bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Le tournant entrepreneurial du droit du travail en France (1982-2017)
Authors: Willemez Laurent
Published: August 2021

Les réformes du droit du travail en France dans les années 2016-2017 (loi El Khomri et ordonnances Macron) peuvent être vues comme l’acmé des politiques du travail menées depuis le milieu des années 1980. L’article revient sur cette véritable « révolution symbolique » que constitue le renversement du droit du travail d’un droit protecteur des salariés à un droit tourné vers l’entreprise. C’est le sens même du droit et sa signification qui ont donc changé, à la fois dans le monde du « social », entendu comme les acteurs politiques et administratifs des politiques du travail, et dans le champ académique, du côté des facultés de droit. Pour ce faire, l’article dresse d’abord un panorama des réformes mises en œuvre dans les trois dernières décennies et du discours qui les accompagne. Il analyse ensuite ses transformations analogues dans les facultés de droit et l’enseignement et de la recherche en droit du travail. Il revient enfin sur différents « lieux communs » où se croisent les différents acteurs de deux espaces sociaux, réunis autour de ce « tournant entrepreneurial » du droit du travail.
Le salaire et la propriété de l’outil, droits économiques de la personne
Authors: Friot Bernard
Published: August 2021

Se libérer du postulat qu'il n'y a qu'une seule classe pour soi, la bourgeoisie capitaliste, permet de mettre en évidence le déjà-là communiste de conquis comme le salaire à la qualification personnelle et le financement de l'investissement par le cycle subvention/cotisation. Ce déjà-là qui peut fournir le tremplin de mobilisations offensives contre la « réforme », qui est, en réponse à ce déjà-là, une contre-révolution capitaliste du travail.
Un monopole d’État sur la création monétaire permettrait-il de réduire la dette publique ? Une étude de « l’argument du seigneuriage » à la lumière des débats sur la proposition « 100% monnaie »
Authors: Demeulemeester Samuel
Published: August 2021

Cet article traite de « l’argument du seigneuriage » en faveur de l’émission publique de monnaie, en vertu duquel les finances de l’État pourraient être améliorées si celui-ci exerçait plus pleinement le privilège de création monétaire – privilège qui, pour une large part, est aujourd’hui exercé par les banques privées. Cet argument fut avancé dans les années 1930 par plusieurs partisans du plan de réforme « 100% monnaie » – tels qu’Henry Simons de l’Université de Chicago, Lauchlin Currie de Harvard, ou Irving Fisher de Yale –, qui réclamaient une couverture intégrale des dépôts en comptes courants par des réserves en monnaie légale. L’un de leurs arguments était, qu’en rendant à l’État l’intégralité du profit de seigneuriage, une telle réforme permettrait de réduire considérablement la dette publique. Dans les débats académiques, cependant, suite à une critique originellement formulée en 1935 par Albert G. Hart de l’Université de Chicago, cet argument fut largement rejeté comme purement illusoire. Hart affirmait que, parce que l’État, sous un « système 100% », serait probablement amené à subventionner les banques pour assurer la tenue des comptes courants, aucune réduction notable de la dette publique ne pourrait en résulter. Les partisans du « 100% monnaie » n’ont jamais répondu à cette critique, dont la conclusion a souvent été considérée comme définitive au sein de la littérature. Cependant, une étude approfondie de la question révèle que l’analyse de Hart apparaît contestable à au moins deux égards : l’un ayant trait aux sources du profit du seigneuriage, l’autre à sa répartition. Nous en concluons que l’argument du seigneuriage avancé par les auteurs du « 100% monnaie » n’était pas entièrement infondé.
Learning from trees: a mixed approach to building early warning systems for systemic banking crises
Authors: Gabriele Carmine
Published: August 2021

Les crises bancaires peuvent être extrêmement coûteuses. La détection précoce des vulnérabilités peut aider à prévenir ou à atténuer ces coûts. Nous développons un modèle d’alerte précoce des crises bancaires systémiques qui combine la technologie d’arbre de régression avec un algorithme statistique (CRAGGING), dans le but d’améliorer sa précision et de surmonter les inconvénients des modèles précédemment utilisés. Notre modèle possède un large éventail de fonctionnalités souhaitables. Il fournit des seuils critiques déterminés de manière endogène pour un ensemble d’indicateurs utiles, présentés sous la forme intuitive d’une structure d’arbre de décision. Notre cadre prend en compte les relations conditionnelles entre différents indicateurs lors de la fixation des seuils d’alerte précoce. Cela facilite la production de signaux d’alerte précoce précis par rapport aux signaux d’un modèle logit et d’un arbre de régression standard. Notre modèle suggère également que des agrégats de crédits élevés, à la fois en termes de volume et par rapport à une tendance à long terme, ainsi qu’une faible perception du risque de marché, sont parmi les indicateurs les plus importants pour prédire l’accumulation de vulnérabilités dans le secteur bancaire.
An analysis approach to permanence of a delay differential equations model of microorganism flocculation
Authors: Guo Songbai , Cui Jing-An , Ma Wanbiao
Published: August 2021

