bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Features Of The Application Of Administrative Restrictive Measures By Law Enforcement Agencies In Maintaining Public Order During Public Events
Authors:   Senior Lecturer At The Department Of Administrative Law Of The Academy Of The Ministry Of Internal Affairs Of The Republic Of Uzbekistan, Abdirasulovich Khudoyberdiev Abdurashid
Published: October 2020

The article Peculiarities of application of administrative restrictive measures by law enforcement agencies to ensure public order and safety during public events The system of principles of protection of public order and safety consists of socio-legal and organizational-legal principles. Practical measures on the passport system in the areas where the public event is held, ie inspections of compliance with the rules of the passport system in the administrative area served, enterprises, organizations, institutions, railways, bus stations, car farms, hotels, camping, sanatoriums , control over the application of the passport-visa system in tourist bases. Taking into account the implementation of measures to restrict and prohibit traffic in public places to ensure public order and safety, the issue of restricting or stopping traffic in public places is carried out on the basis of a decision of the local government on the proposal of law enforcement agencies. The powers and rights of khokims set forth in Article 25 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Local Government" of September 2, 1993 should include the organization and control of compliance with security requirements for the organization and organization of public events, wedding venues.
Non-Profit Organizations: Legislation Reform And Law Enforcement Practice
Authors:   Independent Researcher At Tashkent State University Of Law, Uzbekistan, Akhrorkulov Anvar
Published: October 2020

Article deals with the current legislation on non-profit organizations, legal extent of activities of these organizations, wide involvement of non-profit organizations in civil affairs, issues of further improvement of law enforcement practice through the implementation of proposals on changes in the Civil Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Selective detection of complex gas mixtures using point contacts: concept, method and tools
Authors: Pospelov Alexander P , Belan Victor I , Harbuz Dmytro O , Vakula Volodymyr L , Kamarchuk Lyudmila V , Volkova Yuliya V , Kamarchuk Gennadii V
Published: October 2020

Of all modern nanosensors using the principle of measuring variations in electric conductance, point-contact sensors stand out in having a number of original sensor properties not manifested by their analogues. The nontrivial nature of point-contact sensors is based on the unique properties of Yanson point contacts used as the sensing elements. The quantum properties of Yanson point contacts enable the solution of some of the problems that could not be solved using conventional sensors measuring conductance. In the present paper, we demonstrate this by showing the potential of quantum point-contact sensors to selectively detect components of a gas mixture in real time. To demonstrate the high efficiency of the proposed approach, we analyze the human breath, which is the most complex of the currently known natural gas mixtures with extremely low concentrations of its components. Point-contact sensors allow us to obtain a spectroscopic profile of the mixture. This profile contains information about the complete set of energy interactions occurring in the point contact/breath system when the breath constituents adsorb to and desorb from the surface of the point-contact conduction channel. With this information we can unambiguously characterize the analyzed system, since knowing the energy parameters is key to successfully identifying and modeling the physicochemical properties of various quantum objects. Using the point-contact spectroscopic profile of a complex gas mixture it is possible to get a functional dependence of the concentration of particular breath components on the amplitude of the sensor output signal. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach, we analyze the point-contact profiles from the breath of several patients and compare them with the concentrations of serotonin and cortisol in the body of each patient. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed methodology allows one to get an effective calibration function for a non-invasive analysis of the level of serotonin and cortisol in the human body using the point-contact breath test. The present study indicates some necessary prerequisites for the design of fast detection methods using differential sensor analysis in real time, which can be implemented in various areas of science and technology, among which medicine is one of the most important.
Research of consumer behavior in environmental marketing
Authors: HATSKA Liudmyla
Published: October 2020

The relevance of the research topic is determined by the prospects of Ukraine's accession to the European Green Course and the resulting need to intensify efforts to form and constantly increase demand for environmental goods and services. A significant role in this issue is given to environmental marketing, namely – the study of consumer behavior of environmental goods and services, environmental market segmentation, selection of target groups and development of marketing strategies for each of them. Much attention is paid to these issues in our work.
The article also contains a theoretical analysis of different approaches to the formation of a model of consumer behavior of environmental goods and services. We focused on the peculiarities of the application in environmental marketing of economic, psychological and social approaches to the formation of behavioral patterns of different groups of consumers in relation to the environmental friendliness of goods. We also considered the features of marketing strategies to attract different groups of "green" consumers and the main tools of environmental orientation of the consumption structure. Last one include eco-labeling, eco-branding, consumer information orientation on sustainable products, editing consumer choices and nudge.
We made a conclusion that consumers of ecological goods should be considered as a dynamic structure that is constantly changing based on the growing awareness of buyers and their understanding of the problems of sustainable development and requires constant monitoring. In Ukraine, "green buyers" can be an excellent target group of high-value market segment, which is not yet sufficiently developed. The use of environmental marketing tools will help direct consumer demand for sustainable products and stimulate the development of environmental entrepreneurship.
Technological aspects of evaluation of enterprise efficiency
Authors: KOVALENKO Oleksandr , STANISLAVYK Olena
Published: October 2020

