Current Evaluation System Research Articles

Development and validation of immune inflammation-based index for predicting the clinical outcome in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Inflammation indicators, such as systemic inflammation response index (SIRI), systemic immune‐inflammation index (SII), neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet‐lymphocyte ratio (PLR), are associated with poor prognosis in various solid cancers. In this study, we investigated the predictive value of these inflammation indicators in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). This retrospective study involved 559 patients with NPC and 500 patients with chronic rhinitis, and 255 NPC patients were followed up successfully. Continuous variables and qualitative variables were measured by t test and chi‐square test, respectively. The optimal cut‐off values of various inflammation indicators were determined by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Moreover, the diagnostic value for NPC was decided by the area under the curves (AUCs). The Kaplan‐Meier methods and the log‐rank test were used to analyse overall survival (OS) and disease‐free survival (DFS). The independent prognostic risk factors for survival and influencing factors of side effects after treatment were analysed by Cox and logistic regression analysis, respectively. Most haematological indexes of NPC and rhinitis were significantly different between the two groups, and PLR was optimal predictive indicators of diagnosis. In the multivariable Cox regression analysis, PLR, WBC, RDW, M stage and age were independent prognostic risk factors. Many inflammation indicators that affected various side effects were evaluated by logistic regression analysis. In conclusion, the combined inflammation indicators were superior to single haematological indicator in the diagnosis and prognosis of NPC. These inflammation indicators can be used to supply the current evaluation system of the TNM staging system to help predict the prognosis in NPC patients.

The importance of amylase action in the porcine stomach to starch digestion kinetics

Starch digestion in the proximal small intestine of pigs exceeds in vitro predictions, suggesting a currently underestimated role for the stomach in starch digestion kinetics. This study aimed to investigate the role of amylase action in the porcine stomach on starch digestion kinetics, including hydrolysis by porcine saliva and degradation by bacterial enzymes present in the stomach. We studied the hydrolysis of starch in pigs fed barley based diets, in which starch was included as isolated powder, ground barley, or extruded barley. We identified soluble maltodextrins originating from starch breakdown in stomach digesta, especially in pigs fed extruded barley. Furthermore, we observed bacterial cells embedded in granular starch with electron microscopy, for pigs fed diets containing isolated barley starch. These observations lead us to measure starch hydrolysis in a dynamic stomach model over the course of a 225 min incubation, in which the pH was step-wise decreased from 6.5 to 2.0. Using this method, feed was either exposed to an enzyme extract obtained from stomach digesta or to porcine saliva. Up to 30 % of starch was hydrolysed into maltodextrins with a degree of polymerisation (DP) <6 when starch was incubated with the enzyme extract obtained from the stomach. Under the same conditions, saliva amylase, with an optimum pH around 7.8, hydrolysed up to 10 % of processed starch into maltodextrins with DP < 6. We conclude that a substantial part of starch may be degraded into oligomers in the porcine stomach by both salivary and bacterial amylases. This implies a considerable role for the stomach on starch digestion kinetics, which is overlooked in current feed evaluation systems.

국가연구개발사업의 군사적 기원

This paper examines the continuity between the weapons development management system in the 1970s and the national research and development (R&D) programs in the 1980s in South Korea. In the 1970s, the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) carried out a series of weapons development programs, adopting standardized procedures for planning, managing, and evaluating projects from the United States Department of Defense. After the establishment of the Fifth Republic of Korea, former weapons developers launched the “Special R&D Program (Teukjeong yeon-gugaebal saeop),” modeled on the weapons development system of the ADD, and the program was followed by the national R&D programs of other ministries. By examining the process by which the Special R&D Program was established, this paper will argue that the current planning, management, and evaluation system of national R&D programs inherits the weapons development management system of the ADD.

Better integrating summative and formative goals in the design of next generation teacher evaluation systems

In current teacher evaluation systems, the two main purposes of evaluation—accountability/goal accomplishment (summative) and professional growth/improvement (formative)—are often at odds with one another. However, they are not only compatible, but linking them within a unified teacher evaluation system may, in fact, be desirable. The challenge of the next generation of teacher evaluation systems will be to better integrate these two purposes in policy and practice. In this paper, we integrate the frameworks of Self-determination theory and Stronge’s Improvement-Oriented Model for Performance Evaluation. We use this integrated framework to critically examine teacher evaluation policy in Hawaii and Washington, D.C.—two distinctly different approaches to teacher evaluation—for the purposes of identifying a set of clear recommendations for improving the design and implementation of teacher evaluation policy moving forward.

