bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Job Related Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Authors: Abd Ali Zuhair Gheni
Published: February 2025

This study include 60 patient had carpal tunnel syndrome sign and symptoms, treated by surgical release of the tunnel after the failure of the conservative management from the period January 2010 –October 2013,all patient managed in alnajafgovernment,40 patient female and 20 patient male, mean age 20 -60 years 12 female patient perform farmer job, 20 female patient perform cosmetic job(female hair clipper), 8patient computer worker, male job 8 patient farmer and 12 patient industrial worker (Drill worker ), all these 60 patient included under this study feel their symptomsduring performing their job or after that by some time the symptoms appear more often in the hand used more to perform that job. The most important symptoms, sever pain that may extended from the finger to the shoulder, numbness, tingling, burning sensation and weak grip, on clinical examination30 patient from the 40 female patients had the near muscles atrophy while 15 patients from the 20 male patient had atrophy of the the near muscles. All the 60 patient male and female complain diminish sensation in the distribution of the median nerve (the lateral three and half finger).30 patient from the 40 female patient had weak grip in the affected hand, all 60-patient had positive Tinel sign, positive Phalen test and positive pressure provocative test, all patient refer for neve conduction study all 60-patient diagnosed as sever carpal tunnel syndrome by the nerve conduction study.
A Review on Childhood Anxiety
Authors: Greeshma P. V.
Published: February 2025

This article contains detailed data and review evaluations of the concept of anxiety disorder in children. It is one of the currently facing issues by parents, teachers, and surrounding caretakers, which needs meticulous care and management. It feels like a simple psychological feeling but can lead to complex, unpredictable complications. The causes and risk factors may be varied depends on individuality and background situation. The incidence rate shows tremendous increment, and the related issues show very hike. This complicated situation makes the parents in a big dilemma for managing their children and social reactions. The urbanization, industrialization, and job conditions of parents indirectly influenced for making this feelings as a disorder. Majority of humans, especially children, possess various behavioral patterns during their development to adulthood. Although it is a universal truth and normal for all, when it becomes harmful to themselves and others, it can be considered behavioral disorder. It is a common and normal feeling of psychology and its projection appropriate to the situation shows psychological well-being. Hence, its overness and extremity needed proper identification and management. In psychological theories, it is clearly stated about various reactions of children and even adults. When children fail to pass these steps, which results in various emotional tragedies like anxiety disorder. This article deals with the conditions, including its etiological factors, symptoms, various types of anxiety disorders, and its management, including various review studies regarding this concept.
Pyeloureteral Junction Syndrome on Ectopic Kidney: About 2 Cases
Authors: R Safwate
Published: February 2025

Renal ectopy and hydronephrosis are two different conditions but the association of the both is very uncommon. Hydronephrosis is an abnormal enlargement of a kidney due to dilatation of the kidney calices and the kidney pelvis, it’s often associated with obstruction of the ureter that prevents normal drainage of urine to the bladder. Renal ectopy is a misplacement due to anormal migration during embryonic development. We report two patients having both conditions.
¿Hace la diferencia estudiar un doctorado en el extranjero? Evidencia desde una encuesta en Chile
Authors: De la Vega Luis Felipe
Published: February 2025

Introducción: Dadas sus características y su simbolismo, el doctorado es un proceso formativo que genera altas expectativas, tanto de la sociedad como de quienes realizan los estudios. Sin embargo, la obtención del doctorado no asegura una exitosa trayectoria laboral y académica. Metodología: Se realizó un estudio en base a resultados de una encuesta nacional chilena, para comparar la evaluación del proceso formativo y las trayectorias de quienes hicieron su doctorado en el extranjero, respecto a los que realizaron dichos estudios en Chile. Resultados: Se identificaron diferencias significativas favorables a las personas graduadas en el extranjero respecto a las que lo hicieron en Chile respecto de los índices de condiciones de desarrollo del doctorado, valoración de la calidad del doctorado cursado y en parte de los indicadores de trayectoria laboral. Sin embargo, a medida que los datos consideraban variables más objetivas, especialmente relacionadas con la productividad académica, estas diferencias se hicieron menores y no significativas. Discusión: Los resultados de esta investigación llaman a profundizar en las formas en que la calidad formativa del doctorado se vincula con las trayectorias futuras de las personas, pero también en cómo contribuye a las expectativas sociales que este programa.
Propuesta de diseño del Wili robot como estrategia didáctica del ABP, en alumnos de bachillerato de la carrera de Técnico en Energía Sustentable
Authors: Rodríguez Angeles María Guadalupe
Published: February 2025

