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Dooley, Gillian. "The Pursuit of Love in Iris Murdoch’sThe Message to the Planet." Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 61, no. 3 (November 20, 2014): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/2051285614z.00000000041.
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Hardy, Robert. "?One can only understand what one identifies with?: the Redeemer and the Holocaust in Iris Murdoch's The Message to the Planet." New Blackfriars 81, no. 951 (May 2000): 184–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-2005.2000.tb01735.x.
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Dooley, Gillian. "Iris Murdoch's Novels of Male Adultery:The Sandcastle,An Unofficial Rose,The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, andThe Message to the Planet." English Studies 90, no. 4 (August 2009): 421–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380902796557.
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Blaabjerg, Frede. "Working for a Better Planet [President's Message]." IEEE Power Electronics Magazine 6, no. 4 (December 2019): 8–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mpel.2019.2947102.
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Lewis, Nathan S. "Powering the Planet." MRS Bulletin 32, no. 10 (October 2007): 808–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/mrs2007.168.
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I am humbled and honored to be here to tell you about a topic that is dear to everyone's heart—and vital to the future of our planet. My colleague, Richard Smalley, gave a presentation on this topic several years ago, at a similar MRS plenary session. Over the last few years of Dr. Smalley's life, he and I worked together, traveling across our country to deliver a message about a subject that we—like many others, both scientists and lay people— have come to believe is unequivocally the most important technological problem in the world: our global energy future. That is an incredibly powerful statement, one that during the next hour I hope to ably defend.
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Jamaludin, Shahrizan, Nasharuddin Zainal, and W. Mimi Diyana W. Zaki. "A fast specular reflection removal based on pixels properties method." Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 9, no. 6 (December 1, 2020): 2358–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/eei.v9i6.2524.
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Iris recognition has been around for many years due to an extensive research on the uniqueness of human iris. It is well known that the iris is not similar to each other which means every human in the planet has their own iris pattern and cannot be shared. One of the main issues in iris recognition is iris segmentation. One element that can reduce the accuracy of iris segmentation is the presence of specular reflection. Another issue is the speed of specular reflection removal since the iris recognition system needs to process a lot of irises. In this paper, a specular reflection removal method was proposed to achieve a fast and accurate specular reflection removal. Some modifications were implemented on the existing pixels properties method. Based on the results, the proposed method achieved the fastest execution time, the highest segmentation accuracy and the highest SSIM compared to the other methods. This proves that the proposed method is fast and accurate to be implemented in the iris recognition systems.
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Sayed, Ali H. "Intelligent Machines and Planet of the Apes [President's Message]." IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 35, no. 4 (July 2018): 5–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/msp.2018.2834779.
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Sarabandi, Kamal. "Advancing the Understanding of Our Living Planet [President's Message]." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine 4, no. 2 (June 2016): 4–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mgrs.2016.2548599.
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Shiga, David. "Our dwarf planet neighbour sent a meteorite message before disappearing." New Scientist 197, no. 2648 (March 2008): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(08)60702-2.
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Sturrock, June. "Murdoch’s Leech Gatherer: Interpretation in The Message to the Planet." ESC: English Studies in Canada 19, no. 4 (1993): 457–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esc.1993.0005.
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Crous, P. W., M. J. Wingfield, L. Lombard, F. Roets, W. J. Swart, P. Alvarado, A. J. Carnegie, et al. "Fungal Planet description sheets: 951–1041." Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi 43, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 223–425. http://dx.doi.org/10.3767/persoonia.2019.43.06.
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Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Antarctica , Apenidiella antarctica from permafrost, Cladosporium fildesense fromanunidentifiedmarinesponge. Argentina , Geastrum wrightii onhumusinmixedforest. Australia , Golovinomyces glandulariae on Glandularia aristigera, Neoanungitea eucalyptorum on leaves of Eucalyptus grandis, Teratosphaeria corymbiicola on leaves of Corymbia ficifolia, Xylaria eucalypti on leaves of Eucalyptus radiata. Brazil, Bovista psammophila on soil, Fusarium awaxy on rotten stalks of Zea mays, Geastrum lanuginosum on leaf litter covered soil, Hermetothecium mikaniae-micranthae (incl. Hermetothecium gen. nov.)on Mikania micrantha, Penicillium reconvexovelosoi in soil, Stagonosporopsis vannaccii from pod of Glycine max. British Virgin Isles , Lactifluus guanensis onsoil. Canada , Sorocybe oblongispora on resin of Picea rubens. Chile, Colletotrichum roseum on leaves of Lapageria rosea. China, Setophoma caverna fromcarbonatiteinKarstcave. Colombia , Lareunionomyces eucalypticola on leaves of Eucalyptus grandis. Costa Rica, Psathyrella pivae onwood. Cyprus , Clavulina iris oncalcareoussubstrate. France , Chromosera ambigua and Clavulina iris var. occidentalis onsoil. French West Indies , Helminthosphaeria hispidissima ondeadwood. Guatemala , Talaromyces guatemalensis insoil. Malaysia , Neotracylla pini (incl. Tracyllales ord. nov. and Neotra- cylla gen. nov.)and Vermiculariopsiella pini on needles of Pinus tecunumanii. New Zealand, Neoconiothyrium viticola on stems of Vitis vinifera, Parafenestella pittospori on Pittosporum tenuifolium, Pilidium novae-zelandiae on Phoenix sp. Pakistan , Russula quercus-floribundae onforestfloor. Portugal , Trichoderma aestuarinum from salinewater. Russia , Pluteus liliputianus on fallen branch of deciduous tree, Pluteus spurius on decaying deciduouswoodorsoil. South Africa , Alloconiothyrium encephalarti, Phyllosticta encephalarticola and Neothyrostroma encephalarti (incl. Neothyrostroma gen. nov.)onleavesof Encephalartos sp., Chalara eucalypticola on leaf spots of Eucalyptus grandis× urophylla, Clypeosphaeria oleae on leaves of Olea capensis, Cylindrocladiella postalofficium on leaf litter of Sideroxylon inerme , Cylindromonium eugeniicola (incl. Cylindromonium gen. nov.)onleaflitterof Eugenia capensis , Cyphellophora goniomatis on leaves of Gonioma kamassi , Nothodactylaria nephrolepidis (incl. Nothodactylaria gen. nov. and Nothodactylariaceae fam. nov.)onleavesof Nephrolepis exaltata , Falcocladium eucalypti and Gyrothrix eucalypti on leaves of Eucalyptus sp., Gyrothrix oleae on leaves of Olea capensis subsp. macrocarpa , Harzia metro sideri on leaf litter of Metrosideros sp., Hippopotamyces phragmitis (incl. Hippopota- myces gen. nov.)onleavesof Phragmites australis , Lectera philenopterae on Philenoptera violacea , Leptosillia mayteni on leaves of Maytenus heterophylla , Lithohypha aloicola and Neoplatysporoides aloes on leaves of Aloe sp., Millesimomyces rhoicissi (incl. Millesimomyces gen. nov.) on leaves of Rhoicissus digitata , Neodevriesia strelitziicola on leaf litter of Strelitzia nicolai , Neokirramyces syzygii (incl. Neokirramyces gen. nov.)onleafspotsof
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Ibrahim, Yahya Ismail, and Enaam Abdul-Jabbar Sultan. "Iris recognition based on 2D Gabor filter." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 13, no. 1 (February 1, 2023): 325. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp325-334.
