bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Spatial heterogeneity of soil water content on surface land following reforestation in a semi-arid region
Authors: Yang Junjun , He Zhibin , Feng Jianmin , Lin Pengfei , Du Jun , Guo Lingxia , Liu Yufeng , Kou Meng , Wang Guohua , Yan Jialiang
Published: January 2022

The spatial pattern of soil water content (SWC) determines the success
of vegetation restoration in semi- and arid regions. The Qilian
Mountains in China are in a semi-arid area where decades of
environmental degradation prompted large-scale restoration efforts with
a native constructive species Picea crassifolia. However, the
relationships between SWC and landcover are not clear in this area,
hindering woodland restoration. In this study, we determined spatial
distribution and characteristics of SWC in the Qilian Mountains in four
main types of landcover. Our results revealed that 1. SWC decreased in
the order of natural forest, brushland, grassland, planted forest, and
mixed forest, but it was significantly different only in natural forest
(p<0.05); 2. planted forest exhibited a lower SWC at young
ages (less than 50 a) than natural forest, brushland or grassland, and
the ecohydrological effect of afforestation exhibited hysteresis at long
time scales; 3. a variogram analysis and Kriging interception of the
spatial pattern of SWC showed that shrubland and grassland exhibited
superior adaptability to local SWC compared with afforestation. The
differences in SWC among various landcover types indicated that
strengthening the maintenance and protection of natural forests is more
important for restoration efforts than afforestation; furthermore, in
semi-arid regions, shrubs and grasses are more suitable for use in
ecological restoration than forest plantations.
La calidad regulatoria de los marcos normativos: una aproximación crítica
Authors:   Universidad de Valladolid, Martínez López-Muñiz José Luis
Published: January 2022

La normativa sobre educación adolece de la falta de calidad regulatoria de muchas leyes y reglamentos que viene denunciándo­se en muchos países. La preocupación por la calidad de las normas es antigua, pero se ha recrudecido ante la legislación «motorizada» y «desbocada» en que se ha traducido el ejer­cicio del poder normativo del Estado constitu­cional, social y democrático de derecho. Cabe identificar algunas causas de la degradación de la calidad normativa, aun limitadas por el papel fundamental de las constituciones y por el de los tratados internacionales. Entre los medios para remediar el problema, o al menos paliarlo o frenarlo, se cuenta en España, aun con limitada eficacia hasta ahora, con el papel del Consejo de Estado, la Comisión General de Codificación, la Oficina de Coordinación y Calidad Normativa o incluso el Tribunal Constitucional. Son de notar en particular algunos defectos o aspectos mejorables en la calidad del marco normativo formado por las principales leyes orgánicas reguladoras de la educación en España. Todo el análisis se atiene al método ju­rídico, sobre la base de fundadas opiniones doctrinales, datos normativos y algunas de­cisiones jurisdiccionales, bajo un concepto del saber o de la ciencia jurídica que asume la integridad de su comprensión en el Di­gesto del Derecho romano justinianeo como divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, iusti atque iniusti scientia, y que, por ende, toma como cimiento una antropología on­tológica, e incluye una debida atención a la lógica y la lingüística. La conclusión se des­prende del conjunto del trabajo: no puede dejar de perseguirse, decidida y críticamen­te, el objetivo de la calidad normativa que se plantea desde el comienzo como exigencia sustantiva de toda normativa jurídica, y que tanto se echa en falta.
The doctrine of double effect in ethics education
Authors: Khort Mikhail Gennadyevich , Karimov Artur Ravilevich , Sinyavskiy Alexey Alexeyevich
Published: January 2022

Ethics education is a vast term for learning experiences aimed to assist students in developing ethically, whether in terms of increased ethical awareness and understanding or greater motivation to act ethically in the world. The article discusses the doctrine of double effect in the context of ethical education between deontology and consequentialism. The authors note that it is impossible to agree the doctrine of double effect with contrarian normative positions. In the first part of the article, authors argue in favor of the doctrine of the double effect as an independent ethical principle. In the second part of the article, authors consider the doctrine of double effect by using the example of an armed conflict situation in the terms of international humanitarian law. The main thesis of the article is that the doctrine of double effect should be considered as a universal presupposition of both ethical and educational regulation.
The learner's experience of social interaction in the context of world outlook crisis in humanitarian education in Russia
Authors: Kovalenko Elena V. , Kurgansky Sergey I. , Sokolova Olga A.
Published: January 2022

The relevance of the research is determined by the growing need for an updated methodology, theories, and technologies of social reproduction of the human being in the conditions of the worldview crisis of humanitarian knowledge and education in Russia. The aim of the study is to develop theoretical and methodological foundations and technological support for enriching the experience of social interaction used by future specialists in the humanities as a source and means of forming their worldview. Systemic, cultural-historical, comparative analysis, modelling are used to meet the aim of the study. Based on the results, the essential characteristics of the studied experience are determined; the acceptance of individual experience of social interaction as an integrative basis of the results of humanitarian education is argued. Conclusions are made about the methodological prerequisites for developing the pedagogical concept on the enrichment of social interaction experience for humanitarian profile students.
The role of family in the students’ educational achievement
Authors: Lazurenko Natalia V. , Korolyova Kseniya Y. , Voloshina Irina G. , Svischeva Irina K. , Blagorozheva Zhanna O.
Published: January 2022

First of all, parents compete for high-quality educational opportunities for their children, and better educational opportunities result in more excellent academic achievement. Second of all, parenting behavior and educational support for their children can nurture children's learning attitudes and influence academic achievement. The article reviews and summarizes the results of the analysis of parents’ support in the educational success and values-based orientations of young students. Data for study which involved interviewing students (n=468, proportional selection by gender, age, course of study) made it possible to identify the following semantic units of analysis: values-based (life) orientations of student-age youth and motives for better education, wedding (family as a value), attitude to marriage registration and divorce (attitude to matrimony); reproductive attitudes (attitude towards parenting (fatherhood / motherhood). The results of the study have shown that family occupies an important place in the hierarchy of values ​​of modern student’s youth, taking an intimate meaning (values ranked as high: “happy family life”, “love” (according to The Values Survey by M. Rokeach) and social significance, 93% of respondents note the importance and necessity of the institution of family for modern society. It was also concluded that their families’ socioeconomic status profoundly influences students’ academic accomplishment.
The storm perıod ın psychologıcal and educatıonal development: an overvıew of adolescence
Authors: Uzun Gizem Öneri
Published: January 2022

Adolescence is a significant period of transition between childhood and adulthood. This critical developmental period is conventionally understood as the years between the onset of puberty and social independence. This article will be divided into several parts; firstly, it will focus on factors affecting adolescent development such as educational development, cognitive development, moral and value development, emotional and psychological development. Finally, recommending some psychological supports for both parents and teachers to develop adolescent personality will be included. To satisfy the aim of teh atusy, descriptive and data-gathering methods are utilized. Based on the results acquired, it can be concluded that adolescent self-esteem is often affected by appearance; they compare their bodies with friends and peers. For further research, each developmental area in adolescents can be psychologically and educationally examined in more detail, and it is thought that the field will be contributed.
Formation technologies of professional competence for prospective teachers
Authors: Dinara Sadirbekova , Zafura Shalgynbayeva , Valentina Мakhatova , Oryngul Tabyldieva , Raushan Zharmukhametova , Marina Sladkova , Ardak Amangeldi , Aray Anuarbekova , Elonora Abdol
Published: January 2022

The organizational and atavistic block of research competencies is characterized by the criterion of acquiring skills to organize research activities by a teacher. Thus, this study attempts to analyze the formation technologies of professional competence for prospective teachers. To attain the aim of the study, a descriptive method is utilized. The studies of the process of managing the psychological and pedagogical competencies of a higher education teacher are taken into account to come to a reliable conclusion. Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that there is a necessity for the proper organization of activities and the active use of technology for working with students and young people, which makes it possible to combine teaching and educational goals as much as possible, both in the educational process and beyond.
Evaluation of education quality components
Authors: Godsmohammadi Amir , Nourabadi Soolmaz
Published: January 2022

The aim of the present study in the upper elementary school is to investigate the components of education quality that which one-teacher and multi-teacher methods are more effective from the Iranian teachers' point of view. This research is applied method in terms of purpose that was done through survey method. The results indicate that the quality of one-teacher teaching in upper elementary course is moderate to low because the average obtained is 2.96, less than the hypothetical average of number 3. Also, the quality of multi-teacher teaching in upper elementary course is moderate to high because the average obtained is 4.09, more than the hypothetical average. Therefore, considering the findings and analysis of the information that obtained in most components related to the quality of teaching, there are obvious differences between the one-teacher and multi-teacher in quality of courses, and the multi-teacher method is better than the one-teacher method in the upper elementary school.
The effect of handicraft education on urban life relations
Authors: Noori Manijeh , Namjoo Abbas
Published: January 2022

