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Bell Jr, Wade A. "Dissecting George Miles: Objectification, the Gaze, and Ontological Uncertainty in Dennis Cooper's Closer." Moderna Språk 107, no. 2 (December 16, 2013): 20–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v107i2.8062.
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This article offers a close reading of Dennis Cooper's 1989 cult novel Closer. Despite focusing on the experiences of gay males, I argue that Closer transcends identity politics by problematizing the status and treatment of the other in a contemporary Western setting. In doing so, the novel explores the theme of objectification from both a superficial and ontological perspective: Superficially, the objectification of the protagonist George Miles seems to mirror the way that women are objectified under patriarchy, however, from an ontological perspective, Closer's symbolism suggests a much deeper search for meaning that precipitates from its character's ontological uncertainties. I argue that Closer engages the reader in this search by making them aware of their own gaze, thus incriminating them in a figurative search for meaning within the textualized body.
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Cui, Jiaxu, Bo Yang, Bingyi Sun, and Jiming Liu. "Cost-aware Graph Generation: A Deep Bayesian Optimization Approach." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 35, no. 8 (May 18, 2021): 7142–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i8.16878.
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Graph-structured data is ubiquitous throughout the natural and social sciences, ranging from complex drug molecules to artificial neural networks. Evaluating their functional properties, e.g., drug effectiveness and prediction accuracy, is usually costly in terms of time, money, energy, or environment, becoming a bottleneck for the graph generation task. In this work, from the perspective of saving cost, we propose a novel Cost-Aware Graph Generation (CAGG) framework to generate graphs with optimal properties at as low cost as possible. By introducing a robust Bayesian graph neural network as the surrogate model and a goal-oriented training scheme for the generation model, the CAGG can approach the real expensive evaluation function and generate search space close to the optimal property, to avoid unnecessary evaluations. Intensive experiments conducted on two challenging real-world applications, including molecular discovery and neural architecture search, demonstrate its effectiveness and applicability. The results show that it can generate the optimal graphs and reduce the evaluation costs significantly compared to the state-of-the-art.
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Saeed, Sohail Ahmad, Ahmad Naeem, and Muhammad Mahmood Ahmad Shaheen. "Caught in Transition: Ama Ata Aidoo's Search for a New Ghanaian Woman." Global Language Review VII, no. II (June 30, 2022): 339–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(vii-ii).28.
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This paper brings out the Womanist perspective in Aidoo’s No Sweetness Here and Other Stories. The term ‘Womanism' encapsulates the varied dynamics of the black woman's literary experience as it distinguishes itself from the feminism of the White Woman. The predicament of women in postcolonial Ghana is the focus of Aidoo’s attention. Aidoo’s vision is historical, also. In her short stories, she explores the challenges faced by women in post-independence Ghana. In the period of transition, the African woman's identity is brought into conflict with traditions and cultural modernization. Aidoo’s predominant concern is to reflect on women’s increasing alienation in contemporary African society with the help of tradition and modernity. In Aidoo’s vision, Africa’s progress is inseparable from the social, economic,political and psychological liberation of women. No Sweetness Here and Other Stories attempts to make African women aware of their agency, which is the first step towards their liberation.
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Frey, Renato. "Decisions from experience: Competitive search and choice in kind and wicked environments." Judgment and Decision Making 15, no. 2 (March 2020): 282–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1930297500007415.
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AbstractInformation search is key to making decision from experience: exploration permits people to learn about the statistical properties of choice options and thus to become aware of rare but potentially momentous decision consequences. This registered report investigates whether and how people differ when making decisions from experience in isolation versus under competitive pressure, which may have important implications for choice performance in different types of choice environments: in “kind” environments without any rare and extreme events, frugal search is sufficient to identify advantageous options. Conversely, in “wicked” environments with skewed outcome distributions, rare but important events will tend to be missed in frugal search. One theoretical view is that competitive pressure encourages efficiency and may thereby boost adaptive search in different environments. An alternative and more pessimistic view is that competitive pressure triggers agency-related concerns, leading to minimal search irrespective of the choice environment, and hence to inferior choice performance. Using a sampling game, the present study (N = 277) found that solitary search was not adaptive to different choice environments (M = 14 samples), leading to a high choice performance in a kind and in a moderately wicked environment, but somewhat lower performance in an extremely wicked environment. Competitive pressure substantially reduced search irrespective of the choice environment (M = 4 samples), thus negatively affecting overall choice performance. Yet, from the perspective of a cost-benefit framework, frugal search may be efficient under competitive pressure. In sum, this report extends research on decisions from experience by adopting an ecological perspective (i.e., systematically varying different choice environments) and by introducing a cost-benefit framework to evaluate solitary and competitive search — with the latter constituting a challenging problem for people in an increasingly connected world.
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Yao, Jing, Zhicheng Dou, and Ji-Rong Wen. "Clarifying Ambiguous Keywords with Personal Word Embeddings for Personalized Search." ACM Transactions on Information Systems 40, no. 3 (July 31, 2022): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3470564.
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Personalized search tailors document ranking lists for each individual user based on her interests and query intent to better satisfy the user’s information need. Many personalized search models have been proposed. They first build a user interest profile from the user’s search history, and then re-rank the documents based on the personalized matching scores between the created profile and candidate documents. In this article, we attempt to solve the personalized search problem from an alternative perspective of clarifying the user’s intention of the current query. We know that there are many ambiguous words in natural language such as “Apple.” People with different knowledge backgrounds and interests have personalized understandings of these words. Therefore, we propose a personalized search model with personal word embeddings for each individual user that mainly contain the word meanings that the user already knows and can reflect the user interests. To learn great personal word embeddings, we design a pre-training model that captures both the textual information of the query log and the information about user interests contained in the click-through data represented as a graph structure. With personal word embeddings, we obtain the personalized word and context-aware representations of the query and documents. Furthermore, we also employ the current session as the short-term search context to dynamically disambiguate the current query. Finally, we use a matching model to calculate the matching score between the personalized query and document representations for ranking. Experimental results on two large-scale query logs show that our designed model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art personalization models.
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Foncubierta-Rodríguez, María-José, Rafael Ravina-Ripoll, and José Antonio López-Sánchez. "Generational Portrait of Spanish Society in the Face of Climate Change. A Question to Consider for the Green Economy under the Well-Being Approach." Energies 14, no. 4 (February 3, 2021): 807. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14040807.
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Climate change is emerging as an issue of progressive attention, and therefore awareness, in societies. In this work, the problem is addressed from a generational perspective in Spanish society and is carried out from the approaches of awareness, human action, and self-responsibility. All this from the search of the subjective well-being and the citizens’ happiness, as one of the bases of sustainable development initiatives. With data from the European Social Survey R8, from EUROSTAT, we work in two phases: (1) descriptive and inferential on possible associations of the items with the variable Age, and (2) calculation of probabilities between groups through logistic regression. The results confirm a general awareness, but with apparent statistical differences between age groups. In general, the youngest are the most aware, blame human activity most intensely, are the most concerned, and are the most willing to act. And it is the older people who are less aware of all these issues. Based on this finding, and from the approach mentioned above, it is recommended that leaders, both in the macroeconomic and microeconomic sectors, develop initiatives that sensitize and encourage older age groups.
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Shala, Art, and Xhevat Sopi. "Communication channels consumption across awareness building, information search and school choice - perspectives from the VET sector in Kosovo." Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 23, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 109–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.54609/reaser.v23i1.206.
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This study aims at understanding the channels through which the students have become aware, the channels which they used to search for information on the schools and the key factor that pushed them to apply for a given school. Through a primary data research with n=788 respondents which are currently enrolled in VET across eight schools in Kosovo, the study has identified a critical importance of the word-of-mouth through family & relatives and friends on generating awareness for a given school and to share information on the school offering. As critical elements to take the decision to apply for the school has been considered the applicants visit directly to the school to get informed more on the offering and the desire to get equipped with the given qualification the school offers. It is important to note the impact that parents have across all the levels from brand awareness development to information search and decision making. The study provides pragmatic recommendations to school management on better optimizing their marketing efforts from a communication channel perspective, such as the importance of the open-days events of school and the usage of the social media channels (especially Facebook) to communicate their offering.
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Sinay, Laura, Maria Cristina Fogliatti de Sinay, Rodney William (Bill) Carter, and Aurea Martins. "Reflections about Garfield’s algorithm." RAUSP Management Journal 54, no. 4 (October 14, 2019): 548–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rausp-05-2019-0079.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the influence of the algorithm used on scholarly search engines (Garfield’s algorithm) and propose metrics to improve it so that science could be based on a more democratic way. Design/methodology/approach This paper used a snow-ball approach to collect data that allowed identifying the history and the logic behind the Garfield’s algorithm. It follows on excerpting the foundation of existing algorithm and databases of major scholarly search engine. It concluded proposing new metrics so as to surpass restraints and to democratize the scientific discourse. Findings This paper finds that the studied algorithm currently biases the scientific discourse toward a narrow perspective, while it should take into consideration several researchers’ characteristics. It proposes the substitution of the h-index by the number of times the scholar’s most cited work has been cited. Finally, it proposes that works in languages different than English should be included. Research limitations/implications The broad comprehension of any phenomena should be based on multiple perspectives; therefore, the inclusion of diverse metrics will extend the scientific discourse. Practical implications The improvement of the existing algorithm will increase the chances of contact among different cultures, which stimulate rapid progress on the development of knowledge. Originality/value The value of this paper resides in demonstrating that the algorithm used in scholarly search engines biases the development of science. If updated as proposed here, science will be unbiased and bias aware.
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Xu, Cui. "Design and Implementation of Online Meticulous Painting System Based on Mobile IoT Service." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2022 (June 3, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3144255.
