bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Underlying Mechanisms of Action to Improve Plant Growth and Fruit Quality in Crops under Alkaline Stress
Authors: Pérez-Labrada Fabián , Luis Espinoza-Acosta José , Bárcenas-Santana Daniel , García-León Elizabeth , Carmen López-Pérez Mari
Published: April 2024

The high content of carbonates (CO32−), bicarbonate (HCO3−), and high pH (>7.5) causes environmental pressure and alkaline stress, impairs plant growth and development, and limits fruit quality by causing osmotic alterations and hindering nutrient absorption. Because of alkaline stress, plants are in an oxidative environment that alters their metabolic processes, impairing their growth, development, and fruit quality. In response to this situation, plants use several mechanisms to cope, including the alteration of osmolytes, induction of transcription factors, signal transduction, hormone synthesis, alteration of the antioxidant system, and differential gene expression. Current knowledge and understanding of the underlying mechanisms that promote alkalinity tolerance in crops may lead to new production strategies to improve crop quality under these conditions, while ensuring food security.
Customer Relationship Management in New Business Models
Authors: Röser Marcel
Published: April 2024

Customer relationship management is essential because companies are customer-centric, especially in new business models. In some sectors, each individual customer can determine the company’s success in a significant extent. A well-founded decision-making process reduces the number of critical situations, particularly in volatile markets. Furthermore, a trustful customer relationship has several advantages, for example, reduced transaction costs with less information asymmetries. A forward-looking customer relationship management anticipate relevant factors at an earlier stage in the decision-making process. New business models require a more precise customer and accompanying risk analysis, which allows an effective view of the customer’s life cycles. In this context, an innovative management accounting approach for customer relationships is necessary. The managerial implications derived from such processes crucially hinge among other things on the risk assessment. Consequently, this article presents a systematic customer-oriented calculation approach to evaluate customer relationships in new business models. Considering the multifactorial perspective, simulation techniques are a useful approach to solve sophisticated decision situations for shaping customer relationships. The introduced approach can be transferred to other sectors with important customer-centric relationships.
Unveiling Critical Thinking: Instructional Strategies to Enhance Argumentation
Authors: Lozano Diana
Published: April 2024

Argumentative writing serves as a stage where students showcase their critical thinking, a skill they already possess and have cultivated throughout their lives. However, it is argued that learners need instances within the classroom to activate this thinking, enriching it under the guidance of their teachers. It is the teacher who shapes and adapts the pedagogical environment, enabling students to respond naturally and spontaneously to meet class objectives. In the upcoming chapter, the implementation of a didactic sequence designed to enhance the argumentation skills of Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) students. This approach provided opportunities for students to, through reading and writing, interpret situations, analyze messages, evaluate options, infer conclusions, take positions, and explain them, actively monitoring their argumentation and writing process. This strategy embodies active learning in an environment facilitated by the teacher, where students forge their critical thinking.
Face-off Droop: A Case Report of Pediatric Stroke
Authors: Robertson Duncan , Peirce Hayden F. , Nicpon Marek D. , Otterson Eric M. , O'Connor Laurel , Rissmiller Julia G. , Binder Zachary W.
Published: April 2024

Introduction: Cerebrovascular accidents rarely occur in children; the incidence of ischemic stroke in patients <16 years of age is between 0.6–7.9/100,000. However, they are the fourth most common cause of acute neurological deﬁcits in the pediatric population, and possible cases should be evaluated with a high index of suspicion to ensure timely intervention. Case Report: We describe a previously healthy 17-year-old male who presented to the pediatric emergency department with a left facial droop and hemiparesis consistent with a stroke. The patient’s age and lack of comorbidities made this an extremely uncommon presentation. Our patient’s neurologic symptoms were believed to have been caused by a recent traumatic clavicular injury sustained two weeks prior, which subsequently led to vascular insult. Conclusion: Cerebrovascular accidents are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in pediatric patients. Cerebrovascular accidents in children are most often secondary to congenital causes; however, care should be taken to assess for acquired causes, such as trauma to major blood vessels. While rarely implicated in traumatic injuries, arterial structures posterior to the medial clavicle can result in severe complications.
Empowering Recovery: Knowledge, Attitude, and Experience among the Physiotherapy Fraternity for Long COVID Rehabilitation: A Cross-sectional Study
Authors: Saeed Alshaali Amal , Muthukrishnan Ramprasad , Arulsingh D.R Watson , Alnuaimi Nada
Published: April 2024

