bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Towards a Walking-Based Pedagogy
Authors: Pyne Feinberg Pohanna
Published: November 2023

After several years of experimenting with walking as a creative process and an artistic form, my commitment to developing walking-based pedagogy for art education has been honed and heartened. This article details my doctoral research and summarizes the mindful walking methodology I am developing for diverse demographics and variable geographies. In particular, I share excerpts from interviews conducted with four Montreal-based artists who walk as an aspect of their practice: Victoria Stanton, Kathleen Vaughan, karen elaine spencer, and Dominique Ferraton. Presented as a hybrid article that couples a written introduction with a self-directed audio walk, the two components are designed to complement one another. By providing an audio walk as a pedagogical tool, I am advocating for kineasthetic engagement as an essential component for discourse on this topic. Likewise, I propose a notion of curriculum that is lived and emerging, somatic and contextual, personal yet political, and enhanced by curiosity and listening.
Student Perspectives on the Relevance and Importance of Arts-Based Learning
Authors: Reingold Matt
Published: November 2023

Drawing on interview data from a practitioner research study involving secondary students in a Jewish school, the following paper presents students’ explanations for why learning through the arts is a valuable and important classroom experience. The explanations offered by students reflected a strong self-awareness and understanding of their own learning styles and how the arts complimented their studies and challenged them in new ways. In addition to hearing how students appreciate learning through the arts, the data also suggests that teachers and other school stakeholders should find ways to provide opportunities for students to contribute to conversations about pedagogical practice.
Resistance Is not Futile: Badiou, Simulacra and a Story From the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands
Authors: Van Kessel Cathryn
Published: November 2023

This paper engages with Alain Badiou’s understanding of evil as simulacrum in secondary social studies and history classrooms. Through family oral history as a vector for thinking with Badiou’s philosophy this paper explores Badiou’s premise that the Nazis upheld a simulacrum as truth, to the detriment and horror of millions. Anthonius and Johanna’s actions, members of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War, provide an example of the complexities of ethics during difficult times that can inform teachers as they explore nuances regarding how ordinary people can act independently from authority, but interconnected with others in troubling times. Personal anecdotes are powerful tools in shaping knowledge and attitudes; thus, stories of resistance in our classrooms are vital as we seek to make emancipatory and egalitarian changes to our world.
Wild Profusions: An Ode to Academic Hair
Authors: McLarnon Mitchell , Leggo Carl , Sinner Anita
Published: November 2023

With the intention of expanding educational conversations through playful encounters, we braid curricular intensities inspired by wild profusions, written in our academic hair and offered as expressions of life writing. Through our hairatives, we share discomforts and provocations that are the stories of our scholarly identities, rooted in the body-word nexus as affective attunements. Through our entanglements, we map our networks of relations and invite curricular conductivity concerning how and why hair is formative in the context of the academy. Living on the precarious margins of stories, we share our narratives within the folds of educational theory to passionately and poetically render our richly textured events as the moments of knowledge creation. In this way, our hair serves as an artistic configuration, where we are manifest in “situated inquiry about the truth that it locally actualises”, to borrow from Badiou (2005), opening what may be described as an “eventual rupture” of our scholarly truths (p. 12). Our ruminations are the imaginaries of academics, or simply living intensities. We intend to crack open from the inside that which is “a reality concealed behind appearances” in an attempt to reconfigure “a different regime of perception and signification” (Rancière, 2009, pp. 48, 49).
Preparing Pre-Service Educators to Teach Worldview-Threatening Curriculum
Authors: Van Kessel Cathryn , Jacobs Nick , Catena Francesca , Edmondson Kimberly
Published: November 2023

Emotions are central to teaching potentially polarizing content. This study asked pre-service teachers to engage with ideas from Ernest Becker (1973, 1975) and terror management theory (TMT) from experimental social psychology about defensive responses. In group training sessions before their teaching practicum and focus groups after their practicum, pre-service teachers considered the following questions: How might we prevent ourselves, as teachers, from treating a student harshly (or with dismissiveness) when their worldview clashes with ours? What might we need to do with our classes before worldview threatening lessons begin in order to mitigate defensive compensatory reactions? Participants explored how to facilitate contentious and potentially polarizing content and discussions so as to prevent unhelpful, defensive reactions by both students and teachers. This content included derogating people or concepts, coaxing or coercing others to your view, expressing views related to eliminating different worldviews, as well as appropriating aspects of other worldviews. A dramaturgical analysis identified participant objectives, conflicts, tactics, attitudes, emotions and subtexts. Participants explored how to anticipate and avoid worldview threat and self-esteem threat, navigate tense pedagogical spaces, build capacity for expressing uncomfortable emotions and diffuse threat with (appropriate) humour. Through their experiences, these pre-service teachers also increased their own emotional awareness. For participants, TMT became both an attitude and a teachable theory. The authors hope that both direct and indirect uses of TMT in educational contexts can help nourish less fraught social relations, helping us (as educators and humans) gain perspective on our beliefs and those of others without devaluing emotional responses.
Environmental Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Implication for Science Teacher Education
Authors: Zhou George
Published: November 2023