A Study to Improve the Rationality of the Performance Evaluation for Public Enterprise: The Case of the Public Culture and Arts Authority

이 연구는 문체부 소관 기타공공기관 및 단체의 경영실적 평가에 대한 분석을 통해 각 부처 소관 기타공공기관의 특성을 반영하는 방안을 모색하고자 하였다. 이를 위해서 경영평가 대상 기타공공기관의 업무담당자와 평가위원들을 대상으로 설문조사를 수행하였다. 그 결과 다음과 같은 몇 가지 시사점을 도출하였다. 첫째, 피평가기관과 평가위원은 경영평가의 필요성에 대한 인식은 높으나, 현재 경영평가체계가 문화, 예술, 체육의 특성을 제대로 반영하고 있지 못하는 것으로 인식하고 있었다. 둘째, 피평가기관과 평가위원은 세부지표별로 표준모형기관, 약식모형기관 및 평가위원의 필요성 인식이 상이해, 세부 착안사항들이 표준모형과 약식모형의 차이를 반영하고 있지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 피평가기관은 평가위원의 전문성과 평가과정에 대한 만족도 및 경영평가 결과보고서의 기여도는 높게 인식하였으며, 컨설팅과 성과급에 대한 수요가 높았다. 정책적 함의로는 먼저, 약식모델기관들의 경영평가 담당자와 기관장의 눈높이에 걸맞는 교육을 강화할 필요가 있다. 다음으로, 문화, 예술, 체육에 대한 주요사업의 특성 반영 또는 기관의 특성을 반영하는 평가체계를 설계할 필요가 있으며, 특히 정성적 평가를 강화하는 방안에 대한 검토가 필요하다. 또한 세부지표들에 대한 피평가기관과 평가위원 진단을 통해 지표 개선을 해 나가야 할 것이다. 마지막으로, 평가결과 활용과 관련해서 컨설팅 기능의 강화 및 동기부여를 할 수 있는 방안을 마련해야 할 것이다.The purpose of this study is to find a way to reflect the characteristics of the other public institutions in each department through analysis of the management performance of other public institutions and organizations under the Ministry of Culture. To this end, a questionnaire was conducted for the managers and evaluators of other public institutions subject to management evaluation. First, although the evaluating agency and the evaluator had a high awareness of the necessity of management evaluation, they recognized that the current management evaluation system does not properly reflect the characteristics of culture, arts and sports. Second, the evaluating agencies and evaluators differed in recognition of the necessity of the standard model organ, the informal model organ and the evaluator according to the detailed indicators. Third, the evaluating agency recognized the appraisers satisfaction with the professionalism and evaluation process and the contribution of the management evaluation result report, and the demand for consulting and performance pay was high. The policy implications first need to reinforce the training that is appropriate for the level of management evaluation officers and directors of informal model agencies. Next, it is necessary to design an evaluation system that reflects the characteristics of the main projects for the culture, arts, and sports, or reflects the characteristics of the institutions.

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Research of the Assessment System Based on C2C Website

In this paper, in order to evaluate the taobao’s books credit, it analyses the current situation and loopholes in the current credit evaluation system of credit evaluation system, and points out the future development trend and innovation; finally, combining with the case, puts forward the countermeasures and suggestions of the development of credit system in china.

Evaluation of green and sustainable building project based on extension matter‐element theory in smart city application

AbstractThe postoccupancy performance and operation management level of green building largely determines the overall sustainability level of green buildings. It is necessary to evaluate the degree of success of green buildings in the operation stage to ensure the implementation effect of the whole life cycle. However, the current green building evaluation system is incomplete, and the research on the degree of success evaluation of green buildings is very lacking. It is necessary to establish a scientific and effective evaluation index system to evaluate the degree of success of green buildings. This article applies the extension matter‐element theory and entropy method to evaluate the degree of success of green building projects, taking a green building project in Nanchang as an example, and seven experts were invited to score and evaluate the project's degree of success by calculating the relevance degree of each evaluation index. The results show that this green building's degree of success emerged as at level II, that is, the “generally successful” level, and each first‐level indicator, respectively, lay at level III, level II, level II, and level II. The case study proves that the evaluation method of green building determined in this article is scientific and reliable.

