmatique. Bien que des hypothèses différentes sur la communication verbale soient faites, nous montrerons la nature des interrelations entre ces deux approches, notamment au sujet du calcul du sens en contexte, mais aussi de la construction du contexte, et ce dans un environnement interculturel. Un rôle particulier sera donné à la signification procédurale des items lexicaux, ainsi qu’à l’interface sémantique-pragmatique.
Solving the linear transport equation by a deep neural network approach
Authors: Chen Zheng , Liu Liu , Mu Lin
Published: June 2021

In this paper, we study linear transport model by adopting deep learning method, in particular deep neural network (DNN) approach. While the interest of using DNN to study partial differential equations is arising, here we adapt it to study kinetic models, in particular the linear transport model. Moreover, theoretical analysis on the convergence of neural network and its approximated solution towards analytic solution is shown. We demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed DNN method in numerical experiments.
Stable numerical methods for a stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with linear multiplicative noise
Authors: Feng Xiaobing , Ma Shu
Published: June 2021

This paper is concerned with fully discrete finite element approximations of a stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger (sNLS) equation with linear multiplicative noise of the Stratonovich type. The goal of studying the sNLS equation is to understand the role played by the noises for a possible delay or prevention of the collapsing and/or blow-up of the solution to the sNLS equation. In the paper we first carry out a detailed analysis of the properties of the solution which lays down a theoretical foundation and guidance for numerical analysis, we then present a family of three-parameters fully discrete finite element methods which differ mainly in their time discretizations and contains many well-known schemes (such as the explicit and implicit Euler schemes and the Crank-Nicolson scheme) with different combinations of time discetization strategies. The prototypical \begin{document}$ \theta $\end{document}-schemes are analyzed in detail and various stability properties are established for its numerical solution. An extensive numerical study and performance comparison are also presented for the proposed fully discrete finite element schemes.
An adjoint-based a posteriori analysis of numerical approximation of Richards equation
Authors: Ginting Victor
Published: June 2021

This paper formulates a general framework for a space-time finite element method for solving Richards Equation in one spatial dimension, where the spatial variable is discretized using the linear finite volume element and the temporal variable is discretized using a discontinuous Galerkin method. The actual implementation of a particular scheme is realized by imposing certain finite element space in temporal variable to the variational equation and appropriate "variational crime" in the form of numerical integrations for calculating integrations in the formulation. Once this is in place, adjoint-based error estimators for the approximate solution from the scheme is derived. The adjoint problem is obtained from an appropriate linearization of the nonlinear system. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate performance of the methods and the error estimators.
A feedback design for numerical solution to optimal control problems based on Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation
Authors: Tao Zhen-Zhen , Sun Bing
Published: June 2021

In this paper, we present a feedback design for numerical solution to optimal control problems, which is based on solving the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. An upwind finite-difference scheme is adopted to solve the HJB equation under the framework of the dynamic programming viscosity solution (DPVS) approach. Different from the usual existing algorithms, the numerical control function is interpolated in turn to gain the approximation of optimal feedback control-trajectory pair. Five simulations are executed and both of them, without exception, output the accurate numerical results. The design can avoid solving the HJB equation repeatedly, thus efficaciously promote the computation efficiency and save memory.
Growing Oklahoma's Workforce Readiness Through Micro-Credentials
Authors: Griffith Brad , Beauchamp Stephanie , Bates Rachel
Published: June 2021

The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education is undergoing a rapid transformation which has been accelerated due to the onset of COVID-19. As the pandemic worsened throughout 2020, Oklahoma's unemployment rate skyrocketed to historic levels. Despite this unfortunate circumstance, numerous job openings are available, particularly among critical occupation areas, such as advanced manufacturing, information systems, technology, healthcare, and management. In order to meet this employment demand, the coordinating board of higher education in Oklahoma, the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE), sought additional ways to equip Oklahoma college students, particularly those students with some college and no degree, with the necessary professional capital to compete for these jobs. Concurrent with the national trends, OSRHE staff began researching opportunities to validate the ongoing achievements of students through implementation of micro-credentials and digital badging.
Critical Analysis of the World Economy and Deglobalization Processes in Times of Pandemic
Authors: Vargas-Hernández José G.
Published: June 2021

