Academic World Research Articles

Factors affecting surname manipulation techniques

The main focus of our analysis was to understand the factors affecting the use of surname manipulation strategies and we conducted a regression analysis accordingly. This analysis offers an important perspective to understand the surname manipulation strategies of researchers publishing in the academic world. It shows that being at the beginning of the author list in multi-author studies provides a significant advantage for the author in terms of academic visibility. On the other hand, researchers whose surnames’ initials are at the end of the alphabet are in a disadvantaged position. Researchers who want to overcome this situation can use strategies such as avoiding multi-author studies, publishing in journals that do not follow alphabetical order, or manipulating the initial of the surname. The extent to which these strategies were implemented by the authors was evaluated, and it was determined that there was no strong tendency for the first two strategies. In this context, regression was established on the factors affecting the First Alphabetic Surname and Two Last Names strategies. The findings obtained in this regression concluded that variables such as the number of authors, female gender, and being a citizen of countries with many names and surnames, such as Spain, Portugal, and Brazil, increased the use of the mentioned strategies, and that these strategies did not hurt the author's reputation. Keywords: alphabetization, citation analysis, surname initial techniques

Government Collaboration in Improving Branding of Tangkit Village Pineapple Agrowism as an Effort to Improve the Quality of Tourism Post Covid-19 Pandemic

Government collaboration with various stakeholders including the academic world is very relevant in exploring contemporary issues that occur in the community, including in increasing appropriate tourist destination branding to improve a positive image and be more widely known by the general public so that it can affect the number of visitors and the quality of pineapple agrotourism management in Tangkit Village, Muara Jambi Regency, by involving local governments local and students of Government Science Jambi University, The method used is descriptive qualitative, by exploring and formulating findings on the results of interviews conducted. The team has carried out planning and analysis levels by presenting solutions related to the right destination branding and can be a consideration for all stakeholders involved together to focus on improving the quality of agrotourism governance with routine, measurable, and consistent destination branding intensity. Thus this method is designed to shape the mindset of all stakeholders with conceptual, procedural, and exploratory knowledge possessed to achieve tourism governance goals with a high level of efficiency.

High Performance Nitrogen-Doped Hierarchical Nanostructured Carbon Electrode for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries

In recent years, we have seen an impressive progress in the deployment of renewable energy sources, and in particular of photovoltaics and wind turbines. However, renewable energies have some well-known drawbacks due to their intermittent nature and direct usage of the electricity generated would destabilize the grid. To overcome these problems large scale energy storage systems have drawn great attention in the last few years both from the academic and industrial world. Redox flow batteries (RFB) are emerging as one more promising electrochemical energy storage technologies. Notably, the Vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) is currently the most widespread technology as it allows for the implementation of strategies to recover the capacity decay induced by ion cross-over. Despite the many advantages, VRFBs have long suffered from low power density, mainly caused by the usage of electrodes which are not optimized for this application. The use of heteroatom dopants, such as nitrogen, phosphor, and boron, is currently the most common method to enhance the performance of carbon electrodes. Nitrogen has been extensively studied as a catalyzer for Vanadium redox reactions, showing exceptional boosts in performance in several works. In a previous work we developed a two-step process based on a plasma enhanced nano-aerosol jet deposition source and a vacuum thermal treatment. Starting from a gas precursor we deposited a nanostructured carbonaceous material on a commercially available substrate, this process allows to increase the current density to 400 mAcm-2 with an energy efficiency of 80%, that is, 4 times greater than the commercial reference. The two-steps process permits a fine tuning of the properties and structure of the material leading to an exceptionally high surface area and a defect rich structure. The advantage of this process is that nitrogen can be added easily during the deposition phase by using a N2-C2H2 mixture, without the need for any other processing steps. In this work we aim to further increase the performance of our nanostructured electrode by adding nitrogen functionalities to the carbon nanostructure, thus combining the effects of an incredibly high surface area with the excellent catalytic properties of nitrogen. The morphology and chemistry of the synthesized material is analyzed by different techniques such as SEM, Raman spectroscopy, XPS, BET analysis. Nitrogen doping was confirmed by XPS analysis, in particular a high amount of graphitic nitrogen, which is considered to be the most active towards vanadium ions, is present. Moreover, BET analysis shows an incredibly high surface area, up to 756 m2/g. The properties of the material are then correlated to the electrochemical properties by testing the material in increasingly complex setups, starting from a three-electrode setup, then in symmetric cell and finally in a full-cell setup. The kinetic activity of the material is studied by cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Cyclic voltammetry showed an impressive activity of the electrodes towards the active species, especially towards the V2+/V3+ couple where a peak-to-peak separation of 65 mV was obtained, which is among the lowest reported in literature. These results were confirmed by EIS, from which the reaction rate constants were calculated following the method proposed by Stimming et al. [1] The addition of nitrogen led to an order of magnitude increase of the reaction rate with respect to the un-doped material. The performance enhancement was then validated by the test in symmetric cell. Polarization curves show a significant decrease in the overpotential, especially in V2+/V3+. Thus, we propose a vertically integrated process, from the synthesis of the material to the final application, which is able to deliver a comprehensive overview on the material properties, its electrochemical performance and the correlation between the two.[1] Friedl, J., Bauer, C. M., Rinaldi, A., & Stimming, U. (2013). Electron transfer kinetics of the VO2+/VO2+–Reaction on multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Carbon, 63, 228-239.

