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The Universal Language of Sustaining Quality Peace and Resilience
Authors: Sematlane Mafole
Published: September 2022

Humanity's traditional approach to social problems, inequities, and abuses has been a deficit approach, using force, largely reactive, taking recourse to legalistic action, protests, or demonstrations. Social problems, inequities, and abuses continue despite efforts at building peace and resilience. Experts say that society knows very little about what peace is, and what it is not, because it studies peace only in terms of war, violence, aggression, and conflict. They advise that power (love) accomplishes with ease what force (fear, separation – legalistic action, warfare, protests, etc.) even with extreme effort cannot. This chapter introduces the universal language of and the underlying processes for sustaining quality peace and resilience as the means for affecting the necessary change from the deficit approach to power-based approaches. Teaching and learning the language of sustaining quality peace and resilience at all levels of education will contribute to quality education and education equity significantly.
The Impact of Multilingualism on Teaching and Learning
Authors: Mokala Ntsoaki Teresa , Matee Lihotetso Gloria , Khetoa Soyiso Godsave , Ntseli Mamamello Anastacia
Published: September 2022

Home language teaching and learning are largely dominated by monolingual-oriented practices in the South African context, and such practices are being challenged. Despite this, there remains a dearth of research on the concurrent use of more than one language in home language teaching and learning in this context. This chapter reports on the results of a study conducted on the impact of multilingualism on teaching and learning in a Sesotho home language classroom in one university in South Africa. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews with six Sesotho lecturers from different universities and 12 students enrolled in Sesotho home language course. Data were analysed using thematic inductive approach. The recommendation is that teachers should consider the use of multilingual pedagogic teaching practices to address language diversity in their home language classrooms.
Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching in Multilingual Deaf Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Edward Mary
Published: September 2022

In Africa, the discussion on the language for deaf education has always centred on the official recognition of sign languages in Africa. Interestingly, just as many African countries have been bequeathed with foreign languages as official languages, foreign-based sign languages are used in many African countries for deaf education. The average educated deaf signer in most African communities has knowledge of at least two sign languages and one or more spoken languages. Ultimately, signing communities have become quite complex multilingual communities. This chapter explores the challenges and opportunities of teaching in multilingual deaf communities in sub-Saharan Africa. With analysis drawn from a synthesised primary and secondary data, the chapter argues that the best approach to deaf education is utilising bimodal multilingualism so that the deaf and hard of hearing students can access deaf and hearing worlds. The chapter also suggests ways of appropriating multilingualism without making indigenous African sign languages inferior.
Introducing an Identity Based Model of Teaching and Facilitating Intercultural Communication
Authors: Fekete Adrienn
Published: September 2022

The chapter discusses a novel learner centered approach to teaching and facilitating intercultural communication drawing on post-structuralist identity research and using English as a lingua franca in a multicultural classroom. The 14 participants came from five countries, and six different cultures were scrutinized drawing on Moran's framework to teach culture. Data were collected via questionnaires completed by students preceding and following culture presentations, the course syllabus, and the teacher's journal. The findings of the mixed methods classroom research project led to the development of an identity based model of teaching and facilitating intercultural communication. Encouraging students to voice their various identities triggered positive psychological responses, which, in turn, facilitated their investment in their identities via learning. The process resulted in more intercultural exchanges and cross-cultural learning that acted on students' identities and changed their attitudes towards new cultures favorably.
Teaching and Assessment of Kenya's Indigenous Languages in the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC)
Authors: Okal Benard Odoyo
Published: September 2022

The chapter focuses on sampled education commissions in Kenya that recommended teaching and learning indigenous languages and if clear policy framework existed for implementation. With adoption of competency-based curriculum (CBC), indigenous languages are supposed to be taught from primary to secondary schools. However, there are existing challenges in the implementation such as inadequately skilled human resources, lack of teaching and learning resources, unspecified teaching and assessment methods, and also existing teachers are retrained within a short period. The chapter recommends an adoption of immersion strategy for teaching these indigenous languages and also strengthening formative and summative assessment by including topical tasks, namely: receptive, interactive, extended productive monologues and socio-cultural reading and writing. These can be achieved through benchmarking with successful immersion programs in the world that can be contextually adopted in the CBC system of education.
Applying Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain Technology to Improve Traceability in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Authors: Shao Wenqian , Ali Syed Imran
Published: September 2022

The combined application of IoT and blockchain technology helps organizations to better track and trace items in the food, manufacturing, and logistics supply chains. Evidence shows that the characteristics of blockchain such as decentralization, distributed ledger, consensus algorithm, data immutability, and data security has brought various benefits to supply chains. Specifically, the pharmaceutical supply chain has a high requirement of maintaining medicine quality, trust, and traceability across the supply chain. Hence, a thorough review on the topic is necessary to understand the scholarly work in this area. The study uses a systematic literature review (SLR) to extract data from Scopus database for the period 2017-2020. Fifty-six articles were reviewed. The descriptive and thematic analysis revealed various insights into themes, methods, benefits, challenges, and blockchain architecture in achieving traceability across the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Assessing E-Services
Authors: Gaur Silky , Gupta Rahul , Kaur Jaspreet
Published: September 2022