This chapter aims to critically analyze both the world economy and the deglobalization processes under the assumption that they are the result of a dialectical evolution of economic, financial, political, and sanitary crisis. This dialectical movement of the history of the globalization and deglobalization processes is always a very complex phenomena of interactions between the economic agents and political actors, leading to both progressive and regressive events of economic growth, social development, and environmental sustainability. After a period of intensive economic, trade, and financial integration in the creation of a world economy system, suddenly the economic, financial, and sanitary dysfunctionalities emerged at the interior and created a reactive deglobalization process. However, what has been at the center are the international cooperation and trade relations determined by the need to expand the possibilities of satisfying human needs, including culture.
COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Influence on Safe Havens
Authors: Dias Rui Teixeira , Pardal Pedro , Santos Hortense , Vasco Cristina
Published: June 2021

This chapter aims to analyze the rebalancing of portfolios in the financial markets of China Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, gold (Bullion(Zurich) kg(995) CHF), silver (Paris Spot E/KG), platinum (Paris Spot E/KG), in the period from 2 September 2019 to 2 September 2020. The rhoDCCA results show that platinum is not a safe port for portfolio rebalancing in these regional markets, while silver is also not a safe port for the markets of Malaysia (KLSE), South Korea (KOSPI). As far as gold is concerned, the authors do not see any strong rhoDCCA which could be a safe harbor for these regional markets in this period of the 2020 pandemic crisis, which partly validates the first research question. The exponents detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) show pronounced long memories, with the exception made to the gold market that shows signs of balance, that is, the second question of investigation is validated.
Economics and COVID-19
Authors: Mourão Paulo , Martinho Vítor
Published: June 2021

This work discusses a bibliometric analysis of the papers published during 2020 about COVID-19 and three relevant economic keywords: GDP, unemployment, and innovation. Considering different outcomes, a significant diversity of journals without the focus on economic issues publishing articles discussing the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic was observed. The authors have also suggested some correlated dimensions between the number of articles authored by researchers affiliated to different universities of diverse countries and the severity of the pandemic indicators observed for these spaces.
Cultural Citizenship and Refugee Integration
Authors: Molla Tebeje
Published: June 2021

This chapter sheds light on the cultural citizenship of refugee-background Black Africans in Australia. Specifically, it elaborates on cultural citizenship as an analytical framework, outlines recent multicultural policy provisions in Australia, and highlights how conservative politicians and media personalities racialize youth violence and stigmatize Black Africans as dangerous criminals. Then the chapter proceeds to explain why racialized moral panic undermines the integration of African refugees. It argues that public humiliation emasculates self-efficacy, leading to youth disengagement. Second, the deprivation of cultural citizenship diminishes refugee youth's sense of affiliation. Third, public racial disparagement reinforces interpersonal racial prejudice and discrimination. Fourth, racial stigmatization perpetuates socio-economic disadvantages of refugee communities, durably positioning them on the margin of society. In light of these points, it is argued that a claim for equal respect and dignifying representation is a demand for full citizenship.
The Educational Inclusion of Forced Migrants With a Disability
Authors: Dovigo Fabio
Published: June 2021

The identification of disabilities is commonly considered a preliminary step in ensuring protection and assistance for forced migrants, as well as in meeting their educational needs. The WHO encourages authorities and agencies to use a set of questions developed by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics as a tool for screening and classifying disabilities. However, literature shows the use of classifications inspired by diagnostic models can have unintended negative effects on the ability to participate in education. The chapter critically examines the role the Washington Group questionnaires can play in the development of opportunities for inclusive education among forced migrants with disabilities. Reports and documents issued in connection with the development of the Washington Group questionnaires are studied through infrastructural inversion and intertextual thematic analysis. The findings critically review the use of the Washington Group questionnaires as a tool for assessing the disability conditions of forced migrants and their possibilities for inclusion in education.
Web Apps for Intercultural Competences and Sustainable Development
Authors: Ricardo-Barreto Carmen , Mizuno Jorge , Jabba Daladier , Llinás Humberto , Medina Antonio , Acevedo Cinthia Astorga , Acevedo Pedro , Peña Judith , Baloco Claudia , Villarreal Sandra
Published: June 2021

