Comprehensive Viewpoint Research Articles

Economic Development with Environmental Protection in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Situations and Problems

Objective: The study focuses on the current status of economic development associated with environmental protection in Ho Chi Minh City. It points out the remaining aspects that must be addressed to ensure the environment is increasingly protected. Socio-economic development progress of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Methods: The study is based on the points of view and methodological principles of Marxism such as objective point of view, comprehensive point of view, development point of view, and specific historical point of view. At the same time, the research also uses specific research methods such as analysis and synthesis, comparison and contrast, history and logic, interdisciplinary research method, method of systematization, and generalization. Findings: The article proposes some solutions to realize the relationship between economic development and environmental protection in Ho Chi Minh City in the coming time. Conclusions: The study of the relationship between economic development and environmental protection in Ho Chi Minh City in general and Vietnam, in particular, is becoming increasingly urgent and important.

Integrasi Islam dengan Budaya Lokal di Desa Hutaimbaru Kecamatan Halongonan Kabupaten Padang Lawas Utara Studi Antropologis Tentang Penerapan Falsafah Poda Na Lima

Poda Na Lima is the fruit of the ancestral thought of the Mandailing tribe which still exists in today's life and becomes a guide or advice in carrying out daily life. This thesis research uses qualitative methods and conducts field research which originates from the people of Hutaimbaru Village, Halongonan District, North Padang Lawas Regency and is supported by library research. With a data collection tool in the form of in-depth interviewers, namely face-to-face question and answer to Traditional Leaders, Religious Leaders, Community Leaders and one village official. Qualitative research approaches such as speech, speech, behavior that can be observed from an individual, community group or organization in a certain setting are reviewed from a comprehensive point of view. The purpose of this study is to find out the essential meanings contained in the poda nalima as well as to find out how relevant it is to Islamic teachings.

A new meteorological pressure index to support a sustainable nuclear energy programme

Today, the evaluation of a site for innovative nuclear installations represents a fundamental step in supporting the implementation of a sustainable nuclear power program. One major concern is the potential for radioactive releases and their effects on the biosphere, particularly on human health. To address this issue, a new Meteorological Pressure Index (MPI) has been developed to identify sites with resilience capacity in terms of transport phenomena correlated to natural wind actions on a regional scale. The MPI utilizes a fuzzy approach that combines data on 3D wind speed, direction, and frequency, providing maps that are useful in the site selection process. The application of MPI in the Sicily region of Italy has allowed to identify bordering areas that that are more affected by efficient air mass transport mechanisms. Consistency analyses have been conducted among MPI maps, observed wind distributions using wind rose charts, and stagnation S and recirculation R factors. The results confirm the MPI's ability to aggregate meteorological data on a regional level, making it a suitable tool when compared to disaggregated data that may not always provide a comprehensive viewpoint.

The Effect of Collector Azimuth on Inter-Row Shading in Photovoltaic Fields—A Comprehensive Point of View

Rooftop buildings, mountain terrains, rivers, and lake beds may be oriented at different azimuths other than due south (in the northern hemisphere), on which photovoltaic (PV) systems may be installed. The present study presents a comprehensive point of view on the relation between the inter-row spacing and the inter-row shading in multiple-row collectors of PV fields; it analytically formulates the inter-row spacing and the associated shading losses for collectors deployed at any azimuth on horizontal, sloped-planed, and oriented toward the south and north, and is supported by the numerical results. Several criteria for the inter-row spacing are applied in the study; among them is a newly introduced criterion appropriate for the collectors deployed at a given azimuth. This study indicates that shorter spacing results in increased shading; minimum shading is obtained for collectors oriented toward the equator; inter-row spacing for maintenance purposes is used in limited dimensions of the PV fields and, usually, in optimal PV system designs; less shading occurs for systems deployed on sloped planes oriented toward the south; less shading is obtained for collectors based on the new criterion, where collectors are deployed at azimuth equal to the solar azimuth, and larger spacing is required for collectors deployed on northern slopes.