Although environmental issues we face have changed over time, the need for environmental education has only intensified. Unfortunately, most schools do not offer a stand-alone environmental course. Subject teachers, particularly science teachers, have the responsibility to integrate environmental education in their daily teaching. Responding to the wide call for environmental education, teacher education programs usually offer a series of workshops or an elective course to develop teachers’ knowledge and skills in environmental education. However, given its hybrid nature, the environment-related pedagogical content knowledge cannot be effectively developed through such a quick-fix approach. The author proposes a conceptual framework to promote the relevant discussion among researchers and educators: Environmental Pedagogical Content Knowledge (EPACK). EPACK requires teachers to be able to answer what environmental issues, why such issues and how to teach these issues in school classes. To address the need of teacher development in EPACK, teacher education programs need to consider an integration approach. Such approach calls for the integration of environmental issues with teacher education courses besides a possible standalone environmental education course. For example, science methods courses provide a meaningful context where learning to teach environmental issues can be pedagogically situated in the teaching of subject matters. This paper will draw evidence from the literature and, as well, from the author’s teaching and research experience to advocate a blended model of teacher development for environmental education proficiency, which ensures that environmental education becomes one of the fundamental components for the design of teacher education curriculum.
The Humilitant Pedagogue: An Invitation to a Refractive Curricular Encounter
Authors: Piazza Robert
Published: November 2023

The purpose of this auto-ethnographic study will be to explore and understand more fully how my experience of two educational events helped me discern between empty schooling and an educational education. I consider the theories of French philosopher Alain Badiou and their implications for English language arts curriculum and pedagogy. I hope to articulate what I will call a refractive curricular encounter as a contribution living within the traditions of reconceptualist curriculum theory, critical pedagogy and literary engagement. Such a refractive curricular encounter suggests breaking away from a given trajectory or set of coordinates; Badiou’s event does not interrupt or halt the world so much as interrupt the taken for granted knowledge and opinions, allowing the possibility of truths to emerge. As such, interruption is not static; interruption is vital and alive! I examine these truthful interruptions with a view to better understanding how neoliberal culture infiltrates my being so deeply as to have rendered my neoliberal and authoritarian urges invisible to me. My study also offers fruitful considerations for like-minded educators: how might framing education within an invitational context offer the possibility for an eventful-encounter to occur? Secondly, where Badiou suggests that the response to the emergent truth process ought to be one of a militant fidelity, I suggest that educators instead assume a disposition of what I call the humilitant teacher—a portmanteau of humility and militant. This paper explores the intersections of these notions and how they might offer insights into what it means to educate educationally.
Productive Disciplinary Engagement in a Remote Laboratory Activity With an Eighth-Grade Science Class
Authors: Anchikoski Tory , Rees Carol A. B.
Published: November 2023

Remote laboratories offer students an opportunity to use analytical laboratory instruments through the Internet, in real time, from their classroom. Although remote laboratory activities offer great potential for engaging students’ interest and student learning, little work has been done on using them with middle school students. This study focused on middle school students’ engagement during a remote laboratory activity. With the help of facilitators, 18 eighth-grade students worked in six groups of three to remotely operate a Shimadzu TOC/TN Analyzer in a university chemistry laboratory, in real time, to measure the total nitrogen content in their river water samples. We video- and audio-recorded the students’ discourse with each other and with facilitators during the activity. Following transcription, discourse was coded for types of engagement as defined by the Productive Disciplinary Engagement framework, which posits three types of engagement: general engagement—students make active contributions; disciplinary engagement—students’ contributions are connected to the discipline of science; and productive disciplinary engagement—students make intellectual progress. All six groups demonstrated general engagement and disciplinary engagement. Students talked about both the technology, such as the video camera that allowed them to view inside the university laboratory, as well as the science, such as how the machine was actually doing the measuring. Two groups showed evidence of moving towards productive disciplinary engagement when they discussed the meaning of their results. Our results suggest that remote laboratory activities can engage middle school students and can be a site for their learning.
Exploring Intercultural Understandings of Mental Health for School Contexts
Authors: Holt Regan Carley
Published: November 2023

What does mental health mean? As an educator, I have noticed that mental health is a concept viewed by many students and colleagues as “loaded” with stigma and often referenced as a shameful form of illness. It is estimated that one in five high school students will suffer from a mental illness, with the majority not accessing mental health services due to the stigma associated with the illness (Bowers et al., 2013). Wondering how particular understandings of mental health might influence pedagogical approaches, I conducted a preliminary literature review across caregiver professions, including nursing, social work, psychology, medicine and education. Findings indicated that medicalized mental health definitions framed by Western philosophy were prevalent. Conceptions of mental health that represent different cultural perspectives, pluralistic understandings (diverse epistemologies), or other ways of being (ontologies) are isolated and excluded. This roundtable session will be guided by a hermeneutic approach that aims to broaden understandings by asking participants to consider the concept of mental health within cultural traditions, histories, stories, languages, experiences, subjectivities and relations. To further discussion, contemporary conceptualizations are presented through literature, images and symbols.
Art Education as Environmental Activism in Pre-service Teacher Education
Authors: Inwood Hilary , Kennedy Alysse
Published: November 2023