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<span lang="EN-US">Iris recognition is a type of biometrics technology that is based on physiological features of the human body. The objective of this research is to recognize and identify iris among many irises that are stored in a visual database. This study employed a left and right iris biometric framework for inclusion decision processing by combining image processing and artificial bee colony. The proposed approach was evaluated on a visual database of 280 colored iris pictures. The database was then divided into 28 clusters. Images were preprocessed and texture features were extracted based Gabor filters to capture both local and global details within an iris. The technique begins by comparing the attributes of the online-obtained iris picture with those of the visual database. This technique either generates a reject or approve message. The consequences of the intended work reflect the output’s accuracy and integrity. This is due to the careful selection of attributes, as well as the deployment of an artificial bee colony and data clustering, which decreased complexity and eventually increased identification rate to 100%. We demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance and that our recommended procedures outperform existing iris recognition systems.</span>
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T, Thomas Leonid, and Mary Grace Neela M. "Personal Identity Identification and Authentication Statistics Based on Countermeasures against Spoofing." Multidisciplinary Journal for Applied Research in Engineering and Technology 1, no. 2 (September 30, 2021): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.54228/mjaret09210001.
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To make the online banking system secure, a three-step authentication method using the face, iris, and fingerprint is used. To improve security, spoofing detection has also been included. A spoofing attack happens when someone attempts to impersonate someone else and gets unauthorized access. The face and iris are captured by the camera, while the fingerprint is captured by the fingerprint module. Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix is used to extract a picture of a person's face, iris, and fingerprint (GLCM). A reference module is constructed using the extracted picture so that the input may be compared to it, and if the input matches the module, a one-time password (OTP) is delivered to the user's mobile phone. Only the online transaction may take place if the OTP is entered correctly. Otherwise, the account holder will get an alert message. This method allows for a very secure online transaction.
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Sponberg, Adrienne. "MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTOR: KIDS, THE BEST AMBASSADORS ON THE PLANET." Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 23, no. 2 (May 2014): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lob.201423240.
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Szilágyi, Péter. "Iris: A decentralized approach to backend messaging middlewares." Computer Science and Information Systems 11, no. 2 (2014): 549–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/csis130823024s.
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In this work we introduce the design and internal workings of the Iris decentralized messaging framework. Iris takes a midway approach between the two prevalent messaging middleware models: the centralized one represented by the AMQP family and the socket queuing one represented by ZeroMQ; by turning towards peer-to-peer overlays as the internal transport for message distribution and delivery. A novel concept is introduced, whereby a distributed service is composed not of individual application instances, but rather clusters of instances responsible for the same sub-service. Supporting this new model, a collection of higher level messaging patterns have been identified and successfully implemented: broadcast, request/reply, publish/subscribe and tunnel. This conceptual model and supporting primitives allow a much simpler way to specify, design and implement distributed, cloud based services. Furthermore, the proposed system achieves a significant switching speed, which - given its decentralized nature - can be scaled better than existing messaging frameworks, whilst incurring zero configuration costs.
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Cass, Philip. "A common conception of justice underlies Pacific churches’ message on climate change." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 26, no. 2 (October 22, 2020): 88–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i2.1139.
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This article presents an overview of the role mainstream churches can play in mitigating the climate change crisis in the Pacific and their role in facilitating climate induced migration. It builds on earlier work by the author (Cass, 2018; 2020) with a focus on Fiji, Tonga and Papua New Guinea. Both Catholic and Protestant churches share a concern for the future of the planet based on the principles of economic, social and climate justice, which complement moral and ecumenical imperatives. The article examines what message the churches convey through the media and the theology that underlines them.
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Kozel, Jessica A. (Wieberg). "Message from the Chair of the Resident Council: Reaching Out to a Shrinking Planet." Critical Values 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 12–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/criticalvalues/4.1.12.
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Hidayat, Muhammad, Arwin Juli Rakhmadi, and Abu Yazid Raisal. "Measuring the Apparent Magnitude of Planet Mars on August 1st and October 2nd, 2018 at the Falak Observatory at Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatera." Indonesian Review of Physics 3, no. 1 (May 30, 2020): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/irip.v3i1.1838.
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The Bright stars that were seen by the eyes are the received quantity of the energy flux sent from the celestial body. The energy flux is inversely proportional to the distant quadrant which means that the light of the stars that are visible to our eyes cannot be compared to the actual brightness or even weaker than the others and the visible star lights the apparent magnitude. The purpose of this study is to measure the apparent magnitude of Mars. This research methodology is quantitative, by taking number of images/videos of Mars and then the data is processed by using IRIS software. The results of the analysis is using IRIS software that shows the value of the apparent magnitude of Mars on August 1st, 2018 is (-1.56 ± 0.33) and October 2nd 2018 is (-1.84 ± 0.08). This was taken by selecting the best image result in clear night sky.