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Contemporary art is gradually diversifying, and the aesthetics of artists have changed and progressed together with the times. Some brush painters, while inheriting the essence of tradition, continue to summarize and search for a painting language in line with the atmosphere of the times, gradually shifting their perspective to a separate, tiny “corner” of life, recording the painter’s own subtle emotional fluctuations through such “tiny” scenes. The approach models services through a context-aware service model and establishes flexible driving relationships between IoT data and services through context and scenario concepts. Moreover, it reduces the amount of business data to be processed by the system through contextual events. The process of the approach for service development is described, and relevant context-aware service development tools are introduced. Finally, the feasibility of the approach proposed in this article is illustrated by a service development example. An event-triggered sensor node clustering algorithm based on beamforming data transmission technology is proposed, which can improve network energy efficiency and clustering success rate. Meanwhile, a clustering algorithm based on the energy consumption rate of sensor nodes is designed to optimize the task allocation and scheduling of mobile node access, reduce the node charging delay, and enable the sensor nodes in the network to get energy replenishment in a timely and reasonable manner according to their own energy consumption rate demand.
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Powell, Martin, and Michele Castelli. "“Strange animals”: hybrid organisations in health care." Journal of Health Organization and Management 31, no. 7/8 (October 9, 2017): 746–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhom-04-2017-0068.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically explore hybrid organisations in health care. It examines the broad literature on hybrids focusing on issues of perspective, definition, sub-type and level. It then presents the results of the literature review of hybrid health care organisations, exploring which organisations have been viewed as hybrids, and then examining studies in more detail with respect to the research questions. Design/methodology/approach It critically explores the literature on hybrid organisations in health care through a structured search. Findings It is found that a wide variety of hybrid forms exist, but not clear what they combine or how they combine it. However, the level of depth from some of these studies is rather limited, with little consensus on definition, and relatively few drawing on any explicit conceptual perspective. It seems that the wider hybridity literatures have limited influence of studies of hybrid health care organisations. Originality/value As far as the authors are aware, this paper is the first attempt to critically review the literature on hybrid organisations in health care. It is concluded that it is difficult to define and explain hybrid health care organisations. Health care hybrids appear to be chameleons as they appear to be able to change their form to different observers.
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Atuhaire, Shallon, Jonas Ngendakumana, Ali Galadima, Ayoub Adam, and Rodrigue B. Muderhwa. "Knowledge and attitude towards contraceptive use among adolescents in Africa: a systematic review." International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology 10, no. 11 (October 27, 2021): 4292. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20214349.
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A 46% rate of unintended pregnancies among adolescents in Africa is a glaring notification of the barriers to contraception. There is little documentation of the knowledge and attitude towards contraceptive use among adolescents in Africa especially from systematic review perspective, which purposed this study. An E-literature search of the studies on the topic was conducted through PubMed, and Google Scholar, considering a period between January 2015 to August 2021. The search strategy used; “knowledge and attitude towards contraceptive use among adolescents in Africa”, which was sorted by date. The search resulted in 14,468 journal articles: 14,300 from Google Scholar, and 168 from PubMed but only 27 studies qualified for inclusion. Results indicate inadequate knowledge of contraception but this varies by age, level of education, marital status and geographical distribution. The majority of adolescents are aware of emergency contraception and traditional methods such as abstinence, lactational amenorrhea, and coïtus interruptus. Even with this knowledge, a larger proportion of adolescents do not use contraception due to limited access, misinformation on side effects and the negative attitude shaped by religious and socio-cultural beliefs and attitude of health care providers to them. Adolescent boys have more knowledge of contraception than the adolescent girls do but their use of contraceptives is not well documented. The low level of knowledge and negative attitude limits the use of these services and could be addressed by a well-informed approach on sexuality literacy and contraception that involves not only adolescents but also parents, the community and health care providers.
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LARIOS-GÓMEZ, EMIGDIO. "Relation among ecological affect, concern and knowledge and purchase behavior: a study regarding Mexican Consumers." Revista Brasileira de Marketing 18, no. 3 (December 27, 2019): 73–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.5585/remark.v18i3.16367.
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Objective: The objective of the research was to analyze sustainability and social development, in the search to determine the relationship between the constructs: Ecological Affect (EA), Ecological Concern (EC) and Ecological Knowledge (EK); And green purchasing behavior (GPB) in consumers.Method: It was a quantitative descriptive study in a sample of 1,550 (valid 96%) consumers chosen according to the criterion of convenience (men and women between 21 and 55 years), in Mexico. With the using the Likert scale. Regarding the measurement of dependent and independent variables, he used the various subscales that make up the revised scale of attitudes and environmental knowledge (EAKS).Originality / Relevance: The studies on ecological behavior in Mexico is relatively new, there are few works related to the purchase of environmental products from the perspective of ecological purchasing behavior.Results: The consumer in Mexico presents a positive attitude toward the purchase of organic products and is even willing to stop buying those companies that pollute. The stakeholders (Society, Government, Company and universities) stimulate consumption in those individuals who are really committed to the environment, being aware of the economic change, for a change of health.Theoretical / methodological contributions: This work contributes to the literature of organic consumption behavior in Mexico, little explored until now.Social contributions / for a gesture: A new approach is given to the Maloney Scale, from a sustainable marketing perspective.
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Haider, Sana. "Critical Linguistics : Demythlogising Society." Journal of Language and Linguistics in Society, no. 23 (April 26, 2022): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jlls.23.1.6.
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Only in the second half of the twentieth century, Linguistics started adopting a functionalist paradigm. Halliday is a crucial figure of this time. By the 1970s, scholars felt the need to analyse language not just in terms of its structure, but also the underlying ideology that each utterance carries. Form here, the ‘critical’ perspective to language analysis got introduced. A critical study assumes that nothing said is neutral; it is always said from a particular point of view along with some aims. This claim is in line with Halliday’s argument that language is socially anchored. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) got formalized in 1991. Since language is an indispensable part of society and represents as well as constructs the society, it is only essential that language is critically studied. People using language should be well aware of the ways it can be (mis)used and its speakers be mentally influenced. With this aim of creating awareness, that is, demythlogising society, CDA seeks to read between the lines of a discourse and search for the representative attitudes and the underlying ideologies.
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Jieprang, Forest. "Post Occupancy Evaluation for Functional Aspects with Emphasis on Emergency Evacuation." ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur 1, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.30822/arteks.v1i1.28.
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Post occupancy evaluation is a tool to measure the qualities of an in-use building with the purpose of increasing the qualities of the building from the perspective which design process could overlook. There is a lot of aspects that has to be evaluated in the post occupancy evaluation, but the most frequently evaluated aspects are technical aspects, functional aspects, and behavioral aspects. This research emphasizes on the functional aspect to search for problems concerning evacuation circulation of Si Jalak Harupat Stadium by comparing observed object with the experience of users in how they recognize and aware of emergency evacuation elements. Users experience will be collected by using questionnaire and mental mapping. The respondents are Persib supporters who watch the matches at Si Jalak Harupat Stadium. Both of the tools will describe user perception and knowledge regarding evacuation elements legibility. This research will be concluded by describing just how far the evacuation elements of Si Jalak Harupat Stadium known by the users and find the solution to increase users awareness regarding evacuation elements inside the stadium.
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Bendall, Sarah. "Interpreting Maps of the Rural Landscape: An Example from Late Sixteenth-Century Buckinghamshire." Rural History 4, no. 2 (October 1993): 107–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793300000248.
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To deconstruct a map, said Brian Harley, it is necessary to read between the lines and to place the cartographic facts within a specific cultural perspective. He used the ideas of literary critics to make historians of cartography aware that there is more to maps than initially meets the eye and that ‘facts’ are rarely what they first appear to be. By viewing a map as a product of a particular society, one can begin to understand why a map was made in the way it was, how it was used and valued, and its role in representing and transforming contemporary attitudes and perspectives. To search for the wider meaning of local maps, it is usually necessary to make inferences based on research into their backgrounds; one rarely finds documents giving explicit directions on how, and why, a map was to be drawn and decorated. If, as in many past studies in the history of cartography, maps are taken at face value, they can leave many of their secrets unrevealed and, indeed, can easily be misinterpreted.
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Mpolokeng Sephapo, Catherine. "Sponsorship investments: do they deliver brand awareness for all sponsors?" Management & Marketing 12, no. 1 (March 28, 2017): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mmcks-2017-0007.
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Abstract Sponsorship as a marketing communications tool is well adopted in South Africa across various areas such as sports and entertainment. Although world markets have experienced economic turmoil in the last few years, the sponsorship market may be considered to be thriving as companies use this marketing communication tool as a vehicle to create and maintain relationships. The purpose of this study was to explore which sponsors of the South African National Rugby team are sports consumers aware of as a result of the sponsorship. Literature states that awareness also influences the judgments about brands in the consideration set, even without any brand associations in the consumer’s mind. In low involvement decision; where consumers do not need to search extensively for information in order to make a decision; minimal brand awareness levels may be enough to convince the consumer to make their final choice. The study is exploratory in nature however provides a South African perspective on how effective the sponsorship of the Springbok is with regards to creating awareness of the sponsors among sports consumers. The study made use of a qualitative approach whereby primary data was collected by means of focus groups and naïve sketches. Data collected was analyzed by means of content analysis. The findings suggest that participants were predominantly aware of the key sponsors of the Springboks; these were sponsors who had their branding on the Springbok jersey worn during rugby matches. The factors that participants mentioned to contribute to their awareness of the sponsors were the branding on the Springbok playing jersey as well as television adverts along with other promotional tools. This study urges sponsors to not only rely on the sponsorship initiative to create awareness but rather leverage the sponsorship with tools that are relevant to their target audience. This study contributes to sponsorship literature relating to the effectiveness of sponsorship; particularly from a South African perspective.
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Gao, Ruoyuan. "Toward a fairer information retrieval system." ACM SIGIR Forum 55, no. 1 (June 2021): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3476415.3476429.