Background: Physiotherapy plays a crucial role in the rehabilitation of long COVID. Objectives: This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of the physiotherapy community in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) regarding the management of long-term COVID-19. Methods: Conducted as a cross-sectional study utilizing convenient sampling through an online survey, it involved physiotherapists and physiotherapy students throughout the United Arab Emirates, achieving a response rate of 434 (93.13%). Results: Fatigue (76%) and shortness of breath (56.2%) were the most commonly reported symptoms, with the Generic PROMIS (51.6%) and Post-COVID-19 Functional Status Scale (41.7%) being the most utilized outcome tools. Sixty-eight percent of participants felt confident in differentiating between COVID-19 complications and long COVID symptoms, whereas 18.7% were unsure, and 13% admitted difficulty in differentiation. The approaches reported for managing long COVID included graded exercise, symptom-titrated physical activity, and pacing exercise principles (63.21%, 37.79%, and 31.8%, respectively), alongside exercise capacity tests like the 1-minute sit-to-stand and 10MWT (71.9%) for screening and recommending physical activity. A significant majority (87.3%) expressed a desire for more information on long COVID rehabilitation, and 87.8% showed interest in specialized training. However, gaps were identified in screening and prescribing exercise or physical activity for long-term COVID-19 rehabilitation. Conclusions: There is a need for regular updates on long-term COVID science and education, emphasizing the spectrum of long-term COVID symptoms versus emerging complications, and skill training in advanced respiratory physiotherapy care or exercise training specifically for long-term COVID. This will aid in integrating recent clinical practice guidelines more effectively.
La perspectiva de género en la justicia penal colombiana: un análisis desde las personas de la comunidad lgbtiq+
Authors: Arenas Blanco Bernardo Esteban
Published: April 2024

En las decisiones de la Sala de Casación Penal de la Corte Suprema de Justicia se evidencia que dicho órgano ha adoptado una interpretación restrictiva de la perspectiva de género, pues es entendida por dicha corporación como un instrumento que permite investigar, juzgar y erradicar la violencia o discriminación de género en contra de la mujer cuando acude al proceso penal ya sea como víctima o como procesada. Sin embargo, con base en los parámetros estipulados por el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos y por la Corte Constitucional de Colombia, la perspectiva de género es un mandato constitucional y supraconstitucional que debe ser aplicado por los operadores judiciales cuando se está frente a un caso de violencia por prejuicio en contra de las personas de la comunidad LGBTIQ+, empero con reglas diferentes debido a que se trata de dos grupos poblacionales diversos.
La agonía del sexo como categoría jurídica.
Authors: Fiorita Laura
Published: April 2024

Este artículo analiza la legislación que reconoce la identidad de género autopercibida poniéndola en tensión con la regulación registral a través de la cual se inserta el dato sexo genérico en los documentos de identidad.  De este modo, se cuestiona el accionar estatal en la manutención del sexo biológico como una categoría sagrada. Para ello, se utiliza el marco teórico proveniente de la Teoría queer y se abordan las experiencias del colectivo LGTBIQ+ en relación al tema. Por último se analizarán dos propuestas superadoras. Por un lado, la implementación de un catálogo abierto de identidades a consignar en los documentos de identificación. Por el otro la abolición del sexo como categoría jurídica.
Políticas públicas y el trabajo de cuidados en Puerto Rico
Authors: Vicente Esther , González Báez Marilucy , Otón Olivieri Patricia , Reyes Gil Yanira
Published: April 2024

Este escrito trata sobre las políticas públicas y el trabajo de cuidados en Puerto Rico. Plantea que el trabajo de cuidados es esencial en las sociedades contemporáneas y se provee primordialmente por las mujeres y las niñas, sin compensación o mediante paga inadecuada. Presenta una mirada interseccional sobre el impacto del trabajo de cuidados que da cuenta de las diferencias no solo entre los hombres y las mujeres, sino también de las que existen entre las personas de diversas edades, clases sociales, razas, etnias, orientaciones sexuales, identidades de género, diversidad funcional y estatus migratorio, entre otras. Demuestra que la atención adecuada del derecho al cuidado y de los servicios que amerita requiere que el Estado provea soluciones a las necesidades de quienes requieren cuidados y a quienes lo proveen en diversos ámbitos: la infraestructura, los servicios sociales y prestaciones sociales, los apoyos que proveen los lugares de trabajo a las personas quienes aparte de trabajar proveen cuidados y las condiciones laborales, las normativas y las protecciones aplicables al trabajo de cuidados remunerado. Este trabajo analiza si existen o no las políticas necesarias para cumplir la responsabilidad estatal sobre el derecho y el servicio de cuidados y si las que existen se implementan de manera adecuada y cabal. Tras una investigación cuantitativa mediante el uso de una Tabla de Puntuación provista por Oxfam[1] y de conducir investigación cualitativa mediante grupos focales con personas cuidadoras y defensoras de los derechos de las mujeres, así como entrevistas semiestructuradas con cuatro personas expertas en los temas trabados, se concluye que en Puerto Rico no hay carencia de políticas públicas. Los problemas principales que enfrenta el país con referencia al trabajo de cuidados son que las políticas existentes no reconocen, valoran, compensan o están dirigidas a redistribuir el trabajo de cuidados que todavía recae mayormente en las mujeres. Las políticas públicas no incluyen, en general, al trabajo de cuidados no remunerado o el trabajo de cuidados remunerado en el sector informal.
Enfoque de género, mitos de violación y procesos por delitos sexuales
Authors: Correa Flórez María Camila , Garcia Prada María José
Published: April 2024