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Moore, David, Matthias Heilweck, and Peter Petros. "Saving the planet with appropriate biotechnology: 1. Diagnosing the problems." Mexican Journal of Biotechnology 6, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.29267/mxjb.2021.6.1.1.
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We give a plain language guide to the Earth’s carbon cycle by briefly summarising the observations and origins of increased levels of greenhouse gases, mainly CO2 but including CH4 and N2O, in our atmosphere. The only tenable explanation for our atmosphere’s present state is that it is the consequence of mankind’s excessive use of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution onwards. We deal with the arguments that deny the truth of this, then illustrate the Earth’s global carbon cycle, which was almost exactly in equilibrium for several thousand years while humans were evolving, before industrial humans intervened. We describe how the excess greenhouse gas emissions are projected to change the global climate over this century and beyond and discuss ‘dangerous anthropogenic interference’ (DAI), ‘reasons for concern’ (RFCs) and climate tipping points. Finally, we give a short account of the various improved management, engineering and natural climate solutions advocated to increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions across global forests, wetlands, grasslands, agricultural lands, and industry. This review concludes with our basic message, which is that cultivation of aquatic calcifiers (coccolithophore algae, corals, crustacea and molluscs) offers the only effective and permanent carbon sequestration strategy.
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Skubała, Piotr. "The most important message in the history of mankind." Environmental & Socio-economic Studies 4, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/environ-2016-0009.
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AbstractIt the long history of life on the Earth five major mass extinctions were observed. Nowadays, the impact of human activities on the planet has accelerated the loss of species and ecosystems to a level comparable to a sixth mass extinction, the first driven by a living species. Surprisingly, this fact rarely reaches the public consciousness. The negative influence of human activity is observed in whole area of land ecosystems, whereas marine ecosystems are at risk of entering a phase of extinction unprecedented in human history. We have domesticated landscapes and ecosystems causing unforeseen changes in ecosystem attributes. Humanity has already overshot global biocapacity by 50% and now lives unsustainabily by depleting stocks of natural capital. Three the Earth-system processes - climate change, rate of biodiversity loss and interference with the nitrogen cycle - have already transgressed their boundaries. Human activities are of sufficient magnitude to suggest that we have triggered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. The “Biosphere 2” project revailed that we are not able to build and control a different system life and that we are totally dependent on the present biosphere. The experiment known in the literature as “The Tragedy of the Commons” reminds us that we need frugality and cooperation to solve environmental problems and survive.
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Robie, David. "Globalisation ghosts and the gatekeepers." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 17, no. 1 (May 31, 2011): 245–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v17i1.386.
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Reviewed book by Kunda Dixit
Publication date: May, 2011
When Kunda Dixit's inaugural edition of Dateline Earth: Journalism as if the Planet Mattered was published in the Phillippines 14 years ago, it was an inspiring, if also daunting and prophetic, insight into global journalism. It still is, and in fact is even more of a wake-up call in this long-awaited second edition. Much of the message is as persuasive now as it was then.
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SureshSingh, N., and G. Suganthi. "High Secured and Authenticated Secret Message Sending using TIRI-DCT-DWT based Iris Recognition and Steganography." International Journal of Computer Applications 70, no. 8 (May 17, 2013): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5120/11983-7858.
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Shelton, Dinah. "Dominion and Stewardship." AJIL Unbound 109 (2015): 132–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2398772300001318.
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The Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis centers on an interpretation of Biblical texts that establishes human power over other creatures and the right to beneficial use of them, imposing a type of guardianship or a trust, not a right of ownership. The Pope emphasizes that message he presents is intended to be a universal one, not limited to all Catholics or even all Christians, but to “every person living on this planet.” The encyclical begins by reviewing several aspects of the present ecological crisis, then considers some principles drawn from the Judaeo-Christian tradition which can render commitment to the environment more coherent.
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Mishra, Varun, Samarth Nehe, P. G. V. Sai Karthik, Atharva Gulhane, and Navyaa Sharma. "CryptO’Roulette A Smart Approach To Modern Encryption." International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology 11, no. 4 (April 30, 2022): 77–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.35940/ijeat.b3311.0411422.
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In a symmetric-key cryptosystem, where the secret key is known to both the sender who encrypts the message (let’s call her Alice) and the receiver who decrypts the message (let's call him Bob). Since the secret key is very important so it cannot be disclosed to any third party that is why it should not be exchanged through any public form of communication because if through any means these keys get leaked all the encrypted messages in the future will be compromised [1].We know that the advent of technology has increased the risks of data thefts and compromising data integrity. So, to secretly exchange the key both the parties must hold some sort of private meeting, therefore they need to establish some private communication channel. This is a difficult task practically speaking in terms of internet communications. [6] These days, the utilization of the Internet is developing quickly throughout the planet, and security is turning into a significant public concern. Already security was a significant issue for military applications yet presently the application region has been improved as more correspondence happens on the web. Cryptography is a computer science platform intended to give security to senders and receivers to communicate and recover secret data about an uncertain channel through a cycle called Encryption/Decryption. Cryptography guarantees that the message ought to be sent without change and that only authorized individuals can open and peruse the message [10].In this paper, we tried to randomize the encryption process so that the data becomes more secure and less vulnerable to hacker attacks. We will use the top 4 best existing encryption algorithms like AES, TripleDES, Rabbit, etc., and use them to randomly encrypt the different segments of the message.
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Pradhap, S., Dr J. Sreerambabu, and N. Santhosh. "Real Time Video Recognition of Signs for Deaf and Dump Using Deep Learning." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 10, no. 8 (August 31, 2022): 936–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.46318.
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Abstract: To pass the message is one of the essential prerequisites for endurance in the general public. Gesture based communication is a typical specialized technique for hard of hearing stupid local area. It makes out of an assortment scope of motions, activities and, surprisingly, facial feelings.Gesture based communication is utilized by 70 million individuals all over the planet. Understanding communication via gestures is one of the essential empowering influences in assisting clients of gesture-based communication with speaking with the remainder of the general public. The hard of hearing and dump local area moves back with regards to the intelligent part with ordinary individuals. This makes a tremendous hole among hard of hearing and dump individuals and ordinary individuals. Since our local area have no clue about communication through signing. In this project an application is created which will fill in as a learning instrument first of all in communication via gestures that includes hand recognition. Application is made to change gesture-based communication over to message. An application which makes an interpretation of Sign language to message, which utilizes the portable camera to catch the picture of the hand motion. Then, at that point, the caught picture goes through the series of activity. The CNN model is utilized to extricate the elements of the caught picture and makes an interpretation of it into text.
