bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Poverty of Representation: The Attorney’s Role to Advocate for the Powerless
Authors: Rand Spencer
Published: January 2023

In this paper, I look at the work that attorneys are doing to right the wrongs of the underrepresented. This article argues that as a profession, we talk about providing assistance to those that cannot afford representation but that this is more talk than action. This article also examines modes of representing the poor, including legal services and other non-profit legal agencies and laws that allow attorneys to collect fees from third-party payors. Furthermore, this article argues that while the existing methods of representation are good and should be supported, these avenues are limited and, as such, are unlikely to change the position of the poor. This article further argues that many attorneys rely on ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 6.1 as the expression of their duty to those that cannot afford to pay fully is expressed and that this rule is seriously deficient. Among other things, the rule is too nebulous because it does not address the need to take cases that address the condition of the poor. Furthermore, important provisions are adopted by many states with modifications that largely diminish its value. Finally, this article suggests ways that we could alter Model Rule 6.1 to begin to address the problems of the poor more fully.
Vertical Flip
Authors: Kamp Allen
Published: January 2023

This article grew out of my ongoing attempt to understand conservative ideology. Thinking about the topic for the 2006 Gloucester conference, I remembered William F. Buckley, Jr.'s Up from Liberalism (1959) and simultaneously thought of a function on my Adobe Photoshop, the "Flip." (The "Flip" produces a mirror image of your photo, either vertically or horizontally.) It struck me that Buckley's Up from Liberalism equated liberalism with slavery. In it, he describes the conservative as a slave to liberal hegemony: liberal society is an "engine for the imposition of liberal orthodoxy." In an essay," Why Don't We Complain," (1961, reprinted in Miles Gone By), he describes the situation of the American citizen as one of helplessness...
Global Migrations and Imagined Citizenship: Examples From Slavery, Chinese Exclusion, and When Questioning Birthright Citizenship
Authors: Hernández-Lopez Ernesto
Published: January 2023

These theoretical approaches motivate this Essay to ask the following about legal citizenship determinations: (a) what is the global movement in persons that leads to the citizenship question?; and (b) what is the imagined community articulated by the legal determination of citizenship? From these questions, a legal inquiry into national identity and citizenship gains historical, global, and cultural perspectives. The next three sections briefly describe the examples of slavery, Dred Scott, and citizenship; Chinese migration to the U.S., Chinese Exclusion measures, and citizenship; and citizenship as seen from a migration experience of U.S.-pull and Mexico-push. For each of the cases their respective sections, Sections II through IV, present these legal citizenship determinations and then identify relevant global migration and imagined community contexts.
A Call for the End of Impunity for Multinational Corporations
Authors: Rauxloh Regina E.
Published: January 2023

In 2002, the first permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) was established. Based on the experience of the International Military Tribunal (the so-called Nuremberg Trials), the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the so-called Tokyo Trials), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the new court is "determined to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators of these crimes and thus to contribute to the prevention of such crimes." Too often in the past the worst perpetrators of the worst crimes were able to hide behind the shield of impunity because of a lack of national prosecutions. The massacres in the former Republic of Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the early nineties were a painful reminder that the hope of "never again!" after WWII has not been fulfilled. On the contrary, killings, mutilations, rapes, torture, and other crimes keep being committed against and by civilians (and unspeakably also against and by children) on the greatest scale. Appallingly, among the major key players in facilitating and even motivating some of these atrocities are indeed business entities. Although in many cases multinational corporations or their subsidiaries are directly involved in human rights violations of the worst kind, neither the host nor the home country show any interest in investigating against them. A joint report by Fafo and the International Peace Academy stated that "[t]here is a climate of impunity surrounding economic activities that promote or sustain conflict and human rights abuse." In fact, these business entities are even outside the jurisdiction of the ICC.
This Essay argues that currently international and national law regimes are insufficient in tackling corporate human rights violations and that the ICC's jurisdiction should be extended to legal persons to end the de facto impunity of multinational corporations.
Using Patents to Protect Traditional Knowledge
Authors: Erstling Jay
Published: January 2023

The role that intellectual property can play in the protection of traditional knowledge (TK) has been on the international agenda for more than ten years, with little to show for it. For example, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has provided a forum for international policy debate on the subject since 1998, and the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) has held meetings on draft provisions for the protection of TK against misappropriation and misuse since 2001. Similarly, since 1999 the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been examining the most effective means to deal with the commercial use of TK when that knowledge is the subject of patent applications. Years of effort have produced few tangible results.
The Correlation between the Implementation of Patient-Centered Care (PCC) and the Fulfillment of Patient Rights at Regional General Hospital of Bireuen Regency
Authors: Amalia Risca  , Hajjul Kamil  , Irwan Saputra
Published: January 2023