This presentation explores how art and design education can contribute to the imperative of climate change and help societies adapt to living more sustainably. Drawing on methods from arts-based research and qualitative case study, it reports on a study that investigates what can be learned from creating environmental art installations with pre-service teachers (those training to be K-12 teachers) as part of environmental art education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Data collection methods used in this study are two-fold. The arts-based research methods include journaling, photography and the creation of installations from environmental art-making experiences. Traditional qualitative methods include anonymous online surveys, semi-structured interviews and feedback forms on art workshops. Findings suggest that preservice teachers experience attitudinal and behavioural shifts towards sustainability after engaging in the processes of creating environmental art. Involvement in the workshops also provided opportunities for building community, engaging multiple domains of learning, modeling sustainable art-making practices and prompting environmental activism. Overall, connecting environmental issues with arts-based pedagogy through environmental and sustainability education (ESE) may inspire art educators to reflect on their responsibility to advance climate action and consider what role(s) they can play in environmental activism inside and outside of their educational institutions. This presentation explores how the study adds a new dimension to the current literature because of its focus on generalist pre-service teachers and pedagogical strategies that engage those with little background in art education. The results of this study inform a developing pedagogy for environmental art education in higher education settings.
Self-Reflective, Contextual, Multi-Modal Auto-Ethnographic Work: An Approach to Teaching Visual Art Inquiry
Authors: Blaikie Fiona
Published: November 2023

Visual auto-ethnography offers a way to engage students in self-directed arts-based inquiries focusing on material culture constructs (Garber, 2019). It facilitates creative work and meaningful connections to visual culture (Bolin & Blandy, 2018; Freedman, 2003). Situated in Bourdieusian (1984) habitus lenses, Pink’s (2013) visual ethnography, and drawing on material and visual culture sources in students’ lives, ideas and making practices are explored and expressed. As a multi-modal student-centered pedagogical approach, drawing on the idea of a cabinet of curiosities (Mauries, 2011), and Adam’s (2015) non-linear process, autoethnography involves orienting to a personally relevant inquiry question, examining personally curated art and/or material culture artefacts, engaging in focused journaling, gathering relevant multi-modal artifacts and visual art as copies or originals, and finally, creating multi-modal artworks and accompanying texts that inform and complement one another. A student might examine, for example, lived experiences of spaces and places, situated alongside aesthetic experiences of spaces and places in visual art and culture. Contextual, multimodal and personally relevant, this approach is suitable for pedagogical settings ranging from middle school to higher education via arts education courses, advancing possibilities for situated focused creative work through reflective praxis. The work of Calle (2003) is helpful in locating forms of documentary work in contemporary art, and the work of Eldridge (2012) locates autoethnography in art education scholarship. It is clear that auto-ethnographers’ voices and visions represent unique, situated worldviews, facilitating individual and collective understandings and respect for diverse cultures and perspectives.
Power Relations Between Parents and Children as Seen in Desni Intan Suri's Aku Tidak Membeli Cintamu and Mohja Kafh's The Girl in Tangerine Scarf
Authors: Handayani Rika
Published: November 2023

The role of parents in determining the lives of their children has been depicted in many media including literary works. This article tries to show how this issue is presented in two novels. Scrutinized from Foucauldian's perspective focusing on power relations between parents and children, this article analyzes Desni Intan Suri's Aku Tidak Membeli Cintamu and Mohja Kafh's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. The results show that the parents impose their power in the form of domination. In addition, the authors portray the children's acceptance as well as resistance to domination. Acceptance indicates obedience. On the other hand, resistance is a way to exemplify that parents' dominations can be challenged as children's voices are also valuable.
تحليل المسار الحركي لبعض القياسات الجسمية والقدرات الحركية بدلاله الهجمة المستقيمة المباشرة في سلاح الشيش
Authors: رياض عزيز ريتا , حاتم الحداد نور
Published: November 2023

ومن خلال إطلاع الباحثتين على الدراسات السابقة تم التعرف على المشكلة اذ تكمن بأن إعداد المناهج التدريبية في جميع وحداتها يجب أن تكون مبنية على اسس علمية دقيقة ، إذ لاحظت الباحثتين بان الوحدات التدريبية تركز على القدرات سواء بدنية او حركية بشكل عام دون الاخذ بنظر الاعتبار المتغيرات التي تؤثر إيجابا على نوع الهجوم وما تتضمنه من وجود علاقات ارتباطية سواء مباشرة او غير مباشرة اي الاسبقية في التدريب وفي اعداد الوحدات ، لذا ارتأت الباحثة بناء أنموذج سببي لمعرفة العلاقات لإظهار أفضل انموذج للهجمة المستقيمة المباشرة هدفت الدراسة الى بناء أنموذج سببي لاهم القياسات الجسمية والقدرات الحركية للهجمة المستقيمة المباشرة لدى عينة البحث. استخدمت الباحثتين المنهج الوصفي بأسلوب العلاقات السببية لذا قامت الباحثتين بأجراء التجربة على عينة من طالبات المرحلة الثانية والبالغ عددهن (85) طالبة من اصل (109) طالبة وقد تم اختيارهن حسب المعادلة (Stephen Sampson ) وبعد اجراء التجربة الاستطلاعية  واداء القياسات والاختبارات الخاصة بالبحث تم تبويبها ومعاملتها احصائيا فاستنتجن صحة الانموذج السببي  في بيان اسبقية المتغيرات لذا وصت الباحثتين ضرورة اعتماد النموذج السببي في عملية التدريب لتطوير الهجمة المستقيمة المباشرة وحسب أسبقية المتغيرات.
دراسة مقارنة للأمن النفسي لدى لاعبي نادي نوروز الرياضي بكرة القدم المتقدمين حسب خطوط اللعب
Authors: حسين قادر عبدالواحد
Published: November 2023