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With the increasing popularity and social influence of information retrieval (IR) systems, various studies have raised concerns on the presence of bias in IR and the social responsibilities of IR systems. Techniques for addressing these issues can be classified into pre-processing , in-processing and post-processing. Pre-processing reduces bias in the data that is fed into machine learning models. In-processing encodes fairness constraints as a part of the objective function or learning process. Post-processing operates as a top layer over the trained model to reduce the presentation bias exposed to users. This dissertation explored ways to bring the pre-processing and post-processing approaches, together with the fairness-aware evaluation metrics, into a unified framework as an attempt to break the vicious cycle of bias and improve fairness in IR. We first investigated the existing bias presented in search engine results. Specifically, we focused on the top-k fairness ranking in terms of statistical parity fairness and disparate impact fairness definitions. With Google search and a general purposed text cluster as a lens, we explored several topical diversity fairness ranking strategies to understand the relationship between relevance and fairness in search results. Our experimental results showed that different fairness ranking strategies resulted in distinct utility scores and performed differently with distinct datasets. Second, to further investigate the relationship of data and fairness algorithms, we developed a statistical framework that was able to facilitate various analysis and decision making. Our framework could effectively and efficiently estimate the domain of data and solution space. We derived theoretical expressions to identify the fairness and relevance bounds for data of different distributions, and applied them to both synthetic datasets and real world datasets. We presented a series of use cases to demonstrate how our framework was applied to associate data and provide insights to fairness optimization problems. Third, we proposed an evaluation metric FAIR for the ranking results that encoded fairness, diversity, novelty and relevance. This metric offered a new perspective of evaluating fairness-aware ranking results. Based on this metric, we developed an effective ranking algorithm that jointly optimized for fairness and utility. Our experiments showed that our new metric was able to highlight results that achieved good user utility and fair information exposure at the same time. We showed how FAIR metric related to existing metrics through correlation analysis and case studies, and demonstrated the effectiveness of our FAIR-based algorithm.
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Salehi, Tahmine, Naiemeh Seyedfatemi, Mohammad Saeed Mirzaee, Maryam Maleki, and Abbas Mardani. "Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice in Relation to Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting: A Systematic Review." BioMed Research International 2021 (April 10, 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6630404.
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Aim. To describe and synthesize aspects of knowledge, attitudes, and practice regarding pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting and to explore associated barriers from a nurse perspective. Methods. A systematic review was conducted. Electronic databases including MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Knowledge from January 2010 to October 2020 were searched. Original observational studies that were written in English and which focused on nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, practice, and perceived barriers regarding pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting in various healthcare settings were included. Results. Twenty-three studies published in English from 2010 to 2020 were retrieved during the search process. Overall, in the knowledge domain, the median percentages of nurses who were aware of the definitions of ADRs were 74.1%, while only 26.3% were aware of the adverse drug reaction reporting form. In the attitude domain, 84.6% of nurses believed ADR reporting to be important for patient/medicine safety and 37.1% had a fear of legal liability following ADR reporting. Although 67.1% of nurses encountered ADRs during their professional life, only 21.2% had a history of ADR reporting. In addition, lack of knowledge/training (median: 47.1%) was identified as the most common barrier in ADR reporting from a nursing viewpoint. Conclusion. Despite positive nurse attitudes, knowledge and practice in relation to pharmacovigilance activities and ADR reporting did not occur regularly or often. Improving nurses’ knowledge through in-service training and degree-level education and addressing the main barriers of ADR reporting may help to achieve an improved level of reporting.
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Shulga, Natalia, Natalia Belyakova, and Ekaterina Dubrovinskaya. "Psychological and pedagogical aspect of choosing life goals for people of early old age." E3S Web of Conferences 210 (2020): 18127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202021018127.
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The article considers peculiarities of elderly people conscious perceptions of their own future, as well as it considers how they focus on attainable goals and on connections of these goals with professional determination of elderly people in time perspective. Article describes theoretical approaches which touch the problem of connection of life goal choosing and the existence of human life. Using the method of nonlinear relationships, a close relationship of psychological factors and their mutual influence are highlighted. Psychological factors: “Caring for one’s own health” and “Mastering a profession and skill”; “Do good for other people” and “Master the profession and skill”; “Have good friends” and “Master the profession and skill”; “Master the profession and skill” and “Travel the world”; “Finding a calling and“ Traveling the world ”are presented as a way for older people to select goals. Ways of choosing goals by people of late adulthood are considered in a two-year time perspective. Attention is focused on the implementation of time control in connection with understanding the finiteness of life. Article clarifies the role of psychological and pedagogical aspect as possible and accessible way in search of answers to life challenges of elderly people is also discussed. Authors consider the role of psychological help and pedagogical impact on elderly people obtaining the opportunity to place independently real and attainable goals, being fully aware of their sense and the meaning of their own existence.
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Collins, Alan M., James Martin Cronin, Steve Burt, and Richard J. George. "From store brands to store brandscapes: the emergence of a time and money saving heuristic." European Journal of Marketing 49, no. 5/6 (May 11, 2015): 894–918. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-01-2014-0038.
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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the role of store brands as a time- and money-saving heuristic in the context of an omnipresent store brand hierarchy. Drawing on the work of Tversky and Kahneman (1982), it proposes that the store brand hierarchy is characterised by many of the traits of frequently used heuristics employed by grocery shoppers. Design/methodology/approach – Based on Chaiken’s (1980) model of information processing and Stigler’s (1961) perspective on the economics of information search, the study deductively establishes a model of store brand proneness to reveal the role of store brands as time- and money-saving heuristic. The model is tested on a sample of 535 US households using structural equation modelling and subsequent multigroup analysis based on two subsamples of households experiencing high financial pressure but who differ in terms of time pressure. Findings – The findings provide strong support for store brands as a time- and money-saving heuristic and as a substitute for price search among households experiencing financial and time pressures. Research limitations/implications – The main limitation is that the study is based on a sample of households located in one region of the US market. Practical implications – Retailers need to be aware that any extension of the store brand portfolio beyond the traditional multi-tiered price/quality hierarchy risks undermining what has emerged to be a valuable heuristic used by certain shoppers. Originality/value – This study extends our understanding of the role of store brands in the marketplace by going beyond their conceptualisation as a competitive device used by retailers to instead position them as a decision-making tool used by consumers. It also deepens our understanding of the boundary between rational search activities and the transition to the use of frequently flawed heuristics within the shopping process.
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Bos, Lieuwe D. J., Antonio Artigas, Jean-Michel Constantin, Laura A. Hagens, Nanon Heijnen, John G. Laffey, Nuala Meyer, et al. "Precision medicine in acute respiratory distress syndrome: workshop report and recommendations for future research." European Respiratory Review 30, no. 159 (February 2, 2021): 200317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/16000617.0317-2020.
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a devastating critical illness that can be triggered by a wide range of insults and remains associated with a high mortality of around 40%. The search for targeted treatment for ARDS has been disappointing, possibly due to the enormous heterogeneity within the syndrome. In this perspective from the European Respiratory Society research seminar on “Precision medicine in ARDS”, we will summarise the current evidence for heterogeneity, explore the evidence in favour of precision medicine and provide a roadmap for further research in ARDS. There is evident variation in the presentation of ARDS on three distinct levels: 1) aetiological; 2) physiological and 3) biological, which leads us to the conclusion that there is no typical ARDS. The lack of a common presentation implies that intervention studies in patients with ARDS need to be phenotype aware and apply a precision medicine approach in order to avoid the lack of success in therapeutic trials that we faced in recent decades. Deeper phenotyping and integrative analysis of the sources of variation might result in identification of additional treatable traits that represent specific pathobiological mechanisms, or so-called endotypes.
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Colavizza, Giovanni, Rodrigo Costas, Vincent A. Traag, Nees Jan van Eck, Thed van Leeuwen, and Ludo Waltman. "A scientometric overview of CORD-19." PLOS ONE 16, no. 1 (January 7, 2021): e0244839. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244839.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, researchers from all disciplines are coming together and contributing their expertise. CORD-19, a dataset of COVID-19 and coronavirus publications, has been made available alongside calls to help mine the information it contains and to create tools to search it more effectively. We analyse the delineation of the publications included in CORD-19 from a scientometric perspective. Based on a comparison to the Web of Science database, we find that CORD-19 provides an almost complete coverage of research on COVID-19 and coronaviruses. CORD-19 contains not only research that deals directly with COVID-19 and coronaviruses, but also research on viruses in general. Publications from CORD-19 focus mostly on a few well-defined research areas, in particular: coronaviruses (primarily SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2); public health and viral epidemics; molecular biology of viruses; influenza and other families of viruses; immunology and antivirals; clinical medicine. CORD-19 publications that appeared in 2020, especially editorials and letters, are disproportionately popular on social media. While we fully endorse the CORD-19 initiative, it is important to be aware that CORD-19 extends beyond research on COVID-19 and coronaviruses.
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Jieprang, Forest. "EVALUASI PASKA GUNA DENGAN PENEKANAN PADA ASPEK FUNGSIONAL EVAKUASI DARURAT." ARTEKS, Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur 1, no. 1 (December 5, 2016): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.30822/artk.v1i1.83.
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Title: Post Occupancy Evaluation for Functional Aspects with Emphasis on Emergency EvacuationPost occupancy evaluation is a tool to measure the qualities of an in-use building with the purpose of increasing the qualities of the building from the perspective which design process could overlook. There is a lot of aspects that has to be evaluated in the post occupancy evaluation, but the most frequently evaluated aspects are technical aspects, functional aspects, and behavioral aspects. This research emphasizes on the functional aspect to search for problems concerning evacuation circulation of Si Jalak Harupat Stadium by comparing observed object with the experience of users in how they recognize and aware of emergency evacuation elements. Users experience will be collected by using questionnaire and mental mapping. The respondents are Persib supporters who watch the matches at Si Jalak Harupat Stadium. Both of the tools will describe user perception and knowledge regarding evacuation elements legibility. This research will be concluded by describing just how far the evacuation elements of Si Jalak Harupat Stadium known by the users and find the solution to increase users awareness regarding evacuation elements inside the stadium.Keywords: Evaluation of post-use, functional aspects of emergency evacuation, si Jalak Harupat stadium, legibilitas, mental mapping.
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Ybema, Sierk, Tom Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, Armin Beverungen, Nick Ellis, and Ida Sabelis. "Articulating identities." Human Relations 62, no. 3 (March 2009): 299–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726708101904.
