Cross-institutional Cooperation Research Articles

Knowledge Mapping for Fire Risk Assessment: A Scientometric Analysis Based on VOSviewer and CiteSpace

Fire risk assessment is a crucial step in effective fire control, playing an important role in reducing fire losses. It has remained a significant topic in the field of fire safety. To explore the research hotspots and frontier trends in fire risk assessment and to understand its macroscopic development trajectory, a sample of 1596 papers from 1976 to 2023, extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) database, was utilized to create a knowledge map. The study employed bibliometric methods, visual analysis, and content analysis to uncover the research pulse and hotspots in the field, offering insights into its future development. The findings indicate that research in fire risk assessment has demonstrated continuous growth over the past 50 years. China and the United States are the dominant research forces in the field, while India and Australia show potential as new drivers for development. Expert groups have formed in this field, with intra-institutional cooperation being the primary focus, while inter-institutional collaboration remains limited. The research outcomes exhibit multidisciplinary crossovers, exerting a significant impact on various disciplinary domains. The research hotspots primarily revolve around investigating fire and explosion accidents, assessing the vulnerability of fire subjects, and identifying potential fire hazards. The application of artificial intelligence technology is identified as a pivotal tool for future development. However, to achieve substantial progress, it is important to enhance the importance accorded to fire risk assessment, foster multinational and cross-institutional cooperation, and prioritize research innovation.

A Bibliometric Analysis of Neonatal Pain Management Research From 2010 to 2022.

Research related to neonatal pain management has received increasing attention in recent years. Effective pain management contributes to the maintenance of the healthy physical and mental growth of the newborn. To better understand this research topic, we analyzed the current state of development in this field over the past thirteen years by bibliometric analysis and provide directions for future research. Original articles were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) between January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2022, the title and abstract clearly stating 'neonatal pain management' or its alternative search keywords. CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and the WoS analysis tool were used to analyze and present the data. A total of 967 articles met the inclusion criteria. Significant growth of the number of publications increased roughly fourfold from 2010 to 2022. Overall, the United States and Canada were the highest contributors to neonatal pain management research. Weak cooperation was observed in international research (developing and developed countries) and cross-institutional cooperation. Neonatal pain-related research was the most common focus. Pain education and interventions for parents and medical personnel have also received increasing attention recently. The current study revealed that research in terms of publications on neonatal pain management has rapidly increased for more than the past ten years. Developed countries, especially the United States and Canada, were more concerned with this topic than developing countries. More international research and cross-institutional cooperation are required to promote the development of neonatal pain medicine in the future.

TrustGWAS: A full-process workflow for encrypted GWAS using multi-key homomorphic encryption and pseudorandom number perturbation.

The statistical power of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) is affected by the effective sample size. However, the privacy and security concerns associated with individual-level genotype data pose great challenges for cross-institutional cooperation. The full-process cryptographic solutions are in demand but havenot been covered, especially the essential principal-component analysis (PCA). Here, we present TrustGWAS, a complete solution for secure, large-scale GWAS, recapitulating gold standard results against PLINK without compromising privacy and supporting basic PLINK steps including quality control, linkage disequilibrium pruning, PCA, chi-square test, Cochran-Armitage trend test, covariate-supported logistic regression and linear regression, and their sequential combinations. TrustGWAS leverages pseudorandom number perturbations for PCA and multiparty scheme of multi-key homomorphic encryption for all other modules. TrustGWAS can evaluate 100,000 individuals with 1 million variants and complete QC-LD-PCA-regression workflow within 50 h. We further successfully discover gene loci associated with fasting blood glucose, consistent with the findings of the ChinaMAP project.