In this paper, we develop a delay differential equations model of microorganism flocculation with general monotonic functional responses, and then study the permanence of this model, which can ensure the sustainability of the collection of microorganisms. For a general differential system, the existence of a positive equilibrium can be obtained with the help of the persistence theory, whereas we give the existence conditions of a positive equilibrium by using the implicit function theorem. Then to obtain an explicit formula for the ultimate lower bound of microorganism concentration, we propose a general analysis method, which is different from the traditional approaches in persistence theory and also extends the analysis techniques of existing related works.
Inter-organizational contract control of advertising strategies in the supply chain
Authors: Zu Yafei
Published: August 2021

Advertising has a crucial impact on a product's goodwill. To further improve a product's goodwill and make more profit, member firms in the supply chain use various contracts to coordinate the channel. Considering the dynamic effect of advertising, this paper studies a two-level supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer. The two members focus on maximizing their profits through advertising and pricing strategies under two types of contracts: the wholesale price contract and the consignment contract. The Stackelberg differential game is introduced, and the optimal advertising effort, wholesale and retail pricing strategies in the two situations are studied. Numerical examples and sensitivity analyses are conducted to explore the models further. The results show that the retailer's revenue proportion and the product's goodwill according to consumers significantly affect the strategies and the contract choice of the partner firms in the supply chain. A proportion of too high or too low revenue may lead to a contract selection conflict between the two partner firms. However, when consumers care more about the product's goodwill, this contract selection conflict can be weakened.
The impacts of digital content piracy and copyright protection policies when consumers are loss averse
Authors: Chai Yan-Xin , Ren Steven Ji-Fan , Zhang Jian-Qiang
Published: August 2021

Recent technological advances in digitization and online communications have enabled unauthorized reproduction and illegal file-sharing. However, controversies still exist over the impacts of digital content piracy and copyright protection policies. Using a game-theoretic framework, we examine the impacts of digital content piracy and copyright protection policies on product quality, firm profitability, consumer surplus, and social welfare when consumers exhibit loss aversion in the quality dimension. Specifically, consumers are initially uncertain about the product quality and will form an expectation, but once they buy the licensed product or use piracy, they know the actual product quality and compare it with their expectation. When consumers are loss averse, consumer propensity to an option is more negatively affected by product quality above the expectation than positively affected by product quality below the expectation. Our analysis shows that although piracy exerts a negative cannibalization effect in the absence of loss aversion, it can exert an additional positive information effect when the degree of loss aversion on the licensed product is higher than the degree of loss aversion on piracy. We find that when the information effect dominates the cannibalization effect, piracy can lead to a win-win situation for firm profitability and consumer surplus. Moreover, under certain circumstances, anti-protection policies can simultaneously raise product quality, firm profitability and consumer surplus. The rationale behind the positive impacts of piracy and anti-protection policies is rooted in the influences of loss aversion behavior on consumer purchase decisions. The results show that it is essential to quantify the degree of consumer loss aversion for firms in formulating pricing and quality strategies and for policymakers to develop copyright protection policies.
Pandemia e desinformação: aspectos da linguagem e da multimodalidade em campanha do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral
Authors: Ribeiro Ana Elisa
Published: August 2021

Este artigo analisa três vídeos que compõem a campanha publicitária “Se for fake news, não transmita”, cujo anunciante foi o Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, em 2020. As peças foram produzidas para uma comunicação com a população sobre os riscos das notícias falsas para a democracia, e a mensagem se valeu de uma analogia entre as transmissões das fake news e a dos vírus. O apresentador convidado foi o biólogo e youtuber brasileiro Atila Iamarino. A abordagem multimodal dos vídeos à luz da semiótica social visa a mostrar que a análise da composição dos modos semióticos é insuficiente para uma compreensão mais refinada, sendo necessário abordar as modulações dos recursos dentro dos modos selecionados e possíveis, em condições tecnológicas e midiáticas também consideradas. É apresentada uma composição esquemática da decupagem de textos em modos e suas modulações.  
Palavras-chave: Fake News; Multimodalidade; Pandemia.
Fake news em tempos de pandemia: a urgência de novos multiletramentos na cultura digital
Authors: Pereira Andreatta Elaine
Published: August 2021