The demand for video streaming-based services (VSS) has increased immensely due to their comprehensive content, instant playback, flexibility to watch, and affordable costs. People have access to entertainment with a simple click at their convenience which wasn't possible on traditional television platforms. With companies ready to wrestle for a more significant market chunk, focusing only on price strategies might be a deficient perspective for the future. By enhancing e-service quality, a company can make its loyal base of customers leading to profitability. This study focuses on the quality of e-services relevant to VSS with its satisfactory and repurchasing impact on the client. Responses come from a questionnaire designed and distributed among Indian consumers using video streaming services. SPSS technique is used for result formulation. Implications for marketing managers and the scope for future research are proposed.
Transforming Universities for a More Competent Society
Authors: Tosun Petek
Published: September 2022

Digitalization has transformed the higher education sector. It is a significant factor that shapes the future of higher education. Universities are the primary institutions that must ensure the relevancy and actuality of their curricula and provide high-quality education programs by utilizing new methods and technologies in the rapidly changing environment. Business administration, a popular program for undergraduate and graduate students, must evolve with the dynamic education environment shaped by digital learning alternatives. The management programs must respond to the rapidly changing needs of the labor market, students, and society to provide students with the relevant skills. The chapter presents a literature synthesis, summarizes the new trends and priorities in designing and managing higher education, and points out practical implications and future research directions for higher education managers and researchers.
Writing Across the Curriculum
Authors: Edwards Jesse
Published: September 2022

This chapter will provide insight into this author's experience during the Summer 2021 Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Learning Community. This work is a qualitative conceptual presentation of ideas planned for use in various laboratory courses within the Chemistry Department at Florida A&M University. The courses encompass General Chemistry I and II labs for STEM majors, and various Chemistry majors' special topics and short courses laboratories. The General Chemistry labs are traditional labs with 2 hours and 50 minutes of contact time mostly aimed at exposing students to practical techniques, instrumentation, and concepts in Chemistry. As a requirement for all STEM majors and the majority of College of Allied Health students, the General Chemistry laboratories are taught as departmental courses with common syllabi provided for each individual section and the same laboratory assessments for several sections. Additional constructs will be suggested for Chemical Seminar and Short Courses, a research course.
Creative Writing as a Way of Knowing Each Other in Digital Spaces
Authors: Cooper-Novack Gemma , Jones Karis
Published: September 2022

This chapter connects the experiences of student writers in two affinity-group writing programs on Zoom within larger arts spaces. The authors lift up the relational and pedagogical structures that make space for student creative learning processes in out-of-school-time spaces, examining creative writing as a way of knowing. The chapter draws on affect theory to trace ways of feeling literacy through the event, showing how focal students developed their own affective systems of engagement and developed different kinds of self-knowledge through creation. In this process, writing emerged for both focal students as a way of knowing each other.
Implementation Study of an Urban Elementary Whole Faculty Professional Development to Improve Writing Capacity
Authors: Sulentic Dowell Margaret-Mary Martine
Published: September 2022

Modeled on the work of the National Writing Project, this chapter details a year-long professional development (PD) focused on writing which was conducted with an elementary faculty (grades kindergarten through 5th) in an urban setting in the United States. The PD resulted in several strategies that were identified that served as a means to foster writing capacity. Strategies included 1) embedded writing practice in content discipline areas; 2) the dedicated time the PD provided for teachers to think, discuss, and share writing practice and products; 3) the efficacy of displaying student work, especially in hallway walls, classrooms, and common areas; 4) anchor papers; and 5) use of children's literature as mentor texts for writing. Three areas were identified that exemplified practical applications: structured collaboration, participants developing skills related to teaching the writing process, and developing school-level practices. Through this implementation study, writing pedagogical practices emerged as equity pedagogy.
Reconceptualizing Reflection as Relational Ontological Practices Within the Context of Writing Instruction
Authors: Kim Min-Young , Beach Richard , Bloome David
Published: September 2022

The concept of reflection is ubiquitous in discussions of educational practice and in the teaching and learning of writing (e.g., Hillocks, 1996; Myhill, 2011); yet rarely is reflection defined or interrogated. As Nguyen et al. (2014) note in a review of the 15 most cited authors on reflection from 2008 to 2012, “reflection is a complex construct for which the literature does not provide a consensual definition” (p. 1177; see also Alexander, 2017; Lyons, 2010; Rogers, 2002). If reflection is key to the teaching and learning of writing (and to other educational agendas), then it is important to researchers and educational practitioners that it be clearly defined and interrogated. This review of scholarship provides one perspective on defining and interrogating reflection by making a heuristic distinction between reflection and reflective practice, and then defining reflection as relational ontological practice.
A Holistic View on Blockchain and Its Issues
Authors: Noor Mohd Azeem Faizi , Khanum Saba , Anwar Taushif , Ansari Manzoor
Published: September 2022