Electrical-hydraulic Modeling and Simulation in MATLAB/Simulink of an Industrial Multi-service Vehicle for Tunneling

The land transport sector has gone through multiple phases of evolution in vehicle design, development, and manufacturing. In particular, the construction sector continues to move towards autonomous vehicles, which have been one of the major trends and have become a hot topic in the industrial and academic world. With this new technology of assistance systems, which control the hydraulic actuators of a car (steering wheel, accelerator, and brake), humans are freed from driving tasks and the number of traffic accidents will be reduced. The modeling and simulation phases play a major role in the development of the construction machine in order to simulate the dynamic behavior of the vehicle and adjust all the parameters beforehand, so that the automated functionality will be easy to realize, and safety will be improved with high accuracy. The objective of this paper is to design a hydro-electric industrial vehicle model for the company METALLIANCE using MATLAB/Simulink environment and compare its simulation with experimental tests. The study addresses the modeling of industrial machines based on the mathematical description of the vehicle dynamics by defining for real-time evaluation of the different vehicle parameters, verifying, and validating the simulation model by comparison with real recorded data.

Tobacco Packaging Design in China, Thailand, and New Zealand: A Comparative Study

Packaging design has received much interest from the academic and industrial worlds. Numerous studies have shown that packaging significantly impacts purchase intent, product satisfaction, and repeat purchases. However, to some extent, tobacco packaging is not used to fulfil its consumer target’s demands or increase the repeat purchase rate. By contrast, it has the official duty to discourage tobacco use, as it is a highly regulated business. Nevertheless, tobacco manufacturers do their best to find the last opportunity to advertise on tobacco boxes because the packet is their final or only marketing or advertising tool in many countries. Thus, tobacco packaging design could be the most challenging advertising practice in many nations because two contradicting advertising contents (persuasion and dissuasion) emerge in one medium simultaneously. In this paper, I comparatively content-analysed 65 popular cigarette brands from China, Thailand, and New Zealand to find out how tobacco companies use cigarette packaging to communicate with their customers. The results suggested that Chinese tobacco packaging is highly market-oriented and emphasises the use of traditional Chinese cultural elements. Conversely, tobacco packaging in Thailand and New Zealand focuses on health communication. But warning labels in the two countries are platitudes. The results also indicate that although policy factors have had a positive impact on tobacco packaging in terms of its discouraging function and contributing to tobacco control over the past decades, there is a need for policies to be tailored to the socio-cultural context. Efforts should focus on improving tobacco packaging from the perspective of smokers’ psychology. This adjustment is deemed necessary due to the declining effectiveness of current tobacco packaging control policies in reducing smoking rates in recent years.

Anthrozoology and Philosophical Practice

Parallel to the philosophical practice movement that was revived in the 80s, human-animal studies, sometimes known as anthrozoology or animal studies, is gaining more and more ground to this day in the Western academic world. In my paper I demonstrate today’s dog keepers, as the walking philosophers of the 21th century, by outlining the turns of thought leading to the discipline of human-animal studies through Harriet Ritvo’s 2007 animal turn. With the examination of the social role of XXI. century Western urban dog keeping in the light of the philosophical café movement, I argue for the idea that urban dog keeping is an alternative form of philosophical lifestyle, moreover, a significant example of philosophical practice. If we accept the thesis that the dog has always been present next to humans, then the relevant question is how it is present in humans’ lives now, and if it is different than before, then what are the reasons behind this. Analyzing Ritvo’s animal turn and the practical turn in philosophy, I draw conclusions regarding the reasons for the changes in the post human, arriving at the presentation of the idea of critical dog studies, in short dogism, which is the author’s research area and invention.