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Karpinska-Krakowiak, Malgorzata, Lukasz Skowron, and Lachezar Ivanov. "“I Will Start Saving Natural Resources, Only When You Show Me the Planet as a Person in Danger”: The Effects of Message Framing and Anthropomorphism on Pro-Environmental Behaviors that are Viewed as Effortful." Sustainability 12, no. 14 (July 8, 2020): 5524. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12145524.
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Little is known on how to encourage effortful (rather than effortless) conservation behaviors, and prior research investigated only single (rather than multiple) message appeals in terms of their persuasive power in promoting pro-environmental intentions. The current study uses a framework from evolutionary psychology to propose and test a blend of message appeals that is most likely to drive green behaviors perceived as effortful. An experiment with a 2 (yes versus no anthropomorphic cue) × 2 (negative versus positive message frame) between-subjects design was run, and effort was included as a measured factor. The findings reveal that negatively framed messages are most effective in prompting effortful (but not effortless) pro-environmental intentions only when they are coupled with anthropomorphic cues (no differences between loss and gain messages were found when no anthropomorphism was used). These effects were replicated across two types of behaviors: water conservation and waste reduction.
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Ábrahám, P., Á. Kóspál, M. Kun, O. Fehér, G. Zsidi, and J. A. Acosta-Pulido. "An UXor among FUors: extinction-related brightness variations of the young eruptive star V582 Aur." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 14, S345 (August 2018): 390–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921319003041.
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AbstractThe early evolution of Sun-like stars may be interspersed by energetic FU Orionis (FUor) type accretion outbursts. We analysed eight years of photometric and spectroscopic variability of V582 Aur, a bona fide FUor, in outburst. While the accretion rate derived from near-infrared measurements was constant, radical brightness changes occurred due to dust clumps crossing the line of sight. The brightness minima resemble the variability patterns of the UXor phenomenon. Orbiting density enhancements or short-lived clumps moving in and out of the line-of-sight may explain these observations. Our message is that during FUor outbursts the inner disk is a dynamically active place, affecting the initial conditions for planet formation.
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Raiyn, Jamal. "Data and Cyber Security in Autonomous Vehicle Networks." Transport and Telecommunication Journal 19, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 325–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ttj-2018-0027.
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Abstract An autonomous vehicle (AV) is a vehicle that operates and performs tasks under its own power. Some features of autonomous vehicle are sensing the environment, collecting information and managing communication with other vehicles. Many autonomous vehicles in development use a combination of cameras, sensors, GPS, radar, LiDAR, and on-board computers. These technologies work together to map the vehicle’s position and its proximity to everything around it. Because of their reliance on these sorts of technologies, which are easily accessible to tampering, a autonomous vehicles are susceptible to cyber attacks if an attacker can discover a weakness in a certain type of vehicle or in a company’s electronic system. This lack of information security can lead to criminal and terrorist acts that eventually cost lives. This paper gives an overview of cyber attack scenarios relating to autonomous vehicles. The cyber security concept proposed here uses biometric data for message authentication and communication, and projects stored and new data based on iris recognition. Iris recognition system can provide other knowledge about drivers as well, such as how tired and sleepy they might be while driving, and they are designed to encrypt the vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-environment communication based on encryption security mechanisms.
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Jensen, Søren. "Fra apokalyptik til science fiction. Jakob Balling in memoriam." Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 75, no. 3 (October 10, 2012): 170–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dtt.v75i3.105582.
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In his book Poeterne som kirkelærere (The Poets as Theologians)Jakob Balling compares Dante’s Divine Comedy with Milton’sParadise Lost. He discusses similarities and differences between the twopoems and places them in a literary tradition that combines theologyand poetry, a relationship that has had a decisive influence on the development of literature in Europe. The present article expands this perspective both backwards and forwards in time by including a discussionof the interrelationship between fi ction and religious message in Jewishapocalyptic, using the Apocalypse of Abraham and C.S. Lewis’ modernscience fiction novel Out of the Silent Planet as examples. The article’sdiscussion of the relationship between theology and fi ction raises thequestion of the apocalyptic as genre. Moreover, the demonstration ofthe fi ctional tendency in the apocalyptic is used to support and supplementthe traditional description of genre.
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Porter, S. D., and C. J. Meyer. "A distal tyrosinase upstream element stimulates gene expression in neural-crest-derived melanocytes of transgenic mice: position-independent and mosaic expression." Development 120, no. 8 (August 1, 1994): 2103–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.120.8.2103.
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We have assessed the importance of a melanocyte-specific DNase I hypersensitive site and matrix attachment region situated 15 kb upstream of the mouse tyrosinase gene by analysis in transgenic mice. Transgenes containing all, part, or none of this region linked to the tyrosinase promoter and human tyrosinase cDNA were introduced into genetically albino mice, and pigmentation and transgene message levels were analyzed in the resulting transgenic lines. The effect of the upstream region was to enhance significantly gene expression in melanocytes, and to provide position-independent expression of the transgene. Two exceptions to complete position independence were seen; these lines displayed a mosaic expression pattern in which the transgene was expressed fully in some melanocyte clones but less so in others, resulting in transverse stripes of colours ranging from near white to dark grey. Unexpectedly, pigmentation in the eye of all transgenic lines containing the upstream region was nonuniform, in that the neural-crest-derived melanocytes of the choroid and anterior iris contained significantly more pigment than those derived from the optic cup (retinal pigment epithelium and posterior iris). Transgenes containing a small part or none of the upstream region were expressed poorly and in a position-dependent manner; of those lines that were visibly pigmented, expression was equal in the neural crest and optic-cup-derived cells of the eye.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Lagomarsino, Maria, Linda Lemarié, and Michael Puntiroli. "When saving the planet is worth more than avoiding destruction: The importance of message framing when speaking to egoistic individuals." Journal of Business Research 118 (September 2020): 162–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.046.