Blockchain, the technology behind most popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin and Ethereum, has attracted wide attention recently. It is the most emerging technology that has changed the financial and non-financial transaction system. It is omnipresent. Currently, this technology is enforcing banks, industries, and countries to adopt it in their financial, industrial, and government section. Earlier, it solved the centralize and double-spending problems successfully. In this chapter, the authors present a study of blockchain security issues and its challenges as well. They divided the whole chapter into two parts. The primer part covers a holistic overview of blockchain followed by the later section that argues about basic operations, 51% attack, scalability issue, Fork, Sharding, Lightening, etc. Finally, they mention an intro about its adaptation (financial or non-financial) in our 24/7 life and collaboration with fields like IoT.
Concept of Blockchain Technology and Its Emergence
Authors: U. Padmavathi , Rajagopalan Narendran
Published: September 2022

Blockchain refers to a distributed ledger technology that helps people to regulate and manage their information without any intermediaries. This technology emerges as a promising panacea for authentication and authorization with potential for use in every possible domain including financial, manufacturing, educational institutions, etc. Blockchain has its birth through the concept of Bitcoin, a digital cryptocurrency by Satoshi Nakamoto, called as Blockchain 1.0. Blockchain 2.0 came into existence in 2014 with Ethereum and smart contracts. The challenges such as scalability, interoperability, sustainability, and governance led to the next generation of Blockchain also called as IOTA, a blockchainless cryptocurrency for the internet of things runs on the top of their own ledger called Tangle, which is immune towards quantum computers. This disruptive technology evolved to provide cross chain support and more security through Blockchain 4.0. Finally, the chapter concludes by discussing the various applications of this technology and its advantages and security issues.
A Novel Survey on Blockchain for Internet of Things
Authors: Jain Jay Kumar , Jain Varsha
Published: September 2022

Internet of things (IoT) is ready to change human life and release tremendous financial benefits. It may be that lack of information security and the belief of the current IoT are actually restricting its selection. Blockchain changes in an appropriated and secure record holds reliable records of information in various areas and possibly resolves information security concerns in the IoT system. This chapter presents a thorough review on the existing blockchain progress with an accent on IoT applications. The authors first give an overview of blockchain architecture including blockchain technologies and key characteristics of blockchain. The authors then discuss the blockchain for the internet of things including blockchain for IoT: technologies. Furthermore, they list some challenges and problems that will hinder blockchain development and summarize some existing approaches for solving these problems. Some possible future directions are also discussed. Future research bearings are ordered for a viable mix of blockchains in the IoT system.
A Reliable Hybrid Blockchain-Based Authentication System for IoT Network
Authors: N. Ambika
Published: September 2022

IoT is an assembly of equipment of different calibers and functionality working towards a single goal. A blockchain is a computerized record that contains the whole history of exchanges made on the system. A multi-WSN arrangement model is structured. The hubs of the IoT are isolated into base stations, group heads, and conventional hubs as per their capacities, which encourage the administration and participation of the hubs. A hybrid blockchain model is proposed. To fit the multi-WSN arrange model better, as indicated by the various capacities and energies of various hubs, neighborhood blockchain and open blockchain are sent between group head hubs and base stations individually, and a crossbreed blockchain model is framed. A shared validation plot for IoT hubs is proposed. For group head hubs, the creators utilize the worldwide blockchain for validation, and for customary hubs, they utilize the nearby blockchain for confirmation. The proposal aims in increasing reliability by 1.17% and minimizes sinkhole attack by 2.42% compared to previous contribution.
Towards the Integration of Blockchain and IoT for Security Challenges in IoT
Authors: Kumar K. Dinesh , Venkata Rathnam T.  , Venkata Ramana R.  , Sudhakara M. , Poluru Ravi Kumar
Published: September 2022

Internet of things (IoT) technology plays a vital role in the current technologies because IoT develops a network by integrating different kinds of objects and sensors to create the communication among objects directly without human interaction. With the presence of internet of things technology in our daily comes smart thinking and various advantages. At the same time, secure systems have been a most important concern for the protection of information systems and networks. However, adopting traditional security management systems in the internet of things leads several issues due to the limited privacy and policies like privacy standards, protocol stacks, and authentication rules. Usually, IoT devices has limited network capacities, storage, and computing processors. So they are having more chances to attacks. Data security, privacy, and reliability are three main challenges in the IoT security domain. To address the solutions for the above issues, IoT technology has to provide advanced privacy and policies in this large incoming data source. Blockchain is one of the trending technologies in the privacy management to provide the security. So this chapter is focused on the blockchain technologies which can be able to solve several IoT security issues. This review mainly focused on the state-of-the-art IoT security issues and vulnerabilities by existing review works in the IoT security domains. The taxonomy is presented about security issues in the view of communication, architecture, and applications. Also presented are the challenges of IoT security management systems. The main aim of this chapter is to describe the importance of blockchain technology in IoT security systems. Finally, it highlights the future directions of blockchain technology roles in IoT systems, which can be helpful for further improvements.
Adaptation of Blockchain Architecture to the Internet of Things and Performance Analysis
Authors: Ersoy Mevlut , Yüksel Asım Sinan , Yalcin Cihan
Published: September 2022