Assessing entrepreneurial intentions through experiential learning, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial attitude

ABSTRACT This work investigates the impact of entrepreneurial experiential learning (EL) on students’ entrepreneurial intention (EI), through the lens of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE). To provide a comprehensive viewpoint, the direct impact of entrepreneurial attitude (EA) on entrepreneurial intention has also been looked at. This study, has adopted existing scales to measure entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial attitude, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. For experiential learning, a structured scale has been designed on the basis of its existing scales. Data were collected from 669 students, enrolled in entrepreneurial courses/programs. Punjab, Haryana, and National capital region (NCR) are the three Indian regions considered for the survey. The results highlight that there is a positive influence of experiential learning on entrepreneurial intention though β-value is low (0.042). While the β-value with mediation influence of entrepreneurial self-efficacy between experiential learning and entrepreneurial intention was 0.090 (0.697*0.130), which states that entrepreneurial self-efficacy mediates and enhances the relationship between experiential learning and entrepreneurial intention. It was also found that there is a direct and strong influence of entrepreneurial attitude on entrepreneurial intention (β-value, 0.872). Thus, there is a need to focus on entrepreneurial attitude, as it strongly influences the intentions of the students. Overall results have a bearing that experiential learning; entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial attitude emerged as important predictors of entrepreneurial intention and explained 89.6% of variations in the model. Moreover, experiential learning with the mediation of entrepreneurial self-efficacy had more impact on entrepreneurial intention. Thus, there is a need to focus on entrepreneurial self-efficacy as well as experiential learning.

Revolution of echocardiographic reporting: the new era of artificial intelligence and natural language processing.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making a significant impact on cardiovascular imaging, transforming everything from data capture to report generation. In the field of echocardiography, AI offers the potential to enhance accuracy, speed up reporting, and reduce the workload of physicians. This is an advantage because, compared to computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, echocardiograms tend to exhibit higher observer variability in interpretation. This review takes a comprehensive viewpoint at AI-based reporting systems and their application in echocardiography, emphasizing the need for automated diagnoses. The integration of natural language processing (NLP) technologies, including ChatGPT, could provide revolutionary advancements. One of the exciting prospects of AI integration is its potential to accelerate reporting, thereby improving patient outcomes and access to treatment, while also mitigating physician burnout. However, AI introduces new challenges like ensuring data quality, managing potential over-reliance on AI, addressing legal and ethical concerns, and balancing significant costs against benefits. As we navigate these complexities, it's important for cardiologists to stay updated with AI advancements and learn to utilize them effectively. AI has the potential to be integrated into daily clinical practice, becoming a valuable tool for healthcare professionals dealing with heart diseases, provided it's approached with careful consideration.

Integrated analysis approach to structure PPP schemes for new infrastructure projects

When considering public–private partnerships (PPP) for new infrastructure development, it is necessary to structure a project scheme based on the financial analyses from the perspective of private businesses, bankability analyses of private finances from the perspective of lenders, and public expenditure analyses from the viewpoint of the public sector after satisfying the criteria of the economic analysis from the viewpoint of the national economy. Although these four analyses are closely related, it is difficult to structure a scheme from a comprehensive viewpoint because they are typically implemented individually. Therefore, this paper proposes an analytical approach that integrates economic, financial, bankability, and public expenditure to conduct a comparative evaluation of various business schemes, including PPP. First, the basic idea of an integrated analysis was explained in detail. After developing each analysis table on a spreadsheet, an integrated analysis table was derived by interconnecting the tables. In addition, using an integrated analysis table prepared for a virtual new toll road project, the usefulness of the integrated analysis approach for structuring the project scheme was confirmed through case studies.