Endoterapia como técnica alternativa às pulverizações

Endotherapy is a technique of injection or infusion of phytosanitary products inside the trunk of trees or palm trees, which are subsequently translocated through the plant internal vascular tissues. There are few studies about this science in the Brazilian academic world. Thus, this study aims to review this topic with emphasis on reporting successful experiences in different countries. A significant number of papers shows the advantages of using phytosanitary products infusions and injections in plants to control pests and diseases, when compared to traditional spraying. In endotherapy there is no product drift and, therefore, it is minimal the chance of reaching non-target organisms. Furthermore, the protective effect is more persistent due to the non-exposure of the products to the climate adverse effects. It is currently applied only in small areas in medium and large perennial plants due to its high cost, requiring new technologies for large-scale application. In Brazil, there are few studies about the efficiency of this tactic in phytosanitary management. Furthermore, there are studies to determine residues of fungicides and insecticides in plants through chromatographic techniques. Thus, endotherapy can be an efficient technique for phytosanitary defense.

Integrated Management Systems: The Case of a Penitentiary in the State of Paraíba

Objective: The objective of this article is to evaluate how the Procurador Romero Nóbrega Penitentiary, in Patos - PB, has internalized in its administration practices an integrated perspective of its ISO 14001 environmental management, ISO 9001 quality and OHSAS 18001 occupational health and safety systems. Theoretical reference: An Integrated Management System (IMS) acts in the interconnection of other systems, aiming to achieve planned management of the execution of services in order to satisfy the internal and external needs of organizations, bringing together information and experiences from different areas in a single environment of work. This integration comprises a tool capable of discovering specific paths to be followed to achieve the desired objectives, in addition to creating an organizational culture of permanent or continuous improvement in its activities. Method: As a methodology, a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive approach was used to understand how prison management occurs in terms of the incorporation of management systems. Results and conclusion: The study showed that the penitentiary does not comply with the penal executive norm and, with regard to the management system models studied, the unit internally needs investment in its structure, in its human capital and, in the external context, more public policies to achieve sustainable management. Implications of the research: The research is of great relevance to the prison system and the academic world, showing the possibility of making penal units sustainable, aggregating management systems and enhancing the achievement of prison sustainability. Originality/value: Scientific production in Brazil on the implementation of sustainable prisons is incipient, therefore, the research seeks to contribute to helping gaps in the thematic literature, as well as drawing the State's attention to alternatives for the prison system by integrating systems with sustainability goals, respecting environmental, social, economic and human values.

RELAÇÃO DAS MAMAS FEMININAS COM A ATIVIDADE FÍSICA, EXERCÍCIO E ESPORTE – PARTE 2

Women are increasingly seeking to be physically active or even choose sports as their professional activity as in the years, the number of Summer Olympic athletes has equaled that of men. Due to this growing female participation in sports, the study of female and male differences has become increasingly relevant in the involvement of the academic world. Several anthropometric and physiological differences have been established; however, the volume and shape of female breasts are peculiar and still little studied. The specificity of female breasts are conditions that can exert sports performance and contribute to distancing women from physical activity practice. Possible conditions of female breasts in sports are exercise-induced mastalgia, breast injury, nipple injury, pregnancy, and many others. A review on this subject, stimulating more research, and making knowledge reach more women is a major objective of this literature review. We understand that more studies are needed to understand pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment. Level of Evidence II; Retrospective Narrative Review.

Kaapora Chair: non-hegemonic knowledge and knowers at the Federal University of São Paulo

This article shares and discusses experiences that have been developed at the Federal University of São Paulo, under the Kaapora Chair of Traditional and Non-Hegemonic Knowledge. Created in 2016 and linked to University's Dean of Extension and Culture, Kaapora works as a platform for dialogue between academic and non-academic worlds. One of its distinguishing features is that it values the leading role of those with non-hegemonic knowledge, being open to their own ways of learning and exchanging. The Kaapora Chair proposes a set of initiatives that combine teaching, research and community outreach, carried out by teachers and students from various courses and campuses, with the support of university staff. We organize courses inside and outside the curriculum, workshops, in-person and remote lectures and debates, short field trips, surveys, artist residencies and publications – both alone or in partnership with other organisations. In this way, it aims to contribute to broadening the intellectual, aesthetic and epistemological horizons of all those involved in its activities and to transforming the university into a “pluriversity”. Keywords: Kaapora Chair; Federal University of São Paulo; non-hegemonic knowledge; intercultural dialogues; epistemic quotas.