Internet of Things (IoT) security and privacy criteria are seen as an important challenge due to IoT architecture. In this study, the security of the IoT system that is created with devices integrated into the embedded system by means of various sensors has been ensured by using a single cryptographic structure. The data transmitted between the nodes in the IoT structure is transmitted to the central node using the Blockchain data structure. The transmitted data is verified at central nodes and the energies consumed between nodes during the transmission phase is detected. An infrastructure has been developed for how blockchain technology can be used in the IoT structure. In this study, an experimental environment was developed and comparative analysis were made in terms of energy consumption and data transfer rates.
Blockchain-Empowered Big Data Sharing for Internet of Things
Authors: Cai Ting , Wu Yuxin , Lin Hui , Cai Yu
Published: September 2022

A recent study predicts that by 2025, up to 75 billion internet of things (IoT) devices will be connected to the internet, in which data sharing is increasingly needed by massive IoT applications as a major driver of the IoT market. However, how to meet the interests of all participants in complex multi-party interactive data sharing while providing secure data control and management is the main challenge in building an IoT data sharing ecosystem. In this article, the authors propose a blockchain-empowered data sharing architecture that supports secure data monitoring and manageability in complex multi-party interactions of IoT systems. First, to build trust among different data sharing parties, the authors apply blockchain technologies to IoT data sharing. In particular, on-chain/off-chain collaboration and sharding consensus process are used to improve the efficiency and scalability of the large-scale blockchain-empowered data sharing systems. In order to encourage IoT parties to actively participate in the construction of shared ecology, the authors use an iterative double auction mechanism in the proposed architecture to maximize the social welfare of all parties as a case-study. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed incentive algorithm can optimize data allocations for each party and maximize the social welfare while protecting the privacy of all parties.
A Reliable Blockchain-Based Image Encryption Scheme for IIoT Networks
Authors: N. Ambika
Published: September 2022

IoT is used in industrial setup to increase security and provide ease to the user. The manual efforts decrease in this environment. The previous work concentrates on capturing images and transmitting the encrypted image. It uses the Merkle root and blockchain to make the transmission reliable. The suggestion increases reliability to the previous work. The system uses the Merkle root to endorse the key to the transmitting devices. The work increases reliability by 2.58% compared to the previous contribution.
A Reliable IDS System Using Blockchain for SDN-Enabled IIoT Systems
Authors: N. Ambika
Published: September 2022

The internet of things is the technology that aims to provide a common platform to the devices of varying capabilities to communicate. Industrial internet of things (IIoT) systems can perform better using these devices in combination with SDN network and blockchain technology. The suggestion uses random space learning (RSL) comprising three stages. The random subspace learning strategy is a troupe learning procedure called attributes bagging. It improves forecast and order errands as it utilizes group development of base classifiers rather than a solitary classifier, and it takes arbitrary subsets of properties rather than the whole arrangement of attributes. The system uses the blockchain methodology to secure the system. SDN networks aim to better the transmission of data in industrial IoT devices. Misrouting and forged attacks are some of the common attacks in these systems. The proposal provides better reliability than the previous contribution by 2.7%.
Perspectives of Blockchain in Cybersecurity
Authors: Obaidat Muath A. , Brown Joseph
Published: September 2022

In recent years, blockchain has emerged as a popular data structure for use in software solutions. However, its meteoric rise has not been without criticism. Blockchain has been the subject of intense discussion in the field of cybersecurity because of its structural characteristics, mainly the permanency and decentralization. However, the blockchain technology in this field has also received intense scrutiny and caused to raise questions, such as, Is the application of blockchain in the field simply a localized trend or a bait for investors, both without a hope for permanent game-changing solutions? and Is blockchain an architecture that will lead to lasting disruptions in cybersecurity? This chapter aims to provide a neutral overview of why blockchain has risen as a popular pivot in cybersecurity, its current applications in this field, and an evaluation of what the future holds for this technology given both its limitations and advantages.
Blockchain Technology for the Internet of Things Applications in Apparel Supply Chain Management
Authors: Pal Kamalendu
Published: September 2022

Adoption of the internet of things (IoT) and blockchain technology opens new opportunities of business process automation in apparel supply chain management. The IoT technology helps to capture real-time information from different aspects of garment manufacturing activities by using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and sensors. Blockchain technology is an emerging concept of computing that enable the decentralized and immutable storage of business transactions. In combination with IoT, blockchain technology can enable a broad range of application scenarios to enhance business value and trust. This chapter presents some of the blockchain-based IoT technology applications in apparel business processes. Moreover, the chapter provides a classification of threat models, which are considered by blockchain protocols in IoT networks. Finally, the chapter provides a taxonomy and a side-by-side comparison of the state-of-the-art methods towards secure and privacy-preserving blockchain technologies concerning the blockchain model, specific security goals, performance, and limitations.
Security, Privacy, and Trust Management and Performance Optimization of Blockchain
Authors: Gupta Priti , Kumar Abhishek , Singhal Achintya , Saurabh Shantanu , Kumar V. D. Ambeth
Published: September 2022

Blockchain provides innovative ideas for storing information, executing transactions, performing functions, creating trust in an open environment, etc. Even though cryptographers, mathematicians, and coders have been trying to bring the most trustable protocols to get authentication guarantee over various systems, blockchain technology is secure with no central authority in an open network system because of a large distributed network of independent users. If anyone tries to change the blockchain database, the current hash will also change, which does not match with the previous hash. In this way, blockchain creates privacy and trust in digital data by removing malleability attacks. In this chapter, security and privacy on the blockchain has been focused. The safety and privacy of blockchain are mainly engrossed on two things: firstly, uncovering few attacks suffered by blockchain systems and, secondly, putting specific and advanced proposals against such attacks.
A Comprehensive Review of the Security and Privacy Issues in Blockchain Technologies
Authors: Ghonge Mangesh Manikrao , Pradeep N. , Ravi Renjith V. , Mangrulkar Ramchandra
Published: September 2022

The development of blockchain technology relies on a variety of disciplines, including cryptography, mathematics, algorithms, and economic models. All cryptocurrency transactions are recorded on a digital and decentralized public ledger known as the blockchain. Customers may keep track of their crypto-transactions by looking at a chronological list rather than a centralized ledger. The blockchain's application potential is bright, and it has already produced results. In various fields, blockchain technology has been incorporated and deployed, from the earliest days of cryptocurrencies to the present day with new-age smart contracts. No comprehensive study on blockchain security and privacy has yet been done despite numerous studies in this area over the years. In this chapter, the authors talked about blockchain's security and privacy issues as well as the impact they've had on various trends and applications. This chapter covers both of these topics.
Breast Cancer Diagnosis With Mammography
Authors: Baâzaoui Abir , Barhoumi Walid
Published: September 2022

Breast cancer, which is the second-most common and leading cause of cancer death among women, has witnessed growing interest in the two last decades. Fortunately, its early detection is the most effective way to detect and diagnose breast cancer. Although mammography is the gold standard for screening, its difficult interpretation leads to an increase in missed cancers and misinterpreted non-cancerous lesion rates. Therefore, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can be a great helpful tool for assisting radiologists in mammogram interpretation. Nonetheless, these systems are limited by their black-box outputs, which decreases the radiologists' confidence. To circumvent this limit, content-based mammogram retrieval (CBMR) is used as an alternative to traditional CAD systems. Herein, authors systematically review the state-of-the-art on mammography-based breast cancer CAD methods, while focusing on recent advances in CBMR methods. In order to have a complete review, mammography imaging principles and its correlation with breast anatomy are also discussed.
Environmental Regulation, International Trade, and Informal Sector
Authors: Chatterjee Tonmoy
Published: September 2022

This chapter deals with some contemporary issues related to trade and environment, which are mainly faced by the developing nations of the world. In this context, the present study has considered some facts and figures of Indian tannery industry for realization of the above-mentioned objective. In this chapter, an attempt has been made to analyze theoretically the effect of both environmental regulation and trade liberalization on the output of different sectors and also on the national welfare in a small open economy. To categorize this, the authors have presented a theoretical model based on the general equilibrium framework that mainly highlights a paradoxical result. Apart from this, the present research shows that the capital used specifically in advanced export sector is likely to affect the welfare positively, and the capital used by the rest of the economy is likely to affect the welfare adversely when usual export sector of the economy vanishes, and the opposite will occur when the pollution-intensive informal sector of the economy vanishes.
Comparison of the European Union Countries and Turkey's Macroeconomic Indicators with Best Worst Method
Authors: Yapa Koray , Durmus Mert , Tayyar Nezih , Akbulut İbrahim
Published: September 2022

Macroeconomic indicators are used to evaluate the current performance and forecast the future state of the economy. Within the scope of the chapter; macroeconomic indicators such as GDP per capita, unemployment, inflation, real interest rates, and growth rates constitute the criteria of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) model. The European Union (EU) countries and Turkey are the alternatives of the MCDM problem. Best Worst Method (BWM) is an MCDM method developed by Jafar Rezaei in 2015. In this method, the decision-maker identifies only the best and worst criteria and compares them with the remaining criteria. In this chapter, the macroeconomic indicators of Turkey and EU countries analyzed by BWM. As a result of the study, Luxembourg ranks first, Denmark second, and Sweden third. The last three countries are Portugal, Croatia, and Greece. Turkey ranks 24th.
International Trade in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Abuseridze Giga
Published: September 2022

