Field Specialists Research Articles

ETHNO CULTURAL COMPONENT OF HUMANITARIAN FIELD SPECIALISTS’ ACTIVITIES

The author investigated the importance of the ethno cultural component in the activities of humanitarian specialists; it is emphasized that in a multi-ethnic society, an ethno cultural component in the humanitarian specialists’ activities is an essential condition for their training. In the context of international cooperation, this contributes to the establishment of productive forms of interaction, and business relations ensure effective partnership relations with foreign colleagues, etc. The ethno cultural component of humanitarian specialists’ professional activity with people of other nationalities helps to understand the needs of the representatives of different nationalities and to develop the ability to interact with them. The formation of the ethno cultural component of activity enables humanitarian field specialists to understand people's behavior or activities, which are determined by the traditional culture of the ethnic group, have particular discrimination against other people or even danger. The ethno cultural component of a humanitarian field specialist’s work as a teacher or lecturer will provide them with an influence on the negative displays of the ethnic culture of youth and the opportunity to prevent these phenomena. Therefore, this component of the professional activity of specialists is defined as a crucial component of its effectiveness and quality. The study convinces that the formation of the ethno-cultural component of the activities contributes to the cultural integration of representatives of different nationalities into Ukrainian society, and activities related to the implementation of this direction require humanitarian field specialists’ knowledge of the peculiarities of the cultural of many peoples against the background of a deep understanding of Ukrainian culture.
 The article proves that the formation of the ethno cultural component as a necessary element of specialists’ activities in the educational process of humanitarian specialties is essential, to begin with, the study of the issue of ethnic cultures and religions of the world, the peculiarities of the psychology of different ethnic groups, migration processes in the world, intercultural communication, ethnic tolerance, national consciousness, identity, history of national state formation. It is possible to implement this task both by introducing new subjects into the curriculum of specialists in the humanitarian field and by adding relevant modules to the content of the educational disciplines available at the HEI («History of Ukraine», «Philosophy», «Cultural Studies», «The Ukrainian Language», «Religious Studies», «Psychology», «History and Theory of Foreign Culture», etc.). Approaches to the study of some specific disciplines are proposed: «Ethno Cultural Studies», «Peoples and Cultures of the World», «Basics of Ethno Psychology», «Migration Processes and Intercultural Communication», «History of Ukrainian Statehood and Culture», which should contribute to the high-quality humanitarian field specialist training and the acquisition of the proper ethno cultural component in their activities.

Consumer Behavior Research in the Marketing Field in the Last Five Years: Literature Review

Introduction. In recent years, research about consumer behavior has not lost its relevance in the face of increased competition and global economic change. In the marketing field specialists are also constantly looking for new solutions that scientists are researching in consumer behavior and vice versa. Modern research on consumer behavior in the market has been conducted mainly by scientists in the USA, Germany and the United Kingdom. It should be noted that a large part of the research is based on the study of psychological and social aspects of consumer behavior, but less on the modeling and prediction of consumer behavior. Purpose and methods. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of marketing on consumer behavior, including special attention to different age groups if they have been studied over the last five years and to answer the question – what is the role of marketing in customer behavior? To address the research question, the author conducted a systematic review of the literature following the rules proposed by David Denyer and David Tranfield. The process of the systematic literature review followed in this study aims to identify the relevant literature related to consumer behavior in relation to marketing and select and synthesize the themes with respect to the research question in a transparent, complete and rigorous manner. Results. Over the last five years, from 2018 to the beginning of 2022, research on consumer behavior in relation to different marketing directions has been studied extensively and in different countries. Marketing provides opportunities not only to learn about consumers, but also to tailor activities to appeal to new and existing products. Research has shown that green marketing seeks to change consumer behavior to make it more sustainable. Conclusions. Researchers' studies on consumer behavior is becoming more relevant. The role of marketing in consumer behavior is important regardless of the industry, country and customer age.