Genome-wide identification of FHL1 as a powerful prognostic candidate and potential therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukaemia.

BackgroundAcute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is a malignant haematological tumour with high heterogeneity and mortality. A reliable prognostic assessment is critical for treatment strategies. However, the current prognostic evaluation system of AML is insufficient.MethodsGenome-wide univariate Cox regression analysis was performed on three independent AML datasets to screen for the prognostic-related genes. Kaplan–Meier survival analysis was employed to verify the efficacy of FHL1 in evaluating overall survival in 1298 de novo AML patients, 648 non-acute promyelocytic leukaemia AML patients and 407 cytogenetically normal AML patients; the data for some of these patients were also used for EFS and RFS validation. Multivariate Cox regression was performed to validate FHL1 as an independent prognostic indicator. WGCNA, GSEA, and gene correlation analysis were applied to explore the mechanism of FHL1 in AML. The synergistic cytocidal effect of FHL1 knockdown was verified in in vitro experiments.FindingsComprehensive genome-wide analyses and large-sample validation showed that FHL1 is a powerful prognostic candidate for overall survival, event-free survival, and relapse-free survival in AML and is independent of prognosis-related clinical factors and genetic abnormalities. The molecular mechanism may occur through regulation of FHL1 in leukaemia stem cells, tumour-associated signalling pathways, and transmembrane transport of chemotherapeutic drugs. FHL1-targeted intervention enhances the sensitivity of AML cells to cytarabine.InterpretationFHL1 may serve as an evaluation factor for clinical strategy selection, and its targeted intervention may be beneficial for chemotherapy in AML patients.

Company and State Performance in Key Enabling Technologies — Case Study of Nanotechnology Industry

The so-called Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) are high-tech and promising technologies that are expected to significantly contribute to solving the societal and environmental challenges, which modern European society is facing. Thus, European Commission significantly supports the innovations relating to KETs. Focusing at one of KETs — nanotechnology, the aim of the paper is to present current complex evaluation system of KETs based on technology indicators and applying it at specific use case of moderate and lead nanotechnology-performing countries. Furthermore, the two-dimensional (technology and economic) assessment of the nanotechnology-performing companies in each country is done in order to support the KETs evaluation results. The quantitative and qualitative data of secondary research by various open databases are used. Finally, the necessity of complex evaluation of KETs implementation applying principles of the sustainable development and technology dimension is addressed.

Highly identification of keemun black tea rank based on cognitive spectroscopy: Near infrared spectroscopy combined with feature variable selection.

From the perspective of combating fraud issues and examining keemun black tea properties, there was a contemporary urgent demand for a keemun black tea rankings identification system. Current rapid evaluation systems had been mainly developed for green tea grade evaluation, but there was space for improvement to establish a highly robust model. The present study proposed cognitive spectroscopy that combined near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) with multivariate calibration and feature variable selection methods. We defined "cognitive spectroscopy" as a protocol that selects characteristic information from complex spectral data and showed optimal results without human intervention. 700 samples representing keemun black tea from seven quality levels were scanned applying an NIR sensor. To differentiate which wavelength variables of the acquired NIRS data carry key and feature information regarding keemun black tea grades, there were four different variables screening approaches, namely genetic algorithm (GA), successive projections algorithm (SPA), competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), and shuffled frog leaping algorithm (SFLA), were compared in this study. Cognitive models were developed using least squares support vector machine (LSSVM), back propagation neural network (BPNN) and random forest (RF) methods combined with the optimized characteristic variables from the above variables selection algorithms for the identification of keemun black tea rank quality. Experimental results showed that all cognitive models utilizing the SFLA approach achieved steady predictive results based on eight latent variables and selected thirteen characteristic wavelength variables. The CARS-LSSVM model with the best predictive performance was proposed based on selecting ten characteristic latent variables, and the best performance indicators of the model were as follows: the root mean square error of prediction (RMSEP) was 0.0413, the correlation coefficients of prediction set (Rp) was 0.9884, and the correct discriminant rate (CDR) was 99.01% in the validation process. This study demonstrated that cognitive spectroscopy represented a proper strategy for the highly identification of quality rankings of keemun black tea.