“Reconstructing the Study of Religion”: Entering the Conversation from a Different Corner of the Academic World

Abstract This essay engages Josephson Storm’s project of the reconstruction of the study of religion after the latest linguistic and material turns and what he calls radical skepticism by provincializing his account of the study of religion and the human sciences. Referencing postfoundational reconstructive approaches, I argue that so called poststructural theories have already led to new reconstructive efforts, also in the study of religion, at least in the academic environment I was trained in. Furthermore, the lack of an account of power risks ignoring the role of status differentials that prefigure the ability of humans to engage in the practice of self-discovery which is central to his ethical project of revolutionary happiness.

Chicana/Latina feminism: What is it and how does it define us?

AbstractLatinas holding doctoral degrees are few and far between in the academic world as compared to their White female counterparts (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2020). We explore a crucial topic of Chicana/Latina feminism, which resists traditional theoretical concepts and methodologies in the field of adult education. Chicana/Latina feminism is a feminist theory that has transcended academic disciplines since its conception in ethnic women's studies. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to offer an in‐depth look at Chicana/Latina feminism by defining the origins of a Chicana feminist theory, exploring the need to decolonize adult educational research to allow a more inclusive space for women of color in academia, attesting to the application of a Chicana feminist epistemology with the use of testimonios, and discussing the implications of embedding Chicana feminist perspectives in adult educational research.

Introduction

Belatedly, but with no less enthusiasm or joy, we invite you to celebrate with us the 70th birthday of Professor Susan Wright and her lifelong contribution to, and achievements in, the academic world as an internationally highly acclaimed researcher, scholar and teacher. Beyond her academic achievements, we also wish to celebrate Sue as a unique traveller and interconnector of worlds, cultures, ‘thoughtscapes’ and practices. We wish to celebrate Sue as an anthropologist of ‘the in-between-ness’ of (the) world(s), and her singular and deeply original skill in exploring hidden, unrecognised and unacknowledged connections, interrelations and potential for co-existence and collaborations.

Research on the Relationship Between Higher Education Development and Economic Growth in China

Education has always been a very important research issue, and China's higher education has developed rapidly along with its economic take-off. The issue of the correlation between education and economic development has also been researched many times in the academic world. So, this paper analyzes the dynamic correlation between the development of higher education and China's economic development, as well as the gross domestic product of the People's Republic of China (excluding Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Macao Special Administrative Region of China, and Taiwan Province of China) for the period 1978-2021, based on the existing literature, through the data on the number of graduates from higher education, general higher education, and postgraduates (master's degree and doctorate). It is finally concluded that economic growth will directly contribute to the development of higher education, and similarly, the growth of higher education will offset economic growth with a slight lag.

Philosophical Posthumanism: A Renewed Worldview and a Methodological Framework for Critical Analysis

Abstract Exponential technological advances capture the zeitgeist of contemporary society. Machines are increasingly gaining agency, which helps in the deconstruction of the humanist notion of humans. Society takes a posthuman turn with large-scale human–machine imbrication and nonhuman agency. The posthuman turn is also reflected in the academic world, which is seriously contemplating the integration of posthumanities. The philosophical posthumanism of Francisca Ferrando is a posthuman theory with three constituent elements: post-humanism, post-anthropocentrism, and post-dualism. Post-humanism revisits the definition of human that has given rise to marginalization within the human species. Post-anthropocentrism critiques the human superiority and exceptionalism that have led to the marginalization of other species. Post-dualism revisits the dualistic mindset that allows hierarchical sociopolitical constructions. Ferrando presents a vision of a posthuman utopian society that recognizes pluralistic voices within the human species on egalitarian terms, accepts and values the agency of nonhuman actors, and sheds the dualistic view of life that keeps humans and nonhumans on either side of the binary system. Philosophical posthumanism can be suitable as a methodological framework to analyze the posthuman discourses in literary works, specifically in science fiction.

Opening Archives to Society: The Experience from the Folklore Archive at Rovira i Virgili University

The Folklore Archive at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) is a university archive. The materials it stores are products of the fieldwork conducted by students on the Catalan Studies programme and the work done by professors researching into folk literature. From the year of its creation to the present, the Archive has adapted to the needs of the society of which it is a part. The present article discusses two issues. First, it explains how the results from our university research are transferred from the Archive to society (web, specialized digital resources, social networks, etc.). And second, it describes a specific activity entitled La ciutat a cau d’orella (The whispering city), which focuses on legends and involves several entities in Tarragona (city hall, public library, schools, youth organizations, writing workshops, etc.). This activity can be regarded as a way of developing mutual relations between the academic world and the general public.

