bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
<i>ESG</i> in the context of strategic business management
Authors: Kozlova N. I. 
Published: March 2023

Aim. The presented study aims to propose a conceptual approach to ESG reporting in company value management and to identify areas for further research regarding the methodological development of the introduction of environmental, social, and managerial factors into the overall system of strategic business management.Tasks. The author determines the level of influence of the ESG agenda on decision-making in capital markets by creating an overview of statistics, key theses in the information field, and relevant scientific research in the field of finance; determines the degree of methodological development of ESG factors in business management from the perspective of the requirements of the value management concept; describes algorithms used by the investment community to evaluate assets with allowance for ESG rankings and by company management to take into account ESG factors in managerial processes and transmission of signals to the external environment; formulates proposals for taking into account ESG data based on the latest developments in the field of strategic business management and tasks requiring methodological elaboration and further research.Methods. The key methods used in the study include analysis and synthesis, comparison, generalization, system analysis, induction and deduction.Results. It is found that the introduction of ESG factors into business management processes is underdeveloped methodologically by the scientific community and consulting companies against the backdrop of growing investor interest in ESG assets. The issue of making allowance for ESG factors in management remains open and requires further methodological development. An approach to considering ESG factors as drivers of the market value of assets is proposed, which is achievable using a modified approach to company value management based on expectations.Conclusions. Despite the growing interest in the ESG agenda in capital markets, methods for assessing and implementing ESG factors in companies' business processes are underdeveloped, and these factors are insufficiently justified in companies on a growing scale as a whole. On the one hand, considering the significant investment directed to ESG funds and the volume of capital investment of companies in ESG assets, the need to investigate ESG factors as potential drivers of value within the framework of cost management is determined, their role and significance are substantiated. On the other hand, the author believes that a modified approach to company value management based on expectations can already be used today to make allowance for ESG factors and take prompt measures to reduce the noise associated with significant observed variations in the estimates of the ESG status of companies operating in different regions and industries, as well as to implement algorithms for the interaction with the external environment in terms of expectations regarding ESG business performance.
Computational Processes for General Intelligence The SEOM Model
Authors: Balakrishnan Prabhakar 
Published: March 2023

<p>The ‘brain-mind-intelligence’ structure may be considered analogous to a ‘computer-operating system (OS)-application’ construct. Software development would be far more difficult without the benefit of abstractions like file and memory handles, and graphical user interfaces, implemented in operating systems. The easy access to application-level semantics, provided by the infrastructure of the OS, simplifies application development. Abstractions can play a similar role in producing intelligent systems. The power of abstractions may be determined by their ability to unify the treatment of several types of higher concepts. Unifying various concepts in the domain of intelligence, such as problems, solutions, objects, and emotions, through abstractions will be of immense value. This paper shows how ‘higher-level perceptions’ could be used to serve this objective and construct an OS-like infrastructure. With the infrastructure in place, ordinary software objects developed and deployed using standard methods, become accessible using the semantics provided by the infrastructure. Now, after brief training exercises, the objects would be available for intelligent use. The focus, therefore, is on the design of the infrastructure that could play a mind-like role in humans.</p>
<p>The design uses a new, non-symbolic, non-connectionist, transmutable method of representation that tackles the so-called ‘frame’ and ‘grounding’ problems of artificial intelligence. The infrastructure enables the conversion of sensory inputs to transmutable representations amenable to semantic modifications, to flexibly determine actions to perform on software objects developed externally. Furthermore, the infrastructure serves to ground and functionally manage the transmutable, connectionist, and symbolic systems. Thus, the new model plays a critical role in building intelligent systems that overcome major problems in learning and action selection, including brittleness associated with the limited semantics of purely symbolic and connectionist designs. </p>
<p>The new model is then evaluated in terms of features, against criteria set forth independently by Newell, Sun, Vernon, and others. In addition, a new measure of intelligence introduced in this paper is used to quantitatively compare the proposed model with some others developed over the years. </p>
Emergent Causality & the Foundation of Consciousness
Authors: Bennett Michael Timothy 
Published: March 2023

