End Goal Research Articles

Interaction Design of ITB Library Application Using User-Centered Design

The Technical Implementation Unit is a part of a university or institute that supports the three pillars of higher education, one of which is the library. Library has a large collection of resources that can be accessed through a library catalog. ITB Library is a mobile application that allows users to search catalogs, but it currently lacks optimal appearance and user experience. The aim of this final project is to improve the ITB Library by implementing a user-centered design approach, which focuses on understanding and addressing user needs. The end goal is to create a high-fidelity prototype that meets the usability goals of effective to use, have good utility, easy to learn, and the user experience goal of being helpful. To evaluate the design, usability testing was conducted on the prototype. Testing was evaluated using several metrics, including task completion rate (100%), System Usability Scale (SUS) (93/100), Single Ease Question (SEQ) (6.7/7), and Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) (6.7/7 for the value/usefulness subscale) during the third iteration. Based on the results of the testing, the interaction design of the ITB Library meets the usability and user experience goals that were set out to be achieved.

The Modern Paradigm of Socio-Economic Development: What It Should Be!

Purpose. The main purpose of the article is to inform the scientific community about the results of their own macroeconomic research, and about what paradigm should be adopted at the present time for the effective socio-economic development of the state. Methodology. A critical analysis of publications devoted to the further improvement of economic theory and the transition to new paradigms has been carried out. When developing our own socio-economic paradigm, a methodological approach was used, according to which the development of man and society is the main goal of planetary evolution, and the economy is just an auxiliary sphere that ensures this development. The most suitable methodology for the creation of an economic «mechanism» is the methodology of engineering activity, which has long proven itself well in the creation of new technologies and equipment in industry. Findings. There is no consensus in the economic community about the further development of economic theory and the choice of a new development paradigm. All paradigms that are based on a «profitable» ideology and cannot avoid crises are unacceptable. A socio-economic paradigm can only be called such scientific achievements that will allow creating a reliable anti-crisis macroeconomic «mechanism». Paradigms in the humanities must differ from paradigms in the physical sciences in that they must show the end goal to be pursued. Originality. A completely new model of the socio-economic development of the state is proposed, which has no analogues in world practice, and on its basis – a new socio-economic paradigm. The main principles that should be the basis for the functioning of a highly efficient macroeconomic «mechanism» are described. The most important principle of the new economic model is the rejection of the pseudo-scientific category of «profits,» which constantly pushes the economy towards crises. Practical value. The introduction of this model in Ukraine alone will allow at the initial stage to obtain an economic effect of more than one trillion hryvnia per year, and the consequences of the social effect can be much greater.

DISASTER IN SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Various quite extreme natural disasters have hit various parts of the world this year. Starting from America, China, Indonesia to Greece and Spain. Even Al Jazeraa re-wrote the list of disasters that occurred in a long list in early November, 2021. There has been a change in the orientation of disaster studies in the last decade, if initially discussing more technical issues about disaster triggering events and handling disaster victims, an approach that emphasizes more on human and community approach. In this study, trying to provide an overview of the sociological perspective of disaster management, which discusses the diversity of understanding, responses and patterns of local communities in dealing with disasters as well as understanding, responses and patterns of external actors or organizations in disaster management. Disaster planning and preparedness activities are a continuous learning process, not an end goal. The sociological perspective is not just knowledge, but must be a guide in the preparation of programs of activities, priorities, and strategies for implementing sustainable disaster management.
 