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One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search for `identity'. Using the five theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both a `rich' discursive resource and a point of departure, we develop a supplementary reading of the narratives which appear to inform identity research. We suggest that, while social agents in pursuit of `identity' draw on a cacophony of discursive sources, it is the varieties of `self—other' talk which emerge as the critical ingredient in processes of identity formation. The dualities that all such self—other talk articulate can be seen as discursive reflections of the more fundamental relationship between the individual and sociality. In turn, this is seen to refract one of the persistent problems of organizational analysis: the agency—structure issue. In addition, while we argue that deploying a discursive perspective to analyze identity work offers distinctive insights, such an approach carries with it an epistemological consequence. For what the articles also indicate is that in any attempt to delineate the `identity of identities', researchers need to be aware of not only the reflexivity displayed by social actors constructing `identity' but also of their own role in `re-authoring' such scripts. We briefly explore the implications of this for identity theory and organizational analysis more generally.
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Ovcharuk, Oksana, Iryna Ivaniuk, Nataliia Soroko, Olena Gritsenchuk, and Oksana Kravchyna. "The use of digital learning tools in the teachers’ professional activities to ensure sustainable development and democratization of education in European countries." E3S Web of Conferences 166 (2020): 10019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202016610019.
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The article deals with the revealing and analysis of the experience of the teachers’ use of the digital tools in their professional activities in the European countries (Germany, Italy, Netherland, Denmark, Estonia, Croatia, Sweden, Finland, Macedonia, Norway and others). The online recourses ensuring the creation of the sustainable environment for teachers and students including key competencies areas: entrepreneurship, citizenship, civic education and STEM are revealed in the article. The presented recourses allow to creative use of digital technologies, identify teachers’ and students’ needs and finding technological answers, solve technical problems, identifying gaps in digital competence. Using the analysed resources teachers become aware of the need to improve and update their digital competence; ability to support others in developing their digital competence; search for opportunities for self-development and awareness of digital evolution that is proclaimed by the UN ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ adopted in 2015. The objective is to present the examples of the use of digital tools by European teachers, which are aimed at building the digital environment, developing the digital competence, and introducing innovations in the learning process. The critical use of presented experience in the comparative perspective can improve domestic teaching practice and teachers’ professional development.
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Piessens, Veerle, Stefan Heytens, Ann Van Den Bruel, Ann Van Hecke, and An De Sutter. "Do doctors and other healthcare professionals know overdiagnosis in screening and how are they dealing with it? A protocol for a mixed methods systematic review." BMJ Open 12, no. 10 (October 2022): e054267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054267.
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IntroductionOverdiagnosis is the diagnosis of a disease that would never have caused any symptom or problem. It is a harmful side effect of screening and may lead to unnecessary treatment, costs and emotional drawbacks. Doctors and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) have the opportunity to mitigate these consequences, not only by informing their patients or the public but also by adjusting screening methods or even by refraining from screening. However, it is unclear to what extent HCPs are fully aware of overdiagnosis and whether it affects their screening decisions. With this systematic review, we aim to synthesise all available research about what HCPs know and think about overdiagnosis, how it affects their position on screening policy and whether they think patients and the public should be informed about it.Methods and analysisWe will systematically search several databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, CINAHL and PsycArticles) for studies that directly examine HCPs' knowledge and subjective perceptions of overdiagnosis due to health screening, both qualitatively and quantitatively. We will optimise our search by scanning reference and citation lists, contacting experts in the field and hand searching abstracts from the annual conference on 'Preventing Overdiagnosis'. After selection and quality appraisal, we will analyse qualitative and quantitative findings separately in a segregated design for mixed-method reviews. The data will be examined and presented descriptively. If the retrieved studies allow it, we will review them from a constructivist perspective through a critical interpretive synthesis.Ethics and disseminationFor this type of research, no ethical approval is required. Findings from this systematic review will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at the annual congress of 'Preventing Overdiagnosis'. In addition, the results will serve as guidance for further research on this topic.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42021244513.
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Gupta, Amar, Hani Rayess, Kevin Black, Michael Carron, and Michael Nissan. "Otoplasty Online Information: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Websites and Videos that Patients View Regarding Cosmetic Ear Surgery." Facial Plastic Surgery 34, no. 01 (December 26, 2017): 082–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1615280.
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AbstractPhysicians should be aware of both websites and videos available online regarding the otoplasty procedure to provide quality care. This study systematically analyzes the authorships, reliability, quality, and readability of the websites, as well as the authorships and primary objectives of the videos regarding otoplasty. Validated instruments were used to analyze the reliability, quality, and readability of websites, and videos were systematically categorized and analyzed. A Google search was conducted, and the first five pages of results were included in this study. After excluding unrelated websites, the remaining 44 websites were categorized by authorship (physician, patient, academic, or unaffiliated) and were analyzed using the validated DISCERN instrument for reliability and quality, as well as various other validated instruments to measure readability. A YouTube search was also conducted, and the first 50 relevant videos were included in the study. These videos were categorized by authorship and their primary objective. Website authorships were physician-dominated. Reliability, quality, and overall DISCERN score differ between the four authorship groups by a statistically significant margin (Kruskall–Wallis test, p < 0.05). Unaffiliated websites were the most reliable, and physician websites were the least reliable. Academic websites were of the highest quality, and patient websites were of the lowest quality. Readability did not differ significantly between the groups, though the readability measurements made showed a general lack of material easily readable by the general public. YouTube was likewise dominated by physician-authored videos. While the physician-authored videos sought mainly to inform and to advertise, patient-authored videos sought mainly to provide the patient's perspective. Academic organizations showed very little representation on YouTube, and the YouTube views on otoplasty videos were dominated by the top 20 videos, which represented over 93% of the total views of videos included in this study.
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Szeluga-Romańska, Marta, and Anna Modzelewska. "The managerial role in organizational culture as perceived by management students." Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation 16, no. 4 (2020): 177–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.7341/20201646.
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This paper aims at illustrating the multidimensional role of the manager and its mutual influence on organizational culture from a management students’ perspective. The main part of the text was based on own qualitative research – interviews, a questionnaire, and a narrative collage – which was conducted over a 10 year period among management students. Ninety-seven students from the Jagiellonian University and the Gdańsk University of Technology took part in the research. In order to gather, analyze and interpret the data, and to achieve reliable results, we followed the thematic analysis rules. We investigated the empirical material, provided by the management students responses to the research questions posed in the questionnaire, in the search for interesting threads, seeking a definition and an understanding of the term “manager” and the specifics of a manager’s work. We also presented several quotes from the data in accordance with the principles of data analysis in qualitative research methodology. Four different prisms were identified: gender, relational, constant learning and professional, described as the areas of managerial duties, features, and expectations. The article’s key value is the focus on students’ perception – an idealized construct of the managerial role, which states a benchmark for their own actual and prospect managerial performance. Such a perspective is very important for practice as well as for education. From a practical point of view, some management students will manage teams or organizations in the future. They should be aware of managerial duties’ elaborate character and the multiple demands on the role’s performance. They will shape the role by themselves. On the other hand, from an educational point of view, it is essential to give students some insight into their prospective role, understand the elaborate organizational relations, and the activities that appear in organizational culture that always influence management.
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Carlos, Katyuska Maria De Souza Maria, Girlene Marques Formiga, and Francilda Araujo. "Literatura na Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA): trajetória para a construção de leitores." Revista Principia - Divulgação Científica e Tecnológica do IFPB 1, no. 47 (December 26, 2019): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.18265/1517-03062015v1n47p112-121.
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In the context of readers’ development , it is the School’s responsibility to provide conditions for educating citizens in a critical and reflective way, aware of their presence in the world, especially those who have not been given access to formal education at regular age. In this perspective, this work aims at analyzing both some characteristics and some of the difficulties which permeate literary literacy in Young Adults Education (YAE). In order to establish a dialogue between this teaching modality and the literary literacy, we aim at discussing some of the factors involved in such issue. In addition to that, we aim at pointing out, theoretically, effective Literature Teaching practices, so as to present a possible scenario concerning the promotion of readers’ development process. In order to do so, we based our studies on the work of Cosson (2006a, 2006b, 2009), Lajolo (1993) and Zilberman (2008a, 2008b), among others. Regarding the methodological process, we opted for a qualitativeinterpretative research and underpinned our study on recent literature about the topic. Results show not only the importance of literature in the YAE universe, not only as a key factor for students’ professional and human development, but also a need for constant search for new uses of methodologies which meet the needs imposed by this teaching modality in our country.
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Guerrieri, Alessandra, and Ines Testoni. "The Humanistic And The Psychiatric Patient-Centered Approach: A Pilot Research On Self-Represention." Integral Transpersonal Journal 6, no. 6 (February 2015): 41–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.32031/itibte_itj_6-gt1.
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Introduction: the phenomenological and anthropoanalytical humanistic approach considers illness as an answer to the search for meaning of suffering required by life. The aim of the therapeutic intervention deriving from this perspective is to help who is suffering to recognize his condition and to become aware of the possibility of changing. The Sein zum Tode (Being toward death), announced by the existential condition, can inhibit a recognizable trait of the psychopathological condition: the ability to think about the future. The treatment based on a person-centered approach develops as a relational proposal in which the encounter between patient and therapy is directed towards the construction of meanings that can be seen as praxis and poiesis – from work to art. The aim is to give to the patient a new shape concerning his representation of the future and of his biography. This article is focused on a pilot research realized within a territorial psychiatric facility which adopts this line of intervention personalizing it for each patient with the intent to improve the quality and the perception of life for future planning. Participants and inclusion/exclusion criteria: participants are guests of the psychiatric facility and are recruited on a voluntary basis. Seriously ill patients at a somatic level and patients that were not able to carry on a conversation and to tolerate the administration of the testing instruments were excluded. Materials and methods: the study, based on a non-random sampling method (not-RTS) is a descriptive-observational, longitudinal, quantitative and qualitative research. The observation period was eighteen months. Results: a change in the quality of life perception of the patients and an improvement of pathological symptoms was found; particularly relevant is the progress of the terms used by the guests to describe their present existential condition compared to the past one. A relation between the period of stay/frequentation of the facility and death representation was highlighted. Conclusions: a developmental capacity of becoming aware of individual history and an optimistic vision of the future are highlighted. KEYWORDS Humanistic psychiatry, existential condition, death, pathology, health
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Fourie, Ina. "A call for libraries to go green." Library Hi Tech 30, no. 3 (August 31, 2012): 428–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831211266573.