Introduction. In today's market conditions, due to the emergence of new private small and large enterprises, evaluation, forecasting and planning of activities become extremely necessary, especially in markets with high competition. To do this, the company must have formed a relevant system for evaluating the effectiveness of its activities.
The purpose of this paper is to study the technological aspects of evaluation of enterprise efficiency.
Results. The system of evaluating the effectiveness of the enterprise, starting with planning and strategy development is considered. The indicator "economic and technological level of technology" is characterized and the key indicators of efficiency are marked. Among the indicators and indexes are: technological productivity, value added, number of employees, annual capital expenditures on technology, levels of production and commercial development of the enterprise, labor productivity index, indicators of actual economic and financial efficiency of economic activity of enterprises. Important aspects of the activity of controlling structures at the enterprise, which ensure the diagnostics of processes, coordination and control of the implementation of approved plans, as well as evaluation of the efficiency of the enterprise, are highlighted. The role of the controlling system for improving the quality of management processes is noted. Features of resource flow management are highlighted.
Conclusion. Thus, the scheme of implementation of the diagnostics technology and, accordingly, evaluation of the enterprise efficiency is considered, which is combined with general scheme of the management cycle. The results of the implementation of this technology are used for the choice of decisions about initiation of organizational changes and modification of management models, used for the adjustment of purposes and planning the enterprise activities. The system of indicators and key indexes, and the cause-and-effect relationships between them, is developed and adjusted in accordance with the established purposes and requirements for diagnostics and, accordingly, evaluation of effectiveness of the main and auxiliary processes at the enterprise. Common problematic situations in enterprise management are situations of resource deficit and surplus due to the asynchronous nature of their flows. The resource flow management process is focused on the timely execution of the portfolio of consumer orders. When creating a controlling system at the enterprise, technologies and diagnostic tools and, accordingly, evaluating the effectiveness of its activities and managing the resource flows should be interconnected with the methods of coordination and regulation.
A Review on the Contribution of Zakat and Taxation towards Economic Development Postulated by Two Contemporary Research Scholars
Authors: Roslan Muhammad Aneeq Aiyman , Akbar Mohamed Aslam
Published: October 2020

This paper is an attempt to analyze the contributions of zakat towards an economic system. Often zakat is viewed as a taxation tool which is focused on anti-poverty policies, especially during the classical Islamic Civilizations. The paper will review and discuss postulations bought by Russel Powell and his attempt to conceptualize zakat as a modern taxation system, and Monzer Kahf and his analysis of how zakat can truly impact economies in modern times. The precedes of such discussions have found that zakat is not an equal substitute for modern-day taxation systems, and more importantly, it was never truly designed to solve all poverty issues in existence. There is a reconciliation that zakat plays a more important role in spirituality than it does in worldly pragmatism. Needless to say, zakat has contributed to poverty alleviation in the past, however along with other pivotal mechanisms concurrently in place such as Awqaf (endowments) and Infaq (disbursements).
Asymptotic behavior of solutions to an evolution equation for bidirectional surface waves in a convecting fluid
Authors: Mahmoudi H. , Esfahani A.
Published: October 2020

UDC 517.9
We consider the Cauchy problem for an evolution equation modeling bidirectional surface waves in a convecting fluid. We study the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic properties of global solutions to the initial value problem associated withthis equation in . We obtain some polynomial decay estimates of the energy.
THE STATE AND PROSPECTS OF RESEARCH
Authors: Нестик Т.А.
Published: October 2020

Представлен анализ долгосрочной ориентации как социально-психологического феномена. Рассматриваются различные подходы к ее изучению в кросс-культурной психологии, нейронауках, экономической и организационной психологии. Долгосрочную ориентацию предлагается рассматривать как многомерный феномен, включающий ценностно-мотивационные (ориентацию на отложенное вознаграждение и выраженность дисконтирования будущего, ценность преемственности, устойчивых к времени достижений и следа в истории, ценность непрерывного саморазвития, ценность прогнозирования будущего, ценность долгосрочного целеполагания и планирования, ценность долгосрочных отношений, ответственность перед будущими поколениями), когнитивные (протяженность временной перспективы, горизонт планирования, убеждение в возможности влиять на отдаленное будущее и прогнозировать его, убеждение в том, что затраченные усилия будут вознаграждены в будущем), аффективные (удовольствие от фантазирования в отношении долгосрочного будущего, интерес к долгосрочным прогнозам, оптимизм в отношении долгосрочного будущего) и поведенческие компоненты (постановку долгосрочных целей, ориентацию на учет долгосрочных последствий, поиск информации о долгосрочном будущем, готовность обсуждать его с друзьями и коллегами, ориентацию на приобретение товаров длительного пользования). Анализируются социальные и психологические предпосылки долгосрочной ориентации и ее психологические функции, а также ее возможные социально-психологические типы. Намечены перспективы дальнейших исследований в данной области.

