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Non-Invasive Fetal Well-Being Monitoring Approaches: A Mini Review on Fetal Signal Separation Techniques

Fetal signal separation is vital in producing an accurate interpretation of the health condition of a fetal. In the context of a non-invasive fetal monitoring approach, the signals are acquired from the abdomen of pregnant women. As a result, a mix of maternal and fetal signals is obtained. These maternal and fetal signals are vague, as both signals are interchanged during the signal acquisition stage. Since the signals are overlapped, a signal separation technique must be employed to process the fetal signal for further analysis. This paper presents published studies on applying signal processing techniques involving fetal signal separation. These papers are obtained through a strategy known as the PRISMA technique. The online databases include ACM, Emerald Publishing, IEEE Explore Digital Library, Science Direct, Scopus, and Springer, with published years spanning from 2018 until 2022. Numerous separation techniques were found, such as adaptive filtering, blind source separation (BSS), and alternative approaches. Issues on the existing methods for fetal signal separation are discussed. In addition, the limitations and drawbacks of the research work involving existing fetal signal separation are reviewed in the paper. The potential direction of future research in this field is addressed as well. Based on this mini-review, it can be concluded that noise and ambiguity can still occur in the extracted fetal signals, even when signal processing techniques are applied. In the future, deep learning would be accommodating in improving the efficiency of extracting fetal signals obtained from the non-invasive fetal well-being monitoring technique. Meanwhile, apart from fetal heart rate (fHR) detection, fetal hypoxia can also be another important focus of study for improving fetal well-being monitoring.

Tea Fredriksson (2023) Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing

Sara Skott reviews Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution by Tea Fredriksson

Engaging diverse voices across sites of curriculum making in Australia: realities and possibilities

AbstractResearch to date has pointed out that during periods of curriculum reform, public debate gets politicised resulting in an over-emphasis on top-down approaches to curriculum making. As a group of curriculum inquiry researchers, we are concerned that teachers, students, school leaders and community organisations are often side-lined as integral curriculum actors in curriculum making processes. This paper challenges top-down, discipline-siloed conceptualisations of curriculum making by bringing together three separate curriculum projects, as illustrations, for the purpose of rendering diverse articulations of curriculum as a social process. We apply Priestley et al.’s (Priestley et al., Curriculum making in Europe: Policy and practice within and across diverse contexts, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021) sites of curriculum making as a conceptual frame, to articulate the diversity of curriculum making activities, curriculum actors and sites of curriculum making in primary and secondary settings. The three illustrations include examining how teachers and students participate in curriculum making about Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia at macro and meso sites; how listening to secondary students as curriculum actors allows them to contribute to shaping school History beyond the nano sites of the classroom and how community and arts-based approaches empower primary students to engage in nano curriculum making (e.g. Hannigan & Kelly, Hannigan and Kelly, Lin et al. Sinner et al. Irwin (eds), Community arts education: Transversal global perspectives, Intellect, 2023). By engaging a collaborative approach that uses illustrations to draw a complementary transdisciplinary picture of the realities and possibilities of curriculum making across different sites, this paper makes a novel methodological contribution to the field of curriculum inquiry.