HANDLING THE EFFECT OF ATTRIBUTE SELECTION ON SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR DETECTING CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE

Chronic kidney disease is a gradual loss of kidney function. Determining the important attributes that describe this disease plays a key role in screening and examining the disease by field specialists. The main aim of this study is to comprehensively compare the attribute selection algorithms for predicting this disease. With this aim, several models were built and compared using well-known performance metrics such as accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity in the experiments. Two different attribute selection methods; the stability selection and the minimum redundancy maximum relevance were compared comprehensively on the unbalanced and balanced datasets. In this framework, the stability selection method gave the important attributes. The support vector machines with radial bases function kernel successfully performed the classification using these attributes for this problem.

A Multidisciplinary Perspective Addressing the Diagnostic Challenges of Late-Onset Pompe Disease in the Arabian Peninsula Region Developed From an Expert Group Meeting.

Pompe disease is a rare, metabolic, autosomal recessive disorder. Early diagnosis is critical for progressive Pompe disease as delays can significantly alter the clinical course of the disease. Diagnostic modalities, including dried blood spot testing and genetic testing, are available and are effective for diagnosing patients with late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD). However, clinicians face numerous clinical challenges related to the diagnosis of the disease. Two expert group committee meetings, involving 11 experts from the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Oman, were convened in October 2019 and November 2020 respectively to develop a uniform diagnostic algorithm for the diagnosis of pediatric and adult LOPD in the Arabian Peninsula region. During the first meeting, the specialty-specific clinical presentation of LOPD was defined. During the second meeting, a diagnostic algorithm was developed after a thorough validation of clinical presentation or symptoms, which was performed with the aid of existing literature and expert judgement. A consensus was reached on the diagnostic algorithm for field specialists, such as neurologists, rheumatologists, general practitioners/internal medicine specialists, orthopedic specialists, and pulmonologists. This specialty-specific diagnostic referral algorithm for pediatric and adult LOPD will guide clinicians in the differential diagnosis of LOPD.

APPLYING AI FOR TIMELY INPUT TO A SMART HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Smart healthcare systems play a vital role in people's everyday lives and hence, healthcare systems are expected to continue to improve and advance. AI and IoT techniques are employed in the prescription of medicine and in setting the different actions and procedures that need to be followed by patients by the health service providers. These technologies, along with ML algorithms, form a reliable and concrete platform because of their high processing performance. Meanwhile, it is important to maintain accurate input data for these new technologies to ensure that they will give us the desired output at the right time. In the healthcare industry, the most popular means to ensure the correctness of input data is to collect them through surveys and questionnaires that are completed by field specialists. In this paper, we report on the results of a questionnaire that was used in Egypt to collect the needed input data for our intended emergency healthcare system. Our aim is to offer the on-site emergency physicians a simple yet smart tool. This tool should speed up the process by which they can view historical data saved on the Cloud and ultimately determine the best procedures required for treating any emergency case patient timely. The novelty of our research lies in the use the applicable AI algorithms for healthcare within our tool at various levels to speed up the process of saving the life of an emergency case by displaying the appropriate data required for each physician specialization-based on our collected questionnaire.

CHINA-TALIBAN RELATIONS, PERCEPTIONS AND ENGAGEMENT: A CASE OF TALIBAN’S POLITICO-ECONOMIC PREDICAMENTS

China is keeping a close eye on the Afghan issue, weighing its options and drafting strategies to prevent any unwanted consequences. The Chinese government believes that peace in neighboring Afghanistan is in their best interests, and it is attempting to fill the void left by the chaotic US exit from Afghanistan so that it does not obstruct Chinese interests. In this regard, China is negotiating with the Taliban on a diplomatic level. Moreover, the geo-political and geo-economic interests of China in Afghanistan necessitate a more activist approach to the country, but instability is likely to limit such participation. China's flexibility toward the Taliban is tempered with caution, and it is influenced by the Taliban's internal political and economic stability, as well as its foreign policy. Above all, China wants a moderate Taliban government in Afghanistan that will maintain domestic stability and foster positive relations with neighboring countries. The purpose of this research paper is to examine the relationship between China and the Taliban, as well as the Taliban's politico-economic predicament in the aftermath of the US pullout. Primary data will be gathered through interviews from various Islamic clergy in Afghanistan as well as field specialists. Keywords: China-Taliban’s Relations, Politico-economic predicament, Extractive politico-economic institutions, United States of America, Primary data, Af-Taliban (Afghan-Taliban).