Do User Experience (UX) Design Courses Meet Industry’s Needs? Analysing UX Degrees and Job Adverts

With the recent growth in demand for skilled user experience (UX) practitioners, there has been a significant expansion of higher education UX degree courses. Yet, despite increasing educational provision, UX design industry figures criticize UX degree courses for not meeting industry’s needs. To examine the issue, this study asks: (1) What competencies are specified by UX degree courses? (2) How do UX and UX related degree courses’ competencies and employers’ requirements align? To answer these questions, the researchers analysed 93 programme and module specification documents for 34 UX, and UX related, degree courses and 50 job adverts for UX designers in the UK. The study concludes that UX, within formal education, is narrowly reliant on already established subjects and yet to mature into a holistic discipline. UX curricula are also developing in diverse ways across different institutions. Finally, the findings reveal that industry and academia have different priorities. The study underscores the need for further research into UX practice and pedagogy, cross-institutional cooperation, and enhanced connections with the communities of UX practice.

Come together: case specific cross-institutional cooperation of youth welfare services and child and adolescent psychiatry

BackgroundDue to the increasing rate of children and families who require support from both youth welfare services and from mental health services, a solid cross-institutional cooperation is needed to provide coordinated and integrated help. Studies involving not only qualitative, but also quantitative information from both services regarding not only general, but also case specific views on cross-institutional cooperation and psychosocial needs are lacking.MethodsHence, we collected data from n = 96 children and families who received support from youth welfare office (YWO) and child and adolescents psychiatry (CAP) simultaneously. In a longitudinal survey, we assessed the evaluation of case specific cross-institutional cooperation and psychosocial needs by employees of YWO and CAP as well as descriptive data (including psychopathology of children) over a 6-month period. Repeated-measures ANOVAs were conducted to assess the effects of time and institution (YWO/CAP) on employees’ evaluation of case specific cross-institutional cooperation and psychosocial needs as well as children’s psychopathology.ResultsThe data showed that generally YWO employees rated the case specific communication better than CAP employees. Furthermore, CAP employees estimated psychosocial needs higher than YWO employees did. The employees’ evaluation of total case specific cross-institutional cooperation did not differ between the employees of both institutions; it further did not change over time. The case specific evaluations did not correlate between the case responsible employees of YWO and CAP.ConclusionThe data showed satisfaction with the case specific cross-institutional cooperation in general, but meaningful differences in case specific ratings between both institutions indicate the possibility and need for improvement in daily work and cooperation as well as in regulations and contractual agreements. The implementation of more exchange of higher quality and transparency will ensure smoother cross-institutional cooperation. Future research should pursue this topic to convey the need for further improvement in cross-institutional cooperation into decision-making processes and to evaluate the success of innovative projects in this field.

PO-210 Analysis on the Hotspot and Content of Exercise Therapy for the cerebral oxygen in Foreign Countries——Based on Visualization Research of Scientific Knowledge Map

Objective To analyze the hotspot of exercise therapy for cerebral oxygen . 
 Methods This study is based on academic literature between1982-2017，which are retrieved from Web of Science. The author uses the software of CitespaceIII to make visual analysis for1701 literatures.
 Results There has been a steady growth in the publications， countries with most publications include American， Japan，England ,Germony； research institutions are mainly composed of universities in Europe and America； authors forms a major cooperative team but with no obvious cross regional and institutional cooperation；the research focus on the the influence of cerebral blood flow and metabolic、the pressure of carbon dioxide on cerebral oxygen during exercise which pay close attention to cognition； research hotspot is mainly concentrated on the link among cerebral blood flow 、metabolism、automatic control of the brain 、cognition and cerebral oxygen .
 Conclusions in the individuals of cardiovascular diseases research hotspot reveals low to moderate exercise is a better way to improve cognition in view of cerebral oxygen.

Better together? Cooperation between youth welfare office and child and adolescent psychiatry: A methodological approach

Previous international literature describes a lack of systematic research about cross-institutional cooperation in social and health services although the need is indicated. More and more children and adolescents have complex psychosocial needs. Thus, they require help from different institutions and professions to receive optimal care. However, there is a great need of improvement of the cooperation between institutions in social (e.g. Youth Welfare Office) and health services (e.g. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP), even in Germany. Therefore, an official Agreement of Cooperation (AoC) between these institutions was implemented as a first attempt to enhance and structure cross-institutional work in Dresden, Germany. This methodological paper describes the corresponding evaluation project that includes cross-sectional and longitudinal assessments. It thereby focuses on the employees' and families' satisfaction as well as the psychosocial development and mental health of children at the intersection of the aforementioned institutions before and after the implementation of the AoC. In addition, it gives a review of literature about cross-institutional work.

Kulturel forkælelse i børnehøjde: Kulturformidling til børn og forestillinger om børnekultur, demokrati og dannelse

”Steder i Ishøj. Steder i mig” var et kulturformidlingsprojekt til børn, der fandt sted i en forstad til København i foråret 2014. Projektet var et tværinstitutionelt samarbejde, som havde til hensigt at skabe nye former for formidling af kunst og kultur til nye brugere med særligt fokus på børn i boligsociale områder. Artiklen præsenterer en kulturanalyse af kulturformidlingsprojektet i lyset af teorier om børnekultur, demokrati og dannelse. ”Steder i Ishøj. Steder i mig” blev iscenesat som en dannelsesrejse inden for et kulturkompleks med henblik på at transformere ikke-brugere til deltagende medborgere. På den ene side var projektet præget af kulturkompleksets iscenesatte orden med kulturformidling for og med børn, men på den anden side indskev børnene deres egne forståelsesrammer i projektet. Den måde børnekultur, demokrati og dannelse blev operationaliseret i projektet, illustrerer nogle væsentlige problemstillinger i relation til forestillingen om demokratisk formidling af kunst og kultur til børn. English abstract ”Places in Ishoej. Places in me” was a cultural communication project for children taking place in a socially challenged suburb of Copenhagen during spring 2014. The project was a cross-institutional cooperation developing new kinds of cultural communication for new users with a focus on children in social housings. The article presents a cultural analysis of the cultural communication project in the light of theories of children’s culture, democracy and civic learning. ”Places in Ishoej. Places in me” was staged as an educational journey within a culture complex and tried to transform cultural non-users to participating citizens. On the one hand the project was marked by the cultural order of the culture complex for and with children, but on the other hand the children inscribed their own understandings within the project. The way children’s culture, democracy and civic learning was operationalized in the project illustrate some significant problems in relation to the notion of democratic communication of art and culture for children.

Barnemusikk som et transdisiplinært emne: Om selvforståelse, musikkbegrep og affordanse som overskridende forskningsverktøy

I denne artikkelen diskuteres barnemusikk som emne for transdisiplinær forskning. Med utgangspunkt i et forskningsprosjekt som dreier seg om 3 til 6 år gamle barns egen bruk av fonogrammer (cd-plater, mp3-filer osv.) i hverdagssammenhenger, retter artikkelen fokus mot hvordan emnet barnemusikk kan posisjoneres slik at en på fruktbare måter trekker veksler på forskningsfeltene musikkpedagogikk, musikkvitenskap og barnekultur. Samtidig berører artikkelen hvordan forskningen kan legitimeres med støtte i de nevnte feltene og nødvendigheten av å arbeide på tvers av forskningsfelter for å tilføre ny kunnskap. Etter en kort redegjørelse for barnemusikk som barnekulturforskning føres en mer inngående diskusjon av musikkbegrepet i lys av det musikkpedagogiske feltets selvforståelse og utvalgte musikkvitenskapelige perspektiver. Tilslutt foreslås affordanse-perspektivet (affordance) som en fruktbar, fleksibel måte å nærme seg ”musikk” på i barnekulturell sammenheng. English abstract This article discusses children’s musicas a trans-disciplinary research topic. Its point of departure is aresearch project on how children between 3 and 6 years of age use recorded music (such as music CDs,Mp3 files and so forth) in their everyday lives, and it discusses how the topic of ”children’s music” canbe positioned so that it benefits from existing research in all three of the fields of music education, musicology and children’s culture. The discussion touches upon how this specific research project waslegitimised by drawing on these three fields of knowledge, and the necessity of working across disci-plines in order to explore new topics and gain new insights is underscored. The article starts with ashort introduction to children’s music and children’s culture and then focuses on concepts of music inthe light of the self-conception of music education and selected musicological concepts. It is arguedthat the concept of affordance is a fruitful way of approaching ”music” in children’s culture.

Difficulties of Social Workers Working with Social-Risk Families while Providing Social Services to these Families in Vilnius

Social work in Lithuania covers a number of different fields, and one of them is social work with the social risk family. Frequently, such families have low income, have a number of dependents, are not full, have alcohol abusing family members who improperly take care of their children, and have insufficient social skills. Working with social risk families social workers encounter difficulties at their work in rendering assistance to these families, are exposed to risk at work that manifests itself in aggression or opposition of social risk family members, what makes the provision of social services difficult and does not contribute to the reduction in the number of social risk families. The opinion of social workers on difficulties encountered by them in providing social services to social risk families has not been sufficiently investigated. The goal of the survey is to examine difficulties encountered by social workers working with social risk families in providing social services to these families in Vilnius. Survey methodology. Applied survey methods: analysis of reference sources, legal acts of Republic of Lithuania; half-structured interview; content quality analysis. An interview using preliminary prepared questions was performed in July 2012 – March 2013. 20 social workers who work with social risk families at the Family Support Division of Vilnius Social Support Centre and rendering the services of social skill development and maintenance have been surveyed. The empirical survey disclosed that social workers who work with social risk families by providing social services to these families in Vilnius most often encounter difficulties related with the conditions of workflow organization and difficulties related with clients. By analyzing the difficulties relating to the conditions of workflow organization it turned out that social employees have a huge workload, and social services must be rendered to at least 40 social risk families. Poor work conditions, lack of a car, separate room and insufficient confidentiality makes the work more difficult, reduce the efficiency and quality of social assistance. Every second social worker noted the lack of cross-institutional cooperation as an important measure of increasing the efficiency of social help to social risk families. This problem, however, despite the fact that it has been mentioned in research literature, has not been recognized at the institutional level. Nearly every third social worker distinguished gaps in the legal acts that inflexibly define the limits of their work, as result whereof they could not act the way they would like, especially in case of complicated, difficult situations. Also, there are areas to be improved and amendments related with the solution of alcohol dependence problems to be adopted. By analysing difficulties associated with social risk families it was revealed that the majority of social workers encounter aggression of social risk families; every fourth one feels unsafe due to aggressive, intoxicated, ill persons, their failure to understand the goals of visit aimed of helping them, negative attitude towards a social worker, and visiting a social risk family by one person. Social risk families often have a negative attitude towards a social worker, deny the existence of problems or do not understand the aim of social assistance. Nearly one third of the social workers observed the lack of motivation for making a change by members of social risk families. Addictions of social risk family members make the rendering of social services more difficult, impair their efficiency, impede the creation of environment of motivated change in solving social problems, and create unsafe environment. Keywords: social services, difficulties of social worker, social risk family. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/su.2014.21

Religions, Philosophies and Ethics: Curriculum Change in the Marketised Academy

This article is a case study of curriculum change centred on the introduction of a new Religions, Philosophies and Ethics degree. This innovation was necessitated by shifting patterns of student demand and government policies at both school and university level but also responded to some factors specific to Bath Spa University. Here we analyse and evaluate the resources upon which we drew in our own heritage as a teaching team, some issues we faced in terms of different Benchmarking Statements, the opportunities we discovered in developing a shared ethos and the threats we identified related to the status of Religious Education, in the expectation that many of the points are of wider relevance. We conclude with some ideas for creative ways forward, entailing cross-institutional co-operation, in a hostile environment.

