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Designing a Smartphone-Based Virtual Reality App for Relaxation: Qualitative Crossover Study
Authors: Verstegen Amandine , Van Daele Tom , Bonroy Bert , Debard Glen , Sels Romy , van Loo Marlon , Bernaerts Sylvie 
Published: December 2024

Background
Accumulating evidence supports the use of virtual reality (VR) in mental health care, with one potential application being its use to assist individuals with relaxation exercises. Despite studies finding support for the potential of VR to effectively aid in relaxation, its implementation remains limited outside of specialized clinics. Known barriers are insufficient knowledge regarding VR operation, lack of availability of VR relaxation apps tailored to local health care systems, and cost concerns. Unfortunately, many VR relaxation apps are designed exclusively for stand-alone headsets, limiting accessibility for a broad audience.

Objective
We aimed to design an accessible, smartphone-based VR relaxation app based on user preferences. This paper describes the assessment of 2 stand-alone VR relaxation apps and the resulting smartphone-based VR relaxation app design.

Methods
Overall, 30 participants (n=23, 77% women; n=7, 23% men) took part in 2 separate VR sessions, assessing 1 of the 2 VR relaxation apps (Flowborne and Calm Place) in each session. After each session, participants were presented with open-ended questions to assess their experiences via a web-based survey tool. These questions explored positive and negative features, shortcomings, and suggestions for improvements while also allowing space for additional remarks concerning the 2 VR relaxation apps. Three of the authors analyzed the responses using inductive thematic analysis, a process comprising 6 phases.

Results
Across both the apps, 5 recurring themes and 13 recurring subthemes were identified in the participants’ answers: audio (music and sounds, guidance), visuals (content, realism, variation and dynamics in the environment), features (language, options, feedback and instructions, duration, exercise), implementation (technical aspects, cybersickness, acceptability and usability), and experience. We analyzed the participants’ findings and conducted a literature review, which served as the basis for developing the app. The resulting app is a Dutch-language, smartphone-based VR relaxation app, with customization options including 3 types of relaxation exercises, 2 guiding voices, and 3 different environments. Efforts have been made to ensure maximum variation and dynamism in the environments. Calming music and nature sounds accompany the exercises. The efficacy and effectiveness of the resulting app design were not assessed.

Conclusions
This study provides insights into key features of VR relaxation apps, which were subsequently used for the development of a novel smartphone-based VR relaxation app. Further research concerning the effectiveness of this app, along with a broader evaluation of the efficacy and user feedback for smartphone-based VR relaxation apps, is needed. More generally, there is a clear need for more research on the impact of interactivity, biofeedback, and type of environment in VR relaxation.
A REFORMA DO ENSINO MÉDIO PAULISTA E O APARTHEID SOCIAL E EDUCACIONAL
Authors: Alencar Felipe 
Published: December 2024

Parte-se do referencial gramsciano de escola unitária para análise da reforma do ensino médio na rede estadual de São Paulo, por meio do programa Inova Educação, componente de todos os itinerários formativos do Novo Ensino Médio. Com base em documentos, indicadores educacionais e da força de trabalho, discursos de agentes privados formuladores do programa e entrevistas com educadores discute-se que a reforma, no contexto de austeridade e informalidade do trabalho, institucionaliza o apartheid social e educacional ao destituir conhecimentos da formação escolar visando ao trabalho subalterno.
Palavra-chave: Reforma do ensino médio. Inova Educação. Trabalho e educação. Políticas educacionais. Rede estadual paulista.
Building the Nursing Workforce of The Future
Authors: Cook Karen , Lavender Samantha , Rice Frances 
Published: December 2024

The supply, retention and distribution of a quality nursing workforce is critical to ensure Australians have access to health and aged care, when and where they need it. The nursing supply and demand study projects the supply and demand of Australia’s nurses until 2035 across all sectors and geographical levels.
The results of the study predict an undersupply of nurses over the next 12 years, which indicates Australia may not have the number of nurses required to keep pace with the demand for nursing services in the community overall.
Therapy with clopidogrel or rivaroxaban has equivalent impacts on recurrence of thromboembolism and survival in cats following cardiogenic thromboembolism: the SUPERCAT study
Authors: Brainard Benjamin M. , Coleman Amanda E. , Kurosawa Anne , Rush John E. , Hogan Daniel F. , Brooks Marjory B. , Kraus Marc S. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
To assess the impact of clopidogrel or rivaroxaban administration on recurrence of arterial thromboembolism (ATE) in cats that have recovered from cardiogenic ATE.