Helmi Kurrik – a Female Ethnologist behind the Scenes

Helmi Kurrik (1883–1960) was the only female researcher who stood out in the Estonian ethnology of the 1930s. Yet she remained largely unknown in historiography until recently, associated only with the great handbook on Estonian folk costumes, published in 1938. Helmi Kurrik did not enter the academic world until she was in her forties. The twists and turns of her long life reflect the choices and constraints of Estonian women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She made a career at the Estonian National Museum, the centre of the newly established discipline of ethnology. Both her research themes and theoretical approaches, as well as her work as a curator of folk art exhibitions abroad and her contacts with foreign colleagues, illustrate the international nature of ethnology at the time. Helmi Kurrik f led to the West after World War II and adapted to a new life in the USA, but she was unable to continue her research in exile, although fellow refugee ethnologists tried to find publication opportunities for her.

Religious Moderation Education: An Interpreation

The fact of the dynamics of the views of different religious communities towards the verses of the Koran shows conflict. Moderation education is very important to ask about in social life, especially in the academic world which can be carried out concretely with certain approaches based on values or exemplary technology based where data is compilation in cyberspace and can be used in all areas of life. The qualitative method that the researcher did observed activities in detail related to moderation education through the verses of interpretation in Penakita and analyzed them qualitatively with interview or documentation observation techniques to then analyze the data obtained, the data collected was presented related. The study of Majlis ta`lim at Pena Kita Indralaya Islamic boarding school provides stories of friends, tabi`in and scholars, by developing the concept of religious moderation education through the study of verses of interpretation to teach the congregation a moderate, inclusive and respectful attitude in understanding and implementing religious teachings such as justice, peace, tolerance, and interfaith harmony.

Hausa in the 21st Century Internet Environment: From Easy Access to Documentation

The research is geared towards investigation on one hand the extent to which Hausa is found on the internet, and utilizing the internet for documenting Hausa materials on the other. The most active internet search engines (i.e. AOL, Ask, Baidu, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Internet Archive, WolframAlpha, Yandex. and Yahoo) were utilized to determine the number of existing and functioning Hausa websites. The activities and contents of the websites were studied to ascertain if they help matters by providing the needed materials for the ‘Hausa academic world’. The areas and forms of weaknesses of the sites were studied accordingly. It has been observed that the Hausa websites are dominated by several challenges ranging from socio-political to environmental. Finally, suggestions are offered as panaceas for the observed problems, one of which is the need for a collaborative effort between departments and centers for the studies in the Hausa language and the enthusiastic Hausa bloggers for the attainment of common documentation and improvement goals.

Can spiritual power reduce online cheating behavior among university students? The fraud triangle theory perspective

PurposeAlthough the academic literature provides extensive insight into the motivations for the unethical use of information technology in online classes, little is known about how perceived justice, the opportunity to cheat and spiritual legitimacy mitigate unethical behavior among young academics. The purposes of this study are two folds: first, to determine how perceived lecturers’ justice and opportunity to cheat may mitigate academic misconduct in online classes, and second, to evaluate the moderating effect of spiritual power on the relationship between perceived lecturers’ justice and opportunity to cheat and academic misconduct.Design/methodology/approachThis research was conducted at universities in three Southeast Asia countries, including Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, with a total of 339 respondents. The research questionnaire was distributed using Google Forms. The analytical method used to test the research hypothesis is moderated regression analysis (MRA).FindingsThe findings of this study reveal that spirituality moderates the relationship between lecturer justice and the opportunity to cheat online. Even though the justice level of the lecturer is low, individuals with relatively high spirituality will show much less cheating behavior than when there is a low level of lecturer justice and a low level of student spirituality, and vice versa.Research limitations/implicationsCheating occurs when students develop an intention to cheat, which leads to actual involvement in cheating, meaning that theoretically, the findings extend the fraud triangle theory. In addition, the practical implications of this research are that lecturers need to conduct fair teaching, such as transparency of exam conditions, assessment, the right to an opinion and supervision during exams, consequently, the students cannot cheat. Spirituality is also an essential factor that can reduce online cheating, so instilling spirituality in specific courses is a fruitful solution.Originality/valueThe contributions of this study are twofold. First, this study gives testable theories on how spiritual help works. Second, this study offers tailored and more humanistic assistance, such as a mechanism that adjusts to the academic world’s usage of more positive technologies. This study contributes to the literature on online cheating in higher education across three Southeast Asian nations (Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand).