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Farmers’ Perceptions, Insight Behavior and Communication Strategies for Rice Straw and Stubble Management in Thailand

The adoption of rice straw and stubble management approaches can be affected by various factors. To understand the psychological factors influencing Thai farmers’ adoption of rice straw and stubble management approaches, three integrated behavioral theories were employed: the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) and the Health Belief Model (HBM). Then, a practical communication framework was synthesized and proposed to promote rice straw utilization for social-ecological benefits to achieve more sustainable agricultural production. Through a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews with 240 local farmers, a statistical analysis was performed employing cross-tab, stepwise multiple linear regression, one-way ANOVA and descriptive content analysis using QDA lite miner software. The key results clearly showed that perceived pro-environmental personal norms, perceived cues to rice straw utilization, perceived behavioral control, perceived severity of rice straw burning, perceived ascription of responsibility, and the perceived benefits of rice straw utilization were significantly negatively influenced by burning, and that there was a significantly negative difference to non-burning approaches. Meanwhile, cost savings as perceived benefits of the current option of burning showed a significantly positive difference when compared with incorporation and free-duck grazing options. In communication strategies to promote rice straw utilization for achieving sustainable agriculture, key messages should highlight the clear steps of rice straw utilization, as well as the costs and benefits of each option in terms of economic, health, environmental and social perspectives. Moreover, messages designed to promote action knowledge and self-efficacy at the group level, to promote perceived responsibility via self-awareness and self-commitment, and convenient channels of communication to the farmers can help to achieve more effective non-burning rice straw and stubble management.

The success rate of online illicit drug transactions during a global pandemic.

Background and AimsIn the months following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA; 2020) observed an increased use of cryptomarkets, which led them to question whether cryptomarkets constituted a more convenient channel via which to distribute illicit drugs without any in-person contact. However, as more countries' borders closed, the likelihood is that cryptomarkets have been negatively impacted. We aim to measure and understand the success rate of transactions on cryptomarkets during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, through recourse to self-reported data that documents the outcome of cryptomarket transactions.MethodsTo collect self-reported data on cryptomarket transactions, we launched a platform where participants can enter information about their prior activities on cryptomarkets. The sample consists of 591 valid self-reports that were received between January 1st, 2020 and August 21st, 2020.ResultsThe number of unsuccessful transactions increased concurrently with the global spread of the pandemic. Both the international and inter-continental nature of the transactions and the severity of the crisis in the vendor's country are significantly associated with delivery failure.ConclusionsDrug cryptomarkets may have been disrupted due to the pandemic. The results lead to two opposing explanations for unsuccessful transactions. One explanation for the lower success rate is the inability of drug dealers to deliver on past promises that were made in good faith, while the second points towards opportunistic and abusive behaviour by drug dealers.

Speaking Trade, Aiming Beyond: Israel’s Economic Relations with France and Britain before 1956

Abstract Israel’s relationship with the West during the first half of the 1950s was not a walk in the park. Economic relations fitted into this general picture. Both Britain and France were sceptical as far as Israel’s potential was concerned. Their early prognoses tended to be quite gloomy. Simultaneously, economic relations provided a convenient communication channel at a time when overt association with the Jewish state was not desirable. The progress in Franco-Israeli economic ties during the years 1953-1955 illustrates this ambivalence in full. While prudence remained, the increase in bilateral trade managed to warrant the military supplies. Britain, constituting a traditional market, surpassed France as a trading partner. Given British political aloofness, the instrument of trade served primarily its immediate economic purpose. Based on archival sources gathered in all of the three countries, the paper traces the interplay of trade and diplomacy in the early years of Israel’s foreign relations.

Construction and Key Technologies of “One-off Dialing Service” Transport Service Supervision System

The construction of 12328 telephone is a process of gathering wisdom from multiple sources, focusing on top-level design, and advancing as a whole nationwide. In the process of project construction, combined with the public’s demand for travel services and the improvement of the transport industry’s governance capabilities, the “12328” telephone system was researched from top-level design, technology research and development, system construction, and data application. Moreover, technological breakthroughs have been carried out based on key and difficult areas. Based on the above research, the telephone service resources of all areas of the transport industry have been integrated, and the national transport service supervision telephone ‘12328’ one-off dialing service has been realized, and an efficient, smooth and convenient channel for public sentiment and information service has been formed. The 12328 transport service supervision system with unified standards, reasonable structure, complete functions and efficient operation has been established nationwide. And by reserving interfaces with related industries, promote the interconnection and intercommunication of comprehensive transport service supervision information and the collaborative processing of business.