 Keywords: Disaster, Sociological Perspective, Disaster Management

The APE lecture: Life in a liminal space; Or, the journey shapes the destination

This paper is based on a presentation at the APE 2022 Conference and two blog posts published first on The Scholarly Kitchen. It explains how the scholarly community is currently in a liminal space; a place of transition to the end goal of open access (OA), open science, and open research. It argues that the publishing landscape is marked by two waves of consolidation: in the journal’s publisher space, and in the scholarly communication infrastructure. With respect to the first wave, Uncertainty, Transformative Agreements, and the required Technology and Reporting Burdens of Plan S led to an increased emphasis on publishing in quantity, smaller society publishers being dissolved, and bigger publishers shifting towards being workflow providers. The second wave of consolidation is happening around the technology and infrastructure of scholarly communication. This has seen a further shift for many companies away from being a publisher and toward being a workflow provider. The short-term outlook is that we are going to be in this liminal space for a while. Longer term we see two concurrent trends: a drive for low-cost, high-volume bulk publishing, and a shift for publishers to become paid service providers for most everything else. This is the path we are on. The question for the community is whether this is an acceptable long-term outcome to our end goal, or are there other routes we should be taking to drive a differently shaped future?

A restauração da adoração e do louvor

The New Apostolic Reformation (NRA) is a contemporary Christian movement that has a global reach. Thousands of churches are counted among its many, intricate and growing networks. This article aims to show that there are theological and liturgical reasons, contained within the genetic code of contemporary apostolic churches, which constitute a formidable unifying element characteristic of their globalizing culture. One of these influences, constantly mentioned but little formally studied, is the area of ​​praise and worship music (P&W), and its liturgical use in neo-Apostolic churches. For this reason, the article presents briefly the evolution of several theological currents that came together to form the NRA. The following two sections describe how the current characteristics of praise and worship music were developed within the NRA. Finally, five dimensions are proposed that allow us to characterize the praise and worship movement today: the presence of God or P&W sacramentality as inspiration, revival as motivation, technology as an instrument, cultural transformation as mission, and dominion as end goal. It is concluded that, although there is no monolithic doctrinal and liturgical uniformity, it is possible to speak of a culture, theology of worship, ritual language, and practices that unify the NRA worldwide, which facilitates the dissemination of ideas and religious goods within. a highly expansive religious market.

Factors Affecting the Sustained Market Position of TV Channels: Insights from Audience Preferences

Presently, in a rapidly changing environment, television (TV) channels—such as other profit-seeking institutions—should strive to gain a competitive advantage over their competitors to save their market shares and sustain themselves in the sector. This especially applies to local TV channels, which not only compete with other local TV channels, but also compete with international and online platforms at the same time. In North Cyprus, where the TV sector is very small and limited, TV channel owners try to generate profit out of a very small market. In this situation, it is important for them to create a good brand image in the minds of the audience, as well as good program quality, their end goal being to sustainably gain the preference of the audience. It is also important for local TV channels to increase their viewing times, leading to the sustainable behavior of the viewers. The present study aims to evaluate the hypothesized relationship between TV channels’ image and audience preferences, taking into account the mediation effect of program quality and the moderator effect of viewing frequencies. The scope of the study encompassed people living in North Cyprus who watch local TV channels, from whom a sample of 384 respondents was drawn. An online self-administered questionnaire was distributed in order to collect the data. The collected data were analyzed with the help of SPSS and AMOS 24. The results from the analysis showed that there was a positive relationship between the channel image and channel preferences of the audience, and that this relationship was mediated by TV program quality. On the other hand, viewing frequency was found to have no statistically significant moderation effect on the relationship between channel image and audience preferences.

Why Should I Become a Christian? The “Kristian Legend” in the Context of Byzantine Thought

In this brief account we offer a thematic and comparativist interpretation of the legend of monk Kristian in terms of its Christian ideology and philosophy. Our contextualisation and thematic analysis help also in the long run to assess the date of the legend. We ponder the basic question of “why Christianity”, which in dependance on whether it was significant for monk Kristian or not, reveals to us other historical realities of Bohemia and Moravia of his period. There is an internal dynamic but also contradiction in the legend. Monk Kristian perhaps on political motives sets to show how saints Václav and Ludmila are a source of unity and national identity. However, in his task he falls into a contradiction because what was promised was not delivered. And Christianity is anything, but a road to unity, accord, power that he promised at the outset, which he betrays in his historical information. At the same time an internal dynamic shows that the humble attitudes of Václav and Ludmila bring about the end goal or fulfil the promises about the worthiness of Christianity and its role, since their miracles and sacrifice unite and harmonise the state and build nationhood. A detailed, in-depth study of the thematic construction of the legend offers material for comparison, especially with for the neighbouring Frankish/German areas. We solve these tasks set in the study by comparing the “Kristian Legend” under research with Byzantine sources.