Se realiza un análisis de la sentencia a la luz de la idea de enfoque de género en decisiones judiciales y los conceptos de mitos de violación.
The use of short prison sentences in England and Wales
Authors:   Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), UK Parliament, Mutebi Natasha
Published: April 2024

This POSTbrief summarises the most recent and relevant evidence on the use and effectiveness of short prison sentences. It outlines the key trends, alternative sentencing options and wider considerations.
Corruption Models of Behaviour in the Structure of the Political System of Society
Authors: Kuz Oleh , Konnova Nina , Korotkov Dmytro ,   Polish Academy of Sciences
Published: April 2024

The phenomenon of corruption as a type of crime is immanently inherent in social and political reality. Sociality as a trans-societal universal form of human community is the environment in which corruption ties are born and function. The socio-political structure is organized as a collective effort, on the one hand, it overcomes disintegration, and on the other, it generates corrupt behaviour patterns. Corruption models of behaviour have an extremely wide scale of distribution and are characterized by active institutional expansion into various spheres and institutions of modern society, they feed business relations and administrative activities, covering huge masses of the population. In this sense, their study is extremely important and relevant.
Trust and Loyalty as Universal Ethics in Global Business of Governance
Authors: Elechi Maraizu ,   Polish Academy of Sciences
Published: April 2024

Trust and loyalty are universal human needs for moral knowledge, healthy relationships and good governance. They are core universal ethical values and virtues that enable people to relate freely under any sentient socio-political milieu. Public trust and loyalty in governments and in leaders across the globe is drastically declining with rising sense of hopelessness and lack of confidence that make citizens yearn for change. Meanwhile, some scholars have argued that distrust and disloyalty are as valuable as their contraries, especially when justified. Justifiably, one can be protected from harm and actions that could have negative effects on his reputations and self-respect, with inherent socio-political benefits and roles to good governance and the development of society. The point is that the reasons we have to trust and show loyalty are as valuable as the reasons we have to distrust and show disloyalty to someone or government. This means that trust and loyalty can either be withdrawn or betrayed. However, as valid as this sounds, the main thrust of this paper is that it is virtuous to trust and show loyalty until one finds valuable reason to withdraw or betray such trust or loyalty. Analytically, the paper concludes that genuine trust and loyalty promote common good in the global business of governance.
Ethical Implications of Discriminatory Economic Policies of the Nigerian Government
Authors: Oparah Thaddeus A. , Akpa Ejike ,   Polish Academy of Sciences
Published: April 2024

Ideally, the government of any nation is in a contract with the citizens for protection of life, property and freedom while the citizens are obliged to obey government laws. Moreso, the government is to discharge her duties without discriminating against any person or group. In Nigeria there are economic and administrative policies that discriminate against the Igbo nation resulting in dire consequences. Since economic policies make or mar the wellbeing of citizens especially in business, the need for fairness, equity, and justice in the formulation and execution of policies is unquestionable. The Igbo of South East Nigeria, who are very active in business and entrepreneurship, suffer untold disadvantages and massive economic losses due to the lopsided and discriminatory economic policies churned out by successive Nigerian governments. Here we examine and argue against such policies based on their ethical implications and effects on individual and national development.
Artificial Intelligence and Cybercrime in Nigeria
Authors: Kanu Ikechukwu A. , Adidi Dokpesi T. , Kanu Catherine C. ,   Polish Academy of Sciences
Published: April 2024

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has brought about significant positive changes across various sectors. However, it has also created new opportunities for cybercrime. Nigeria, in particular, has witnessed a surge in cybercriminal activities, which have had severe economic and social consequences. The paper explored the relationship between AI, cybercrime, and the underground business economy in Nigeria, focusing on the rise of fraud, identity theft, and hacking. It discussed the ethical implications of AI, cybercrime, and the underground business economy, highlighting potential risks to privacy, security, and social trust, while emphasizing the ethical responsibilities of AI developers, policymakers, and stakeholders in mitigating these risks and promoting responsible AI use. The Igwebuike ethical theoretical framework was employed for the evaluation of cybercrime, and the thematic and analytical methods of inquiry were used. The paper submits that there is need for an ethical response to the challenges posed by cybercrime in Nigeria.
Virtue Ethics Theory in the Market Place
Authors: Ibe Anthony Chiwuba ,   Polish Academy of Sciences
Published: April 2024

Buying and selling are the most natural activities common to human beings. In a society where profit overrides personal dignity and human rights, many people see market as a virtue-free zone. They do not believe that one can buy and sell without dishonest gains. Consequently, they are ready to do anything in the name of business: manufacturing and selling fake and substandard goods and services for originals. Today, markets are flooded with fake medical drugs, fake foods, fake drinks/water, fake motor parts and fake building materials. Thus market exhibits exploitative and negative impacts on customer satisfaction. Its impact on human life and property leads to increased deaths because of poisoning, building collapses and even increased road accidents. Such market transaction lacks mutual benefit which is its telos. This paper seeks to establish that market is not a virtue-free zone. It has moral standards of excellence internal to it.
Comparative study of print quality attributes on bio-based biodegradable plastic using flexography and gravure printing process
Authors: Kumar Pankaj , Pandey Ambrish , Anayath Rajendrakumar
Published: April 2024