Metallo-deuteroporphyrins derived multi-layered hollow carbon spheres electrocatalysts for highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction

The development of low-cost, highly efficient and stable non-precious metal electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) substituting Pt has attracted much attention. Herein, we developed a promising structural platform for the fabrication of carbon nanospheres functionalized with hollow nanostructures of M-NHCS (M = Fe, Co and Mn) based on metallo-deuteroporphyrins (MDP). Benefited from the multi-layered active sites and hollow substrate with more exposed active surface area, convenient channels for the transport of electrons, the resulting Fe-NHCS electrocatalysts exhibit enhanced electrocatalytic performance in ORR with an onset potential of 0.90 V (versus RHE), and a high selectivity in the direct 4-electron pathway. The Fe-NHCS electrocatalysts also show a good methanol tolerance superior to Pt/C catalysts and an extremely high stability with only 13.0 mV negative after 5000 cycles in alkaline media. Experiments have verified that maintaining the multi-layered Fe−N−C active sites and hollow substrate were essential to deliver the high performance for ORR. The work opens new avenues for utilizing MDP-based materials in future energy conversion applications.

Effect of Freeze–Thaw Cycles on Carbonation Behavior of Three Generations of Repeatedly Recycled Aggregate Concrete

Multiple recycling of waste concrete has attracted widespread attention. This study presented the carbonation behavior of repeatedly recycled aggregate concrete (RRAC) used in a micro-frozen region. The effects of freeze–thaw cycles on the carbonation depth of three generations of RRAC with 25%, 75%, and 100% of replacement rate were evaluated. All RRAC specimens after different numbers of freeze–thaw cycles were rapidly carbonated for 28 d indoors to test the carbonation resistance of concrete. The results suggested that the carbonation depth of RRAC subjected to freeze–thaw cycles is higher than that in the non-freeze–thaw condition. This is because the freeze–thaw damages cause the internal structure of RRAC to become porous and and prone to cracking, thus providing convenient channels for CO2 to react with the alkali in the cementitious materials. With the growth of replacement rate or recycling number, RRAC reveals serious freeze–thaw damage and inferior carbonation resistance, which is due to the continuous deterioration repeatedly recycled concrete aggregate (RRCA) quality. However, when the replacement rate was 25%, the carbonation depth for the third generation of RAC was comparable to the second generation of RAC at a 75% replacement rate, and even the first generation of 100% RAC. To ensure better carbonation resistance durability of multiple recycling RAC, the low replacement rate of RRCA should be considered. For the third generation of RAC with the 100% replacement rate, its highest carbonation depth after freeze–thaw cycles was 9.16 mm, which still met the design requirements for structural use in a micro-frozen region. This indicates that it is feasible for three generations of RRAC to be used in the micro-frozen environment and that RRAC has great engineering application potential and promotional value.

Development of integrated marketing Internet communications in the activity of Ukrainian banks

In modern conditions the Internet is developing rapidly. Marketing communications on the Internet is one of the main elements of Internet marketing of banking institutions and an important element in establishing relationships with target audiences and managing them, informing customers, improving the image of the bank. It is determined that the Internet today covers the information, communication and logistics areas of marketing communications of banks. The paper identifies the areas of integrated marketing Internet-communications in the activities of banks and their main elements to present their characteristic. At the present stage of development of Internet-communications in activities banking, it is advisable for banking institutions to use advertising, digital and creative strategies. It was found that the current trends in the development of marketing communications on the Internet also indicate the growth of Internet-communications in social networks as an important mechanism for interesting the bank customers and forming interaction with them and the development by the bank of its website, its attractive design, updating information on it. The results of the study showed that the largest share of Internet users in Ukraine uses mobile phones or smartphones, the number of which is growing, which expands the capabilities of banks in the field of Internet-communications. It was established that the most active banks in the media space are banks with state share: JSC CB «PrivatBank», JSC «Oschadbank», JSC «Ukreximbank» and banks of foreign banking groups such as JSC «Raiffeisen Bank Aval», JSC «OTP BANK», JSC «ALFA-BANK». JSC «FUIB» is among the banks with private capital. At the same time, the largest media activity of banks in 2019 was observed in banks of foreign banking groups, and in 2019, 2021 by the number of messages in state-owned banks. The analysis of the collected marketing information showed that the largest number of messages from the leading banks of Ukraine by categories of media was observed in the Internet media, as the Internet is a convenient, cheap and effective communication channel in all areas activities. The expediency of using the Internet to promote banking products is also due to the fact that recently the effectiveness of traditional channels for disseminating information about banks and their products has decreased. Key words: integrated Internet-marketing communications, banks, Internet marketing, mediaactivity of banks, means of information dissemination

КРАУДФАНДИНГ ЯК АЛЬТЕРНАТИВНА FINTECH-ЕКОСИСТЕМА НА ФІНАНСОВОМУ РИНКУ

The financial market offers many opportunities for projects funding. However, in its development, the financial market becomes more complex; it loses such features as flexibility and ease of fund-raising, including increased regulation. As a result, new, sometimes niche types of financial markets and instruments appear in the search for convenient channels for the movement of funds from lenders and investors to borrowers and issuers. Crowdfunding has become such a niche component of the financial market, a kind of ecosystem that consists of investors (lenders, donors), crowd platforms, and beneficiaries (project owners), among which startups occupy a special place. Accordingly, the purpose of the study was to clarify the features of crowdfunding, the factors predetermining its development, and the prospects for its development. To achieve the goal,we use s tatistical methods. We note the positive trends in the development of crowdfunding in all regions, despite that China showed a crucial decline. Thus, the average annual growth rate of crowdfunding in Europe and America has been more than 60 % since 2013. We also analyze the factors influencing crowdfunding development, particularly economic development, gross savings, the number of crowdfunding platforms, regulation. The constructed panel multivariate regression models showed that the following factors were significant: gross savings and the number of crowdfunding platforms. Finally, we have determined the features of the functioning of crowdfunding in Ukraine. Among those, the use of crowdfunding mainly for charitable financing projects, an insufficient number of platforms, an insignificant amount of funds raised, and the absence of state regulation. As a result, we have identified measures that will contribute to the development of crowdfunding in Ukraine, including the adoption of best practices of crowdfunding regulation, ensuring the transparency of its functioning, establishment of specialized crowdfunding platforms, and creating a crowdfunding culture. Keywords: funding, crowd platforms, financial technologies.

Perceived Effectiveness of E-Learning Among Parents of School-Going Children during Covid 19 in Karachi – An Analytical Review

The study stems from the recognition of the social impact of the pandemic, where a significant aspect was relevant to dissemination of education during the pandemic. The immediate response by school management and teachers and the adoption of an alternate learning strategy by parents and school children has indeed been a matter of grave concern. This study attempts to analytical review the existing online learning and its effectiveness in terms of (i) communication and coordination (ii) instructional design (iii) utilization of relevant medium as perceived by parents of school going children. Based on the premise that online education was embraced as their remained no other choice for a child’s connectivity to his/her regular school activities, it is believed that it is critical to anticipate whether online education would be willingly adopted by parents and children if given a choice during COVID-19 Pandemic. The research conclusions are based on the results of a survey conducted among parents of children enrolled in private schools in Karachi. The study explores perceptions regarding various aspects of online education such as learner interactions with course content, student interactions with instructors, a more favourable software application for child’s educational progress, most convenient channel of communication with school management, most engaging instructional design and effective medium for online education to analytically review how school children are coping with the change in learning models.

SPRACHLICHER CODE DER WAHRNEHMUNG DES WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN TEXTES IM KOMMUNIKATIONSAKT DES AUTORS UND EMPFÄNGERS

The article discusses the features of the activities of an author and recipient at different stages of the communication process in the perception of a scientific text. Studies of the peculiar influence of the language code on the perception of information in the context of the communicative act of the author of the message and the recipient in the modern information society are among the most relevant nowadays. Creation of a scientific and technical message and its publication are aimed at effective perception of information and achieving a certain linguistic influence of the author of the message on the consciousness of the recipient through the display of the peculiarities of the author's way of thinking. The beginning of scientific communication is the need for certain information of recipients. The response to this need is the proposal of necessary information by the author. The information needs of the recipients form the subject matter and content of scientific and technical communication. The author of the scientific message chooses the most convenient way and channel for the transfer of information to the recipient, and the recipient searches for the necessary information in the most optimal way and channel. The coding of the message usually corresponds to the coding of the informational need of the recipient. The context of the informational message for the author includes the main purpose of creating the message, and for the recipient, the satisfaction of the informational need. For the author, the text is a way of transmitting the message, and for the recipient, it is a source of information. The linguistic activity of the author is focused on the effective satisfaction of consumers’ information needs and on achieving a certain influence on the consciousness of the recipient. The main means of communication is the language of the message of scientific and technical orientation, which expresses its main content, semantic content, logical structure of the information component, which facilitates the process of decoding and assimilation of the message. The structure of a scientific and technical text depends on the genre and target audience. The genre can be viewed as a way of influencing the recipient's consciousness.