Introduction: Patient-Centered Care is an innovative healthcare model in which planning, implementation, and evaluation combine healthcare providers, patients, and families to provide better services. This study aimed to examine the relationship between implementing Patient-Centered Care and fulfilling patient rights in hospitals.Methods: This study used a cross-sectional research design. Data analysis was performed using the Chi-square test and Logistic Regression. The number of samples was as many as 104 people selected by proportional sampling.Results: All dimensions of Patient-Centered Care correlated with the fulfillment of patient rights (p<0.05). In addition, the logistic regression test showed that emotional support was the dimension with the highest correlation value (p = 0.012) with an odds ratio of 7.947. This indicates that patients with the correct dimensions of emotional support are 7.947 times more likely to have their rights fulfilled than patients who do not receive emotional support.Conclusion: The results of this study conclude that to fulfill the rights of patients in hospitals, a targeted and structured implementation is needed in providing patient-centered services to improve the quality of health services. Health care workers are urged to encourage patients and their families to participate in the care process actively.
Efficacy of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Program on Knowledge and Practice of Nursing Students
Authors: Neelanjana  , Minu Pargaien  , Sandeep Kumar Dudi
Published: January 2023

Background: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is a technique of providing BLS to restore the circulationand breathing of an individual in cardiac arrest. Effective CPR in first few minutes can improve the chance ofsurvival of arrest victims. Best results of cardiopulmonary skills can be achieved when resuscitation educationprepares students to perform it effectively. The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of CPR trainingprogram on nursing students and to find correlation between the knowledge and practice of nursing studentsregarding CPR.Methods: This study used a quantitative approach with one group pre-test post-test research design. Studywas conducted in a selected college, total 60 subjects were selected through random stratified sampling. Datacollection was done by knowledge questionnaire and observation checklist.Conclusion: Majority of the participants, 93.2% (55) were females and 6.8% (4) were males. Average meanknowledge score difference from pretest to posttest was 12.9 and average mean practice score was 9.2. There wasa weak positive correlation between the knowledge and practice scores of nursing students. It was concludedthat knowledge and practice of nursing students were significantly better after the training program.
The Control on Morphology and Crystallinity of CNT in Flame Synthesis with One-Dimensional Reaction Zone
Authors: Ibrahim Muhammad Hilmi , Hamzah Norikhwan , Mohd Yasin Mohd Fairus , Mohd Yusop Mohd Zamri , Septiani Ni Luh Wulan
Published: January 2023

The growth of carbon nanotubes (CNT) in flame requires imperative conditions that are difficult to achieve in a highly heterogeneous environment. Therefore, the analysis of the properties of the reaction zone within the flame is critical for the optimal growth of CNT.  In the present study, a comprehensive comparison between the CNT synthesis using methane diffusion flame and that of premixed flame is conducted regarding the morphology and crystallinity of the as-grown nanotubes. The premixed burner configuration created a flame that isstabilized across axisymmetric stagnation flow through sintered metal, making the flame one-dimensional in nature as opposed to the co-flow configuration of diffusion flame. The significant difference in temperature distribution between the two flames causes the difference in the characteristic pattern of the growth products. In diffusion flame, the growth is limited to specific regions at certain height-above-burners (HAB) with suitable thermochemical conditions. The identified growth regions at different HAB showed similar temperature distribution that produces CNT of similar characteristics. In contrast with premixed flame, the growth of CNT dictates by only the HAB due to relatively uniform temperature distribution along the radial directions but significantly different in the vertical direction.
The efficacy and safety of butylphthalide combined with donepezil in the treatment of vascular dementia: A meta-analysis
Authors:   The Second Clinical Medical School of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Liu Puqing , Chen Jingwen , Chen Jun , Wang Xuefeng , Shou Zhangxuan
Published: January 2023

Review question / Objective: The efficacy and safety of butylphthalide combined with donepezil in the treatment of vascular dementia: Ameta-analysis. Condition being studied: Vascular dementia is the second most common cause of dementia and a major health concern worldwide, only after to Alzheimer's disease. As the increasing aging of the global population, the number of vascular dementia patients is expected to increase year by year, which will bring great economic burden to all countries in the world. In recent years, more and more published RCT studies have shown that butylphthalide can further improve behavioral ability and dementia symptoms in vascular dementia patients based on donepezil treatment. Our study aimed to systematically evaluate the efficacy and safety of butylphthalide combined with donepezil in the treatment of vascular dementia through meta-analysis, providing an objective and scientific reference for the clinical use of butylphthalide.
FILM STUDIES: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC KEY BASICS
Authors: Patel Vashishtha J.
Published: January 2023

On the off chance that you have got this paper to learn something regarding what it means to concentrate in video form. You definitely know in enormous measure what film is. you have been watching motion pictures since you initially wandered out to the family TV or since you conquered your first journey to a multiplex early show. Assuming that you are mature enough, you might have seen designs travel every which way. Maybe you excited in your first opportunity to watch a dearest film at home on record, rewinding the tape on and on to watch Quality Kelly singing in the downpour or Greta Garbo releasing her popular first spoken line in Anna Christie (Jacques Feyder, 1931): "Gimme a bourbon, soda as an afterthought, also don't be parsimonious, child." DVDs, presently repackaged with all of the additional items that convince us to supplant those VHS tapes, may before long go the method of Albums, entrusted solidly into the dustbin that gets the debris of computerized culture. Who can say for sure? You might be naturally introduced to a world in which film streams in bits onto our PC screens more than it illuminates the screens of our local theaters.
Uma Análise dos resultados educacionais dos municípios brasileiros
Authors: Alves Pedro Jorge Holanda , Frio Gustavo Saraiva
Published: January 2023

