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Luo, Jianli, Minmin Huang, Yanhu Bai, and Jia Li. "Supply Chain Management during a Public Health Emergency of International Concern: A Bibliometric and Content Analysis." Processes 11, no. 3 (February 27, 2023): 713. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr11030713.
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A public health emergency of international concern, such as a pandemic, disrupts the normal operation of the global supply chain, which necessitates in-depth research on supply chain management. In this paper, we used bibliometric and content analysis to provide a systematic analysis of the supply chain industry from this background. The descriptive analysis provides insights into the publication growth trajectory, in terms of the contributing authors, countries, and subject categories, which presents an intuitive display of previous research. In addition, the existing research mainly covers three dimensions of supply chain disruption, strategies, and sustainability, which can be clustered into supply chain disruption, disruption recovery, reconfiguration, digital intelligence, optimization, and sustainability. By revisiting the supply chain industry, we explored the transformation of its characteristics in the pandemic, covering themes ranging from expansion to contraction, from traditional to digital intelligence, and from fragile to sustainability, which suggests potential research directions for future studies. This contributes to the further research of supply chain management during the pandemic and provides supply chain managers with a practical approach for dealing with supply chain disruption risks and improving supply chain sustainability in this context.
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Irianti, Pergola, Agni Prasetyo, and Siti Hidayati. "Penilaian Mahasiswa S1, S2, dan S3 terhadap Sumber Daya Perpustakaan di Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Gadjah Mada." Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi 8, no. 1 (November 6, 2015): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/bip.7762.
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This research was aimed to find out the evaluation from the students of undergraduate, graduate, and doctor program toward library resources in the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada. The result of this research was expected to give benefit to develop the library resources for giving the excellent services to the user. This research used quantitative method, questionnaire as the data collection method, and descriptive statistic method for analizing data. The subject of this research was 159 students from undergraduate, graduate, and doctor program as the user of the library. The results showed standard value for each program: undergraduate (2,545963), graduate comprised with Master of Science (2,644517) and Master of Profession (2,541234), and doctor (2,982143). If the value higher than (>) standard value included high categories and less than (<) or equal with (:) standard value included low categories. The comprehensive result of this research showed that (1) high categories evaluation came from the aspects of collection relevancy, circulation, facilities (security, temperature, light, and lay out), and human resources; (2) low categories evaluation came from the aspects of collection (composition of subject and language), services (time, number of collection, duration of borrowing books, and interlibrary borrowing books), facilities (space, table, and chair), information technology (computer/internet, internet accessibility, and multimedia); and (3) variation of high-low evaluation came from the aspects of collection (recently and completeness) services (searching, multimedia, and fine), and information technology (library based on information technology and browsing).
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Sundqvist, Pernilla, Tor Nilsson, and Peter Gustafsson. "Swedish preschool staff’s descriptions of technology." Lumat: International Journal of Math, Science and Technology Education 3, no. 2 (June 30, 2015): 237–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31129/lumat.v3i2.1046.
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With regards to previous research results on how the teacher’s/preschool teacher’s understanding of a subject effects children’s learning and apprehending of the subject combined with the difficulties for the technology subject to take place in preschool this study aims at investigating how preschool staff (including preschool teachers and day care attendants) describe technology. A qualitatively designed questionnaire was sent out to 139 preschool teachers and day care attendants in a Swedish municipality, whereof 102 answered. The open question about what technology is thought to be was analyzed using a conventional content analysis resulting in nine categories, of which six interrelated hierarchically and one contained answers witch could not be categorized. Thus the result shows eight different ways in which technology is described, from a simple and naive description to a more complex description that implicates a deeper understanding of technology. A majority describes technology according to the latter. The result also shows that it is mainly the preschool teachers who describe technology in a more complex way. Many of the respondents have trouble separating technology from science, and quite a few describes technology as technique, which is another meaning for the word in the Swedish language. FULL TEXT IN SWEDISH.
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Li, Ji, and Luo. "Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal Pollution: A Bibliometric and Scientometric Analysis from 1989 to 2018." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 23 (November 27, 2019): 4755. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16234755.
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This paper aims to evaluate the knowledge landscape of the phytoremediation of heavy metals (HMs) by constructing a series of scientific maps and exploring the research hotspots and trends of this field. This study presents a review of 6873 documents published about phytoremediation of HMs in the international context from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) (1989–2018). Two different processing software applications were used, CiteSpace and Bibliometrix. This research field is characterized by high interdisciplinarity and a rapid increase in the subject categories of engineering applications. The basic supporting categories mainly included “Environmental Sciences & Ecology”, “Plant Sciences”, and “Agriculture”. In addition, there has been a trend in recent years to focus on categories such as “Engineering, Multidisciplinary”, “Engineering, Chemical”, and “Green & Sustainable Science & Technology”. “Soil”, “hyperaccumulator”, “enrichment mechanism/process”, and “enhance technology” were found to be the main research hotspots. “Wastewater”, “field crops”, “genetically engineered microbes/plants”, and “agromining” may be the main research trends. Bibliometric and scientometric analysis are useful methods to qualitatively and quantitatively measure research hotspots and trends in phytoremediation of HM, and can be widely used to help new researchers to review the available research in a certain research field.
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Shumarova, Nataliya, Iryna Marynenko, and Vladyslav Mykhailenko. "Headlines of media texts: hidden contradictions." Current Issues of Mass Communication, no. 32 (2022): 50–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/cimc.2022.32.50-62.
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This inquiry aims to determine the ways and means through which the accuracy category manifests itself in the news genre and to identify internal contradictions formed by the interaction between logical and semantic components of the expression. The objectives were as follows: to determine how the accuracy category is presented through the categories of subject, time, and place of action, what are the transformative possibilities of these categories in the field of adequate transmission of meaning, which linguistic means actualize the accuracy category or, on the contrary, “blur” it. Continuous sampling, analysis and synthesis, transformational, and descriptive methods were used in the research process. We confirm that the subject in the headline is delivered explicitly and implicitly in the conclusions presenting the research results. “Nonsubjectivity” is realized using indefinite (non-personal) forms of the predicate or can be determined through a locus. For news headlines, the locus is an essential component, its place in the sentence can adjust the semantic accents of the statement. The time category in analyzed titles is almost always explicit. The accuracy category is most clearly manifested in direct indications of time and place and in two-syllable sentences where the subject of the action is specified.
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Dos Santos, Rita de Cássia Cardoso, Vitor Hugo da Silva Vaz, Rosângela Dória Lima, Ronaldo Nunes Linhares, and Ana Eleonora Almeida Paixão. "THE SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGICAL PARKS IN BRAZIL AND THEIR INTER-RELATIONS IN UNIVERSITY TRAINING." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 6, no. 11 (November 30, 2018): 116–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol6.iss11.1244.
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This study makes a systematic review of scientific publications of research, on the theme Technology Park in Brazil. It seeks to identify and analyze the scope of Science and Technology Parks at the national level, in order to understand the trends and interrelations between university education. The mapping was the basis for knowing and discussing the results of the scientific production of different areas, considering the different times and places, in what form and under what conditions they were produced. For its construction, searches were carried out on the subject in the Capes, Bdtd, Anped and Ibict databases from 2006 to 2017, looking for similarity with a set of descriptors. The survey was performed after selection in the directories that indicate PCT as the subject of study. We retrieved 574 scientific research productions, being selected for reading the abstract 132 works, we observed that only 18 productions are preponderant in relation to the area of education. For the analysis, the following variables were considered: objective, methodology and conclusions pointed out, with the interest concentrated in university formation, scientific initiation, social impact, case study. To analyze the data, the following categories emerged: PCT and the relationship between university, business and government; PCT and Public policies; PCT and technological and economic development; PCT and management model and finally, PCT and the relationship with initiation. The analysis shows that researchers need to follow a planning and scientific strategy that allows them to present different levels of relationships between park and technology, innovation, economics, research, government, business, development and university. The result of the analysis of the categories on methodologies, indicated indications that are the methods and the technical instruments that order the systematized thought, organizing in a organized way the way of proceeding throughout the investigation to reach the proposed objective.
This study makes a systematic review of scientific publications of research, on the theme Technology Park in Brazil. It seeks to identify and analyze the scope of Science and Technology Parks at the national level, in order to understand the trends and interrelations between university education. The mapping was the basis for knowing and discussing the results of the scientific production of different areas, considering the different times and places, in what form and under what conditions they were produced. For its construction, searches were carried out on the subject in the Capes, Bdtd, Anped and Ibict databases from 2006 to 2017, looking for similarity with a set of descriptors. The survey was performed after selection in the directories that indicate PCT as the subject of study. We retrieved 574 scientific research productions, being selected for reading the abstract 132 works, we observed that only 18 productions are preponderant in relation to the area of education. For the analysis, the following variables were considered: objective, methodology and conclusions pointed out, with the interest concentrated in university formation, scientific initiation, social impact, case study. To analyze the data, the following categories emerged: PCT and the relationship between university, business and government; PCT and Public policies; PCT and technological and economic development; PCT and management model and finally, PCT and the relationship with initiation. The analysis shows that researchers need to follow a planning and scientific strategy that allows them to present different levels of relationships between park and technology, innovation, economics, research, government, business, development and university. The result of the analysis of the categories on methodologies, indicated indications that are the methods and the technical instruments that order the systematized thought, organizing in a organized way the way of proceeding throughout the investigation to reach the proposed objective.