Na era da cultura digital (Santaella, 2003), os novos multiletramentos necessários para produzir significados são mais exigentes, pois alteram a relação de consumo, recepção e produção de linguagens e discursos. Este artigo tem o objetivo de analisar fake news (Bucci, 2019; Frias Filho, 2018; Santaella, 2018) produzidas no período da pandemia causada pela COVID-19 no Brasil. Para tanto, avaliam-se as estratégias linguísticas e imagéticas de apelo e convencimento, assim como o tratamento digital das fakes news que refletem uma narrativa transmídia (Jenkins, 2009), o que pressupõe a necessidade de letramentos críticos capazes de interligar pessoas, objetos midiáticos e estratégias de construção de significado (Lemke, 2010). Desse modo, realizou-se a seleção de cinco (5) fake news que circularam em diversas redes sociais, com diferentes configurações, e impulsionaram a desinformação em relação ao número de mortes por COVID-19, recortando-se, para análise, as fake news a partir do tema “caixões vazios” que se utilizaram de imagens estáticas (Rojo e Moura, 2019; Santaella e Nöth, 1998), acompanhadas ou não de texto verbal e verificadas em agências de checagem. Compreende-se, ao final desta pesquisa que, se há liberdade para acessar muitas informações e relacionar-se pelas redes com várias pessoas, as práticas de leitura precisam buscar a compreensão das multissemioses presentes nos textos em circulação, assim como compreender as relações estabelecidas nos meios de transmissão e produção de textos em contextos digitais.   
Palavras-chave: Novos Multiletramentos; Fake News; Imagem Estática.
Metáforas visuais e multimodais na conceptualização da COVID-19
Authors: Cavalcante Sandra , Correa Gomes Junior Ronaldo
Published: August 2021

Neste artigo, assumimos o objetivo de contribuir para uma discussão social sobre a representação metafórica da dinâmica de contaminação, contágio e letalidade do vírus SARS-CoV-2, nos primeiros meses da pandemia. Para isso, nos propomos a analisar o processo de conceptualização subjacente a metáforas visuais e multimodais que referenciam o vírus, a doença e o fenômeno da pandemia. A análise focaliza um conjunto de textos de natureza visual e multimodal, constitutivamente metafórico, constituído coletivamente, por estudantes de um Curso de Letras, em uma atividade que buscava refletir criticamente sobre o papel da metáfora na construção da narrativa social sobre a pandemia do coronavírus em 2020. Articulando construtos teóricos que visam à compreensão do fenômeno da metáfora em uma perspectiva linguístico cognitiva (domínios conceptuais, metáfora visual, metáfora multimodal) e associando princípios da Gramática do Design Visual (metafunção composicional), a análise dedica-se à interpretação do processo de conceptualização metafórica implicado na discursivização da crise sanitária, bem como à explicitação de efeitos de sentido projetados pelas práticas discursivas em estudo. Além da atualização recursiva de metáforas conceptuais como DOENÇA É VIAGEM e DOENÇA É GUERRA, a análise de dados revela que a experiência social da pandemia é construída também pela personificação do coronavírus, pela conceptualização do contágio como uma reação em cadeia causada pela ação humana, pela projeção de líderes do governo em personagens ficcionais conhecidos pela infantilidade e pela metaforização do povo brasileiro como cego e festivo.  
Palavras-chave: Metaforização; Conceptualização; COVID-19.
Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of forgiveness
Authors: Ivic Sanja
Published: August 2021

This paper presents social and political dimensions of forgiveness within Jacques Derrida’s philosophy. Derrida’s philosophy of forgiveness is an example of how philosophy can help us understand and resolve contemporary social and political issues. Derrida believes that traditional concept of forgiveness should be broadened beyond the bounds of the rational and the imaginable. According to Derrida, traditional concept of forgiveness needs rethinking because of the phenomenon of proliferation of scenes of forgiveness after the Second World War that produced globalization of forgiveness and trivialized and decharacterized this term. According to Derrida, the act of forgiveness can only be thought beyond the limits of common sense and in the space of the impossible, and that is the forgiveness of something that common sense cannot forgive. Derrida’s philosophy of forgiveness has wide social and political implications as it transcends binary oppositions: present/past, self/other, friend/enemy and so forth. All concepts within Derrida’s philosophy of politics (friendship, enemy, hospitality, forgiveness, justice, and so on) are significant for societies eroded with traumas of wars and ethno-national divisions and conflicts.
Keywords: Derrida, philosophy, forgiveness, enemy, migration, asylum, hospitality.
Martha Nussbaum y la literatura como filosofía moral
Authors: Medina-Botero Hernan
Published: August 2021

Martha Nussbaum ha defendido la tesis de que la literatura puede ser filosofía moral. Esta idea, poco popular en los círculos filosóficos, ha sido atacada desde distintos frentes. Una de las objeciones fundamentales es que la literatura no cumple con las labores tradicionalmente filosóficas. En particular, se dice que la filosofía se encarga de hacer un trabajo conceptual sistemático y de argumentar para mostrar la verdad de un punto de vista. Este texto defiende que la literatura puede cumplir justamente esas labores, de manera que una obra literaria puede ser, a la vez, un trabajo de filosofía; en particular, de filosofía moral. El argumento central se basa en dos ideas de corte wittgensteiniano. En primer lugar, que una forma de sistematizar es brindar una visión panorámica que aclara el campo problemático. En segundo lugar, que algunas verdades, especialmente en el ámbito moral, no pueden capturarse mediante el lenguaje, pero que pueden mostrarse a través de él.
Religião e política em Eric Weil: democracia, tolerância e diálogo em tempos de remitologização da política
Authors: Branco Judikael Castelo
Published: August 2021