This chapter overviews the relationship between international trade and the WTO law, international trade strategy, as well as labour standards, human rights, and the public health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. It is stated that the most effective way to overcome the crisis is timely and effective information-sharing since informed community can make better decisions on trade issues. The urgency of effective measures and implementation of new WTO regulations are believed to be vital for providing fair trade in the present circumstances. The right trade policies would not only revive the trade and recover the time lost to the crisis but would also shift toward a more sustainable and inclusive future. The author claims that, in view of the pandemic, the efforts of policymakers and business leaders to find ways to achieve trade balance should imply greater coherency between trade, labour standards, public health, and human rights objectives.
Scope of UAVs for Smart Cities
Authors: Singh Jyoti
Published: September 2022

New technologies are always remarkable for the sustainability of human beings and for their enhancement. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are highly used on a wide range of commercial as well as defense purposes. UAVs are also called drones. With the phenomenon scope of application, drones have reached a very high level in each and every field with smart cities being no exception. UAVs provide many services for the development of smart cities like traffic control, natural disaster management, monitoring, transportation, infrastructure, mapping, air quality, and many other parameters. UAVs with high resolution cameras and advanced techniques have many properties (i.e., less time consuming, highly efficient, data to collect and analyze, etc.). Collection of data is very fast and accurate; even analyzation of any task given is very authentic. They are also considered as an aid to surveillance for security purposes.
Review on Surgical Management of Diabetic Macular Edema
Authors: El Manhaly Mostafa , Souka Ahmed
Published: September 2022

Literature review for surgical management for both tractional and non-tractional diabetic macular edema; with and without internal limiting membrane peeling. According to the DRCR prospective study, traction relaxation allowed vision gain and reduction in central foveal thickness in tractional diabetic macular edema. Also data from small scale and pilot studies about the role of pars plana vitrectomy for non-tractional CI-DME management, showed visual gain and edema resolution in both naive and refractory cases. It is concluded that pars plana vitrectomy has a role the management of DME; however, large scale trials are needed to define the role, optimum timing, and patients characteristics for the usage of vitrectomy in non-tractional DME management.
Off‐grid direction‐of‐arrival estimation for wideband noncircular sources
Authors: Zhang Xiaoyu , Tao Haihong , Fang Ziye , Xie Jian
Published: September 2022

Researchers have recently shown an increased interest in estimating the direction‐of‐arrival (DOA) of wideband noncircular sources, but existing studies have been restricted to subspace‐based methods. An off‐grid sparse recovery‐based algorithm is proposed in this paper to improve the accuracy of existing algorithms in low signal‐to‐noise ratio situations. The covariance and pseudo covariance matrices can be jointly represented subject to block sparsity constraints by taking advantage of the joint sparsity between signal components and bias. Furthermore, the estimation problem is transformed into a single measurement vector problem utilizing the focused operation, resulting in a significant reduction in computational complexity. The proposed algorithm's error threshold and the Cramer–Rao bound for wideband noncircular DOA estimation are deduced in detail. The proposed algorithm's effectiveness and feasibility are demonstrated by simulation results.
Time Series Forecasting of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines Using Deep Learning: Does COVID-19 Epidemic Matter?
Authors:   Technological Institute of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, Jr Sales G. Aribe , Gerardo Bobby D. , Medina Ruji P.
Published: September 2022

With a 676% growth rate in HIV incidence between 2010 and 2021, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Philippines is the one that is spreading the quickest in the western Pacific.Although the full effects of COVID-19 on HIV services and development are still unknown, it is predicted that such disruptions could lead to a significant increase in HIV casualties.Therefore, the nation needs some modeling and forecasting techniques to foresee the spread pattern and enhance the government’s prevention, treatment, testing, and care program.In this study, the researcher uses Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network to forecast time series during the period when the COVID-19 pandemic strikes the nation, using statistics taken from the HIV/AIDS and ART Registry of the Philippines.After training, validation, and testing of data, the study finds that the predicted cumulative cases in the nation by 2030 will reach 145,273.Additionally, there is very little difference between observed and anticipated HIV epidemic levels, as evidenced by reduced RMSE, MAE, and MAPE values as well as a greater coefficient of determination.Further research revealed that the Philippines seems far from achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 of Project 2030 due to an increase in the nation’s rate of new HIV infections.Despite the detrimental effects of COVID-19 spread on HIV/AIDS efforts nationwide, the Philippine government,under the Marcos administration, must continue to adhere to the United Nations’ 90-90-90 targets by enhancing its ART program and ensuring that all vital health services are readily accessible and available.
La inteligencia socioemocional en función de alumnos de un jardín de niños en Cuernavaca, Morelos. Fundamentos teóricos y propuesta de protocolo de investigación.
Authors: Carranza Hernández Yarizeth
Published: September 2022