Introducción: El aprendizaje basado en proyectos (ABP), es una estrategia didáctica que promueve la investigación de problemas actuales, entre los estudiantes, como la contaminación ambiental. Metodología: 40 estudiantes de la carrera de Técnico en Energías Sustentables (TES), organizados en 8 equipos, proponen el diseño de un robot recolector de basura con valor económico en la escuela, mediante un proyecto de investigación importante para el medio ambiente. Realizaron investigación documental de residuos sólidos urbanos (RSU) valorizables, su impacto ambiental, para proponer el diseño de un robot y su posible construcción con material reciclado. Resultados:  Los alumnos propusieron el diseño del robot recolector de lata, vidrio y PET. Discusión: La sustentabilidad considera el equilibrio del medio ambiente, la economía y la sociedad, ésta debe cuidar el medio ambiente, sin RSU, derivados de la actividad humana. El hombre diseña robots para realizar actividades peligrosas y para cuidar el ambiente. Conclusiones: El ABP fortaleció el interés de los alumnos por la investigación al diseñar el Wili robot recolector de RSU valorizables, que ayude a reducir la contaminación y sea una herramienta didáctica en la educación ambiental y la técnica, para estudiantes de bachillerato. Este trabajo es parte del proyecto SIP20241998, “Wili robot, la tecnología en apoyo del cuidado del ambiente", Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México.
Introduction
Authors: Harvey Penny , Lien Marianne Elisabeth , Nyquist Jon Rasmus
Published: February 2025

This introduction outlines an approach to commons that captures and responds to intersecting social, environmental, and political complications. The extractive power of states and corporations has long threatened the lives and livelihoods of the poor. However, contemporary local struggles are not adequately understood by frameworks that rest exclusively on social and political power. Climate change and the lingering effects of colonial and industrial extraction multiply the threats to the wider ecologies on which human lives depend. Debates on the commons have addressed such struggles, but without sufficient attention to the diverse bioethical regimes that underpin conventional commons. We propose that such attention can inform analyses by moving beyond the narrow singularities of modern categories. Our introduction lays the groundwork for an approach to the commons that pays attention to multiple and intersecting modes of dispossession, while also looking at convening or ‘commoning’ practices that are oriented toward building alternative relational worlds.
Disfigured Commons
Authors: Bond David
Published: February 2025

Fifty years ago, an upstart oil company built a mammoth refinery in the US Virgin Islands. Colonial officials, intent on shifting the island economy from peasant provisioning to petro-prosperity, stomped out collective agriculture on the island. The first dispossession: profit against the commons. Operating with imperial impunity, the refinery authored the destruction of the island's ecology. When it became impossible to ignore, the refinery filed for bankruptcy (twice) to shed all responsibility. Today, extensive contamination brings real fear of toxicity lurking in the land and the sea. The second dispossession: pollution preventing any easy return to the commons. This article reflects on a ‘disfigured commons’, describing how toxicity now forcefully extends a project of dispossession. And what the community in St. Croix is doing about it.
ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ ПОРОВОЇ СТРУКТУРИ ТОНКИХ НЕТКАНИХ ГЕОТЕКСТИЛЬНИХ МАТЕРІАЛІВ АНАЛІТИЧНИМ МЕТОДОМ
Authors: Фрідріхсон В. Л. , Кривоног О. І. , Кривоног В. В.
Published: February 2025

В статті вивчено можливість використання аналітичного методу побудови кривої розподілу пор по діаметрам в діапазоні малих пор при дослідженні порової структури тонких рулонних нетканих волокнисто-пористих матеріалів методом просипання каліброваних частинок. Порова структура волокнисто-пористих матеріалів визначає їх функціональні властивості: водопроникність, контактну стійкість і захоплюючу здатність, яка характеризує ступінь кольматації фільтра по відношенню до твердих частинок суспензії фільтраційного потоку.В статті наведено результати досліджень розподілу пор по діаметрам в тонких нетканих волокнисто-пористих матеріалах, які отримано експериментальним шляхом за допомогою методу сухого просипання каліброваних піщаних частинок і аналітичним шляхом за допомогою степеневої функції, та обґрунтовано можливість використання цієї  функції для побудови кривої розподілу пор по діаметрам в діапазоні малих пор.Встановлено, що для тонких фільтруючих матеріалів, в яких доля пор розміром 0.05 мм і більше становить не менше 70%, аналітичне обчислення за допомогою степеневої функції кривої розподілу пор в усьому її діапазоні від максимальних до мінімальних діаметрів дає результат близький до експериментальних значень.
Populist Slogans in the US Presidential Election Campaign: 2024 Case
Authors: Kiyanka Iryna
Published: February 2025

The article analyzes populist slogans in the 2024 US presidential election campaign. Іt is worth focusing on the main messages of the US presidential candidates. One of them is the important mission of US policy – “America First.” This indicates the populist rhetoric of the leaders of the election race and their methods of meeting with voters. An important emphasis of the 2014 US presidential election campaign was the active use of all electronic resources: TikTok, Viber, Instagram, which made it possible to reach a wide range of electorate and promote their main messages. They also held mass meetings with various segments of the population (doctors, teachers, students, entrepreneurs, farmers), and each had its own main message regarding the election rhetoric.

Taking into account the dynamics of the election campaign, we should pay tribute to the PR campaigns and managers of D. Trump, who successfully organized the leader's meetings in different states of the country, setting the tone for the meetings and immediately making a “short message” for further meetings. Moreover, these meetings demonstrated a lively leader who is able to take the United States to a new level of trust in the world. Just the mere statement that the president could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours had a huge resonance in various communities. Once again, an important argument for Americans is migration policy, which has been in crisis in recent years and needed to be addressed immediately.