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Garcia-Lozano, Carla, Laura Olivas, Rosa Olivella, and Anna Peliova. "Edusat: remote sensing as an educational resource. The use of data from the Copernicus program as an innovative teaching method for students, teachers, and researchers." AGILE: GIScience Series 2 (June 4, 2021): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-2-26-2021.
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Abstract. The intensification in recent decades of scientific evidence on climate change and on the degradation of natural systems has led to increasing public awareness about the environment. In recent times, this commitment to respecting the natural environment has emerged strongly among young people. Through various platforms, entities, and slogans, students from all over the world, and belonging to different disciplines, are coming together to defend their right to have a planet that enjoys good environmental health.The platform Edusat presented in this article aims to provide young people with empirical and quantitative learning tools to strengthen their ecology message. By means of remote sensing and through the data generated by the Copernicus program, an educational resource that analyzes the consequences of global environmental change is presented. In this context, remote sensing is a technological and transdisciplinary resource that provides young people with scientific arguments to censure the current relationship between human societies and nature.
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Roth, Ben. "Tenet, Climate Change, and the Misdirection of Interpretation." Film and Philosophy 26 (2022): 85–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/filmphil2021102110.
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Christopher Nolan’s seems a spy thriller in which a government operative saves the world. As others have noted, it is in a larger sense about climate change—even though it mentions it but once. Where the film has been dismissed as not saying anything substantial, or even read as promoting an activist message, I argue it is most coherently interpreted as a reactionary defense of the status quo. The film is about a war between the present and future, its heroes those who beat back time travelers trying to prevent us from destroying the planet. If audiences are not passive recipients of propaganda, but critical and cognitive, then blockbusters need to distract them from unavowable larger meanings by redirecting interpretive energies into the details; plot holes are not a bug, but a feature. The meticulous, puzzle-box construction of Nolan’s films, which encourages elaborate fan theorizing, distracts both viewers and Nolan himself from their ideological content.
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Balan, Mihaela-Georgiana. "Aspects of Musical Semantics from the Perspective of Structuralism, Semiotics and Narratology." Artes. Journal of Musicology 18, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ajm-2018-0007.
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AbstractMusic is a universal force, a widely spread mean of communication on the entire planet, because it has a strong ability to influence human emotions, even without words (when referring to instrumental or symphonic music). Thus, music is one of the most challenging arts in ‘deciphering’ the hidden message of its creator. The present paper is focused on three analytical techniques which imposed themselves in the musicology field of the 20thcentury – structuralism, semiotics, narratology. Our purpose is to offer a general outlook on these perspectives and some specific principles of applicability when approaching a musical score, in terms of formal construction, sonorous structures, equivalence classes applied to musical elements, energetic potential of musical isotopes using modal verbs, essential aspects in determining the narrative frame (spatiality, temporality, actoriality). Structuralism, semiotics and narratology emerged as independent sciences successively, during half a century, influencing each other in a stimulating coexistence which enabled a wide scientific opening until present.
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Khairunnisa, Widya, A. Efendi, and Ghia Subagja. "PERSPEKTIF GREEN MARKETING TOOLS PADA PEMBELIAN PRODUK RAMAH LINGKUNGAN." Jurnal Perspektif Bisnis 4, no. 2 (January 10, 2022): 104–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.23960/jpb.v4i2.72.
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This study aims to determine the level significance effect of green products, green advertising, and green packaging on consumer purchasing decisions Love Beauty and Planet products with an explanatory quantitative approach. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling on 100 respondents. Data analysis was performed by multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that there was an effect of green product, green advertising, and green packaging partially and simultaneously on purchasing decisions. The biggest effect in this study was green advertising variable with advertisements that display the characteristics of eco-friendly products, so as to instill a good impression in the minds of consumers and encourage purchase decisions. However, the message elements contained in green advertising have low value for consumers, so that efforts are needed to improve these aspects. The research implication proves that eco-friendly marketing stimuli have a positive effect on purchasing decisions.
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Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui tingkat signifikansi pengaruh green product, green advertising, dan green packaging terhadap keputusan pembelian konsumen produk Love Beauty and Planet melalui pendekatan kuantitatif dengan jenis penelitian eksplanatori. Teknik sampling yang digunakan yaitu purposive sampling dengan jumlah 100 responden. Analisis data dilakukan melalui analisis regresi linear berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukan terdapat pengaruh signifikan green product, green advertising, dan green packaging secara parsial maupun simultan terhadap keputusan pembelian. Pengaruh terbesar terletak pada variabel green advertising dengan iklan yang menampilkan karakteristik produk ramah lingkungan sehingga menanamkan kesan baik di benak konsumen dan mendorong keputusan pembelian. Namun, elemen pesan yang terdapat dalam green advertising memiliki nilai yang rendah bagi konsumen, sehingga diperlukan upaya peningkatan pada aspek tersebut. Implikasi penelitian membuktikan bahwa stimulus pemasaran yang ramah lingkungan berpengaruh positif terhadap keputusan pembelian.
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Obead, Muhammad Fahim, Ihsan Ahmed Taha, and Ahmed Hussein Salaman. "Design and implementation of irrigation prototype system based GSM." Journal Port Science Research 4, no. 2 (November 18, 2021): 77–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.36371/port.2021.2.5.
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Smart farming is one of the keys for future agriculture because it is a management to use modern technology for increasing the quality and quantity of the agriculture. And because of the planet quality depend on the amount of water and the characteristics of soil, it is necessary to study the soil using the soil moisture sensor to investigate whether the soil is dry or wet, also to consider the challenges that could be faced in agricultural environment by maintain the soil and the planets irrigated without extra usage of water. In this paper, a prototype irrigation system uses Arduino Uno microcontroller which is programmed in C++ language to sense the degree of moisture by using soil moisture sensor. According to moisture sensor readings, when the moisture sensor above 1000, Arduino triggers to supply the water by using 5V mini water pump and stop when the soil moisture sensor reading reaches below 400. GSM technology enables the user to be notified in any changes happening in agricultural area by sending SMS (Short Message Service). Whenever the soil become wet or dry and the mini water pump switched on or off, a message delivered to user’s cellular phone indicating the condition of the soil and the action of water pump. In that capacity, this prototype will reduce the time for the user by monitoring remotely without going to his land, and also to reduce the usage of water by allow the water pump to flow the water for limited time until the moisture degree raise again.