Depth-dependent hydraulic conductivity tensor for jointed granite

Stress-dependent hydraulic conductivity tensor is formulated in a closed form on the basis of Oda's permeability tensor and Bianchi & Snow's proposal for change of the crack aperture. Using a simple cracked model, a general equation is derived to obtain the hydraulic conductivity tensor as a function of depth and the coefficient of earth pressure at rest. The general trend of the equation is consistent with the in-situ hydraulic conductivity values measured at various sites. Conductivity itself does not have any practical meaning unless the state of stress is concurrently specified. Anisotropy in the hydraulic conductivity tensor is mainly related to the state of stress given by the earth pressure coefficient rather than the crack geometry, particularly in the cases where three orthogonal sets of joints are observed. Anisotropy is magnified in two dimensions because of excessive confinement of the flow direction. Additional procedures should be performed when the results obtained from two-dimensional analyses are generalized for three-dimensional real sites. The hydraulic conductivity K0 at the earth surface and γ′H for controlling the aperture of cracks are proposed as index measures for characterizing a given site from a comprehensive point of view.

Ecological and Socio-Economic Factors on the Rate of Participation and Sustainable Forest Management

This research was conducted to examine the effect of ecological, social and economic factors on the rate of partcipation of local communities on sustainable forest management. This research also want to examine the effect of ecological, social and economi factors on the forest sustainability and exploring the mediating role of rate of partcipation of local communities to increase the sustainability level of forest management. In this study, social forestry is examined from a comprehensive viewpoint that includes economic, societal, and ecological factors in order to illustrate the factors that influence local community participation in sustainable forest management in Riau, Indonesia. The use of Partial Least Square- Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) with SmartPLS software has revealed that both ecological and socio-economic factors determine the level of local community participation in sustainable forest management. The results have the potential to serve as a point of reference in the advancement of environmental science and environmental sociology, along with providing theoretical understanding about customary forests and local communities. Additionally, the practical implications of the findings can guide the sustainable development of forest resources. Ultimately, these findings are expected to yield optimal solutions for local communities in their efforts to manage customary forests sustainably.

Coal power decarbonization via biomass co-firing with carbon capture and storage: Tradeoff between exergy loss and GHG reduction

Co-firing of coal and biomass is a feasible pathway for low- or even negative-carbon transformation of power sector in countries that rely on coal. There are two main kinds of coal and biomass co-firing pathways: biomass gasification co-firing with pulverized coal (BGCPC) and biomass direct co-firing with pulverized coal (BDCPC). However, few attentions have been paid to the comparative study of techno-environmental assessments for the above two main technologies with or without carbon capture and storage (CCS). Here we present a comparative system evaluation framework based on chemical simulation and life cycle assessment (LCA) to compare the energy performances and environmental impacts of different biomass co-firing and CCS technology combinations. A new metric, global warming potential of per unit exergy efficiency loss (GWPUEL) is proposed to reveal the trade-off between greenhouse gas (GHG) emission abatement and exergy efficiency loss. Results show that BGCPC-CCS units of all capacities can achieve negative life-cycle GHG emissions under 25% co-firing ratio scenario, but only 1000 MW BDCPC-CCS units can achieve near-zero life-cycle GHG emissions. Though 300 MW units show the minimum carbon reduction potential among all the selected capacities, they can achieve the most promising GWPUEL benefits for their mild exergy efficiency loss after CCS retrofit. This indicator provides a comprehensive viewpoint to weigh the compromise between energy performance and environmental burdens of different bio-based and CCS technology combinations, further facilitating various decarbonization schemes of global power sector under the carbon neutrality target.

Karl Marx's theory of human nature and its significance in educating people nowadays

Introduction. Social development is an objective condition for human development. Social development is a condition for each individual in society to develop. The freedom of each individual in society is the basis and driving force for creating each culture, community, and country. Materials and methods. The article uses a comprehensive and specific historical point of view of the materialist dialectical methodology. At the same time, the paper also uses analytical, synthesis, and interpretation research methods to clarify Marx about human nature and how the social human changed people's living conditions and changed people in both shape and knowledge. Human life activities, which are material production, have made individuals and social people have a dialectical relationship. Individuals and social people can encourage each other to develop together and make society more chaotic and distant. Production relations in society cause inequality and disparity between rich and poor. Research results. Summarizing Marx's theory of human nature, the paper has aspects of clarification analysis of Human Nature. First, human nature is a product of history and the subject of history. Second, human nature is nature and social characteristics; Therefore, it is necessary to educate comprehensive human development. Third, the development of each person is the development of everyone in society. Each country and individual has goals, policies, and orientations for the development of human nature. Therefore, each country and individual has plans, policies, and directions for the development of human nature. Human needs a wonderfully natural and social environment to promote their full potential. Nowadays, individuals in social people must be self-aware of existence and development by working in production to improve the natural and social environment. Today, Vietnam needs to educate the Vietnamese to develop comprehensively. The government needs to implement democracy in education. And it is necessary to inform the worker of the requirements of a globally integrated society with the development of science and technology. Vietnamese workers unite with workers worldwide to promote worker's rights in companies. Conclusion. This study allows arguing that Marx put forward the human mentioned in two aspects, human nature and social human. Marx clarified social humans in practical activities that changed human nature. For a comprehensive human overview, each country and individual needs to focus on health, intelligence, aesthetics, culture, capacity, quality, and morality and fight for freedom and democracy. Today, Marx's ideas about human are the basis for the education human nature. Marx pointed out the role of man as the master of society. Therefore, the future community is educational Vietnamese. The article is the basis for promoting the democratic rights and freedoms of people in a civilized and progressive society. Therefore, clarifying the role of educating Vietnamese people in the current process of national renewal. Keywords: human nature, individual person, social people, product of history, subject of history, Marx

Delicious promoter of the restaurant business: measuring impact of supply chain, brand personality and CSR on brand equity development

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to discuss the importance of customer-based brand equity (CBBE) and identify the critical attributes of how to develop CBBE during the most difficult time of the COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThis study collected 386 restaurant managers' viewpoints to examine the mutual relationships among CBBE and other critical attributes of corporate social responsibility (CSR), electronic word of mouth (EWOM) and brand personality. Furthermore, structural equation modeling (SEM) was conducted to examine the proposed moderation and mediation hypotheses.FindingsThe results show that corporate social responsibility (CSR) mediates the relationship between brand personality and brand image. Furthermore, the mutual relationship among CBBE is discovered in that brand image may indirectly affect brand loyalty through perceived quality and brand awareness. Furthermore, with the reliance on social media, the moderating roles of electronic word of mouth (EWOM) are also revealed that strengthen the indirect effect of brand personality on brand awareness through CSR and brand image.Originality/valueWith the increasing attention to CBBE, which aims at tourism destination brand equity, hotel branding from the customer perspective, restaurant managers' viewpoints are not considered. Further, because of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, customers are paying more attention to food safety and food delivery processes, which are important for CSR and connected to CBBE. However, until now, fewer studies have addressed these issues as such. The present study reflects the bidirectional effects of such a comprehensive viewpoint.

Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases (ESBL) Producing Bacteria in Animals.

Animals have been identified as potential reservoirs and vectors of resistance genes, with studies showing that Gram-negative bacteria can acquire resistance through the horizontal transmission of resistance genes on plasmids. It is important to understand the distribution of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and their drug-resistant genes in animals. Previous review articles mostly focused on a single bacterium or a single animal. Our objective is to compile all ESBL-producing bacteria isolated from various animals in recent years and provide a comprehensive viewpoint. Using a thorough PubMed literature search spanning from 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2022, studies exploring extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing bacteria in animals were included. ESBL-producing bacteria are present in animals from various countries around the world. The most common sources of these bacteria were farm animals, and the most frequently isolated bacteria were Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae. The most detected ESBL genes were blaTEM, blaSHV, and blaCTX-M. The presence of ESBL-producing bacteria in animals highlights the importance of the One Health approach to address the issue of antibiotic resistance. Further research is needed to better understand the epidemiology and mechanisms of the spread of ESBL-producing bacteria in animal populations and their potential impact on human and animal health.

Decreasing corruption in the field of disaster management.