A Comparative Study of Trust in Mobile Banking

With the rapid growth of mobile phone usage, mobile services have influenced many industries including banking. Mobile banking has become a popular service as it offers a convenient channel for customers to perform banking transactions. Nevertheless, not all customers feel safe performing financial transactions online. Trust has become a crucial element on whether customers choose to use mobile banking. As a comparative study, this research examines factors and bank customers' characteristics that influence trust in mobile banking between U.S. and Thai mobile banking customers. Three hundred and eight USA consumers and two hundred and fifty-two Thai consumers participated in this study. The results found multiple significant factors influencing trust and usage of mobile banking. This study expands on previous trust and mobile banking usage research and provides practical implications for cross-cultural strategies in mobile banking.

Synthesis of Pt-Loaded NiFe-LDH Nanosheets on Wood Veneer for Efficient Gaseous Formaldehyde Degradation.

Traditional methods of removing gaseous formaldehyde are often associated with high energy consumption and secondary pollution. In this study, a new wood veneer-based composite decorated with Pt-loaded NiFe-LDH nanosheets is successfully developed by a hydrothermal reaction and impregnation-chemical reduction. NiFe-LDH nanosheets as an adsorbent can capture formaldehyde molecules through their abundant hydroxyl groups. Pt nanoparticles as catalytic centers are evenly distributed on the surface of NiFe-LDH to excite the O atoms linked to NiFe-LDH and absorbed oxygen, which will further attack the absorbed formaldehyde molecules to generate CO2 and H2O. And the wood veneer not only increases the active area of the catalyst by endowing it with good dispersion but also provides convenient channels for reactants and products. In a simulated dark environment at room temperature, this synthetic wood veneer-based composite exhibits admirable catalytic activity, which can effectively degrade almost all gaseous formaldehyde with the initial concentration of 0.2 mg m-3 in 30 min and maintain a high catalytic activity of ≥97% after 10 cycles. This paper presents a feasible strategy for synthesizing an energy-efficient and ecofriendly wood veneer-based composite for efficient gaseous formaldehyde degradation at room temperature, which may play an important role in indoor air purification as a promising decorative material.

Deep Sentiment Classification and Topic Discovery on Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 Online Discussions: NLP Using LSTM Recurrent Neural Network Approach.

Internet forums and public social media, such as online healthcare forums, provide a convenient channel for users (people/patients) concerned about health issues to discuss and share information with each other. In late December 2019, an outbreak of a novel coronavirus (infection from which results in the disease named COVID-19) was reported, and, due to the rapid spread of the virus in other parts of the world, the World Health Organization declared a state of emergency. In this paper, we used automated extraction of COVID-19-related discussions from social media and a natural language process (NLP) method based on topic modeling to uncover various issues related to COVID-19 from public opinions. Moreover, we also investigate how to use LSTM recurrent neural network for sentiment classification of COVID-19 comments. Our findings shed light on the importance of using public opinions and suitable computational techniques to understand issues surrounding COVID-19 and to guide related decision-making. In addition, experiments demonstrated that the research model achieved an accuracy of 81.15% - a higher accuracy than that of several other well-known machine-learning algorithms for COVID-19-Sentiment Classification.

Chinese state-owned commercial banks in reform: inefficient and yet credible and functional?

After the initial public offerings of state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) in 2005–2010, the transformation of the property structure blurred the conventional boundaries between public and private property in China while the state continued to play an important role in the regulation and operation of this ‘hybrid property’: the mixed public-private ownership structure adopted for previously wholly SOCBs. It is could be that the perceived lending bias against private enterprises was a rational decision made by SOCBs in China, partly due to the high transaction costs of risk evaluation and the lack of any formal channels to mitigate the credit risks of such loans. The hybrid nature of SOCBs property rights makes them a credible and convenient channel for the state to provide counter-cyclical lending to contain any exogenous (economic) shocks that might occur as well as long-term financial support for development purposes in the transitional economy and thus contribute to socio-economic and political stability in China. Instead of a stumbling block for economic reforms in China, as posited by the conventional institutional analysts, the ambiguous property rights of SOCBs and their practice of offering favourable loan conditions to state-owned enterprises could actually contribute to their profitability and thus the continuity of hybrid property banking systems and their credibility in China.

Fake news propagates differently from real news even at early stages of spreading

Social media can be a double-edged sword for society, either as a convenient channel exchanging ideas or as an unexpected conduit circulating fake news through a large population. While existing studies of fake news focus on theoretical modeling of propagation or identification methods based on machine learning, it is important to understand the realistic propagation mechanisms between theoretical models and black-box methods. Here we track large databases of fake news and real news in both, Weibo in China and Twitter in Japan from different cultures, which include their traces of re-postings. We find in both online social networks that fake news spreads distinctively from real news even at early stages of propagation, e.g. five hours after the first re-postings. Our finding demonstrates collective structural signals that help to understand the different propagation evolution of fake news and real news. Different from earlier studies, identifying the topological properties of the information propagation at early stages may offer novel features for early detection of fake news in social media.