Service Quality and Consumer Satisfaction of Electricity Services Provided by Zanzibar Electricity Corporation

The study assessed the service quality of electricity services provided by Zanzibar Electricity Corporation towards customer satisfaction. Specifically, the study examines the continuity dimensions of quality electricity services. The study used a case study research design for a sample of 299 households who were randomly carefully chosen from the population of households in Maindi, Kikwajuni, and Mwembeladu. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse data. The results indicated the level of satisfaction with the continuity dimensions of the quality of electricity services offered among customers. Data showed that more than 55% of customers were dissatisfied with the electricity price, responsiveness, and empathy of the Zanzibar Electricity Corporation, whereas on the factors contributing to the dissatisfaction of customers, data revealed that the majority of respondents 20% were not satisfied with frequency blackouts happening in their areas. Based on the findings, the study concluded that consumer loyalty and value resistance have discovered a positive relationship between changes in consumer loyalty and value resilience. Finally, the study recommended re-evaluating the evaluating technique keeping in mind the end goal to align it with the consumer satisfaction objective and guarantee appropriate comprehension of clients' worries and needs with a specific end goal to serve them legitimately.

Success Rate in Patients with Atrioventricular Nodular Re-Entrant Tachycarida (AVNRT) Slow Pathway Catheter Ablation with and without Junctional Rythym

Background and Aim: For successful radiofrequency ablation of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT), slow-pathway radiofrequency catheter ablation leads to junctional rhythm (JR) is now being considered as a very sensitive substitute end goal. During AVNRT RF ablation, a favorable result could be predicted based on the pattern of JR produced. Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 64 patients presenting with symptomatic AVNRT and undergoing slow-pathway RF ablation in the Department of Cardiology, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar for the duration from January 2022 to June 2022. RF ablation of slow pathway was performed using a combined anatomical and electrogram mapping approach. Ablation was performed by controlling the temperature and delivering energy over 60 seconds at 60°C. In order to determine if the developed JR was successful, isoproterenol infusion was performed after every ablation pulse. Four different patterns of AVNRT inducibility were considered: intermittent, continuous, sparse, and transient. Position, pattern, and number of junctional beats were used to assess the success rate of ablation. SPSS version 28 was used for descriptive statistics. Results: Of the total patients, there were 36 (56.2%) women and 28 (43.8%) men. The overall mean age was 38.64 ± 18.36 years with an age range 16-80 years. The most prevalent symptom during AVNRT was palpitation found in 41 (64.1%) cases. The prevalence of pre-syncope, dyspnea, and syncope was 3.8%, 3.8%, and 3.4% respectively. The incidence of more than one symptoms were found in 21 (32.8%) patients. Almost all the patients displayed antegrade AH jumps and indicated dual AV nodal conduction. Out of total 156 RF, it took 114 (73.1%) RF energy applications to successfully ablate 38 (59.4%) patients with loss of AVNRT inducibility. About 126 (80.8%) patients developed JR with given specificity 42.6%, sensitivity 89.6%, and negative predictive value 61.8%. Conclusion: The present study found that the JR predicts the success of AVNRT RF ablation at a high level of sensitivity, but not to a specific degree. However, the findings indicate that its specificity may rise with the appearance of > 14 total tight junctions beats. Furthermore, if the forecast of effective slow-route RF ablation in relation to the existence of JR remains not consistent adequate, its absence might be a trustworthy marker of the pathway needing greater energy application delivery to be abolished. Keywords: Atrioventricular nodular re-entrant tachycardia (AVNRT), Slow pathway catheter ablation, Junctional rhythm, success rate

