Frequent Topics Research Articles

Tradução médica: um mapeamento de teses e dissertações produzidas de 2002 a 2018

ABSTRACT This is a bibliometric mapping of studies conducted on medical translation in Brazil. The primary objective is to map master’s, doctoral, and post-doctoral studies from 2002 to 2018, identifying the topics covered, the institutions, and the geographic regions in which they were carried out. The significance of the present study lies in the fact that it indicates regions and institutions, where research on medical translation is conducted, and reveals the regions in which this type of study is scarce. In both cases, the mapping can serve as a reference for researchers who are interested in this area of knowledge. In addition, the mapping can offer input for the implementation of public policies that encourage the development of studies in the area. Data were collected in three digital platforms, namely Domínio Público, Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações, and Catálogo de Teses e Dissertações da CAPES, by means of typing different keywords in Portuguese, in the search windows available. Of the 14 studies found, 28.6% were doctoral dissertations and 71.4% were master’s theses. All of the studies were conducted in the southeastern and southern regions of Brazil. Cardiology and general biomedicine were the most frequent topics followed by anesthesiology, orthopedics, cardiovascular surgery, arterial hypertension, physiology, geriatrics, gerontology, nutrition, and pharmacy.

A systematic review of mindfulness studies in ESL and EFL contexts

Mindfulness, as an ancient practice, has also started to be incorporated into second or foreign language settings in recent years. Due to this new and novel integration into the field, practitioners in foreign language teaching contexts are not clear about what mindfulness means and how it can be used in the classroom. This systematic review aims to present a general synthesis of studies conducted in English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) contexts in relation to mindfulness. For this purpose, various databases were searched and 23 relevant studies were included in the review. First, the most frequent themes explored in mindfulness studies were identified. Then, the main findings of the selected studies were analyzed under two categories, studies with intervention and studies without intervention. The findings revealed that the most frequently investigated themes in mindfulness studies are foreign language anxiety and language performance. The findings revealed that mindfulness treatments employed in the studies were found to have mostly positive effects on ESL/EFL learners. Furthermore, studies conducted without intervention pointed out a positive relationship between mindfulness skills and foreign language education. Overall, the findings of this review, pedagogical implications and further research are discussed in the paper.

A Gender Perspective on GDPR and Information Privacy

With the introduction of The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, European citizens were granted stronger privacy protection. Despite privacy and GDPR being frequent topics of discussion, many consumers lack knowledge on how personal data are harvested for business purposes, and they are unaware of their rights. Drawing on a larger survey conducted in a Norwegian university college, this study investigates gender differences in privacy behaviour (n=444). We offer three insights. The results revealed that (1) respondents’ concern for privacy does not differ across gender, but men claimed to experience slightly more control over their personal data compared to women. (2) Exercising privacy rights were comparable across gender as women and men reported the same inclination to act on rights granted by GDPR. (3) Willingness to share information in return for benefits depended on the information in question. Men and women agreed in their willingness to exchange name and e-mail. However, women were less willing than men to give up more sensitive information, yet more willing to give up date of birthday, TV viewing history and shopping history. Our insights bring attention to a possible link between experienced control over own data and willingness to exchange data for benefits, highlighting a potential mediating relationship that could be worthwhile pursuing.

Older Portuguese And Mexican Adults And Sexual Well-Being? A Cross-Cultural Qualitative Study