广西滨海湿地类自然保护区管理成效评估体系构建及应用

PDF HTML阅读 XML下载 导出引用 引用提醒 广西滨海湿地类自然保护区管理成效评估体系构建及应用 DOI: 10.5846/stxb201901070056 作者: 作者单位: 作者简介: 通讯作者: 中图分类号: 基金项目: 国家重点研发计划（2017YFC0506104）；广西自然科学基金项目（2018GXNSFBA281068）；广西自然科学基金项目（2016GXNSFBA380228） Establishment and application of an evaluation system for the effectiveness of coastal wetland nature reserves management in Guangxi Author: Affiliation: Fund Project: National key research and development plan（2017YFC0506104）；Guangxi Natural Science Foundation Project（2018GXNSFBA281068）；Guangxi Natural Science Foundation Project（2016GXNSFBA380228） 摘要 | 图/表 | 访问统计 | 参考文献 | 相似文献 | 引证文献 | 资源附件 | 文章评论 摘要:海洋保护区事业正处于从"重面积、重数量"向"重建设、重成效"转型的重要阶段，海洋保护区，特别是滨海湿地类保护区的管理有效性评估引起了国内外生态学家的广泛关注。根据现有评估体系中存在问题，结合广西滨海湿地类自然保护区建设及发展特点，构建了"管理机制-管理基础-管理行为-管理成效"的评估框架，通过专家咨询法、层次分析法设置形成包含4个评估要素，19个评估指标以及6个附加指标在内的评估体系。本评估体系综合考虑了保护区管理工作的产出效益，包括管控成效、生态成效和社会经济成效，在指标设计时突出了保护区的生境特点，管理人员以及社会公众的保护意愿，采用分级分值制量化指标，根据长期有效数据开展评估，适用于监测业务完善的滨海湿地类型保护区。另外，选择北仑河口国家级自然保护区进行实例验证，评估结果表明：（1）保护区指标评估分值总和78分，附加3分，综合评估分值81分，管理级别Ⅱ级，保护区管理成效良好；（2）各要素得分占比情况为：C管理行为（100%） > A管理机制（90%） > B管理基础（87%） > D管理成效（65%）。评估指标级别占比情况为：Ⅰ级（53%） > Ⅱ级（21%） > Ⅲ级（16%） > Ⅳ级（11%）；（3）3类管理成效得分占比情况为：D2管控成效（97%） > D1生态成效（60%） > D3社会经济成效（35%）。通过分析可知，保护区管理面临主要问题包括技术能力不足、人才队伍建设薄弱、人为干扰多样等。建议保护区应加强能力建设和管控力度，推行社区共管，并关注红树林以外的其他生态系统的保护，促进区域可持续发展。 Abstract:The development of marine protected areas faces an important transformation. It no longer emphasizes area and quantity but greater attention is paid to construction and effectiveness. Thus, marine protected area management is under tremendous pressure. As an important means to evaluate the degree of realization of protected area management objectives, management effectiveness evaluation of marine protected areas, especially coastal wetland protected areas, has recently received attention from ecologists at home and abroad. Relevant theoretical research and research on methods of construction and application practices have been conducted successfully. At present, most of the assessments of marine protected areas in China draw on mature foreign systems, failing to fully consider the special characteristics of the local oceanic environment, and related domestic research that still needs to be implemented. Based on the problems existing in the current evaluation system and the characteristics of construction and development in the Guangxi coastal wetland nature reserve, the evaluation framework of "management mechanism-management foundation-management behavior-management effectiveness" was developed, and an indicator system was designed using consultation methods and an analytic hierarchy process (AHP), including 4 elements, 19 assessment indicators, and 6 additional indicators. The following four are characteristics of this assessment system:(1) Unlike administrative supervision and inspection, the various output benefits of the protected area management system were considered comprehensively and included control, ecological, social, and economic effectiveness. (2) The indicator design takes into account the habitat characteristics of the coastal wetland nature reserve and the willingness of managers and the public to protect it. (3) To minimize the influence of subjective factors, quantitative work, such as weight setting, grading assignment, and percent distribution, was applied to the indicator system. (4) Assessment of indicators, such as changes in ecological environment quality and landscape, in protected areas requires long-term effective statistical data. This evaluation system is applicable to the coastal wetland type protected areas system with effective monitoring. Finally, the national nature reserve of Guangxi Beilun estuary was used as a research area for verification of the evaluation system. The evaluation results showed that (1) the case area evaluation index score was 78 points with an additional 3 points, for a comprehensive evaluation score of 81 points, and its management level was level II, indicating that the protection management achieved good results. (2) The score ratio of each factor was ranked as follows:C Management Behavior (100%) > A Management Mechanism (90%) > B Management Foundation (87%) > D Management Effectiveness (65%), and the proportion of the number of evaluation indicators at all levels was I (53%) > II (21.05%) > III (16%) > IV (11%). (3) The score ratio of the 3 types of management effectiveness was D2 Control effectiveness (97%) > D1 Ecological effectiveness (60%) > D3 Social and economic effectiveness (35%), thus, indicating that the ecological effectiveness of the case area was generally good, although the social and economic effectiveness was poor. Based on this analysis, the main problems faced by case area management were discovered and included insufficient technical capabilities, weak talent team building, and diverse human intervention. We recommend that protected areas should strengthen capacity building and control, strengthen public awareness, promote community co-management, pay attention to the protection of ecosystems other than mangroves, and promote regional sustainable development. 参考文献 相似文献 引证文献