<p>To make accurate inferences in an interactive setting, an agent must not confuse passive observation of events with having intervened to cause those events. The do' operator formalises interventions so that we may reason about their effect. Yet there exist pareto optimal mathematical formalisms of general intelligence in an interactive setting which, presupposing no explicit representation of intervention, make maximally accurate inferences. We examine one such formalism. We show that in the absence of an operator, an intervention can still be represented by a variable. Furthermore, the need to explicitly represent interventions in advance arises only because we presuppose abstractions. The aforementioned formalism avoids this and so, initial conditions permitting, representations of relevant causal interventions will emerge through induction. </p>
<p>These emergent abstractions function as representations of one’s self and of any other object, inasmuch as the interventions of those objects impact the satisfaction of goals. We argue (with reference to theory of mind) that this explains how one might reason about one's own identity and intent, those of others, of one's own as perceived by others and so on. In a narrow sense this describes what it is to be aware, and is a mechanistic explanation of aspects of consciousness.</p>
Satellite-Derived Bathymetry of an Inland Reservoir in India
Authors: Gupta Girish Kumar , Bhat Rajshekhar , Balan M. Selva 
Published: March 2023

<p>Estimating depth of water columns in reservoirs, referred to as bathymetry, is an important task in water resource management. Satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB), where depths of water columns are estimated using satellite data, is an emerging and promising technique, especially for shallow-water scenarios. In this work, our objective is to obtain deep-learning models for SDB of a shallow water reservoir in Western India using supervised learning. For accomplishing this, after a series of pre-processing steps, we generate training data consisting of band reflectance values provided by Sentinel-2 satellite as input features and corresponding depth values collected by acoustic bathymetry as the ground truth data. The main contributions of the work include obtaining deep learning models that perform better than other classical techniques in terms of estimation accuracy, towards which we first obtain one dimensional (1D) convolutional neural network (CNN) and 2D-CNN models, which estimate depth using satellite data in tabular and image formats respectively. We then propose a hybrid model where we first classify each pixel of the image to correspond to high or low depth values and then perform regression on each of them separately. From the study, we show that (i) considering all the available bands of the Sentinel-2 satellites or those having <em>high </em>correlation with the ground truth depths gives significant performance improvement over considering only a subset of the bands having resolution of 10 meters, (ii) the 2D-CNN model trained using the image dataset yields significant performance improvement compared to other models trained on tabular data, (iii) and that the hybrid model which uses 2D-CNN for both the classification and regression tasks, trained on image data, performs best among all the models. </p>
Vivência de idosos enfrentando o diagnóstico de câncer: estudo fenomenológico
Authors: Campos Paloma Coutinho , Melo Maria Carmen Simões Cardoso de , Paiva Andyara do Carmo Pinto Coelho , Oliveira Thaí­s Vidal de , Amorim Thaí­s Vasconselos , Salimena Anna Maria de Oliveira 
Published: March 2023

Objetivou-se desvelar os sentidos da pessoa idosa que vivencia o diagnóstico por câncer. Pesquisa de natureza qualitativa norteada pela Fenomenologia, alicerçada no pensamento teórico-filosófico e metodológico de Martin Heidegger. Método: Participaram quatorze pessoas idosas entrevistadas em encontros ocorridos nos meses de novembro de 2016 a abril de 2017. Resultado: A análise compreensiva possibilitou a compreensão e interpretação do ser-pessoa-idosa-que-vivencia-o-adoecimento-por-câncer que se depara com a verdade. O temor é vivenciado nas suas diferentes formas do pavor, horror e terror. Revela-se no modo do falatório. Conclusão: A partir dos sentidos desvelados evidencia-se a importância de se discutir modos de cuidado autêntico í pessoa idosa que vivencia o câncer desde a Atenção Primária, pois o cuidado implica em desenvolver a sensibilidade de olhar o ser na fragilidade da dimensão existencial e não somente para a dimensão fí­sica.
O papel do enfermeiro na gestão de qualidade: revisão de literatura
Authors: Silva Filho Jabiael Carneiro da , Silva Isabela Najela Nascimento da , Oliveira Jéssica Alcântara de Lira , Barbosa Mirella de Souza , Azevedo Jairane Evely de Castro , Galvão Maria Eunice da Silva Mattos 
Published: March 2023