The article presents an analysis of long-term orientation as a socio-psychological phenomenon. Various approaches to the study of long-term orientation in cross-cultural psychology, neurosciences, economic and organizational psychology are considered. Long-term orientation is proposed to be considered as a multidimensional phenomenon, including different components: motivational (orientation to delayed gratification, future discounting, the value of continuity, time-stable achievements and a trace in history, the value of continuous self-development, the value of predicting the future, the value of long-term goal-setting and planning, the value of long-term relations, responsibility to future generations), cognitive (time perspective extension, planning horizon, belief in the ability to influence the distant future and to predict it, belief that the efforts expended will be rewarded in the future), affective (pleasure from fantasizing about the long-term future , interest in long-term forecasts, optimism about the long-term future) and behavioral components (setting long-term goals, focusing on taking into account long-term consequences, searching for information about the long-term future, readiness to discuss it with friends and colleagues, focus on purchasing durable goods). The social and psychological prerequisites for long-term orientation and its psychological functions, as well as its possible socio-psychological types are analyzed. Prospects for further research in this area are outlined.
A.V. KARPOV ABOUT THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Authors: Карпов Анатолий Викторович , Нестик Тимофей Александрович
Published: October 2020

Интервью с доктором психологических наук Анатолием Викторовичем Карповым продолжает серию публикаций, в которых представлены взгляды авторитетных ученых-современников на актуальные проблемы и направления исследований психологической науки. Вопросы задавал Тимофей Александрович Нестик

The interview with the Doctor of Psychology, professor Anatoly Victorovitch Karpov continues the series of publications in which renowned scientists discuss perspective directions of research in psychological science. The questions are asked by Timofei Aleksandrovich Nestik
Phylogenetic relationships of 'Polyalthia' in Fiji
Authors: Xue Bine , Chen Yanwen , Saunders Richard M. K.
Published: October 2020

The genus Polyalthia (Annonaceae) has undergone dramatic taxonomic changes in recent years. Nine Polyalthia species have historically been recognized in Fiji, all of which have subsequently been transferred to three different genera, viz. Goniothalamus, Huberantha and Meiogyne. The transfer of six of these species has received strong molecular phylogenetic support, although the other three species, Polyalthia amoena, P. capillata and P. loriformis [all transferred to Huberantha], have never previously been sampled in a phylogenetic study. We address this shortfall by sampling available herbarium specimens of all three species and integrating the data in a molecular phylogenetic analysis. The resultant phylogeny provides strong support for the transfer of these species to Huberantha. The taxonomic realignment of all nine Fijian species formerly classified in Polyalthia is also clearly demonstrated and supported by the resultant phylogeny. The updated taxonomic treatments of the nine species, a key to the three genera and a key to the Fijian Huberantha species are provided.
Plectorhinchus makranensis (Teleostei, Haemulidae), a new species of sweetlips from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman
Authors: Damadi Ehsan , Moghaddam Faezeh Yazdani , Ghassemzadeh Fereshteh , Ghanbarifardi Mehdi
Published: October 2020

Plectorhinchus makranensissp. nov. is described on the basis of 16 specimens from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, in the Northwest Indian Ocean. The new species can be distinguished from congeners by a combination of dorsal fin rays XII, 18–20, pectoral-fin rays 16–17, tubed lateral-line scales 55–57, gill rakers count (10–12 on the upper limb and 16–17 on the lower limb), 17–18 scales between the lateral line and the first anal-fin spine, 30–31 circumpeduncular scale rows and color pattern. Plectorhinchus makranensissp. nov. is distinguished from P. schotaf by having the posterior margin of the opercular membrane grey (vs. red in P. schotaf), fewer circumpeduncular scale rows, and a shorter base of the soft portion of the dorsal fin, 27.6–29.4% of standard length (SL) (vs. 31–32.3% of SL in P. schotaf). The new species resembles P. sordidus but is differentiated from it by having more gill rakers, a smaller orbit diameter 27.5–32.1% of head length (HL) (vs. 35.5–37.2% of HL in P. sordidus), a longer caudal peduncle 19.2–21.3% of SL (vs. 17.1–17.9% of SL in P. sordidus), and the first to third pectoral-fin rays light gray (vs. dark gray in P. sordidus). The new species can also be distinguished from the other species, including P. schotaf and P. sordidus, based on COI and Cyt b molecular markers. The phylogenetic position of this new species indicates that it is a sister taxon of P. schotaf.
La médecine personnalisée est-elle humaniste ?
Authors: Giroux Élodie
Published: October 2020