El presente trabajo da a conocer referentes teóricos acerca del desarrollo de la inteligencia socioemocional de niños y niñas que cursan la educación preescolar. Se enfatiza la importancia de que la comunidad educativa reconozca que las emociones y la cognición colaboran entre sí para contribuir al desarrollo integral de los individuos. Este trabajo forma parte de la tesis en opción al grado científico de Doctora en Ciencias Pedagógicas que realiza esta autora.
Síndrome Adquirido por Trabajo Académico antes y después del COVID-19: batallas campales en Bachilleratos Tecnológicos.
Authors: Herrera Mijangos Santos Noé , Cazares-Palacios Itzia María , Luna Reyes Dayana , Escobar Torres Jorge Gonzalo
Published: September 2022

El objetivo de esta investigación consistió en describir el ambiente laboral de cuatro Centros de Bachillerato Tecnológico (CBTs) ubicados en la zona norte del Estado de México antes y durante la pandemia; así como el estado biopsicosocial de docentes y orientadores. La investigación es de corte descriptivo e interpretativo, su diseño mixto fue transformativo secuencial donde lo predominante es cualitativo y la parte cuantitativa, sólo de apoyo. Se realizaron observaciones naturalistas, entrevistas a profundidad y grupos focales; así como se aplicó la escala del Síndrome Adquirido por el Trabajo Académico. Los resultados evidenciaron que los actores institucionales tienen batallas campales y conflictos muy violentos cotidianamente que afecta su estado de salud biopsicosocial.
Aportes conceptuales y metodológicos para analizar la participación social en políticas de abastecimiento alimentario: un acercamiento a la región montañosa morelense.
Authors: Téllez Silva José Merced , Vargas Velázquez Sergio , Herrera Tapia Francisco , Bazaldúa Muñoz Benjamín
Published: September 2022

Se analizan los principales programas implicados con el abastecimiento local de alimentos básicos en los que está considerada la participación social (PS) en el marco de la política pública Seguridad Alimentaria Mexicana (SEGALMEX), enfocada en la atención de la producción a pequeña escala y a la población vulnerable a la carencia alimentaria, donde el gobierno federal y los gobiernos estatales compaginan esfuerzos para cubrir las necesidades señaladas. Se tomó como base una aproximación de estudio de caso tipo exploratorio en el que se adecuó una propuesta metodológica centrada en la caracterización de la PS para interpretar los procesos participativos que toman lugar en los principales programas implementados por SEGALMEX en el municipio de Tetela del Volcán, Estado de Morelos.
Corporeidad y educación física infantil: desafíos pendientes.
Authors: Gamboa Jiménez Rodrigo Alberto , Jiménez Alvarado Gladys Antonia
Published: September 2022

La corporeidad se constituye como narrativa de la biografía personal y colectiva de los seres humanos; por tanto, se nos presenta como cual libro en que se escriben a fuego nuestras historias de vida. Esta premisa se presenta ante nosotros como una posibilidad otra de teorizar sobre la corporeidad como punto de partida de análisis de la Educación Física infantil. Desde la narrativa de nuestro correlato experimentado, existencial y profesional, compartiremos trazos de nuestro libro corporal y nos iremos conectando, de modo diverso, con nuestra biografía que es toda acción vivida. En este texto, que es vida, compartiremos más que certezas, plantearemos interrogantes e incertidumbres, saberes e ignorancias, para concluir con algunos desafíos que las voces infantiles nos presentan.
Efectos del masaje terapéutico recíproco sobre la limitación del movimiento del raquis cervical y el apoyo social en el adulto mayor y su cuidador familiar.
Authors: Figueroa Martínez Reyes , Romero Pérez Ena Monserrat , Martínez Mir Raúl , Nuñez Othon Gabriel , Horta Gim Mario Alberto , De Paz Fernández José Antonio
Published: September 2022

El cuidador familiar (CF) facilita la extensión al hogar de los servicios de salud para el creciente número de adultos mayores (AM). El objetivo del trabajo fue evaluar los efectos de una intervención de masaje terapéutico (MT) aplicado recíprocamente entre AM y CF, para medir cambios en la limitación del movimiento cervical y la percepción de apoyo recibido de parte de cada integrante de la pareja. Al término de la intervención se identificó un aumento significativo en el arco de movimiento del raquis cervical en el AM y CF al comparar las puntuaciones pre-post, sugiriéndose que el MT puede revertir la limitación de movilidad cervical en proveedor y receptor de cuidados, así como favorecer la percepción de apoyo mutuo.
Felicidad y su correlación con variables individuales y contextuales en estudiantes universitarios.
Authors: Guzmán Cáceres Maricela , Vázquez Sánchez Idalia , Trujillo Macías Ana María , Moreno Landeros Priscila
Published: September 2022