Translation of medical texts: a translation-oriented study of dental terminology

Bilimsel gelişmeler, bu gelişmeleri izleyen teknolojik yenilikler ve küreselleşen dünya, çağlar boyunca hep var olan çeviri ihtiyacını pekiştirmiştir. Yeni oluşan ve sürekli gelişen uzmanlık alanlarıyla birlikte alan uzmanları arasındaki iletişimi sağlamak, onların hem ulusal hem de uluslararası ortak bir paydada buluşmasını sağlamak için her bilim dalına ait bir terminoloji oluşturulur ki bu noktada çeviri, kaçınılmaz bir ihtiyaç haline gelir. Uzmanlık çevirisi, çeviri sektöründe oldukça yaygın olmakla beraber çevirmenlerin en çok zorlandıkları alanlardan biridir. Özellikle tıp metinlerinin çevirisi, çevirmenin, çeviri edincine ve ilgili uzmanlık alan bilgisine ve bilhassa alan terminolojisine sahip olmasını zorunlu hale getirmektedir; nitekim uzmanlık alanları bağlamında kullanılan terimler, terminolojiler, uzmanlık çevirilerin kilit noktasını oluşturmaktadır. Bu nedenle tıp çevirisi yapan çevirmenlerin, bahsedilen edinçlerin haricinde, uzmanlar ile etkileşim içerisinde olması, yeniliğe, araştırmaya ve öğrenmeye açık olması gerekmektedir. Bu çalışmanın başlıca amacı, diş hekimliği terminolojisini oluşturan terimlerin ilgili uzmanlık alanı kapsamında nasıl tezahür ettiğini ve Türkçeye hangi çeviri yöntemleri kullanılarak kazandırıldığını somut örnekler üzerinde irdelemektir. Bu bağlamda, çalışmanın bütüncesini, diş hekimliği uzmanlık alanını kapsayan ve uzman kullanımına yönelik olan dental ürünlerin kullanma kılavuzları oluşturmaktadır. Kullanma kılavuzlarında geçen terimlerin İngilizce, Almanca ve Türkçedeki kullanımları karşılaştırılarak incelenmiştir. Uzmanlık çevirisinde, uzmanlık çevirisine başlamadan önce çevirmenin çeviri edincine ve uzmanlık bilgisine sahip olmasının yanı sıra, ilgili alan uzmanları ile iş birliği içinde olmasının ve çeviri odaklı terminoloji çalışmalarının gerekliliği ortaya konulmuştur.

INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES OF TECHNOLOGY LIVELIHOOD AND EDUCATION TEACHERS TO THE STUDENTS’ SATISFACTION AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

The field of Technology and Livelihood Education is critical to achieving the goals and objectives of the new improved curriculum. The purpose of this study was to compare the Instructional Practices of TLE Teachers to the student satisfaction and academic performance of selected Laguna Senior High Schools. The descriptive survey design was utilized in this study, and the respondents were 30 teachers and 100 students from several Laguna schools using purposive sampling. It also used a self-created questionnaire with a 5-point Likert-scale that was expert validated. Before distributing the questionnaire to the respondents, field specialists review it. The researcher used the mean, standard deviation, and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis to treat the data (Pearson r). The findings indicated that the selected senior high school's degree of satisfaction in terms of interpersonal relationships, academic assistance, and learning possibilities is extremely high. Meanwhile, academic achievement is excellent. In terms of active learning, mastery of learning, peer instruction, collaboration, and differentiation, the instructional techniques of chosen TLE instructors have no significant link to student happiness, as do interpersonal relationships, academic support, and learning opportunities. There is a substantial association in academic achievement. Based on the findings, the following recommendations were made: TLE teachers should continue using a variety of active learning strategies when teaching TLE subjects to students, maintain the teaching strategies used to achieve mastery of learning, implement on different subjects and investigate the impact of peer instruction method on different levels, continue working better in cooperation with other TLE teachers, and differentiation in TLE subjects.