O artigo propõe, a partir da obra de Eric Weil, a retomada do diálogo como registro político fundamental da linguagem em comunidades plurirreligiosas e multiculturais como a resposta do filósofo aos desafios postos pela intolerância religiosa que caracteriza o atual processo de remitologização da política. Para tanto, o texto se prende aos escritos em que o autor trata diretamente do tema da relação entre religião e política. A abordagem dessa relação centrada na tolerância e no diálogo em comunidades democráticas se justifica por oferecer uma chave para o nexo entre os textos estudados aqui e a arquitetônica do sistema weiliano: o enfrentamento da violência. A reflexão se estrutura em quatro momentos. Primeiro, toma as considerações de Weil sobre a secularização, depois passa ao tratamento da religião como problema político e à necessidade da elaboração de uma teoria da tolerância em comunidades multiculturais e plurirreligiosas. Posteriormente, considera o problema no contexto peculiar da atual “remitologização” dos discursos políticos e os riscos que se erguem à democracia. Por fim, chega à proposta weiliana do diálogo não apenas como condição de possibilidade da tolerância, mas acima de tudo como virtude política no sentido forte do termo.
Palavras-chave: Religião, política, democracia, tolerância, diálogo.
A teoria clássica dos conceitos e o conceito de deus
Authors: Silvestre Ricardo Sousa
Published: August 2021

Ao mesmo tempo que o malogro da assim chamada teoria clássica dos conceitos – de acordo com a qual definições são a maneira apropriada de caracterizar conceitos – é um consenso, a filosofia metafísica da religião parece ainda lidar com o conceito de Deus de forma predominantemente definicional. Podemos então nos perguntar: Seria esse malogro suficiente para inviabilizar uma caracterização definicional do conceito de Deus? Meu propósito central neste artigo é responder essa pergunta. Adoto uma ênfase representacional. Em outras palavras, desejo analisar até que ponto os problemas mais importantes levantados contra a teoria clássica dos conceitos afetam uma abordagem definicional-representacional do conceito de Deus. Como resultado desse esforço, mostro que as críticas à teoria clássica que ameaçam tal abordagem dependem da pluralidade característica ao contexto inter-religioso, que por si só cria outros problemas.
Palavras-chave: Teoria clássica dos conceitos, conceito de Deus, pluralidade do conceito de Deus.
Eric Weil e a cientificidade da filosofia
Authors: Branco Judikael Castelo
Published: August 2021

Traduação do artigo "La philosophie est-elle scientifique?", de Eric Weil.
Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities of Digital Financial Services in Developing Countries
Authors: Mathew Viju
Published: August 2021

The chapter aims to show the challenges and opportunities of digital financial services (DFS) in emerging markets like India and to show how the adoption of innovative DFS marketing can support the outreach of its large population. The chapter reveals the digital marketing priorities of these forces powered by new digital technologies to drive the rapid transformation of financial sector marketing function into a cash cow position. The implication of this research supports the institutions to formulate the framework to overcome the challenges and create an advantage by grabbing the opportunities. The results reveal the gaps, adjusting the organizational digital strategy for companies across sectors.
Digital Transformation Approaches for Aircraft Maintenance Operations
Authors: Kivanç Ercan , Vayvay Özalp , Kalender Zeynep Tuğçe
Published: August 2021

Digital transformation is one of the critical drivers of change in aviation as in many areas. Aviation operations are always aimed to be carried out with a high degree of safety and security standards. Efficient aircraft maintenance management makes a significant contribution to meeting these standards. The digital revolution offers excellent opportunities for safety, reliability, and efficiency advancement for aviation continuing airworthiness. This chapter provides a basic overview of aircraft maintenance processes and highlights some of the maintenance management issues. This chapter addresses some of the industry 4.0 technologies that have been tested for use or currently used in aircraft maintenance operations and discusses the impact of these technologies on current management problems. Consequently, this chapter is expected to present useful information and comments for the aircraft maintenance community, including managers and professionals, and encourage them to think about other possible innovations beneficial to their processes.
Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Dhamija Ankit , Chatterji Niti
Published: August 2021

Machines have emerged as intelligent players and are set to replace skilled practitioners in various fields. So, what would be a leader's contribution be if machines do the decision making? The chapter addresses this question by proposing that artificial intelligence will act as a catalyst enabling managers and leaders in the process of knowledge management. Further, the chapter aims to bring together the three constructs of leadership, artificial intelligence, and knowledge management and try to theoretically establish a relationship among them. The work is immensely relevant to the Indian context given the fact that at its current stage of development, artificial intelligence has the potential to add $957 billion to the country's economy by 2035. Thus, the chapter will emphasize the relationship between leadership and artificial intelligence and how it supports knowledge management in organizations and influences its everyday decision making.
Criticality of E-Privacy and Data Leakage Amid the Pandemic
Authors: Roy Gaurav
Published: August 2021