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Vieira, Edward, Yulong Li, and Anthony Scotina. "Global Automakers. CSR Reporting and Targeted Stakeholders 2018-2020 : American English." Symphonya. Emerging Issues in Management, no. 1 (July 31, 2022): 92–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.4468/2022.1.09vieira.li.scotina.
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This paper deployed a network-based computational content analysis approach to uncover the major themes and targeted stakeholder groups presented in the top leadership’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports’ introductory letters for eleven major global vehicle manufacturers for the period 2018-2020. Themes were based on the 3Ps of sustainability (people, planet, and profit), basic business practices (economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic) in the context of CSR, time orientation of the themes whether short- or long- term, and identified targeted stakeholder groups. This study is unique in that the extant literature reveals no research examining CSR disclosure in the automobile industry from both a sustainable goal-directed and practices perspective incorporating potential influences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results revealed that some vehicle manufacturers focused on investor and economic activities while others communicated a general social responsibility message. During 2020, greater emphasis was placed on investors and somewhat less on society in general. Findings suggest the need for a more balanced representation geared toward addressing pandemic and post-pandemic challenges as well as traditional automotive manufacturing considerations.
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Sobaihi, Mamdouh M. A. "The Role of Faith Systems and Religions in the Future of Sustainable Development: An Islamic Outlook." Journal of Sustainable Development 12, no. 5 (September 29, 2019): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v12n5p23.
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Reference material concerning sustainable development has increased dramatically over the last decades, with more and more countries, agencies and businesses following the sustainable development ideals and principles. However, one of the most basic of human institutions has not contributed, and perhaps not allowed to contribute, to the debate. Religion and faith systems have a great potential in influencing not only the definitions of sustainable development but also concepts of human sustainable practices to achieve sustainable development goals. The main obstacle to the fulfillment of this potential appears to be the lack of outreach and acceptance of the scientific community to the religious and faith system institutions and individuals. In this paper, a review of the literature is carried out to shed light on the root of this schism between science and belief systems. In addition, the paper will highlight how the majority of the literature deals with process rather than the individual human being and how to make him/her a better practitioner of sustainability. It is also aimed that the paper shed some light on how religious and faith system ideals can be incorporated into sustainable development plans and systems. The main focus of the paper is to cast light on the religion of Islam and some of the Islamic teachings and Ideals and how they can be incorporated in delivering the message of sustainable development since the religion of Islam is forecast to be the largest faith on the planet in the not too distant future. In conclusion, a discussion on how the various religious networks can deliver the message of sustainability will be discussed.
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Mawla, Noura A., and Hussein K. Khafaji. "Protein Motifs to Hide GA-Based Encrypted Data." Scientific Programming 2022 (September 25, 2022): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1846788.
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The arms of the Internet octopus have reached the ends of the planet. As it has become indispensable in our daily lives, huge amounts of information are transmitted through this network, and it is growing momentarily, which has led to an increase in the number of attacks on this information. Keeping the security of this information has become a necessity today. Therefore, the scientists of cryptography and steganography have seen a great and rapid development in the previous years to the present day, where various security and protection techniques have been used in these two technologies. In this research, it was emphasized to secure the confidentiality and security of the transmitted data between the sending and receiving parties by using both techniques of encryption and steganography. In contrast, where genetic algorithms and logic gates are exploited in an encryption process, in an unprecedented approach, protein motifs are used to mask the encoded message, gaining more dispersion because there are 20 bases used to represent the protein. The real payload gained ranges between 0.8 and 2.666, which outperforms the algorithms that depend on DNA sequences.
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Fakhro, Ali Mohammed. "Many are the Crimes Committed in the Name of Islam." ICR Journal 4, no. 3 (July 15, 2013): 443–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.52282/icr.v4i3.459.
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During the French Revolution, a cry began to spread: “Oh, Freedom, How many crimes are committed in your name!” Today, in Arab and Muslim lands, we appear to need a similar rallying call: “Oh Islam, How many crimes are committed in your name!”
The Arab and Islamic worlds do not have the right any longer to disregard or pass over in silence the crimes that sweep across the planet on a daily basis in the name of Islam. It is not only a matter of mistakes and excesses committed under the false banner of jihad for Islam. These are unspeakably crazed and wanton crimes, sordid and full of treachery. There can be no doubt that they are committed to the beat of Satan’s drumming the Satan who is the enemy of both God and Man. They are terrifying events that defame Islam’s reputation and disgrace Muslims, and distort the meaning and objectives of the Quranic message and key terms such as al-jihad, as well as other words that are arbitrarily wrested from their context in a Holy Quranic verse to be deployed in political skirmishes.
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Kelly, Andrew S. "The Political Development of Scientific Capacity in the United States." Studies in American Political Development 28, no. 1 (February 24, 2014): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x13000151.
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When well directed, science is the greatest agency for the welfare of mankind. John Wesley Powell, the director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), delivered this message to Congress in 1884. The purpose of Powell's testimony to Congress was not to argue for the erection of an organizational framework for American science, but to defend the one that had been put in place decades earlier. At the time of Powell's testimony, the United States had already begun to assume the mantle of the greatest scientific nation on the planet. “I have studied the question closely,” declared W. H. Smyth, the president of the Royal Geographical Society of London, “and do not hesitate to pronounce the conviction that though the Americans were last in the field, they have, per saltum, leaped into the very front of the rank.” The organizational structure at the heart of America's rapid scientific rise was initially constructed by scientists serving in the nineteenth-century American bureaucracy—by men like John W. Powell. Often seen as a source of state incapacity, in this instance, the federal bureaucracy was the most important force in American scientific development.
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Bracey, Ph.D., DPA, Earnest N. "Toward a Theory of Political Science and the Future of Exopolitics." Language, Education and Culture Research 3, no. 1 (January 19, 2023): p1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/lecr.v3n1p1.