EnfermeirosObjetivou-se conhecer o papel do enfermeiro na gestão de qualidade. Trata-se de uma Revisão de literatura, foi realizada a busca através das bases de dados LILACS e SCIELO, respeitando o perí­odo de 2009 a 2017. Para uma análise do conteúdo qualitativo foi utilizada a técnica de análise de temática Bardin. Foram selecionados 24 artigos, os quais atenderam aos critérios de inclusão deste estudo, através da análise dos artigos foi possí­vel emergir os seguintes eixos temáticos: "Caracterização das publicações", "A gestão de qualidade e o processo de trabalho", "O enfermeiro na gestão de qualidade: Principais desafios. Conclui-se que o enfermeiro possui importância essencial quanto í gestão de qualidade devido a sua habilidade no contexto de gerenciamento em saúde.
Comportamento dos agentes de combate às endemias que predispõe alterações nos ní­veis sanguí­neos de colinesterase
Authors: Paula Cácia Régia de , Pelazza Bruno Bordin , Ferri Lucila Pessuti , Souza Gabriela Alves , Barbosa Maria Alves , Silva Maria Isabel , Lima Flavio Henrique Alves de 
Published: March 2023

Objetivo: identificar as caracterí­sticas sociodemográficas e o comportamento dos Agentes de Combate í s Endemias (ACE) que predispõe alteração nos ní­veis sanguí­neos de colinesterase sanguí­nea. Metodologia: estudo descritivo com delineamento retrospectivo, com ACE de Jataí­-GO. A coleta de dados retrospectivo aconteceu ao perí­odo de 2009 a 2016, desenvolvida por meio de análise dos prontuários laborais dos participantes e no perí­odo de setembro a novembro de 2017 foi aplicado um instrumento semiestruturado para os ACE. Resultados: foram analisados 74 prontuários, dos quais 10 possuí­am exames de colinesterase alterados. Observou-se associação entre o comportamento e a alteração da colinesterase, uma vez que, a maioria dos ACE não higienizava as mãos corretamente e não utilizavam os EPIs da forma preconizada, apesar de referirem participação em capacitações. Conclusão: as alterações dos ní­veis de colinesterase no sangue dos ACEs registrado em seus prontuários relacionam-se com seus comportamentos durante a sua prática profissional e estilo de vida.
Mapeamento de Processo em Centro Cirúrgico: Problemas e Propostas de Solução
Authors: Martini Elaine Lima 
Published: March 2023

O objetivo deste artigo é descrever o mapeamento de processo do centro cirúrgico de uma unidade hospitalar privada no estado do Rio de Janeiro. A autora desenhou o fluxograma de cada processo, descrevendo e constatando as não conformidades existentes. Mediante a aplicação das ferramentas de gestão, identificou-se que os cinco principais processos da unidade eram: pré-agendamento, agendamento, preparo de sala, realização da cirurgia e alta da recuperação pós-anestésica (RPA). Ficou evidenciado que existia um fluxo eficaz na gestão dos processos na unidade, porém visualizaram-se pontos de conflito e retrabalho, remetendo í dúvida se o fluxo era eficiente. Desta forma, vislumbrou-se a possibilidade da melhoria, por meio de técnicas de observação, indicadores e análise de dados frente aos intervenientes que impactavam na boa prática do serviço.
Caracterização da Rede Maregráfica Nacional de Angola
Authors: Guilherme Fernao 
Published: March 2023

O presente artigo tem como objectivo caracterizara Rede Maregráfica Nacional de Angola (RMN). Para tal, analisou-se a forma como a actual RMN está constituída, como funciona e com recurso à recomendações indicou-se determinadas alterações para o seu aperfeiçoamento. Assim, foi problematizada a eficiência da actual RMN, partindo da hipótese de que, ela não corresponde ainda às necessidades que a costa angolana apresenta, do ponto de vista do seu monitoramento das variações do nível médio da água do mar. Afim de alcançar o objectivo proposto, recorreu-se a técnica de pesquisa documental e bibliográfica, bem como recurso ao método dedutivo com uma abordagem quantitativa. Após a analise dos dados recolhidos em campo, foi concluídoquea actual RMN não corresponde ainda às necessidades, e para que ela se possa firmar como um sistema eficiente de monitoramento precisará ser aperfeiçoada com base em algumas recomendações apresentadas neste artigo.
Palavras – chaves: Aperfeiçoamento. Marés. Rede maregráfica. marégrafos.
Gestion des pansements des cathéters centraux, artériels et de dialyse en réanimation
Authors: Timsit Jean-François , Calvino Silvia , Zahar Jean-Ralph 
Published: March 2023

Les pansements des cathéters intravsculaires protègent les cathéters de la contamination extra-luminale.
Objectif: cette revue explore les méthodes de réalisation des pansements de cathéters et propose une stratégie de réalisation des pansements en réanimation.
Méthodes : revue narrative.
Résultats: La mise en place de protocoles sur les pansements, adaptés aux recommandations, connus et respectés de tous est indispensable. Les pansements souillés ou décollés augmentent le risque d’infection liés aux cathéters. Ils doivent être immédiatement refaits en cas de décollement. Les pansements transparents doivent être privilégiés car ils permettent l’inspection visuelle quotidienne du point de ponction.
Le changement programmé de pansement peut être réalisé tous les 7 jours, de facón contemporaine du changement des rampes de perfusion. Une antisepsie en 1 temps avec de la chlorhexidine à 2% alcoolique est recommandée. Les pansements à la chlorhexidine (gels ou éponges) diminue le risque l’infection liés aux cathéters en réanimation.
De nouveaux matériaux permettant une meilleure adhérence en conservant une bonne tolérance ont été mis au point et sont en cours d’étude.
Conclusion: L’amélioration de la réalisation et du suivi des pansements est un élément primordial de la politique de prévention des infections liées aux cathéters en réanimation.
The Main Problem of Lunar Orbit Revisited
Authors: Li Bo-Sheng , Hou Xi-Yun 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
A novel algorithm based on the Lindstedt–Poincaré method is proposed to construct an analytical solution of the lunar orbit. Based on the analytical solution, a numerical fitting algorithm is proposed to improve the coefficients of the analytical solution so that its accuracy can reach the level of a few kilometers within 20 yr. By fitting our solution to the long-term JPL ephemerides, we are able to recover the receding speed of the Moon from the Earth due to tidal effects. The proposed algorithm also provides a general way to treat the third-body perturbation in rectangular coordinates.
Geoeffectiveness of Interplanetary Alfvén Waves. II. Spectral Characteristics and Geomagnetic Responses
Authors: Han Yimin , Dai Lei , Yao Shuo , Wang Chi , Gonzalez Walter , Duan Suping , Lavraud Benoit , Ren Yong , Guo Zhenyuan 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Using multipoint observations over 10 yr near 1 au, we investigate the spectra (5 minutes to 2 hr) of interplanetary Alfvén waves and the responses in the geomagnetic activities. We compute the two-point correlations of the wave magnetic field between the ACE and the THEMIS spacecraft, which are separated by ∼200 Earth radius (R
E) in the solar wind. Alfvén waves associated with high two-point correlations exhibit steep spectra (spectra index ∼−1.63). Such Alfvén waves occur mostly in slow-speed streams. By contrast, Alfvén waves with low two-point correlations exhibit flatter spectra (spectra index ∼−1.51) with a relative enhancement of power above 2 × 10−4 Hz. The occurrence of Alfvén waves with low two-point correlations is more equally distributed between high-speed and low-speed streams. In general, interplanetary Alfvén waves show correlations with moderate geomagnetic responses in symmetric ring-current intensity, SuperMAG electrojet (SME), and Kp indices. Statistical analyses indicate that the Alfvén waves with flat spectra correspond to stronger responses in the geomagnetic indices than those with steep spectra, suggesting the importance of the tens of minutes (30–90 minutes) Alfvénic power spectra in the generation of SME/Auroral Electrojets. These observations may shed light on the response of the magnetosphere to fluctuating interplanetary magnetic field B

