bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Attitudes and opinions of counselors about education of gifted students
Authors: Kaya Nisa Gökden , Tortop Hasan Said
Published: November 2020

Counselors play effective roles not only in diagnosing but also in education of gifted students who lead the development of the societies. This study aimed to examine the attitudes and opinions of the counselors about the education of the gifted students. In the study, descriptive survey model is used. Both qualitative and quantitative data was collected within mixed method, according to the principles of pragmatist philosophy. “Attitude Scale towards Gifted Education” was applied to 250 counselors in order to collect quantitative data. The scale, which consists of 14 items, was developed by Gagné and Nadeau and adapted to Turkish by Tortop. The qualitative data was collected by semi-structured interview form consists of four questions about opinions on education of gifted students in Turkey, and was applied to 40 counselors. The mean of scores gathered from “Attitude Scale towards Gifted Education” was found 3.6 which is evaluated as slightly positive attitude. The scores were analyzed according to gender, seniority, having gifted students and institution of counselors, by using t test and ANOVA. Content analysis was performed for qualitative data that was gathered from interviews. The majority of counselors have stated that there are problems in education and diagnosis of gifted students.
The impact of sociodemographic factors on academic achievements among high school students in Indonesia
Authors: Indrahadi Deri , Wardana Amika
Published: November 2020

This study aimed to examine the effect of sociodemographic, student and school factors on the academic achievement of high school students in Indonesia. Using the cross-sectional survey data from the 2015 Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) particularly involving 1,421 respondents (of the academic performances during their school years), the study run multiple regression analysis to examine the influences of their parents’ sociodemographic, students and other school-related factors on their academic achievements during their school years. As the results, it was revealed that the sociodemographic factors, students and schools predict significantly academic achievement of students in Indonesia. The results provided feedback to students and parents, schools and education policymakers in improving student academic achievement.
Promoting child-friendly school model through school committee as parents’ participation
Authors: Fitriani Somariah , Istaryatiningtias Istaryatiningtias
Published: November 2020

The study intended to elaborate on the role of the school committee in addressing and promoting the implementation of the child-friendly school model to create a positive school climate and atmosphere. This qualitative approach research adopted a comparative case study since two primary schools become a unit of research analysis. Two primary schools, a public and private primary school in which both of them are located in Jakarta as a study site. The researchers obtained the data through observation, interviews, and document analysis. The research has revealed that the school committees, both in public and private schools, bring a vital contribution to help the schools in terms of supporting and controlling the implementation of the child-friendly school model with several different perspectives. The participation of the school committee is highly needed in monitoring the activity of the learning process toward the quality of school life and in bridging the communication between schools and students' parents, particularly in promoting the model of child-friendly school.
Determinants of iodine deficiency among school age children in Guraghe Zone, Southwest Ethiopia
Authors: Abebaw Berhanu , Oumer Abdu
Published: November 2020

Globally, insufficient iodine intake is found to be the most common preventable cause of mental retardation that results in diminished immunity, decreased school performance and infant and young child death. Ethiopia is the first of the top iodine deficient countries in the world. About 12 million children (school age) get inadequate iodine. Community based cross sectional study was conducted on 792 school age children in Guraghe Zone, Ethiopia to assess the determinants of iodine deficiency. Multistage sampling technique was used to select the study subjects. Data were collected by using pretested questionnaire. Clinical examinations were taken following standard procedures. The collected data were entered into Epi-data and exported to SPSS for analysis. Descriptive statistics was calculated and presented accordingly. Bivariate and multivariable Logistic regression with odds ratios along with the 95% confidence interval was computed and interpreted accordingly. A P-value <0.05 was declared as statistically significant association. Total goiter rate was 8.7%. Factors that had significant association with goiter were: School age children who utilized non iodized salt (AOR=3.12, 95% CI=1.73-5.63), those who consumed cabbage >2 times per week (AOR=1.94, 95% CI=1.10-3.52), and children who got elder (AOR=1.22, 95% CI=1.10-1.41). The study area had mild iodine deficiency disorder. Non iodized salt utilization; frequent cabbage consumption and increased age of children were found to be predictors of goiter. Thus, Interventions should focus on universal salt iodization, besides familiarizing goiterogens to the community at large.
Comparison of stress level and coping strategy between therapeutic phases in newly diagnosed tuberculosis
Authors: Sari Ni Putu Wulan Purnama , Sari Ayu Kurnia Endar
Published: November 2020