As an independent and indigenous industry, the most prominent applied art of Iran and one of the top three handicraft poles in the world, Iran’s handicraft has been deeply rooted in the rich and fertile culture of Islamic Iran. This was an applied study performed by an exploratory and mixed (qualitative-quantitative) method. The statistical population included all individuals who visited the art centers of Tehran, Iran in 2019 and also people who educated in this field. Subjects were performed by multistage stratified sampling and convenience sampling using interviews. An 18-item questionnaire with cognitive, cultural and social dimensions was prepared based on data obtained from interviews and theoretical foundations. According to the results, the revival and promotion of handicraft use affected all three components of urban life relations. According to the regression analysis results, handicraft revival and promotion predicted 23%, 23%, and 19% of cognitive, cultural and social components of urban life relations, respectively.
Approximation by using the Meyer-König and Zeller operators based on (p,q)-analogue
Authors: Kadak Uğur , Khan Asif , Mursaleen M.
Published: January 2022

In this paper, a generalization of the q-Meyer-K?nig and Zeller operators by
means of the (p,q)- calculus is introduced. Some approximation results for
(p,q)-analogue of Meyer-K?nig and Zeller operators denoted by Mn,p,q for 0
< q < p ? 1 are obtained. Also we investigate classical and statistical
versions of Korovkin type approximation results based on proposed operator.
Furthermore, some graphical examples for convergence of the operators are
presented.
Quantale-valued convergence tower spaces: Diagonal axioms and continuous extension
Authors: Jäger Gunther
Published: January 2022

We generalize a result on continuous extension of a mapping on a dense
subspace from the category of convergence spaces to the category of
quantale-valued convergence tower spaces. To this end, we introduce and
study diagonal axioms which characterize topologicalness and regularity for
quantalevalued convergence tower spaces.
Homology of contact CR-submanifolds
Authors: Şahin Fulya , Şahin Bayram
Published: January 2022

In this paper, homology of a contact CR-submanifold of a real hypersurface,
which has naturally almost contact metric structure induced from the complex
Euclidean space Cm, is examined. More precisely, nonexistence of stable
integral currents on a compact contact CR-submanifold of real hypersurface
of canonical complex space form Cm is investigated and vanishing theorems
concerning the homology groups are obtained.
Expansion of implicit mapping theory to split-quaternionic maps in Clifford analysis
Authors: Kim Ji , Shon Kwang
Published: January 2022

This paper presents the regularity of a split-quaternionic function and a
corresponding split- Cauchy-Riemann system of a split quaternion. The
properties of an inverse and an implicit mapping theory for a
split-quaternionic map are investigated. In addition, the paper proposes a
definition and expression for a split biregular mapping in an open set in
C2. The obtained results are illustrated with some examples.
The global behavior of a certain difference polynomial equation
Authors: Bektesevic Jasmin , Hadziabdic Vahidin , Mehuljic Midhat
Published: January 2022

In this paper we will present the Julia set and the global behavior of a
polynomial second-order difference equation of type xn+1 = axmn xx-1 + axm+1
n-1 + bxn-1 where m ? N, a > 0 and b ? 0 with non-negative initial
conditions.
Type 2 Diabetes Partitioned Polygenic Scores Associate With Disease Outcomes in 454,193 Individuals Across 13 Cohorts
Authors: DiCorpo Daniel , LeClair Jessica , Cole Joanne B. , Sarnowski Chloé , Ahmadizar Fariba , Bielak Lawrence F. , Blokstra Anneke , Bottinger Erwin P. , Chaker Layal , Chen Yii-Der I. , Chen Ye , de Vries Paul S. , Faquih Tariq , Ghanbari Mohsen , Gudmundsdottir Valborg , Guo Xiuqing , Hasbani Natalie R. , Ibi Dorina , Ikram M. Arfan , Kavousi Maryam , Leonard Hampton L. , Leong Aaron , Mercader Josep M. , Morrison Alanna C. , Nadkarni Girish N. , Nalls Mike A. , Noordam Raymond , Preuss Michael , Smith Jennifer A. , Trompet Stella , Vissink Petra , Yao Jie , Zhao Wei , Boerwinkle Eric , Goodarzi Mark O. , Gudnason Vilmundur , Jukema J. Wouter , Kardia Sharon L.R. , Loos Ruth J.F. , Liu Ching-Ti , Manning Alisa K. , Mook-Kanamori Dennis , Pankow James S. , Picavet H. Susan J. , Sattar Naveed , Simonsick Eleanor M. , Verschuren W.M. Monique , Willems van Dijk Ko , Florez Jose C. , Rotter Jerome I. , Meigs James B. , Dupuis Josée , Udler Miriam S.
Published: January 2022

OBJECTIVE

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has heterogeneous patient clinical characteristics and outcomes. In previous work, we investigated the genetic basis of this heterogeneity by clustering 94 T2D genetic loci using their associations with 47 diabetes-related traits and identified five clusters, termed β-cell, proinsulin, obesity, lipodystrophy, and liver/lipid. The relationship between these clusters and individual-level metabolic disease outcomes has not been assessed.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

Here we constructed individual-level partitioned polygenic scores (pPS) for these five clusters in 12 studies from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium and the UK Biobank (n = 454,193) and tested for cross-sectional association with T2D-related outcomes, including blood pressure, renal function, insulin use, age at T2D diagnosis, and coronary artery disease (CAD).

RESULTS

Despite all clusters containing T2D risk-increasing alleles, they had differential associations with metabolic outcomes. Increased obesity and lipodystrophy cluster pPS, which had opposite directions of association with measures of adiposity, were both significantly associated with increased blood pressure and hypertension. The lipodystrophy and liver/lipid cluster pPS were each associated with CAD, with increasing and decreasing effects, respectively. An increased liver/lipid cluster pPS was also significantly associated with reduced renal function. The liver/lipid cluster includes known loci linked to liver lipid metabolism (e.g., GCKR, PNPLA3, and TM6SF2), and these findings suggest that cardiovascular disease risk and renal function may be impacted by these loci through their shared disease pathway.

CONCLUSIONS

Our findings support that genetically driven pathways leading to T2D also predispose differentially to clinical outcomes.
Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen koordinaatio 2018–2021
Authors: Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen sihteeristö AVOTT
Published: January 2022

Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen koordinaatio (AVOTT-koordinaatio) on toiminut osana tutkimusyhteisöä kolme vuotta. Tänä aikana on laadittu keskeiset tavoitteet avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen kehitykselle sekä yhteisölliselle tiedepoliittiselle linjaustyölle. Itsearvioinnissa AVOTT-sihteeristö arvioi koordinaation toimintatapoja avoimuuden ja yhteisöllisyyden näkökulmasta.

Kolmen vuoden aikana on yhteisöllisesti laadittu Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen julistus, johon tutkimusyhteisön keskeiset toimijat ovat allekirjoituksellaan sitoutuneet. Julistusta tukevasta neljästä linjauksesta kolme on jo osaksi valmistunut ja neljäs valmistuu vuonna 2022. Linjausten tavoite on tukea organisaatioita tieteen ja tutkimuksen avoimuutta edistävien palveluiden ja toimintatapojen kehittämisessä.

Viimeisen kolmen vuoden aikana avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen ymmärrys ja näkyvyys ovat yhteisöllisen koordinaatiotyön mukana kasvaneet. Julistuksessa asetettu visio kansainvälisestä edelläkävijyydestä on toteutunut ja Suomi on eurooppalaisessa eturintamassa avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen edistämisessä.
Strategies to use Prior Knowledge to Improve the Performance of Deep Learning (Subtitle) An Approach Towards Trustable Machine Learning Systems
Authors:   , Morgan Jay
Published: January 2022

Machine Learning (ML) has been a transformative technology in society by automating otherwise difficult tasks such as image recognition and natural language understand-ing. The performance of Deep Learning (DL), in particular, has improved to the point where it can be applied to automotive vehicles – a situation in which trust is placed on the ML systems to operate correctly and safely. Yet, while fundamental ML algorithms can be formally verified for safety without much trouble, the same may not be said for DL. A key problem preventing the trustworthiness of DL is the existence of adver-sarial examples, where small changes in input result in catastrophic misclassifications, thereby undermining their use in safety-critical systems.Using pre-existing knowledge from domain experts has been shown to successfully in-crease not only the performance but critically the resilience of DL models to adversarial examples. The current thesis developed four different strategies of integrating prior expert knowledge into DL models: feature specialisation, specialised information pro-cessing, stimulation of attention mechanisms, and augmentation of training data. Prior knowledge from three scientific domains was used (Quantum Chemistry, Corpus Lin-guistics and Astrophysics) as case studies to provide a comprehensive framework for evaluation of the strategies performance given different types of data (i.e., text-based, image-based, and graph-based) and model architectures (e.g. recurrent, graph, and convolutional). For the Quantum Chemistry and Corpus Linguistics case studies, two novel datasets are introduced to facilitate the training of prior knowledge informed DL models. Each of the four proposed strategies were tested independently on the case studies to understand their isolated contribution, as well as combined with other strategies to evaluate their interaction.The results show that, combined, the four prior knowledge integration strategies (a) are an effective method of increasing model performance; (b) result in fewer misclas-sifications as a result of misleading features; (c) lead to increased model robustness to adversarial examples; (d) create informative representations by visualising learnt representations of prior knowledge; (e) lessen the number of training samples needed to achieve adequate model performance; and (f) lead to better generalisation to dif-ferent problem tasks other than those the model was trained for. The findings show the prior knowledge integration strategies used here improve the performance of ML while being more resilient to adversarial examples. This can lead to more trustworthy ML systems in practice.
Improving the Quality of Indihome Complaints Service Using Lean Service Method (Case Study of Customer Care Plasa Telkom Solo)
Authors: Pujiyanto Eko , Fahma Fakhrina , Ayu Savitri Kusumaning
Published: January 2022

PT. Telkom Indonesia is a company engaged in the telecommunications sector. Nowadays, the necessity for internet networks has increased, notably since the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, PT. Telkom Indonesia as the largest telecommunications company in Indonesia need to improve the quality of service, especially in the Indihome complaint service process. The Indihome service complaint process often causes many queues so that customers have to wait a long time to be served. This study uses the Lean Service method, by identifying 7 wastes in service companies and then reducing the amount of waste that occurs which causes inefficient and effective service processes. This study also uses VALSAT (Value Stream Analysis Tools) to identify waste in the service system flow. In the Indihome complaint service process, there are the most critical waste, namely the waste of delays and the waste of under-utilized resources. The proposed improvements for waste of delays and waste of under-utilized resources are maximizing the use of VIRSA (Virtual Plasa) machines, educating customers to use MyIndihome application, and conducting regular training for CSR employees. Through value stream mapping current state, it is known that the total time for customers to get service is 1709 seconds and through value stream mapping future state, it is known that the total time for customers to get service is 1468 seconds for each customer.
An Autonomous Maintenance Design Based on Overall Resource Effectiveness (ORE) Analysis: A Case Study of Paving Molding Machine
Authors: Wardani Indira Kusuma , Atmaji Fransiskus Tatas Dwi , Alhilman Judi
Published: January 2022

The paving molding machine is one of the machines used to produce black paving at PT XYZ. Based on the historical data from the engineering maintenance department, this machine has the highest breakdown frequency which affected the low performance and productivity of the machine. To solve this problem, the effectiveness of the paving molding machine was analyzed using overall resource effectiveness (ORE) methods. ORE aims to analyze machine indicators, consisting of readiness, availability of the facility, changeover efficiency, availability of material, availability of manpower, performance efficiency, and quality rate. The ORE analyzed result shows that values of performance efficiency of paving molding machine were 64.54% and still below the standards of the ORE. To increase the ORE, a design of autonomous maintenance (AM) was proposed. The proposed design means the operator is given the responsibility to maintain the basic condition of the machine to minimize the damage of the paving molding machine at PT XYZ. The result of ORE analysis, especially in the performance efficiency, will be an input for the engineering maintenance department to make an AM basic design that can be executed by each of the machine's operators. In general, this research’s novelty is to combine the application of the ORE method with the AM basic design, whereas the AM is one of the pillars of total productive maintenance (TPM).
Pengaruh Hormon terhadap Induksi Embrio Somatik Kacapiring (Gardenia jasminoides) dan Potensi Aplikasinya dalam Pembuatan Benih Sintetik
Authors: Pardede Yosua , Mursyanti Exsyupransia , Sidharta Boy Rahardjo
Published: January 2022

Kacapiring (Gardenia jasminoides) is an ornamental plant that has many uses, as a cut flowers, food ingredients, textile materials, cosmetic raw materials, and containing therapeutic compounds. The high demand for gardenia needs to be balanced with the results of its cultivation. Conventional propagation of gardenias has disadvantages such as a long life cycle, genotypes can differ from the parent, and can carry disease from the parent. Therefore, more efficient gardenia propagation techniques are needed, one of which is by making synthetic seeds. Synthetic seeds can be produced by encapsulating somatic embryos. Somatic embryos are collections of embryonic cells formed from soma cells that have the ability to regenerate into a complete new plant. Hormones are organic materials that occur naturally in plants or are synthetic. Hormones have an effect on plant differentiation and growth. Somatic embryogenesis can be carried out using auxin and cytokinin hormones, because auxins can induce embryogenic callus and cytokinins can initiate the embryogenic process in callus. Synthetic seeds are single somatic embryos covered by a matrix, so that they can be stored for a certain duration of time and can grow into a complete plant in both in vitro and ex vitro conditions. This literature review is to provide an overview based on existing references on the effects of various types of hormones for the induction of gardenia somatic embryos, synthetic seed production methods, and synthetic seed storage temperatures.
US-China Competition from a Perspective of Global Product Network: Trends and Implications of Industrial Competitiveness between Countries Using Product Space Model
Authors: Yoo Jinhee , Lee Jun Yeop , Kim Hwa-Joong
Published: January 2022

This study aims to examine the trend of industrial competition between the US and China, which is the most crucial determinant in the future development of the global economy. For decades, the global economy has strengthened the global production network based on the division of labor between countries. Thus, the ripple effect of competition between the two countries should be analyzed in terms of the global production network. Therefore, this study uses the product space model, which explains the development process of industries with comparative advantage by country. We constructed the model based on the products of HS 4-digit code for the 2010–2019 period. The analysis results on the trend of the industrial competitiveness of major countries are as follows. First, the current industrial competitiveness of China is concentrated on low-tech industries. In the case of high-tech items, China shows a tendency of lower export sophistication compared to major manufacturing powerhouses such as Germany, the US, Japan, and Korea. Second, with respect to the possibility of a future industrial structure upgrade evaluated by density, the trend of China overtaking other manufacturing powerhouses is observed. As implied by the product space model, the advancement of the industrial structure through active participation in international trade enhances the industrial competitiveness. Therefore, the outcome of US-China industrial competition depends on who ensures more openness and industrial complexity.
Has the US-China Trade War Caused Trade Decoupling?
Authors: Kim Jeonghyun , Lee Jinmyon , Kim Bawoo
Published: January 2022

Recently, decoupling between the US and China has emerged as an important issue in global economics. We propose an analytical framework for trade decoupling analysis, borrowing the idea from the production function in non-competitive input-output tables. Using that methodology, we analyze the mobile phone trade network subject to various measures imposed by the US. A scenario analysis is performed to compare the extent of decoupling after a trade war with worst-cases. In bilateral trade, China’s share of total US imports fell significantly in 2019 compared to 2017. However, China’s indirect exports to the US increased during the same period. A similar pattern is observed in the global trade network visualized via multidimensional scaling (MDS). China’s out-degree centrality decreased slightly, while Vietnam’s role expanded. Actual figures for 2019 show a decreased out-degree centrality for Chinese final good exports, but a much higher one in the scenarios. Also, China’s indirect exports to the US have increased. But China does not appear to play a key role in the network as assumed in the scenario. Throughout the study, intermediate goods were treated homogeneously, and further studies considering the heterogeneity of input-output linkages are needed.
Evaluating the impact of agritourism on local development in small islands
Authors: Karampela Sofia , Kizos Thanasis , Spilanis Ioannis
Published: January 2022

Tourism is an activity encompassing economy, society and nature. Besides mass tourism, many different forms of tourism activities and products have developed and are gaining ground in terms of demand. Debates on the definition of such typically small scale activities have brought forward a number of different types, including ‘agrotourism’, ‘agritourism’ and ‘rural tourism’. This paper contributes to the conceptual analysis of agritourism with a focus on its effects on local development. After a brief historical sketch of agritourism development, the effects on local development found in the literature are presented. Then, a typology of different forms of agritourism is discussed, including aspects of supply and demand, the scale of operation of the enterprises and networks of enterprises related to agritourism. Finally, we explore the case of small islands, a special type of space, and their local development with these types of ‘alternative’ tourism activities alongside ‘conventional’ tourism. The conceptual framework that results suggests the need for a case and area specific mapping of type, scale and network of enterprises in order to determine impacts and provide important information for managing and planning agritourism, especially on islands.
Tourism as the development driver of Easter Island: the key role of resident perceptions
Authors: Figueroa B. Eugenio , S. Rotarou Elena
Published: January 2022

Residents’ attitudes concerning tourism evolution and impacts in tourism host localities are a crucial determinant of the ability of the tourism sector to develop. Easter Island has recently experienced a tremendous tourism growth, which has nurtured expectations that the tourist sector could become the economic driver of the island. Using fieldwork, interviews and surveys, we investigate residents’ perceptions towards tourism and analyse their implications for the sector’s future development. The survey results show that 96% of residents believe that tourism is important or very important for the island’s economy. We conclude that while residents of Easter Island are aware of tourism’s negative impacts, they support the tourism sector, because they recognize it as the main future driver of the island’s economy. However, due to the current environmental threats and the serious governance problems of the island, it is not clear if further expansion of the tourism sector will be sustainable.
A SHORT REVIEW ON ADVANCEMENT IN FAST DISSOLVING ORAL THIN FILMS
Authors:   Mahakal Institute of Pharmaceutical Studies, Ujjain, 456664 (M.P.) India, RATHORE LAKSHITA , GEHALOT NARENDRA ,   Mahakal Institute of Pharmaceutical Studies, Ujjain, 456664 (M.P.) India, JAIN VIKAS ,   Mahakal Institute of Pharmaceutical Studies, Ujjain, 456664 (M.P.) India
Published: January 2022