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Clumpy Wind Studies and the Nondetection of a Cyclotron Line in OAO 1657–415
Authors: Pradhan Pragati , Ferrigno Carlo , Paul Biswajit , Bozzo Enrico , El Mellah Ileyk , Huenemoerder David P. , Steiner James F. , Grinberg Victoria , Furst Felix , Maitra Chandreyee , Romano Patrizia , Kretschmar Peter , Kennea Jamie , Chakrabarty Deepto 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Winds of massive stars are suspected to be inhomogeneous (or clumpy), which biases the measures of their mass-loss rates. In high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), the compact object can be used as an orbiting X-ray point source to probe the wind and constrain its clumpiness. We perform a spectrotiming analysis of the HMXB OAO 1657–415 with nonsimultaneous NuSTAR and NICER observations. We compute the hardness ratio from the energy-resolved light curves, and, using an adaptive rebinning technique, we thus select appropriate time segments to search for rapid spectral variations on timescales of a few hundred to thousands of seconds. The column density and intensity of the iron Kα line were strongly correlated, and the recorded spectral variations were consistent with accretion from a clumpy wind. We also illustrate a novel framework to measure clump sizes and masses in HMXBs more accurately based on the absorption measurements and orbital parameters of the source. We then discuss the limitations posed by current X-ray spacecraft in such measurements and present prospects with future X-ray missions. We find that the source pulse profiles show a moderate dependence on energy. We identify a previously undetected dip in the pulse profile visible throughout the NuSTAR observation near spin phase 0.15 possibly caused by intrinsic changes in accretion geometry close to the neutron star. We do not find any evidence for the debated cyclotron line at ∼36 keV in the time-averaged or phase-resolved spectra with NuSTAR.
Ray-tracing Simulations and Spectral Models of X-Ray Radiation in Dusty Media
Authors: Ricci Claudio , Paltani Stéphane 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Dust can play an important role in shaping the X-ray spectra and images of astrophysical sources. In this work we report on the implementation of dust in the ray-tracing platform RefleX. We illustrate the different effects associated with the interaction between X-ray photons and dust grains, such as dust scattering, near-edge X-ray absorption fine structures, and shielding. We show how the cross sections of the photon–gas interaction change depending on the fraction of metals in dust grains (i.e., the dust depletion factor). We compare RefleX simulations to the most widely used absorption model that includes dust and show how X-ray spectra are affected by the presence of dust in the absorbing/reprocessing medium for different geometries. We also show how RefleX can be used to reproduce the dust scattering halos observed in Galactic sources, and we release the first torus X-ray spectral model that considers dust absorption and scattering (RXTorusD), to reproduce the spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). RXTorusD also considers other physical processes that are not included in the most widely used AGN torus models, such as Rayleigh scattering and scattering on molecular gas, which can lead to remarkable differences in the predicted X-ray spectra for the same set of geometrical and physical parameters.
Global 3D Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Accretion onto a Stellar-mass Black Hole at Sub- and Near-critical Accretion Rates
Authors: Huang Jiahui , Jiang 姜 Yan-Fei 燕飞 , Feng Hua , Davis Shane W. , Stone James M. , Middleton Matthew J. 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
We present global 3D radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion onto a 6.62 solar-mass black hole, with quasi-steady-state accretion rates reaching 0.016–0.9 times the critical accretion rate, which is defined as the accretion rate for powering the Eddington luminosity, assuming a 10% radiative efficiency, in three different runs. The simulations show no sign of thermal instability over hundreds of thermal timescales at 10 r
g. The energy dissipation occurs close to the mid-plane in the near-critical runs and near the disk surface in the low–accretion rate run. The total radiative luminosity inside ∼20 r
g is about 1%–30% of the Eddington limit, with radiative efficiencies of about 6% and 3%, respectively, in the sub- and near-critical accretion regimes. In both cases, self-consistent turbulence generated by the magnetorotational instability leads to angular momentum transfer, and the disk is supported by magnetic pressure. Outflows from the central low-density funnel, with a terminal velocity of ∼0.1c, are seen only in the near-critical runs. We conclude that these magnetic pressure–dominated disks are thermally stable and thicker than the α disk, and that the effective temperature profiles are much flatter than those in the α disks. The magnetic pressures of these disks are comparable within an order of magnitude to the previous analytical magnetic pressure–dominated disk model.