This simple set of solutions appealed to the average voter, who is used to voting with gadgets and no one has canceled the “Bread and Circuses” show, which is always in trend. This was the rhetoric chosen by D. Trump, who from the first day of his presidency signed a hundred acts that determine the course of politics, and even more so geopolitics. This demonstrates the dependence of states on the will of a narrow group of people-leaders who are endowed with majority power, namely, through democratic means, the electoral vote. Never in history has such a powerful power been concentrated in the hands of one person, and one who is so far from democratic views. Another important fact is that neither their own party nor the Democrats, who lost the election and are now disoriented, can oppose them.
Formative Potential of Modern Media in the New Type of Culture Space
Authors: Kyrydon Alla , Troyan Serhii
Published: February 2025

Modern media exist within a specific communicative space, shaped by its characteristics and reflecting its current state. The study aims to investigate the influence of new media on public consciousness, the formation of a new type of culture, and its value transformations. A retrospective analysis of media development suggests that modern media not only serve as a means of shaping a new type of culture but also themselves transformed in response to contemporary demands. This highlights the interdependence and interconnectedness of information/knowledge production, circulation, assimilation, and application, along with communication types and the formation of a new type of culture. Media culture, within the system of new information processes, acquires new features and introduces new aesthetic and value characteristics into culture as a whole, carrying out a socially transformative representation of reality.

The authors emphasize that rapid development and transformation of mass communication, everyday communicative practices, the rise of social networks, the growing potential of digital media, and the expansion of the media space create new opportunities and challenges. These challenges linked to the ongoing need to navigate a constantly shifting reality, fundamentally altering the socio-cultural landscape. Historically synchronous with the information society is the culture of modernity, largely formed/constructed precisely through the development of modern media. New media transform media culture, affecting not only traditional means of information transmission but also the entire spectrum of social communications, changing their form and content, and influencing everyday life, cultural, linguistic, political, economic, cognitive, and other spheres of human activity. Further research into the impact of modern media on the transformation of media culture and a thorough examination of the methodological foundations of these issues remain relevant.
Arbitraje internacional y pandemia
Authors: M. Cremades Bernardo
Published: February 2025

La pandemia actual es verdaderamente una catástrofe mundial que nos ha sumido en una profunda crisis sanitaria, pero también económica y social. Este año hemos permanecido durante largos meses confinados. Nos ha cambiado la vida, pero hemos reaccionado eficazmente para poder continuar nuestras actividades profesionales con quizá mayor actividad que en circunstancias normales. La drástica reducción de viajes nos ha dado tiempo para concentrarnos desde el retiro obligado.
El derecho aplicable a la existencia y validez sustantiva del convenio arbitral
Authors: Rivera Julio César
Published: February 2025

La determinación de la ley aplicable al convenio arbitral es una cuestión particularmente compleja. Se trata de un área en la que todavía existe poco consenso y mucha confusión, lo que a su vez causa una fuerte incertidumbre entre los usuarios del sistema. El propósito de este trabajo es analizar la interacción entre la Convención de Nueva York y las leyes nacionales respecto del derecho aplicable a la existencia y validez del convenio arbitral. En particular, el artículo se enfoca en los alcances y los presupuestos de aplicación de la norma de conflicto que establece el art. V(1)(a) de la Convención y en los límites que impone el art. II(3) de la Convención a los Estados Contratantes en la determinación de las causales de invalidez del acuerdo arbitral.
Arbitrabilidad: reflexiones de derecho comparado
Authors: Penadés Fons Manuel
Published: February 2025

El alcance de la arbitrabilidad se ha ampliado sustancialmente en las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, su fundamento conceptual y sus perfiles concretos difieren en el panorama comparado. En ocasiones, estas diferencias pueden tener un impacto muy relevante sobre el resultado de una disputa. Este art. estudia la base teórica de la arbitrabilidad objetiva y subjetiva, así como su reciente evolución, su vinculación con las normas de competencia exclusiva y las cuestiones de ley aplicable que la rodean. Por último, se exploran algunos de los casos más problemáticos de inarbitrabilidad, como ocurre en materia de Derecho concursal.
El deber de revelación del árbitro. A propósito de la Sentencia del Tribunal de Justicia del Estado de São Paulo de 25 de agosto de 2020
Authors: Noemi Pucci Adriana , Do Amaral Gurgel Ana Carolina
Published: February 2025

El Tribunal de Justicia del Estado de São Paulo [«TJSP»], el 25 de agosto de 2020, anuló un laudo arbitral en un arbitraje doméstico [«Arbitraje Fazon» o «Arbitraje A»] por juzgar que el presidente del tribunal arbitral, al no informar oportunamente de su designación como árbitro en otro arbitraje [«Arbitraje B»] por una de las partes, cumplió su deber de revelación y afectó gravemente a la confianza que las partes depositaron en su investidura. La decisión otorga una nueva dimensión al deber de revelación, porque considera la falta de revelación y el menoscabo de la confianza depositada por las partes en el árbitro como situaciones que comprometen el debido proceso legal, que justifica la anulación del laudo arbitral. En el Capítulo I, presentamos una introducción a los temas que serán analizados, justificando la importancia de la decisión del «TJSP» con relación al deber de revelación de los árbitros. Con relación al Capítulo II, el presente trabajo analiza cuales fueron las alegaciones y fundamentos de las Partes considerados por el «TJSP» para emitir su decisión. En el Capítulo III, se describen los fundamentos según los cuales la Cámara de Apelaciones anuló el laudo arbitral. El Capítulo IV desarrolla el entendimiento en la doctrina brasileña del deber de revelación del árbitro. Por fin, el Capítulo V reflexiona en la doctrina sobre las consecuencias de admitir la falta de revelación del árbitro sumada al daño provocado a la confianza de las partes, como elementos suficientes para acreditar la violación del debido proceso legal y, consecuentemente, justificar la nulidad del laudo arbitral.
Abuse of Rights in Investment Disputes: A Critical Analysis
Authors: M. Garibaldi Oscar
Published: February 2025