This chapter presents the results of research performed by Colombian researchers. The research aimed at designing, developing, and evaluating the app to promote the development of intercultural competences and ICT skills in higher education teachers for the creation of virtual learning environments. The project was based on the ADDIE model of instructional design and pedagogical principles of self-training, virtual education, interculturality, and universal design for learning. The test version of the app was piloted in a sample of higher education teachers. The evaluators highlighted key aspects such as the content and dynamics of the app, authentic learning activities, use of emerging technologies, numerous possibilities of interaction with technology, intuitive interface, and presentation of strategies for self-regulated learning. End users also evaluated the app positively in terms of ease of navigation, interactivity, clarity in the presentation of information, relevant content, and promotion of respect for diversity.
The Evolution of Trust in Money
Authors: Vieira João Pedro , Sousa Cátia Neves
Published: June 2021

Trust is vital to the sustained existence of money. No currency can prevail without it. However, following the international crisis of 2008, the liability-side of trust became increasingly apparent. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies challenged the need to trust and proposed an alternative “trustless” system. In the context of rising interest and concern about cryptocurrencies, the authors intend to discuss the role of trust in the evolution of money, from ancient Mesopotamia to modern sovereign fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies, and whether cryptocurrencies are prompting a shift in the paradigm of money or not.
Combining E-Commerce and Blockchain Technologies to Solve Problems and Improve Business Results
Authors: Rosário Albérico Travassos
Published: June 2021

The internet and digital transformation have changed our relations with the market. These technologies have been developing continuously, creating opportunities for new business models, and e-commerce has grown overwhelmingly worldwide, changing the consumption process of a large part of the world's population. Companies are increasingly using blockchain technology to improve and create new global trading business models. Blockchain had its first application in cryptocurrencies, but it has quickly become a major solution in all sorts of activity sectors, providing increased security in commercial transactions. An important question is how the blockchain can leverage e-commerce in solving problems and improving business results. It was concluded that blockchain could leverage e-commerce in the four fundamental areas of (1) e-commerce financial transactions, (2) e-commerce supply chain management, (3) e-commerce forecasting and contractual relations, and (4) e-commerce transactions systems' trust and credibility.
A Concrete Way to Develop Clinical Research in a Fair Way to the Users/Patients Using Blockchain Technology
Authors: Fonseca-Gomes João , Francisco Denise , Sequeira João Mota
Published: June 2021

Blockchain is being explored as a potential solution to many problems in areas other than the one created initially: cryptocurrency. Blockchain technology allows the authenticity of data, security in transactions, and privacy without the need for a third party. For that main reason, one of the growing interests concerns its application in healthcare, namely in clinical research. Multiple pain points of clinical research might benefit from the implementation of blockchain technology. This chapter shows some examples in which this technology is already implemented, identifying the advantages of its use. One of those advantages is clinical research, with the possibility of the patients managing their own clinical data and being properly rewarded for that. Research about clinical data monetization for patients is currently limited, and this chapter also proposes a hypothetical scenario of health data monetization workflow.
Trumping Reason
Authors: Schwartzman Roy
Published: June 2021

Why does support for Donald Trump remain resilient despite the preponderance of arguments and evidence that should refute so many of his claims? The answer lies in how Trump's rhetoric fully embraces intuitively based rationales for allegiance. This chapter analyzes Donald Trump's rhetoric throughout his campaign and presidency through the lens of moral foundations theory, which identifies clusters of value commitments that correlate with political allegiance. Trump activates connections with foundational values of his constituents through specific heuristic devices, especially loss aversion, availability, and representativeness. Synthesizing behavioral economics with the dramatistic rhetorical theories of Kenneth Burke reveals how Trump's claims resist counterargument and what rhetorical resources offer potential avenues for alternative positions to gain traction.
Making Meaning of the World
Authors: Loureiro Hester Anne-Rose , Thomason Brittany Pope
Published: June 2021