In newly diagnosed Tuberculosis (TB), the diagnosis and therapy duration may cause psychological stress requiring effective coping strategy. This study aimed to compare and analyze the differences of stress level and coping strategy between intensive and advanced phases in newly diagnosed TB. This cross-sectional study involved 16 respondents in intensive phase and 29 respondents in advanced phase (n=45), in the working area of Pacar Keling Public Health Center of Surabaya. Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and coping strategy questionnaire were used for collecting data. Data were collected in May 2018. Independent sample t test was used in data analysis (α<0.05). Results showed that mostly moderate stress level and adaptive coping strategy were found in both phases. Overall, stress and coping were not significantly different between phases in newly diagnosed TB (p=0.259 and p=0.079 respectively), but the feeling of angry, losing control, nervous & depressed, whether things happened as wishes, talking problems to professionals, and trying new dangerous thing were differ significantly between phases (p=0.046, p=0.024, p=0.044, p=0.016, p=0.014, and p=0.005 respectively). Although stress level and coping strategy were not significantly different between therapeutic phases in newly diagnosed TB, but more attention needs to be given towards patients’ emotion, such as the feeling of angry, losing control, nervous and depressed, and patients’ wishes, especially in intensive phase.
Knowledge and attitudes on sexually transmitted infections and HIV among undergraduates in the state universities
Authors: Perera Upuli Amaranganie Pushpakumari , Abeysena Chrishantha
Published: November 2020

This study aimed to describe knowledge and attitudes on sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV among undergraduates in state universities of Western province, Sri Lanka. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among second and third year undergraduates in 2014. The stratified cluster sampling method was applied to select 1575 undergraduates. A pre-tested self-administered questionnaire was administered to assess knowledge and attitudes on STI and HIV. The associations of knowledge and attitude categories with selected variables were assessed. Most (42.3%, n=667) of the undergraduates belonged to poor knowledge category, 41% (n=646) satisfactory knowledge on STI. Only 16.6% (n=262) had good overall knowledge on STI. Undergraduates who had studied in bioscience stream (36.7%, n=91) were better knowledge than others (12.6%, n=171) (p<0.001). A majority (62.6%, n=976) of undergraduates had overall good knowledge on HIV, 27.7%, (n=432) satisfactory knowledge and 9.7% (n=151) had poor knowledge. Males who had studied in bioscience stream and those who had studied at non-mixed schools were better knowledge on HIV than the counterparts. A majority (56.5%, n=883) of undergraduates had undesirable attitudes and 43.5% (n=681) had desirable attitudes towards HIV. Males (45.9%, n=294) had more desirable attitudes than females (42%, n=386) (p>0.05). Knowledge on STI was low and HIV was higher. About half of the undergraduates had desirable attitudes towards HIV.
Community mental health nursing training package on body image quality among mental disorders patients
Authors: Rahmat Ibrahim , Hakimi Mohammad , Soewadi Soewadi
Published: November 2020

Mental health disorder could affect the physical, mental, social, and spiritual problems, leading to psychosocial issues such as body-image problem. Body-image is a basic need of human being to fulfill and therefore, the multidisciplinary team; physicians, nurses, and family should have adequate knowledge on the body-image. Increasing knowledge by training the nurses and community health volunteers can be performed to address body-image issues in patients with mental disorders among the community. This study held to identify the effects of community mental health nursing (CMHN) and Self-Concept Assessment Guidelines training on nurse and community health volunteer in increasing the body-image quality of patients with mental disorders. This study used pre and post quasi experimental test with nonequivalent control group design. By comparing the pre-test and post-test scores, nurse’s and community health volunteer’s knowledge were increasing after being given training. Data of body image was collected from 129 patients with mental disorder (treatment group of 69 and control group of 60) as volunteers. After the intervention, treatment group (p= 0.033) and control group (p= 0.075) show that significant increase in the quality of body-image only applies to the treatment group. Providing training on CMHN was effective to improve body-image quality of patients with mental disorders.
Robust control and optimized parallel control double loop design for mobile robot
Authors: Abougarair Ahmed J. , Elmolihi Ali S.
Published: November 2020

Robots have been used in many applications in the past few decades. Moreover, due to high nonlinearity behavior of these systems, an optimal and robust control design approaches have been considered to stabilize and improve their performance and robustness. The uncertainties of the time delay on the output states of the mobile robot system have a significant influence on the system nominal performance. As a result, the work becomes here to address the influence of these uncertainties on the robot system performance. In order to achieve this objective, the nonlinear controller via sliding mode control (SMC) is designed by selecting a suitable sliding surface dynamics in which the considered robot displacement and tilt angle are sliding on. The lyapunov function is considered here to accomplish  the design of the sliding control signals for robot stabilization. Furthermore, the stability of the considered system is guaranteed due to convergence of  the lyapunov functions into zero when the state trajectories tend to desired set points. In addition, we consider the trajectory tracking and stabilization of TWBMR system using parallel double loop PID controllers whose controllers gains are tuning via linear quadratic regulator (LQR) approach.  Finally, to demonstrate the effectiveness of SMC and PID-LQR design methods,  the comparison is carried out when the nominal and uncertain conditions.
The quadrotor dynamic modeling and study of meta-heuristic algorithms performance on optimization of PID controller index to control angles and tracking the route
Authors: Moshayedi Ata Jahangir , Gheibollahi Mahyar , Liao Liefa
Published: November 2020