Participation of environmental NGOs in (Austrian) criminal proceedings in the light of Art. 9 (3) Aarhus Convention

One of the three main pillars of the Aarhus Convention is access to justice for members of the public. Access to justice can not only be provided for in administrative proceedings but also via criminal proceedings in cases of environmental crime. Members of the public with an interest in environmental protection are especially environmental NGOs. In some European countries NGOs play an active role in criminal proceedings, however in many they are banished to the sidelines. This article describes the implications and requirements of Art. 9 (3) of the Aarhus Convention for access to justice via criminal proceedings, analyzes the existing ways for environmental NGOs to participate in Austrian criminal proceedings and presents ways in which criminal procedure law can be reformed to meet the requirements of the Aarhus Convention. The end goal is to make the prosecution of environmental crime as effective as possible.

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION AS ONE OF THE IMPORTANT COMPONENTS IN TEACHING AND EDUCATION OF STUDENTS

In this article the questions connected with the problems of qualitative education of students in general education schools inьKyrgyz Republic on the background of further vocational training. The creative beginning, which is present in every pupil, should be to form, starting from the early years. The development of human capital is based on quality education, which implies Creation of an environment where a student can create and successfully develop individuality in conditions of active life position, based on humanistic principles of education. The search for of the most effective teaching methods is carried out at all stages of education, from preschool to higher education. education, the ultimate goal of which is to form such the end goal is to form a personality that is ready for independent life the end goal is to form a personality that is prepared to live independently.

Decolonizing Or Doing the Best With What We Have? Feminist University-Community Engagement Outside WGSS Programs

Feminist scholars and activists have a long history of integrating feminist praxis in the curriculum through community engagement initiatives. Using feminist critiques, they have investigated possibilities as well as limitations of these initiatives in neoliberal universities (Boyd & Sandell, 2012; Costa & Leong, 2012; Dean et al., 2019; Johnson & Luhmann, 2016; Kwon & Nguyen, 2016). Nevertheless, most of the existing studies focus on feminist community engagement within institutionalized Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) departments, programs, and courses. This article demonstrates how feminist community engagement can expand its scope outside the institutional boundaries of WGSS programs. It contributes to the existing feminist literature in several ways. First, it explores how feminist and decolonial praxis can manifest in a non-WGSS setting and the resulting challenges and possibilities that arise. Second, it argues that the transition from traditional service learning to feminist and decolonial community engagement is a complex, contentious, and iterative process rather than an end goal. Lastly, it elaborates on how faculty can not only avoid the tendency of “learning elsewhere” and framing the community as “unprivileged Other” but also build and organize with community through creative subversion of various structures of the neoliberal university.

Diagnostic AI and Cardiac Diseases.

(1) Background: The purpose of this study is to review and highlight recent advances in diagnostic uses of artificial intelligence (AI) for cardiac diseases, in order to emphasize expected benefits to both patients and healthcare specialists; (2) Methods: We focused on four key search terms (Cardiac Disease, diagnosis, artificial intelligence, machine learning) across three different databases (Pubmed, European Heart Journal, Science Direct) between 2017-2022 in order to reach relatively more recent developments in the field. Our review was structured in order to clearly differentiate publications according to the disease they aim to diagnose (coronary artery disease, electrophysiological and structural heart diseases); (3) Results: Each study had different levels of success, where declared sensitivity, specificity, precision, accuracy, area under curve and F1 scores were reported for every article reviewed; (4) Conclusions: the number and quality of AI-assisted cardiac disease diagnosis publications will continue to increase through each year. We believe AI-based diagnosis should only be viewed as an additional tool assisting doctors' own judgement, where the end goal is to provide better quality of healthcare and to make getting medical help more affordable and more accessible, for everyone, everywhere.