يهدف البحث الى التعرف مستوى الشعور بالأمن النفسي للاعبي خطوط اللعب (  الد فاع والوسط و الهجوم ) بكرة القدم . لنادي نوروز الرياضي فئة المتقدمين اجرى البحث على عينة تم اختارها بطريقة العمدية تمثل لاعبي نادي نوروز بكرة القدم فئة المتقدمين للموسم الرياضي 2020 _ 2021 والبالغ عددهم ( 19 ) لاعبا تمثل اصل المجتمع و تم استبعاد ( 4) اللاعبين و بذلك بلغ حجم العينة (15) لاعبا فقد استعمل الباحث مقياس الامن النفسي المعد من قيل ( شادية ابو التل و عصام ابو بكرة 1997) اذ تكون المقياس من (47 ) فقرة تقيس درجة الامن النفسي و قد تم تعديله الى المجل الرياضي بعد تأكد من صدق و ثبات اداة البحث ثم معالجة البيانات التي حصل عليها الباحث احصائيا باستخدام (الوسط الحسابي  ، الانحراف المعياري  ، النسبة المئوية ، معامل الارتباط البسيط (بيرسون )  ، تحليل التباين ) اسفرت عما يأتي : وجود فروق معنوية في درجة الامن النفسي لدى لاعبي خط الوسط بكرة القدم ،لا توجد فروق معنوي في درجة الامن النفسي لدى لاعبي خطوط اللعب (الدفاع و الهجوم ) بكرة القدم . ويوصي الباحث بالاهتمام اعداد النفسي في غضون العملية التدريبية جنبا الى جنب مع الاعداد البدني والمهاري و الخططي .
الهوية الرياضية وعلاقتها باتخاذ القرار لدى لاعبي الكرة الطائرة في محافظة نينوى
Authors: خالد محمد محمد , عبد الستار ابراهيم انمار
Published: November 2023

هدفت الدراسة الحالية الى التعرف على العلاقة بين الهوية الرياضية واتخاذ القرار لدى لاعبي الكرة الطائرة في محافظة نينوى. تكونت عينة البحث من لاعبي اندية الدرجة الاولى للكرة الطائرة في محافظة نينوى للموسم الرياضي (2021-2022) وهم كل من (سهل نينوى، سنجار، ربيعة وقرة قوش) والبالغ عددهم (56) لاعبا. اما عينة البحث الاساسية تكونت من (40) لاعبا بعد ان استبعد (16) لاعبا لمشاركتهم بالتجربة الاستطلاعية. استخدم الباحثان المنهج الوصفي بالاسلوب المسحي لملائمة وطبيعة البحث، واستخدم الباحثان مقياسا الهوية الرياضية واتخاذ القرار كاداتان للبحث. تم معالجة البيانات باستخدام البرنامج الاحصائي الـ (SPSS) (Min tab) لتحليل البيانات، وكانت ابرز النتائج امتلاك افراد عينة البحث مستويات جيدة من الهوية الرياضية واتخاذ القرار وظهور علاقة ارتباط ايجابية (طردية) بين الهوية الرياضية واتخاذ القرار فضلاً عن التوصل الى ثلاث معادلات تنبؤية (من الدرجات الاولى والثانية والثالثة) يمكن من خلالها التنبؤ باتخاذ القرار من خلال الهوية الرياضية. ومن خلال المفاضلة بينهم نرى ان قيمة (معامل التحديد) اعلى في المعادلة من الدرجة الثانية منه في المعادلة من الدرجة الاولى ومساوي في قيمته من المعادلة من الدرجة الثالثة عليه يمكن اعتماد المعادلة من الدرجة الثانية في التنبؤ باتخاذ القرار.
Phenotypic features of epilepsy due to sodium channelopathies – A single center experience from India
Authors: Viswanathan Lakshminarayanapuram Gopal , Alapati Sandhya , Nagappa Madhu , Mundlamuri Ravindranadh , Kenchaiah Raghavendra , Asranna Ajay , Padmanabha Hansashree , Seshagiri Doniparthi V. , Sinha Sanjib
Published: November 2023

Objectives:

Nearly 40% of pediatric epilepsies have a genetic basis. There is significant phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity, especially in epilepsy syndromes caused by sodium channelopathies. Sodium channel subunit 1A (SCN1A)-related epilepsy represents the archetypical channel-associated gene that has been linked to a wide spectrum of epilepsies of varying severity. Subsequently, other sodium channels have also been implicated in epilepsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders. This study aims to describe the phenotypes in children with sodium channelopathies from a center in Southern India.

Materials and Methods:

This is a retrospective, descriptive, and single-center study. Out of 112 children presenting with epilepsy who underwent genetic testing between 2017 and 2021, 23 probands (M: F = 12:11) were identified to have clinically significant sodium channel mutations. Clinical presentation, electroencephalography, and imaging features of these patients were recorded. The utility of genetic test results (e.g., in planning another child, withdrawal of medications, or change in treatment) was also recorded.