METHODS
This multicenter prospective double-masked protocol enrolled 45 cats that had recovered from cardiogenic ATE and were randomized to receive either clopidogrel (18.75 mg/cat, PO; n = 19) or rivaroxaban (2.5 mg/cat, PO; 26) as sole anticoagulant therapy for up to 2 years after the initial ATE. Primary outcome measures included recurrent ATE or death from any cause. In addition to bimonthly internet-based surveys of animal quality of life, echocardiograms were performed by veterinary cardiologists at 2, 6, 12, and 18 months after initial ATE.

RESULTS
17 cats experienced ATE recurrence: 7 of 19 (37%) in the clopidogrel group and 10 of 26 (39%) in the rivaroxaban group. Three cats in each group survived for the entire 2-year study without recurrence. In the clopidogrel group, median (95% CI) time to ATE recurrence was 663 days (150 to not calculable) and in the rivaroxaban group, 513 days (242 to not calculable). Median time from enrollment to death from cardiac or noncardiac causes was also not different between treatment groups.

CONCLUSIONS
Single-agent antithrombotic therapy with rivaroxaban in cats recovered from cardiogenic embolism delayed recurrence of ATE for a similar time period as single-agent therapy with clopidogrel.

CLINICAL RELEVANCE
In cats that have recovered from cardiogenic ATE, either rivaroxaban or clopidogrel may be used for single-agent thromboprophylaxis to delay ATE recurrence.
Theoretical investigation of aniline derivatives: Correlation of theoretical reaction Gibbs free energies with experimental oxidation potentials
Authors: Kováčová Andrea , Michalík Martin 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Anilines and their derivatives are used in industrial production of dyes, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and synthetic antioxidants. Abstraction of electron and formation of a cation radical represent a significant step in the reactivity of this group of substances. The aim of this study was to theoretically investigate the effect of a substituent on the oxidative electrochemical potential of 64 species of aniline derivatives. Quantum-chemical calculations were performed using the composite G4 method. The obtained linear dependences for reaction Gibbs free energies were correlated with the Hammett constants and available experimental values.
Latest Advancements in Credit Risk Assessment with Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques
Authors: Soni Umangbhai , Jethava Gordhan , Ganatra Amit 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
A loan is vital for individuals and organizations to meet their goals. However, financial institutions face challenges like managing losses and missed opportunities in loan decisions. A key issue is the imbalanced datasets in credit risk assessment, hindering accurate predictions of defaulters. Previous research has utilized machine learning techniques, including single or multiple classifier systems, ensemble methods, and class-balancing approaches. This review summarizes various factors and machine learning methods for assessing credit risk, presented in a tabular format to provide valuable insights for researchers. It covers data complexity, minority class distribution, sampling techniques, feature selection, and meta-learning parameters. The goal is to help develop novel algorithms that outperform existing methods. Even a slight improvement in defaulter prediction rates could significantly influence society by saving millions for lenders.
Using AI for developing personalized learning paths
Authors: Leon Ramona-Diana , Ortiz Ángel , Díaz Mª del Mar Alemany , Alvarez Ana Esteso 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This research aims to examine how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used within the educational framework for developing personalized learning paths. In order to achieve this goal, an etic approach is employed, and a qualitative-quantitative perspective is adopted. Thus, following the PRISMA guidelines, 71 articles published on Web od Science, during January 2014 – June 2024, are selected and analysed using cluster and density analysis. The results bring forward that the peak of the scientific production was reached in 2022 and that the topic is more appealing to the scholars from the information technology field than to the ones from the educational area. Furthermore, two lines of research can be identified; one that is technology-driven and another one that is learner/human-driven. Further research is required in providing a nexus between the two of them since, in the context of Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0, AI could act as a bridge. This research has several implications. On the one hand, it emphasizes the topics that captured scholars’ attention and also various research gaps that should be addressed. On the other hand, it extends the research from the educational management area by highlighting how AI could facilitate the transition towards the implementation of the connectivism learning theories.
Life and Death in the Mazahua Worldview in the Context of Covid-19
Authors: Ortiz Felipe González 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
In response to the confinement measures enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, a series of narratives emerged in the Mazahua ethnic region of central Mexico that were deeply connected to the Mesoamerican worldview of this people. This research aims to analyse the reasons why such narratives gained greater prominence in this context and to examine how these narratives manifest in situations of heightened morbidity and mortality. Through ethnographic fieldwork, including testimonial and in-depth interviews conducted immediately after the pandemic, narratives about the experience of confinement in several Mazahua communities were produced and uncovered. These narratives reveal that the Mesoamerican beliefs of the Mazahua people are often collectively kept in the background during times of harmony but resurface with intensity during periods of morbidity and mortality. The study particularly found that Mazahua beliefs are not centred on an affirmative search for truth but rather on a thought process oriented toward existential being.