Printing has revolutionized not only the religious and educational world by providing printing on paper but also the commercial world by providing end-to-end solutions for packaging by printing on materials like plastics. Print quality refers to level of details and sharpness of printed products for wider acceptability. Print quality has an important role in maintaining consistency during printing on selected surfaces to provide desired satisfaction. Printability and runnability of substrates, substrate surface characteristics, and printing ink properties are attributes of print quality and are considered important for determining good quality printing. Solid ink density (SID), Hue error, grayness and ink trapping are some of the important measurable printability factors that play an important role in determining the print quality irrespective of substrates. Gravure printing and flexography printing are high-speed printing suitable for printing on flexible substrates so, attempts were made for explore the mutual compatibilities of new-generation printing substrates with established printing processes, which will prove to be a boon in the future by replacing conventional plastics with bio-based biodegradable plastics in printing for packaging and its other applications. So, multi-color printing on selected bio-based biodegradable plastics were explored for determining printability by measuring and maintaining print quality attributes during print runs.
Machine learning classifiers to predict the quality of semantic web queries
Authors: Ramalingam Gomathi , S Logeswari , Kumar M. D. , Prabakaran Manjula , Nishant Neerav , Ahmed Syed A.
Published: April 2024

In this research, a classification framework to automatically identify well and poorly designed SPARQL queries is proposed. Evaluating SPARQL queries becomes a difficult challenging issue because of the query design and the volume of data to be handled. The proposed context applies various machine learning algorithms including decision trees, k nearest neighbours, support vector machine, and naive Bayes. In addition, two different feature extraction techniques called TFIDF measure and count vectorizer are measured to identify the key features. The experimental results show that the four machine learning classifiers applied are able to classify the SPARQL queries into three categories like well, accepted, and poorly designed queries. It also provides hopeful results with respect to recall, precision, and F1-score. In datasets used for experimentation, it was found that the decision trees classifier outperforms well compared to other classifiers by achieving 92% in terms of F1-measure. Also, the count vectorizer performs well in measuring the TFIDF property to predict the poorly designed queries.
Enhancing security of cloud using static IP techniques
Authors: Aslam J. M. , Kumar K. M.
Published: April 2024

The user authentication and access control procedures for data stored on a cloud server encountered numerous security risks and concerns. Because critical company data should only be accessible by authorized workers, enhancing cloud security with static IP approaches is more beneficial. Even though the cloud providers maintain many security mechanisms, still the level of security should be raised by them due to lot of intruders who want to break their security mechanism. An encryption method is frequently used in most servers’ security mechanisms. In this security mechanism, data in the cloud server may be stolen and misused. Security mechanisms using static IP addresses are another method for data security in cloud security. This paper explains that the static IP address security mechanism is better and more goal-oriented than that of earlier security systems.
Session password Blum–Goldwasser cryptography based user three layer authentication for secured financial transaction
Authors: Ruba N. , Khadir A. S. A.
Published: April 2024

Cloud computing is an eminent and evolving technology that offers various services such as data transaction, authentication, distribution and so on. In this article, session password Blum–Goldwasser Cryptography based user authentication (SPBGCUA) method is proposed to enhance the communication security of cloud services with minimum overhead. Moreover, SPBGCUA is a cryptographic technique that provides secured authentication mechanism for financial transaction with higher confidentiality rate. In order to fill the security lack of recent authentication techniques, this method develops dynamic security structure with key generation, encryption, authentication and decryption techniques. Finally, analysis is performed using SPBGCUA Method on factors such as authentication accuracy, data confidentiality rate and data integrity for number of financial data and cloud users.
Social media’s detrimental outcomes on personal relationships
Authors: Chakravorty Urmi Chakravorty
Published: April 2024

Social media is a platform to connect with people around the globe in just one click. It helps one share ideas and knowledge discuss, and socialize online with loved ones. Access to the virtual world is at the fingertips of websites, gadgets, and mobile phones. Social media transforms people and their behavior with their families, friends, and peers. Like every coin has two sides, social media has some positive features, such as networking, building public relations, and staying connected worldwide. On the negative side, social media is also laden with some major destructive components, and one of them is how it affects personal human relationships. Social media has reduced various social skills among people. What a paradox! Isn’t it? It is very well stated how trust and companionship go hand in hand; there are various reasons for a broken relationship or where it fails even after its rock-solid span. Media comes in many forms, but we discuss social media and the major chaos that has ruined many lives. In this digital era where everything is so shallow and everyone is so materialistic, social networking is enormously important in aggravating it or adding more salt to the burns. This paper is written after a brief online questionnaire survey conducted in two different age groups: 18 to 30 and 35 to 52. The results very well matched our hypothesis and gave outstanding results. This research discusses the correlation between web dependency, expectations in relationships and the impact of screens in today’s life and how it is majorly creating a plethora of doubts and expectations from each other in relationships.
Social work students’ views on competencies in human resources
Authors: Kshatriya Neha R. , Nair Preeti
Published: April 2024