The global pandemic has led to an undeniable surge in using digital technologies due to the social distancing norms and nationwide lockdowns. Firms and organizations are conforming to the new culture of work and life. The use of internet services, digital devices, and cloud systems has seen surges in usage from 40% to 100%, compared to pre-lockdown levels. With the rapid growth of this technological use, people are exposing their digital assets, presence, and behavior out to the binary world where AI-driven data analysis algorithms, data-gathering systems, and spyware are continuously monitoring their behavior. These subconsciously exposed data are then carried forward for delivering customized ads and recommend features.
Specific Interventions and the Role of Occupational Therapy on
Children With ASD
Authors: Matei Silvia-Raluca , Totolan Damian Mircea , Salceanu Claudia
Published: August 2021

Occupational therapy focuses on children's sensory processing and
modulation. This chapter approaches specific interventions on
children with ASD from several perspectives. OT is based on sensory
integrative approach when working with children with ASD: helping
parents understand their child's behavior, helping children organize
responses to sensory input. The sensory integrative approach is a
formulated activity plan that helps people who haven't been able to
develop their own sensory recognition program. This plan allows a
child to integrate all sorts of different sensory activities in
their day so they can engage in and begin to work with a wide
variety of sensory inputs. This provides a wide number of benefits.
Their focus and attention span increases because they won't have
meltdowns from trying to process too much information; sensory
integrative approach helps to rebuild/reform the child's nervous
system. This allows them to physically handle more sensory input. As
a result, OT has been proven effective in working with children with
ASD.
Improving Communication in Children With ASD
Authors: Iacob Claudia I.
Published: August 2021

Raising a child with ASD is generally considered a challenging experience for families due to the pervasive difficulties in communication, social skills, and other adaptive behaviors encountered in these children. The family system restructures and adapts to accommodate the needs of the child with ASD. In this chapter, the author highlights the importance of communication skills for the development of children with ASD and summarizes the evidence-based individual interventions for improving them. Although there is robust evidence for the family's beneficial contribution to developing adaptive communication skills in children with ASD, there is still room for uplifting the existing programs in terms of accessibility, efficacy, and culture-based elements. In the final part of the chapter, the author provides recommendations for designing future family interventions addressed to communication skills in children with ASD and argues that culture-specific and systemic factors (such as support policies for children with disabilities) enhance program success.
Circular Economy for Plastics and Digitally Enabled Community Towards ASEAN Halal Hub in Asia
Authors: Musari Khairunnisa
Published: August 2021

This chapter highlights the significant economic opportunities from the implementation of the circular economy paradigm for plastics as a requirement for halal industry in the ASEAN region. If this can be realized, the ASEAN halal industry will have a comparative advantage that will all at once leads radically in reducing plastic pollution in halal market. ASEAN has opportunities for influencing the value to halal market in Asia. All the more, Asia also has opportunities for influencing the value to halal market around the world. With support from the digitally enabled community, this circular economy best practice may spread and influence another region or another industry in Asia. This not only opens up opportunities of ASEAN for leading a halal hub in Asia, but it can also be encouraging the collaboration between community groups, businesses, industry, local and national governments, international donors, and world-class experts seeking meaningful actions to defeat plastic pollution.
Probabilistic Power System Reliability Assessment
Authors: Dzobo Oliver , Awodele Kehinde O.
Published: August 2021

This chapter presents the different dynamics in power system reliability as a result of the intrinsic behavior of distributed renewable energy sources. The output power of distributed renewable energy sources depends on the amount of available respective resource at any given time. This output power generally experiences fluctuations when compared with the output of conventional power generation units. The phenomenon is not usually included in traditional reliability worth evaluation methods for power system networks with distributed generation. In this chapter, a reliability worth evaluation model for power system networks with time-dependent distributed renewable generation resources is presented and analyzed. Time sequential Monte Carlo simulation technique is used, and the operational efficiency of the distributed generation unit is measured using the primary reliability worth index, ECOST. The derived index is fitted to a beta distribution function to show the inherent skewness of the supply reliability worth index.
Photovoltaic Solar Modules of Different Types and Designs for Energy Supply
Authors: Panchenko Vladimir , Izmailov Andrey , Kharchenko Valeriy , Lobachevskiy Yakov
Published: August 2021

The article presents photovoltaic solar modules that have a different design and purpose. The principles of photoconversion in solar cells, materials used in their manufacture and basic characteristics of solar cells are described. Solar cells of amorphous silicon and two-sided solar cells are considered. Photovoltaic planar and matrix solar modules with extended lifetime are presented. Solar tiles and compact folding photovoltaic solar modules, as well as paraboloid concentrator of solar radiation for solar cogeneration plants are presented. Also considered cascade solar cells and solar modules with the decomposition of the light. The considered photovoltaic solar modules are investigated and manufactured in the All-Russian Research Institute of Electrification of Agriculture and Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM, Moscow, Russia.
Analysing Transportation-Induced Economic Growth, Energy Use, and CO2 Emissions
Authors: Kalayci Salih
Published: August 2021