Adoptant une perspective populationnelle inspirée des « sciences de la santé de la population », cet article développe une critique de la manière dont la médecine personnalisée envisage l’individu et la population et défend l’idée qu’une approche conjointe de la santé de l’individu et de la santé de la population est une condition pour une médecine humaniste.
A self adaptive inertial algorithm for solving split variational inclusion and fixed point problems with applications
Authors: Alakoya Timilehin Opeyemi , Jolaoso Lateef Olakunle , Mewomo Oluwatosin Temitope
Published: October 2020

We propose a general iterative scheme with inertial term and self-adaptive stepsize for approximating a common solution of Split Variational Inclusion Problem (SVIP) and Fixed Point Problem (FPP) for a quasi-nonexpansive mapping in real Hilbert spaces. We prove that our iterative scheme converges strongly to a common solution of SVIP and FPP for a quasi-nonexpansive mapping, which is also a solution of a certain optimization problem related to a strongly positive bounded linear operator. We apply our proposed algorithm to the problem of finding an equilibrium point with minimal cost of production for a model in industrial electricity production. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of our algorithm in comparison with some other existing algorithms in the literature.
Detecting DDoS Attack
Authors: G. Megala , Prabu S. , B. C. Liyanapathirana
Published: October 2020

The major network security problems faced by many internet users is the DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. This attack makes the service inaccessible by exhausting the network and resources with high repudiation and economic loss. It denies the network services to the potential users. To detect this DDoS attack accurately in the network, random forest classifier which is a machine learning based classifier is used. The experimental results are compared with naïve Bayes classifier and KNN classifier showing that random forest produces high accuracy results in classification. Application of machine learning, detecting DDoS attacks is modeled based on the supervised learning algorithm to produce best outcome with high accuracy of training algorithm on network dataset.
A Novel Ensemble Learning for Defect Detection Method With Uncertain Data
Authors: E. Sreedevi , V. PremaLatha , Y. Prasanth , S. Sivakumar
Published: October 2020

Data which contains noise is termed as uncertain data, and the presence of noise makes a deviation in the correct, intended, or original values. Size and complexity of the software products are the two main reasons for uncertain data set that identifying defective modules in uncertain datasets has become a challenging issue. In this chapter, the authors implemented a multi-learner ensemble model for uncertain datasets for defect detection. In this model, different weak classifiers are optimized to improve the classification rate on uncertain data. They have implemented their proposed model on NASA(PROMISE) metric data program repository. Accuracy is used as performance evaluation metric for our multi-learner ensemble defect detection model and ensemble model outcome achieved higher accuracy rate of 97% and when compared to another classification model.
Review on Sparse Matrix Storage Formats With Space Complexity Analysis
Authors: Jamalmohammed Saira Banu , K. Lavanya , I. Sumaiya Thaseen , V. Biju
Published: October 2020

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a challenging computational kernel in linear algebra applications, like data mining, image processing, and machine learning. The performance of this kernel is greatly dependent on the size of the input matrix and the underlying hardware features. Various sparse matrix storage formats referred to commonly as sparse formats have been proposed in the literature to reduce the size of the matrix. In modern multi-core and many-core architectures, the performance of the kernel is mainly dependent on memory wall and power wall problem. Normally review on sparse formats is done with specific architecture or with specific application. This chapter presents a comparative study on various sparse formats in cross platform architecture like CPU, graphics processor unit (GPU), and single instruction multiple data stream (SIMD) registers. Space complexity analysis of various formats with its representation is discussed. Finally, the merits and demerits of each format have been summarized into a table.
Sentiment Analysis and Sarcasm Detection (Using Emoticons)
Authors: Dagar Vibhu , Verma Amber , K. Govardhan
Published: October 2020

Sentiment analysis is contextual mining of text which identifies and extracts subjective information in source material and helps a business to understand the social sentiment of their brand, product, or service while monitoring online conversations. However, analysis of social media streams is usually restricted to just basic sentiment analysis and count-based metrics. This is akin to just scratching the surface and missing out on those high value insights that are waiting to be discovered. Twitter is an online person-to-person communication administration where overall clients distribute their suppositions on an assortment of themes, talk about current issues, grumble, and express positive or on the other hand negative notions for items they use in life. Hence, Twitter is a rich source of information for supposition mining and estimation investigation.
Smart Sensing Network for Smart Technologies
Authors: D. Francina Sophiya , P. Swarnalatha , Sevugan Prabu , Chathurani T. D. K Upeksha , Babu R. Magesh
Published: October 2020

Smart environments based on wireless sensor networks represent the next evolutionary development step in engineering, such as industrial automation, video surveillance, traffic monitoring, and robot control. Sensory data come from multiple networks of interconnected sensors with complex distributed locations. The recent development of communication and sensor technology results in the growth of a new attractive and challenging area: wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A wireless sensor network which consists of a large number of sensor nodes is deployed in environmental fields to serve various applications. Facilitated with the ability of wireless communication and intelligent computation, these nodes become smart sensors that do not only perceive ambient physical parameters but also are able to process information, cooperate with each other, and self-organize into the network. These new features assist the sensor nodes as well as the network to operate more efficiently in terms of both data acquisition and energy consumption.
Fourth Industrial Revolution, Accounting Profession Well-Being, and Environmental Well-Being in South Africa
Authors: Olarewaju Odunayo Magret
Published: October 2020