The purpose of this chapter is to provide teachers with a guide on how to use novel studies to promote social and emotional learning. Using research-based practices, the teachers outline multiple approaches to the novel Invisible Man ranging from teacher-led discussions to student generated research. The approaches include relevant discussion topics pertaining to social climate and to students' personal identities. Additionally, the teachers provide scaffolded approaches and suggested methods for fostering a culturally responsive classroom through the use of the novel. The overall purpose of the unit is to challenge students to understand those that are both alike and unlike them and to understand how this may affect their life experiences, increasing their social awareness. Though the teachers used Invisible Man as their anchor text, they advise that any complex text that provides students with a new outlook or understanding of the world in which they live will also work effectively.
For the Culture
Authors: Visco William
Published: June 2021

Socio-emotional learning researchers acknowledge the positive impact technology has on school aged children. Popular culture is one way to support and extend such learning environments while helping build positive relationships within the classroom. This chapter will focus on the history of pop culture in the classroom, the importance of merging students' primary and secondary discourses, using pop culture to build positive relationships, and provide engaging practitioner examples for a more fulfilling socio-emotional classroom experience. The author believes that when shared within a group of critical friends who own varied perspectives and experiences, creative spaces for learning are opened and activity can abound.
English Language Learners and Mainstream Instruction to Enhance SEL Literacy
Authors: Garling Brittany Ann , Huntress Michelle , Siefken Jill , Swink Jacalyn S. , Yackle Tessa
Published: June 2021

This chapter is grounded in the five social-emotional learning (SEL) core competencies within the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework. The authors present approaches and benefits associated with integrating SEL into literacy development for mainstream students at every grade level. Additionally, they explore how this integration supports English language learners in both academic and non-academic ways. Based on professional experience supported by current research, the authors offer how the incorporation of SEL into literacy instruction supports students' motivation, attitude, peer connections, and academic skill development.
Management Leadership and Employee Satisfaction
Authors: Hillard Amber Joy De Armond
Published: June 2021

The study reported in this article examines the relationship between management leadership and employee job satisfaction. Based on 30 participants, self-report survey questionnaires are used for data collection. Results show that a significant, moderate, and positive correlation (ρ = .73, p = .000) exists between employees' ratings of their managers' leadership skills and employees' job satisfaction. A significant relationship (ρ = .39, p = .030) exists between employees' ratings of importance of leadership strategies at civilian personnel advisory centers and job satisfaction of general schedule employees. Employees' job satisfaction is observed to be significantly positively correlated with the employees' rating of management leadership. The work highlights the importance of adequate training in soft skills as well as hard skills leaders.
Deep Learning-Based Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
Authors: Mohamed Jebran P.  , Banu Sufia
Published: June 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving from machine learning (ML) to deep learning (DL), which has ignited particular interest in ophthalmology as well. Deep learning has been applied in ophthalmology to fundus photographs, which achieve robust classification performance in the detection of diabetic retinopathy (DR). Diabetic retinopathy is a progressive condition observed in people who have had multiple years of diabetes mellitus. This paper focuses on examining how a deep learning algorithm can be applied for the detection and classification of diabetic retinopathy, both at the image level and at the lesion level. The performance of various neural networks is summarized by taking into account the sensitivity, precision, accuracy with respect to the size of the test datasets. Deep learning problems are discussed at the end.
Strategies to Mitigate COVID-19's Impact on Indian SMEs
Authors: Baporikar Neeta , Deshpande Mukund
Published: June 2021