Results:

Age at onset of seizures ranged from day 4 of life to 3.5 years. Clinical epilepsy syndromes included generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (n = 3), Dravet syndrome (n = 5), early infantile epileptic encephalopathy (n = 7), drug-resistant epilepsy (n = 5), and epilepsy with associated movement disorders (n = 3). The most common type of seizure was focal with impaired awareness (n = 18, 78.2%), followed by myoclonic jerks (n = 8, 34.78%), epileptic spasms (n = 7, 30.4%), bilateral tonic-clonic seizures/generalized tonic–clonic seizures (n = 3, 13%), and atonic seizures (n = 5, 23.8%). In addition to epilepsy, other phenotypic features that were discerned were microcephaly (n = 1), cerebellar ataxia (n = 2), and chorea and dystonia (n = 1).

Conclusion:

Sodium channelopathies may present with seizure phenotypes that vary in severity. In addition to epilepsy, patients may also have other clinical features such as movement disorders. Early clinical diagnosis may aid in tailoring treatment for the given patient.
Reducing Organics and its Water Quality Impact
Authors: CARDEW PETER , Hillis Peter
Published: November 2023

Over the last five years United Utilities has undertaken major capital investment to further reduce the risk from Cryptosporidium and trihalomethanes in more than half the supplies in the northwest of England. The majority of the supplies in the region come from upland surface sources which historically have had minimal treatment and in consequence high organic concentrations. The factors influencing the integration of new treatment processes with existing, the choice of process and the challenges arising are discussed, as is their impact on the water quality. In particular, the benefit to the two measures which are driving the investment. The consequences extend beyond that achieved at the water treatment works. The reduced organic input into the distribution network has resulted in chlorine persisting a lot further into the distribution system. As a result of this, and the lower organic input, bacteriological activity has fallen substantially with consequent reduction in the presence of coliform bacteria. The lower concentration of organics has contributed to a substantial reduction in lead concentrations. This has been clearly illustrated by lead concentrations observed at lead pipe rigs situated within the distribution network.
Speciation and organic phase structure in nitric acid extraction with trioctylamine
Authors: Nayak Srikanth , Servis Michael J. , Combs Derrick , Szeliga Krystian , Seifert Soenke
Published: November 2023

We report on the extraction of nitric acid from its aqueous solutions into organic solutions of trioctylamine (TOA) in toluene, investigated with spectroscopic, X-ray scattering, and computational tools to understand the molecular speciation in the organic phase and its relation to the nanoscale structure of the organic phase. Trends in acid and water extraction clearly show two and three regimes, respectively, but the speciation of nitric acid, water, and the amine in these regimes is not apparent. 1H-NMR of the organic phase shows that there are at least two distinct acidic protons in the organic phase while ATR-FTIR results show that the organic phase with excess acid extraction is a mixture of trioctylammonium-nitrate ion-pairs (TOAH.NO3) , and undissociated nitric acid molecules. IR spectra computed from DFT calculations performed with clusters of undissociated nitric acid molecule hydrogen-bonded with the anion of the trioctylammonium nitrate ion-pair are consistent with the ATR-FTIR results. We also show that the chain-like configurations of TOAH.NO3.HNO3.H2O are favored over TOAH.NO3$.H2O.HNO3, i.e., direct interaction between the two extracted nitric acid molecules is more favored compared to a water-mediated interaction. SAXS results of the organic phases were modeled as sums of Ornstein-Zernike scattering and a pre-peak feature at higher Q region, corresponding to features from density fluctuations and extractant packing, respectively. The extraction of undissociated nitric acid by the ion-pairs leads to an increased X-ray scattering contrast in the organic phase without any significant change in the Ornstein-Zernike correlation length. These results show that the organic phase nanostructure is more sensitive to the concentration of TOAH.NO3 and is relatively unaffected by excess acid extraction. These findings will enable a molecular understanding of the mechanisms behind metal extractions from acidic media with basic extractants.
Graph to Activation Energy Models Easily Reach Irreducible Errors but Show Limited Transferability
Authors: Vadaddi Sai Mahit , Zhao Qiyuan , Savoie Brett M
Published: November 2023

Activation energy characterization of competing reactions is a costly, but crucial step for understanding the kinetic relevance of distinct reaction pathways, product yields, and myriad other properties of reacting systems. The standard methodology for activation energy characterization has historically been a transition state search using the highest level of theory that can be afforded. However recently, several groups have popularized the idea of predicting activation energies directly, based on nothing more than the reactant and product graphs, a sufficiently complex neural network, and a broad enough dataset. Here, we have revisited this task using the recently developed Reaction Graph Depth 1 (RGD1) transition state dataset and several newly developed graph attention architectures. All of these new architectures achieve similar state-of-the-art results of ~4 kcal/mol mean absolute error on withheld testing sets of reactions but poor performance on external testing sets composed of reactions with differing mechanisms, reaction molecularity, or reactant size distribution. Limited transferability is also shown to be shared by other contemporary graph to activation energy architectures through a series of case-studies. We conclude that an array of standard graph architectures can already achieve results comparable to the irreducible error of available reaction datasets but that out-of-distribution performance remains poor.
Broken Edge Spin-Symmetry Induces Spin-polarized Current in Graphene Nanoribbon
Authors: Ali Shahjad , Ali Md. Ehesan
Published: November 2023