Availability of a novel cardiotoxicity evaluation system using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived atrial-like myocytes

It is reported that the incidence of atrial arrhythmias has been increasing year by year and it might increase from now on. Although not only aging but pharmaceutical drug treatments might relate to atrial arrhythmias, experimental method to detect drug-induced atrial arrhythmias has not been established so far. Therefore, we induced differentiation of atrial-like cardiomyocytes from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell, and clarified their characteristics and verified their dug responsiveness. Atrial-like cardiomyocytes were induced by adding retinoic acid (RA) during the process of myocardial differentiation, and their character was compared to RA-untreated cardiomyocytes. In gene expression and membrane potential analysis, it was confirmed that the cells with or without RA treatment have the characters of atrial or ventricular like cardiomyocytes, respectively. In addition, it was also confirmed that atrial-like cardiomyocytes induced reentry-like conduction disorder, which is atrial arrhythmias. Furthermore, as a result of examining the responsiveness of various ion channel inhibitors using these cells, the inhibition of ultra-rapid delayed rectifier potassium current (IKur) specifically existed in atrial muscle induced prolongation of PWD30cF (membrane potential duration at 30% depolarization corrected by Fridericia formula) only in atrial-like cardiomyocytes. In addition, ventricular-like cardiomyocytes alone exhibited an early after depolarization by treatment of rapid rectifier potassium current (IKr) inhibitor which induced ventricular arrhythmia in clinical situation. Based on above evidences, current evaluation systems using human iPS cell-derived atrial-like cardiomyocytes might be a valuable tool for drug-induced atrial arrhythmias.

Feed intake patterns nor growth rates of pigs are affected by dietary resistant starch, despite marked differences in digestion