En los últimos veinte años, la jurisprudencia arbitral en controversias sobre inversiones ha venido articulando, adoptando y aplicando, con creciente frecuencia y confianza, diversas versiones de la doctrina del abuso del derecho. Esa jurisprudencia parece entender esta doctrina, así como la subdoctrina del abuso del proceso, como la aplicación a controversias relativas a inversiones de una doctrina general de interdicción del abuso del derecho, la cual es aceptada expresa o tácitamente como parte del Derecho internacional general. Este artículo tiene por fin examinar críticamente los presupuestos conceptuales y jurídicos sobre los que descansan esas decisiones y la medida en que guardan coherencia con los principios y la lógica de la doctrina que pretenden acoger y aplicar. Para ello, el artículo analiza las principales cuestiones (conceptuales, metodológicas, político-ideológicas) que subyacen la doctrina del abuso del derecho; la controvertida cuestión de si dicha doctrina ha pasado a formar parte del Derecho internacional; la progresiva aceptación de la doctrina en la jurisprudencia en materia de inversiones; y, en fin, los tres principales problemas que plantea la forma en que la doctrina viene aplicándose: su estatus jurídico, los derechos a que se aplica y el criterio para calificar un ejercicio de un derecho como abusivo. El artículo concluye con breves observaciones sobre tres temas más generales: las razones de la aceptación, generalmente acrítica, de la doctrina del abuso de derecho en la jurisprudencia sobre inversiones; la transformación de la doctrina, en su origen una institución típica del Derecho civil continental basada en un criterio general de abuso, en una norma de características similares a las del «common law», aplicada sobre la base de similitudes de hecho con casos anteriores; y la incertidumbre que suscita la potencial aplicación plena de la doctrina a los derechos de los Estados.
El abuso del proceso en el arbitraje de inversiones: «new skin for the old ceremony»
Authors: Muñoz Aranguren Arturo
Published: February 2025

Este trabajo tiene como objeto el examen de la figura del abuso del proceso en el contexto del arbitraje internacional de inversiones. Se trata de una figura que ha alcanzado una gran notoriedad en los últimos tiempos, al ser recurrente su alegación en este tipo de arbitrajes. Se procede, en primer lugar, a realizar una labor de delimitación conceptual del abuso del proceso, como especie del género del abuso del derecho. A continuación, se formula una clasificación de la diversa tipología de este uso desviado del procedimiento arbitral, para acabar analizando los remedios aplicables para ponerle freno.
Plures leges, sed leges faciunt arbitrum
Authors: Ferrari Franco
Published: February 2025

The paper analyses the continuing importanceof the seat –as well as the lex loci arbitri– during all phases of an arbitration's life cycle. Atthe same time, the paper shows that the law ofthe seat of the arbitration is not the only one toimpose itself on any given arbitration. Rather, variousnational arbitration laws may – and usuallywill – come into play.
Relaunching the debate on the use of witness statements in arbitration
Authors: Pinheiro Sofia
Published: February 2025

El debate sobre las declaraciones escritas se ha relanzado en Portugal ante una reciente propuesta legislativa para modificar el Código de Procedimiento Civil portugués. En una jurisdicción en la que la forma oral de testigos ha generalmente prevalecido sobre el recurso a las declaraciones testificales, la propuesta de ley sugiere ahora que las declaraciones escritas pueden ser una solución positiva desde el punto de vista de la eficiencia en tiempo y costes. Sin embargo, esto llega en un momento en el que el uso de las declaraciones escritas está siendo cada vez más cuestionado en el contexto del arbitraje internacional, y muchos afirman que la forma estandarizada y a menudo acrítica en la que se utilizan puede constituir en realidad un obstáculo para la eficiencia. Algunos afirman incluso que las declaraciones escritas, aunque originalmente se concibieron para aumentar la eficiencia en la producción de pruebas, pueden ser a veces una pérdida de tiempo. La cuestión que se plantea es si existen otras formas de producción de la prueba testifical que puedan ser alternativas adecuadas a la solución generalizada de que las declaraciones escritas seguidas de un interrogatorio. Este artículo pretende ofrecer una visión general de los diferentes modelos alternativos para la producción de la prueba testifical que se siguen en varias jurisdicciones, y discutir los aspectos positivos y negativos de cada solución, en particular cuando se aplica al arbitraje.
El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea reafirma su postura con tra el arbitraje de inversiones intracomunitario: las sentencias Kom stroy y PL Holdings tras la sentencia Achmea
Authors: Rueda García José Ángel
Published: February 2025