Digitisation Project Planning in the Maribor City Library as a Form of Regional Cross Institutional Cooperation

EXTENDED ABSTRACT:More and more Slovenian public libraries have been facing the question of selection criteria for digitisation of library materials as well as the issue of financial resources, copyright permission and the promotion of digitised materials. Libraries having long tradition of collecting valuable local history resources are more convinced about the selection criteria. Digitisation is, in spite of being expensive, time consuming and labour intensive, an easy method to enable quick access to library materials, to promote and preserve library collections. The mission of the central regional public library (co)financed by the Ministry of Culture is not only to coordinate the collection, cataloguing and storage of local history resources but also to coordinate local history digital projects. Due to historical circumstances, the local history resources were first collected by the Maribor University Library. It is only in the recent past that the Maribor City Library has started to systematically collect these materials. Due to this fact, the Maribor City Library does not hold an extensive collection of rare and valuable local history items. It was initially faced with the problem of selection criteria for digitisation. However, it soon succeeded to establish the strategy to promote the local history collections in the region, regardless of their location. Thus the library started to cooperate with different regional institutions and the first partner projects were designed. In the year 2007 the library collaborated with the elementary school at Lovrenc na Pohorju and decided to digitise research papers of ex-pupils of the school. The first part of the project was accomplished in 2007 when 72 research papers were digitised, in the next two years their number was increased as the second part of the project was concluded. The papers were published on the KAMRA portal and the project was promoted at the summer annual meeting at Lovrenc na Pohorju. The next project was initiated in cooperation with the Vurberk Tourist Association who contributed the photos for the exhibition about the Vurberk castle held at one of the branch libraries at Duplek. The Tourist Association was interested in the digitisation of their collection. Our partnership was extended to the Ivan Potrč Library of Ptuj and the Maribor University Library. In 201046 photos of the castle and the sanatorium of pulmonary disease, which was located in the castle during the second war, were digitised together with 12 postcards dating at the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, and five older books about Vurberk. At first these items were accessible via dLib.si portal and later via the KAMRA portal, too. Although the Maribor City Library does not digitise such a large portion of library collection as other public libraries, it tries to cooperate in projects and ensure access to local history collections held by regional institutions. The partnership with the Maribor Regional Archive was to be established in 2012. A selection of materials of the former Tovarna avtomobilov Maribor (TAM) was planned to be digitised. The factory was the leading national truck manufacturer in the postwar period. However, it was ruined at the end of the 20th century. A lot of local families were related to the factory. Because of the actuality of the theme, it is hoped that the project will reach its primary goal to attract a wide range of people.

Carbon border adjustment, trade and climate governance. Issues for OPEC economies

The relation between the climate regulation and the multilateral trade regime is a rising issue in the field of international governance. This paper presents the options available to Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' economies related to this. It analyses the option of introducing a carbon tax or border adjustment measures in the core of the World Trade Organization (WTO) regime. It demonstrates that this option is not sustainable for both institutional and political economy reasons. This is why the paper argues that the way to build a climate-compatible trade regulation that takes into account oil-exporting countries' interests is to elaborate a cross-institutional cooperation between the WTO and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Cross-institutional cooperation on a shared bit repository

This paper explores how independent institutions, such as archives and libraries, can cooperate on managing a shared bit repository with bit preservation in order to use their resources for preservation in a more cost-effective way. It uses the OAIS Reference Model to provide a framework for systematically analysing the technical and organizational requirements of institutions for a remote bit repository. Instead of viewing a bit repository simply as Archival Storage for the institutions’ repositories, we argue for viewing it as consisting of a subset of functions from all entities defined by the OAIS Reference Model. The work is motivated by and used in a current Danish feasibility study for establishing a national bit repository. The study revealed that depending on their missions and the collections they hold, the institutions have varying requirements, such as for bit safety, accessibility, and confidentiality. This study further revealed that requirements for the level of bit safety must be supplemented by risk analysis, which needs to involve elements of the architecture; for example, the number of copies and how independence between the copies is ensured. The paper describes bit repository architecture and its strengths in being flexible in order to offer differentiated services with respect to, among other things, bit safety and cost. Furthermore, the challenges in formulating various aspects, such as risk requirements, are described.