Current feed evaluation systems often assume that fermented starch (i.e. resistant starch (RS)) yields less energy than digested starch. However, growth rates of pigs fed low and high RS diets are often the same when feed is available ad libitum. This may be explained by its effect on digestive processes changing feeding behavior, and consequently energy utilization. This study aims to investigate the effect of RS on nutrient digestion and digesta passage rate in pigs, in combination with its effect on feeding behavior and growth performance under ad libitum conditions. In experiment 1, 20 male pigs (40 ± 2.82 kg) were fed diets containing either 50% waxy maize starch (low in RS (LRS)) or high-amylose maize starch (high in RS (HRS)), and soluble and insoluble indigestible markers. After 14 days of adaptation to the diets, pigs were fed hourly to reach steady state (6 h), dissected, and digesta were collected from eight segments. From the collected samples, nutrient digestion and passage rate of the solid and liquid digesta fraction were determined. In experiment 2, 288 pigs (80 ± 0.48 kg; sex ratio per pen 1 : 1; boar : gilt) were housed in groups of 6. Pigs were ad libitum-fed one of the experimental diets, and slaughtered at approximately 115 kg. Feed intake, growth and carcass parameters were measured. Ileal starch digestibility was greater for LRS-fed than for HRS-fed pigs (98.0% v. 74.0%; P < 0.001), where the additional undigested starch in HRS-fed pigs was fermented in the large intestine. No effects of RS on digesta passage rate of the solid or liquid digesta fraction and on feeding behavior were observed. Growth rate and feed intake did not differ between diets, whereas feed efficiency of HRS-fed pigs was 1%-unit higher than that of LRS-fed pigs (P = 0.041). The efficiency of feed used for carcass gain did not differ between diets indicating that the difference in feed efficiency was determined by the non-carcass fraction. Despite a 30% greater RS intake (of total starch) with HRS than with LRS, carcass gain and feed efficiency used for carcass gain were unaffected. RS did not affect digesta passage rate nor feeding behavior suggesting that the difference in energy intake between fermented and digested starch is compensated for post-absorptively. Our results indicate that the net energy value of fermented starch currently used in pig feed evaluation systems is underestimated and should be reconsidered.

BEMPAS: A Decentralized Employee Performance Assessment System Based on Blockchain for Smart City Governance

In recent years, the use of blockchain has gained attention in industrial interventions and research. Blockchain technologies can be particularly utilized in the domain of Smart Governance, which is a critical component of Smart Cities. Smart Governance aims to ensure smarter decision making, openness and collaborative participation of all entities involved as well as help minimize resource usage, reduce consumption and save cost. Smart Governance involves putting in place systems for monitoring and evaluating the performance of government workers. However, government workers lack trust in these systems because they are mostly centralized systems which are prone to single-point of failure problems and also data fed into these systems can be tampered with by the higher-ups or employers to favour individual workers. With these problems, there is a need for a decentralized system that can ensure trust, tamper-resistance, accountability, reliability, transparency and security. In this paper, we propose a decentralized employee evaluation system based on blockchain. We utilized a 3-chain model, namely; ID-Chain, Behavior Chain and Credit Chain fused to make a single unified chain. Our system also makes use of an automated game-based employee evaluation approach. Our system is based on Hyperledger Fabric as the blockchain platform and operating mechanism. Our Proof of Concept (PoC) results shows that in utilizing the Blockchain system, security concerns such as trust, privacy, accountability, among others, that are present in current employee performance evaluation systems are tackled and also in the adoption of the game-based automated system, our system can make an effective decision regarding employee performance. Our system achieves trust, transparency, security and accountability among government workers under a Smart City governing environment.

China's Corporate Governance Development and ESG Evaluation

As the past few decades have seen China become the world’s second-largest economy and Chinese multinationals take leading roles in various sectors, China’s corporate governance (CG) has evolved and brought about new methods of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) evaluation. This paper examines China’s CG development status through case studies of notable China companies, looks at current Chinese ESG evaluation systems designed by MSCI and local Chinese institutes, and suggests four unique factors that should be integrated into future Chinese ESG evaluation system development. This is the first of a series of papers by Lyndsey Zhang that reviews current Chinese CG development and ESG implementation, identifies opportunities and challenges through case studies, and suggests areas for improvement for Chinese companies looking to accomplish the following: become more sustainable by increasing focus on corporate purpose and ESG considerations, and position themselves as industrial leaders in both the emerging market and global economy in the next few decades. This series also looks at other emerging market countries’ economic development and CG models, and explores how China’ success can be replicated by other emerging market countries to facilitate their economic growth and CG development.

A Proposal for updating the Aeronautic enlisted men’s evaluating performance instrument based on the perceptions of senior and warrant officers

Goal: identify the key competencies, in the perception of the senior officers and the warrant officers of the Air Force, necessary for the enlisted men to perform their functions and subject to consideration for updating the existing performance evaluation instrument.&#x0D; Methodology: preliminarily, a documentary and bibliographic research was carried out, capable of supporting the construction of a questionnaire, which was answered by 674 senior officers and 727 warrant officers belonging to the research target audience. Data were analyzed using centrality and dispersion parameters, also considering Pearson's coefficient of variation.&#x0D; Results: 29 competencies could be identified as being the main key competencies, highlighting those related to the alignment with military precepts.&#x0D; Limitations: it is possible to obtain a large amount of data using questionnaire, but the method does not allow to deepen the structure and processes that involve the questions asked. Also, distortions can occur caused by the subjectivity present in the respondents' perception.&#x0D; Practical implications: the results proved to be a proposal to updating the current performance evaluation system for enlisted men.&#x0D; Value: the value of this research is its contribution to a better performance evaluation system for the Brazilian Air Force enlisted men.&#x0D; Key Words: Competencies survey; Performance evaluation; Military promotion; Professional development.