Corruption has always existed in the field of national disaster management. Although many case studies on (anti)corruption have been carried out, these works have not dealt sufficiently with the evidence. The present research aims to study how to shift from corruption to anti-corruption, or simply, how to decrease corruption within the system. The comparative perspective is applied as the major methodology. The "damp-ground" style is where corruption breeds, whereas the "sunshine-based" style is where disaster management ethics, structure, transparency, and regional characteristics are established, sustained, and maximized. Therefore, the personnel, system, operating principles, and other relevant factors need to evolve and change to contribute significantly to the sunshine-based model. In this regard, stakeholders should carry out their roles and responsibilities effectively to succeed in disaster impact mitigation and overall disaster management. The contribution of this work lies in providing a comprehensive viewpoint on the shift from damp-ground corruption to sunshine-based anti-corruption toward the ultimate goal of disaster mitigation.

Mechanistic Aspects of the Electrochemical Oxidation of Aliphatic Amines and Aniline Derivatives.

The electrochemical oxidation of amines is an essential alternative to the conventional chemical transformation that provides critical routes for synthesising and modifying a wide range of chemically useful molecules, including pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. As a result, the anodic reactivity of these compounds has been extensively researched over the past seven decades. However, the different mechanistic aspects of the electrochemical oxidation of amines have never been discussed from a comprehensive and general point of view. This review examines the oxidation mechanism of aliphatic amines, amides, aniline and aniline derivatives, carbamates, and lactams, either directly oxidised at different electrode surfaces or indirectly oxidised by a reversible redox molecule, in which the reactive form was generated in situ. The mechanisms are compared and simplified to understand all possible pathways for the oxidation of amines using only a few general mechanisms. Examples of the application of these oxidation reactions are also provided.

How to interpret serum creatinine increases during decongestion.

During decongestion in acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), it is common to observe elevations in serum creatinine (sCr) values due to vascular congestion, a mechanism that involves increased central venous pressure that has a negative impact on the nephron, promoting greater absorption of water and sodium, increased interstitial pressure in an encapsulated organ developing "renal tamponade" which is one of main physiopathological mechanism associated with impaired kidney function. For the treatment of this syndrome, it is recommended to use diuretics that generate a high urinary output and natriuresis to decongest the venous system, during this process the sCr values can rise, a phenomenon that may bother some cardiologist and nephrologist, since raise the suspicion of kidney damage that could worsen the prognosis of these patients. It is recommended that increases of up to 0.5 mg/dL from baseline are acceptable, but some patients have higher increases, and we believe that an arbitrary number would be impractical for everyone. These increases in sCr may be related to changes in glomerular hemodynamics and true hypovolemia associated with decongestion, but it is unlikely that they are due to structural injury or truly hypoperfusion and may even have a positive connotation if accompanied by an effective decongestion and be associated with a better prognosis in the medium to long term with fewer major cardiovascular and renal events. In this review, we give a comprehensive point of view on the interpretation of creatinine elevation during decongestion in patients with ADHF.

Multi-query Vehicle Re-identification: Viewpoint-conditioned Network, Unified Dataset and New Metric.

Existing vehicle re-identification methods mainly rely on the single query, which has limited information for vehicle representation and thus significantly hinders the performance of vehicle Re-ID in complicated surveillance networks. In this paper, we propose a more realistic and easily accessible task, called multi-query vehicle Re-ID, which leverages multiple queries to overcome viewpoint limitation of single one. Based on this task, we make three major contributions. First, we design a novel viewpoint-conditioned network (VCNet), which adaptively combines the complementary information from different vehicle viewpoints, for multi-query vehicle Re-ID. Moreover, to deal with the problem of missing vehicle viewpoints, we propose a cross-view feature recovery module which recovers the features of the missing viewpoints by learnt the correlation between the features of available and missing viewpoints. Second, we create a unified benchmark dataset, taken by 6142 cameras from a real-life transportation surveillance system, with comprehensive viewpoints and large number of crossed scenes of each vehicle for multi-query vehicle Re-ID evaluation. Finally, we design a new evaluation metric, called mean cross-scene precision (mCSP), which measures the ability of cross-scene recognition by suppressing the positive samples with similar viewpoints from the same camera. Comprehensive experiments validate the superiority of the proposed method against other methods, as well as the effectiveness of the designed metric in the evaluation of multi-query vehicle Re-ID. The codes and dataset are available at: https://github.com/zhangchaobin001/VCNet.