Component meets service: what does the mongrel look like?

Computing with services has attracted much attention as a promising approach for developing distributed applications. The approach is often advertised as being superior to distributed component-based software engineering (CBSE), because it provides a higher potential to bridge heterogeneous IT application and infrastructure landscapes. It facilitates cross-institutional cooperation, lets services run over all kinds of ubiquitous communication infrastructure, scales better and simplifies legacy software integration. If this were absolutely true, there would be no reason for a consortium of major vendors of service and Java EE technology to come up with a new specification, called service component architecture (SCA). This emerging standard tries to leverage service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles with component-based software development techniques. In this article we discuss some commonalities and fundamental differences of the CBS and SOA worlds. We illustrate SCA briefly using snippets of an ongoing case study based on an e-university federation. Then we elaborate on the qualities and current deficits of SCA in the light of CBSE findings and related works.

Approaches to Accounting Research - Evidence from EAA Annual Congresses

This paper describes an ongoing empirical-archival meta-analysis of accounting research over the last 30 years. We investigate different aspects of research approaches documented in the abstracts of papers presented at EAA Annual Congresses. The project is organized in two distinct phases: In the first phase, we present evidence on basic variables like topics pursued, methods applied and other characteristics of accounting research (including co-authorships and international as well as cross-institutional cooperation), both in terms of their development over time and their differences across countries. We believe that the results of this exploratory analysis are likely to be relevant for other researchers, journal editors, practitioners (including standard setters and firms) and others interested in current research trends as well as the debates surrounding mainstream accounting research, the multi-paradigmatic nature of accounting research and the notion of globalization of accounting research. Motivated by recurring debates about the status of accounting as an (applied or pure) science and the raison d'?tre of prescriptive-normative (as opposed to descriptive-positive) research, the second phase uses content analyses of abstracts to infer authors' methodological approaches to accounting research (including research objectives and research world-views, or paradigms). Here also, we look at both the inter-temporal as well as cross-country dimensions. The second phase is expected to lend empirical substance to ever-recurring disputes about the scientific status of accounting and the underlying motivations of accounting researchers. Our data covers practically all EAA Annual Congresses throughout the EAA's history (1978-present), yielding about 10,000 abstracts of research papers in 20 topic areas, presented by delegates from more than 60 countries. This early version of our paper reflects the subset of this data that has already been analyzed. We present basic descriptive evidence from EAA Annual Congresses between 1998 und 2008 and put up for discussion initial results on our empirical measure of research objective pursued.

Experiences with an Interoperable Data Acquisition Platform for Multi-centric Research Networks Based on HL7 CDA

Today's increasing specialization of medicine necessitates the integration of telematic platforms for cross-institutional cooperation. In order to leverage the strengths of each cooperating institution a centralized unified storage using shared electronic patient records (EPRs) as well as secured remote data entry capabilities for supporting collaborative clinical research and care is essential. The objective of this project was to develop and introduce into routine use such a shared remote data entry (RDE) platform for the German multicentric Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) network. An existing telematic application was extended by a remote data entry (RDE) module enabling the storage of structured data and pedigrees. HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) was chosen as a suitable standardized storage format that provides flexibility and future interoperability. Flexible data entry forms adaptable to distinct medical domains were implemented using XML-based technologies. A flexible and comprehensive EPR/RDE platform was successfully implemented in the German EB network. A set of specific data entry forms was created to fully cover the network's documentation needs. The platform has been in productive use since 2005. Standardized documentation by using HL7 CDA to store the medical research data as an EPR can contribute to high interoperability and an easier integration of heterogeneous health care information systems. Existing XML technologies offer a high degree of flexibility and adaptability to distinct medical domains. The ongoing development of standards (e.g. HL7 CDA R2) and interfaces (CDA/CDISC bridge) could further improve semantic and syntactic interoperability.