An artificial intelligence data mining technology based evaluation model of education on political and ideological strategy of students

The student’s political and ideological practices is a vital portion of education, and it is related to optimization of task based on fundamental scenario in establishing morality. In order to establish a scientific, reasonable and operable evaluation model for students’ ideological education, and evaluate the status of college students’ ideological education. In this paper, firstly, in view of the shortcomings of evaluation objectives, single evaluation methods, lack of pertinence of evaluation indicators and subjectivity of evaluation standards in the current evaluation system of university students’ ideological and political education, the basic principles for constructing evaluation models of university students’ ideological and political education are put forward. Secondly, in case to meet changing needs of the times, an artificial neural network algorithm based on artificial intelligence data mining and a traditional multi-layer fuzzy evaluation model are designed to evaluate the ideological and political education of college students. This newly proposed model integrates learning, association, recognition, self-adaptive and fuzzy information processing, and at the same time, it overcomes their respective shortcomings. Finally, an example analysis is carried out with a nearby university as an example. The evaluation results display that the evaluation model of students’ ideological education established in this paper is in good agreement with the previous evaluation results. It fully shows that the comprehensive evaluation model of fuzzy neural network for college students’ ideological and political education established in this paper is scientific and effective.

The Academic Copyright in the Age of Commodification of Scientific Research

There is a large stream of literature related to academic copyright. Nonetheless, a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the interplay between economic rights and moral right of paternity appears to be missing. Furthermore, the impact of commodification of research on academic copyright has not been sufficiently investigated. The basic thesis of this article is that academic copyright with reference to academic texts is currently going through a distortion that alters its nature and functions. This distortion is one of the effects of commodification of scientific research. This paper dwells on these aspects with a focus on the role of modern science and the context in which research is performed and highlights the perverse effects of the current evaluation system based on metrics and numbers and the scientific publishing system dominated by an oligopoly of information and analytics providers. Open Science can represent a tool to defend independence of science and academic freedom, though strong actions are required to change the current situation.

Research on Evaluation System of Green Residential Buildings in Cold Areas of Sichuan

With regard to the rapid growth of China’s building area and the increasing energy consumption of buildings, green buildings have become an important issue for balancing economic development and environmental impact. However, the current evaluation systems for various types of green buildings are often unable to achieve a set of standards in practice due to the distinct regional characteristics of each region. Therefore, in view of the regional characteristics of the climate, terrain, ecology, and economic development in the cold regions of Sichuan, it is important to study the evaluation system of green residential buildings suitable for the cold regions of Sichuan. This article focuses on the regional characteristics of climate, topography, ecology, and economic development in the cold regions of Sichuan, and discusses the limitations of the current standards on the practice of green building in cold regions of Sichuan through a sociological questionnaire survey on the comfort of living in the local population. Then from the two dimensions of the advantages of traditional houses and the particularity of national culture, the strategies for the optimization and improvement of the evaluation index system for green residential buildings in the cold regions of Sichuan were proposed. After comprehensively considering the factors that affect the green residential buildings, including the regional characteristics of the cold regions of Sichuan, and the green performance of buildings, local characteristics and ethnic features were included in the evaluation system. The evaluation index system of green residential buildings in the cold regions of Sichuan, consists of 92 three-level indicators. A professional hierarchical analysis software yaahp was used to establish a multi-level hierarchical model between the indicators, and the indicators were compared with each other layer by layer to clarify the importance of the indicators. Based on this, a judgment matrix for each layer was constructed and obtained. The weight of each indicator is accurate, and the scoring mechanism and grading standards are constructed according to it. Through the calculation, the consistency test of the entire model was passed, thereby confirming the scientificity and rationality of the entire evaluation system.