ASPECTS OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HEALTH TOURISM

Tourism is considered as a powerful life force for economic and social development. The tourism sector stimulates economic growth both nationally and internationally, increasing employment and investment, with the export of services developing in both quantitative and qualitative terms. Tourism contributes to the preservation of cultural and natural heritage, it guarantees income which could be used to finance cultural heritage objects and infrastructures, promoting the overall perception of European identity and citizenship based on diversity and exceptionality (European Tourism Manifesto, 2022). In 2021, Lithuania Travel, a public enterprise, carried out research on the development of the tourism sector with the analysis of research findings provided by the expert group of the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) and the European Travel Commission (ETC). According to the research, the period of crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the severe restrictions applied to the tourism sector in all countries, which not only had short-term negative effects, but also changed travel traditions and habits (increased demand for nature and domestic tourism, health, hygienic conditions and safety considered as the most important criterion when choosing a travel destination), is also relevant as Lithuania needs to maximise its potential by creating an image of a safe country with high standards of hygiene. According to the above-mentioned research, the integration of innovations and technological novelties in the tourism sector was also emphasised. In the course of the development of the tourism industry, of which the segment of health tourism is a part, with the ambition not only to reach the quantitative rates of 2019, but even to exceed them, it is reasonable to assess the socio-economic impact. The aim of this article is – to present aspects of socio-economic impact of health tourism on sending and receiving countries. During the systematic review of the research literature, the search for research articles was carried out in the following databases: Cambridge Journals Online; EBSCO; Emerald Publishing; SAGE Journals Online; Science direct; Tylor&Francis etc. The research articles included in the systemic research review cover the period from 1999 to 2023. The methods of comparative analysis, synthesis, graphical presentation and generalisation were used to present the research results. The study assessed the socio-economic impact of health tourism in two areas: positive and negative impact on the countries that send and receive tourists. The analysis of the research literature carried out has shown that if the appropriate regulatory mechanism of health services is not ensured, as well as the appropriate and fair distribution of income from health tourism activities, it may be difficult for low-income social groups to receive timely health services. Therefore, during the development of the health tourism industry, special attention should be paid to ensuring equal access to health services for all social groups, as well as to the training of competent professionals working in health tourism organisations.

Inappropriate Use of Submission and Rejection Emails for Advertising Revision Services and Congresses

Finding a niche journal for the submission of an academic paper can sometimes be a challenge for authors, and finding the right choice may involve a series of submissions and rejections. Emails from editors and journals related to the submission or rejection of a paper should be strictly related to these purposes, i.e., to inform authors that their paper has been received, outline the subsequent editorial handling or peer reviewer steps in the former, or the reasons for rejection in the latter. This paper highlights four cases of - in the author’s opinion - the abuse of such emails by COPE member journals and publishers (Emerald Publishing Ltd., Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley) to advertise for-profit English revision and editing services and/or conferences, as a way to maximize these emails for a dual purpose, namely to inform authors of submission-related aspects (valid communication) while also trying to obtain clients and thus business for non-submission-related aspects (invalid communication). Since an abuse of email-based communication for non-academic purposes is an ethics-related matter, there is a need for systematic research of this potential abuse of emails from both COPE member and non-member journals.

Women in Corporate Governance in Banking: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract: 
 The vital players on the financial market in developing countries, banks, need strong corporate governance to ensure better performance and stability. This is the first study that investigates the impact of women in corporate governance in the banking industry and identifies research hotspots. The focus is on journal-published papers indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database. Descriptive analytics is used to show how papers are distributed in the observed period as well as by publisher, category in the WoS, and the most cited authors and papers. Content analysis is used to examine how women impact corporate governance in the banking industry. By mining the abstracts, research hotspots are identified for the entire examined period and for the last five years. In the last five years, 70.4% of papers have been published, indicating that researchers' interest in this area is growing. Emerald Publishing Group LTD is the top publisher, while the most cited authors are Berger, A.N., Kick, T., and Schaeck, K. The keywords "approach, responsibility, difference, institution, commitment, financial performance, and risk" were the most frequently used in the whole analyzed period, while in the last five years, the most commonly used keyword is "value". The positive impact of women in corporate governance prevails, especially on CRS disclosure data, bank performance, stability, and value. Our findings may serve as a starting point for further research for academics, researchers, and banking professionals, as well as for shareholders and regulatory bodies when composing the bank boards.

Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, A. Bingley, Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022. pp. 168. £65.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9781800717442

Sociology of Health & IllnessEarly View BOOK REVIEW Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By A. Bingley Pilnick, Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022. pp. 168. £65.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9781800717442 Avril Nicoll, Corresponding Author Avril Nicoll [email protected] Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Avril Nicoll, Corresponding Author Avril Nicoll [email protected] Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 20 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13677Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation

Funerary Practices in England and Wales. Julie Rugg-Brian Parsons 2018. Howard House: Emerald Publishing; Funerary Practices in the Netherlands Brenda Mathijssen, Claudia Venhorst 2019. Howard House: Emerald Publishing.

Funerary Practices in England and Wales. Julie Rugg-Brian Parsons 2018. Howard House: Emerald Publishing; Funerary Practices in the Netherlands Brenda Mathijssen, Claudia Venhorst 2019. Howard House: Emerald Publishing.

Donors: Curious connections in donor conception. By PetraNordqvist and LeahGilman, Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022. pp. 344. £23.00 (pbk); £23.00 (ebk). ISBN: 978‐1‐80043‐567‐4 (pbk)

Sociology of Health & IllnessEarly View BOOK REVIEW Donors: Curious connections in donor conception. By Petra Nordqvist and Leah Gilman, Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022. pp. 344. £23.00 (pbk); £23.00 (ebk). ISBN: 978-1-80043-567-4 (pbk) Rhonda M. Shaw, Corresponding Author Rhonda M. Shaw [email protected] Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandSearch for more papers by this author Rhonda M. Shaw, Corresponding Author Rhonda M. Shaw [email protected] Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandSearch for more papers by this author First published: 11 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13653Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation

Joslyn, Jacqueline. 2022. Conceptualizing and Modeling Relational Processes in Sociology: Introducing Disjointed Fluidity. Bingley: Emerald Publishing

Joslyn, Jacqueline. 2022. Conceptualizing and Modeling Relational Processes in Sociology: Introducing Disjointed Fluidity. Bingley: Emerald Publishing

THE FEASIBILITY OF RURAL TOURISM IN FOSTERING REAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN HOST COMMUNITIES

Although tourism is identified as a tool for development, it also leads to negative and detrimental impacts. Thus, a survey from the literature point of view is done to ensure that tourism is still available strategy for sustainable rural development.This paper uses four reliable databases, including Web of Science (WOS), Scopus, SAGE Publication, and Emerald Publishing, to look for prior investigations. Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) were employed as past investigations with a qualitative approach, and data were retrieved using the PRISMA protocol. To be a viable development strategy for rural areas, it is crucial to harmonize the local communities’ economies, social structures, cultures, environments, identities, and values. The key fundamental aspects to creating a sustainable rural tourism development model are also identified in this paper.The development of rural tourism is thought to have a significant impact on creating a sustainable socio-economic system. A well-planned and well-executed rural tourism strategy will inevitably lead to sustained rural development. Here, sustainability refers to improved quality of life, a strong economy, and environmental responsibility.

The impact of tableside ordering technologies on alcohol sales to the intoxicated.

The impact of tableside ordering technologies on alcohol sales to the intoxicated.

Creative Ageing and the Arts of Care. Reframing Active AgeingBy ElizabethBrooke, Bingley UK: Emerald Publishing, 2022. ISBN 978‐1‐83867‐436‐6 (hard cover) $274.25. ISBN 978‐1‐83867‐436‐9 (online) ISBN 978‐1‐83867‐436‐3 (Epub). https://www.bookdepository.com

Australasian Journal on AgeingVolume 42, Issue 1 p. 262-262 BOOK REVIEW Creative Ageing and the Arts of Care. Reframing Active AgeingBy Elizabeth Brooke, Bingley UK: Emerald Publishing, 2022. ISBN 978-1-83867-436-6 (hard cover) $274.25. ISBN 978-1-83867-436-9 (online) ISBN 978-1-83867-436-3 (Epub). https://www.bookdepository.com Susan Ogle, Corresponding Author Susan Ogle [email protected] Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSearch for more papers by this author Susan Ogle, Corresponding Author Susan Ogle [email protected] Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 30 March 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13183Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume42, Issue1March 2023Pages 262-262 RelatedInformation

Nestlé India Limited: comeback after the Maggi fiasco

Research methodology We have used data mostly from published sources like The Economic Times, Forbes, The Times of India and the annual reports of Nestlé India Ltd. Because we classify it as a Teaching Case Study as per the guidelines of Emerald Publishing, we have ensured that any data presented in the case has been acquired only from published sources and is not internal company data. Citations have also been provided wherever necessary. Case overview/synopsis On 6 June 2015, Nestlé India’s top product Maggi instant noodles was banned nationwide for an unspecified period. The ban was imposed due to allegations of Maggi containing high amounts of lead and message, and consequently violating the food safety standards. What followed was the destruction of massive stocks of Maggi which had been taken off from shelves of stores countrywide. Furthermore, the company faced a huge blow financially as its sales plummeted. This case delves into how Nestlé India adopted relevant strategies to successfully avert the Maggi crisis. Some remedial measures included appointing a Managing Director who understood the market, improving the communication channel and boosting the churn out of new products along with greater emphasis on marketing and advertising. Complexity academic level This case is aimed mainly at undergraduate level students in the field of management studies and public relations management. This case is also relevant for students pursuing a specialization in Crisis Communication, Public Relations, Marketing and Organizational Change.