This chapter concentrates on the linkage among transportation, energy usage, GDP, and Co2 emissions in EU countries during the period 1970-2014 by analysing the EKC hypothesis. The data is derived from the World Bank's official website to point out environmental consciousness of EU countries by implementing panel data analysis. In this sense, the findings indicate that environmental consciousness is quite low for EU countries from 1970 to 1997. Besides, the environmental issues of EU countries are taken into account from 1997 to 2014. The findings of research demonstrate that their sensitiveness has risen significantly, which is consistent with the inverse-U shape of the EKC hypothesis from 1997 to 2014. Thus, these empirical results support the Kyoto protocol's political aims and goals. Furthermore, Johansen co-integration test is implemented to reveal the long-term linkage among economic growth, air transportation, carbon emissions, and energy usage.
Green Growth and Energy Use in India
Authors: Patra Sudhakar , Sahu Kabita Kumari
Published: August 2021

The objective of the chapter is to analyze the trend and pattern of energy use, energy challenges of India, and the sustainability through green growth strategy. The study is based on secondary data collected from energy outlook, integrated energy policy, world development indicators, and RBI database. Energy security and sustainable development are critical issues to ensure India's economic growth and its human development. Transport sector energy demand witnesses a noticeable increase, growing by almost three times, from 125 Mtoe in 2012 to about 360 Mtoe in 2018. India has a vast supply of renewable energy resources, and it has one of the largest programs in the world for deploying renewable energy products and systems. The share of oil has in particular fallen from 36% to 33%, while that of natural gas has increased from 23% to 24%, and that of renewable energy (including nuclear and large hydro) has gone up from 12.5% to 14% in the period 2005-15. There is urgent need to have proper integrated energy policy in India with emphasis more on renewable sources of energy.
Exploratory Analysis of Free and Open Source Software Ecology
Authors: Srinivasa K.G. , Deka Ganesh Chandra , P.M. Krishnaraj
Published: August 2021

Shared repositories provide a host of services to start and sustain a FOSS project. They also share the details of projects with researchers. Sourceforge.net is a popular and populous forge with total number of projects exceeding 400,000 and developers counting more than 3 million as of Jan 2015. The evolution of this forge is studied and it was found that there is a small slide in the number of developers since September 2011. The existence of power law in Sourceforge.net is confirmed. The visualisation of developer relations reveal that there is a separate core and periphery groups of developers in Sourceforge.net and this trend was found to repeat in other forges like Freecode and Rubyforge.
Analysis of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Product in Web Based Client-Server Architecture
Authors: Singh Pushpa , Singh Narendra
Published: August 2021

Free and open source software (FOSS) differs from proprietary software. FOSS facilitates the design of various applications per the user's requirement. Web applications are not exceptional in this way. Web-based applications are mostly based on client server architecture. This article is an analytical study of FOSS products used in web-based client server architecture. This article will provide information about FOSS product such as FireFox (web browser), Apache (web server) and MySQL (RDBMS). These reveal that various FOSS products such as Apache server covers 65% of the market share, while MySQL covers 58.7% market share and hold the top-most rank.
Open Source Software Usage in Education and Research
Authors: Jammoul Samih M. , Syuzev Vladimir V. , Andreev Ark M.
Published: August 2021

Information technology and telecommunication is considered a new and quickly evolving branch of science. New technologies and services in IT and telecommunications impose successive changes and updates on related engineering majors, especially in practical qualification that includes using software facilities. This chapter aims to join the efforts to spread the use of open source software in academic education. The chapter consists of two main sections. The first presents the trend of using open source software in higher education and discusses pros and cons of using open source software in engineering education. The second section presents network traffic analysis as an example of recent effective research topics and provides a set of open source tools to perform the research's practical steps. The research example with the suggested tools is valid as practical lab work for telecommunication and IT-related majors.
Transmission Line Routing Using Open Source Software Q-GIS
Authors: Uddin Shabbir , Sherpa Karma Sonam , Chakravorty Sandeep , Ray Amitava
Published: August 2021

This article contends that planning for power systems is essentially a projection of how the system should grow over a specific period of time, given certain assumptions and judgments about the future load and the size of investment in generating capacity additions, transmission facilities expansion and reinforcements. Transmission line routing is one of the most important strategic decision-making problems for both private and public sectors. The major objective of a utility is to supply demand for power with a good quality of service, through proper planning of the system. This has led to development of methods which can be used to aid the decision-making process for selecting the best alternative. Geographical Information System (GIS)-based electricity transmission system planning strategies are proposed in this article to determine an optimum routing of feeders. Existing and proposed layouts have been drawn using a GIS-based software, Quantum Geographic Information System (Q-GIS). The developed system is based on the routing of transmission lines from Barh thermal power plant situated in Bihar, India.
Ensemble Techniques-Based Software Fault Prediction in an Open-Source Project
Authors: Rhmann Wasiur , Ansari Gufran Ahmad
Published: August 2021