O gasto educacional brasileiro cresceu bastante desde a criação do Fundo de Manutenção e Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica e de Valorização dos Profissionais da Educação (Fundeb). Há, no entanto, poucas evidências sobre a eficiência dos gastos municipais em educação. A partir do exposto, este artigo objetiva testar a eficiência do gasto em educação dos municípios brasileiros utilizando painel de dados de 2011, 2013, 2015 e 2017, empregando o método da fronteira estocástica variante e invariante no tempo para os anos iniciais e anos finais do ensino fundamental, sendo a variável dependente a nota do Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (Ideb). Os resultados mostram que os gastos defasados em quatro anos têm associação positiva com o Ideb, assim como a porcentagem de professores com ensino superior, professores que checam tarefas, pais que checam tarefas e mães com ensino superior. No sentido contrário, a taxa de distorção idade/série e a porcentagem de meninos reduzem a eficiência; a porcentagem de pessoas na zona rural também reduz. Ao que consta, este é o primeiro estudo que testa a eficiência em um painel de municípios de todo o Brasil, trazendo achados importantes para balizar políticas de eficiência no gasto público em educação.
O acordo de Paris e as emissões de gases : impactos sobre a produção de suínos no Brasil
Authors: Trindade Carolina Silva da , Alvim Augusto Mussi
Published: January 2023

Em 2016, o Brasil assumiu no Acordo de Paris o compromisso de reduzir as emissões de gases de efeito estufa (GEE) e de adotar os instrumentos necessários para conter o aquecimento global até 2030. Nesse contexto, este artigo analisa os possíveis impactos do compromisso brasileiro no Acordo de Paris de reduzir as emissões de GEE sobre a produção e a exportação de carne suína no Brasil em um período pré-pandemia covid-19. Para atingir tal objetivo, utiliza-se um modelo de equilíbrio parcial formulado como um problema de complementaridade mista (PCM), o qual permite a construção de dois cenários alternativos. O primeiro cenário propõe a cobrança de uma tarifa de carbono dos produtores de carne suína; no segundo, simula-se a concessão de subsídios equivalente a uma renda adicional potencial pela adoção do uso de biodigestores pelos produtores de carne suína. No primeiro cenário, os resultados indicam perdas econômicas para os produtores de carne suína no Brasil. Embora ocorra uma redução substancial nas emissões de GEE, a tarifa de carbono aplicada sobre os produtores de carne suína não é o suficiente para o Brasil atender às suas metas até 2030. Para o segundo cenário, os resultados mostram-se favoráveis aos produtores brasileiros e contribuem para uma maior diminuição nas emissões do que o cenário 1. Adicionalmente, nesse cenário, a produção de biogás tem potencial para aumentar em 10% a participação da bioenergia na matriz energética nacional, com base em 2016.
O Gasto orçamentário e o desempenho escolar dos municípios paulistas : relações entre o elemento de despesa – objeto do gasto orçamentário – e O IDEB do ensino fundamental de 2008 a 2017
Authors: Crozatti Jaime , Machado Gabriel Santana , Mahlmeister Rodrigo Sequerra , Rinaldi Aryane Manfron Serpa , Ferreira Felipe Alves , Moraes Vinicius Macedo de
Published: January 2023

Diante da relevância da educação para o desenvolvimento social e econômico e da necessidade de otimizar o uso dos recursos públicos, o objetivo deste trabalho é mensurar a relação dos gastos orçamentários da subfunção ensino fundamental, desagregados por categorias do elemento de despesa, com o Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (Ideb) dos municípios paulistas, no período 2008-2017. Emprega a análise multivariada com regressão robusta em dados do Finanças do Brasil (Finbra) e do Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (Inep) das redes municipais do ensino fundamental. O estudo oferece contribuição inédita, uma vez que analisa a qualidade do gasto público com educação fundamental em maior nível de desagregação no que concerne aos publicados. Os resultados mostram expansão do gasto total e médio por aluno de 2008 a 2015 e redução após. Separadamente, as categorias de salários, compras de materiais e serviços e materiais permanentes impactam positivamente o Ideb dos municípios com população acima de 10 mil habitantes e negativamente os menores. Combinados, os gastos com pessoal, compras de serviços e materiais de consumo e permanente são os que mais impactam o Ideb, nessa ordem.
O Papel do Brasil no comércio internacional de Água Virtual : uma análise de insumo-produto
Authors: Bergmann Ana Claudia , Gonçalves Junior Carlos Alberto , Lopes Ricardo Luis
Published: January 2023