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PurposeWhen confronted with a problem where the solution is not clear or obvious, a first step would be to search for more information, trying to make sense of the problem. The intention of this contribution is to make sense of the call for “libraries to go green”, while at the same time to show the potential of explicitly considering information behaviour and the need to draw on the full spectrum of information literacy skills (e.g. recognising and expressing an information need, seeking, using, and disseminating information) to stimulate librarians' interest and confidence in taking on the challenge of going green and making a difference.Design/methodology/approachThe column will be written against the background of research from information literacy, information behaviour, and research on sustainable and environmental friendly library and information (LIS) services.FindingsAlthough rather a limited number, publications on “going green” and the “paperless” library/society address a variety of issues ranging from planning “green” library buildings, to assessing the experiences of LIS professionals in developing sustainable “green libraries”, to information behaviour in using e‐books in academic contexts. Considering the finding and use of information on “going green”, from an information behaviour perspective, helps to bring many issues to consider in furthering research on “going green” to the front.Originality/valueAlthough much has been published about information behaviour and information literacy, and although attempts of publishing on various issues of “green” libraries are noted, the author is not aware of other work aligning these issues.
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Tipu, Syed Awais Ahmad. "Entrepreneurial reentry after failure: a review and future research agenda." Journal of Strategy and Management 13, no. 2 (March 17, 2020): 198–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsma-08-2019-0157.
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PurposeThis paper aims to review the academic literature on entrepreneurial reentry after failure in an attempt to highlight the contribution to the knowledge, identify research gaps and outline an agenda for future research.Design/methodology/approachSeveral databases such as ABI/Inform Global, Academic Search Complete, Business Source Premier and Emerald Full Text were used to find peer-reviewed journal articles. Different search terms were used, such as entrepreneurial reentry, failure of habitual entrepreneurs, reentry intentions, entrepreneurial failure, serial entrepreneurship and venture failure. A total of 27 articles were finally selected and included in the final analysis. Using thematic codes, the selected articles were manually coded.FindingsThe concept of entrepreneurial reentry after failure has recently gained some attention from entrepreneurship scholars, but still, there are significant gaps in the literature. A wide range of entrepreneurship theories can potentially provide the necessary impetus to guide future research. The current literature remains largely inconclusive with inconsistent findings. This underlines the need to focus on this domain to conduct more studies to develop knowledge. The available literature is largely focused on exploring antecedents of entrepreneurial reentry after failure. Therefore, the author’s understanding remains limited with regard to other aspects of entrepreneurial reentry after failure, such as context of reentry and outcomes of reentry. Moreover, future studies also need to include the developing country context for better understanding of entrepreneurial reentry after failure.Originality/valueTo the best of the author's knowledge, the current paper is the first identifiable review of the literature on entrepreneurial reentry after failure. The suggested areas of future research will potentially help in addressing the identified research gaps and further strengthening the theoretical foundations of this emerging research domain. Identified themes in the literature will also potentially help aspiring entrepreneurs to better understand the antecedents, contextual settings and outcomes of reentry after failure. This practical perspective will help failed entrepreneurs in particular to be more aware of the dynamics of reentry after failure and better manage the reentry process.
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Baba, Kenshi, Eri Amanuma, and Motoko Kosugi. "Attitude Changes of Stakeholders towards Climate Change Adaptation Policies in Agricultural Sector by Online Deliberation." Climate 9, no. 5 (May 5, 2021): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cli9050075.
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This study set up online virtual communities consisting of farmers and stakeholders involved in agriculture and nonfarmers living in rural areas interested in agricultural production. We conducted a deliberation within the communities for 14 days on identifying important climate change adaptation policies for 30 years later under climate change impacts with the relevant knowledge from experts. During the deliberation, after self-introduction took place including the realization of climate change impacts, the participants were provided with the expert knowledge on impacts of climate change, adaptation policies in agricultural sector and so on, then the following discussions covered issues such as the distribution of agricultural produce, insufficient successors, and support for farmers, such as impacts on crops during disasters concerning future scenarios. Attitude changes before and after deliberation were observed in terms of the pros and cons of climate change adaptation policies in agriculture and rural areas, but statistically significant differences were not observed. On the other hand, a statistically significant change was observed in some determinants of the pros and cons, such as the perceived effectiveness and goal intention. This structural change results from that the participants became aware of a different perspective through deliberation. Thus, the online deliberation process was effective to some extent in increasing knowledge and promoting deeper understanding among participants during inquiry and reasoning was deepened in the process as they listened to the opinions of others in a different position with a different idea as well as read and search for scientific findings and information provided by experts.
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Oliveira, Micael Estevão Pereira de, Wildson Max Barbosa da Silva, Daniela Ribeiro Alves, João Batista de Andrade Neto, Selene Maia de Morais, and Solange de Oliveira Pinheiro. "Dyes and pigments used in foods: an integrative literature review." Research, Society and Development 10, no. 10 (August 13, 2021): e316101018925. http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v10i10.18925.
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The food colors are, in many countries, widely used to give food increased visual sensory quality, aiming, thus, the growth of the consumer market. Aware of this, the present work aimed to reevaluate the general properties of synthetic food dyes and natural pigments, the latter being generally used to replace the former. Then, the current analysis was based on the search for the strategy, selection of articles (with inclusion and exclusion criteria), eligibility, and data extraction. Thus, it was observed in studies that synthetic food dyes may cause several harmful effects to human health, among them, genetic damage and carcinogenicity. On the other hand, the use of natural pigments as an alternative to replace food dyes has been increasingly present in studies, presenting qualities that, previously, were not known, as is the case of anthocyanins, which have important physiological and ecological functions. It is also important to point out that the use of natural pigments goes beyond the limits of food, and are also found as sensitizers for solar cells, tissues, and medicines. Selected articles (47) leaded to a total of 72 distinct pieces of information, focused mainly on the biological activities and involving natural dyes and pigments. In short, the gradual replacement of dyes, currently used, still in large scale in some locations, by natural pigments, is already part of our present, allowing the creation of a future perspective with the production of processed foods without the damage that most of synthetic dyes produce to the human body.
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McBride, J. Abram, Culley C. Carson, and Robert M. Coward. "The Availability and Acquisition of Illicit Anabolic Androgenic Steroids and Testosterone Preparations on the Internet." American Journal of Men's Health 12, no. 5 (May 11, 2016): 1352–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988316648704.
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The lifetime prevalence of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) use in the United States is over 1%. Recent reports have suggested AAS can easily be obtained over the Internet without a prescription, but this has been poorly studied. This study focused on determining the availability and ease of purchase for AAS, testosterone, and other non-AAS therapies on the Internet from the perspective of a typical consumer. A Google search was performed and the top-ranking sites offering AAS for sale were individually evaluated for selection of AAS offered, the purchasing process, and additional consumer information to support AAS use. The current results revealed that 87% of sites offered commonly used forms of AAS, injectable testosterone, and non-AAS hormone therapies. Seventy-five percent offered at least one postcycle recovery agent and 62% offered at least one erectile dysfunction medication. No site required a prescription for purchase of any substance, 75% accepted common forms of payment including credit card, and all sites were supplied by unregulated international pharmacies providing shipment to home addresses with disclaimers that consumers are liable to local laws. Seventy-five percent of sites provided specific cycle and stacking recommendations, 62% provided postcycle recovery information, but only one site offered information on non-AAS alternatives. In conclusion, AAS, injectable testosterone, and other non-AAS therapies are readily available and remarkably easy to purchase on the Internet without a prescription. It is of paramount importance that clinicians are aware of this considerable public health problem given the detrimental physiologic effects including infertility and sexual dysfunction.
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Vasudevan, Smitha, and F. J. Peter Kumar. "Changing realty: altering paths of brand discovery for real estate websites in India." Property Management 37, no. 3 (June 17, 2019): 346–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pm-03-2018-0020.
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Purpose Brand awareness is a key cognitive metric and a vital component of consumer-based brand equity. Generating and maintaining brand awareness has been an important metric for brands and a significant outcome of advertising and promotional activities. Brand awareness has been studied over the years in the context of market share and mind share and is considered to be the fundamental starting point of a brand relationship. Most branding variables are challenged in their linear definitions by the multi-dimensionality of the connected online world. Consumers may start their brand journey with brand awareness and then proceed to explore higher options in a non-linear fashion. This challenges traditional advertising and brand salience models. In the web context, brand awareness could even happen with little prior cognitive processing. The purpose of this paper is to explore the little researched area of brand awareness in the context of Indian websites. Design/methodology/approach The study leveraged technology to study the brand discovery behaviour of real estate website users in India. The authors looked at essentially modified processes such as the brand experience journey, specifically, the sources and antecedents of brand awareness for real estate websites. Considering the fact that direct and indirect traffic to a website is indicative of the brand awareness metrics, the authors analyse the metric as a basis of the comparison. Findings Brand awareness in the digital world can be attributed as firm generated, user generated and, as the authors also discover, experience initiated. The altered dimensions have a profound impact on the brand advertising spends of not just digital brands, but all marketers who will find digital technology increasingly central to their brand communication efforts. Research limitations/implications Burgeoning websites and media proliferation have increased the source set for website discovery. Customers do not rely solely on advertising or chance encounter to discover a new brand. Usage of search engines remains the key point of discovery for brand awareness. Some of the respondents recognised websites from prior advertising exposure and selected the brand from the consideration set offered in the search results for their keyword search. In other cases, brand awareness followed brand experience as the users did not process the brand information or, in most cases, were not aware of the brand name prior to website visit. The quality of brand experience created brand awareness and had further implications, including brand visit intent. Practical implications While mass media television advertising and ubiquitous online advertising can build brand awareness, the impact of search engine advertising and search engine optimisation is equally significant, if not more important. Brand managers can additionally focus on branding on the search channel in the light of increasing search intensity. Beyond traditional keyword planning, this can be an enhanced branding platform for reaching out to specific behavioural or character traits of the target audience. Brand experience can mature from task completion to brand awareness and higher level values if the website includes key brand messages and goals. Originality/value This paper offers insight into the little known field of online brand management. Information intermediary websites are unique in their value proposition, and brand building is challenging. Real estate websites have grown in popularity, but have not merited researcher attention. This paper offers a unique perspective on branding websites, specifically in the context of emerging markets like India.
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Prete, Marzia Del. "Mindful Sustainable Consumption and Sustainability Chatbots in Fast Fashion Retailing During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of Management and Sustainability 12, no. 1 (January 8, 2022): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jms.v12n1p19.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and ecological crisis are paving the way for new consumption models based on customers’ conscious choices and the subsequent integration of sustainable policies into retailers’ business strategies. As a consequence, the current consumer trends suggest that more people are becoming aware of their consumption standards and their repercussion on the environment and society. Statistics demonstrate that, in their purchasing processes, these “mindful customers” now search for a sustainable, self-sufficient way of living in harmony with nature. This paper argues that artificial intelligence (AI) is able to facilitate this process in the marketplace. More specifically, mindfulness with the support of AI technologies could be a plausible way to activate sustainable consumption patterns for avoiding overconsumption. The life-changing ability of mindful consumption is reviewed in this paper across domains of sustainability. Using a comprehensive literature review, the paper first outlines the theoretical and conceptual foundations of the mindful sustainable consumption (MSC) approach that fills the literature gap that almost always separates mindful consumption from sustainability. Second, the new conceptual approach is applied through a strategic framework in the field of fast fashion retailing through the use of AI-powered chatbots. In particular, the study defines a new category of chatbots, named sustainability chatbots (SC), which could convey mindful and sustainable consumption choices. The paper highlights that the MSC approach combined with the support of SC could enable marketing managers to create the appropriate context for embedding sustainability into consumer behaviour and fast fashion retailers’ strategies from a value co-creation perspective.
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Genuis, Shelagh K. "Kuhlthau’s Classic Research on the Information Search Process (ISP) Provides Evidence for Information Seeking as a Constructivist Process." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2, no. 4 (December 7, 2007): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b88d0c.
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Kuhlthau, Carol C. “Inside the Search Process: Information Seeking from the User's Perspective.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42.5 (1991): 361-71.
Objective – To extend understanding of purposeful information seeking and to present a model of the information search process (ISP) from the perspective of the user.
Design – Review of theoretical foundation, summing up of qualitative and quantitative data from a series of five foundational studies, and presentation of ISP model.
Setting – Summarised research was conducted primarily in high school and college environments where subjects were investigating an assigned topic. A small proportion of public libraries were used in the fifth study within the reviewed series.
Subjects – The ISP model as presented in this ‘classic’ article is based on studies involving a total of 558 participants. The first study involved 26 academically advanced high school seniors, and the 2 subsequent studies involved respectively 20 and 4 of the original participants following their completion of 4 years of college. The final 2 studies involved respectively 147 high, middle and low achieving high school seniors, and 385 academic, public and school library users.
Methods – This paper presents the foundation for the ISP model by reviewing the relationship between Kelly’s personal construct theory, Belkin, Brooks, and Oddy’s investigation of cognitive aspects of the constructive information seeking process, and Taylor’s work on levels of information need (“Question-negotiation”) and value-added information (“Value-added”). This is followed by a review of Kuhlthau’s five foundational studies, which investigated the common information seeking experiences of users who were seeking to expand knowledge related to a particular topic or problem.
The first of these studies was a small-scale exploration in which participants were given two assignments. Questionnaires, journaling, search logs, and reflective writing were used to collect data throughout the process of assignment completion. Data collection was augmented by case studies involving in-depth interviews and construction of timelines and flowcharts with six study participants. The six-stage ISP model was developed from qualitative content analysis of participants’ perceptions and experiences (Kuhlthau, “Library Research Process”).
In the second study, the same questionnaire was used to determine how students’ perceptions of the ISP had changed over time. Post-college responses were compared to responses given in high school and statistical significance was determined through t Tests (Kuhlthau, Perceptions). Four of the original 6 case study participants were interviewed in the third study, in which interview data and search process timelines were compared with high school case studies (Kuhlthau, Longitudinal).
In the fourth and fifth studies, large-scale field studies were conducted to verify the ISP model. Process surveys elicited participants’ thoughts and feelings at initiation, midpoint, and closure of a search task. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics including measures of significance and analysis of variance (Kuhlthau, Information Search; Kuhlthau et al.). Following a summation of these 5 research studies, this article details and discusses the ISP model.
Main results – Based on the data from the five studies, the ISP presents a constructivist approach to information seeking and incorporates affective, cognitive, and physical dimensions at each of six information searching stages: initiation, topic selection, pre-focus exploration, focus formulation, information collection, and presentation. Individuals become aware of an information need at initiation. Feelings of uncertainty and apprehension are common as wide-ranging task exploration begins. At topic selection a general topic is selected and users frequently experience initial optimism, which is commonly followed by confusion and doubt as pre-focus exploration commences and users struggle to extend personal knowledge through initial investigation of the general topic. A turning point occurs during focus formulation as constructs become clearer and uncertainty decreases. During information collection the user is able to articulate focused need and is able to interact effectively with intermediaries and systems. Relief is commonly experienced at presentation stage when findings are presented or used. Although stages are laid out sequentially, Kuhlthau notes that the ISP is an iterative process in which stages merge and overlap. Central to this model is the premise that uncertainty is not due merely to a lack of familiarity with sources and technologies, but is an integral and critical part of a process of learning that culminates in finding meaning through personal synthesis of topic or problem.
Conclusion – Kuhlthau provides evidence for a view of information seeking as an evolving, iterative process and presents a model for purposeful information searching which, if understood by users, intermediaries and information system designers, provides a basis for productive interaction. While users will benefit from understanding the evolving nature of focus formulation and the affective dimensions of information seeking, intermediaries and systems are challenged to improve information provision in the early formative stages of a search. Although Kuhlthau identifies this research on the ISP as exploratory in nature, this article affords methodological insight into the use of mixed methods for exploring complex user-oriented issues, presents a model that effectively communicates an approximation of the common information-seeking process of users, and provides ongoing impetus for exploring the user’s perspective on information seeking.
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Hornecker, Else, Rainer F. Mausberg, Dirk Ziebolz, Constantin Stuehmer, and Katrin van Nüss. "Complications of Tongue Piercing: A Review of the Literature and Three Case Reports." Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice 10, no. 6 (2009): 65–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jcdp-10-6-65.
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Abstract Aim The aims of this review of the literature are to offer further insights into possible problems related to tongue piercing and present three case reports showing undesired effects of tongue piercing. Background From a dental perspective, oral piercings and especially tongue piercings are not a harmless fashion trend since they can be associated with local and systemic risks and complications. A search of the literature was conducted to investigate the documentation of health risks associated with tongue piercing using the MEDLINE database as well as the German literature. Review Results The literature contains numerous case reports, a limited number of studies, and a review describing a wide variety of complications, especially in patients who have undergone tongue piercing. In the majority of cases, the piercing of the tongue is performed in the midline. Piercings are made of different materials, usually metal or synthetic materials. Complications during piercing, immediately following piercing, as well as long term were found. Conclusions The three cases presented here demonstrate some of those adverse effects. The most commonly described oral complication is the damage of teeth and the periodontium caused by tongue piercings. Tongue piercing is a personal decision, but it is important that patients are fully aware of possible oral health hazards. Clinical Significance Patients need better information on the potential complications associated with tongue piercing. Dental practitioners should educate patients about potential side effects and possible oral, dental, and systemic complications. Citation Ziebolz D, Stuehmer C, van Nüss K, Hornecke E, Mausberg RF. Complications of Tongue Piercing: A Review of the Literature and Three Case Reports. J Contemp Dent Pract [Internet]. 2009 Nov: 10(6):065-071. Available from: http://www.thejcdp.com/journal/view/ volume10-issue6-ziebolz.
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Nunes, Sofia RT, Guilhermina Rego, and Rui Nunes. "Right or duty of information." Nursing Ethics 23, no. 1 (December 8, 2014): 36–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733014557116.
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Background: The theoretical framework of Jϋrgen Habermas suggests that effective communication requires competent participants with an objective attitude that complies with the rules and worlds designated as objective, social and subjective. This situation determines communicative action, which stimulates the search for mutual understanding and results in a process of interaction that promotes self-determination. Objectives: In this study, the discharge letters of patients with myocardial infarction were explored regarding the provision of information. The patient’s right to information and the duty of informing were analysed according to the perspective of Jϋrgen Habermas. Research design: This was a cross-sectional analysis (from a broader longitudinal study) of all discharge letters that were directly related to nursing interventions regarding the provision of information to 106 patients. In this major study, the difficulties faced by patients who experienced a myocardial infarction and the changes in their lifestyles were analysed based on the type of information received. Ethical considerations: The hospital Ethics Committee approved the study, which complied with ethical principles and required informed consent. Findings: In the nursing letters, interventions related to the provision of information were conducted at an average of 3.59 interventions per patient. For 8.5% of the patients, however, no interventions related to the provision of information were performed. The most common area of information during hospitalisation was related to the management of signs and symptoms and applied to 90.6% patients. Discussion: The nursing interventions did not cover patient education, transition processes or awareness of the disease. Thus, the right to information can be questioned. Conclusion: Information is a right, and communication is extremely important. Health professionals should be aware of this importance regarding both care management and the satisfaction guarantee. The sharing of information by health professionals based on their competency is essential for patients to exercise their right to self-determination and decision-making.
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Germain, Alison, Catriona R. Mayland, and Barbara A. Jack. "The potential therapeutic value for bereaved relatives participating in research: An exploratory study." Palliative and Supportive Care 14, no. 5 (October 29, 2015): 479–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951515001194.