Design and Development of Campus Environment Display System Based on Augmented Reality Technology

With the rapid development of augmented reality technology and the continuous improvement of people’s needs in various aspects, people are more looking forward to interactive, real-time augmented reality systems. In the field of physical display, Augmented Reality Technology provides a more convenient channel for people to experience various objects at zero distance, and reforms a new form of physical display. Including campus display, AR augmented reality technology creates a new display experience for users. This project uses Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication as the research model. In the early stage, the scene was modeled using Cinema 4D software. In the later stage, the scene was interactively designed using Unity 3D. The Vuforia engine was used to detect and track feature points and match them. After superimposing on the scene, we explored the optimization strategy of AR augmented reality technology in campus display applications.

Encryption of accounting data using DES algorithm in computing environment

The more and more developed network has caused more and more impact on people’s life and work, providing convenient channels for people’s information exchange, and then improving people’s living and working conditions. However, when data is transmitted through the network, there are hidden security risks, especially important accounting data. Once intercepted and used by criminals, it may cause serious harm to the owner of the data. Based on the above background, the purpose of this article is to study the use of the DES algorithm to encrypt accounting data in a computing environment. This paper proposes an improved quantum genetic algorithm and applies it to the S-box design of the DES algorithm, which improves the non-linearity of the S-box, reduces the differential uniformity, and enhances the security of the DES algorithm. This improved DES algorithm reduces the number of iterations by increasing the key length and iterative processing using a two-round function, which further increases the security of the algorithm and improves the operation speed of the encryption process. It is found that the 64 ciphertexts of the DES algorithm and the number of changed bits compared to the original ciphertext fluctuates around 32 bits, which explains the problems that should be paid attention to when using the DES algorithm to encrypt accounting data. The validity of key characters should be guaranteed to prevent key loss or leakage. Shorter data encryption regular solution.

The Research of the Continuance Intention of students to Use Tourism APP——Based on the TPB Model

Recently, the intelligent tourism has become increasingly popular in tourism industry. Particularly, the tourism APP has become an important and convenient channel for tourists to make travel decisions and take relevant behaviors. The paper mainly researches the continuously using intention of customers to tourism APP among five dimensions (the behavioral intention, the subject norms, the perceived behavioral control, the past behavior and the behavioral attitude) through the theory of planned behavior model. Besides, this paper chooses the college students in Dalian, China as the research object of study and provides a research reference for tourism APP companies.

Realizing The Growing Popularity Of Mobile Commerce

Electronic market facilitates the exchange of goods and services, matching of buyers and sellers and providing institutional infrastructure which is supported by government which encompasses legal and regulatory aspects. Advancement in wireless technology has paved possible channels for offering customized services and with the increase number of handheld devices has developed mobile electronic commerce. A standard convenient channel for communication is established with m-commerce which saves time and provides location based services anytime anywhere. Mobile commerce application is reflected on almost all services including finance, services retails, telecommunications and information technology .The paper explains the different applications of mobile commerce in different industries and the categories of applications. The paper also highlights the status of mobile commerce worldwide as well as in India.

Phosphorus‐Doping‐Induced Surface Vacancies of 3D Na2Ti3O7 Nanowire Arrays Enabling High‐Rate and Long‐Life Sodium Storage

Sodium-ion batteries have attracted interest as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries because of the abundance and cost effectiveness of sodium. However, suitable anode materials with high-rate and stable cycling performance are still needed to promote their practical application. Herein, three-dimensional Na2 Ti3 O7 nanowire arrays with enriched surface vacancies endowed by phosphorus doping are reported. As anodes for sodium-ion batteries, they deliver a high specific capacity of 290 mA h g-1 at 0.2 C, good rate capability (50 mA h g-1 at 20 C), and stable cycling capability (98 % capacity retention over 3100 cycles at 20 C). The superior electrochemical performance is attributed to the synergistic effects of the nanowire arrays and phosphorus doping. The rational structure can provide convenient channels to facilitate ion/electron transport and improve the capacitive contributions. Moreover, the phosphorus-doping-induced surface vacancies not only provide more active sites but also improve the intrinsic electrical conductivity of Na2 Ti3 O7 , which will enable electrode materials with excellent sodium storage performance. This work may provide an effective strategy for the synthesis of other anode materials with fast electrochemical reaction kinetics and good sodium storage performance.