Book Review: Digital Feudalism: Creators, Credit, Consumption, and Capitalism by David Arditi, 2023, Emerald Publishing

Book Review: Digital Feudalism: Creators, Credit, Consumption, and Capitalism by David Arditi, 2023, Emerald Publishing

A Review of Christina Weis, Surrogacy in Russia: An Ethnography of Reproductive Labour, Stratification and Migration. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021, 192 pp.

A monograph by medical anthropologist Christina Weis, researcher at the Center for Reproductive Research at De Montfort University (United Kingdom), published in the Emerald Studies In Reproduction, Culture and Society series, is devoted to commercial surrogacy in contemporary Russia. This ethnographic study, based on extensive and diverse fieldwork, includes the author’s reflections, methodological decisions, emotions, and difficulties that accompanied her in the process of data collection. The author shows that surrogacy relationships in Russia are constructed as purely economic, in which social hierarchies are reproduced. Surrogacy is associated with physical and emotional work performed by women and putting their lives at risk.

ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ERA SOCIETY 5.0

Technology has changed most of human life, but with the ease with which it is obtained in social interaction, there is a need for limitations in the use of technology. Most of the interactions today have been connected through technological sophistication so that there is no limit to the time and distance to be able to communicate. However, there are impacts that need to be studied more deeply regarding technology in interpersonal life, such as the emergence of mental and psychological illnesses that result in social inequality. Therefore, the purpose of writing this article is to determine the role and impact of technology on interpersonal relationships in the era of society 5.0. The method in writing this article from the results of the identified journal collection was then analyzed and described in the results of qualitative discussion using literature review technique. articles obtained from Google Scolar and Emerald publishing search engines from national and international journals. It can be concluded that current communication technology makes it easier for humans to interact socially and is able to meet individual interpersonal needs, but of course with limitations and in accordance with the norms prevailing in society.

Gender representation on the editorial boards of Library and Information Science journals

PurposeThis paper aims to determine the gender composition of journal editorial boards in the field of library and information science and to identify trends in the gender composition of different editorial roles and the country of affiliation and occupation of people fulfilling these roles.Design/methodology/approachIn an analysis of 13 selected Library Information Science journals published by the Emerald Publishing group, data relating to 549 editors and editorial board members were obtained from the Open Editors online database. Data were assessed by role, gender, country and continent of their affiliation, and occupation.FindingsWomen were found to be under-represented as editors and editorial board members in 10 of the 13 journals. This was most evident in the highest-ranking role of editor or editor-in-chief. The majority of editors and editorial board members were from English-speaking countries located in Europe and the Americas, followed by Asia. The vast majority of editorial personnel belonged to the teaching and learning profession, with relatively few support staff, or researchers taking on these roles.Originality/valueThe findings of this study highlight the gender inequality in prestigious and career-advancing academic roles across multiple research areas. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no such research has yet been conducted in the field of library and information science.

When the Screen Retracts.

Susan J. Sample is the writer-in-residence at Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, in Salt Lake City, where she works with patients, family members, nurses, physicians, and social workers writing about their experiences. Her poetry has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, JAMA, and the Journal of Clinical Oncology, among others. She is the author of Voices of Teenage Transplant Survivors: Miracle-Like (Emerald Publishing, 2021), and two chapbooks, Terrible Grace and Some Unsayable Blue (Finishing Line Press, 2011 and 2019). “When the Screen Retracts” © 2022 by Susan J. Sample. Contact author: [email protected]. Art of Nursing is coordinated by Diane Szulecki, editor: [email protected].

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