El objetivo de la presente investigación fue correlacionar los niveles de felicidad de 184 estudiantes de licenciatura de una universidad mexicana, con diversas variables individuales y contextuales. Se aplicó el Oxford Hapiness Questionaire (Hills y Argyle, 2002). La mayoría de los estudiantes tuvieron una puntuación alta en cuanto a nivel de felicidad y no se presentaron diferencias significativas respecto a las variables sexo, edad, carrera, convivencia familiar, nivel socioeconómico, condición de trabajar y estudiar, estrés, rendimiento académico, estado civil y condición de maternidad/paternidad. En la variable orientación sexual hubieron diferencias significativas: los estudiantes que manifestaron tener una orientación sexual distinta a la heterosexualidad, puntuaron con menores niveles de felicidad que los heterosexuales.
Una mirada rápida a la Igualdad de Género en la Educación Superior Pública de Tamaulipas.
Authors: Landero Pérez Carolina , Vargas Orozco Cynthia Marisol
Published: September 2022

En la búsqueda de una sociedad que trate como entes iguales a hombres y mujeres, en todas las áreas de nuestra construcción social, debemos considerar que la exclusión y la discriminación, puede distinguir la variable género en ella, no visible en todas las áreas, pero que en la educación es de especial atención y prevención respondiendo a una responsabilidad y retribución social entre la Universidad y la sociedad a la cual sirve. Este estudio tiene como objetivo identificar el nivel de participación de mujeres en la Educación Superior de la entidad Tamaulipeca a través del análisis mediante técnicas estadísticas descriptivas y de correlación con información de Universidades Públicas de ANUIES, CONACyT, INEGI, ONIGIES y UNESCO.
Impacto en el desarrollo infantil; influencia del ciberacoso en las redes sociales.
Authors: Ochoa Escobar Laura Marlene , Hernández Alvarado Vanessa Josefa , Maldonado Manzano Rosa Leonor
Published: September 2022

Esta investigación es muy conocida en el mundo como las agresiones continuas que reciben los niños y adolescentes a través de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Un problema que atañe a la sociedad en general, y en particular así mismo , ya que afecta el estado emocional de la persona, y un ejemplo de ellos es el “ciberbullying” a través de las redes sociales, que implica un acoso psicológico al niño en su espacio virtual de socialización. Obviamente, el efecto psicológico para el niño es devastador, porque no solo sufre daños en su autoestima, sino que también puede padecer depresión, aislamiento social e incluso le pueden aparecer ideas suicidas.
Análisis jurídico-económico de los ingresos tributarios municipales y su efecto presupuestario.
Authors: Avila Ordoñez Edwin Geovanny , Paredes Paredes Eduardo
Published: September 2022

La gestión tributaria de las municipales del Ecuador se encuentra legalmente configurada como una competencia exclusiva para recaudación de sus ingresos tributarios, con el propósito de sostener presupuestariamente el cumplimiento de sus funciones. En este sentido, dentro de este artículo, se realiza el análisis de los ingresos tributarios que conforman los presupuestos de los años 2017, 2018 y 2019 del Municipio de Latacunga, Ecuador, así como se recoge la percepción y expectativa de la comunidad contribuyente sobre la gestión tributaria de esta municipalidad. El objetivo principal de esta investigación es determinar la problemática que conlleva a una deficiencia recaudatoria que no permite consolidar una verdadera gobernabilidad desconcentrada.
El Proyecto Integrador de Aprendizaje; una opción para el desarrollo de competencias genéricas en estudiantes de ingeniería.
Authors: González Ibarra Ana María
Published: September 2022

El objetivo del presente estudio consiste en analizar, desde la mirada de los estudiantes de una escuela de ingeniería, el impacto de la elaboración de un Proyecto Integrador de Aprendizaje (PIA) en el desarrollo de competencias genéricas. El diseño del estudio es no experimental, de tipo exploratorio, de corte descriptivo y transversal. Las opiniones de los estudiantes convergen en que el proyecto contribuyó al desarrollo de competencias como: resolución de problemas, toma de decisiones, creatividad, trabajo en equipo, liderazgo, etc., las cuales cobran relevancia para desenvolverse tanto en lo laboral como en lo personal y que forman parte de los requerimientos de la sociedad actual. Además, se observa que esta metodología promueve el dominio de temas relacionados con la Física.
Aproximación al uso de las herramientas digitales en el aprendizaje de los estudiantes de Educación Superior durante la contingencia sanitaria por COVID-19.
Authors: Ventura Ramos Perla E. , Memije Alarcón Norma Y. , Zaragoza Martínez Jesús
Published: September 2022

El artículo discute los resultados de una investigación, cuyo objetivo fue explorar el uso de las herramientas digitales para el aprendizaje en la modalidad en línea, que hacen los estudiantes de educación superior durante la contingencia sanitaria por COVID-19 y sus principales dificultades. A partir de los resultados de un estudio descriptivo con una metodología cuantitativa, basada en la aplicación de un cuestionario exploratorio a estudiantes de la Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, campus Chilpancingo, Estado de Guerrero, México, se pretende contribuir al conocimiento sobre las competencias digitales que los estudiantes de educación superior necesitan fortalecer para hacer frente a este contexto sanitario.