Industry 4.0 centers on the connection of physical and cyber networks to allow actionable insights and real-time information flow such that the well-being of the creatures, workplace, and the environment is guaranteed. Plastic pollution has been a major menace in South Africa and the proposed ban has not been implemented by the government. With the current measures of reducing the pollution, it was evident that the use of fourth industrial revolution has not been effective. Thus, it was recommended that government should enforce labelling of very single-use plastic and an associated fine should be attached to every single-use plastic found polluting the environment. It should be made mandatory for all management accountants to include cost for plastic pollution as one of the operating costs of each organisation. Also, it is recommended that robots can be erected around the cities, towns and workplace picking plastic waste. This will show the seriousness of the government to combat the single use plastic pollution and automatically curb the littering of the environment with plastics.
Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in the Global South
Authors: Henama Unathi Sonwabile , Sifolo Portia Pearl Siyanda
Published: October 2020

Future trends within the field of tourism research vary, whilst the predictions continue to be at the forefront of the discussions among the tourism practitioners and researchers. The change is so evident and continues to accelerate at a tremendous speed while at the same time the tourism industry remains fragmented and interdisciplinary. This chapter intends to present the view from the global south on the fourth industrial revolution concept in the tourism industry. Reviewing the literature on tourism and the 4IR as a research method is more relevant than ever because literature reviews play an important role as a foundation for all types of research. The future trends in the tourism industry are highlighted in this chapter, together with the common pitfalls and advantages of the 4IR in the tourism industry.
An Observational Study on Women Empowerment in Marketing With Reference to Chennai City
Authors: Radhikaashree M. , M. Shalini
Published: October 2020

Women's empowerment is much developed compared with the past. Women are working alongside men and making their own decision making in the situations like education, profession career, and lifestyle. It is clear that women can add incrementally to a developing nation's economy. However, the regulatory regime, narrow thinking, and conflict of work-life balance are some of the obstacles that are hindering the growth of women entrepreneurship. The chapter is an attempt to discuss issues like growth of women entrepreneurs globally and in India and contribution of women entrepreneurs. In spite of several obstacles faced by women entrepreneurs like lack of trust by the other party on their capabilities, struggles of managing work-life balance, proving their worth in a patriarchal society, with the increasing potential of women entrepreneurship, several initiatives taken by different authorities and organisations all over the world are playing a pivotal role in encouraging and supporting women entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Need of the hour is the change in the mindset of the people and increase in the confidence on the capabilities of women entrepreneurs.
International Remittances, Household Welfare, and Women Empowerment
Authors: Kumar Bezon , Ali Syed Rashid , Kibria Md. Golam
Published: October 2020

This chapter explores the impact of international remittances on household welfare and women empowerment in Bangladesh. In doing so, primary data and several methods are used. Firstly, this chapter constructs a household welfare index and women empowerment index to measure the level of household welfare and women empowerment, respectively. Secondly, this chapter uses a one-way ANOVA test to analyze respondents' socio-economic features. Finally, linear regression is applied to examine the impact of international remittances on household welfare. This study finds that international remittances have an influence on household welfare improvement but no influence on women empowerment in the study area. This chapter also finds that if a household receives international remittances, the level of household welfare may be increased by Tk. 3167.49. Therefore, this chapter calls for the policies for larger inflows of remittances and its proper utilization in productive purposes.
English Learners (EL) and Computer Science (CS) Learning
Authors: Hagiwara Sumi , Rodriguez Neledith Janis
Published: October 2020

The national call to increase student participation in CS is widely adopted, but there is limited research that examines English learners (EL) on the agenda for K-12 CS education. This chapter contributes to the literature by analyzing the landscape of EL in computer science and highlighting the linguistic challenges that EL students experience in CS. By understanding significant themes that emerge from these challenges, we conclude with recommendations on how to support EL and future research and strategies for creating a more equitable playing field in CS education for English learners.
The Perceived Appropriateness of Digital Games From ELL Teachers
Authors: Alshaya Khalifa , Beck Pamela
Published: October 2020

The integration of digital games into learning aligns with society's needs in the 21st century. Although research shows that digital games have numerous benefits for students, such as psychological and language improvements, some teachers are skeptical of using digital games for classroom activities, due to their perceived negative impact. In this study, six ELL teachers in the upper Midwest of the United States were interviewed to examine their perceived appropriateness of digital games in teaching and learning. Findings indicate that the majority of the ELL teachers interviewed perceived serious games in a positive light, while they unanimously agreed that violent digital games could have a negative impact on a child's psychological, emotional, and social life. The teachers highlighted the rate at which children play those games, their violent nature, appropriateness, cyber bulling implication, and the need for an oversight from parents and teachers as reasons why.
Leveraging VR/AR/MR and AI as Innovative Educational Practices for “iGeneration” Students
Authors: Vemula Srikanth
Published: October 2020