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar o papel do Brasil no comércio internacional de água virtual a fim de verificar se o país é exportador ou importador líquido desse recurso. Além disso, buscouse identificar o montante de valor adicionado doméstico gerado no comércio internacional em comparação à quantidade de água virtual. Para isso, adaptou-se o método proposto por Los, Timmer e de Vries (2016) e Haddad, Mengoub e Vale (2018), com a utilização das matrizes de insumoproduto mundiais e as contas ambientais de 1995 a 2009 da World Input-Output Database (WIOD). Os resultados mostraram um saldo negativo no balanço de água virtual do Brasil e um baixo valor adicionado doméstico obtido pela exportação desse recurso tão importante. Essas informações podem auxiliar a condução de políticas no sentido de planejar de forma racional a utilização do recurso hídrico no país.
Dependência econômica e violência doméstica conjugal no Brasil
Authors: Soares Laís de Sousa Abreu , Teixeira Evandro Camargos
Published: January 2023

A violência contra mulher é um problema de saúde pública, sendo muitas vezes cometida por parceiros íntimos; nesse caso, denominada violência doméstica. Essa modalidade de violência tem diversas consequências psicológicas, familiares, econômicas e em termos de saúde. Em função das referidas consequências, é interesse de estudo da economia, a qual se empenha em determinar como variáveis econômicas influenciam a ocorrência de tal evento, de forma que políticas públicas possam ser formuladas para atenuá-lo. Assim, este estudo tem como objetivo central analisar o efeito da dependência financeira da mulher em relação ao marido na ocorrência de violência conjugal. Por meio dos dados da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (PNAD/IBGE) relativa a 2009 e mensurando-se a dependência financeira pela diferença salarial entre marido e esposa no que concerne à renda domiciliar, estimou-se um modelo probit. Os resultados indicaram efeito negativo da dependência financeira da mulher na probabilidade de ocorrência de violência doméstica. Tal resultado pode indicar que o homem usa da violência para extrair recursos da mulher, ou que quanto maior a dependência, menores as chances de que a violência seja reportada.
TD 2832 - Desigualdades raciais e de renda no acesso à saúde nas cidades brasileiras
Authors: Tomasiello Diego Bogado , Bazzo João , Parga João , Servo Luciana Mendes , Pereira Rafael H. M.
Published: January 2023

O acesso da população a serviços públicos de saúde contribui para a diminuição da prevalência de doenças e o aumento da expectativa de vida. No Brasil, o Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) tem por princípios e diretrizes a universalidade e a integralidade da atenção a todas as necessidades de saúde. Apesar dos avanços do SUS, ele enfrenta um desafio permanente no planejamento da cobertura e equidade dos serviços de saúde para redução das desigualdades raciais, espaciais e de renda no acesso à saúde. Diversos estudos exploram a dimensão espacial das desigualdades socioeconômicas no acesso a serviços de saúde no Brasil, porém poucos analisam desigualdades em recortes intraurbanos e trazem evidências de desigualdades raciais. Este trabalho se propõe a contribuir para esse debate ao apresentar um primeiro estudo de larga escala analisando, em alta resolução espacial, as desigualdades sociais e raciais de acesso a serviços de saúde no Brasil. A análise abrange o acesso a serviços públicos de atenção básica e alta complexidade por transporte público, automóvel e a pé, considerando o ano de 2019 nas vinte maiores cidades do Brasil. Apresenta análises descritivas detalhadas sobre as desigualdades espaciais de acesso à saúde dentro das cidades e sobre as desigualdades sociais considerando a interseccionalidade entre níveis de renda e grupos de cor/raça. Os resultados mostram que os padrões de distribuição da população, dos estabelecimentos de saúde e das redes de transporte nas maiores cidades brasileiras contribuem para um acesso desigual aos serviços de saúde. Em geral, a população de baixa renda, independentemente da raça, tem maior acessibilidade aos serviços de atenção básica, devido à maior capilaridade desses serviços. Em contraste, a população de alta renda, majoritariamente branca, tem maior acessibilidade aos serviços de saúde de alta complexidade, em função da concentração espacial desses serviços e de tal parcela da população nas regiões centrais dos maiores centros urbanos. Os resultados do estudo contribuem para um melhor entendimento da dimensão geográfica das desigualdades de acesso à saúde nas maiores cidades brasileiras, evidenciando como a universalidade do acesso a este serviço essencial é condicionada por fatores sociais, econômicos e relativos ao transporte.
Transnational marriage networks for intra-Asian circuit of mobilities, investment and development: Vietnamese marriage migrant women’s investments in Vietnam
Authors: Shin HaeRan , Bui Thi My Hang
Published: January 2023