SMEs are small firms with small budgets, workforces, and scales of operations compared to large enterprises, and their risk-bearing ability is low. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 paralyzed these SMEs creating severe financial crises and threats to survival. Small firms already face a variety of challenges in their normal course of business while the spread of the virus has suddenly turned down the situation into an emergency for them. COVID-19 stalled the movement of the employees owing to the evolution of severe public health issues, and many SMEs shut down due to fear of the pandemic. Due to this scenario, all SME owners are keen to know more about the measures and strategies that could be implemented to mitigate the negative impact. Hence, adopting an exploratory approach with systematic literature review, this paper deliberates on how these issues can be addressed through a robust and well-drawn policy and discusses the mitigation strategies that will aid in softening the blow due to this pandemic and also helps in the resurgence of SMEs at a faster rate.
The Paradoxical Effect of Social Media Usage on Developer Creativity and the Moderating Role of Openness to Experience
Authors: Miao Yumeng , Du Rong , Storey Veda C.
Published: June 2021

Developer creativity is vital for software companies to innovate and survive. Studies on social media have yielded mixed results about its impact on creativity due to the ubiquitous nature of social media. This research differentiates the effects of informational and socializing social media usage on both incremental and radical creativity and explore the moderating role of a developer's openness to experience. Based on a survey of software developers, the authors show that openness positively moderates the impact of informational social media usage on incremental and radical creativity and negatively moderates the impact of socializing social media usage on both types of creativity. There is a stronger positive moderation for the relationship between informational social media usage and radical creativity compared to incremental creativity. The results provide a foundation for understanding explanations of the paradoxical effect of social media usage on creativity.
3-Hydroxykynurenine Regulates Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated IL-6 Production and Protects against Endotoxic Shock in Mice
Authors: Hoshi Masato , Kubo Hisako , Ando Tatsuya , Tashita Chieko , Nakamoto Kentaro , Yamamoto Yasuko , Tezuka Hiroyuki , Saito Kuniaki
Published: June 2021

Despite advances in our understanding of endotoxic shock, novel therapeutic interventions that can reduce the burden of sepsis remain elusive. Current treatment options are limited, and it is only through refinements in the ways that we deliver supportive care that mortality has fallen over the years. In this study, the role of kynurenine 3-monooxygenase (KMO) in immune regulation was examined in LPS-induced endotoxemia using KMO−/− and KMO+/+ mice treated with the KMO inhibitor Ro61-8048. We showed that LPS-induced or cecal ligation and puncture–induced mortality and hepatic IL-6 production increased in the absence of KMO, possibly involving increased activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) signaling in hepatic macrophages. Moreover, treatment of septic mice with 3-hydroxykynurenine reduced mortality rates and inflammatory responses regardless of the presence or absence of KMO. According to our results, the administration of 3-hydroxykynurenine as part of the treatment approach for sepsis or as an adjuvant therapy might reduce the overproduction of IL-6, which is responsible for severe endotoxemia, and ultimately improve the survival rates of patients with sepsis.
SARS-CoV-2 Proteins Induce Endotoxin Tolerance Hallmarks: A Demonstration in Patients with COVID-19
Authors: Avendaño-Ortiz José , Lozano-Rodríguez Roberto , Martín-Quirós Alejandro , Maroun-Eid Charbel , Terrón-Arcos Verónica , Montalbán-Hernández Karla , Valentín Jaime , Muñoz del Val Elena , García-Garrido Miguel A , del Balzo-Castillo Álvaro , Casalvilla-Dueñas José Carlos , Peinado María , Gómez Laura , Herrero-Benito Carmen , Rubio Carolina , Cubillos-Zapata Carolina , Pascual-Iglesias Alejandro , del Fresno Carlos , Aguirre Luis A , López-Collazo Eduardo
Published: June 2021

According to a large number of reported cohorts, sepsis has been observed in nearly all deceased patients with COVID-19. We and others have described sepsis, among other pathologies, to be an endotoxin tolerance (ET)–related disease. In this study, we demonstrate that the culture of human blood cells from healthy volunteers in the presence of SARS-CoV-2 proteins induced ET hallmarks, including impairment of proinflammatory cytokine production, low MHC class II (HLA-DR) expression, poor T cell proliferation, and enhancing of both phagocytosis and tissue remodeling. Moreover, we report the presence of SARS-CoV-2 blood circulating proteins in patients with COVID-19 and how these levels correlate with an ET status, the viral RNA presence of SARS-CoV-2 in plasma, as well as with an increase in the proportion of patients with secondary infections.