El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea ha dictado dos sentencias, en la línea de su sentencia Achmea de 2018, por las que ha declarado la incompatibilidad con el Derecho de la Unión Europea del arbitraje de protección de inversiones intracomunitario derivado tanto del Tratado sobre la Carta de la Energía (sentencia «Komstroy», en forma de «dictum») como en el caso de existir un convenio arbitral «ad hoc» entre un inversor y un Estado miembro derivado de una cláusula de arbitraje de un Tratado de protección de inversiones intracomunitario (sentencia «PL Holdings»). El Tribunal entiende, siguiendo lo resuelto en la sentencia Achmea, que en esos dos contextos los tribunales arbitrales tienen que aplicar Derecho de la Unión Europea al fondo del caso sin poder presentar una cuestión prejudicial al propio Tribunal y sin que hubiera suficientes garantías del control de su aplicación del Derecho de la Unión Europea en sede de anulación del laudo. La postura del Tribunal de Justicia, alineada con la posición tradicional de la Comisión Europea, parece abocar al planteamiento de reclamaciones de protección de inversiones intracomunitarias exclusivamente ante los tribunales de los Estados miembros de la Unión Europea.
Reflexiones procesales sobre el laudo final dictado el 21 enero 2016 (Reino de España, asunto fotovoltaicas) con resumen del mismo
Authors: Soriano José Eugenio , Iriarte José Luis
Published: February 2025

El laudo de 21 de enero de 2016 de la Cámara de Comercio de Estocolmo, se refiere por vez primera al régimen regulatorio español sobre generación fotovoltaica. Es una consecuencia directa de la firma por el Reino de España de la Carta de la Energía, que da respaldo al arbitraje sobre las partes contratantes, esto es, el propio Estado. Se rompe así la tendencia tradicional a eximir a los Estados de someterse a Arbitraje y se inicia un paso hacia su consolidación como medio de resolver disputas en el ámbito internacional dando confianza a los inversores. Este laudo tiene un alcance limitado ya que se refiere sólo a las normas hasta 2010 pero no incluye la posterior y esencial norma de 2013, que será objeto de discusión en futuros arbitrajes. No constituye pues un precedente, lo que el propio laudo se encarga de subrayar. Dictado por mayoría de dos votos que dan la razón al Reino de España, que contó con la Comisión Europea como amicus curiae, existe Voto Particular, en el que se afirma la vulneración del principio de confianza legítima. A nuestro juicio, es cuestionable la afirmación de la mayoría de que el planteamiento de una “cuestión de constitucionalidad” o la posible exigencia a través de otro pleito de “responsabilidad patrimonial de la Administración”, sean técnicas suficientes para garantizar y realizar el principio de la Carta de que han de existir remedios suficientes para garantizar las inversiones. Habrá que esperar a futuros laudos para comprobar la bondad definitiva de éste.
EVALUASI KARAKTERISTIK DAN OPTIMASI LAHAN BERDASARKAN KESESUAIAN LAHAN KEBUN BENIH SEMAI GMELINA (Gmelina arborea Roxb.) DAN TISUK (Hibiscus macrophyllus) Roxb. Ex Hornem) HUTAN KIARAPAYUNG, SUMEDANG, JAWA BARAT
Authors: Sunarya Sopandi , Rumidatul Alfi
Published: February 2025

The degradation of forests in Indonesia has resulted in a decrease in the productivity of the land, necessitating the need for the restoration and expansion of forest planting. The primary issue with forest rehabilitation activities is that the characteristics of the growing area are typically marginal and deficient in nutrients. Furthermore, each plant possesses distinct attributes and appropriateness for its specific growing environment. Hence, in order to perform suitable site engineering, it is imperative to undertake land evaluation activities to ascertain the suitability of the land for cultivation and to identify any constraints on the land. The objective of this study is to determine the attributes of the habitat and the factors that restrict the growth of G. arborea and H. macrophyllus seedlings in the Kiarapayung forest. We conducted measurements of soil samples, rainfall, slope, and altitude. The rate analysis identified five suboptimal parameters in the G. arborea seedling seed garden land: slope, soil pH, C-organic, N, P, and K potent. Within the suboptimal category, the H. macrophyllus land is characterized by a single parameter, which is the slope. In order to attain the most favorable plant growth, it is imperative that we enhance the six factors that currently restrict growth on this research land. To enhance the inadequate preservation and accessibility of essential nutrients such as pH, C-organic, N, available P, and potential K, it is recommended to administer lime and fertilizer to the soil.
Psychotherapie am Arbeitsplatz als regulativer Bestandteil des Postfordismus
Authors: Sachsenröder Robin
Published: February 2025