The pharmaceutical industry is pursuing the development of thin films as a novel method of drug administration. Thin films as an alternative to standard dosage forms have been described. They are a very adaptable platform capable of producing immediate, local, or systemic effects. Additionally, these systems are self-administered, which is advantageous for patients with dysphagia, elderly, pediatric, or bedridden patients and those who cannot administer with water. Thin film drug delivery methods are available for oral, buccal, sublingual, ophthalmic, and transdermal administration. This review explores oral thin films in all of their elements from a contemporary standpoint and provides insight into the world's expanding market share due to the expansion of study areas and technical advancements. Simultaneously, it presents an overview of the essential parameters that affect formulation design that affects thin films, including thin-film design, anatomical and physiological constraints, and the selection of suitable manufacturing processes, characterization methodologies, and the physicochemical properties of polymers and drugs are all covered in this section. Additionally, it provides insight onto the most recent thin-films produced by various pharmaceutical companies. KEYWORDS: Fast dissolving films, patient compliance, dysphagia, oral, buccal,sublingual.
Communication Action Zones in Art and Technology - ZACAT
Authors: dos Santos Camila , Machado Oliveira Andreia
Published: January 2022

Communication Action Zones in Art and Technology, in portuguese Zonas de Ações Comunicacionais em Arte e Tecnologia – ZACAT – is a master's research developed in Brazil, made before and during the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic, which causes the New Coronavirus disease. This artistic and academic work includes a set of sound and visual poetics based on an investigation of artistic communicational practices of an activist character, with the mediation of several questions about the current Brazilian history. Firstly, through diversified strategies and proposals for different interlocutors, with experiments in 2019, in different spaces in the city of Santa Maria, state of Rio Grande do Sul - streets, museums, art galleries, university, school, social networks, radio wave space. Subsequently, as a result of the world scenario presented from 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the poetic undergoes significant transformations. In addition to the artistic and communicational strategies undergoing changes in approach, the Santa Maria space moves to that of the Clube Naturista Colina do Sol (CNCS), a naturist community located in the municipality of Taquara, also in Rio Grande do Sul. Not urbanized and immersed with the wild environment the least interfered by human action, which provides other forms of listening and connection, in addition to the relationship with the body, communication and technology, such as the use of online virtual reality platforms to share the work carried out. To approach the construction of this research, studies on methodology by the researcher and artist Sandra Rey (1953) are used. As a theoretical foundation, reference is made to the idea of micropolitics, a concept that refers to philosophers Michel Foucault (1926-1984) and Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and to art critic Suely Rolnik (1948). Activist artistic practices are based on the experiences of Brazilian collectives from the 1990’s to the present, as seen under the historiography of Art Activism from the 1950’s, with Italian autonomist philosophers such as Giorgio Agamben (1942) and Franco Berardi (1949). To support the notion of Art and Communication, authors such as Mario Costa (1936), Fred Forest (1933), Mônica Tavares, Priscila Arantes, Christine Mello and Giselle Beiguelman are based on. The concept of device emerges from theoretical research and mediates artistic practices, having as reference Agamben, Foucault, Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) and Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989). From performances, through installations, through audio, video and face-to-face interactivity experiments or via virtual networks, this research seeks to give visibility to everyday micropolitics, with their memories, affections, formalized or ephemeral life impulses in moments of encounters. And how the artistic works can unfold in different contexts, in front of different audiences and under challenging conditions in terms of a larger historical context.
Marlene's house
Authors: Nascimento Suely
Published: January 2022

As an artist-researcher, I have been developing the research “Marlene's house” in the Doctorate in Arts, Graduate Program in Arts, Institute of Art Sciences, Federal University of Pará, since 2018. An extension of the research I produced in the Master's Degree in Arts, at the same institution of higher education, from 2016 to 2018. It is a poetics built from family and affective memory, in which photography, video, sound, writing, smell, taste, touch and feeling merge. And it is part of research line 1, on poetics and acting processes, dedicated to research in the arts, with a focus on poetics, on modes of acting, on the construction and presentation of an artistic work, accompanied by a reflective text. Thus, the research is being built with a memorial that houses the reflective text and a work, consisting of an installation with photography-video-sound-writing, records of my mother's house. Along the way, I talk to researcher Priscila Arantes, from São Paulo, who writes: “expanded field photography incorporates [...] the idea of dialogue, contamination and intersections of the field of photography with other fields of language and know." I also talk to the American Rosalind Krauss, who studies three-dimensional work and its expanded field. As a personal methodology, I mentally create a garden mixed with my memories of the garden of the house where I lived, where I develop the installation and the memorial. A meditation in which there is the action of artistic making. And it is in this garden that I experiment, read, research, edit photography-video-sound-written, reflect on my life path and what touches me throughout it, and write the research texts. During classes, in practical-reflective studies, I have been building my poetics, experimenting with installations in the classroom. One of them related to the kitchen of the house where I lived. I tried, in two subjects, the coffee experience with classmates. A performance I talk to Renato Cohen about, when he says that this creative act touches the tenuous boundaries that separate life and art. Each layer of the installation is perceived in the creative process of the artwork. And, based on what I perceive in my poetics, I develop conversations with the history of art, and I have conceived texts, which I named the artist's writings. With the letters, words, sentences and reflections, I write down what I thought/think about geometry, dimensions, space, the room in the house and sharing around a dining table. The poetic layers built in the creative path are countless and, in the installation, I present traces that are in me, in the garden, in the bedroom, in the kitchen and in the backyard where I lived a life in my mother's house.
Film as part of the thesis and mounting as a method for the social sciences
Authors: Regis Brasil Priscilla
Published: January 2022