A Bridge between Coastal Resilience and Tourism-Recreation: Multifunctional Benefit of Boardwalk Design for Sustainable Development in the Western Black Sea Region, Turkey

The researchers utilized a participatory approach based on expert opinion, which was used to assess the environmental, social, economic, and visual value and accessibility benefits of the Güzelcehisar Beach Boardwalk (GBB) application in the province of Bartın in Turkey’s Western Black Sea Region. The questionnaire was administered face-to-face and online to 120 professionals from various subject area fields. According to field specialists, the benefits of the GBB are as follows: social benefit, visual value and accessibility, economic benefit, and environmental benefit. The GBB was evaluated as an example of infrastructure within the scope of effective solutions for tourism and recreation activities and resilience within sustainable development of rural coastal landscapes using a participatory approach, so the results will guide Integrated Coastal Zone Management planning for the area.

CT and MRI Medical Image Fusion Using Noise-Removal and Contrast Enhancement Scheme with Convolutional Neural Network.

Medical image fusion (MIF) has received painstaking attention due to its diverse medical applications in response to accurately diagnosing clinical images. Numerous MIF methods have been proposed to date, but the fused image suffers from poor contrast, non-uniform illumination, noise presence, and improper fusion strategies, resulting in an inadequate sparse representation of significant features. This paper proposes the morphological preprocessing method to address the non-uniform illumination and noise by the bottom-hat–top-hat strategy. Then, grey-principal component analysis (grey-PCA) is used to transform RGB images into gray images that can preserve detailed features. After that, the local shift-invariant shearlet transform (LSIST) method decomposes the images into the low-pass (LP) and high-pass (HP) sub-bands, efficiently restoring all significant characteristics in various scales and directions. The HP sub-bands are fed to two branches of the Siamese convolutional neural network (CNN) by process of feature detection, initial segmentation, and consistency verification to effectively capture smooth edges, and textures. While the LP sub-bands are fused by employing local energy fusion using the averaging and selection mode to restore the energy information. The proposed method is validated by subjective and objective quality assessments. The subjective evaluation is conducted by a user case study in which twelve field specialists verified the superiority of the proposed method based on precise details, image contrast, noise in the fused image, and no loss of information. The supremacy of the proposed method is further justified by obtaining 0.6836 to 0.8794, 0.5234 to 0.6710, and 3.8501 to 8.7937 gain for , CRR, and AG and noise reduction from 0.3397 to 0.1209 over other methods for objective parameters.

Information Communication Technologies as Potential System of Knowledge Dissemination in Rural Agricultural Development

The primary purpose of this research is to look at the potential of technology norms and practices in a variety of agricultural resource management systems. By identifying creative IT application implementation, the research also gives an overview of how to overcome rising hurdles in adopting information and communication technology. This article emphasizes some of the noteworthy findings of a study conducted on most farmers, which revealed that most farmers use ICT devices such as multi-SIM mobile phones, smart phones, and tablets. Cell phones and smart phones are the most generally accepted and utilized ICTs, having helped farmers become more socially engaged. Many agriculture-friendly mobile apps are as well assisting farmers in appreciating the relevance of technology. They can contact middlemen for marketing purposes and immediately contact field specialists in real time for guidance on preserving the quality of inputs/outputs, controlling insect/pest, and managing crop diseases, among others. The antagonism toward technology and the hesitancy to adopt new things and their possible impacts on the reorganization of extension services are essential obstacles to actively integrating ICT.

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What should we evaluate when we use technology in education?

AbstractBackgroundThere is a lack of critical or empirical work interrogating the nature and purpose of evaluating technology use in education.ObjectivesIn this study, we examine the values underpinning the evaluation of technology use in education through field specialist perceptions. The study also poses critical reflections about the rigour of evaluation instruments development in the educational technology field.MethodA total of 48 domain specialists were surveyed to investigate the face and content validity of 39 items under eight constructs, with both qualitative and quantitative data from the survey analysed.ResultsThere was an alignment between the constructs that the specialists felt were important and the constructs that have typically been the focus of empirical studies, with field specialists indicating high relevance scores for technology (M = 3.24/4), learning outcomes (M = 3.20/4), affective elements (M = 3.19/4), behaviour (M = 3.15/4), presence/community (M = 3.07/4), teaching/pedagogy (M = 3.01/4), design (M = 2.96/4), and institutional environment (M = 2.86/4). Only a minority of other studies were found to perform face and content validity checks and even then only with small samples of respondents (usually n ≤ 5).ImplicationsSpecialists in educational technology research confirm that all eight dimensions are important to consider when evaluating the use of technology in education. Thorough face and content validity processes should be adopted when developing educational technology evaluation instruments. Further work has validated an eight factor 28 item instrument for evaluating the use of technology in education using a large sample of students from a global open learning online course.