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Adams, Jonathan, Gordon Rogers, Warren Smart, and Martin Szomszor. "Longitudinal variation in national research publication portfolios: Steps required to index balance and evenness." Quantitative Science Studies 1, no. 3 (August 2020): 1182–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00073.
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National research diversity is explored through the balance of global and national papers in journal categories in the Web of Science (WoS) and Essential Science Indicators (ESI) and we examine the consequences of “normalizing” national publication counts against global baselines. Global balance across subject categories became more even as annual WoS indexing grew fourfold between 1981 and 2018, with a relative shift from biomedicine towards environment and technology. Change at the country level may have tracked this or been influenced by local policy and funding. We discuss choice of methods and indices for analysis: WoS categories provide better granularity than ESI; Lorenz curves are explored but found limiting; the Pratt index, Gini coefficient, and Shannon diversity are compared. At the national level, balance generally increases and is greatest in non-Anglophone countries, perhaps due to shifts in language and journal use. Two aspects of national change are revealed: the balance of actual WoS paper counts and the balance of counts normalized against world baseline. The broad patterns for these analyses are similar, but normalized data indicate relatively greater evenness. National patterns link to research capacity and regional networking opportunities, while international collaboration may blend national differences. A data set is provided for analytical use.
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Firdausi, Unzil Maughfiroh, and Sugiman Sugiman. "The Effectiveness of the Use of Assistive Technology Malitung for Learning Outcomes of Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities." Unnes Journal of Mathematics Education 12, no. 1 (March 31, 2023): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/ujme.v12i1.67415.
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The purposes of this research were to test the effectiveness of the use of assistive technology malitung (manik, tali, hitung) for learning outcomes of students with mild intellectual disabilities in basic arithmetic operations topic and describe their learning outcomes when using assistive technology malitung at Ungaran Public Special School. The method used in this research was Single Subject Research (SSR) with A-B-A design followed by qualitative descriptive research. Data collection techniques used in this research were observation, interviews, questionnaires, and tests. The data analysis techniques used in this research were descriptive statistics, data reduction, data presentation, data interpretation, and conclusion drawing. There were 3 students as research subjects who were students of class IX-C at Ungaran Public Special School. The results of this study are that the learning outcomes of the three research subjects in terms of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects increased and reached category pretty good, good, and very good categories in learning using assistive technology malitung. These results were reinforced by very positive responses from Research Subjects 1 and 3 and positive responses from Research Subjects 2. The conclusions obtained were 1) the use of assistive technology malitung effective on the learning outcomes of students with mild intellectual disabilities on basic arithmetic operations material at Ungaran Public Special School, 2) basic arithmetic operations ability, curiosity, accuracy, responsibility, never give up, enthusiasm for learning, confidence, and interest in learning, problem-solving skills related to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations were achieved in pretty good, good, and very good categories in learning by using assistive technology malitung.
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Ali, N. S. Aftar, K. Muda, M. Z. M. Najib, M. F. M. Amin, and S. Ismail. "GLOBAL TRENDS AND RESEARCH HOTSPOTS OF AEROBIC GRANULAR SLUDGE FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT USING SCOPUS DATABASE: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS." Malaysian Journal of Civil Engineering 35, no. 1 (March 28, 2023): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/mjce.v35.19927.
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The aerobic granular sludge (AGS) system is a promising technology that is suitable for the treatment of various types of wastewaters. This system has received great attention from many researchers due to its wide range of applications and potential as a cost effective system. However, only a few reports are available in analyzing the progress of AGS research in wastewater treatment over the last 20 years. Therefore, in the present work, a bibliometric analysis was carried out to trace the global research trends and current hotspots of AGS in wastewater treatment from 1997 to 2020, based on the Scopus database. The bibliometric data was visualized using the VOSviewer software. A total of 1,347 articles were published in 160 journals across 19 subject categories, involving 50 countries and 129 academic institutions. Results showed that Bioresource Technology (175, 12%), Water Research (94, 6.96%), and Huanjin Kexue Environmental Science (78, 5.77%) dominated in the top 3 journals. Environmental Science (1036, 38%), China (716, 53%), and Harbin Institute of Technology (98, 7.28%) were the most productive subject category, country, and academic institution, respectively. The AGS research hot topics and future research directions were discovered through the analysis of the most frequently used keywords obtained in bibliometric maps.
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Liu, Ting. "A Bibliometric Analysis of Sludge Research from 2000 to 2011." Advanced Materials Research 803 (September 2013): 161–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.803.161.
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This study explores a bibliometric approach to quantitatively assessing current research trends on sludge, by using the related literature published between 2000 and 2011. The articles acquired from such literature were concentrated on the general analysis by publication type and language, characteristics of articles outputs, country, subject categories and the frequency of title-words used. Over the past 12 years, there had been a notable growth trend in publication outputs, along with more participation of countries/territories. An analysis of the title-words showed that wastewater treatment was still the most hot topic in sludge research and wastewater, heavy metal, waste water treatment and anaerobic digestion were recent major topics of sludge research. Besides, membrane bioreactor technology has been advancing rapidly around the world and became an ideal way to reduce sludge production in the wastewater treatment process.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Research Subject Categories – TECHNOLOGY – Bioengineering"
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Bhowmick, R. "Deciphering the complexities in oncogenesis: an integrative approach to understand its adaptive phenotypes." Thesis(Ph.D.), CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, 2021. http://dspace.ncl.res.in:8080/xmlui/handle/20.500.12252/6000.
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Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer. Changes in metabolism have been
verified for their role in the progression of glioblastomas. Metabolic reprogramming
allows the tumor cells to switch between phenotypes under changing growth condition
that help these tumors to evolve and develop resistance against the therapeutic regimens.
In the present thesis, the alternate routes of therapeutic escape, opportunistic mode of
nutrient acquisition, and evolving metabolic routes to sustain oncogenic phenotypes
under various growth conditions have been studied by formulating and analyzing
computational and mathematical models.
In order to gain a holistic perspective of the pathway behavior and condition specific
changes in the metabolic network of glioblastoma, a constraint-based metabolic model
was formulated and analyzed. Model simulations showed a major flux re-routing towards
glutathione production. Cystine and glucose were observed to be the minimal essential
nutrients that could sustain glioblastoma growth under limited nutrient availability.
Glycine transporter in combination with the serine biosynthesis enzymes were proposed
as potential therapeutic targets, as their knockout was observed to effectively reduce
glioblastoma growth.
To understand the changes in the redox and thiol status of the cells and the changes
occurring in the oxidant-antioxidant balance during gliomagenesis, a dynamic ordinary
differential equation model was formulated. Model analyses established that the
changing dynamics of glutathione peroxidase, glutathione oxidoreductase and NADPH
oxidase determines the oxidant-antioxidant balance during gliomagenesis. Parameters of
non-intuitive reactions in the network like cystine reductase, glutathione synthase, and
fructose-bisphosphate aldolase were observed to influence the ROS level and thiol ratio
of the cells and were proposed to alter the ROS manipulative strategies in glioma
treatment.
The post-transcriptional regulation imposed by microRNAs on the metabolic genes was
studied using graph theoretical approach. Using bipartite projection and backbone
extraction techniques, the key regulatory microRNAs controlling central carbon, fatty
acid, lipid, glycan, amino acid, and nucleotide metabolism were identified. Analysis
showed that the central carbon metabolism, lipid, and amino acid metabolism were
highly regulated by the microRNAs. The microRNA combinations (hsa-miR-15b-5p + hsamiR-500a-5p + hsa-miR-129-1-3p), (hsa-miR-15b-5p + hsa-miR-124-3p + hsa-miR-138-2-3p), (hsa-miR-7-5p + hsa-miR-128-3p + hsa-miR-485-5p), (hsa-miR-15b-5p + hsa-miR-23a-3p) and (hsa-miR-124-3p + hsa-miR-300-5p + hsa-miR-23a-3p) were proposed as target combinations regulating proliferation and growth, survival, cell migration and
invasion, stemness and drug resistance in glioblastoma respectively, that could be used
for miRNA-based therapeutic design.AcSIR
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Schembri, Florinda. "Experimental study for the control of two-phase microfluidic flows." Thesis, Universita' degli Studi di Catania, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/366.
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Microfluidic systems can be considered as nonlinear dynamical systems. In the perspective of control systems toward the development of highly integrated and portable Lab on a Chip systems (LOC), is of primary importance the identification of the nonlinear processes involved in such phenomena.
The main aims achieved in this PhD thesis are: the identification of input-output relation maps for the two-phase flow patterns, the design of innovative PDMS micro-optical systems for microfluidics' monitoring, the parameters estimation of a mathematical model by means of synchronization of two dynamical systems.