The use of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), immersive experiences, and artificial intelligence technologies are more focused on innovative education technologies. Studies show that the use of these innovative technologies helps to improve the quality of education. It is essential to promote these new innovative techniques, which show an immense prominence in the improvement of education technologies. So, this chapter shows how these innovative technologies combined with games are a more effective way of transforming our education from a good old traditional way of teaching and learning to a tech savvy way of teaching. Since the students are not the same, and there has been a lot of evolution over the years, it is important for everyone in the education sector to rethink the methods of teaching and learning and the use of incorporating new education technologies to enhance learning.
Raising Ethical Machines
Authors: Kaas Marten H. L.
Published: October 2020

The ethical decision-making and behaviour of artificially intelligent systems is increasingly important given the prevalence of these systems and the impact they can have on human well-being. Many current approaches to implementing machine ethics utilize top-down approaches, that is, ensuring the ethical decision-making and behaviour of an agent via its adherence to explicitly defined ethical rules or principles. Despite the attractiveness of this approach, this chapter explores how all top-down approaches to implementing machine ethics are fundamentally limited and how bottom-up approaches, in particular, reinforcement learning methods, are not beset by the same problems as top-down approaches. Bottom-up approaches possess significant advantages that make them better suited for implementing machine ethics.
Various Applications of Nanowires
Authors: Azam Zahied , Singh Amandeep
Published: October 2020

In this era of nanotechnology, nanowires (NWs) propose potential impact on electronics, computing, memory, data storage, communications, manufacturing, health, medicine, national security, and other economic sectors as well. NWs offer excellent surface-to-volume ratio (interface phenomena), low defect density, high optical output, and controllable n-type conductivity, making them more appropriate and sensitive for sensing applications. NWs with their ultra-sensitive and real-time detection capabilities lend their applications in nanobiosensors, chemical sensors, gas sensors, and electrochemical sensors. NWs have been used in improving the optical absorption as well as for the collection efficacy in photovoltaic devices. NWs having small size, low weight, low cost for mass production, and are also compatible with commercial planar processes for large-scale circuitry. In the chapter, the authors are focusing to summarize the recent advances in NWs with their potential applications in various fields such as research, health, security, education, entertainment, and power generation.
Brace of Nanowire FETs in the Advancements and Miniaturizations of Recent Integrated Circuits Design
Authors: Chakraborty Debapriya , Singh Jeetendra , Bala Shashi
Published: October 2020

This chapter encompasses the gradual requirements, basic working principle, inbuilt physics, structural and functional characteristics, and applications of nanowires, especially that of semiconductor nanowires in depth. Today, research and development in material science and electronics going hand in hand have opened up numerous directions for the exploration and utilization of several unique semiconducting materials in the design of novel field-effect-transistors (FETs) in the nano-scale architecture. The performance results of the basic NWFETs structures and hetero-structures along with methods to organize nanowires in the form of arrays to fulfill the requirement of integration of devices and circuits are described in detail. This chapter would be beneficial for students of undergraduate and postgraduate, researchers, and the industrial peoples as well who are working in the regime of the advancement of semiconductor technology because every aspect of nanowire and NWFETs is discussed here deeply in a single platform.
Communicative Potential in Interior Experience
Authors: Minucciani Valeria
Published: October 2020

The spatial experience is always related to time as well as to movement: the impact of interior spaces can be largely controlled by the project, and the perceptual implications can be very different. The museography is a disciplinary field where the spatial experience is combined with the communicative requirement, which can be confirmed but even contradicted by formal and spatial choices, because “it is impossible to avoid communicating.” Space is always emotional and communicative, so at the educational level, the design approach of museography is very significant. The chapter illustrates the disciplinary background and several cases, highlighting the power of display solutions that can be very incisive on interiors students.
A Methodology for Interior Design
Authors: Garip Ervin , Çelik Ceren
Published: October 2020

The notion of designed space often comes up with the tendency of perfection. This approach, which connects the design to perfection, is mostly reflected in the overall design, even in the representations. In this approach, the power of representation advances in direct proportion to its perfection and perfection is expected in the designed spaces. The situation created by this perfect representation and the reflection of perfection to the design also emerges in the “home” where daily encounters and routines are most intense. Rather than a flawless photogenic object, interiors are dynamic and variable environments containing daily encounters. The interior design practice can be handled from this context and actively influence the design methodology itself. The study shows that as the concept of “home” moves away from a photogenic object, the potential of designing a multi-layered and flexible living space in interior design studios increases. This situation provides alternative spatial articulations in the final product and representations as well as in the interior design process.
Innovative Approaches for Avant-Garde Artifacts
Authors: Birgonul Zeynep
Published: October 2020