Zig-zag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) are known to possess spin moments at the hydrogen- terminated edge carbon atoms, thus the spin-polarized electron transmission is expected while the current is longitudinally passed through the ZGNRs. However, in pristine ZGNRs, the spin polarized transmission is not observed due to symmetric anti-parallel distributions of the spin densities between the edges. Here, the hypothesis is, any physical or chemical process that breaks such anti-parallel spin-symmetry can induce spin-polarized transmission in the ZGNRs. In this work, we have established this proof-of-concept by depositing the trimethylenemethane (TMM) radical on 6ZGNRH and investigating the quantum transport properties by employing the density functional theory in conjunction with nonequilibrium Green’s function (DFT-NEGF) method. Although TMM has a high magnetic moment (2 µB ), it does not induce magnetization in 6ZGNRH when TMM is physisorbed. But, during the chemisorption of TMM, it forms the π − π bond with the 6ZGNRH in a particular geometric configuration where the pz orbitals of carbon atoms of TMM have maximum overlap with the pz orbitals of carbon atoms of 6ZGNRH. The chemisorption of TMM transfers the spin moment to 6ZGNRH, which breaks the edge spin-symmetry of pristine 6ZGNRH. The adsorption of TMM radical results in transmission dips in the transmission spectra due to interference between localized states of TMM and 6ZGNRH states. This induces spin-polarized transmission with 60% spin-filtering efficiency (SFE) at zero bias, which can further be enhanced up to 92% by applying the bias voltage of 1.0 V.
Opial and Ostrowski type inequalities based on trigonometric and hyperbolic type Taylor formulae
Authors: George A. Anastassiou
Published: November 2023

Based on [4], we produce a collection of interesting trigonometric and hyperbolic Taylor formulae with integral remainders. Using these we derive Opial and Ostrowski type corresponding inequalities of various kinds and norms.
Existence and stability analysis of solutions for fractional differential equations with delay
Authors: Etefa Mesfin , N'Guerekata Gaston
Published: November 2023

In this manuscript, we establish the existence, uniqueness, and stability of solutions for fractional differential equations with delay. Then we solve the version of the problem with constant delay. We utilize the Bielecki Norm and the Ulam-Hyers stability for our results.
Practical Strategies for Urban Rail Transit Loop Planning, Construction, and Operation
Authors: Chen Can
Published: November 2023

Urban rail transit loops are essential in urban rail transit systems and transportation networks. However, precise requirements and reference standards for rail transit loop design have yet to be established. There are certain areas for improvement in planning, construction, and operation. In the planning and design of urban rail transit loops, the scale of the city and the relationship between line operations should be considered to ensure that the line conforms to the city’s operating traffic conditions and can effectively cater to peak passenger flow requirements. This article presents strategies for planning, constructing, and operating urban rail transit loops, laying the foundation for the healthy operation of urban rail transit.
Factors Affecting Change in Audit Quality after COVID-19
Authors: Ahn Jonghun , Choi Sumi
Published: November 2023

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines changes in the audit quality and reliability of financial statements. It explores the impact of increased incentives for earnings management and heightened audit risk for auditors as well as the factors influencing these changes. The key findings include a significant decline in audit quality, measured by discretionary accruals, post COVID-19. However, cases in which auditors demonstrated increased effort compared to the past did not exhibit a decline in audit quality. Moreover, the manufacturing sector has experienced a consistent and notable decrease in audit quality, and companies engaged in overseas operations or with substantial inventory assets have also faced a significant decline. This study emphasizes the need for stakeholders to remain vigilant about financial information reliability during this period of external upheaval, and offers valuable insights for potential audit procedure improvements in similar future situations.
BERT: A Review of Applications in Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Sayeed Md Shohel , Mohan Varsha , Muthu Kalaiarasi Sonai
Published: November 2023

E-commerce reviews are becoming more valued by both customers and companies. The high demand for sentiment analysis is driven by businesses relying on it as a crucial tool to improve product quality and make informed decisions in a fiercely competitive business environment. The purpose of this review paper is to explore and evaluate the applications of the BERT model, a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique, in sentiment analysis across various fields. The model has been utilized in certain studies for various languages, restaurant businesses, agriculture, Automated Essay Scoring (AES), Twitter, and Google Play. The BERT model's fine-tuning steps involve using pre-trained BERT to perform various language understanding tasks. Text pre-processing is conducted to clean up the data and convert it to numbers before feeding it into BERT, which generates vectors for each input token. We found that BERT outperformed the norm on a range of general language understanding tasks, including sentiment analysis, paraphrase recognition, question-answering, and linguistic acceptability. The detection of neutral reviews and the presence of false reviews in the dataset are two problems that have an impact on the model's accuracy. Training is also slow because it is huge and there are many weights to update. Additional research could be conducted to improve the BERT model's accuracy by constructing a false review categorization model and providing more training to the model in recognizing neutral reviews. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2023-04-02-015 Full Text: PDF
Booklet Maloklusi Sebagai Media Dalam Meningkatkan Minat Perawatan Gigi Berjejal Anterior (Orthodontie)
Authors: Suyatmi Dwi , Taadi Taadi , Heriyanto Yonan
Published: November 2023

Latar Belakang:. Maloklusi memiliki dampak terhadap pengunyahan, estetik wajah, dan status psikososial seseorang. Psikososial merupakan keterkaitan antara 2 aspek yaitu aspek psikologis dan sosial. Masa remaja adalah masa penuh dinamika, terutama pada fase remaja awal pada rentang usia 12-15 tahun. Fase remaja awal berlangsung bersamaan dengan masa pubertas atau masa perubahan fisik dari masa anak-anak menuju dewasa. Gigi anterior yang tidak rapi seperti gigi berjejal, gigi bercelah, dan gigi protrusi. Tujuan: Tujuan Penelitian ini diketahuinya Pengaruh Penggunaan Booklet Maloklusi Gigi Terhadap Minat Perawatan Gigi Berjejal Anterior (Orthodontie). Manfaat hasil penelitian sebagai masukan bagi pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan masyarakat dalam membuktikan tentang Penggunaan Booklet Maloklusi Gigi Terhadap Minat Perawatan Gigi Berjejal Anterior (Orthodontie). Metode: Penelitian ini menggunakan desain eksperimen dengan rancangan Pre- test-Post-test Design. Sampel adalah siswa Sekolah Menengah Pertama, di wilayah kecamatan Kasihan, Kabupaten Bantul, Yogyakarta sejumlah 100 siswa. Variabel pengaruh penggunaan booklet maloklusi gigi dan Variabel terpengaruh Minat perawatan gigi. Hasil: Hasil pengukuran pengetahuan awal pada kelompok eksperimen responden memiliki pengetahuan cukup sebanyak 29 orang (58%) sedangkan pada kelompok kontrol memiliki pengetahuan baik dan cukup 50 orang (50%). Pada hasil pengukuran pengetahuan akhir pada kelompok eksperimen responden memiliki pengetahuan baik sebanyak 34 orang (68%) sedangkan pada kelompok kontrol responden memiliki pengetahuan baik 45 orang (75%). Hasil pengukuran tingkat minat awal pada kelompok eksperimen memiliki minat sedang 49 orang (98%), sedangkan pada kelompok kontrol memiliki minat sedang 49 orang (98%). Hasil pengukuran minat akhir pada kelompok eksperimen responden memiliki minat tinggi sebanyak 45 orang (90%) sedangkan pada kelompok kontrol minat tinggi dan sedang sebanyak 34 orang (68%). Kesimpulan: Booklet maloklusi gigi berpengaruh dalam meningkatkan minat perawatan gigi berjejal anterior (orthodontie). Penggunaan booklet maloklusi gigi lebih berpengaruh dalam meningkatkan minat perawatan gigi berjejal anterior (orthodontie) dari pada dengan media power point.
THE STUDY OF PROGRAM AND ROLES OF NATIONAL CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY USING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES
Authors: Rahmah Mutia , Simanjuntak Megawati , Sari Anggi Mayang , Johan Irni Rahmayani
Published: November 2023

The National Consumer Protection Agency (BPKN) was established to fulfill consumer protection needs in accordance with its duties. This study aimed to identify the role and performance of BPKN. The research design used was a mixed method. A total of 224 respondents were selected for the online survey using voluntary sampling techniques with the criteria of Indonesian citizens, men, and/or women aged 18-65 years, and in-depth interviews with the Chairman of the Research and Development Commission of BPKN.  Data analysis was performed using Microsoft Excel 2013 and SPSS version 25.0. The result of this research is that more than half of consumers know about the functions and duties of the BPKN. However, the number of respondents who knew about BPKN programs was still low. The role of the BPKN in providing suggestions and recommendations to the government is considered insufficient based on the number of suggestions and recommendations issued each year. On the other hand, BPKN has succeeded in creating new innovations in how consumers complain during the COVID-19 pandemic, namely, by making online complaints. BPKN should be able to create more activities aimed at introducing BPKNs among Indonesians.
CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC CLAIM FOOD ADVERTISEMENT ON YOUTUBE
Authors: Saniyah Hanan Anisa , Sumarwan Ujang
Published: November 2023

Advertisements with organic claims must be able to be proven by how the product is made, the ingredients used, and legal organic certification. Providing correct information is a form of consumer education and protection. This study aims to analyze video advertisements of organic food claims on YouTube social media.  The results of the analysis are adjusted in fulfillment of the Consumer Protection Law (UUPK) Number 8 of 1999. This research analyzes the variables of product characteristics, video characteristics, advertising characteristics, and organic claims using the content analysis method and exploratory design. The sample selection was carried out using purposive sampling technique with certain characteristics. The research sample is 200 organic claim advertising videos on YouTube. Data were collected and processed using Microsoft Excel, SPSS 25.0, and Voyant. The results of the analysis show that 62,5 percent of ads use subjective claims and 64,5 percent of ads do not have organic certification. There were 91,5 percent of ads that violated article 17 and 29,0 percent of ads that violated the Ethics of Indonesian Advertising (EPI). Consumers need to improve their knowledge and understanding of organic claim advertisements and be careful in deciding product purchases.
Efficacy of Empagliflozin Therapy in Patient with Acute Heart Failure: Meta-analysis
Authors: Pintaningrum Yusra , Pranayoga Komang
Published: November 2023