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The aim of this paper is to inform (or enlighten) the public about exopolitics, which is a sub-discipline of political science that puts a new spin on studying extraterrestrial life or non-human, intelligent entities — that is, as it especially relates to politics. And despite its contrary and controversial message, exopolitics pushes the political science envelope. Indeed, the discipline speaks volumes about a supposed relationship we (humans) may have with intelligent creatures outside our realm of understanding, particularly with an unprecedented wave of UFO sightings worldwide. Of course, human beings have always felt the need to connect with other humans; but will this position mean that we can also come together with humanoids from another planet? Exopolitics is also concerned with other alien worlds, and different academic thought processes that might led to profound misunderstandings about this specific political science discipline, and our understanding of the fabric of the universe. Further, we need objectivity and clarity when it comes to studying exopolitics. Finally, exopolitics, fortunately, has not caused some kind of academic backlash; nor is it some namby-pamby academic discipline that has no bearing on anything.
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Sanober, Naheed. "An overview of the influence of climate change on food security and human health." Archives of Food and Nutritional Science 7, no. 1 (January 18, 2023): 001–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.29328/journal.afns.1001044.
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Climate change is increasing the frequency of climate-related disasters, creating greater risks of hunger and the breakdown of food systems. The sustainability of our planet is currently a major concern for the global community and has been a central theme for a number of major global initiatives in recent years. Climate change has prevalent, multi-faceted, and temporal impacts on food security. Higher temperatures, water scarcity, extreme events like droughts and floods and greater CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have already begun to impact staple crops around the world. The warming climate is already taking a toll on human health, causing widespread hunger and illness that will grow exponentially worse, and will pose a major threat to human well-being. In this article, an attempt has been made to discuss some critical issues relevant to the four dimensions of food security and to provide broader perspectives on climate change and its impacts on the food system, food security and human well-being. “Humanity is facing a rare challenge. But it is a common challenge. There are no sides in the fight for climate justice” (Kofi Annan’s message prior to the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen 2009).
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Lauesen, Linne Marie. "Sustainable investment evaluation by means of life cycle assessment." Social Responsibility Journal 15, no. 3 (May 7, 2019): 347–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/srj-03-2018-0054.
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Purpose Sustainability investors are in need of updated standards, indexes and in general better tools and instruments to facilitate company information on its impacts on people, planet and profit. Such instruments to reveal reliable, independent metrics and indicators to evaluate companies’ performances on sustainability exist, however, in research fields that previously have not been used extensively, for instance, life cycle assessments (LCAs). ISO 14001:2015 has implemented life cycle perspective, however, without being explicitly clear on which methodology is preferred. This paper aims to investigate LCA as to improve companies’ transparency towards sustainability investors through a literature review on sustainable investment evaluation. Design/methodology/approach The literature review is conducted through the search engine Google Scholar, which to date hosts the most comprehensive academic database across other databases such as Scopus, ISI Web of Knowledge, Science Direct, etc. Search words such as “Sustainable finance”, “Sustainable Investments”, “Performance metrics”, “Life cycle assessment”, “LCA”, “Environmental Management Systems”, “EMS” and “Environmental Profit and Loss Account” were used. Special journals that publish research on LCA such as International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Industrial Ecology were also investigated in-depth. Findings The combination of using LCA in, for instance, environmental profit and loss accounts studied in this paper shows a comprehensive and reliable tool for sustainability investors, as well as for social responsibility standards such as ISO 14001, ISO 26000, UN Global Compact, GIIN, IRIS and GRI to incorporate. With a LCA-based hybrid input-output account, both upstream and downstream’s impact on the environment and society can be assessed by companies to attract more funding from sustainability investors such as shareholders, governments and intergovernmental bodies. Research limitations/implications The literature review is based on publicly disclosed academic papers as well as five displayed company Environmental Profit and Loss accounts from the Kering Group, PUMA, Stella McCartney company, Novo Nordisk and Arla Group. Other company experiences with integration of LCA as a reporting tool have not been found, yet it is not to conclude that these five companies are the only ones to work extensively with LCA. Practical implications The paper may contribute to the clarification of LCA-thinking and perspective implementation in both ISO 14001 and ISO 26000, as well as in other social responsibility standards such as the UN Global Compact, the Global Impact Investing Networks, IRIS performance metrics, the Global Reporting Initiative and others. Originality/value The paper is one of the first that evaluates LCA and environmental profit and loss accounts for sustainability investors, as well as for consideration of implementation in social responsibility standards such as the ISO 14001 and ISO 26000, as well as in other social responsibility standards such as the UN Global Compact, the Global Impact Investing Networks, IRIS performance metrics and the Global Reporting Initiative.
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Suranti, Sri. "SOSIALISASI INTELLIGENT RESEARCH AND INNOVATION SERVICES (IRIS) 1103 BAGI CIVITAS AKADEMIKA UNS (Studi Evaluasi Model CIPP terhadap Sosialisasi IRIS1103 oleh Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat Universitas Sebelas Maret)." Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi 5, no. 2 (March 29, 2017): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/interaksi.5.2.101-111.
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Abstract: The objectives of this research to evaluate the success of socialization activities IRIS1103 organized by LPPM UNS for civitas akademika UNS based on CIPP evaluation model, supported quantitative and qualitative data. Quantitative data are collected using questionnaires given to educators in the environment UNS. While qualitative data obtained through interviews with researchers and implementers of the target IRIS1103 and socialization study documents used in the activities of socialization.Based on the results of the CIPP evaluation model (Context, Input, Process, Product) on the communication element (Communicator, message, and partisipant) in the IRIS1103 socialization activities be declared successful and effective way to improve understanding and knowledge of civitas akademika UNS about Groove Research and community services (P2M) IRIS1103 in the application which ultimately encourage them to create new routines, visit iris1103.uns.ac.id every page requires information on the P2M. Key words: socialization, CIPP evaluation model, IRIS1103, research and community services
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Gonçalves, Diogo, Pedro Coelho, Luis F. Martinez, and Paulo Monteiro. "Nudging Consumers toward Healthier Food Choices: A Field Study on the Effect of Social Norms." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 4, 2021): 1660. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041660.