Association Between Therapeutic Interventions and Quality of Life in People With Autism

Research exploring the association of autism interventions with the quality of life (QoL) of adults with autism spectrum disorders was scarce. Although a multitude of interventions are used to target a specific challenge facing the individual with autism, their correlation with achieving a better QoL is largely unknown. We conducted a cross-sectional, correlational survey study to determine the association between seven interventions—behavioral, social, mental health, daily living skills (DLS), vocational, mindfulness, and medications—and the QoL of adults 18 years and older with autism with no intellectual disability (ID) living in Canada. A national sample of 182 autistic adults or proxy reports completed the survey that used the WHOQOL-BREF to measure subjective QoL. Behavioral, mental health, and medications were the most frequently used interventions (67%, 71.4%, and 82.4%, respectively). QoL was lower across all domains of the WHOQOL-BREF compared with the general population. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that characteristics, such as autism severity, being female, and older age negatively predicted QoL across all domains except for the physical domain, whereas being in a relationship positively predicted social QoL explaining 35.2% of the variance. Of the seven interventions used, behavioral therapies and receiving mental health support consistently predicted a better QoL across all domains, except for the environment domain where only mental health support was a significant predictor. Our findings suggest prioritizing provision of behavioral and mental health interventions to adults with autism and inform future research to evaluate their effectiveness in QoL outcomes as an end goal.

Contemporary considerations in solid organ transplantation utilizing DCD donors

IntroductionDonation after cardiac death (DCD) has been leading the way to help bridge the growing gap between availability of donors and recipients on waitlist. With advances in technology and our understanding of DCD donation the safety profile is growing. It is becoming an increasing viable option even in marginal settings. DiscussionThe ethos surroundings DCD is still a matter of contention but there is support and collaboration from larger societies and establishments with development of standardizing protocols. Preparation is key. Experience of the procurement and transplanting surgeons are pivotal. There are multiple moving parts and for the success of a DCD program, dedication is needed from the donor hospitals, organ procurement organizations and the transplant centers. Previous practices based on anecdotal experiences are now either supported by or refuted by increasing evidence and data, based on the development of consensus-based guidelines with the end goal of having uniform outcomes. Normothermic regional and machine perfusion have expanded options in the DCD world, challenging the limits and expanding our paradigm. Recognition of the weaknesses and organ specific complications allow the clinician to make choices for optimal outcomes. These advancements have allowed outcomes to be optimized. ConclusionsExpanding the organ donor pool is one solution to increase the availability of organs for transplantation. Increasing the attention to and the use of DCD organs combined with machine and normothermic perfusion is a future strategy to obtain ongoing clinical success in organ transplantation and lower the waiting list mortality.

The Importance of Being Uncomfortable and Unfinished

Our initial intention was to outline the structure of an entity, the Bear Healing Lodge, within the Faculty of Nursing at MacEwan. This structure was created out of the Truth and Reconciliation’s Calls to Action. However, as we engaged in critical discussions we realized that who we were becoming as persons, as we unpacked out privilege and power, was invaluable and informative to prepare us for authentic allyship and partnership. We realized that outcomes and endings were not the end goals, but being uncomfortable and unfinished were necessary for the creation of an ethical space for members to engage in decolonization of self. Authentic allyship and partnership must fundamentally be relational, create a brave space for vulnerability, and stimulate a shift in paradigms for multiple perspectives. We have humbly offered learning intentions, as solution-oriented perspectives, for others to learn which may lead to positive change.

Beyond Sustainability: Positioning Regenerative Futures in a Philippine State University

AbstractThis paper presents the conceptual framework for positioning a government-funded higher education institution (HEI)in the Philippines as a regenerative university. It grounds the notion that academia should rethink and redefine Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through regenerative development and futures thinking. While Davao Oriental is home to a rich biological, social, and cultural heritage, this paper outlines how an academic institution can contribute to its protection, conservation, management, and regeneration. The end goal is to mainstream regenerative futures in the university’s four-fold functions: instruction, research, extension, and production. Consequently, the paradigm shift aims to influence local communities to engage in a shared regenerative future that would equally benefit the environment and human societies.