Analyzing tourism reviews using an LDA topic-based sentiment analysis approach

It has become increasingly necessary to automate systems for organizing and classifying user reviews according to their domain-specific aspects and sentiment polarities, as online customer opinions have increased on specialized platforms and social networks. This study's methodology employs a combination of topic modeling and sentiment analysis, as well as human validation techniques of topic labels, to extract valuable insights about Marrakech city from TripAdvisor reviews. Through this technique, tourism practitioners and field specialists may dive deeper into online users generated content, leveraging aspect-based sentiment analysis to explore each destination's weaknesses and strengths.•Data collection and pre-processing.•Extracting latent topics using LDA algorithm (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) on collected reviews.•Applying sentiment analysis to each topic.

Building a terminological tool as implementation instrument of the sustainable built environment

The Sustainable Built Environment, as a corollary to Sustainable Development, is an EU policy priority whose implementation is legally stipulated for all EU countries. As for the Romanian-specific terminology employed by decision-makers, there are critical inconsistencies pertaining to mistranslations or fluctuating translations of standardized English terms. This article outlines the purpose and objectives of the envisaged project, highlights its interdisciplinarity, and displays the steps to be taken in developing a terminological tool that is meant to be of use to linguists, scientists, and field specialists alike.

Palliative inter-professional learning via cased based tele-videoconference: Experience from the hospice development stage in Taiwan and China.

Palliative care in rural areas can be difficult to assess and, often is of lower quality compared to more densely populated regions. A program of multicenter palliative care discussion forum via tele-videoconference may be a promising tool for exchanging valuable experience and constructing a comprehensive hospice care system in Taiwan and China.The multicenter palliative care discussion forum began 1997 and 2010 in Taiwan and China, respectively. In every forum, 1 to 2 cases were presented by multiple field specialists, and multi-dimensional problems were discussed. All of these case reports and reference materials from the forums were analyzed.The conference discussed 199 and 143 cases in Taiwan and China, including 172 and 143 cancer patients. The most common mentioned symptom was pain (66.3% in Taiwan, 96.95% in China). As time went on, the rate of discussion in pain management issues decreased, but the social and psycho-spiritual issues increased in Taiwan. After some major legal and social changes, the discussion of ethical issues increased rapidly. In China, the trends and ranking in discussion of nonpain management issues stabilized and showed most frequently in psycho-spiritual issues, followed by social, ethical and legal issues.Sharing palliative experience via tele-videoconferences is an effective tool to improve the quality of care, and also saves a significant amount of time and expense. Experts in different professions from different hospitals should discuss any palliative problems, share their valuable experience, and ponder a comprehensive hospice care.

An Experimental Reproduction Study on Characteristics of Woodblock Printing on Traditional Korean Paper (Hanji)

The history of printing technology in Korea is studied by investigating existing ancient documents and records and comparing accumulated data and knowledge. Cultural property research requires non-destructive testing and observation with the naked eye or aided by a microscope. Researchers’ experience and knowledge are required even though they cannot guarantee the outcome. For ancient documents and records that are presumed to consist of woodblock printing, wood type printing, metal type printing, or their combinations, each researcher draws various opinions and conclusions. This often causes confusion and divides the opinions of ordinary citizens and field specialists. Among them, the criteria for judging ancient documents or books printed using woodblock and metal movable material are ambiguous. Academic research on the development history of printing technology in ancient Korea has been stagnant, and conflicts among researchers have also erupted. Involvement of national investigative agencies not specialized in cultural properties has exacerbated the situation. In this study, we investigated printing characteristics that are likely to serve as more objective judgment criteria by quantitatively analyzing the experiments of retrieving several sheets of Korean paper (Hanji) using a replicated Hunminjeongeum (訓民正音) woodblock and quantitatively analyzing the images of the printed papers. In addition, the validity and questions for the typical phenomena presented as a method for distinguishing between woodblock and metal print are reviewed. We investigated the possibility of developing new objective judgement criteria through quantitative analysis using image analysis and investigating the printing characteristics of Korean paper through a reproduction experiment of woodblock printing.