Objectives: Sexual well-being (SWB) refers to the subjective emotional and cognitive evaluation of the quality of the individual's sexuality, it plays a relevant role in quality of life and health promotion on old age and has cross-cultural implications. The aim of this study is to analyse comparatively the perspectives of older adults on their SWB in Portugal and Mexico. Methods: Data were collected from 86 Portuguese and 80 Mexican community-dwelling participants aged 65 years and older, using a semi-structured interview protocol. Older adults were inquired about their perceptions on what contributes to their sexual well-being. Socio-demographic data were also enquired. Content analysis was used to identify key themes. Results: Outcomes indicated eight themes: eroticism, supportive relationship, positive self-concept, health and self-care, romance, active life, tenderness and care, and no pain and no pregnancy restrictions, for both samples. Eroticism was the most frequent theme reported by Portuguese participants (31.4%) and health and self-care were the most frequent theme reported by Mexican participants (26.5%). Conclusions: The empirical results of this study indicated that SWB is strongly influenced by socio-cultural and psychosocial values. This cross-cultural comparison between Portugal and Mexico contributes to understand this concept in old age with different perspectives and place a scenario for future culture-adapted interventions and comprehensive policies. Keywords: Mexican, older adults; Portuguese; qualitative study; sexual well-being

What Do Introduction to Psychology Textbooks Have to Say About Older Adults?

Introduction to Psychology is one of the most popular undergraduate courses, an entry course for psychology majors and also popular with students from other disciplines. Consequently, the content in introductory psychology textbooks has the potential to influence undergraduates’ knowledge, attitudes, and interests, including those related to aging. The purpose of this study was to analyze aging-related content in introductory psychology textbooks to understand the topics to which students are exposed in this important course. We analyzed the indices of 21 best-selling Introduction to Psychology textbooks for both advanced and intermediate audiences, published between 2018 and 2020. We extracted and aggregated 275 unique, aging-specific index terms from the textbooks and analyzed their relative frequency. We identified 61 superordinate index terms corresponding to general terms (e.g., “aging,” “death”). The indices also included 214 unique subordinate terms that were more specific (e.g., “aging, and cognition”). Across textbooks, the most frequent topics reflected negative consequences of aging (e.g., “Alzheimer disease” = appeared in 100% of textbooks, “death” in 52%). In contrast, positive aspects of aging appeared less often (e.g., “generativity” in 47%, “longevity” in 10%). Terms describing career opportunities were rare (e.g., “gerontology” in 5%, “geropsychology” in 5%), as were modern theories (e.g., “socioemotional selectivity theory” in 28%). Advocacy for comprehensive and balanced representation of aging in introductory psychology textbooks is critical for educating students and promoting interest in the field.

The nature and accuracy of Instagram posts concerning marketed orthodontic products.

To scrutinize claims contained within Instagram posts related to six popular marketed orthodontic products. Three hundred publicly available Instagram posts were identified using the following Instagram hashtags: #carrieremotion, #damonbraces, #invisalign, #acceledent, #propelorthodontics, and #myobrace. Pilot coding was undertaken on a subset of claims (n = 50) and a coding guide was developed. The associated claims were categorized under 24 recognized themes and their accuracy assessed on a five-point scale. Of 1730 posts screened, 300 were included for analysis. The majority of posts were based on photographs (n = 244, 81.3%) with the remainder (n = 56, 18.7%) including videos. Half of the posts involved a picture of the product in isolation (n = 150, 50%), with clinical cases presented in a minority (n = 99, 33%). Overall, 472 claims were included with treatment duration being the most frequent theme (n = 125, 26.5%). In terms of accuracy, most of the claims were judged to be "false" (n = 283, 60%) with less than 2% considered "objectively true." Most of the claims relating to six popular marketed orthodontic products concerned treatment duration. The vast majority of these claims were not supported by evidence and were judged to be false. Efforts should be made to promote the provision of accurate orthodontic information and to verify marketing claims on social media platforms.