3D artistic mapping of the urban environment for tourism information support
Authors: German Anna 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
With the development of the tourism sphere, its information support is also developing, in particular, represented with cartographic works. One of the forms of cartographic support for tourism is three-dimensional artistic maps (3D-maps, panoramic maps) and cartographic web applications. By our understanding the panoramic map of the city is a cartographic image of the urban environment, made with regard to linear and aerial perspectives on the principle of artistic painting and created an illusory sense of volumetricity. Such maps illustrated the historical parts of cities, park zones, museums-estates, individual architectural monuments become popular souvenirs, but their handwritten creation is rather labor-intensive and requires high artistic skills.
The research proposes the author’s methodology and technology for creating and updating of three-dimensional artistic maps mainly of small and medium cities and towns using modern information technology, which involves a rational combination of works done manually (handwritten) and with the usage of graphic editors (automated). The preferred cartographic projections for mapping of different territories have been determined (external perspective projection with positive image, taking into account the curvature of the globe surface – for vast territories, central projection – for small territories, including individual monuments). The most optimal conditions for three-dimensional illusory representation of cities have also been established (the constant height of the observation point, the projection with parallel rays at an angle of 60° to the picture plane, the display only the front and middle parts of the map). Special attention is paid to the usage of automated libraries of signs, textures and colors, developed by the author in digital form and containing individual constructive elements of urban environment objects, which greatly simplifies the process of panoramic map creating.
The proposed combined handwritten-automated methodology involves several stages: preparatory, field and office. At the last stage, the visualization of objects is carried out, including the construction of the plan of the mapped territory, transforming it into the perspective projection, the construction of building frames and filling them with structural elements, color design and drawing detailing.
This methodology is also used for updating of artistic maps (actualization of their content).
The Army Leader: Understanding the Importance of Displaying A Positive Personal Example in the Modern Military Leadership
Authors: Alixandrescu Robert-Marian , Baboş Alexandru 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
The current global security environment is unstable, marked by ambiguity and countless uncertainties, with trends indicating that the geopolitical context will become increasingly insecure and volatile. In such a challenging environment, military leaders play an important role in ensuring stability, guaranteeing territorial security and protecting citizens. More than ever, the role of the military leader in both the military organisation and society has reached an unprecedented level of complexity. To successfully meet the challenges of the modern battlespace, military leaders must train and develop a very diverse and complex set of competences and attributes. By doing so, the leader can rapidly gain the trust and commitment of subordinates, managing to motivate and lead them effectively in any context. This article aims to raise awareness and understanding of the critical role of positive personal example in modern military leadership.
The Impact of Leadership and Management Changes on the Military Organization
Authors: Bucăţa George , Andrei Constantin 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Leadership in a military organization is a multi-faceted phenomenon that involves expanding vision, enhancing performance, and cultivating personality beyond conventional boundaries. Effective military leaders not only inspire and guide their people, but also articulate a clear and compelling vision of future tasks and goals. Military leaders perform key tasks such as setting and explaining strategic goals, assessing the feasibility of long-term operational plans, and ensuring the adequacy of organizational structures to achieve those goals.
The issue of leadership in the military organization is of paramount importance, as the stakes in military operations are high and the cohesion of well-motivated units capable of executing complex missions under pressure is critical. Effective leadership is essential for maintaining discipline, morale and operational effectiveness in the face of adversity. This article addresses the essential qualities and responsibilities of leadership in a military context, emphasizing the importance of vision in motivating and leading personnel. It examines how military leaders can effectively communicate their vision and values to create a guiding fire that inspires their units to greater success and performance. Through a comprehensive analysis of leadership behaviors and the impact of vision orientation, the article provides insights into the mechanisms by which military leaders can enhance performance and foster a culture of excellence and readiness.