These experimental studies open the way for the control of two-phase microfluidic flows through signal processing.
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Raspagliesi, Domenico. "Caratterizzazione di isolati del virus della tristeza degli agrumi mediante elettroforesi capillare della conformazione dei polimorfismi del singolo filamento (CE-SSCP) e messa a punto di protocolli di analisi rapida." Thesis, Universita' degli Studi di Catania, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/296.
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Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) e' una specie virale del genere Closterovirus che causa una delle malattie piu' dannose per l'agrumicoltura. Il CTV ha portato alla morte oltre 85 milioni di piante di agrumi in tutto il mondo e reso economicamente improduttive altrettante. L'uso di portinnesti tolleranti consente di arginare gli effetti di alcuni ceppi del virus ma non di tutti.
L'eradicazione delle piante infette e' una strategia di lotta efficace, perseguita in molti Paesi del mondo e valida fino al punto in cui la malattia non habbia ancora assunto livelli di diffusione superiori al 5%. Superato questo limite la ricerca e l'esperienza suggeriscono l'estirpazione limitata alle piante affette da ceppi virulenti e l'impiego di tecniche di protezione crociata o di interferenza. Per questo motivo, negli anni recenti, sono state messe a punto numerose tecniche per la caratterizzazione degli isolati di CTV. Oltre ai saggi biologici, troppo lunghi e costosi, affidabili sono l'uso di multiple-molecular-markers (MMM) (molto laborioso) ed il sequenziamento (non accessibile a tutti i laboratori). Informazioni utili puo' dare l'analisi della conformazione dei polimorfismi del filamento singolo (SSCP) della quale, nella ricerca oggetto del dottorato, si e' cercato di migliorare la potenzialita' attraverso l'elettroforesi capillare. La ricerca eseguita ha permesso di mettere a punto e validare protocolli di CE-SSCP (elettroforesi capillare dell'analisi della conformazione dei polimorfismi del filamento singolo) specifica per CTV. Questa tecnica abbina le potenzialita' della tradizionale tecnica SSCP ai vantaggi dell'elettroforesi capillare. Per la messa a punto del metodo sono stati utilizzati tre isolati provenienti dalla Sicilia (SG29, Tapi e TDV) e un isolato esotico (RPC3), precedentemente caratterizzati biologicamente. I prodotti dell'amplificazione dei geni p18 (425bp), p23 (594bp) e p25 (415bp) sono stati utilizzati per l'analisi SSCP e CE-SSCP. I profili ottenuti hanno permesso di clusterizzare gli isolati SG29, RPC3, TDV e Tapi in gruppi differenti. TDV e Tapi, isolati da piante provenienti dallo stesso vivaio e presenti in due appezzamenti contigui hanno mostrato profili simili, cosi' come tanti altri isolati provenienti da piante dell'areale.
SG29 e RPC3 hanno mostrato sintomi gravi in tutte le piante indicatrici, mentre Tapi e TDV hanno mostrato sintomi tipici degli isolati blandi. Le analisi filogenetiche rivelano che questi due isolati sono localizzati in un cluster che comprende le varianti di sequenza dei ceppi blandi, mentre SG29 e RPC3 ricadono nel clado degli isolati virulenti. In base ai risultati ottenuti la tecnica e' stata utilizzata per caratterizzare 54 isolati di CTV provenienti da diversi areali della Sicilia, ai fini della validazione e della definizione del protocollo di analisi. Dalla vasta gamma di pattern ricavati e' stata effettuata una suddivisione in 9 gruppi. In alcuni di essi vi erano gruppi di piante residenti in appezzamenti agrumicoli vicini. La clusterizzazione arbitraria degli isolati e' stata confermata dai dati ottenuti dalla caratterizzazione biologica e dalle analisi filogenetiche. Per poter consentire una migliore applicazione del metodo messo a punto e' stato anche predisposto un protocollo di analisi che combina, in maniera sequenziale, la tecnica molecolare CE-SSCP con il test immunologico DAS-ELISA. In tal modo e' possibile abbinare la rapidita' dello screening all'analisi della struttura genetica, risparmiando tempo e risorse.
Il metodo e' altamente sensibile, semplice e particolarmente conveniente per l'analisi rapida di numerosi campioni. In tale circostanza consente di sviluppare una rapida caratterizzazione della variabilita' genetica di popolazioni di isolati del virus, risultando vantaggioso rispetto alla SSCP convenzionale, anche per la migliore risoluzione e per la possibilita' di accumulare i dati e di gestirli tramite un software.Citrus tristeza virus (CTV), a viral species of the Closterovirus genus, is responsible for the most economically damaging disease of Citrus. It has killed over 85 millions of Citrus trees all over the world and made as many economically unproductives. Eradication programmes and use of CTV tolerant rootstocks are suitable to mitigate the negative effect of mild strains, whereas they are not effective against SP strains. Moreover, eradication is effective as long as the disease does not assume spread levels over 5%, otherwise it is suggested to pull out only those trees affected by severe strains aswell as cross-protection with mild strains or interfering RNA, being envisaged the future strategy to control the disease. For this reason, the development of new characterization techniques is becoming of important concern. In addition to the biological characterization (time consuming and costly), the most reliable techniques are the multiple-molecular-markers (labor consuming) and sequencing (not easy for many laboratories). Useful information can be achieved by the single stranded conformation polymorphism analysis (SSCP), which this doctoral research has empowered by performing the analysis through capillary electrophoresis. In this paper a novel fluorescence-based Capillary Electrophoresis Single Strand Conformation Polymorphism (CE-SSCP) protocol was applied for molecular characterization of CTV isolates. It combines the potentiality of single strand conformation analysis with automation and standardization of capillary electrophoresis. Three CTV isolates from Sicily (SG29, TDV, Tapi) and an exotic isolate (RPC3) previously characterized biologically were used in conventional SSCP and CE-SSCP analyses of partial p18 (425 bp), p23 (594 bp) and p25 (415 bp) genes. Profiles showed clear differences between SG29, RPC3, TDV and Tapi, altough the two latter isolates were similar, as expected, being originated from two close by plots and coming from the same nursery. Characterization of the clus-tered isolates were confirmed by data obtained from biological characterization and phylogenetic analysis. SG29 and RPC3 showed severe symptoms on the set of indicator plants, while Tapi and TDV showed typical symptoms of mild isolates. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that Tapi and TDV are localized in a cluster comprising the sequence variance of mild isolates, while SG29 and RPC3 belong to the cluster of virulent isolates. Based on these results a collection of 54 CTV isolates collected in different orchards of Sicily was analysed by CE-SSCP to further validate the protocol. A wide range of patterns was observed, tentatively placed in 9 groups. Clusters mostly included samples from trees originating from near-by infected trees, apparently infected with closely similar CTV isolates. Furthermore, in the present work we present a new protocol which combines the CE-SSCP molecular assay with DAS-ELISA immunological test in a sequential time. This new metodology allows the detection of CTV as well as the rapid analysis of the genetic structure of the isolates in a con-tinuous process. The method is highly sensitive, simple and very convenient for massive samples analysis. The technique enables rapid characterization of genetic variability within virus isolates, gives the best resolution compared to conventional SSCP and allows data accumulation and management through a specific software, thus saving both time and resources.
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MANZO, CRUZ FRANCISCO, and HERNÁNDEZ LUIS ARZATE. "Sistema de Semáforos Inteligentes para el Control de Tráfico Vehicular." Tesis de Licenciatura, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/99060.
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Mediante del diseño y la programación se logró desarrollar un sistema de semáforos inteligentes con procesamiento y algoritmos aplicados a secuencias de imágenes que controla el funcionamiento de los semáforos simulando la inteligencia humana. Este desarrollo brinda la oportunidad de conjugar la tecnología con servicios para la sociedad.Actualmente, el congestionamiento de tráfico vehicular es un problema que afecta directamente a los diferentes sectores de la población específicamente con pérdida de tiempo, obstrucción de avenidas por largas filas, acumulación de vehículos e incapacidad para definir la duración de viajes. En los últimos años los sistemas inteligentes han adquirido una gran trascendencia en el uso de tecnologías para la solución de problemas en zonas urbanas. Con ayuda de un sistema de semáforos inteligentes para el control de tráfico se puede disminuir considerablemente el congestionamiento en las intersecciones de avenidas que presentan una mayor afluencia vehicular. El desarrollo de un sistema de semáforos inteligentes para el control de tráfico vehicular es posible mediante la implementación de tecnologías que involucran técnicas de procesamiento de imágenes y visión artificial. Tecnologías de uso libre que permiten un desarrollo a bajo costo como “Python” (Lenguaje de programación) y librerías como “OPEN CV”. Las técnicas de visión artificial simulan la observación de los seres humanos.
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Hernández, Arias Miguel Angel, and Guzmán María Guadalupe Hernández. "DESARROLLO E IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE UN SISTEMA COMO APOYO A LA ADMINISTRACIÓN DEL ESTADO DE FUERZA DE LA DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE SEGURIDAD CIUDADANA DE NEZAHUALCÓYOTL." Tesis de Licenciatura, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/99066.