Primeiro registro de Rachiplusia nu (Guenée, 1852) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) sobrevivendo em soja Bt no Brasil

Loopers are important defoliators in several crop species. Among the loopers attacking non-Bt soybean cultivars, Chrysodeixis includens (Walker, [1858]) was the most common. The use of trangenic Bt soybean in appromately 70% of the soybean fields in Brazil led to a decrease in the loopers in these fields. However, technical field specialists and soybean producers recently observed Plusiinae larvae damaging transgenic Bt soybean, posing a risk over the Bt technology. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify and confirm the catterpillar species feeding on transgenic Bt soybean fields in Brazil. Larvae and soybean leaf samples were collected in 12 soybean-producing locations from four Brazillian States. Soybean leaf samples were tested to confirm whether they were transgenic Bt. Larvae were reared in artificial diet and submitted to feeding trials on non-transgenic and transgenic Bt soybean leaves. The species identification was perfomed by amplicon sequencing of the cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene of eight larvae per local. All 12 populations fed in the transgenic Bt soybean and the sequencing analysis of COI determined that they belong to Rachiplusia nu (Guenée, 1852) with 100% similarity to the COI sequences available in NCBI for this species. These results suggest that the R. nu species is not controlled by the genetic modification event present in the tested soybean variety and highlights the need for additional looper management control strategies, such as insecticide application, for controlling this insect pest in transgenic Bt soybean.

Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education of Selected Countries

Due to the vital role of entrepreneurship, many efforts have been made to improve and promote it, the most important of which is the provision of entrepreneurship education programs in universities and educational institutions in different countries of the world. By studying the experiences of other countries, a proposed model for entrepreneurship education in Iran can be reached. The purpose of this research was to study of entrepreneurship education in higher education in selected countries comparatively. The research questions edited to considering types entrepreneurship education in terms of location, structure and trainers of entrepreneurship education. The method of the present study was a qualitative adaptation based on the use of a four-stage Bereday’s approach. The statistical population included different countries of the world and statistical sample consisted of several countries such as United States, Germany, Netherland, Philippine & Australia that were selected through purposive sampling. The method of data collection was documented and the validity of documents was assessed through internal evaluation (content accuracy) and external evaluation (document accuracy). Qualitative content analysis method was used to analyze the data. The findings showed that entrepreneurship education in all five countries studied is done more in the educational environment than in the workplace. In terms of types of educators (field specialists, entrepreneurship specialists and in combination), the highest similarity was between the United States, Philippine and Germany, and the Netherland and Australia were different from the other three countries. In terms of structure (single course, course and certification), the similarities were more in the form of single course and course. According to the findings, the appropriate model of entrepreneurship education in higher education in Iran can be used as a model for compiling courses (in the form of discipline, orientation, interdisciplinary and integrated) in all educational fields (Humanities, Engineering, Basic Sciences, Art and Medicine) or be formulated as an entrepreneurial university.

Brief Motivational Interviewing Training for Outreach in School Health Programming

This study assessed a brief 6-week motivational interviewing (MI) training program for extension field specialists (EFS) involved in supporting a statewide school wellness initiative called SWITCH. A total of 16EFS were instructed in MI principles to support the programming and half (n = 8) volunteered to participate in the hybrid (online and in-person) MI training program. Phone calls between EFS and school staff involved in SWITCH were recorded and coded using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) system to capture data on utilization of MI principles. Differences in MI utilization between the trained (n=8) and untrained (n=8) EFS were evaluated using Cohen’s d effect sizes. Results revealed large differences for technical global scores (d=1.5) and moderate effect sizes for relational global components (d=0.76) between the two groups. This naturalistic, quasi-experimental study indicates a brief MI training protocol is effective for teaching the spirit and relational components of MI to EFS.