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AbstractObjective:Conducting research with the bereaved presents an immediate ethical challenge, as they are undoubtedly a vulnerable group, associated with high levels of distress and susceptible to both physical and mental health issues. A comprehensive understanding of the potential therapeutic benefits for bereaved relatives participating in palliative care research is limited, and therefore the ethics of engaging this group remain questionable.Method:This paper describes a secondary analysis of qualitative data collected in the Care of the Dying Evaluation (CODE) project, examining the experiences of patients who died at home. It explores the motivations and potential benefits for bereaved relatives participating in research with reference to the recently developed concepts in bereavement theory. Cognitive interviews were conducted with 15 bereaved relatives and secondary analysis using a content analysis framework was employed to classify the data.Results:The results center around six recurring concepts identified as adaptive in current bereavement theory: an opportunity to share the narrative accounts of the final hours of their relative's life; a search for sense and meaning in loss; an ongoing bond/attachment with the deceased; altruistic motivations; oscillation between loss and restorative orientations; and a sense of resilience. Overall, the participants found that taking part in the research was valuable and that it could be described as offering therapeutic benefits.Significance of results:The need for bereaved relatives to take part in research studies should be encouraged, as they provide an accurate proxy for the patient's experience of end-of-life care while also providing a valuable account of their own perspective as family member and carer. In addition, we highlight the need for ethics committees to be aware of the potential benefits for bereaved relatives participating in research of this kind.
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Muszyński, Heliodor. "Socjalizacja i wychowanie. W poszukiwaniu genezy wychowania (perspektywa ewolucyjna)." Kultura-Społeczeństwo-Edukacja 22, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 7–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/kse.2022.22.01.
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The author deals with the problem of differences in meaning between the concepts of socialization and education. In social sciences, and especially in educational sciences, there is no agreement as to the relationship between the scopes of these two fundamental concepts. The article attempts to overcome these semantic difficulties by adopting an evolutionary perspective in line with the assumption that education emerged as a specific type of socialization in human prehistory. The search of its essential properties (and thus differences), was guided by the cognitive directive of Aristotle, according to which “the best understanding of things is achieved by those who study them at their inception”. The article uses the method of data analysis established in numerous studies on social and cultural human development, starting from the earliest stages of life in primitive groups. Socialization appeared in these groups as a way of transmitting collective experience, and thus culture, necessary for their survival. The continuation of the analysis leads to investigating what factors made this culturation take a different form, namely that of education. As it turns out, this difference is difficult to discern in the intentionality of cultural influences. It appears only when the group becomes aware of the need to adapt adolescents to fulfill various social roles. This already requires going beyond socialization, which is always a spontaneous process including widespread participation of group members in the transmission of an experience that is also common. In order to provide selected group members with selected elements of the experience linked to their social role, the group must appoint competent members for the transfer of the experience selected to perform specific social roles. These activities constitute one more role distinguished in the group – the role of the educator. And the activities that make up their performance are education.
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Wylde, Jonathan. "Technology Focus: Oilfield Chemistry (September 2021)." Journal of Petroleum Technology 73, no. 09 (September 1, 2021): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/0921-0057-jpt.
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As production chemists, we are all aware of the overall concepts of improved oil recovery (IOR) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Perhaps, though, fewer of us are aware of the different idiosyncrasies that exist within (and even between) these two broad categories of recovery and then how chemistry and chemicals can have an effect upon these processes. I would like to propose that the lines once were quite distinct between IOR and EOR: IOR was a standard waterflood operation, and EOR (from a chemist’s perspective) was the addition of chemistry to that waterflood (typically polymer or surfactant). Nowadays, the science has evolved massively to create many sub-genres of IOR and EOR. A waterflood is rarely just a waterflood anymore. We can alternate water and gas injection. We can add chemical conformance aids to direct better the flow of water. We can change the salinity of the water to promote better wettability for higher recovery factors. The list goes on. One just has to search out the number of EOR papers vs. (pretty much) every other discipline of production chemistry to see the commitment this industry still has to the research of this discipline. In recent years, the focus has tended to move away from deep-reservoir EOR to focus on near-wellbore stimulation. Interestingly, the mechanistic considerations that we make as production chemists are nearly identical in all cases, and significant synergies exist between these subdisciplines. Therefore, from the recent research published by SPE, two focused topics of IOR/EOR have arisen: the use of nanoparticles and the use of water-shutoff technologies. Nanoparticle use is gaining significant traction in the oil and gas industry, and field applications are now being reported. The area of IOR/EOR is no exception. Water shutoff is not a new technology area. However, are these established, production-sustaining IOR techniques seeing a resurgence caused by the headwinds our industry has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic? Recommended additional reading at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org. OTC 30123 - Thermal and Rheological Investigations on N,N’-Methylenebis Acrylamide Cross-Linked Polyacrylamide Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Water-Shutoff Applications by Mohan Raj Keishnan, Alfiasal University, et al. IPTC 20210 - Chemical and Mechanical Water Shutoff in Horizontal Passive ICD Wells: Experience and Lessons Learned in Giant Darcy Reservoir by Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Schlumberger, et al. SPE 203831 - Efficient Preparation of Nanostarch Particles and Mechanism of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Low-Permeability Oil Reservoirs by Lei Zhang, China University of Geosciences, et al.
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Ivanova, Olena. "Brand journalism and the crisis of the classical paradigm of journalism." Dialog: media studios, no. 27 (December 30, 2021): 52–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2308-3255.2021.27.251396.
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The article raises the issue of changing the classical paradigm of the vision of journalism as a subject of analysis against the background of the emergence of the latest trends in media activities, in particular brand journalism. Transformation processes are taking place in the mass communication environment, which should be interpreted as factors of significant changes in it. The communikat of mass communication in general and journalism in particular have significantly changed their communication intentions, preferences and communication competence in recent years. This is a serious challenge and the cause of the crisis of identity of journalism as a sphere of mass communication and a reason to talk about changing the classical paradigm of journalism.Brand journalism as a new media phenomenon is reformatting the media environment and should be interpreted through the application of a new approach, which is based on the crisis of describing the object of analysis caused by the crisis of traditional methods of measuring and observing phenomena, processes, actual paradigm shift. science in general and should be implemented in journalism in particular. Industry 4.0 is focused on the rapid search for productive solutions, global integration of capacities, diverse cooperation and extraordinary interaction, and brand journalism in this perspective is seen as a new phenomenon of the mass media environment, that integrates the tools and communication skills of journalism with research and analytical competencies of marketing to provide the latest mass audience with quality content, media effects of which do not contradict the tactical and strategic goals of brand management of aparticular project, that at the same time realizes and realizes his society. Brand journalism has communication intentions: constant high-quality, unbiased, relevant, socially responsible and diverse information service for knowledgeable, aware of a range of issues narrowly focused audience, seeking to communicate on the subject of self-interest and familiar with the company that cares about this media project.
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Mayer, Gerhard A. "Anthropology and Cryptozoology: Exploring Encounters with Mysterious Creatures edited by Samantha Hurn and Chris Wilbert (in the series Multispecies Encounters)." Journal of Scientific Exploration 34, no. 1 (March 23, 2020): 146–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.31275/20201737.
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Show me a Sasquatch body. (Michael Shermer, 2009, p. 35)
Anthropology and anatomy professor Jeff Meldrum gave a lecture at the 2016 PA/SSE conference entitled “Sasquatch and Other Wildmen: The Search for Relict Hominoids” (Meldrum, 2016). As one of the few established academics interested in cryptozoological topics, he spoke about footprints of different provenance, their evaluation and anatomical classification. He mentioned the reactions of his colleagues to this field of research and the placement of his books in bookstores for economic reasons—booksellers put them on the esoteric shelves, where sales are expected to be higher for such topics. With reference to the skeptic Michael Shermer, he says the attitude of his colleagues toward the subject area of cryptozoology can be characterized by the sentence “The science starts once you have a body.”This aptly shows the problematic situation in which cryptozoology finds itself. The first sentence of the article “Cryptozoology” in the English Wikipedia asserts: “Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that aims to prove the existence of entities from the folklore record, such as Bigfoot, the chupacabra, or Mokele-mbembe.”1 As is often the case with anomalies research, a general judgment is made about the field of research and the people who are actively interested in it. Without a discriminating perspective, critics equate the former with the latter (“pseudoscience and subculture”). The volume Anthropology and Cryptozoology: Exploring Encounters with Mysterious Creatures shows that there are other ways to look at this field. This high-priced book, edited by anthropologist Samantha Hurn, was published in 2017 by the scientific publisher Routledge. The combination of anthropology and cryptozoology in its title shows a shift in academic approach to this topic from zoology and biological anthropology to ethnology and social sciences, evidenced in the book blurb:
Cryptozoology is best understood as the study of animals which, in the eyes of Western science, are extinct, unclassified, or unrecognised. In consequence, and in part because of its selective methods and lack of epistemological rigour, cryptozoology is often dismissed as a pseudo-science. However, there is a growing recognition that social science can benefit from engaging with it, for as social scientists are very well aware, ‘scientific’ categorisation and explanation represents just one of myriad systems used by humans to enable them to classify and make sense of the world around them.
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Hamidah, Rizka Nur, and Noneng Siti Rosidah. "Konsep Kesehatan Mental Remaja dalam Perspektif Islam." Prophetic Guidance and Counseling Journal 2, no. 1 (August 18, 2021): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.32832/pro-gcj.v2i1.5122.