The professionalism of human resources (HR) is given a lot of consideration when it comes to individual competency. This essay aims to close the gap between students’ perceived and actual competencies and what they believe they will learn and acquire while in school. Our paper aims to: a) introduce competencies generally, b) define the meaning of competencies development in higher education; and c) outline the function of competencies in human resource management. This paper aims to investigate students’ human resource competencies and their assessments of the competencies they have already acquired during their studies. Full-time fourth-semester students at the Parul University Faculty of Social Work were given the questionnaire in a way that represented all years of study. We have polled students on how they currently and in the future see professional competencies in the HR industry. Results based on the self-assessment and need for education and training of 15 HR competencies. The research study underscores the importance of acquiring and developing HR competencies during university education, with findings suggesting that students, as future HR professionals, recognize the value of continuous learning. As students progress through their studies, their confidence in the study program’s efficacy in fostering HR competencies tends to increase.
On highly technological tactical operation ‘on-site inspection’
Authors: Костюченко О.Г.
Published: April 2024

В статье уточняется понятие тактической операции, приведены дефиниции высокотехнологичных средств в криминалистике и высокотехнологичной тактической операции. Анализируются понятия места происшествия и осмотра места происшествия, рассмотрена классификация технико-криминалистических средств при осмотре места происшествия.

In the paper the author specifies the notion of tactical operation, gives definitions of high-tech forensic tools and a high-tech tactical operation. The author analyzes the notion of scene of action and onsite inspection, the author also considers the classification of technical forensic tools used for ‘on-site inspection’.
Perspectiva ética y agenda pendiente en la migración y transmigración en México
Authors: Romero-Zepeda Hilda
Published: April 2024

The risk that the promise offered by the destination means for the migrant and the transmigrant seems to be the result of the sum of multiple poverty and the context in the place of origin, to achieve the dream of migration is signified. This has a broad ethical question in the complexity of the migratory phenomenon, which omits human rights and exposes the lack of network and social solidarity. Additionally, the pending agenda with a gender perspective of settlers, migrants, and transmigrants, shows the highly vulnerable condition violated by a tradition that means migration, where there is a highrisk of those who leave, and forces the assumption of a new character of the care of the land, the family, and the culture by the intimate couple, but without the tenure, nor the recognition, nor the training for it. The need for strategic public policies in the face of a Latin American reality is raised with the need for a legal structure that is not a dead letter in the treatment of migrants and transmigrants as an obligation of the State and expression of social human sensitivity. This document reviews with an ethical perspective the need to argue the human condition and the migratory processes that originate as a human right for the search for minimum conditions for the construction of the person; the precarious conditions that the migrant lives both in their mobility and in their transmigratory process, and therefore the risk of perceiving them without human value from their citizen condition. Likewise, it is intended to make visible from a gender perspective, the risks that are generated in the migratory process, of the one who leaves, of the one who stays, of the violence that is experienced, and of the roles lived by women in the care of children, the elderly and property in the place of origin, or the risk of sexual abuse in the immigration process.
Principios bioéticos por asumir en el proceso formativo de estudiantes durante y posterior a enfermar por covid-19
Authors: Rojas Reséndiz Andrea Liliana , Romero-Zepeda Hilda
Published: April 2024

The SARS-COV-2 virus came to transform the life of society in more than two hundred countries on five continents in the world. This virus demonstrated various nodal points in the vulnerability of societies and brought with it problems that humanity itself is still learning to solve as it tries to recover from socioeconomic and health damages. This work shows an ethnographic study that was carried out in order to understand the problems faced by students of upper secondary and higher education in Mexico, who have fallen ill with covid-19 but have had to continue their activities in their educational institutions, to analyze the errors made in the uncertainty of the institutional action in the face of the pandemic in a country with a medium and low income, and with it, under access to the emerging vaccination program; and the need to continue disciplinary training activities to maintain educational quality. It isexpected to understand how to support students in these situations, from an ethical perspective of principles.
Inteligencia territorial y protocolos comunitarios bioculturales como mecanismos que permiten la deliberación ética y bioética en las intervenciones territoriales
Authors: Castañeda Ruiz Hugo Nelson , Herrera Mejía Jhonny Alexander , Muñoz Zapata Mauricio
Published: April 2024

We reflect on the need for territorial intervention methodologies that allow for community participation and include criteria for the protection of life, autonomy and traditional knowledge, among others. Without these mechanisms, practices such as: exploitation of resources and knowledge without communityconsent, homicide of social leaders, forced displacement of communities and contamination, among others, which are common in Colombia and other countries when interventions are carried out in the territories, will continue to be perpetuated. Two methodologies that allow community empowerment and direct participation in projects are given as examples: biocultural community protocols and territorial intelligence, whose strengths are centered on a territorial reading from the complexity and processes of dialogue and deliberation between actors and agents that allow the adoption of ethical and bioethical criteria applied to territorial management. Their weaknesses are: the scarce knowledge of agents and actors in some countries that do not allow a better adoption and the pace of intervention that may not coincide with the time and costs required by the agents, which would lead to inadequate practices that blur these mechanisms.
Governança participativa na definição da estratégia de adaptação futura do litoral de Ovar
Authors: Lima Márcia , Alves Filipe , Matos Fábio , Vizinho André , Coelho Carlos
Published: April 2024