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Food choices influence the health of individuals, and supermarkets are the place where part of the world population makes their food choices on a daily basis. Different methods to influence food purchasing habits are used, from promotions to food location. However, very few supermarket chains use social norms, the human need to conform to the perceived behavior of the group, to increase healthy food purchase habits. This research seeks to understand how a social norm nudge, a message conveying fruit and vegetable purchasing norms positioned in strategic places, can effectively change food choices. Using data from an intervention in a Portuguese supermarket, the fruit and vegetable purchase quantities of 1636 customers were measured over three months and compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. The results show that the nudge intervention positively affected those whose purchasing habits are categorized as less healthy, while those with healthy habits were slightly negatively affected. Moreover, a follow-up inferential statistical analysis allows us to conclude that applying this intervention at a larger scale would deliver significant financial results for the supermarket chain in which the study took place, by decreasing the costs related to produce perishability while simultaneously improving the health of the consumer and the sustainability of the planet.
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Nwagbara, Uzoechi. "Earth in the Balance The Commodification of the Environment in and." Matatu 40, no. 1 (December 1, 2012): 61–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001005.
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Tanure Ojaide and Niyi Òsundare are among the foremost politically committed Nigerian poets at present. The overriding concern in virtually all their literary works is commenting on the politics of the season. In Òsundare's words, poetry is “man meaning to man.” For Ojaide, a creative writer is not “an airplant” that is not situated in a place. Both writers envision literature should have political message. Thus, in Òsundare's collection (1986) and Tanure Ojaide's (1998) the major aesthetic focus is eco-poetry, which interrogates the politics behind oil exploration in Nigeria as well as its consequences on our environment. Both writers refract this with what Òsundare calls “semantics of terrestiality”: i.e. poetry for the earth. Eco-poetry deals with environmental politics and ecological implications of humankind's activities on the planet. Armed with this poetic commitment, both writers unearth commodification of socio-economic relations, environmental/ecological dissonance, leadership malaise and endangered Nigerian environment mediated through (global) capitalism. Both writers maintain that eco-poetry is a platform for upturning environmental justice; and for decrying man's unbridled materialist pursuits. Thus, the preoccupation of this paper is to explore how both poetry collections: and interrogate the despicable state of Nigeria's environment as a consequence of global capitalism.
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Rajiv Ranjan Tewari, Shivangi Srivastav,. "Efficient Approach of Automatic Speech Emotion Recognition (ASR) Using Mutual Information." INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN INDUSTRY 9, no. 1 (March 10, 2021): 595–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/itii.v9i1.177.
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Speech is a significant quality for distinguishing a person in daily human to human interaction/ communication. Like other biometric measures, such as face, iris and fingerprints, voice can therefore be used as a biometric measure for perceiving or identifying the person. Speaker recognition is almost the same as a kind of voice recognition in which the speaker is identified from the expression instead of the message. Automatic Speaker Recognition (ASR) is the way to identify people who rely on highlights that are omitted from speech expressions. Speech signals are awesome correspondence media that constantly pass on rich and useful knowledge, such as a speaker's feeling, sexual orientation, complement, and other interesting attributes. In any speaker identification, the essential task is to delete helpful highlights and allow for significant examples of speaker models.
Hypothetical description, organization of the full state of feeling and the modalities of articulation of feeling are added. A SER framework is developed to conduct this investigation, in view of different classifiers and different techniques for extracting highlights. In this work various machine learning algorithms are investigated to identify decision boundary in feature space of audio signals. Moreover novelty of this art lies in improving the performance of classical machine learning algorithms using information theory based feature selection methods. The higher accuracy retrieved is 96 percent using Random forest algorithm incorporated with Joint Mutual information feature selection method.
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Hernández Ramos, Santiago, M. Teresa Villalba, and Raquel Lacuesta. "MQTT Security: A Novel Fuzzing Approach." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2018 (2018): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8261746.
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The Internet of Things is a concept that is increasingly present in our lives. The emergence of intelligent devices has led to a paradigm shift in the way technology interacts with the environment, leading society to a smarter planet. Consequently, new advanced telemetry approaches appear to connect all kinds of devices with each other, with companies, or with other networks, such as the Internet. On the road to an increasingly interconnected world, where critical devices rely on communication networks to provide an essential service, there arises the need to ensure the security and reliability of these protocols and applications. In this paper, we discuss a security-based approach for MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport), which stands out as a very lightweight and widely used messaging and information exchange protocol for IoT (Internet of Things) devices throughout the world. To that end, we propose the creation of a framework that allows for performing a novel, template-based fuzzing technique on the MQTT protocol. The first experimental results showed that performance of the fuzzing technique presented here makes it a good candidate for use in network architectures with low processing power sensors, such as Smart Cities. In addition, the use of this fuzzer in widely used applications that implement MQTT has led to the discovery of several new security flaws not hitherto reported, demonstrating its usefulness as a tool for finding security vulnerabilities.
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Maddock, Lelys. "A quartet of poems." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30, no. 3 (March 20, 2017): 756–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-11-2016-2778.
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Purpose These texts form part of a quartet, the purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the destruction of our planet by presenting the elements as deities of nature: in Agitation the god is earth, in Burning the boy-god is fire, and in Mater Lachrymosa the mother-goddess is air (the first poem’s persona is the goddess of water/rain. Titled Heat, it is published in Volume 29 Issue 5 of AAAJ). The inspiration for these poems was Mervyn King’s statement that “Effective integrated reporting requires careful collection and co-ordination of different types of data for analysis by multi-disciplinary teams”. (King III, 2009) and his thought-provoking advocacy of the idea that “the board should provide effective leadership based on an ethical foundation” (King III, 2009). Design/methodology/approach These poems are written in free verse (which mimics the nuances and cadences of spoken English). Findings Frequent media coverage of global warming, corporate social responsibility policies, integrated reporting and dwindling resources have become fashionable clichés. We need to empower the message. CSR and the integrated report have no value if they become tick-the-box exercises. Originality/value Poetry is not generally associated with accountancy, finance, environmental law or geography so these texts are unusual in their genre and approach. The underlying concept is the interconnectedness of the themes and looking at issues with new eyes.