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Ausweitung psychotherapeutischer Interventionen am Arbeitsplatz aus einer regulationstheoretischen Perspektive. Diese Interventionen, wie Resilienzseminare, Stressregulations-Kurse und die Adressierung der Arbeitenden als psychosensible Wesen im Rahmen gesundheitsgerechter Führung, werden als hegemoniale Reaktion auf wachsende psychische Leiden im Arbeitskontext interpretiert. Sie gelten als Teil des postfordistischen Akkumulationsregimes. Die medizinische Prävalenz und diskursive Präsenz psychischer Leiden wird im Kontext der postfordistischen Organisation der Gesellschaft und Subjektivierung gesehen. Psychische Leiden stellen eine Teil-Krise dar, die sowohl emanzipatorisches Potenzial birgt, indem sie Forderungen nach besseren Arbeitsbedingungen fördern kann, als auch ein materielles Problem, da sie die Reproduktion der Arbeitskraft behindern. Psychotherapie unterstützt die Hegemonie des Kapitals, indem sie die Betroffenen wieder arbeitsfähig macht und die gesellschaftlichen Ursachen der Leiden abblendet.
Aircraft Fuselage Design in the Century Ahead
Authors: Koussios Sotiris  , Beukers Adriaan
Published: February 2025

As the development of conventional aircraft has reached a point of saturation, novel configurations are required for coping with increased operational demands for airliners and stringent environmental requirements for the future. In the search for such configurations, old ideas like the Blended wing Body (BWB) seem to readily provide attractive solutions. However, for successful application of the BWB configuration, a major problem must be solved: the design of a rotationally non-symmetric fuselage with a reasonable weight. This paper outlines the search for the optimal fuselage. Beginning with a short historical overview and a presentation of future demands, the concept of multidisciplinary design, together with simple design rules, is enabled for crystallising the optimal anisotropic multi bubble fuselage arrangement.
Hierarchical explanation of inference in Bayesian networks that represent a population of independent agents
Authors: Šutovský Peter  , Cooper Gregory F.
Published: February 2025

This paper describes a novel method for explaining Bayesian network (BN) inference when the network is modeling a population of conditionally independent agents, each of which is modeled as a subnetwork. For example, consider disease-outbreak detection, in which the agents are patients who are modeled as independent, conditioned on the factors that cause disease spread. Given evidence about these patients, such as their symptoms, suppose that the BN system infers that a respiratory anthrax outbreak is highly likely. A public-health official who received such a report would generally want to know why anthrax is being given a high posterior probability. This paper describes the design of a system that explains such inferences. The explanation approach is applicable in general to inference in BNs that model conditionally independent agents; it complements previous approaches for explaining inference on BNs that model a single agent (e.g., explaining the diagnostic inference for a single patient using a BN that models just that patient).
Reducing Bias Effects in DOP Parameter Estimation
Authors: Linardaki Evita
Published: February 2025

Data Oriented Parsing is a natural language processing model that analyses new input based on past experience. The underlying idea is to extract a set of fragment-probability pairs from a given treebank and use these concrete experiences to construct new utterance analyses. Initially, probabilities were based on the fragments' relative frequency of occurrence. This estimator, however, was soon shown to be biased towards large corpus trees [8] and inconsistent [10]. To alleviate the effects of bias on performance a set of heuristic constraints was put in force. Other estimators addressing these issues have since then been proposed. This paper seeks to show that the most commonly used DOP estimators are in fact susceptible to strong size-sensitive bias effects and to present a new estimation algorithm that greatly reduces these effects of bias on performance without complicating the estimation process.
Optimal Coalition Structure Generation In Partition Function Games
Authors: Michalak Tomasz  , Dowell Andrew  , McBurney Peter  , Wooldridge Michael
Published: February 2025

The authors are grateful for financial support received from the UK EP-SRC through the project Market-Based Control of Complex Computational Systems (GR/T10657/01). The authors are also thankful to Jennifer McManus, School of English, University of Liverpool for excellent editorial assistance.
Genetic Optimization of the Multi-Location Transshipment Problem with Limited Storage Capacity
Authors: Belgasmi Nabil  , Ben Saïd Lamjed  , Ghédira Khaled
Published: February 2025

Lateral Transshipments afford a valuable mechanism for compensating unmet demands only with on-hand inventory. In this paper we investigate the case where locations have a limited storage capacity. The problem is to determine how much to replenish each period to minimize the expected global cost while satisfying storage capacity constraints. We propose a Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm (RCGA) with a new crossover operator to approximate the optimal solution. We analyze the impact of different structures of storage capacities on the system behaviour. We find that Transshipments are able to correct the discrepancies between the constrained and the unconstrained locations while ensuring low costs and system-wide inventories. Our genetic algorithm proves its ability to solve instances of the problem with high accuracy.
Content-Based Social Network Analysis
Authors: Velardi Paola  , Navigli Roberto  , Cucchiarelli Alessandro  , Curzi Mirco
Published: February 2025

Relationships among actors in traditional social network analysis are modelled as a function of the quantity of relations (co-authorships, business relations, friendship, etc.). In contrast, within a business, social or research community, network analysts are interested in the communicative content exchanged by the community members, not merely in the number of relationships. In order to meet this need, this paper presents a novel social network model, in which the actors are not simply represented through the intensity of their mutual relationships, but also through the analysis and evolution of their shared interests. Text mining and clustering techniques are used to capture the content of communication and to identify the most popular topics.
An Empirical Investigation of the Adversarial Activity Model
Authors: Zuckerman Inon  , Kraus Sarit  , Rosenschein Jeffrey S.
Published: February 2025