Green library as a subject of research – a quantitative and qualitative perspective

PurposeThe objective of the article is to determine the numerical increase in publications on green libraries and the dynamics of its development as well as to determine the thematic structure of the scientific literature in the field of green libraries and its changes as a representation of research in this area.Design/methodology/approachThe research material consisted of publications on green libraries published between 1991 and 2020, indexed in the Web of Science database. The bibliometric method was used to determine the numerical increase in publications on green libraries and the dynamics of its development. In order to characterize the thematic structure of publications representing research in this area, content analysis was performed.FindingsQuantitative analysis of the literature on green libraries has shown that this is a new area of research not explored with constant intensity. The time of publishing materials on green libraries can be divided into two periods: the so-called period of first publications between 1991 and 2006, and the period between 2007 and 2020, when the number of publications increased relatively systematically. The content analysis confirmed the hypothesis that the most frequent theme is the issue of a green building and its management. It showed that the period after 2010 is the time of building a theoretical framework for a new research field, i.e. green libraries.Originality/valueThe main value of the article is the performance of a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the scientific literature indexed in the Web of Science devoted to green libraries, from the moment of the first publications to the present day. The codebook developed for the needs of content analysis can constitute the basis for the development of criteria for the evaluation of green libraries and guidelines for their organization.

Intellectual Structure of Knowledge Management: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Journal of Information and Knowledge Management

The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM) published its first issue in 2002 and celebrated its 19th birthday in 2020. This study aims to assess JIKM performance over its lifetime between 2002 and 2020 by extracting data from the Scopus database and using a combined approach of bibliometric and content analysis. More specifically, we evaluate JIKM’s productivity and stature, discuss its performance compared to other journals, and identify key contributing (authors, institutions, and countries), citation pattern, and conceptual structure. The results highlight JIKM’s growing presence, which is reflected in the dual rise of publication activity and accumulated citation. JIKM becomes one of the preeminent journals in the area of knowledge management, with a broad range of scientific actors’ contributions (authors, institutions and countries) from all over the world. Furthermore, using a bibliographic coupling, keywords’ analysis, and co-authorship analysis, we analyse JIKM’s content and identify the most frequent themes discussed. The analysis reveals that JIKM has expanded its scope from knowledge management to a new array of emerging technologies’ topics such as artificial intelligence and data mining. Graphical visualization of similarities (VOSviewer and Rstudio) shows that the major themes published are clustered into four groups, mainly (i) sustainable knowledge, (ii) emerging technologies, (iii) information management, and (iv) organization culture and knowledge sharing.

A systematic review of provider-and system-level factors influencing the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure

BackgroundThere is a longstanding research-to-practice gap in the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart failure. Despite adequate evidence confirming that comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation can improve quality of life and decrease morbidity and mortality in heart failure patients, only a fraction of eligible patients receives it. Many studies and reviews have identified patient-level barriers that might contribute to this disparity, yet little is known about provider- and system-level influences.MethodsA systematic review using narrative synthesis. The aims of the systematic review were to a) determine provider- and system-level barriers and enablers that affect the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure and b) juxtapose identified barriers with possible solutions reported in the literature. A comprehensive search strategy was applied to the MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL Plus, EThoS and ProQuest databases. Articles were included if they were empirical, peer-reviewed, conducted in any setting, using any study design and describing factors influencing the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure patients. Data were synthesised using inductive thematic analysis and a triangulation protocol to identify convergence/contradiction between different data sources.ResultsSeven eligible studies were identified. Thematic analysis identified nine overarching categories of barriers and enablers which were classified into 24 and 26 themes respectively. The most prevalent categories were ‘the organisation of healthcare system’, ‘the organisation of cardiac rehabilitation programmes’, ‘healthcare professional’ factors and ‘guidelines’. The most frequent themes included ‘lack of resources: time, staff, facilities and equipment’ and ‘professional’s knowledge, awareness and attitude’.ConclusionsOur systematic review identified a wide range of provider- and system-level barriers impacting the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure, along with a range of potential solutions. This information may be useful for healthcare professionals to deliver, plan or commission cardiac rehabilitation services, as well as future research.