Software engineering repositories have been attracted by researchers to mine useful information about the different quality attributes of the software. These repositories have been helpful to software professionals to efficiently allocate various resources in the life cycle of software development. Software fault prediction is a quality assurance activity. In fault prediction, software faults are predicted before actual software testing. As exhaustive software testing is impossible, the use of software fault prediction models can help the proper allocation of testing resources. Various machine learning techniques have been applied to create software fault prediction models. In this study, ensemble models are used for software fault prediction. Change metrics-based data are collected for an open-source android project from GIT repository and code-based metrics data are obtained from PROMISE data repository and datasets kc1, kc2, cm1, and pc1 are used for experimental purpose. Results showed that ensemble models performed better compared to machine learning and hybrid search-based algorithms. Bagging ensemble was found to be more effective in the prediction of faults in comparison to soft and hard voting.
Online Retailer Reputation, Satisfaction, and Trust as Catalysts in the Consumer Perceptions of Ethics on Online Retailers and Repurchase Intention
Authors: Ahamed A. F. M. Jalal , Pham Long
Published: August 2021

This research investigates the effect of consumer perceptions regarding the ethics of online retailers (CPEOR) on repurchase intention through reputation, satisfaction, and trust. The authors performed structural equation model analysis with SmartPLS on a sample of 458 responses collected from Vietnamese consumers. They found that CPEOR has a significant positive effect on reputation, satisfaction, and trust. As expected, trust and satisfaction directly predict repurchase intention; however, reputation does not directly follow this pattern. Instead, two prosocial constructs, namely trust and satisfaction, channel the effect of reputation on repurchase intention. Contrary to the conventional understanding that a favourable reputation will predict higher consumer trust, they found a negative correlation between these two factors. The managerial and theoretical contributions of the research and direction for future research are highlighted.
Arabic Biomedical Community Question Answering Based on Contextualized Embeddings
Authors: El Adlouni Yassine , Nahnahi Noureddine En , El Alaoui Said Ouatik , Meknassi Mohammed , Rodríguez Horacio , Alami Nabil
Published: August 2021

Community question answering has become increasingly important as they are practical for seeking and sharing information. Applying deep learning models often leads to good performance, but it requires an extensive amount of annotated data, a problem exacerbated for languages suffering a scarcity of resources. Contextualized language representation models have gained success due to promising results obtained on a wide array of downstream natural language processing tasks such as text classification, textual entailment, and paraphrase identification. This paper presents a novel approach by fine-tuning contextualized embeddings for a medical domain community question answering task. The authors propose an architecture combining two neural models powered by pre-trained contextual embeddings to learn a sentence representation and thereafter fine-tuned on the task to compute a score used for both ranking and classification. The experimental results on SemEval Task 3 CQA show that the model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art models by almost 2% for the '16 edition and 1% for the '17 edition.
Genre Familiarity Correlation-Based Recommender Algorithm for New User Cold Start Problem
Authors: Sharon Moses J. (6f18f20b-e30f-4382-bfc1-3c1efb2107b9  , Dhinesh Babu L. D. (58c0465d-d35d-4fbd-9f7d-5ed7d33c5b50
Published: August 2021

The advancement of web services paved the way to the accumulation of a tremendous amount of information into the world wide web. The huge pile of information makes it hard for the user to get the required information at the right time. Therefore, to get the right item, recommender systems are emphasized. Recommender algorithms generally act on the user information to render recommendations. In this scenario, when a new user enters the system, it fails in rendering recommendation due to unavailability of user information, resulting in a new user problem. So, in this paper, a movie recommender algorithm is constructed to address the prevailing new user cold start problem by utilizing only movie genres. Unlike other techniques, in the proposed work, familiarity of each movie genre is considered to compute the genre significance value. Based on genre significance value, genre similarity is correlated to render recommendations to a new user. The evaluation of the proposed recommender algorithm on real-world datasets shows that the algorithm performs better than the other similar approaches.
Predicting Mobile Portability Across Telecommunication Networks Using the Integrated-KLR
Authors: Makinde Ayodeji Samuel , Agbeyangi Abayomi O. , Nwankwo Wilson
Published: August 2021

Mobile number portability (MNP) across telecommunication networks entails the movement of a customer from one mobile service provider to another. This, often, is as a result of seeking better service delivery or personal choice. Churning prediction techniques seek to predict customers tending to churn and allow for improved customer sustenance campaigns and the cost therein through an improved service efficiency to customer. In this paper, MNP predicting model using integrated kernel logistic regression (integrated-KLR) is proposed. The Integrated-KLR is a combination of kernel logistic regression and expectation-maximization clustering which helps in proactively detecting potential customers before defection. The proposed approach was evaluated with five others, mostly used algorithms: SOM, MLP, Naïve Bayes, RF, J48. The proposed iKLR outperforms the other algorithms with ROC and PRC of 0.856 and 0.650, respectively.
Evolution of Online Marketing Tools, Approaches, and Strategies With Associated Challenges
Authors: Gupta Shikha , Mishra Atul
Published: August 2021