Multiagent research provides an extensive literature on formal Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) based models describing the notions of teamwork and cooperation, but adversarial and competitive relationships have received very little formal BDI treatment. Moreover, one of the main roles of such models is to serve as design guide-lines for the creation of agents, and while there is work illustrating that role in cooperative interaction, there has been no empirical work done to validate competitive BDI models.
The Impact of Constraint Programming
Authors: Van Hentenryck Pascal
Published: February 2025

Constraint programming is a success story for artificial intelligence. It quickly moved from research laboratories to industrial applications and is in daily use to solve complex optimization throughout the world. At the same time, constraint programming continued to evolve, addressing new needs and opportunities. This talk reviews some recent progress in constraint programming, including its hybridization with other optimization approaches, the quest for more autonomous search, and its applications in a variety of nontraditional areas.
A Coherent Well-founded Model for Hybrid MKNF Knowledge Bases
Authors: Knorr Matthias  , Alferes José Júlio  , Hitzler Pascal
Published: February 2025

With the advent of the Semantic Web, the question becomes important how to best combine open-world based ontology languages, like OWL, with closed-world rules paradigms. One of the most mature proposals for this combination is known as Hybrid MKNF knowledge bases [11], which is based on an adaptation of the stable model semantics to knowledge bases consisting of ontology axioms and rules. In this paper, we propose a well-founded semantics for such knowledge bases which promises to provide better efficiency of reasoning, which is compatible both with the OWL-based semantics and the traditional well-founded semantics for logic programs, and which surpasses previous proposals for such a well-founded semantics by avoiding some issues related to inconsistency handling.
Improving Batch Reinforcement Learning Performance through Transfer of Samples
Authors: Lazaric Alessandro  , Restelli Marcello  , Bonarini Andrea
Published: February 2025

The main objective of transfer in reinforcement learning is to reduce the complexity of learning the solution of a target task by effectively reusing the knowledge retained from solving a set of source tasks. One of the main problems is to avoid negative transfer, that is the transfer of knowledge across tasks that are significantly different that may worsen the learning performance. In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm that selectively transfers samples (i.e., tuples ⟨s,a,s′,r⟩) from source to target tasks and that uses them as input for batch reinforcement-learning algorithms. By transferring samples from source tasks that are mostly similar to the target task, we reduce the number of samples actually collected from the target task to learn its solution. We show that the proposed approach is effective in reducing the learning complexity, even when some source tasks are significantly different from the target task.
Evolving Computer Game Playing via Human-Computer Interaction: Machine Learning Tools in the Knowledge Engineering Life-Cycle
Authors: Kalles Dimitris  , Kalantzis Christos
Published: February 2025

In this paper we review our work on the acquisition of game-playing capabilities by a computer, when the only source of knowledge comes from extended self-play and sparsely dispersed human (expert) play. We summarily present experiments that show how a reinforcement learning backbone coupled with neural networks for approximation can indeed serve as a mechanism of the acquisition of game playing skill and we derive game interestingness measures that are inexpensive and straightforward to compute, yet also capture the relative quality of the game playing engine. We draw direct analogues to classical genetic algorithms and we stress that evolutionary development should be coupled with more traditional, expert-designed paths. That way the learning computer is exposed to tutorial games without having to revert to domain knowledge, thus facilitating the knowledge engineering life-cycle.
An Attempt to Use the KEEL Tool to Evaluate Fuzzy Models for Real Estate Appraisal
Authors: Lasota Tadeusz  , Trawiński Bogdan  , Trawiński Krzysztof
Published: February 2025

Fuzzy models to assist with real estate appraisals are described and previous experiments on optimizing them with evolutionary algorithms implemented in MATLAB are summarized. An approach was made to use the KEEL Tool, developed in Java by a group of Spanish research centres, to investigate the models. Five fuzzy models comprising 3 or 4 input variables referring to the attributes of a property were learned and evaluated using six regression algorithms for fuzzy rule based systems implemented in the KEEL Tool. The experiments were conducted using a data set prepared on the basis of actual 134 sales transactions made in one of Polish cities and located in a residential section. The results were encouraging. The KEEL Tool has proved to be very useful and effective research tool, especially thanks to its 10-fold cross validation mechanism and relatively short time of data processing.
Application of Swarm Intelligence in E-Learning Systems
Authors: Kukla Elżbieta
Published: February 2025

E-learning systems are intended to offer their users didactic material tailored to their actual needs, preferences and abilities. This idea is consistent with the general principles of constructivism. Additionally it offers a student great flexibility in organizing his own curriculum and his learning scenario in the scope of particular course. However, it has also some side effects causing that students have many problems with making curriculum adapted to their needs or choosing subsequent course elements while complying the course. Many of e-learning courses designers, teachers and students emphasize the necessity of guidance in effective traversing a “knowledge network”. The chapter presented below explores some of the recent solutions in this subject. They were carefully selected to represent the widest possible range of research concerning the application of swarm intelligence to recommendation in e-learning systems.
Code and Data Propagation on a PC's Multi-Agent System
Authors: Król Dariusz  , Lupa Aleksander
Published: February 2025