In the last decade, because of the unique specification of vertical fliers, scientists and researchers had a special focus on them. The particular abilities of these fliers can be mentioned such as: high maneuver ability, low expenses, decrease in radar identifier and low threat for the human life. They also have no limitation in dimension. Moreover, because of some applications like photography, topography, news coverage, study of power lines and aerology analysis, they can be notable for using. These fliers also are significantly important because of monitoring in urban regions, agricultural harvest and spray poison, illegal imports, exports administration and fire distinction in order to control the fire. Besides, seek and rescue missing people and also natural disasters can be pre-determined which causes stimulus investigators to act and put different topics in front of them. One of these fields is using meta-heuristic algorithms with the capability of using in control systems. The PID controller as a classic model has some limitations, but by optimization of special index through meta-heuristic algorithms, it has shown acceptable results. In this study, first, the history of vertical fliers and quadrotor are investigated. Then, after a review of overused methods, the quadrotor control has been done. Afterward, the cinematic and dynamic of quadrotor is presented. Next by designing of PID controller, PID index optimization by nature inspired algorithm, particle swarm optimization (PSO), genetic algorithms (GA), and firefly algorithms (FA) have been studied. Dynamic system, controller and mentioned optimization methods of PID controller index have also been implemented in MATLAB software. Also, with due attention to the comparison criteria the PID-PSO controller has shown the best performance. Next, by applying challenging routes, the stability of controller in the simulation is evaluated. Then, making quadrotor is done in practice along with introducing the used implementation of PID-PSO controller results on the real robot, and its stability is evaluated practically.
Design of a conductive material detection system
Authors: Silaban Freddy Artadima , Budiyanto Setiyo , Silalahi Lukman Medriavin
Published: November 2020

The development of technology and industry development in the 4.0 era is very fast along with these developments in the control of production results such as medicine, food, and safety must be faster and more accurate. To face free trade and global economic competition, every company is required to produce products that have good quality by the standards. By using an experimental method which is the development of this study aims to make a conductive material detector (metal detector) for the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry, and security as compared to using conductive material sensors that are integrated with the Arduino microcontroller. Application testing is carried out to find out whether the Blynk application on an android smartphone with Blynk on a Debian server that has been made previously runs well or not and the alarm system testing uses a buzzer and LED to detect conductive material passing through. Conductive sensor test results showed that the instrument can detect 6 conductivity materials such as stainless steel, aluminum, steel, zinc, copper, and tin. The average response time to detect conductive material is 3 seconds, the average ADC value of the conductive material is 0.55. The test results also successfully send information and data to the Blynk application so that it can be monitored online.
Effect of integrated power and clock networks on combinational circuits
Authors: Bhat Rajeshwari , Ansari Mohammad Rashid , Khanam Ruqaiya
Published: November 2020

Reduction of power consumption is necessary in a system on chip. To achieve this, power and clock networks can be integrated. This leads to a significant reduction in power consumption in a circuit. This paper explores the effect of such a network on various combinational circuits and compares the power consumption of these circuits with conventional combinational circuits. The combinational circuits which are powered by the proposed circuit consume lesser power as compared to conventional combinational circuits.
Na dúvida: escravo! Detenção de mulheres e homens livres pela presunção da escravidão. Análise da aplicação da disposição do “escravo abandonado”, segundo a Lei do Ventre Livre
Authors: Pereira Paulo Henrique Rodrigues
Published: November 2020

A Escravidão como o tema central do século XIX brasileiro apresentou profundos paradoxos no campo do direito: formalmente enfrentada através da promulgação de normas que poderiam ser lidas como construtoras de um caminho de abolição progressiva, na prática, é possível observar mecanismos e atores institucionais que trabalharam para preservá-la. Tais procedimentos deram-se, muitas vezes, através de um agir jurídico que procurava distorcer, desviar o disposto no campo da legalidade formal. Esse conjunto de práticas atingiu mulheres e homens livres, desestabilizando seus direitos, e precarizando suas expectativas de liberdade. Nesse balanço entre o direito e o avesso – entre a positivação de uma legalidade formal e a consecução de seu sentido concreto na realidade social –, o presente artigo busca analisar, sob enfoque do direito como prática linguística, parte dessas discrepâncias pela figura do escravo abandonado. Observando as disposições da Lei do Ventre Livre de 1871 sobre tal instituto, essas breves considerações almejam demonstrar a existência de usos e performances formadores de uma espécie de presunção de escravidão, que agia para preservar o escravismo, e que encontrava respaldo na consolidação de uma prática jurídica pela ilegalidade.
Empty voting e hidden (morphable) ownership: os novos mecanismos de dissociação dos direitos patrimoniais e políticos dos acionistas
Authors: Barros Lucas Carneiro Gorgulho Mendes
Published: November 2020

Este artigo tem por objetivo sistematizar os novos mecanismos de negociação de votos, seu conceito, contexto e suas principais figuras, i.e., o voto vazio (empty voting) e a propriedade oculta (conversível) (hidden (morphable) ownership). O artigo busca, igualmente, apontar os possíveis impactos dos fenômenos na estrutura interna das companhias e os desafios colocados na perspectiva de Direito Societário.
Comentários do direito internacional moderno: existência, busca pela universalidade e a escolha da igualdade formal entre estados e povos
Authors: Souza Aline Almeida Coutinho , Quadros Aline Schraier de
Published: November 2020