Life Cycle Assessment on the Direct Recycling Aluminium Alloy AA6061 Chips and Metal Matrix Composite (MMC-AlR)

Metallic material processing plays a significant role in terms of global environmental impact which contributes to the climate change phenomena that is a serious international environmental concern and the subject of much research and debate. Thus, energy-and resource-efficient strategies in the metal shaping technology domain need to be identified urgently. A frequent theme in the debates that surround waste and resources management is the extent to which the recycling of metallic materials offers genuine benefits to the environment. Solid state recycling techniques allow the manufacture of high density aluminium alloy parts directly from production scrap. In this paper the environmental impacts associated with ‘meltless’ scrap processing routes through hot press forging process with varying parameter has been studied. A comparative analysis has been performed with two different type of materials which is recycling aluminium alloy (AA6061) chips and metal matrix composite (AA6061 chips + 2% alumina) in order to quantify and compare the environmental benefits for both materials. The LCA data are collected using Simapro 8.0.4 software. The additional materials used in a product resulted higher environmental impact. Metal matrix composite had higher value of mid point and endpoint impact categories compare to aluminium alloy chips.

Blogging as Digital Citizen Participation

Abstract This article analyses the political blogging of the Malagasy diaspora as part of their transnational political participation. It focuses on three aspects of the blogs: the most frequent topics addressed, how are the topics addressed, and the political bloggers. To do this, a Thematic Content Analysis based on four categories (‘soapboxes’, ‘transmission belts’, ‘conversation starters’ and ‘mobilisers’) of four of their most active and influential political blogs was conducted. The analysis revealed that (i) the blogs are mostly “soapboxes” that consist of commenting the political issues in Madagascar, (ii) their contents were mostly focused on the coup d’ état in 2009, and (iii) the bloggers are involved in direct political participation in parallel offline. This paper shows the role of the studied blogs as tribunes of opinions that gather a partisan audience discussing the Malagasy political issues, and as judgment tools contributing to the braking or fuelling of Madagascar’s international relations.

Head and neck research in plastic surgery—Ahead of the rest? An analysis of abstracts presented at British association of plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgeons meetings

Historically, the head and neck (H&N) discipline has been integral to the service a plastic surgeon provides. Recently, it has been postulated that its popularity is declining. The output of scientific meetings may indicate the popularity of each sub-speciality interest, also allowing comparison with other H&N conferences. To analyse the proportion of H&N themed, podium and poster presentations from British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons' (BAPRAS) scientific meetings and the resulting contribution to published literature. H&N-themed abstracts were identified from finalised programmes of the biannual BAPRAS meetings between 2008 and 2015. PubMed and Google Scholar databases were searched using keywords and author names from each abstract to identify subsequent publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Overall, 19.3% (350/1815) of BAPRAS abstracts were H&N themed. The publication rate of H&N abstracts was 40.3% (141/350), comprising 43.0% (114/265) of podium and 31.8% (27/85) of poster presentations. H&N reconstruction and cleft and craniofacial were the most frequent topics, with facial palsy having the lowest conversion rate at 15.4%. The mean time to publication was 17.8 months. Research was published in 39 journals, with a mean impact factor of 2.151 (range=0.772-11.541). The most popular journal was Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (JPRAS; 31.7%; 45/141). Published abstracts originated from 17 different countries. The senior author was a plastic surgeon in 77.3% of abstracts. From the multiple potential sub-specialties, H&N-themed abstracts consistently contributed 20% of all research presented at BAPRAS. The 40.3% publication rate exceeds the international average of scientific meetings. H&N remains a prominent field in the armamentarium of a plastic surgeon.