O projeto INCCA (http://incca.web.ua.pt/) teve por objetivo promover uma abordagem que integra a adaptação às alterações climáticas e a mitigação da erosão costeira em perspetivas de curto, médio e longo-prazo. A adaptação e mitigação deve considerar as dimensões social, ambiental, económica e técnica de engenharia, para apoiar os órgãos de decisão a conceber planos de ação para implementação de estratégias de adaptação às alterações climáticas, sustentáveis e duradouras. Trata-se de um projeto com uma forte componente participativa, que envolveu as populações locais e stakeholders através da realização de workshops de forma a desenvolver um modelo participativo e económico, contribuindo para a redução da vulnerabilidade dos territórios costeiros e aumentando a resiliência das comunidades locais. O litoral de Ovar inclui uma das zonas costeiras com maior vulnerabilidade e risco do litoral português, tendo sido por isso, o caso de estudo selecionado para o projeto INCCA. Este trabalho apresenta uma das componentes do projeto INCCA, cujo objetivo principal consistiu na definição de uma estratégia de adaptação costeira que integra perspetivas de curto, médio e longo prazo para o litoral do concelho de Ovar, baseando-se nos resultados de workshops participativos locais. Esta componente deu resposta a dois dos principais objetivos do projeto INCCA: 1) envolver as populações locais e stakeholders de forma a desenvolver um modelo participativo e económico; e 2) reduzir a vulnerabilidade dos territórios costeiros e aumentar a resiliência das comunidades locais. Foram realizados três workshops participativos, onde foi avaliado um leque abrangente de medidas de mitigação e adaptação à erosão costeira e às alterações climáticas. Num último momento, convergiu-se para uma visão comum e partilhada pelos diferentes intervenientes, traduzida no caminho de adaptação que representa uma combinação de diferentes medidas que contribuem para a definição da estratégia de gestão costeira no Concelho de Ovar. Este trabalho demonstrou como, através de métodos participativos, foi possível envolver diversos atores de diferentes setores, nos processos fundamentais de definição de estratégias de gestão costeira e tomada de decisão. O uso de metodologias participativas no projeto INCCA foi tanto um meio como um fim em si mesmo, contribuindo para cultivar uma cultura de democracia participativa, essencial para a cocriação de soluções para um futuro de consenso.
Challenges and Obstacles in the Standardization and Harmonization of Fatwa in Islamic Finance Industry and Way Forward
Authors: Devi Abrista , Hamid Baharom Abdul
Published: April 2024

The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential benefit, challenge and obstacles in the standardization and harmonization of fatwa in Islamic finance industry. This paper is also intended to formulate strategies to release the standardization and harmonization of fatwa. This study employs qualitative approach and reviews literatures that are relevant to the research objective. The finding indicates that the potential benefit of harmonization of fatwa are efficient and manageable regulation and control, IFIs will have a set of reporting and guideline standards, contribute to IFIs’s growth, enhance public and IFI’s confidence, and lead to greater transparency. Meanwhile, the challenges to harmonize the fatwa can be divided into four main problems, technical, governance, human resource, and regulation. Technical problems comprise difference of opinion in ijtihad and fatwas, the absence of consensus (ijma’), and national cultural specificities. Governance consist of international fatwa bodies are only followed by selected member countries, difference in sharia compliance governance model among countries, and difference level of Islamic finance industry growth among countries. Human resource involves lack of inclusivity, lack of professionals, personal/group interest. Finally, regulation be made up of lack of support from regulators, enforcement problem, and lack of legal system. This study also purposes some important strategies to release the standardization of fatwa and some recommendations for future studies.
AKTİVİZMDEN İDEOLOJİYE YA DA İDEOLOJİDEN AKTİVİZME: TARİHSEL SÜRECİ VE KIRILMALARIYLA FEMİNİZM
Authors: Bahadır Merve
Published: April 2024