Marketing tools like organizing campaigns, banners, TV, and radio are traditionally designed for making the product more appealing and creating a need in the customers' minds. With the increased use of internet in our day-to-day life, these traditional tools are being replaced rapidly by online marketing media. Online marketing is a two-way communication that can reach a large number of relevant people in less time by providing more information and removing geographical constraints. The companies can respond to the customers' requirements more speedily with better quality by making direct contact with them. Most of the online development work supports itself with the revenue earned through advertisements rather than subscription. Online marketing is one of the largest, most effective, and fastest advertising media. Today, it is an essential medium of advertising for meeting the desires and needs of the customer. This paper explores the history of online marketing along with its basic tools with a special emphasis on keyword-based search, recommendation engines, and real-time bidding.
Coconut fiber biochar alters physical and chemical properties in sandy soils
Authors: Guarnieri Simone Francieli , Nascimento Elisamara Caldeira do , Costa Junior Robson Ferreira , Faria Jorge Luiz Brito de , Lobo Francisco de Almeida
Published: August 2021

This work aimed to characterize the biochar produced from residues of coconut fruit and to evaluate how it might beneficially alter the retention capacity of water and nutrients in soils with a sandy texture. The biochar was produced in a retort furnace and later analyzed to determine its chemical and physical characteristics. Experiments to analyze the retention potential of the biochar for water and nutrients were performed in PVC columns filled to a 400 mm depth, with the upper 300 mm receiving treatments that consisted of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5% (p p-1) biochar mixed with soil. For the nutrient retention experiment, in addition to the biochar concentrations, the treatments received the same NPK fertilization. The experiments were performed in a completely randomized design with four replications. The water retention in the upper 300 mm, as well as the pH, effective cation exchange capacity (ECEC) of the substrate, base saturation, and concentrations of P and K, increased with increasing biochar concentration. Coconut biochar demonstrated potential for increasing water retention and improving nutrient retention in sandy soils.
Charges alteradas, polêmicas instauradas: limites da intertextualidade na arena do dissenso midiático
Authors: Cardoso Eveline Coelho , Xavier Glayci Kelli Reis da Silva
Published: August 2021

Concebida como uma característica básica do discurso, a argumentação tem as mesmas raízes históricas e sociais da democracia e, de forma análoga, dá sentido à prática cidadã, promovendo e estruturando o diálogo para resolver problemas e levar a consensos. Sustentada pelos princípios linguageiros da influência e da alteridade, a argumentatividade é, pois, inerente a todo discurso e permite ao homem compartilhar suas visões de mundo e defendê-las perante seus pares, fazendo valer sua opinião na arena dialógica em que é encenada a vida em sociedade. Sob a perspectiva da Análise do Discurso (Amossy, 2011, 2018; Charaudeau, 2004a, 2008), a argumentação é uma prática social determinada pela situação e pelo contrato comunicativo que ensejam os atos de linguagem, desenvolvendo-se em um espaço de restrições e liberdades. Levando em consideração os traços singulares da argumentação polêmica – aquela cujo discurso nasce de um confronto de teses antagônicas –, o presente trabalho se debruça sobre um corpus composto por três charges de cartunistas brasileiros, que versam sobre temas políticos da esfera nacional e internacional. Interessa-nos, mais de perto, analisar três versões polêmicas dessas charges, criadas por oponentes, nas quais os recursos verbo-visuais foram manipulados a fim de lhes impor uma orientação argumentativa contrária. Por fim, pautada na argumentação no discurso, a análise das versões originais das charges comparadas a suas ‘cópias’ conflitantes permitiu observar a dimensão polêmica do corpus a partir de mecanismos de retomada e refutação do discurso verbo-visual do outro, pelas vias de uma intertextualidade parodística.
Impacts caused by swine manure application and proper management proposition in a swine finishing farm
Authors: Santos Clarissa Vitória Borges dos , Saleh Bruno Botelho , Reis Kenedy Vieira dos , Van Els Pedro Paulo Dunice , Arantes Jonathan Oliveira , Felix Marielle Vieira , Pereira Luciane de Souza , Jesus Camila Dias de
Published: August 2021

Due to the increase in the PWW production level by the high concentration of animals per area, the intensification and concentration of pig farming in certain regions has resulted in the intensive application of swine manure (PWW) in the same terrain, which may provide the soil accumulation and the transference of elements may compromise the productive capacity of the territorial space of that region. In this sense, this work aimed to evaluate the elements concentration present in the soil and in swine waste, in relation to the values stipulated by CONAMA Resolution n. 420 (Conselho Nacional do Meio Ambiente [CONAMA], 2009) and also by CETESB n. 195/2005 (Companhia de Tecnologia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo [CETESB], 2005), which provides for criteria and values guiding soil quality and groundwater for chemicals presence, and, based on the reference element, adapt to the technical standard P 4,231/2015 (Companhia de Tecnologia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo [CETESB], 2015) proposed by CETESB for the dose calculation of vinasse application, in PWW application in pasture cultivation. The work accomplished at Fazenda Talhado Cinco de Março rural area - Rio Verde Municipality – Goiás state. Samples were performed to determine the soil physicochemical attributes and PWW chemical analysis of the soil, submitted to statistical analysis of Analysis of Variance and Tukey’s Test 5%. The results made it possible to verify that the used management is not the most appropriate, and it is necessary to review the procedures currently adopted, such as performing more constant soil and PWW analyzes, to avoid that their continual application in a disorderly manner and with possible negative impacts on the environment.