ФОРМЫ ПРОЯВЛЕНИЯ САМОРЕФЛЕКСИИ В ПЕСНЯХ Ф. ЧИСТЯКОВА "СЕВЕРНОЕ БУГИ" И "СЕВЕРНЫЙ БЛЮЗ"

The article is devoted to the study... of forms in which selfreflection manifests itself in the songs of Fyodor Chistyakov “Northern Boogie” (1990) and “Northern Blues” (2013). It is revealed that in those works the rock poet creates a bizarre combination of the Northern Russian picture of the world with the world of African-American musical culture. Such non-trivial move makes it possible to compare life in the godsent “South” and in the difficult for survival “North”, where a person’s life is always the overcoming, “daily heroism”: exactly here, in unfavorable conditions, a person enters into an eternal “battle for the right to be” and learns to win. In the first of the songs, these motifs are only outlined, a view of the northern world from the outside and a certain understatement prevails. In the second work, the interpretation of life motives is deepened and expanded due to the concretization of the main human existence’s characteristics in the Russian North, as well as a complex subjective organization involving the fusion of “I”, “you” and “we”. As a result, the picture of the Northern Russian world goes far beyond geographical concepts and acquires metaphysical qualities, spreading all over the Earth as a special cultural code, to which the author sometimes treats quite ironically. The article concludes that it is possible to consider the author’s return after some time (necessary for comprehensive thinking or point of view’s change) to certain original motives and images a form of self-reflection. Such a “return move” opens to the lyrical subject the perspective of self-irony, the productivity of which is realized in creating a special mood of paraparody, providing the ability to survive and be alive in the harshest realities of life

A State-of-the-Art Survey on Analytical Hierarchy Process Applications in Sustainable Development

Nowadays, utility of the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) technique in tackling real-world complex problems has risen tremendously. Even the United Nations is focusing on decision-making in order to accomplish Agenda 2030, as stated in its paragraph 48. The desire to promote sustainable development (SD) necessitates complex decision models, which could be achieved through the use of an efficient MCDM approach. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is one of the most efficient MCDM techniques that is incorporated in this study. The purpose of this work is to provide a contrasting of AHP's application that emerged between 2011 and 2022, rather than to reflect on its methodological improvements. Its application encompasses a wide range of disciplines including Renewable Energy, Sustainable manufacturing, Natural Hazards, Environmental Pollution, Landfill waste management and many others which lies explicitly or implicitly under the theme of SD. Previously, many reviews have been conducted that concentrated on a single decision topic; moreover, this review explore the comprehensive viewpoint of decision problems. As per statistical results, Middle Eastern countries such as Iran placed top in terms of applying AHP application in different sectors. GIS and fuzzy logic are the most often used approaches to incorporate AHP across all disciplines. Notably, the findings indicate that the most decision problem have selection and assessment as a major concern whereas, environmental, economical, LULC & DFR are more frequently used criteria.

Recent Advances in Biodegradable Polymers and Their Biological Applications: A Brief Review.

The rising significance of the field of biopolymers has driven the rapid progress of this distinctive class of polymeric materials in the past decades. Biodegradable polymers have acquired much attention because they play an essential role in humans' lives due to their specific tunable electrical conductivity and biodegradability characteristics, making them fascinating in many applications. Herein, we debated the recent progress in developing biodegradable polymers and their applications. Initially, we introduce the basics of conducting and biodegradable polymers, trailed by debates about the effective strategies currently used to develop biopolymers. Special importance will focus on the uses of biodegradable polymers in drug delivery and tissue engineering, as well as wound healing, demonstrating the recent findings, and uses of several biodegradable polymers in modern biological uses. In this review, we have provided comprehensive viewpoints on the latest progress of the challenges and future prospects involving biodegradable polymers' advancement and commercial applications.