We present the concept of code and data propagation on a PC's multi-agent system. First, the idea of the prime numbers problem in distributed environment is defined and explained. Afterwards, the code and data propagation in a multi-agent system is described, which is in many cases based on the object migration. In addition, the experiments are conducted in a heterogeneous environment. The main aim is to find optimal configuration after minimal number of migrations for that platform.
Mechanical Verification of a Two-Way Sliding Window Protocol
Authors: Badban Bahareh  , Fokkink Wan  , van de Pol Jaco
Published: February 2025

We prove the correctness of a two-way sliding window protocol with piggybacking, where the acknowledgements of the latest received data are attached to the next data transmitted back into the channel. The window sizes of both parties are considered to be finite, though they can be different. We show that this protocol is equivalent (branching bisimilar) to a pair of FIFO queues of finite capacities. The protocol is first modeled and manually proved for its correctness in the process algebraic language of μCRL. We use the theorem prover PVS to formalize and mechanically prove the correctness of the protocol. This implies both safety and liveness (under the assumption of fairness).
Designing Animation Facilities for gCSP
Authors: van der Steen Hans T.J.  , Groothuis Marcel A.  , Broenink Jan F.
Published: February 2025

To improve feedback on how concurrent CSP-based programs run, the graphical CSP design tool (gCSP [3,2]) has been extended with animation facilities. The state of processes, constructs, and channel ends are indicated with colours both in the gCSP diagrams and in the composition tree (hierarchical tree showing the structure of the total program). Furthermore, the contents of the channels are also shown. In the Fringe session, we will present and demonstrate this prototype animation facility, being the result of the MSc project of Hans van der Steen [5], and ask for feedback.
Application of Software Mining to Automatic User Interface Generation
Authors: Kennard Richard  , Steele Robert
Published: February 2025

Many software projects spend a significant proportion of their time developing the User interface, so any degree of automation in this area has clear benefits. Research projects to date generally take one of three approaches: interactive graphical specification tools, model-based generation tools, or language-based tools. The first two have proven popular in industry but are labour intensive and error-prone. The third is more automated but has practical problems which limit its usefulness.
A Proposal of Life-Support-Network Architecture for Elderly People Living in Rural Areas
Authors: Sasaki Jun  , Yamada Keizo  , Tanaka Michiru  , Funyu Yutaka
Published: February 2025

In this study, a new concept and architecture for a Life Support Network (LSN) are proposed to support healthy, secure and comfortable lives for elderly people in rural areas. Projects were developed to introduce and evaluate related systems such as a monitoring system for elderly people living alone, as well as a remote healthcare system, which were the main components of the LSN. These projects were carried out in Kawai village, Shiwa town and Tono city in Iwate prefecture. Based on these experiences, this work describes the information obtained and the issues which need to be resolved in the construction of a useful and successful LSN.
Reasoning with Quantified Boolean Formulas
Authors: Giunchiglia Enrico  , Marin Paolo  , Narizzano Massimo
Published: February 2025

The implementation of effective reasoning tools for deciding the satisfiability of Quantified Boolean Formulas(QBFs) is an important research issue in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. Indeed, QBF solvers have already been proposed for many reasoning tasks in knowledge representation and reasoning, in automated planning and in formal methods for computer aided design. Even more, since QBF reasoning is the prototypical PSPACE problem, the reduction of many other decision problems in PSPACE are readily available. For these reasons, in the last few years several decision procedures for QBFs have been proposed and implemented, mostly based either on search or on variable elimination, or on a combination of the two.
Intelligence and Language – How Could Human Being Have Language ?
Authors: Ohsuga Setsuo
Published: February 2025

Origin of language is discussed. Language is a media to represent, process and transfer concepts. Before language has been made human being has only biological system to preserve their lives like the other animals. How was concepts made and language originated from there? In this paper a possibility of language having been originated is discussed.
Coping with ‘Co-Location’: Implementing C2000GMS in the Dutch Police Region ‘Hollands Midden’
Authors: Wagenaar F.P.  , Boersma F.K.  , Groenewegen P.  , Niemantsverdriet P.
Published: February 2025

This chapter is about the introduction and use of the communication tool C2000 and the Integrated Emergency center System (GMS) at the emergency center ‘Hollands Midden’ in the Dutch city of Leiden. ‘Hollands Midden’ is a co-located emergency center that physically houses the police, medical and fire brigades' emergency center personnel at one site. The introduction of these systems at ‘Hollands Midden’ was part of a nationwide introduction of new technologies in emergency centers in the Netherlands. We studied how C2000 and GMS tie the various information elements together in the back office of the emergency center. In addition, we used Giddens' structuration theory to understand how, in the reality of the emergency centers, rules, norms and behavior come into being through the use of the new technologies and how the new technologies are (re)shaped by the actors. What we found is that C2000, once introduced as a promising communication tool, is not (always) used as it was designed to be. And GMS, the system that was supposed to integrate the most important routines of the emergency center, has undergone constant change at ‘Hollands Midden’ as a result of local needs and adaptation. Coping with co-location: Implementing C2000 and GMS in the Dutch police region ‘Hollands Midden’.