My argument is that the history of space can be built by montage. I'm a documentary filmmaker and editor. I understand film as a support for writing in fragments. I think that the filmic form, capable of carrying movements and times, testimonies and texts, past and present, is a suitable support for the history of space. There is a visual form of knowledge and a wisdom of the gaze, as in Warburg's Atlas, largely disregarded by the academy as a way of producing knowledge. If montage is a polyphonic device that uses forgotten remains and heterogeneous narrations to dismantle the official story and reassemble another story from its critical constellations, no instrument seems to me more adequate than a film to execute it. Through the search for other ways of narrating the urban experience, following Benjamin from the rags and the residues, operating knowledge from the anarchic potentialities of the fragment and the problematization through doubt, through the incomplete and through the unfinished. For Didi-Huberman, the empirical and creative exercise proposed by Benjamin is capable of bringing out other possibilities from the dismantling of certainties. It allows us to think through the differences in the gaps left between the fragments. The montage allows for the simultaneity of times and the emergence of symptoms, the revelation of failures, conflicts, heterogeneity, in perforating tradition and colliding with the text. If montage serves all this, it also serves the decolonization of perspectives and methodologies, serves to narrate the history of subalterns and the hidden histories of empires. It also can be used to articulate memory, narration and history in the attempt to grasp reality. I propose the use of cinematographic montage as a method of knowledge production, as an important part of the research and whose result will be a constitutive and inseparable part of the thesis. Film as a method for the social sciences. In addition to assembling the fragments, the author's narrative interference is a critical point of the proposed experience. Delivering an account of the position from which one narrates is, therefore, fundamental. The narration does not impose itself as a voice of God over the material, as it neither affirms nor has certainties. It is organized on the incompleteness of the process. The narration sheds light on the background of the painting, on what History disregarded, on what was considered disposable or unimportant by the discourse of the dominator. It is thinking through differences and from the cracks of what was enunciated by the authority. It is thinking from accidents and ghosts.I propose the integration of the result of film montage experience in the general organization of the thesis, so that the chapters can vary between the two supports, text and film, being organized according to what the material itself indicates.
Extended researchers. Towards ameta social human beings.
Authors: Casarin Jordana , Costa Haline , Forero Jorge
Published: January 2022

Extended reality (XR) technologies, particularly those derived from virtual reality (VR), offer promising alternatives in so far as they foster new social contexts that must be analyzed and systematized. The virtual world-centered Metaverse began to spotlight educational and social interaction, with possibilities to break the boundaries between real-world and virtual spaces that help escape from isolation constraints. The necessity for alternative solutions became evident in times of isolation, where physical interactions were limited. In July 2021, during the restrictions imposed by the Covid 19 pandemic, researchers from the University of Porto in Portugal created a virtual event called “Surviving a Ph.D: Tec and Arts Experiences,” aimed at helping doctoral students face the challenges of conducting lengthy and sometimes solitary investigations. The emotional problem related to the isolation of investigators was already evident in previous research, and the pandemic scenario served as an even greater warning to professionals such as scientists, in which alternative contact solutions are very welcome. To achieve the purpose, a three-dimensional virtual environment was developed, among other things, that allowed providing, in addition to presentations and discussion panels, an immersive experience to promote an instance of dialogue and discussion around the problems that occurred in doctoral programs. Attendees were invited to participate in scheduled activities in an environment developed in Mozilla Hubs, a web open-source platform that allows creating multi-user virtual spaces under a first-person game mechanic. The scenarios produced (also called rooms) sought to reflect the idea of isolation by incorporating the imaginary of four interconnected islands, which were developed in the Spoke editor provided by Mozilla. These islands housed a particular activity in a specific virtual space (Lobby, Conference Area, Culture and Leisure, and Food for thought area). Likewise, the participants had to choose an avatar with which they could visit the facilities provided for the event. The results showed that, unlike those platforms that we could consider linear, such as Zoom, Google Meet, or even YouTube, where interactions occur sequentially, virtual environments promote group relationships that can occur simultaneously and asynchronously. Likewise, positive effects were observed in the registered impressions of concurrent visitors from twenty-three countries worldwide from five continents, who evaluated the rooms as modern, innovative, fun, and friendly. In this article, we expose the antecedents, the methodology, and the results of this experience to contribute to the systematized knowledge around these new information technologies that, from the Metaverse, invite us to rethink ourselves as social beings.