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<p class="15bIsiAbstractBInggris">The concept of mental health in adolescents is very important to understand, especially from an Islamic perspective. Because teenagers are vulnerable to an identity crisis, so the concept of mental health from an Islamic perspective can be the basis for teenagers in thinking and behaving. Therefore, this study aims to make individuals, especially teenagers, aware of how to maintain mental health and what changes occur during adolescence by exploring Islamic education patterns that are in accordance with the Qur’an and Sunnah. The research method used is library research. Retrieval of sources of date and information obtained through journals, books, newspaper or online information, and other sources. Based on the result of the search and date analysis, it can be concluded that the mental health of adolescents in an Islamic perspective, at least they can already know and implement worship practices according to Islamic teachings, are able to face various problems in life. Can adapt to changes new, establish a good relationship with the surrounding environment and strengthen the relationship with God.</p><p class="16aJudulAbstrak"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Konsep kesehatan mental diusia remaja penting untuk dapat dicapai dalam prespektif Islam. </span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Sehingga penelitian ini bertujuan untuk dapat membuat semua individu dapat tersadarkan mengenai kesehatan mental yang terjadi dalam usia remaja dan dapat pula mengetahui apa saja perubahan kondisi dalam usia remaja dan juga dapat menerapkan pola pendidikan Islam yang sesuai dengan Al-Qur'an dan As-Sunnah. </span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Metode penelitian yang dilakukan adalah studi keperpustakaan ( </span></span></span></span><em><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">library research)</span></span></span></span></em><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> ) dengan jenis pendekatan pendekatan, dimana melakukan pengambilan sumber data dan informasi melalui jurnal, buku, artikel dsb.</span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Kemudian pembahasan ini peneliti mengulas kembali dari hasil jurnal yang ditulis oleh Subur pada tahun 2006 yang berjudul “peran pendidikan agama Islam dalam perkembangan jiwa remaja”. </span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Berdasarkan hasil penelitian sebelumnya bahwa dapat dikatakan usia remaja seharusnya dapat mengetahui dalam penerapan praktik-praktik ibadah, dapat mengahadapi berbagai permasalahan yang dialaminya, dapat beradaptasi dengan perubahan-perubahan baru, menjalin hubungan yang baik dengan lingkungan sekitar lalu yang terpenting adalah mempererat hubungan dengan Tuhan. </span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Sehingga hal tersebut dapat dikatakan kesehatan mental remaja yang baik dan sesuai dengan prespektif agama Islam.</span></span></span></span>
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Jeanquartier, Fleur, Claire Jean-Quartier, Sarah Stryeck, and Andreas Holzinger. "Open Data to Support CANCER Science—A Bioinformatics Perspective on Glioma Research." Onco 1, no. 2 (December 13, 2021): 219–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/onco1020016.
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Supporting data sharing is paramount to making progress in cancer research. This includes the search for more precise targeted therapies and the search for novel biomarkers, through cluster and classification analysis, and extends to learning details in signal transduction pathways or intra- and intercellular interactions in cancer, through network analysis and network simulation. Our work aims to support and promote the use of publicly available resources in cancer research and demonstrates artificial intelligence (AI) methods to find answers to detailed questions. For example, how targeted therapies can be developed based on precision medicine or how to investigate cell-level phenomena with the help of bioinformatical methods. In our paper, we illustrate the current state of the art with examples from glioma research, in particular, how open data can be used for cancer research in general, and point out several resources and tools that are readily available. Presently, cancer researchers are often not aware of these important resources.
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Sajdakowska, Marta, and Agnieszka Tekień. "To Raise or Not to Raise the Level of Ingredients in Yoghurts: Polish Consumer Preferences Regarding Dairy Products." Nutrients 11, no. 10 (October 19, 2019): 2526. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11102526.
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Modern consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the perceived health benefits of food. As a result, they are in search of various types of information, for example, information on the packaging of food products that could confirm to what extent the purchased product will meet their expectations regarding the proper composition, that is, nutritional value, or perceived health values earlier mentioned. Furthermore, consumers increasingly seek new dairy products with additional health benefits and, therefore, it is essential to explore which attributes are important drivers of food choices and how producers can better respond to shifting consumer values and needs in each dairy product category. Therefore, the aims of our research was twofold: (1) To determine different segments of consumers based on their preferences towards food and nutrition, including opinion on new food products with a particular emphasis on a dairy market as well as (2) to study the importance of some statements related to nutrition presented on the yoghurt label with a precise focus on aspects of the increased and decreased content of some ingredients. The data were collected using a CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) survey on a sample of 489 adult Polish consumers. Respondents provided answers to questions and took part in a discrete choice-based experiment. The obtained data were analysed using the clustering method. The segmentation was performed using a hierarchical Ward’s method. As a result, four segments were identified: Quality-oriented, Involved, Quality Enthusiasts, and Neutral. The results indicated that in relation to the features that are important in the case of yoghurts, the following were indicated above all: Beneficial effects on health, its sensory values, as well as its availability on the market and production by traditional methods. Consumers belonging to Quality Enthusiasts seemed to be the most promising segment due to their openness to new products, as well as positive feedback on yoghurt. From the perspective of taking action on the food market, Involved may also be interesting, as it showed their openness to new products available on the food market. However, due to the relatively lower, compared to other segments, assessment on the beneficial effect of yoghurt on health, their taste, aroma, availability, as well as the importance of information on care for the proper method of breeding animals, this segment can pose a special challenge to entrepreneurs. Moreover, Involved seemed to be more demanding and critical towards some projects undertaken on the market by policy makers and marketing practitioners.
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Cerritelli, Luca, Stavros Hatzopoulos, Andrea Catalano, Chiara Bianchini, Giovanni Cammaroto, Giuseppe Meccariello, Giannicola Iannella, et al. "Rapid Maxillary Expansion (RME): An Otolaryngologic Perspective." Journal of Clinical Medicine 11, no. 17 (September 5, 2022): 5243. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11175243.
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Background. To evaluate the possible effects of Rapid Maxillary Expansion (RME), such as nasal breathing problems, middle ear function, Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in the otolaryngology field. RME has already been introduced in orthodontics to expand the maxilla of young patients affected by transversal maxillary constriction. Methods. A literature search was performed using different databases (Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, and CINAHL), from May 2005 to November 2021, according to the PRISMA guidelines. Results. The application of RME in children has shown good results on nasal function, reducing nasal resistances, independently from a previous adenotonsillectomy. These results are not only related to the increasing of nasal transverse diameters and volume, but also to the stiffening of airway muscles, enabling the nasal filtrum function and avoiding mouth opening, thereby decreasing respiratory infections. Positive effects have also been reported for the treatment of conductive hearing loss and of OSA, with the reduction of Apnea Hypopnea Index (AHI), possibly due to (i) an increased pharyngeal dimensions, (ii) a new tongue posture, and (iii) reduced nasal respiratory problems. Conclusions. Otolaryngologists should be aware of the indications and benefits of the RME treatment, considering its possible multiple beneficial effects.
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de Carvalho Setti, Ana Laura, Maria Carolina Sartorio, Matheus Santos Guimarães de Moura, and Ivan Dieb Miziara. "DILEMMAS FACED BY EXPERT PHYSICIANS IN THE FACE OF PUERPERL PSYCHOSIS RELATED TO INFANICIDE." Perspectivas em medicina legal e pericias medicas 7, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): e221221. http://dx.doi.org/10.47005/221221.
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Introduction: Puerperal psychosis is defined as a type of brief psychotic disorder occurring within three weeks after delivery, but predominantly within the first 48-72 hours, although rare (0.1 to 0.2%), it is a medical emergency and should be be treated as soon as possible. The presence of prodromal symptoms (irritability, sudden change in behavior, among others) that rapidly progress to a psychotic condition (delusions and hallucinations). In this context, infanticide is the apex for forensic interpretation. In 2021, The Lancet publishes an article questioning whether puerperal psychosis is a new disease. Neither the ICD nor the DSM bring this diagnosis as a distinct disease . Objective: To expose the main conflicts faced by medical experts in the face of the alleged crime of infanticide from the perspective of the Penal Code Conceptual framework: Establishing the nexus between puerperal psychosis and infanticide is a very difficult task and often depends on documents from the attending physician. Material and methods: Study carried out at the Department of Legal Medicine, Bioethics, Occupational Medicine and Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo. A narrative review of the literature was carried out, focusing on signs and symptoms suggestive or conclusive of puerperal psychosis in the face of the crime of infanticide. Articles in the Lilacs and PubMed databases were accessed, applying the descriptors “psychotic disorder”, “postpartum psychosis”, “expertise”; Textbooks were also included. No time limit was established for the search, but articles obtained in full were included. Results: Article 123 of the Penal Code, from 1940, determines that the crime of infanticide is “killing, under the influence of the puerperal state, one’s own child, during childbirth or shortly after: Penalty – detention, from two to six years. ”, at this point it is visible the difficulty to assertively define what it is right after, as well as to establish the mental criteria that made this crime an action in which the woman was not aware of the fact performed. Science still struggles to establish nosology and the temporal relationship between the onset of mental changes and childbirth and which biological changes are involved, these are the words of one of the greatest researchers on the subject, Patrick McGorry. The search for a genetic relationship between bipolar disorder and puerperal psychosis has been suggested. But, another issue to be discussed, not all puerperal psychoses are linked to infanticide. Another dilemma faced is the lack of habit in applying the terms infanticide and neonaticide with their individual designations. The first would be the death of a child in the first year of life by its mother and the second would be the death within the first 24 hours of life. The central question for the medical expert is to establish whether the neonaticide stems from a social issue in which the child is unwanted or whether it stems from a dissociative, depersonalization or hallucinatory disorder in which the mother does not have the capacity for understanding and self-determination. The medical literature rarely attributes neonaticide to mental illness. It is up to the medical expert to establish with technical rigor that at the time of the criminal act the woman was under a condition of illness that completely abolished her capacity. In this way, the medical expert must carry out the examination by complying with the technical rite and request medical documentation on the clinical and mental conditions of the expert at the time of the puerperium. The search for risk factors can help the doctor, but it is necessary to know that the profile of women varies according to the typology of the fact, that is, neonaticide and infanticide. Differential diagnoses between delusional misidentification syndrome which may be accompanied by hostility towards delusional erratic identification, Capgras syndrome in which the woman may believe that her child has been switched and that the child in front of her is an imposter. Due to the transience of psychotic symptoms, the psychiatric expertise that determines the imputability of the infanticidal mother is often performed in the absence of any clinical manifestation of psychosis. Conclusion: The psychiatric expertise of the woman who claims puerperal psychosis is challenging due to the elusiveness of the symptomatic picture and the late realization. It is based on an analysis of medical documentation – from the moment of childbirth and the puerperium – symptoms described by close family members, the epidemiology of the condition and its association with mood disorders.