Neste estudo apresentamos reflexões de temas referentes ao Direito Internacional Público no tempo moderno, período compreendido entre a Paz de Westphalia (1648) e o Concerto Europeu (1815). Sabendo que ao estudioso do direito internacional é essencial o conhecimento de sua história para melhor compreensão, decidimos, para tanto, nos debruçar sobre a contextualização histórica e política, que culminou no colapso do poder temporal e no advento da modernidade. Seguiremos com discussões referentes à existência e ao conteúdo do direito internacional e também pela busca da universalidade. E, ao final, apresentamos considerações sobre o princípio da igualdade entre Estados.
Robert Cover, a “virada linguística” e a interpretação constitucional
Authors: Castagna Ricardo Alessandro
Published: November 2020

O presente ensaio visa realizar uma breve análise a respeito das posições de Robert M. Cover sobre a interpretação legal, a partir das noções principais de nomos e de narrativas exploradas por Cover. Com a identificação destes elementos, será realizado um cotejamento com as correntes de tradição empírica da hermenêutica jurídica nascidas a partir da chamada “virada linguística”, e sua relação com a interpretação constitucional, para a qual convergem as principais questões pertinentes à construção da narrativa jurisprudencial e seu efeito transformador do universo jurídico. Como resultado, pretende-se identificar os limites à atividade interpretativa de textos legais, comuns na obra de Cover e na doutrina contemporânea da hermenêutica jurídica.
A biopolítica em Michel Foucault e Giorgio Agamben: modernidade, soberania e exclusão
Authors: Bruno André Simões Chacon
Published: November 2020

Esta pesquisa tem como principal escopo promover uma explanação sobre o conceito de biopolítica, termo este que, após ter passado por uma profunda ressignificação com os trabalhos de Michel Foucault, veio a se instalar no centro dos debates contemporâneos. Desta forma, o trabalho promove em um primeiro momento uma reconstrução teórica sobre como o termo foi tratado por Foucault em diversas fases de sua obra. Após esta etapa, o trabalho torna sua atenção aos escritos de Giorgio Agamben, o qual toma Foucault como ponto de partida, mas que possui, no entanto, uma acepção própria, diversa da de Foucault, sobre o conceito de biopolítica. Desta forma, passa-se então a caracterizar o significado da biopolítica em Agamben, delimitando seu alcance, suas diferenças em relação a Foucault, bem como também as consequências advindas desta caracterização.
Luta contra o terrorismo e proteção das minorias
Authors: Pili Frédéric Walthère Joachim , Seixas Julia Touriño de
Published: November 2020

Este artigo busca fazer um breve exame sobre o novo papel de que a ONU se reveste em um plano internacional pós-Guerra Fria, que resulta no surgimento do conceito “responsabilidade de proteger”. A partir desse cenário, pretende-se verificar a existência de meios de prevenção e de luta contra o extremismo religioso, analisando um momento específico e emblemático em que a ONU toma as rédeas da organização de encontros de líderes religiosos com a intenção de criar um espaço de discussão e de monitoramento do discurso de ódio.
A Future in Ruins
Authors: Jorritsma Jilt
Published: November 2020

Around the world, the rise of temperatures due to global warming is revealing and exposing forgotten traces of the past that are still scored somewhere in the physical terrain. This paper suggests that the transformative landscapes of the Anthropocene not only confront our present world with a ruined and unprecedented future; they also draw our attention to suppressed and stowed-away memories and geographies from the past. By examining imaginaries of sustainable futures in Mexico City, New York and Amsterdam, it will be shown that site-specific ruins and traces of past realities have an evocative potential: they are used to imagine alternative historical trajectories and indicate possible alternative futures that challenge the absoluteness of our present world. The underlying temporality in these imaginaries is one in which the future is portended as a return of a past: there lies a future in these ruins.
Subjective Passage of Time during the Pandemic: Routine, Boredom, and Memory
Authors: Wittmann Marc
Published: November 2020

Over the weeks of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, people typically reported that time had passed comparably quickly. Although time might have passed slowly during moments of anxiety and boredom for some, many felt a speeding up of the passing days and weeks. Here I attempt to explain the experience of time during the pandemic with cognitive models of time perception as related to the present moment (prospective time) and in hindsight (retrospective time). Retrospective judgments of time intervals rely on memory traces. The more contextual changes experienced during a given time interval, the longer duration is judged when looking back over past time intervals. More routine activities, as experienced by many during the pandemic, even when under time pressure, lead to fewer memorable events stored in autobiographical memory. This creates the impression that time has passed considerably more quickly.
Eastern-Western Women’s Self-Concept
Authors: Ohebshalom Nicole
Published: November 2020

Although cross-cultural influences on human behavior have been the subject of many scholarly works, few studies have focused on the life experiences of women from hyphenated cultural identities and how these experiences inform a woman’s view of herself as a sexual being, in particular, the influence of cross-cultural experiences on women with combined Western and Eastern culture references. This study analyzes four interviews with first-generation Israeli-Iranian women, who describe how their sexual self-concepts evolved as a result of living between both cultures, in the “space of the hyphen.” I used the Listening Guide methodology to inform the interviews and the data analysis, which reveal the influence of family power, patriarchal social practices, and the women’s desire to distinguish themselves from cultural norms. It introduces multilayered views and processes associated with each woman’s outlook of her evolving sexual self-concept.
International Law in the Buffer
Authors: Burke Róisín
Published: November 2020

Territorial disputes historically have been commonplace in the Transcaucasian region. Nagorno-Karabakh is a region legally recognised as a part of Azerbaijan, but has historically been disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan. It was an autonomous region during Soviet times, but fell within the administrative boundaries of the then Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. Nagorno-Karabakh has operated de facto independently since 1992, when it declared independence. Azerbaijanis from regions bordering Nagorno-Karabakh were displaced from their homes in the 1990s. This created what some refer to a security buffer, but which constitute occupied territory. Azerbaijan seeks the return of all territories. For Karabakh Armenians any dispute settlement that would leave Nagorno-Karabakh within Azerbaijan is untenable, given security threats. The conflict is coloured by history, past injustices, and ideologies around identity. Despite decades of mediation attempts by the osce and others, the territory remains fervently disputed. Border skirmishes have been frequent since the 1990s. However, since September 2020 serious escalations in hostilities and violence in region risk a broader regional conflict and drawing in Turkey, Russia and Iran. The paper provides a historical exposition of factors underpinning the dispute, which are critical to understanding its context and ultimate resolution. It examines the claim to self-determination by the people of Nagorno-Karabakh from the perspective of international law. It addresses the interplay between conflicting norms of territorial integrity and self-determination. The paper reflects on questions of statehood, and on the emerging concept of remedial secession in cases of egregious human rights violations and where internal self-determination is denied, and their possible relevance to the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
Cybercultural Transgressions in Comments by Iranian Instagram Users
Authors: Oskuie Shalaleh Meraji , Mohamadkhani (corresponding author) Kamran , Delavar Ali , Farhangi Ali Akbar
Published: November 2020

The ease of communication and anonymity that computer-mediated communication provides has created fertile ground for transgressive (socially non-normative) online behaviours. The purpose of the current research is to explore the types of transgressive comments on Iranian celebrities’ Instagram pages. Within a qualitative descriptive approach, the current research employs Braun and Clarke’s ‘thematic analysis’ to analyze transgressive user comments. Using a judgmental (purposive) non-probability sampling technique, we selected posts from 22 Iranian celebrities’ Instagram pages. Afterwards, we analyzed 53,066 comments in these posts and extracted four dominant transgressive themes: ‘unwanted advertisement,’ ‘partner seeking,’ ‘attention seeking,’ and ‘emotional release’; we then extracted their sub-themes.

Transgressive behaviours disrupt the communicative experience on social networks, endanger users’ security and safety, and can lead to mental problems and even offline harassment and violence. Recognizing these behaviours and their patterns can contribute to more effective use of social control means.
Digital Technology, Physical Space, and the Notion of Belonging among Chinese Migrants in Japan
Authors: Wang Xinyu (Promio)
Published: November 2020

This paper illustrates how, among Chinese migrants in Japan, the notion of belonging is constructed and modified by their use of digital technology, by presenting digital technologies as a continuum of physical and digitized life experiences.

Drawing on interviews with 55 Chinese migrants in Japan, this paper argues that Chinese migrants are increasingly engaged in digital spaces that combine the online and offline and permit their presence at a transnational scale, through a collectively imagined ‘Chinese’ identity. However, because of the influence of physical spaces on Chinese migrants’ transnational, diasporic experiences, this transnational engagement does not lead to the construction of a transnational or a relatively static nation-state sense of belonging. Instead, for Chinese migrants in Japan, the notion of belonging can be based on the situation and context, and it can switch between the home and host countries.
‘Thus am I accustomed to treat friends’
Authors: Woodall Joanna
Published: November 2020

This contribution focuses on a superb Dutch wine glass or roemer engraved by Maria Roemers Visscher (‘Tesselschade’) with the Latin motto, Sic Soleo Amicos (‘Thus am I accustomed to treat friends’). Roemers’ roemer is shown actively to have participated in a coterie of cultured men and women initially centred on her father Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher, whose friendly gatherings in the 1610s were animated by wine, song, emblems, poetry and comic and satirical literature. The roemer’s inscription characterises it as a speaking subject within this milieu and evokes the intersubjective character of friendships that were enacted through puns, metaphors, ironic wit and at times amorous play. The performance of mixed friendship through the gendered artistic practice of glass-engraving is compared with the pleasurable game of connecting word and image in emblems. Such activities both gave rein to, and reined in, embodied friendships between elite women and men within a pleasure-loving yet patriarchal society.
‘Intoxicated, we listened to warblers and swallows chattering in the spring wind’
Authors: Weststeijn Thijs
Published: November 2020

The affinity between the landscape painter Wu Li and François de Rougemont, a Jesuit missionary based in Changshu, is a rare example of friendship between a Chinese and a European in the seventeenth century. Their encounter, which seemingly resulted in the first Chinese painting partly dedicated to a European, evidences the role of the visual arts as a social lubricant. These arts included engravings imported from the Netherlands, works produced in China, and Sino-European co-productions. Aspects of patronage of Christian art in provincial China of the early Qing period come into closer view as well as, conversely, the Chinese view towards European art. Both men studied each other’s ideological background (respectively Confucianism and Catholicism) and their careful exchange oscillated between transactional strategy, cross-cultural curiosity, and, perhaps, affection.
Textual Criticism and Its Impact on the Study of Israel’s Religion and Hebrew Grammar
Authors: Torijano Pablo A.
Published: November 2020

Textual criticism is a necessary first step when studying a biblical text. However, textual issues go beyond isolated readings and reach the literary composition of the book, Hebrew grammar, theology or history. The books of Kings / Kingdoms offer many examples where textual variants solve difficulties or shed light on other venues of study. In the present article, we study the name Molek / Molok / Milkom, the presence of the proleptic pronoun in some verses of Kings, and the names with suffix -ay from a textual point of view.
The phylogenetic position and taxonomic status of the Southeast and South Asian bamboo genera Neohouzeaua and Ochlandra (Poaceae: Bambusoideae)

Authors: GOH WEI LIM , SUNGKAEW SARAWOOD , TEERAWATANANON ATCHARA , OHRNBERGER DIETER , WIDJAJA ELIZABETH A. , SABU KALLUVETTANKUZHY KRISHNANNAIR , GOPAKUMAR BHASKARAN , KOSHY KONNATH CHACKO , XIA NIAN-HE , WONG KHOON MENG
Published: November 2020

Among the tropical woody bamboos, the Melocanninae is one of the most clearly recognized subtribes morphologically and has also been consistently well delimited in molecular phylogenetic work. The relationships among those genera in this subtribe, however, have been contentious because of poorly understood generic delimitations, in part due to poor specimen material or insufficiently assessed morphological traits, sometimes exacerbated by poorly accessible provenances. We address the phylogenetic and taxonomic status of two groups which together include the largest number of species in this subtribe: the Neohouzeaua-Schizostachyum complex, distributed from India to South China, Southeast Asia and southwest Pacific, and the endemic Indian genus Ochlandra. Three Neohouzeaua species (including the generic type), 12 Schizostachyum species (including the generic type and several species of uncertain placement), together with five species of Ochlandra and representatives of Cephalostachyum, Melocanna and Pseudostachyum were assessed in a molecular phylogenetic analysis together with members of other well-distinguished subtribes. Members of Neohouzeaua and Schizostachyum align into two main groups that were not completely well-supported statistically but which members possess mostly reflexed culm leaf blades, or mostly erect culm leaf blades. Other characters which provide obvious differences between taxa, such as the number of flowers in a pseudospikelet, fusion of filaments into a staminal tube, and presence of lodicules, were inconsistent between these groups. Neohouzeaua and Schizostachyum cannot be clearly distinguished in either morphological or molecular terms, and thus are united under the latter name, which takes precedence. In reviewing names in Neohouzeaua and their basionyms, several lectotypifications are designated. Three new combinations in Schizostachyum are proposed. On the other hand, Ochlandra forms a distinct clade and its monophyly is demonstrated, supported by clear morphological characters.
New record of Hyphoderma etruriae (Basidiomycota) in Portugal and its combination in Lawrynomyces
Authors: SALCEDO ISABEL , MELO IRENEIA , OLARIAGA IBAI
Published: November 2020

Hyphoderma etruriae is a very rare corticioid species, described originally from Italy and more recently reported from Macedonia, always growing on decayed wood of Juniperus spp. It was now found in Lisbon, on a stump of Cupressus lusitanica. Several authors have suggested that H. etruriae could be related to Hyphoderma capitatum and Hyphoderma orphanellum, and molecular analyses confirmed that these three species belong to the Hymenochaetales and are thus not closely related to Hyphoderma s. str. species. The monospecific new genus Lawrynomyces was proposed, to accommodate H. capitatum. According to multigene phylogenetic analyses (18S, 5.8S, 28S, RPB2), H. etruriae is in a well-supported clade with H. capitatum, both species sharing clampless hyphae, capitate cystidia, and an association with conifers. On the contrary, results do not support a close relationship between H. orphanellum and the H. capitatum-H. etruriae clade. The new combination Lawrynomyces etruriae is proposed, based on these results.
The Rhyacophila fasciata Group in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina: Rhyacophila f. fasciata Hagen 1859 and the description of two new subspecies, Rhyacophila fasciata delici Kučinić & Valladolid (ssp. nov.) from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Rhyacophila fasciata viteceki Valladolid & Kučinić (ssp. nov.) from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Trichoptera: Rhyacophilidae)
Authors: VALLADOLID MARÍA , KUČINIĆ MLADEN , ARAUZO MERCEDES , CERJANEC DARKO , ĆUK RENATA , DORDA BEATRIZ A. , LODOVICI OMAR , STANIĆ-KOŠTROMAN SVJETLANA , VUČKOVIĆ IVAN , REY ISABEL
Published: November 2020

We present the description of two new subspecies of the Rhyacophila fasciata Group: Rhyacophila fasciata delici Kučinić & Valladolid (ssp. nov.), broadly distributed in Croatia and present also in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and R. fasciata viteceki Valladolid & Kučinić (ssp. nov.), found in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our study of the morphology of adults, as well as our analysis of the barcode region of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (mtCOI) gene and geographical distribution confirm the differences of the two new subspecies with the nominal species R. f. fasciata, also found in both countries.
Conservation of Mangroves by Trait-Based Using Deep Learning Algorithm
Authors: Gowri S. , Srija U. , Shirley Divya P. A. , Jabez J. , Vimali J. S.
Published: November 2020

Classifying and predicting the Mangrove species is one of the most important applications in our ecosystem. Mangroves are the most endangered species that contributes in playing a greater role in our ecosystem. It mainly prevents the calamities like soil erosion, Tsunami, storms, wind
turbulence, etc. These Mangroves has to be afforested and conserved in order to maintain a healthy ecosystem. To attain this the study of mangrove is to be done first. To classify the mangroves in its habitat, we use an algorithm from Deep Neural Network.
Decision Making of Suitable Crops Based on Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium Ratios Using Deep Neural Networks
Authors: Kumar K. Ashok , Varshini Valiveti Amrutha , Rekha Unnam Sai , Mynavathi V. S.
Published: November 2020

The soil, is essential substance answerable for supporting life on earth. In spite, extremely trend setting innovation in the administration segment, agribusiness remains the significant supplier of nourishment assets and wellspring of fund in India. Testing the soil is as significant
device for assessing the suitable soil supplement status and soil assists with deciding the right measure of supplements to be applied to the dirt dependent on its richness and yield prerequisities. Right now, AI were utilized to group all supplements more adequately like Nitrogen (N), phosphorous
(P), Potassium (K), levels in the soil with the use of Rapidsoil Testing (RST). This made out of three areas specifically soil testing, preparing framework and technique testing.
Student Performance Analysis Using Machine Learning Techniques
Authors: Prasad K. Mohana , Reddy Roop Sumanth Naidu , Praveenkumar Rimmalapudi , Jany Shabu S. L. , Refonaa J.
Published: November 2020

Execution investigation of result dependent on learning is a framework which will make progress toward greatness at various levels and assorted measurements in the field of student’s inclinations. This paper proposes a total EDM structure in a type of a standard based recommender framework that isn’t created to break down and foresee the students presentation just, yet additionally to display the explanations for it. The proposed structure examines the student’s segment information, study related and mental attributes to remove all conceivable information from understudies, instructors and guardians. Looking for the most elevated conceivable exactness in scholarly execution forecast utilizing a lot of ground-breaking information mining systems. The system prevails to feature the student’s powerless focuses and give suitable suggestions. The sensible contextual investigation that has been led on 200 understudies demonstrates the extraordinary presentation of the proposed system in examination with the current ones.
Stock Forecasting Using an Improved Version of Adaptive Group Lasso
Authors: Nandhini S. , Debnath Monojit , Tyagi Siddarth , Mishra Shashank , Ashok Kumar K.
Published: November 2020

Stock is one of the few things in the world that influence the economy of the society, hence its worth a shot and very desirable to predict a stock price in the future. Hence in this paper we propose a stock prediction model based on linear regression model. The database of the training
is based on the Goldman Sachs database of stocks found from the Google. Here we choose Lasso penalization technique cause the, this performs well with the sparsity of the network, meaning when the network has less features and more observations. Here we have proposed an improved version of
lasso function and have proposed an algorithm to improve the performance of the model.
An End-to-End Unified Framework for Assessing Turning Movements Based Deep Neural Network
Authors: Bathina Rama Krishna , ChandraShekhar Raineni , Kamalesh Murari D.
Published: November 2020

Convergence turning developments’ checks are basic information for reports on traffic, examination, anticipating. Sorts tallies are they frequently investigate operation execution of published convergences underneath various traffic conditions and flow pinnacle hour. There’s
few techniques for gather developments, for example, tallies and picture handling. Transport examines require turn-over development checks in spite of the fact that they may not be promptly accessible, particularly on account traffic estimating when occasional alteration applying considerations.
For such instances, just methodology volume may accessible and transform developments accepted utilizing various procedures to adjust the inbound and exit traffic. Regardless, procedures specifications beginning terms and conditions, results exceptionally delicate towards the underlying suppositions.
A path choice model, in view of the Wardrop Equilibrium Principles is produced for left-turn drivers. The immersion stream rate model of the twofold left-turn paths is created to quantitatively assess its usage. This examination additionally introduces the rules for the structure of the U-turn
middle opening for amplifying the immersion stream pace of twofold left-turn paths. The proposed model is likewise checked by methods for reenactment, and afterward a contextual analysis is utilized to think about the convergence execution when improvement. The consequences of contextual investigation
show that if the U-turn areas are changed, the immersion stream pace of the twofold left-turn paths would likewise fluctuate significantly.
Extensive Support System and Knowledge Base for Improvised Geoponics Using Convolutional Neural Network Based Deep Learning
Authors: Visnu Dharsini S. , Sarkar Arpan , Paul Aritra , Shukla Pranab Kumar
Published: November 2020

Farming can either be envisaged as a complex multistep process or a linear and recursive feedback loop. In both cases, it requires great effort and cost to produce crops initially. Farmers have extensive knowledge about the crop they are growing, and they must know about the product,
but sometimes it so happens that the farmers do not have at par and updated knowledge about the current growth form of the product. The loss per hectare of cultivation has been exponentially increasing over time due to extensive crop damages and failures. Our model suggests an overall algorithm
to provide wholesome support and information to the producer may that be a farmer or someone who wishes to take up farming as a hobby. The CNN based model identifies the plant using fine-grain details like location data, timestamp, and state of harvest. Alongside the identification model,
a similar model runs parallelly to identify any diseases that might be visible and also provides necessary steps to get rid of the same. Hence providing a safe and low-risk path towards mass producing a certain crop.
A Novel Approach for Encrypted Data-Deduplication in Clouds
Authors: Gladence L. Mary , Reddy Priyanka , Shetty Apoorva , Brumancia E. , Srinivasulu Senduru
Published: November 2020

Data deduplication is one of the main techniques for copying recovery data duplicates and was widely used in distributed storage to minimize extra space and spare data transfer capacity. It was proposed that the simultaneous encryption method encode the data before re-appropriating
to preserve the confidentiality of delicate data while facilitating de replication. Unlike conventional de duplication systems, consumers are therefore viewed as having differential advantages as indupli-cate tests other than the data itself. Security analysis shows that our approach is safe
in terms of the values set out in the proposed security model. For this deduplication M3 encryption algorithm and DES algorithm are used. M3 encryption is to compare another with the latest technology, for more effective, security purposes, fast actions and. The second DES encryption that
was used to open the file and decrypt understandable language for humans in a secure language. A model of our current accepted copy check program is revised as proof of concept by the current research and explicitly shows the tests using our model. The proposed research shows that when opposed
to conventional operations, our proposed duplicate test plot creates marginal overhead.
Wireless Real-Time Electrogastrography Monitoring System
Authors: Kumar G. Praveen , Prakash S. Om , Sangeetha B. , Asha R. , Suganthi L. , Divya B.
Published: November 2020

Gastrointestinal (GI) diseases are one of the rising issues in medical field from the past two decades. The incidence and prevalence rates have shown a notable rise in these conditions, thereby leading to an increase in morbidity and mortality rate. The principle aim of this study is
to design and develop a system that can acquire signals precisely and non-invasively from the abdominal skin over the stomach and share the obtained results to the patient mobile wirelessly. This technique enables the user to monitor their gastric condition effortlessly. This standalone system,
for detecting various abdominal disorders incorporates the technique of Electrogastrography (i.e.,) recording gastric signals non-invasively using surface electrodes. The proposed real-time gastric recording and monitoring system is designed using Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering
Workbench (LabVIEW) software in addition to the initial analog circuitries. The entire system is enclosed in an elastic belt to make it wearable for different abdominal torsos. The real-time data acquired is shared with the patient mobile using National Instruments (NI) Data dashboard application
mobile application. On the other hand, the data recorded from the system is analyzed in Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB) using moving average algorithm to obtain precise electrogastrographic envelopes. The gastric signal recording is obtained from ten healthy individuals by following the developed
experimental protocol in postprandial session. The data obtained is used in evaluating and quantifying the gastric slow wave propagation in the individuals by extracting the signal features in temporal and frequency domains. The obtained results prove the efficiency of the proposed design,
with the fixed electrode position making the system user-friendly.
Trapping Runtime Faults from Web Service Fault Ontology
Authors: Jayashree K.
Published: November 2020

The ontology offers a clear considerate of the runtime faults in web services and helps to share this common understanding with users and applications. This paper presents Web Service Fault Ontology and to trap the runtime faults from the Web Services Fault Ontology. Web Service Fault
Ontology has been developed to represent the different types of faults that can occur during the interactions between service users, service publishers and service registries: publishing, discovery, binding and execution of web services. Ontology has been proposed to define the intended behavior
of web services from the service provider. A sample web service application was developed for testing the proposed model.