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Se identifico que existen diferentes tipos de sistemas de infomación, los cuales se implementan en una empresa de acuerdo con sus necesidades. Por esta razón se eligio el sistema de información para la administración.
Este sistema beneficio a la DGSC en el departamento de control y equipamiento donde se implemento, ya que, al tener la mayoría de sus sistemas en su sitio web, esté requería actualizar su sistema actual del control que tenían sobre los bienes unificándolo con el sitio web.Este trabajo de tesis esta organizado en cuatro capítulos: El primer capítulo presenta un contexto y fundamento del proyecto de tesis para dar al lector un panorama de las soluciones planteadas en la aplicación de sistemas de información, resaltando ademas la problemática, su justificación y los objetivos a desarrollar finalizando con la Tabla de congruencia. En el segundo capítulo se describe el marco teórico y metodológico de la tesis, donde el marco metodológico se desarrolla usando la aplicación de la metodología para sistemas de información basado en computadoras que consta de cinco fases. En el cuarto capítulo se enfoque a la aplicación de la metodología y resultados, en donde se lleva a cabo la aplicación de cada una de las fases: Análisis, Diseño, Construcción, Implementación y Operación y mantenimiento, por último se presentan las conclusiones y recomendaciones.
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CRUZ, CALDERÓN ADNY SAYTO. "DESARROLLO Y CONSTRUCCIÓN DE PRÓTESIS ROBÓTICA PARA PERSONAS CON AMPUTACIÓN TRANSRADIAL." Tesis de Licenciatura, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/99086.
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Una de las ventajas que tiene esta prótesis es que no es invasiva. La forma en que se acciona es fácil de entender, así que la instancia previa de entrenamiento es de aproximadamente cinco minutos para que el usuario pueda controlar la prótesis. No necesita mantener presión constante para mantener sujetado un objeto (como con las prótesis mioeléctricas), basta con posicionarse en el cierre deseado. Hasta el momento no se han presentado inconvenientes al procesar la señal del sensor por ningún factor de ruido o interferencia al estar en contacto con la piel o por variaciones de la posición del sensor respecto al musculo braquiorradialDesde tiempos ancestrales las prótesis, en sus formas básicas, han existido, porque el ser humano busca una solución, para cada necesidad. En el presente trabajo se muestran la investigación para la construcción de un prototipo de prótesis robótica, para personas con amputación transradial. Se escucharon las necesidades y expectativas que tiene una persona al adquirir una prótesis, con base en esto se desarrolló el prototipo, cuidando la estética por medio de la impresión 3D; El control, con el movimiento muscular del antebrazo basado en pulsos y procesado con un microcontrolador Arduino; Las pruebas para seleccionar un motor y un mecanismo que proporcione fuerza y control de cierre de los dedos, y uno de los puntos más importantes, que el prototipo final sea de bajo costo, para que cualquier persona con amputación transradial pueda tener una.
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Rotundo, Nella. "Coupling and thermal effects in semiconductor devices." Thesis, Universita' degli Studi di Catania, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/119.
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In this thesis we deal with two different aspects of the theory that describes the semiconductor devices. A first aspect concerns a system of partial dià ¯à ¬ erential-algebraic equations which model an electric network containing semiconductor devices. The zero-dimensional dià ¯à ¬ erential-algebraic network equations are coupled with multi-dimensional elliptic partial differential equations which model the devices. For the network equations we treat two different cases: index-1 and index-2, and for these two kinds of coupled model we prove an existence result. The other aspect that we have considered is the modelling of thermal effects in a semiconductor device. For this aspect we consider a MEP hydrodynamical model obtained from a set of transport equations for the distribution functions of electrons in conduction band and phonons. We assume that the MEP model contains equations for the electron density fluxes and energy fluxes, and for the phonons energy fluxes.
For this system we introduce a small parameter, related to the transition probabilities in the collision terms, and a diffusive scaling at the level of the Lagrangian multipliers appearing in the closure relations. In the diffusive limit, as the small parameter tends to zero, we obtain a model that can be physically interpreted in the framework of linear irreversible thermodynamics.
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Messina, Giuseppe. "Advanced Techniques for Image Analysis and Enhancement." Thesis, Università degli Studi di Catania, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/190.
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The research activities, described in this thesis, have been mainly focused on images analysis and quality enhancement. Specifically the research regards the study and development of algorithms for color interpolation, contrast enhancement and red-eye removal, which have been exclusively oriented to mobile devices. Furthermore an images analysis for forgeries identification and image enhancement, usually directed by investigators (Forensic Image Processing) has been conducted. The thesis is organized in three main parts: Image Processing for Embedded Devices; Image Analysis and Enhancement; Forensics Image Processing.Le attivita' di ricerca, descritte in questa tesi, sono state principalmente focalizzate sull'analisi delle immagini ed il miglioramento della qualita'. In particolare la ricerca riguarda lo studio e lo sviluppo di algoritmi di interpolazione del colore, miglioramento del contrasto e rimozione degli occhi rossi, che sono stati esclusivamente sviluppati per l'utilizzo su dispositivi "mobile". Inoltre e' stata documentata un analisi delle immagini per l'identificazione dei falsi e per il miglioramento della qualita' immagini, a fini investigativi (Forensics Image Processing). La tesi e' organizzata in tre parti: Image Processing for Embedded Devices; Image Analysis and Enhancement; Forensics Image Processing.
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Diez, Pérez José Armando. "Alternativas de administración racional de recursos hídricos en un acuífero sometido a sobreexplotación: Valle de Toluca, Estado de México." Tesis de doctorado, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de México, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/94858.
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Se presentan antecedentes de la situación del uso del agua en el centro de México así como los problemas derivados de la escasez, la cual se debe, además del clima, al crecimiento industrial y de población que ha ocurrido en esa zona. El caso es más crítico en la Cuenca del Alto rio Lerma. En ella se origina el mencionado río, en el Valle de Toluca y su acuífero está sobreexplotado pues suministra agua a la capital del estado de México, zonas aledañas y a la Ciudad de México. El objetivo de la investigación es obtener una propuesta de alternativas de administración racional de un acuífero de una manera que permita su explotación de una manera integral. Se plantea el empleo del modelo MODFLOW apoyado por el sistema de información geográfica IDRISI. Se definió un modelo conceptual en el que se introdujo toda la información disponible del acuífero y con él se estableció el modelo matemático de flujo. A éste se le efectuó la calibración, eligiendo los parámetros geohidrólogicos y las condiciones de frontera más indicados. Posteriormente se verificó el modelo y se procedió a su aplicación en predicción, para lo cual se definieron escenarios u horizontes de planeación que incluyeron sobre todo aspectos demográficos. Todas las predicciones se efectuaron en cuatro etapas de cinco años cada una, del año 2005 al 2025. Los escenarios se elaboraron mediante cálculos de demanda que parten de pronósticos de población del Consejo Nacional de Población. El primer escenario plantea continuar la explotación al mismo ritmo que la tasa actual, de 213 litros de agua por persona por día (L/p/d); el segundo, con la reducción del consumo a 150 L/p/d y el tercero disminuyendo aún más el consumo, a 100 L/p/d. Después de estos escenarios se plantearon algunos más, que incluyeron: uno con el consumo actual (213 L/p/d) y un desplazamiento de pozos, redistribuyendo algunos del centro de la cuenca al N, de E a O y de la cercanía de Toluca hacia el N. Con el mismo consumo, en otro escenario se desplazan pozos y se suprime la totalidad de la extracción correspondiente al Sistema Lerma. Finalmente se realizaron los procesos denominados: escenario ideal (combinación de: consumo de 100 L/p/d, desplazamiento de pozos y supresión total del Sistema Lerma) y escenario factible, menos complicado de aplicar (simultáneamente: consumo de 150 L/p/d, desplazamiento de pozos y extracción a la mitad en el Sistema Lerma). Se presentan como resultado configuraciones de alturas piezométricas de las simulaciones hasta el año 2025 de todos los escenarios antes descritos. Además se muestra la sobreexplotación del acuífero en un diagnóstico con gráficas en el tiempo de niveles y de cambios en la dirección del gradiente vertical en los multipiezómetros. En las configuraciones resultado de los procesos son evidentes los abatimientos del nivel piezométrico que ocurren en la porción este del acuífero, donde se inició la explotación del agua para la Ciudad de México; también aparece una anomalía en el NO de Toluca y en el centro de la cuenca, donde se localizaba la zona industrial. Debido a su menor dificultad social y política, la opción de administración racional factible es una propuesta interesante de administración para el acuífero.
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Rojas, Simón Jonathan. "Cálculo de Topline para la generación automática de resúmenes usando algoritmos genéticos." Tesis de Licenciatura, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/67369.
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Stańczykiewicz, Arkadiusz. Prawdopodobieństwo wystąpienia szkód w odnowieniach podokapowych wskutek pozyskiwania drewna oraz model ich szacowania. Publishing House of the University of Agriculture in Krakow, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15576/978-83-66602-34-2.