In the last decade, the society already regenerated their cognition by collective consciousness that leads humanity to moral attitudes and in a responsible manner upon global concerns. Likewise, as in various industries, the designers also have set up a sensitive approach through sustainability and empowerment. The new generation designers are the current change-makers that are shaping the future. For enhancing design innovation, current technology augments the creativity along with diversity and eligibility of applied techniques, and it enables the designer to work interdisciplinary. Any context or inspiration that stands in the edges of creativity is not out of the realm of possibility, only if it covers up social, environmental, or cultural concerns in harmony. To achieve distinctive results, the empirical approaches of design should be encouraged for solution-oriented and revolutionary projects. Therefore, this chapter discusses in-depth why and how designers should align with the integrity of art, engineering, science, technology, and sociology for holistic design-thinking.
Process Innovation and Competitive Advantage in Telecommunication Companies
Authors: Mugo Peter Chege , Namada Juliana Mulaa
Published: October 2020

Innovation is key to achieving a competitive advantage. In a bid to achieve competitive advantage, companies have considered different types of innovation. Each firm establishes its own competitive niche depending on the conditions that allow it to be productive within that specific niche. Process innovations have emerged as some of the key competitive fronts for many firms including the telecommunications industry. This paper focuses on establishing the effect of process innovation on the competitive advantage of the telecommunication industry in Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive research design using a sample size of 26 active telecommunications companies in Kenya. The respondents were mid and top-level managers. The linear regression model showed process innovation statistically affects the competitive advantage of telecommunication companies in Kenya (β = .302t = 4.952, p<.05). The study recommends telecommunication companies to design processes that provide optimum returns and use disruptive technology to design innovative processes.
Reinforcement Learning's Contribution to the Cyber Security of Distributed Systems
Authors: Feltus Christophe
Published: October 2020

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a machine learning paradigm, like supervised or unsupervised learning, which learns the best actions an agent needs to perform to maximize its rewards in a particular environment. Research into RL has been proven to have made a real contribution to the protection of cyberphysical distributed systems. In this paper, the authors propose an analytic framework constituted of five security fields and eight industrial areas. This framework allows structuring a systematic review of the research in artificial intelligence that contributes to cybersecurity. In this contribution, the framework is used to analyse the trends and future fields of interest for the RL-based research in information system security.
Common Ontology of Sustainable Development
Authors: Deliyska Boryana , Todorov Vladislav , Ivanova Adelina
Published: October 2020

Sustainable development in its various aspects is a multifaceted and contradictory concept, interpreted by multiple sources. This study exposes the need to explore and develop a productive coevolutionary approach to build modular ontological metamodel of sustainable development including a set of interconnected ontologies and instance databases. Based on a review and on an analysis of existing ontologies in this area, a methodology for building common ontology of sustainable development is proposed as a top level of the metamodel. Using terminology from well-established and authoritative sources in the area, as well as the methods, the resources, and the standards of Semantic Web, the methodology contains stages: exploring the SD concepts; controlled vocabulary and thesaurus creating; ontology formalization, verification, querying, and publication. Relationships with the respective domain and other related to sustainable development ontologies are established. In conclusion, the results and the future development of the ontological metamodel are discussed.
CURRÍCULO E INTERDISCIPLINARIDADE
Authors: Souza Mariana Aranha de , Bussolotti Juliana Marcondes , Cunha Virginia Mara Próspero da , Fazenda Ivani Catarina Arantes
Published: October 2020

Este artigo pretende discutir os conceitos de Currículo e Interdisciplinaridade ante o que dizem 97 mestrandos em Educação, matriculados nos anos de 2017, 2018 e 2019, na disciplina “Escola, Currículo e Diversidade”, de uma Universidade do Vale do Paraíba Paulista. O estudo, de natureza qualitativa, propõe uma discussão teórica, tendo em vista o conteúdo dos textos produzidos pelos mestrandos nas aulas e em momentos que as antecederam. Inicialmente, o artigo traz uma discussão acerca do conceito de Interdisciplinaridade, seguida de uma reflexão sobre o conceito de Currículo, enquanto conhecimento poderoso ou conhecimento dos poderosos. Os resultados foram organizados considerando-se três unidades temáticas apresentadas pelos materiais produzidos pelos alunos: (i) sobre o conceito de interdisciplinaridade; (ii) sobre a compreensão da polissemia do conceito de Interdisciplinaridade, a partir de três lógicas culturais; e (iii) a relação entre Interdisciplinaridade e Currículo em favor de um conhecimento poderoso. Sobre o conceito de Interdisciplinaridade, os mestrandos apontam para a interligação entre os saberes; sua complexidade, complementaridade; e sobre uma demarcação cada vez mais tênue entre as fronteiras do conhecimento. Sobre a polissemia que envolve o conceito de Interdisciplinaridade, os mestrandos referem à existência de três lógicas distintas – epistemológica, instrumental e fenomenológica – e a complementaridade existente entre elas. Por fim, demonstram compreender que a relação entre Currículo e Interdisciplinaridade promove um alargamento no olhar, por meio de suas relações ambíguas e complexas, contribuindo para a efetivação de um conhecimento poderoso, que emancipa e empodera.
INTERDISCIPLINARIDADE NO ÂMBITO DA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL
Authors: Lima Débora Nascimento de , Cassimiro Ana Carla Souza da Silva , Rabelo Amanda Oliveira
Published: October 2020