This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/

This paper introduces the case of marriage migration into the debate on the intra-Asian circuit of capital flow, human mobilities and urban and regional development. While intra-Asian marriage migration lies at the intersection of governmental policy, increased capital flow and human mobilities, it has been absent from the discussion on capital flows within the global East. Employing ethnographic research methods, we explain how Vietnamese marriage migrants in South Korea and their Korean husbands restyled their remittances to invest in land and businesses in hometowns, the Mekong Delta area and big cities through transnational marriage networks. Explanations for what caused marriage migrants’ position to evolve include a discussion of macro-politics of political and economic reforms in South Korea and Vietnam and the micro-politics of transnational networks. By demonstrating the roles of transnational marriage networks, this research contributes to the debates on migration-developmentmobility circuit.
ASPECTS OF CREATIVITY IN ADULT ANIMATION: AN OVERVIEW OF CENSORSHIP AND SELF-CENSORSHIP IN WESTERN COUNTRIES
Authors: Mitkus Tomas
Published: January 2023

Today, adult animation is the fastest growing segment in the industry. However, adult animation is also the least researched topic in animation field. In this article, the author explores what key elements hinder the growth in this animation segment with a focus on self-censorship and how it affects modern adult animation creative output and overall production. Also, the author discusses the concept of censorship in animation and its historical development. In other words, the genesis, and then reform of formal censorship systems into the age rating systems. And, while technically, with the abolition of the formal censorship system, today animators can create content of any kind, adult animation in the Western world has only begun to grow relatively recently. This paper investigates the key reasons that motivate self-censorship in animation to exist today, even when all the data shows that never before in the history of this medium, has the adult animation segment had such good conditions to get funded and reach an audience. Additionally, the author examines the concept of mature themes from the perspective of Western censorship apparatus.
Rarefied Broad-line Regions in Active Galactic Nuclei: Anomalous Responses in Reverberation Mapping and Implications for Weak Emission-line Quasars
Authors: Du Pu , Zhai Shuo , Wang Jian-Min
Published: January 2023

Reverberation mapping (RM) is a widely used method for probing the physics of broad-line regions (BLRs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). There is increasing preliminary evidence that the RM behaviors of broad emission lines are influenced by BLR densities; however, the influences have not been investigated systematically from a theoretical perspective. In this paper, we adopt a locally optimally emitting cloud model and use CLOUDY to obtain the one-dimensional transfer functions of the prominent UV and optical emission lines for different BLR densities. We find that the influences of BLR densities to RM behaviors mainly have three aspects. First, rarefied BLRs (with low gas densities) may show anomalous responses in RM observations. Their emission-line light curves inversely respond to the variations in continuum light curves, which may have been observed in some UV RM campaigns. Second, the different BLR densities in AGNs may result in correlations between the time lags and equivalent widths of emission lines, and may contribute to the scatters of the radius–luminosity relationships. Third, the variations in BLR densities may explain the changes in time lags in individual objects for different years. Some weak emission-line quasars are probably extreme cases of rarefied BLRs. We predict that their RM observations may show anomalous responses.
Minkowski Tensors in Redshift Space—Beyond the Plane-parallel Approximation
Authors: Appleby Stephen , Kochappan Joby P. , Chingangbam Pravabati , Park Changbom
Published: January 2023

The Minkowski tensors (MTs) can be used to probe anisotropic signals in a field, and are well suited for measuring the redshift-space distortion (RSD) signal in large-scale structure catalogs. We consider how the linear RSD signal can be extracted from a field without resorting to the plane-parallel approximation. A spherically redshift-space distorted field is both anisotropic and inhomogeneous. We derive expressions for the two-point correlation functions that elucidate the inhomogeneity, and then explain how the breakdown of homogeneity impacts the volume and ensemble averages of the tensor Minkowski functionals. We construct the ensemble average of these quantities in curvilinear coordinates and show that the ensemble and volume averages can be approximately equated, but this depends on our choice of definition of the volume average of a tensor and the radial distance between the observer and field. We then extract the tensor Minkowski functionals from spherically redshift-space distorted, Gaussian random fields and gravitationally evolved dark matter density fields at z = 0 to test if we can successfully measure the Kaiser RSD signal. For the dark matter field, we find a significant, ∼10% anomalous signal in the MT component parallel to the line of sight that is present even on large scales R
G ≳ 15 Mpc, in addition to the Kaiser effect. This is due to the line-of-sight component of the MT being significantly contaminated by the Finger of God effect, which can be approximately modeled by an additional damping term in the cumulants.
Hot Subdwarf Stars Identified in LAMOST DR8 with Single-lined and Composite Spectra
Authors: Lei Zhenxin , He Ruijie , Németh Péter , Vos Joris , Zou Xuan , Hu Ke , Xiao Huaping , Yan Huahui , Zhao Jingkun
Published: January 2023

A total of 222 hot subdwarf stars were identified with LAMOST DR8 spectra, among which 131 stars show composite spectra and have been decomposed, while 91 stars present single-lined spectra. Atmospheric parameters of all sample stars were obtained by fitting hydrogen (H) and helium (He) line profiles with synthetic spectra. Two long-period composite sdB binaries were newly discovered by combining our sample with the non-single-star data from Gaia DR3. One of the new systems presents the highest eccentricity (i.e., 0.5 ± 0.09) among known wide sdB binaries, which is beyond model predictions. A total of 15 composite sdB stars fall in the high-probability binary region of the RUWE−AEN plane and deserve priority follow-up observations to further study their binary nature. A distinct gap is clearly presented among temperatures of cool companions for our composite-spectrum sample, but we could not come to a conclusion as to whether this feature is connected to the formation history of hot subdwarf stars before their binary natures are confirmed.
GeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Pulsar Wind Nebula HESS J1356-645 with Fermi-Large Area Telescope
Authors: Liu Xi , Guo Xiaolei , Xin Yuliang , Zhu Fengrong , Liu Siming
Published: January 2023

HESS J1356-645 is considered to be a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) associated with the pulsar PSR J1357-6429. We reanalyze the GeV gamma-ray emission in the direction of HESS J1356-645 with more than 13 yr of Fermi-Large Area Telescope data. The extended gamma-ray emission above 5 GeV is found to be spatially coincident with HESS J1356-645. The spectrum in the energy range of 1 GeV–1 TeV can be described by a power law with an index of Γ = 1.51 ± 0.10. The broadband spectrum of HESS J1356-645 can be reproduced by a leptonic model with a broken power-law electronic spectrum. In addition, we found evidence that the morphology of the GeV emission from HESS J1356-645 varies with energy; a behavior that is similar to that of the PWN Vela-X. More broadband observations will be helpful to study the energy-dependent characteristics of HESS J1356-645.
The Effects of Clinical Immersion on Readiness for Nursing Practice
Authors: Moore Wendy , Palerino Andrea , Pawloski Katie , Desmond Martha , Erickson Barbara , Salkic-Mehkic Marsela
Published: January 2023

Background:

Traditional clinical education does not prepare future nurses well for practice. Clinical immersion models are recommended to enhance critical thinking, clinical judgment, and confidence with nursing roles and skills. This study explored the effects of implementing an innovative clinical immersion model on readiness for nursing practice for accelerated Bachelor of Science in nursing students.

Method:

The Casey-Fink readiness for practice survey was used to determine graduate students' confidence and comfort with nursing roles and skills based on descriptive statistics for each survey question.

Results:

Study results indicated students who experienced the clinical immersion model had high levels of confidence with nursing roles and felt prepared for practice.

Conclusion:

Nursing programs should consider implementing clinical immersion models in undergraduate nursing education programs.

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A fuzzy based solution to multiple objective LPP
Authors: Junaid Basha M , Nandhini S
Published: January 2023

This study presents a Fuzzy Multiple Objective Linear Programming Problem (FMOLPP) method to solve the Linear Programming Problem (LPP). Initially Multiple Objective Linear Programming Problem (MOLPP) is solved using Chandra Sen's approach along with various types of mean approaches. Furthermore, FMOLPP is solved using Chandra Sen's approach and various categories of fuzzy mean techniques. The simplex form is used to solve the LPP, where the three-tuple symmetric triangular fuzzy number with the constraints of the fuzzy objective function is considered. We have presented a comparative study of optimum values of MOLPP with optimum values of FMOLPP, to show the significance of our proposed method.
Research and implementation of variable-domain fuzzy PID intelligent control method based on Q-Learning for self-driving in complex scenarios
Authors: Yao Yongqiang , Ma Nan , Wang Cheng , Wu Zhixuan , Xu Cheng , Zhang Jin
Published: January 2023

In the control of the self-driving vehicles, PID controllers are widely used due to their simple structure and good stability. However, in complex self-driving scenarios such as curvature curves, car following, overtaking, etc., it is necessary to ensure the stable control accuracy of the vehicles. Some researchers used fuzzy PID to dynamically change the parameters of PID to ensure that the vehicle control remains in a stable state. It is difficult to ensure the control effect of the fuzzy controller when the size of the domain is not selected properly. This paper designs a variable-domain fuzzy PID intelligent control method based on Q-Learning to make the system robust and adaptable, which is dynamically changed the size of the domain to further ensure the control effect of the vehicle. The variable-domain fuzzy PID algorithm based on Q-Learning takes the error and the error rate of change as input and uses the Q-Learning method to learn the scaling factor online so as to achieve online PID parameters adjustment. The proposed method is verified on the Panosim simulation platform.The experiment shows that the accuracy is improved by 15% compared with the traditional fuzzy PID, which reflects the effectiveness of the algorithm.
On the neutrality of socially responsible investing: The general equilibrium perspective
Authors: Arnold Lutz G.
Published: January 2023

This paper investigates the conditions under which socially responsible investment (SRI) is neutral from the viewpoint of general equilibrium theory. Three conditions are jointly sufficient for neutrality of SRI. First, the financial market is complete and SRI does not compromise the spanning opportunities it provides. Second, consumers' rankings of consumption bundles are unaffected by their asset holdings. Third, firms maximize shareholder value. Under an additional assumption that is satisfied, e.g., if SRI takes the form of negative screening, the taxes and transfers needed to implement a Pareto‐optimal allocation are the same as in the absence of SRI. SRI is neutral despite financial market incompleteness if there are perfect substitutes for targeted stocks.
Slow persuasion
Authors: Escudé Matteo , Sinander Ludvig
Published: January 2023

What are the value and form of optimal persuasion when information can be generated only slowly? We study this question in a dynamic model in which a “sender” provides public information over time subject to a graduality constraint, and a decision maker takes an action in each period. Using a novel “viscosity” dynamic programming principle, we characterize the sender's equilibrium value function and information provision. We show that the graduality constraint inhibits information provision relative to unconstrained persuasion. The gap can be substantial, but closes as the constraint slackens. Contrary to unconstrained persuasion, less‐than‐full information may be provided even if players have aligned preferences but different prior beliefs.
La collection de préhistoire de l’université de Bordeaux
Authors: Armand Dominique
Published: January 2023

La collection de préhistoire de l’université de Bordeaux est majoritairement constituée de petites séries archéologiques anciennes au sein desquelles les objets les plus représentés sont les outils lithiques, pour des périodes chronologiques allant du Paléolithique à la Protohistoire, qui proviennent en majorité de gisements du Sud-Ouest de la France. Mais on y trouve aussi quelques séries lithiques expérimentales. Cette collection documente l’histoire de la préhistoire et celle de l’enseignement de la discipline à Bordeaux. Deux enseignants ont eu un rôle important dans la constitution de la partie ancienne ce fonds : il s’agit de Fernand Daguin et de Georges Malvesin-Fabre.
Growth models and comparative political economy in Latin America
Authors: Passos Nikolas , Morlin Guilherme Spinato
Published: January 2023

The paper analyses the growth models of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico since 1996. We depart from the typology proposed by Bizberg (2019) and apply a growth decomposition based on the Sraffian supermultiplier (Freitas & Dweck, 2013). We argue that the growth models perspective, introduced by Baccaro and Pontusson (2016), contributes to understanding the diversities of capitalism in Latin America. We find that the commodities boom oriented the countries towards export-led growth models, especially in Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico. Brazil and Argentina presented a hybrid growth model, with higher household consumption and government expenditure, along with exports growth. After the commodities boom, the export-led model was no longer feasible for commodity exporters. Mexico sustained the existing model, based on low-value-added manufacturing exports. Brazil and Argentina reduced public expenditures, generating economic stagnation. Chile and Bolivia increased public expenditure, sustaining growth at a slower pace. This work extends the growth models perspective to emerging countries, integrating with former discussions on the Latin American political economy. It also highlights how the growth models evolved in tandem with changing international conditions. Finally, the paper opens a research agenda for the political economy of stagnation in Latin American economies.
The Power of the Central Bank of Brazil in a Financialised Economy: an institutionalist and Foucauldian analysis
Authors: Pereira Jaime Marques , Bruno Miguel , Longuet Stéphane
Published: January 2023

This article attempts to understand political economy by explaining the ambivalence of the economic policy that successfully reconciled redistribution and orthodoxy in Brazil, under the governments led by the Workers’ Party – until that reconciliation proved unsustainable. The analysis combines institutional macroeconomics with a sociological perspective on economic policy instrumentation. The former points out how the distributive purpose became unsustainable, once the financialisation of the capital accumulation process was only limited – but not fundamentally questioned. The latter approach characterises a cognitive lock-in of the developmental State’s improvement. We show that this lock-in was an incremental transformative result of liberal governmentality devices, which redirected the central bank to a new function of gathering together what can be called an instrumental coalition that gave a veto power to financial interests. The central bank has therefore been a crucial institution in a government of the population, in the sense given by Foucault to this concept.
Transformation des villes et mobilité durable : Regard sur les déterminants psychosociaux de l’attachement à l’auto solo
Authors: Gousse-Lessard Anne-Sophie , Laviolette Jérôme
Published: January 2023

Dans le contexte de la crise socioécologique actuelle, les enjeux de mobilité représentent une question vive. Le système de mobilité québécois centré sur l’automobile entraîne des conséquences négatives bien documentées sur l'environnement, la santé, la qualité de vie, les finances personnelles et l’économie de la province. Au niveau climatique, le sous-secteur du transport routier de personnes (automobiles et camions légers) est responsable à lui seul de 22 % des émissions de gaz à effets de serre (GES) du Québec. Malgré tout, le taux de motorisation est en constante évolution - le nombre de véhicules par adulte au Québec ayant augmenté de 30 % depuis 1990 - tout comme la part des déplacements effectués en voiture. Comment expliquer et renverser ces tendances ? Au Québec, la mobilité a principalement été étudiée depuis les disciplines de l’ingénierie des transports et de l’urbanisme. L’influence des facteurs structuraux (environnement bâti, accessibilité aux réseaux de transports) et sociodémographiques est donc bien comprise. Il semble toutefois que ces approches ne soient pas suffisantes pour comprendre notre dépendance à l'auto solo et mener aux transformations ambitieuses et radicales que l'état d'urgence climatique nous commande. Inspirés d’un nombre croissant de recherches portant sur les aspects psychosociaux des comportements de mobilité, une étude à devis mixte combinant des ateliers de discussion citoyens et un questionnaire fut mise sur pied afin de mieux comprendre les facteurs expliquant la possession et l’usage individuel de la voiture. Une démarche de segmentation exploratoire a permis de voir émerger trois types d’usagers de la route aux profils psychographiques bien distincts. Les différents segments sont présentés, ainsi qu’une réflexion sur le potentiel de transformation y étant associé. Une telle démarche de segmentation psychographique nous semble un outil pertinent qui, combiné à des considérations d’ordre structurel, pourrait informer et guider l’action publique vers des villes plus résilientes.
The Foundations of Intentional Education Practice
Authors: El-Amin Abeni
Published: January 2023

The problem related to teaching effectiveness includes failure of institutions to identify process improvements, ascertain appropriate stakeholders to accomplish institutional goals, and implement streamlined classroom processes to ensure instructors have the appropriate professional support needed to apply intentional educational practices in graduate programs. Consequently, current performance measures of educational programs illuminate issues in processes within instruction, quantity of trained instructor mentors, professional support networks, and existing programming which may need improvement, yet is not being addressed in educational environments. Performance measurement factors impact long-term institutional effectiveness service quality of HE (educator quality, educational services, activities, technology, continuous improvement, educational leadership, and IEPT (teaching style).
Organizational Stakeholder Management Develops Intentional Education Ethos
Authors: El-Amin Abeni , Marks Quinton L.
Published: January 2023

Ethical leadership with regards to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and stakeholder management impacts institutional and departmental culture. Formalized leadership ethics and compliance initiatives improve institutional structures. The importance of graduate leadership that embraces ethics and compliance programs ensures adherence to policies set forth by institutions and mitigates bias. Stakeholder management is key because adherence allows leadership to develop strategic plans with stakeholders in mind, while decreasing quality issues. As a result, there is value to executing stakeholder management plans within graduate education.
Analysis of Big Data
Authors: Pramanik Sabyasachi , Bandyopadhyay Samir Kumar
Published: January 2023

In the modern business condition, data being produced in most service associations is estimated in gigabytes or terabytes. On occasion, searching for information in a few terabytes of information can appear to be much the same as scanning for a needle in a sheaf. With the wild use of IT in business forms everywhere throughout the world, organizations as of now have massive measures of data but can't relate the vast majority of it to the creation or survey of corporate methodology. This shows the requirement for intelligent utilization of technology to be ventured in front of others in this gigantically aggressive corporate reality where profit edges are slender and clients are keen for decision.
Data Warehouse With OLAP Technology for the Tourism Industry
Authors: Singh Preetvanti , Dev Vijai
Published: January 2023

In today's data-driven world, analysts and decision makers deal with an enormous amount of data, which is collected and stored on a daily basis coming from different sources. The main focus of this article is to provide an overview of data warehouse and OLAP technologies to deal with this multidimensional data. In order to show the real-life application of data warehouse and OLAP technology, the article presents the development of tourism data warehouse as the tourism industry deals with multidimensional data like tourist, hospitality, and tourist products. This article will be helpful for the decision makers to generate multidimensional reports that will show the information according to their needs and requirements.
Diving Into the Rabbit Hole
Authors: Coimbra Mateus , Chimenti Paula , Nogueira Roberto
Published: January 2023

Experts highlight their concern about the excessive use of social media, with people systematically declaring to enter social networks for a specific purpose and leaving hours after diving into the “rabbit hole.” This overuse has been associated with the ability of platform recommendation algorithms to assign content of interest. The combination of machine learning algorithms with big data evolves the predictive power of these recommendation systems, leading to new perspectives for people to interact with the platforms. This article studied human-machine interaction mechanisms and motivators of this process. The authors integrated different perspectives found in the literature into a comprehensive model which tries to explain which factors would help to understand this mechanism of interaction. A survey was carried out with 297 YouTube users. The model presented different findings as the presence of two paths of interaction with different motivators. Escapism is a motivator for both routes. Both routes had impacts in terms of satisfaction and dependence, with exchanged forces.
Leveraging Wi-Fi Big Data Streams to Support COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Authors: Atteya Heba , Megahed Iman , El Touhamy Mohamed Abdelmageed
Published: January 2023

In this article, the authors discuss the different digital contact tracing solutions and address the data privacy and ethical guidelines of implementing such solutions. They also present a detailed case study for how The American University in Cairo leveraged wi-fi big data streams to improve the efficacy of the questionnaire-based contact tracing approach and demonstrate how the use of digital solutions have supported the plan of a safe return to the campus. They present the detailed technical design of the solution, address the solution challenges and limitations, the testing results, and discuss the cultural awareness efforts to ensure community acceptance and approval of the solution.