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An analysis of the existing literature on the issue of damage to regeneration caused by timber harvesting, revealed that a great majority of results reported in those publications was obtained through laborious and time-consuming field research conducted in two stages. Field research methods for gathering data, employed by various authors, differed in terms of the manner of establishing trial plots, the accuracy of counting and evaluating the number of saplings growing on the investigated sites, classification systems used for distinguishing particular groups of regeneration based on quantitative (diameter at breast height, tree height) and qualitative features (biosocial position within the certain layer and the entire stand), classification systems used for identifying types of damage caused by cutting and felling, as well as transporting operations, and finally the duration of observation intervals and time spent on gathering data on the response of damaged saplings from both, the individual and collective perspectives. Obviously, the most reliable manner of gathering such data would be to count all damaged elements of the environment being a subject of interest of particular investigators at the certain point of time. However, due to time and work consumption of this approach, which is besides very costly, any research should be designed in such a manner as to reduce the above-mentioned factors. This paper aimed to (1) analyse the probability of occurrence of damage to regeneration depending on the form of timber assortments dragged from the felling site to the skidding routes, and timber harvesting technology employed in logging works, and (2) identify a method ensuring that gathered data is sufficient for performing reliable evaluation of share of damage to regeneration at acceptable accuracy level, without necessity to establish trial plots before commencing harvesting works. The scope of these studies enclosed a comparison between two motor-manual methods of timber harvesting in thinned stands, with dragging of timber in the first stage of skidding from the stand to landings. According to one of these methods, a classical one, operations of felling and delimbing of trees were carried out by sawmen at the felling site. Timber obtained using different methods was skidded by carters and horses, and operators of a light-duty cable winch, driven by the chainsaw’s engine, as well as operators of cable winches combined with farm tractors. In the latter, alternative method, sawmen performed only cutting and felling of trees. Delimbing and cross-cutting of trunks, dragged from the felling sites, was carried out by operators of processors combined with farm tractors, worked on skidding routes. The research was conducted in the years 2002–2010 in stands within the age classes II–IV mostly, located in the territories of Regional Directorates of State Forests in Krakow and Katowice, and in the Forest Experimental Unit in Krynica-Zdrój. In the course of a preliminary stage of investigations 102 trial plots were established in stands within early and late tinning treatments. As a result of the field research carried out in two stages, more than 3.25 thsd. circular sites were established and marked, on the surface of which over 25 thsd. saplings constituting the regeneration layer were inventoried. Based on the results of investigations and analyses it was revealed that regardless of the category of thinning treatment, the highest probability of occurrence of destroying P(ZN) to regeneration (0.24–0.44) should be expected when the first stage of timber skidding is performed using cable winches. Slightly lower values of probability (0.17–0.33) should be expected in stands where timber is skidded by horses, while in respect to processor-based skidding technology the probability of destroying occurrence oscillates between 0.12 and 0.27, depending on the particular layer of regeneration. P(ZN) values, very close to those of skidding technology engaging processors, were recorded for skidding performed using the light-duty cable winch driven by the chainsaw’s engine (0.16–0.27). The highest probability of damage P(USZK) to regeneration (0.16–0.31) can be expected when processors are used in the first stage of timber skidding. Slightly lower values of probability (0.14–0.23) were obtained when skidding was performed with the use of cable winches, whereas engaging horses for hauling of trunks results in probability of damage occnrrence oscillating between 0.05–0.20, depending on the particular layer of regeneration. With regard to the probability of occurrence of both, destroying and damage P(ZNUSZK) to regeneration (0.33–0.54), the highest values can be expected when cable winches are engaged in the first stage of skidding. Little lower (0.30–0.43) was the probability of their occurrence if processor-based technology of skidding was employed, while in respect to horse skidding these values oscillated between 0.27–0.41, depending on the layer of regeneration. The lowest values of probability of occurrence of damage P(USZK), and destroying and damage treated collectively P(ZNUSZK), within all layers of regeneration, were recorded in stands where thinning treatments were performed using the light-duty cable winch driven by the chainsaw’s engine. The models evaluated and respective equations, developed based on those models, for evaluating the number of destroyed saplings ZNha (tab. 40, 42, 44, 46, 48) could be used for determining the share of damage expressed as a percentage, upon conducting only one field research at the investigated felling sites, once the timber harvesting and skidding would have been completed. As revealed by the results of analyses, evaluation of statistically significant regression models was possible for all layers of regeneration (tab. 39, 41, 43, 45, 47). Nevertheless, the smallest part of these models that could be considered positively verified, were those for the natural young regeneration, although almost a half of them revealed to be significant. Within the medium-sized regeneration over three-fourths of all models could be considered positively verified, four of which explained more than 50% of variability. Within the high-sized regeneration almost two-thirds of evaluated regression models were statistically significant, five of which were verified positively, moreover, one of them explained more than 50% of variability. The most promising results were those obtained for the advance growth. Nearly 90% of the evaluated models revealed to be statistically significant, ten of which could be considered positively verified. Furthermore, four statistically significant models explained over 50% of general variability. With regard to the entire regeneration more than 80% of evaluated models were statistically significant. However, due to insignificant coefficients of regression, eight of them could be considered positively verified. At this point it should be stressed that in respect to logging technology employing the light-duty cable winch FKS it was impossible to evaluate statistically significant models of regression. Whereas, in the case of processor-based logging technology, firstly regarding the advance growth, and then the entire regeneration, all of the evaluated statistically significant models could be considered positively verified, in terms of both, all of the stands, and particular categories of thinning treatments individually. This latter case also revealed the highest degree of matching of evaluated models (R2 popr 0.73–0.76 for advance growth and 0.78–0.94 for the entire regeneration). A significant impact of the kind of form of hauled timber on the probability of damage occurrence P(USZK), mainly in early thinning treatments, could have been reflected in the results obtained for all stands (early and late thinning treated collectively). Moreover, due to an insignificant impact of the form of hauled timber and logging technology employed, on the probability of occurrence of damage in late thinned stands, and a significant impact of the above-mentioned variables on early thinned stands, it should be assumed that for performing an evaluation of destroying and damage caused by timber harvesting the both thinning treatment categories should be analysed separately. Furthermore, when evaluating the probability of occurrence of destroying and damage caused by timber harvesting, the layers of natural young regeneration and advance growth should be analysed separately. As proved by the results presented in this paper, varying values of probability computed for each of the layers of regeneration seem to indicate that when investigating damage to regeneration caused by timber harvesting, it would be reasonable and recommended to perform a separate analysis of damage to the highest saplings as well, namely individuals with diameter at breast height close to 7 cm. In respect to studies on damage to regeneration caused by logging technologies mentioned above, the evaluation of number of destroyed saplings within the advance growth can be carried out using the proportions of damaged and undamaged saplings per 1 ha of the stand. The numbers evaluated in this manner can be used to calculate the damage share expressed in relative values (percentage of damaged saplings compared with the entire number of saplings before commencing the logging works). However, one should keep in mind that this is true only if the field research have been carried out based on the methodology described in this paper.
Book chapters on the topic "Research Subject Categories – TECHNOLOGY – Bioengineering"
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Howard, Natalie-Jane. "Kahoot! Gamification as an Instructional Technology." In Handbook of Research on Instructional Technologies in Health Education and Allied Disciplines, 196–219. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7164-7.ch009.
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Gamification is rapidly becoming an established pedagogical approach in higher education, especially since shifting to online teaching during the pandemic. Following a research gap in the socio-material literature, this chapter examined gamification practice using poststructuralist readings of lecturers' professional subjectivities. It reports on a data set from a larger qualitative study conducted in a higher education institution in the Middle East, where Kahoot! is frequently used for course review. Semi-structured interviews with nursing division lecturers and live observations of their online lectures were conducted. The socio-material analysis revealed four themes that highlight how narrative acts as well as how material affordances and constraints are enrolled into lecturer subject positioning, with three categories reinforcing professional subjectivities and the final subverting their ideational positioning. Contributing to the growing body of socio-material scholarship, the chapter concludes with some recommendations and fruitful avenues for further research in this field.
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Fernando, Suchinthi. "The Different Aspects of Information Security Education." In Research Anthology on Advancements in Cybersecurity Education, 50–72. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3554-0.ch003.
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This chapter discusses the importance of information security education for everyone, ranging from organizations to professionals and students, all the way through to individual users of information and communication systems. It discusses the different subject areas in information security and shows how instead of being intimidated by it, different categories of users can obtain varying depths of information security education based on their cyber-activities and need for knowledge. Information security professionals would require an in-depth knowledge in all aspects of information security, and information technology professionals and students would require an overall education in these areas, while most users of information and communication systems would only require a basic education to help protect their information assets in cyberspace.
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Fernando, Suchinthi. "The Different Aspects of Information Security Education." In Handbook of Research on Information and Cyber Security in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, 182–204. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4763-1.ch007.