18. yüzyıldan başlayarak özellikle Aydınlanma sonrasında kadınların toplumsal hayattan dışlanmasına karşı bir mücadele alanına işaret eden feminizm bu yönüyle hem bir ideolojiyi hem de bir aktivizmi ifade etmektedir. 19. yüzyılın başlarından itibaren erkeklerle eşit koşullara sahip olmak için siyasi, sosyal, ekonomik, hukuki ve idari pek çok alanda güçlenen feminizm, tarihsel gelişim süreci içerisinde kendini oluştururken, farklı düşüncelerden, kuram ve ideolojilerden de etkilenmiştir. Bunun yanında kadın erkek eşitliğini sağlamaya yönelik yöntemlerde değişiklik yaşanması, feminizmin içerisinde farklı gelenekleri ortaya çıkarmıştır. Fakat bakış açılarının farklılık göstermesine rağmen bazı ortak konular hakkında da hemfikir olmuşlardır. Bu çalışmada feminizm, ideolojik açıdan analiz edilmiş, feminizmin farklı gelenekleri ortak konular etrafında açıklanarak bütüncül bir perspektifle ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır. Metin bu anlamda feminizmin temel kavramlarını ve tarihsel süreçteki kırılmalarını ortaya koymayı amaçlamakta ve bunu yaparken de yöntem olarak literatür taraması ile ideolojinin kendi içerisindeki kırılmalar ekseninde de karşılaştırmalı analizden yer yer faydalanmaktadır.
COSMIC: a UK Active Debris Removal Mission
Authors:   Astroscale UK, Stuck J , Mckenna E , Godfrey A , Dignam A , Facchini L , Forshaw J , Wokes S , Forte D , Kay S
Published: April 2024

In recent years, the escalation of space activities has led to an alarming surge in space debris within low Earth orbit (LEO). This paper addresses the pressing need for Active Debris Removal (ADR), a two-pronged strategy to stabilize space debris: maintaining shorter satellite lifetimes and actively removing defunct satellites. In 2022, the UK Space Agency issued funding to explore the launch of a 2026 mission to remove uncooperative debris in LEO. Astroscale’s COSMIC (Cleaning Outer Space Mission through Innovative Capture) mission has been conceived to meet this challenge. Leveraging Astroscale’s expertise and heritage from the ELSA-M mission, which is designed for magnetically capturing prepared clients, COSMIC advances the field of ADR by transitioning from magnetic capture to robotic capture, enabling the removal of unprepared and uncooperative debris. This paper explores the development of COSMIC and its mission to pioneer institutionally funded debris removal with robotic capture, representing a significant milestone in ADR and the broader realm of space exploration. Keywords: Active Debris Removal, In-orbit Servicing, Rendezvous Proximity Operations, Spacecraft Detumbling, Robotic Capture
On the interplay of cognitive, tactile, and computational approaches to number theory in teacher education
Authors: Abramovich Sergei
Published: April 2024

This paper focuses on topics from elementary number theory used by the author in the mathematical preparation of K-12 teacher candidates by juxtaposing concrete materials, digital technology, and formal reasoning. The topics include triangular numbers, their connection to trapezoidal numbers, and their extension to other figurate numbers. The paper shows how problem solving may be based on the integration of modern-day approaches to mathematics supported by the creation of images, their numeric interpretation, followed by algebraic generalization, and computational verification of general statements in symbolic form. Digital tools used in the paper include spreadsheets, Wolfram Alpha, and Maple. Solicited comments by teacher candidates about their use of digital tools are shared.
The effect of e-learning-assisted instruction on students’ achievement in chemistry
Authors: Nnoli Juliana Nkiru , Onwudinjo Felicity Uju
Published: April 2024

This study investigates the impact of e-learning on students’ achievement in chemistry, guided by three research questions and one hypothesis. Using a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design with a non-randomized control group, 21 Senior Secondary School Two (SS2) chemistry students from four coeducational schools in Nnewi North were randomly selected. Data collection involved a Chemistry Achievement Test (CAT) sourced from WAEC past questions, a Computer Assisted Instructional Package (CAIP), YouTube, and the Chemistry Performance Test (CHEMPET). Instrument reliability, verified through Cronbach alpha procedures, yielded a value of 0.83. Analysis of the data, employing mean, standard deviations, and a significance level of 0.05 in the t-test for the hypothesis, revealed that students using e-learning performed better on post-tests and knowledge retention exams. Notably, female students outperformed males in e-learning-supported teaching. The study underscores the significant difference in performance between male and female pupils exposed to e-learning. Recommendations emphasize the importance of supporting educational computer programs like e-learning for effective teaching and learning of chemistry, calling on curriculum designers, policymakers, and educators to integrate such practical approaches.
Triggering factors affecting primary school children in Lebanon: A pilot cross-sectional study
Authors: Ghanem Diana , Tarhini Sarah , Manana Marwa , Awada Sanaa , Assi Roula Bou , El-Kak Assem , Hatem Georges
Published: April 2024