A temática da interdisciplinaridade tem sido explorada em diversos contextos e, em alguns casos, essa tem sido considerada a alternativa que poderá encerrar os problemas no âmbito educacional. Assim, sabendo que a palavra interdisciplinaridade tem passado por um processo de evidenciação, fazendo parte de documentos e pesquisas, este artigo busca caracterizar os trabalhos recentemente produzidos sobre a interdisciplinaridade exclusivamente na educação infantil, destacando os processos metodológicos, objetivos e os resultados compreendidos. Para a realização deste estudo, foi desenvolvida uma revisão sistemática nos meses de Agosto e Setembro de 2019, utilizando como termos de busca interdisciplinaridade na educação infantil na pesquisa realizada no Portal de Periódicos da CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) e no Google Acadêmico. Ao longo das buscas, houve um grande número de resultados relacionados ao tema, no entanto, a análise dos resultados se restringiu à etapa da educação especificada. Foram identificadas nas pesquisas práticas interdisciplinares relacionadas à disciplina de Educação Física, assim como questões socioambientais associadas à Educação Ambiental, havendo ainda o aparecimento de projetos na construção destas ações.
OFERTA DE LICENCIATURAS EM FÍSICA NOS INSTITUTOS FEDERAIS DE EDUCAÇÃO, CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA: ESTUDO SOBRE A INTEGRAÇÃO CURRICULAR
Authors: Zaslavsky Alexandre , Alves Marcos Fernando Soares , Kalb Monica Cristina , Alderete Noelia Janina Alves
Published: October 2020

Este trabalho, de cunho qualitativo, apresenta e analisa, a partir do Projeto Pedagógico de Curso (PPC), as licenciaturas em Física ofertadas pelos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia. O intuito da pesquisa foi avaliar a presença de disciplinas integradoras durante a formação inicial do professor de Física nestas instituições e caracterizar os cursos de acordo com os seguintes níveis de integração: básico, intermediário e avançado. Dos 50 PPCs identificados, tivemos acesso a 31, dos quais apenas 5 foram categorizados com alto nível de integração curricular. Os cursos considerados avançados apresentaram componentes curriculares com forte interação entre os conteúdos específicos e os didático-pedagógicos. A fim de avançarmos no entendimento sobre as disciplinas integradoras e sobre sua relevância nos cursos de formação dos futuros professores de Física, entrevistamos os docentes que coordenaram a elaboração de três projetos das licenciaturas com integração avançada. Evidenciamos que tais componentes curriculares se apresentam como o eixo central das licenciaturas analisadas.
(RE)CONSTRUINDO CONCEITOS PARA A SEXUALIDADE NA EDUCAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIAS
Authors: Ferreira Djane Reis , Ribeiro Gabriel , Silva Patrícia Petitinga
Published: October 2020

A temática da sexualidade não pode ser pensada como um meio de discutir apenas conceitos biológicos, mas, principalmente, como um ambiente para a construção de conhecimentos que possam contribuir para a tomada de decisões socialmente responsáveis. Nesse sentido, apresentamos, neste trabalho, as experiências de uma pesquisa-ação desenvolvida em uma turma do 9º ano, do Ensino Fundamental, de uma escola da rede particular do município de São Felipe, no Recôncavo Baiano, cujo objetivo foi (re)avaliar como a temática da sexualidade pode ser trabalhada na Educação em Ciências, a partir dos próprios interesses das(os) estudantes. Como, em uma pesquisa-ação, os resultados obtidos em cada ciclo determinam o que acontecerá a seguir, a sequência didática utilizada no estudo foi sendo construída no percurso, com base nas informações regularmente produzidas em avaliações da prática rotineira para determinar as ações futuras da intervenção. A pesquisa-ação instituída nesse trabalho possibilitou-nos aprender com a experiência, implicando em melhorias na prática profissional docente ao oportunizar a participação ativa das(os) estudantes nos processos de ensino e aprendizagem, tornando-as(os) autoras(es) na (re)construção de conceitos sobre sexualidade e colaboradoras(es) da investigação realizada. Além disso, o trabalho viabilizou a integração entre Educação em Ciências e elementos como o respeito a si mesmo e ao outro, a diversidade de crenças e a valorização de expressões culturais existentes numa sociedade, podendo constituir-se em um importante processo de formação para a construção de relações sociais mais densas e duradoras em tempos de amores frágeis.