Heart failure is still a common disorder with a high morbidity and mortality rate around the world. New drugs sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) such as empagliflozin are currently showing promising results across the HF spectrum. Based on this, the authors are interested in researching the efficacy of Empaglifozin Therapy in Patient with Acute Heart Failure. This study used a systematic search using PRISMA principle in several online databases (Pubmed, Cochrane library and Google scholar). The selected study was an RCT or clinical trial with a population of Acute HF patients. The intervention group is Empagliflozin in any dose compared to placebo. The primary outcome for this meta-analysis is the levels of BNP or NT-proBNP and mortality after intervention. Selected study will be assessed and analyzed using Review Manager software version 5.3 with 95% CI. The two studies selected in this meta-analysis had a total sample size of 290 in the intervention group and 285 in the placebo group. Heterogenecity test obtained [p=0.44; I2 0%], indicating the homogenous data and the study is recommended to use the fixed effect method. The pooled effect size of RR is 0.472 [CI95% 0.24-0.75, P=0.003], meaning that there is a significant favorable outcome in empagliflozin group than in the placebo group. The results showed that empagliflozin had shown a favorable effect in reduction of the risk of death and reducing level of NT-proBNP in patient with acute heart failure.
Diagnostic accuracy of Perfusion Computed tomography (PCT) for diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma (CRC) taking histopathology as gold standard.
Authors: Bushra Ujala  , Amna Rehan  , Rabia Aslam
Published: November 2023

Objective: To determine diagnostic accuracy of Profusion Computed tomography (PCT) for diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma (CRC) taking histopathology as gold standard. Study Design: Descriptive, Cross-sectional. Setting: Department of Radiology, Allied Hospital Faisalabad. Period: 10th March 2022 to 9th September 2022. Material & Methods: A total of 451 patients with colorectal cancer suspicion and ages 50-80 years of either gender were included in the study. Patients having severe renal disease, preoperative radiation therapy or chemotherapy, no surgical intervention after CT, contrast media contraindication, pathologically benign colorectal mass, and tumor depth less than 2 cm based on CT were not included. Pre-operative perfusion CTs was performed on all patients. Dynamic perfusion CTs were performed for 65 seconds following intravenous administration of contrast media, and blood flow (BF) and blood volume (BV) in the tumor were assessed. The surgical specimens were forwarded to the hospital's pathology laboratory, where the presence of CRC was labeled according to operational definitions. CT perfusion was performed in radiology department and results of PCT were compared with that of histopathology. Results: Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and diagnostic accuracy of Profusion Computed tomography (PCT) in diagnosing colorectal carcinoma (CRC) with histopathology being gold standard was 90.26%, 88.59%, 91.98%, 86.24% and 89.58% respectively. Conclusion: This study concludes that Profusion Computed tomography (PCT) is a highly sensitive and accurate modality for the diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma.
Hemostatic assay in iron overloaded frequently transfused thalassemia patients.
Authors: Muhammad Bilal Ghafoor  , Faiza Sarwar  , Hafiz Muhammad Tayyab  , Sana Khan  , Farhan Ali Khanzada  , Muhammad Saleem Leghari  , Saba Aftab
Published: November 2023

Objective: To determine the hemostatic abnormalities in iron overloaded frequently transfused thalassemia patients. Study Design: Cross Sectional study. Setting: Departments of Pathology and Pediatric, Sheikh Zayed Medical College/Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan. Period: October 2022 to April 2023. Material & Methods: Was conducted on 112 patients using convenient sampling. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS version 25. Results: Total 112 thalassemia patients were included in the study, 62 were male and 50 of them were female. A normal PT value was recorded in 107 (95.5%), while 5 (4.5%) had prolonged PT, a normal APTT value was recorded in 98 (87.5%), while 14 (12.5%) patients had prolonged APTT, a normal BT value was recorded in 89 (79.5%), while 23 (20.5%) patients had prolonged BT, and a normal platelet count was recorded in 86 (76.7%), while 26 (23.2%) patients had thrombocytopenia with mean level of serum ferritin was (4169.08±2193.49) and the mean age of total study subjects was (11.7 ± 3.39). Conclusion: It was concluded that high serum ferritin levels resulted in disturbance of hemostatic profile of thalassemia patients.
Frequency of hyperlipidemia in patients of acute pancreatitis; An institutional experience.
Authors: Ashar Ahmad Khan  , Muhammad Zubair Siddiqui  , Saim Athar  , Muhammad Mushtaq  , Abdul Manan  , Muhammad Waqas Arshad
Published: November 2023

Objective: To determine the frequency of hyperlipidemia in patients of acute pancreatitis. Study Design: Descriptive Cross-sectional study. Setting: Department of Surgery, Nishtar Medical University, Multan. Period: 1st October 2021 to 31st March 2023. Material & Methods: Total 139 patients who were diagnosed as acute pancreatitis were included. Data regarding baseline patient variables such as age, gender, BMI and duration of acute pancreatitis symptoms were noted. Date analysis was done by using SPSS version 23 Software. Results: Mean age of 38.55 ± 10.82 years was found in the study. Regarding body mass index (BMI) of patients, mean was 24.91 ± 3.32 kg/m2. There were 87 (62.59%) males and 52 (37.41%) female patients. Thirty-three (23.74%) out of 139 patients were smokers. Mean duration of symptoms was 3.73 ± 2.03 days. Hyperlipidemia was found in 52 (37.41%) patients. Conclusion: Hyperlipidemia was present in more than one third of patients presented as acute pancreatitis. It may be a sole cause or epiphenomenon of pancreatitis. It should be taken as isolated and coexisting factors in diagnosis and treatment.