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This chapter discusses the importance of information security education for everyone, ranging from organizations to professionals and students, all the way through to individual users of information and communication systems. It discusses the different subject areas in information security and shows how instead of being intimidated by it, different categories of users can obtain varying depths of information security education based on their cyber-activities and need for knowledge. Information security professionals would require an in-depth knowledge in all aspects of information security, and information technology professionals and students would require an overall education in these areas, while most users of information and communication systems would only require a basic education to help protect their information assets in cyberspace.
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García, Juan Luis Cabanillas, Ricardo Luengo González, and José Luis Carvalho. "Bibliographic and content review on the use of technology in people with disabilities during the pandemic." In Reconstruction of Daily life: The Lived experience of the Family post-caregiver. Ludomedia, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.11.2022.e535.
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The crisis caused by the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused serious problems in the educational field worldwide. An unprecedented scenario has been generated for people with disabilities or disabilities, which presents major problems such as social isolation, emotional imbalance, and the widening of the digital divide. The general objective of the research has been: "Analyse the scientific production related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies as a means to improve the teaching and learning process of people with disabilities and autism spectrum disorders during the pandemic". A bibliographic, documentary and content analysis of the publications resulting from the international database, Google Scholar, which meet the eleven defined inclusion and exclusion criteria, was carried out, selecting a total of 50 articles. A table of categories was elaborated, with a double methodology: in the first place deductive, through the analysis of the existing literature on the subject analysed, selecting the fundamental categories of study. On the other hand, it is inductive, through the construction of emerging categories that arise when performing data analysis. It has been verified that most of the references are written by a single author, corresponding to doctoral theses that delve into the use of technologies to improve communication and learning of people with visual and hearing disabilities as the most relevant cases, during the period of confinement. caused by COVID-19. Likewise, it has been observed that there are still many difficulties and a great problem in access to information and communication technology resources by this group, requiring greater help from public and private institutions. The findings found show that it is necessary to provide greater access to technologies by the public administration, while physical or motor disabilities should have greater importance in the scientific literature, since they are the least treated.
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Kankaria, Lipika, and Sutanuka Banerjee. "Cartographies of Indian Cinema." In Handbook of Research on Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema, 235–49. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3511-0.ch020.
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The origin of cinema in India has transnational roots and can be traced back to as early as the 1920s. The multicultural connections were not only evident in terms of the cast and the crew but also in terms of the reach of the subject matter as portrayed on screen that had a global appeal. Application of modern technology and interactions between communities created a glocal space that transcended geopolitical boundaries. It is also interesting to note how actors and filmmakers from other nationalities became an integral part of these narratives. This culminated in an excellent combination of foreign technical knowledge and the creativity of the Indian film fraternity that produced an array of unforgettable masterpieces. This chapter attempts to chart the history and map the course of Indian cinema by applying a transnational lens and reexamining the cultural and social implications of these films. Moreover, it aims to situate the evolution of Indian cinema, keeping in view the intersection of gender, race, class, religion, and other categories.
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Wendrich, Robert E. "Cyber-Physical Systems, Blended Tool Environments, and Playful Creativity." In Advances in Computers and Information in Engineering Research, Volume 2, 589–619. ASME, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.862025_ch19.
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All tools humanity uses are extensions of their physical and/or virtual reach, towards a specific purpose or to fulfill a particular, specified, or dedicated task. The tool is handled, initiated and actively guided to participate in interaction, perception, and/or interpretation of the world around us. Tools mediate in action and interaction, like handling a toothbrush to gain a fresh set of cleaned teeth or to use a hammer to pound nails in a material. The real physicality of these human interactions convey a lot of information and creates knowledge in various levels of insight and understanding. Not only in terms of feeling satisfied in the accomplishment of a task, but also in the experience of tool use and succesful interaction. Furthermore, metacognitive aspects of tool use occur when human beings and tools work together and can be seen as an action-based method of advancing knowledge. In the quotidian, a mixture of tools (i.e. used, embedded) and tool activities occur to directly or indirectly interact with our physical and virtual surroundings, things, or systems. Analogue tools, like e.g. knives, pens, chairs and cars have different complexities, but through communicated ’meaning’ (Dewey, 2005) [9], these artifacts possess a distinct quality and intrinsic interaction of use. Some of these tools have very simple but effective use qualities and therefore are most of the time easy to understand in function and use. Other more sophisticated tools imply more study and demand lots of exercise (i.e. high learning threshold) in order to get the full benefit, function and gain in user experience (UX) and results. In the digital and virtual realms many varieties of computational tools are encountered. As a consequence, many categories and levels of tool use, usage through interaction, usability, user-skills and UX happen. The last decades showed a plethora of tool applications and tool interactions that eluded many users, consequently leading to misinterpretation, misguidance, frustration, reduction and inert mediocrity. Not to speculate that digital innovations and tools are defunct gadgets or not worthy of inclusion in daily life. On the contrary, digital technology plays a crucial role in our understanding of the physical and virtual worlds that co-exists and give us much broader boundless experiences and perspectives than ever before. The problem with most digital tools is, the constructed user interface (UI) and user interaction (UA) between a user and machine, as shown in, for example; Carroll, 1991 [5], Carroll, 2002 [6], Dix, 2009 [10], Hartson, 2003 [16], Piumsomboon et al., 2017 [31], Wendrich, 2016 [44], Rogers, 2011 [33]. This in turn has lead to more study and research being conducted on this subject over the last decades, what somehow lead to more confusion and misapprehension. Incremental improvements in UI have been explored and became a sort of standard, new approaches to UIs and UAs have appeared and wiped others, in some cases e.g. multi-touch sensing surfaces became a next step in interacting with the digital-virtual realms. This in turn lead to a leap in applications software (app) design to create tools that were easy to manipulate and use by swiping fingers across high-definition interactive icons to work the tool. However, how feebly, fleetly or superficial this type of mediated interactions may seem, somehow it became a prefered way of ’doing things.’ Gradually this kind of interaction became the standard, encroached with instant gratification and satisfaction. Eventually, everything is an approximation with human frailty, so is tool use and are tools, Figure 19.1.
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Lindemann, Hilde. "Feminist bioethics." In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780415249126-l165-1.
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Bioethics, the study of moral and social issues rising from advances in medical technology, first entered the academy in the United States with the 1969 founding of the Hastings Center, followed the next year by the establishment of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. At the Hastings Center, a private research establishment, projects in bioethics were conducted by tapping philosophers, lawyers, religious scholars, sociologists, and others from universities across the United States and abroad and disseminating the findings in the Hastings Center Report and similar venues; the Kennedy Institute, housed at Georgetown University, comprises philosophers working in bioethics, and publishes its own Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Feminist theory, which identifies and criticises the power system of gender that systemically favours the interests of men over women and interacts with other power systems such as race and ableism, also entered the academy in the late 1960s. The two fields of study ran along side by side for over a decade until, in the early 1990s, feminist bioethics was born. This new field drew some of its impetus from the women’s health movement, which encouraged women to take more control over their own bodies, especially in the area of reproduction, and protested the medicalisation and commodification of women’s bodies. It also drew attention to the sexist biases in medical research and practice. Energised by this activism, feminist bioethics critiqued medical and bioethical theory and practice using sex, gender, and other oppressive mechanisms as categories of analysis aimed at dismantling abusive power systems. Feminist bioethicists pointed out that most of bioethics aimed to serve the interests of powerful white men – physicians, medical lawyers, hospital administrators, and the like – rather than looking at medical practice from the patient’s or family’s point of view. But in addition to such criticisms, feminist bioethicists developed theoretical frameworks for curbing practices of oppression in medicine and provided a venue for the neglected and marginalised others who are seldom represented in bioethics. The 1990s saw a steady stream of conferences, monographs, anthologies, and essays in learned journals that examine bioethical issues through a feminist lens. Susan Sherwin’s groundbreaking No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics & Health Care appeared in 1992, as did Helen Bequaert Holmes and Laura M. Purdy, eds., Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, and Rebecca Dresser’s Hastings Center Report article, ‘Wanted: Single, White Male for Medical Research’. The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, begun in 1993 by Anne Donchin and Helen Bequaert Holmes, two US feminists, had some 300 members worldwide and has sponsored biannual conferences in conjunction with the International Association of Bioethics. The year 1993 also saw the publication of Mary Mahowald’s Women and Children in Health Care: An Unequal Majority, and Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. In 1995 the prestigious Kennedy Institute of Ethics devoted its Advanced Bioethics Course to feminist perspectives on bioethics, and the plenary lectures of that course were then published in a special issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, edited by Margaret Olivia Little. In 1996 the Journal of Clinical Ethics published special sections in each of its four issues on feminism and bioethics. Laura M. Purdy’s Reproducing Persons appeared that year as well, as did the much-cited anthology edited by Susan M. Wolf, Feminism and Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction, and Susan Wendell’s groundbreaking The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability. These were followed in 1997 by the publication of Rosemarie Tong’s Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Applications, Dorothy Roberts’s influential Killing the Black Body, and Elizabeth Haiken’s Venus Envy, a feminist history of cosmetic surgery. In 1998 the Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network published The Politics of Women’s Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy, while the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy devoted an entire issue to the feminist ethic of care. Anne Donchin and Laura M. Purdy’s anthology, Embodying Bioethics: Feminist Advances, appeared in 1999, along with Eva Feder Kittay’s Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency. Textbooks and readers in bioethics now routinely include essays written from an explicitly feminist point of view. Much of that work consisted of feminist critique. It identified the ways in which hierarchical rankings that categorise people by race, sex, disability, age, ethnicity, or subject to genetic disease encourage oppressive discrimination in medical practice, research, and public health. It also critiqued nonfeminist bioethics for its bias in favour of socially powerful doctors, and for the abstract nature of its theory, which produced principles that allow that bioethics to ignore inequities among social groups, in particular, the oppressive burden borne by women in their reproductive and caring roles. A few, such as Mary Mahowald, also applied feminist epistemology to the doctor–patient relationship, showing how, even if physicians’ knowledge is epistemically privileged, patients can know more about how their bodies behave than doctors do. The work of feminist bioethicists gradually gained traction in bioethics textbooks and at conferences such as the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and the International Association of Bioethics. But they were persistently underrepresented on government panels such as the President’s Commission on Bioethics and other bodies formulating public policy. They, and women in general, also continued to be underrepresented in medical research.
Conference papers on the topic "Research Subject Categories – TECHNOLOGY – Bioengineering"
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Suzen, Neslihan, Alexander N. Gorban, Jeremy Levesley, and Evgeny M. Mirkes. "An Informational Space based Semantic Analysis for Scientific Texts." In 10th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science & Technology (FCST 2022). Academy and Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/csit.2022.120807.
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One major problem in Natural Language Processing is the automatic analysis and representation of human language. Human language is ambiguous and deeper understanding of semantics and creating human-to-machine interaction have required an effort in creating the schemes for act of communication and building common-sense knowledge bases for the ‘meaning’ in texts. This paper introduces computational methods for semantic analysis and the quantifying the meaning of short scientific texts. Computational methods extracting semantic feature are used to analyse the relations between texts of messages and ‘representations of situations’ for a newly created large collection of scientific texts, Leicester Scientific Corpus. The representation of scientific-specific meaning is standardised by replacing the situation representations, rather than psychological properties, with the vectors of some attributes: a list of scientific subject categories that the text belongs to. First, this paper introduces ‘Meaning Space’ in which the informational representation of the meaning is extracted from the occurrence of the word in texts across the scientific categories, i.e., the meaning of a word is represented by a vector of Relative Information Gain about the subject categories. Then, the meaning space is statistically analysed for Leicester Scientific Dictionary-Core and we investigate ‘Principal Components of the Meaning’ to describe the adequate dimensions of the meaning. The research in this paper conducts the base for the geometric representation of the meaning of texts.
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Nandy, Abhirup, hiran lathabai, and vivek kumar singh. "An Expertise-based Framework for Research Portfolio Management of Institutions at coarse- and fine-grained levels." In 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2023). International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55835/644259e5eb3447ac90894e51.
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Institutional performance assessment is one of the major challenges for various stakeholders including national and institutional policymakers. Existing popular approaches to performance measurement rely on various factors besides research output, which have been criticized on various grounds. In this work, we present a sciento-text framework to assess the core competency/expertise of an institution at two levels: a broad thematic level, based on WoS subject categories, and a finer thematic level based on indexed keywords. The performance measures namely x_d- index and x-index are used for assessment at broad and fine thematic levels, respectively. While national policymakers can make use of x_d- index for the enhancement of national scholarly ecosystem, institutional policymakers and other stakeholders of the institution can make benefit from the wholistic usage of the framework to work for improving its broader expertise diversity as well as enhancing its fine level expertise within suitable disciplines.
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Mao, Jin, Xun Xu, Lihui Wang, and Stephen Newman. "A Statistic Review of Computer-Aided Process Planning Research." In ASME 2010 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2010-34022.
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Since the late 1970’s, computer-aided process planning (CAPP) has attracted a large amount of research interest, which has led to a huge volume of literature published on this subject. The literature encompasses both reviews and research articles. The review articles are mostly technologically oriented. This paper takes a different angle to look back the CAPP research, that is, a statistic approach. The paper analyses the journals that have been publishing CAPP research works. The concept of “Subject Strength” of a journal is introduced and used to gauge the level of focus of a journal on a particular research subject/domain, i.e. CAPP. Discussions about the recent CAPP research works are presented in different categories as they fall in. The term “Technology Impact Factor (TIF)” is introduced to assess the level of impact of a particular technology, in terms of citation counts. All discussions and analyses are carried out based on the data gathered from the Elsevier’s Scopus abstract and citation database. Finally, a discussion on the future development is presented. The literature suggests that this is the only review article of the similar nature in the first decade of the century.
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Tang, Dalin, Chun Yang, Jie Zheng, Pamela K. Woodard, Kristen Billiar, Zhongzhao Teng, and Richard Bach. "3D In Vivo IVUS-Based Anisotropic FSI Models With Cyclic Bending for Human Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Mechanical Analysis." In ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2009-204700.
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Assessing atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability based on limited in vivo patient data has been a major challenge in cardiovascular research and clinical practice. Considerable advances in medical imaging technology have been made in recent years to identify vulnerable atherosclerotic carotid plaques in vivo with information about plaque components including lipid-rich necrotic pools, calcification, intraplaque hemorrhage, loose matrix, thrombosis, and ulcers, subject to resolution limitations of current technology [1]. Image-based computational models have also been developed which combine mechanical analysis with image technology aiming for more accurate assessment of plaque vulnerability and better diagnostic and treatment decisions [2]. However, 3D models with fluid-structure interactions (FSI), cyclic bending and anisotropic properties based on in vivo IVUS images for human coronary atherosclerotic plaques are lacking in the current literature. In this paper, we introduce 3D FSI models based on in vivo IVUS images to perform mechanical analysis for human coronary plaques. Cyclic bending is included to represent deformation caused by cardiac motion. An anisotropic material model was used for the vessel so that the models would be more realistic for more accurate computational flow and stress/strain predictions.
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Braun, Barbu cristian. "ASSISTED NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR MEDICAL SCREENING EVALUATION." In eLSE 2017. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-17-249.
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The paper presents a new technology for assisted evaluation of the health status in terms of visual function, referring to screening evaluation for a sample of about 30 persons, aged between 20 and 30 years. It invokes to use a specific equipment for visual parameters evaluation, connected to a PC, having the possibility to run different tests, specific to the activities and jobs most often practiced: reading, driving, sportive activities, working to the PC etc. The procedure consisted into evaluation of each tested subject, by successively running of more tests, in same environment conditions (luminosity, temperature, humidity) and about at the same times. The stored data were statistically processed due to a software application, developed in the research activity. The aim is to highlight (by percentage) the cases of visual problems reported to different lifestyles. To highlight the cases of medical problems, the software application allows the comparative calculus of the visual function parameters, due to the previous registered data. In the actual stage it proceeds to software application programming for the data processing. Due to the statistic data that will be obtained, it will be possible to draw a conclusion on the medical problems incidence by categories of persons with different lifestyles.
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Mainz, Denis, and Vladimíra Lovasová. "INFLUENCE OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN SUBJECT INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTION OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS." In eLSE 2013. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-13-162.
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The paper describes a research conducted on the Faculty of Education of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in 2011. The research aims to map the influence of project-based learning on the subjective perception of the academic achievement of students in the subject Information and communication technology (ICT). Target group was composed of high school students. Described research is a part of a broader research conception that focuses on a potential of project-based learning in educational area Information and communication technology. This conception of a project-based learning application in an educational area of ICT was determined problematic by an initial survey. Within the scope of this broader conception we already focused on adolescent student experience during project-based learning in ICT that included possibilities of emotional disorder reduction, published in (Mainz, Lovasov?, Magdin, 2012). This time, we focused on a potential of project-based learning in an area of perception of the academic achievement. Student?s performance in a subject is not determined only by his skills, but also by a manner in which he is aware of his skills. Self-perception is a major factor that influences learning, work motivation and determines a level of anxiety experienced by student in a task situations (Balcar, 1983). The research design consists of a preparatory part and a research and implementation part. In the preparatory phase, projects have been implemented in high school lessons of ICT. The projects were drawn according to the methodology of the Buck Institute for Education that allows very clear definition of boundaries among project-based learning, theme-based learning and problem-based learning. In the research and implementation part, the self-concept of student?s academic achievement was observed in these categories: evaluation of common intellectual skills, evaluation of specific skills for informatics and self-confidence in a performance in a context of a social group. For the purposes of the observation, a modified standardized psychometric tool - SPAS "Self-concept of the Academic Achievement of Children" (Matějček, V?gnerov?, 1992) was used. This tool was successfully used many times for evaluation of newly implemented educational methods. The results were processed according to the manual for the standardized psychometric tool and were compared to the results of control groups, in which project-based method was not implemented. The research was conducted in cooperation with the Department of Computer Science and Educational Technology and the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Education of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.
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Özlem ILGIN, Hicran, and Miglena Kazashka. "BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AXIS POSTGRADUATE THESES RELATED TO SOCIAL MEDIA OR NEW MEDIA CONCEPTS." In COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17932/ctc.2021/ctc21.009.
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Public relations and social media are basically based on communication. Changing the order of communication along with the development of new technologies affected all fields of work as well as the field of public relations with the implementation of new practices and tools. Social media applications, which are included in public relations studies, have entered the research field of academic studies on this occasion. In this manner, the subject of this study has been carried out in Turkey and named “public relations” with the concept of “new media” or “social media” concept constitutes the graduate theses. The aim of this research in public relations axis graduate of surveys conducted in Turkey in social media and taking in conjunction with new media concepts to what extent to put forth that takes place in the general population and post is to establish a general map of this thesis. The bibliometric analysis method was used in this study. From this point of view, the year of the thesis, the title and thesis advisor, university and department, the research method, the data collection method of this research, the number of pages and keywords categories were created and the data of the theses were recorded. In the first stage of the analysis, 41 theses containing the words public relations and social media were reached, and 13 theses containing the words public relations and new media in the second stage. It was determined that 54 theses obtained as a result of these scans were carried out between the years 2006-2020. It has been determined that there are 11% of 577 graduate theses, which are in the general universe between these years and have the concept of public relations in their names. As a result of the analysis made, it was determined that the graduate theses with the words social media or new media in their names together with the words of public relations are highly postgraduate thesis. It has been revealed that these theses were published by 31% of Marmara University and 67% were studied in the Public Relations and Publicity Department. In addition, it was determined that the content analysis method was preferred as the data collection technique in these theses with a rate of 63%. In addition, 214 keywords were reached in theses, and it was recorded that ring relationships came in the top rank with 53 frequencies and 25% of these keywords.
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Ilgın, Hicran Özlem, and Miglena Kazashka. "Bibliometric Analysis of Public Relations Axis Postgraduate Theses Related to Social Media or New Media Concepts." In COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17932/ctcspc.21/ctc21.003.
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Public relations and social media are basically based on communication. Changing the order of communication along with the development of new technologies affected all fields of work as well as the field of public relations with the implementation of new practices and tools. Social media applications, which are included in public relations studies, have entered the research field of academic studies on this occasion. In this manner, the subject of this study has been carried out in Turkey and named "public relations" with the concept of "new media" or "social media" concept constitutes the graduate theses. The aim of this research in public relations axis graduate of surveys conducted in Turkey in social media and taking in conjunction with new media concepts to what extent to put forth that takes place in the general population and post is to establish a general map of this thesis. The bibliometric analysis method was used in this study. From this point of view, the year of the thesis, the title and thesis advisor, university and department, the research method, the data collection method of this research, the number of pages and keywords categories were created and the data of the theses were recorded. In the first stage of the analysis, 41 theses containing the words public relations and social media were reached, and 13 theses containing the words public relations and new media in the second stage. It was determined that 54 theses obtained as a result of these scans were carried out between the years 2006-2020. It has been determined that there are 11% of 577 graduate theses, which are in the general universe between these years and have the concept of public relations in their names. As a result of the analysis made, it was determined that the graduate theses with the words social media or new media in their names together with the words of public relations are highly postgraduate thesis. It has been revealed that these theses were published by 31% of Marmara University and 67% were studied in the Public Relations and Publicity Department. In addition, it was determined that the content analysis method was preferred as the data collection technique in these theses with a rate of 63%. In addition, 214 keywords were reached in theses, and it was recorded that ring relationships came in the top rank with 53 frequencies and 25% of these keywords.
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Hemachandra, Ravindu, and Menaha Thayaparan. "Improving Psychological Health of Junior Professionals in the Construction Organisations in Sri Lanka." In The SLIIT International Conference on Engineering and Technology 2022. Faculty of Engineering, SLIIT, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54389/ocxl3958.
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Construction is a volatile and highly uncertain industry that faces several challenges in terms of poor image, skills and labour shortage, exposure to adverse weather, macho culture, and stressful environment. The labour-intensive nature of construction industry leads to vertical and horizontal segregation within the workforce. This study focuses on the psychological health experienced by junior professionals from the time they join until they settle down in Sri Lanka. It is vital to keep the junior professionals in their best psychological position to ensure their continuity in the job. This study investigated the risk factors that contribute to psychological health of junior professionals in construction industry and proposed strategies to address such risk factors. The research adopted a qualitative survey strategy, where 24 semi-structured qualitative interviews, including 18 junior and 6 senior construction professionals, were conducted. The research identified 26 factors under five categories such as adverse nature, apprenticeship, company culture, competition and opinions. While conforming to the existing factors from literature, the research revealed new factors too. Few to name are some common factors such as lack of leisure events, deadlines, job uncertainty; some personal factors such as human behaviour, illegal activities, personal agendas, lack of belongingness, educational background, personal bias, and lack of confidence and some dependency factors such as lack of support from seniors and task-oriented training. The senior professionals, while agreeing to most of these factors, claimed these are mainly due to the limited subject specific knowledge and lack of awareness on the nature of the job including regulations and policies by junior professionals. Appointing a mental health monitoring officer, implementing stronger human resource management policies, investing on training and development, counselling and support systems and encouraging more social activities were some of the key strategies proposed to improve the psychological wellbeing of the junior professional. KEYWORDS: Psychological Health, Junior Professionals, Human Resources Management, Construction Organisations.
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Khan, Md Shahadat Hossain, and Sue Gregory. "New way of investigating ICT- enhanced teaching in TAFE Australia: Disciplinary focused." In ASCILITE 2021: Back to the Future – ASCILITE ‘21. University of New England, Armidale, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14742/ascilite2021.0132.
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Teachers’ ways of using ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in various disciplines is a recent issue in the higher educational research paradigm. In order to extend previous findings in relation to this issue, this research proposes an in-depth investigation focusing on vocational teachers’ qualitatively diverse ways of using ICT in different disciplines. A cohort of 11 teachers from three TAFE (Technical and Further Education) institutions of NSW, Australia, were purposively chosen aiming to ensure adequate variations in disciplines, gender, and experience of using ICT. The phenomenographic research approach was considered as the theoretical and methodological underpinning which guided the participant selection, data collection and data analysis. The findings revealed that disciplines have very limited influence on using ICT in TAFE teaching. It further discerned four categories of description: tool, content, subject, and student focused. The findings provide useful information towards improving vocational teaching practices in different disciplines and working as an input for improving teacher professional development program (TPD). In order to generalise these findings, an extended research with a wider sample is recommended.
Reports on the topic "Research Subject Categories – TECHNOLOGY – Bioengineering"
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Downes, Jane, ed. Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Scotland: ScARF Panel Report. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.184.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings: Building the Scottish Bronze Age: Narratives should be developed to account for the regional and chronological trends and diversity within Scotland at this time. A chronology Bronze Age Scotland: ScARF Panel Report iv based upon Scottish as well as external evidence, combining absolute dating (and the statistical modelling thereof) with re-examined typologies based on a variety of sources – material cultural, funerary, settlement, and environmental evidence – is required to construct a robust and up to date framework for advancing research. Bronze Age people: How society was structured and demographic questions need to be imaginatively addressed including the degree of mobility (both short and long-distance communication), hierarchy, and the nature of the ‘family’ and the ‘individual’. A range of data and methodologies need to be employed in answering these questions, including harnessing experimental archaeology systematically to inform archaeologists of the practicalities of daily life, work and craft practices. Environmental evidence and climate impact: The opportunity to study the effects of climatic and environmental change on past society is an important feature of this period, as both palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data can be of suitable chronological and spatial resolution to be compared. Palaeoenvironmental work should be more effectively integrated within Bronze Age research, and inter-disciplinary approaches promoted at all stages of research and project design. This should be a two-way process, with environmental science contributing to interpretation of prehistoric societies, and in turn, the value of archaeological data to broader palaeoenvironmental debates emphasised. Through effective collaboration questions such as the nature of settlement and land-use and how people coped with environmental and climate change can be addressed. Artefacts in Context: The Scottish Chalcolithic and Bronze Age provide good evidence for resource exploitation and the use, manufacture and development of technology, with particularly rich evidence for manufacture. Research into these topics requires the application of innovative approaches in combination. This could include biographical approaches to artefacts or places, ethnographic perspectives, and scientific analysis of artefact composition. In order to achieve this there is a need for data collation, robust and sustainable databases and a review of the categories of data. Wider Worlds: Research into the Scottish Bronze Age has a considerable amount to offer other European pasts, with a rich archaeological data set that includes intact settlement deposits, burials and metalwork of every stage of development that has been the subject of a long history of study. Research should operate over different scales of analysis, tracing connections and developments from the local and regional, to the international context. In this way, Scottish Bronze Age studies can contribute to broader questions relating both to the Bronze Age and to human society in general.