The Evolution of Aerial Threats and Their Implications on Army Operations
Authors: Panait Cristian 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
The increasing evolution of aerial threats presents an ever-growing challenge for force protection. The accelerated development of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and long-range precision strikes highlights the urgency of developing comprehensive air defense doctrines. This paper explores the nature of these threats and their implications, particularly in the Ukrainian theater of operations, where emerging threats from UAS, artillery, and combined arms tactics are increasingly being used to overwhelm the maneuver of military forces and assets. By leveraging historical data, threat analyses, and military doctrines, this article aims to highlight how armed forces can be better prepared to counter these threats, focusing on leadership, training, and the integration of technologies such as short-range air defense for maneuver (M-SHORAD). The joint nature of military actions will need to manifest as swiftly as possible, not only at the strategic and operational levels but starting with small group, crew-aircraft combinations.
Goal Regulation: The Relationship Between Organizational Commitment and Work Motivation
Authors: Rusu Raluca 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
In this paper we will try to emphasize the importance of commitment, in an organizational world that tries to constantly adapt to the socio-economic environment in which it operates. More precisely, in this paper, based on theoretical analyses, we will present the importance of studying the relationships between organizational commitment and other organizational process, namely and work motivation. And we will also try to show by introducing the concept of goal regulation, that commitment influences organizational behavior independently of some extrinsic reasons or positive attitudes and that it can lead to the persistence of an action even in the face of conflicting reasons or attitudes. Starting from this conceptualization, we encourage the leads of empirical studies that support the hypothesis, that an integrated model of organizational commitment and motivation for work, better explains the involvement of individuals in an organizational context, beyond its theoretical validation.
Exercising Cultural Diplomacy as a Form of Smart Power in the Military Operating Environment
Authors: Talmaţchi Maria-Lucia 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Cultural diplomacy also manifests itself in the military context, where military activity and behavior in the strategic space approaches actions in the diplomatic domain. This article provides an overview of the current debates in this evolving field, exploring different diplomatic perspectives in the military’s management of international relations in different military missions. Based on the most recent literature on cultural diplomacy in the military operational environment, in order to understand how the military interacts with the local population in a society where it conducts peacekeeping or peace-enforcement operations, it is useful to analyze the strategies employed and to assess the consistency of these activities with the classic definitions of public diplomacy. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, a careful analysis of the definition of the concept of diplomacy is carried out through the understanding of its two forms: cultural diplomacy and public diplomacy. In order to minimize risks and increase the efficiency of operations, the idea of integrating cultural diplomacy as a smart power in the military operational environment is developed.
Bullying: a Study From the Perspective of Students With Disabilities
Authors: Pincay Gloria-Anabel Alcívar , Valencia Erica-Roberta Aroca , Loor Maoly-Karolina Santana 
Published: December 2024

Objective: This research aims to delve deeper into the experiences and characteristics of bullying among students with disabilities.

Theoretical Framework: Theories of social learning, social systems, and power imbalance help explain the underlying mechanisms of bullying in this context. Additionally, research has identified different roles of participation (victim, bully, bully-victim) and has highlighted the importance of disability characteristics in the experience of bullying.

Method: Using a mixed-methods and naturalistic approach, surveys and interviews were conducted using the EBIPQ-SEND, a validated instrument for identifying involvement in bullying associated with special educational needs. The sample includes 15 students with disabilities aged 12 to 18.

Results and Discussion: The results offer a perspective from the participants' voices on their understanding of the phenomenon, the types, roles, and consequences of bullying experienced by the group with disabilities. They invite us to strengthen the body of research that allows us to understand this harmful dynamic of school coexistence, in order to offer an effective response and promote educational inclusion.

Implications of the Research: The implications of this research on bullying and disability are profound and multifaceted. By revealing the greater vulnerability of students with disabilities to bullying, this research highlights the urgent need to implement specific prevention and protection measures in educational settings.

Originality/Value: The originality and value of this research lie in its contribution to shedding light on the issue of bullying towards students with disabilities, a group that has been historically underrepresented in studies on bullying.