Purpose: Academic pressures, the fear of failure, social expectations, and high expectations from parents or teachers can all contribute to performance-related stress or anxiety in children. This study aims to assess the triggers encountered by primary schoolchildren and examine the interrelatedness between them and the characteristics of the students. Methods: A pilot cross-sectional study targeted primary school children over two months. Two pharmacists and a psychologist collected data using a standardized survey. Students were asked to assess their social (10 statements), behavioral (10 statements), environmental (10 statements), and academic (16 statements) triggers. Results: Environmental triggers had the highest score (4.92 (1.92)), followed by behavioral triggers (4.21 (1.70)). Social triggers were the least reported (3.52 (1.59)). After adjusting for covariates, age, sex, and grade did not affect the academic triggers of the students (p > 0.05), while having divorced or separated parents significantly increased these triggers (B = 0.22; p = 0.025). The social triggers and stressors significantly decreased (B = −0.28; p = 0.003) per grade increase. In contrast, having divorced parents significantly increased these scores (B = 0.21; p = 0.025). Environmental triggers significantly decreased per increase of one year in age (B = −0.23; p = 0.013), with the same pattern observed for the overall trigger scores (B = −0.28; p = 0.003). Conclusion: Promoting open communication, creating an inclusive environment, establishing achievable academic goals, and regular follow-up with students can be effective strategies to reduce school triggers among those at high risk.
Assessment for employability: Is synoptic assessment the answer?
Authors: Johnston Alan , Johnston Lyn
Published: April 2024

The production of job-ready graduates remains one of the key requests of the business community. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the importance of assessment in developing employability skills and in making graduates more employable. One criticism often levied at higher education institutions is that students understand ideas in subject context but cannot transfer that knowledge into a holistic business context. As such, they have silo ‘mentality’; to be successful in the modern complex working and business environment, they need to understand and command multiplicity. As a conceptual paper, this article seeks to discuss the importance and relevance of assessment and its links to employability. The paper provides a case for the inclusion of synoptic assessment as a tool for developing and demonstrating employability skills. The article emphasises the importance of employability and surrounding issues. The paper provides originality through linking the concepts of education and assessment with the end goals of job readiness and employability. This paper argues for a new approach to assessment that is employability-driven.
Tendencias en publicaciones sobre Modelos teóricos metacognitivos y competencias científicas
Authors: Oblitas Silva Angel Edwin
Published: April 2024

Este artículo aborda la evolución y creciente importancia de mejorar las competencias científicas, centrándose en modelos teóricos metacognitivos. El objetivo de la investigación fue analizar las tendencias en las publicaciones relacionadas con modelos teóricos metacognitivos y competencias científicas en estudiantes. La metodología incluyó la búsqueda exhaustiva en la base de datos Scopus, utilizando palabras clave como "Modelo teórico metacognitivo" y "Competencias científicas", abarcando el período de enero de 1991 a diciembre de 2023. Se utilizaron herramientas como Datawrapper, Bibliometrix y VOSviewer para el análisis bibliométrico. Los resultados revelaron una tendencia ascendente en la producción científica, con un notable aumento en 2023. La colaboración internacional, la diversidad temática y la influencia de autores destacados fueron aspectos destacados. Revistas líderes, instituciones prominentes y fuentes de financiamiento significativas también se identificaron. El análisis cuantitativo demostró una predominancia de artículos sobre libros, indicando preferencias actuales en la difusión de conocimiento. Este estudio no solo llena un vacío de conocimiento desde una perspectiva bibliométrica, sino que también proporciona una base sólida para diseñar estrategias educativas efectivas y orientar futuras investigaciones en este ámbito poco explorado.
MODELS OF CONTEPMPORARY GEODYNAMIC PROCESSES ON THE RIM OF THE SARAJEVO DEPRESSION
Authors: Goljanin Aco , Demirović Amel , Žiko Maida
Published: April 2024

The rim of the Sarajevo depression was exposed to a strong construction expansion, which was not followed by spatial planning documentation. This work presents models of modern geodynamic processes, which are mainly caused by technogenic effects. The characteristics of these processes mainly depend on the morphological properties of the terrain, geological structure, engineering geological and hydrogeological properties, as well as technogenic factors. The aim of this work is to clarify the specificities of modern geodynamic processes in the areas of different lithological formations, and also to show their classification and special treatment considering process’s dynamic, the development method of the moving rock mass, causes of its movement; all with the goal of preventing or reclaiming the negative effects of these processes. The key factors that affect modern geodynamic processes are: terrain morphology, lithological structure, groundwater level, rock mass structure, as well as the technogenic processes.
SEPARATED GEOTECHNICAL ENVIRONMENTS DURING THE RESEARCH OF THE TERRAIN AT THE LOCATION PLANNED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SILOS IN KOZLUK NEAR ZVORNIK
Authors: Đurić Neđo , Djuric Dijana
Published: April 2024

The construction of high-rise objects in solid rocks characterized by frequent changes in its vertical profile requires a more detailed study of lithological layers, tectonic characteristics and analysis of physical and mechanical parameters. Layers of different strength and characteristics in all elements make it possible to separate it by geological environments, in order to choose the most favorable one for the foundation of objects. As part of the construction of additional silos at the existing "Molaris" Mill complex in Kozluk near Zvornik, research was conducted at the central points of the future facilities and the immediate surroundings.

Investigation works up to a depth of 12.0 m defined all the complexity of the terrain structure in a small area. Conducted research on rock samples from exploration works and from the open terrain profile showed differences in the physical and mechanical characteristics of softer rocks susceptible to solubility in water. Separated environments show that the foundation of objects cannot be done only in one environment, given the folds of the layers in a very small area.