Cognitive Dissonance and Public Compliance, and Their Impact on Business Performance in Hotel Industry

In this study, we investigate whether cognitive dissonance and compliance with collective rationality affect hotel CEO management activities. The study surveyed a wide range of hotel employees, from new recruits to CEOs, within 5-star hotels in Seoul to analyze perceptions of organizational members. A canonical correlation analysis was used to empirically investigate the correlations and differences among constitutional concepts. The study also used regression analysis to analyze the influential relationship between variables. The study found that despite the differences in individual beliefs, compliance to collective beliefs increased when individuals complied and received compensation despite their individual differences. The performance perceptions of financial and non-financial management improved at that time. Some research conducted on the Cognitive Dissonance also demonstrates that individuals with cognitive dissonance modify their behavior and cognition to reduce dissonance. It is true that an individual’s opinion differs from that of the group, but adding a cognitive factor that an individual is compensated by participating in and respecting the group’s beliefs leads to public compliance with those beliefs. Due to the strong public cognition and beliefs within the organization, the individual attempts to keep his or her cognitive and belief systems consistent, but complies with them regardless of his or her cognitive and belief systems. Furthermore, it suggests that managers can improve their performance by compensating people for conforming to group rules, since management performance is the end goal of management, and public compliance affects it significantly.

INTRUTION DETECTION SYSTEM USING 6G WITH INTERNET OF THING AND AUMANN AGREEMENT THEOREM

The expansion of IoT devices has provoked the curiosity of a few foes searching for an alternate means to acquire unapproved admittance to frameworks or for other unlawful reasons. Therefore, it is fundamental to safeguard these gadgets. Vehicular ad hoc network (VANETs) has acquired wide notoriety with the end goal that consolidating trust among every hub in the network is important. Nonetheless, trust the executives among vehicles is a difficult undertaking as vindictive hubs are inclined to upset information transmission among various vehicles. The point of this work is to lay out the reality of agreement, to recognize the malignant hubs with no further postponement, by taking into account the choice of every vehicle on finding the trust values. The IDS acts as an second layer of protection against the intruders and not letting any attack to the network. This paper presents a Consistent Interference Acknowledgment Structure that has been set up for the IoT centre to foresee assault. In our paper we have trained and tested the model from the dataset, this has been attempted with consistent association traffic. Thus, in our proposed work we have evaluated the precision , recall and F1score to analyse the data used from dataset and enhance the performance .

Horse Riding Simulator Design to Replicate Human Walking Gait for Hippotherapy in Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation

Hippotherapy is a popular rehabilitation method for children with cerebral palsy (CP), which is done by riding an actual horse or a horse riding simulator (HRS) device. Riding a real horse is more expensive than using an HRS device due to its high maintenance cost. However, most HRS devices commonly sold in the market are designed as exercise devices, not rehabilitation devices. Most of them are designed to simulate a horse’s walk, trot, canter, or gallop gait at various speeds. Hippotherapy aims to improve the walking ability of CP patients. Therefore, the device should aim to replicate the walking gait of a healthy human, the end goal of hippotherapy. This problem motivates us to design and build a specialized HRS device replicating the walking gait of a healthy human that is suitable for hippotherapy, which is achievable by simulating a horse walking gait with several adjustments. We first studied and observed the walking gait cycle of a horse, then analyzed and derived a formulation of it. We then continue by designing an HRS device using a single electrical rotational motor and mechanical means to replicate the walking gait of a horse, then tune it to an extent to replicate a human walking gait. To measure the performance of our design, we compare the gait of the user when riding our device versus walking.