(Invited) Computational Electrochemical Engineering

In our introductory graduate course in electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering, the overall format is traditional: We start from fundamental thermodynamics, electrode kinetics, and ionic mass transport, and follow with detailed discussion of applications. The course is intended to aid graduate students in quantitative analysis of their research involving electrochemical technologies.However, an essential focus of the course is on detailed electrochemical kinetics and transport, and because these topics tend to be mathematically intensive, a significant number of computational components are included in the course. These components start with simple plotting of electrochemical data, and are gradually extended to include interpolation, curve fitting, solution of systems of nonlinear equations, and solution of one-dimensional differential equations. All of these skills find application in electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering.Computational components use the python programming language and the Jupyter programming environment, which provides a rich interface for computational content, including explanatory text, mathematics, and interactive graphics via the web browser. Using JupyterHub, students can access materials via the web alone and do not have to install or maintain any software. Frequent in-class active learning sessions provide opportunities for supervised practice, enabling students to build fluency in both electrochemistry and computation.Of equal importance, the jupyter interface provides a rich medium for interactive demonstration of electrochemical concepts in synchronous and asynchronous lecture settings. Concepts such as Marcus kinetics, potential variations across an electrochemical cell, and primary and secondary current distributions can be demonstrated in this way.Students complete the course with a capstone project consisting of a computer-based simulation of an electrochemical system. This project assignment is open-ended in the sense that students are asked to choose a topic of study that interests them. The project can involve design, analysis, or simulation of any electrochemical system. However, the project must be focused, and must involve quantitative modeling. Results are presented via a 15-minute in-class presentation and 5-page paper. Frequent topics include models of batteries, biosensors, electrolysis processes and analysis of experimental kinetic data.

A New Creativity Agenda, Part 2

HOW MIGHT WE SHAPE a New Creativity Agenda that offers a creativity lens for transformation? How might a creativity lens advance or accelerate regeneration aligned with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of Agenda 2030? Drawing from art, science and technology, a creativity lens reveals new ways to see and reimagine systems, networks and ideas. This is the lens of Leonardo’s network of networks. Applied to SDGs, a Creativity Lens encourages ingenuity, cross-sector collaboration and innovative strategies needed to solve complex problems of sustainability.Modeled after the gender lens and sustainable investing movements, a Creativity Lens articulates new success factor criteria previously undervalued, overlooked, or overtly dismissed. Gender lens [1] asserts that gender-based issues of equity, equality, access and inclusion should be considered as investment priorities, often indicating more effective strategies across asset classes and industries. Sustainable investing [2], which considers environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment strategies, now constitutes one-third of all U.S.-based assets under management [3]. A Creativity Lens would examine how SDG-focused or aligned activities from any sector incorporate hybrid, cross-cutting creative practices or perspectives.As the SDGs intend to provide a roadmap rather than a fixed course, a Creativity Lens can augment that roadmap with new routes, visualization, provocation, empathy, critical inquiry and beauty. A Creativity Lens is not merely a translation device to illustrate, communicate or popularize the Goals; it is a filter through which we better assess progress and design strategies for regeneration and sustainable development. Vibrant creative sectors and integrated art practices generate qualitative and quantifiable value correlated with key areas of the SDGs: healthy people, community and society, economic growth and development; increased social equity and access.Because SDGs are interconnected and interdependent, let’s consider clusters of goals together as they intersect with creativity introducing a relationship between the 2030 Agenda for SDGs and a New Creativity Agenda. Connecting creative practices to the SDGs lays the groundwork for a Creativity Lens.These Goals intersect with Creative Economy, creative industries, workforce development, the future of work, embedding creatives across all industries.Food, health, water are frequent themes attracting attention of bioart and ecoart movements. Public and community arts are vital to the health and well-being of individuals and communities.Social needs and justice are supported by democratizing arts, science and tech sectors. These goals are supported by radical access as creative practice, artistic freedom, free expression.These goals intersect with urban and industrial design, ecoart and circular economy innovation.Creatives continue to lead movements of ecoart and land art; bioart and biodiversity; Ocean MemoryWhile creativity intersects with all SDGs, “Partnerships” align most directly with Leonardo. Working together with creative individuals, institutions and industries across the Leosphere, Leonardo leads a transformational partnership platform [4]. Our creativity “network of networks” mobilizes breakthrough ideas to inspire and implement initiatives across all SDGs. Leonardo’s partnership platform serves to:

Global health education experience of a multidisciplinary curriculum at Rouen school of medicine, France

Introduction. The interest in Global Health (HG) as an academic discipline has increased in the last decade. The Rouen School of Medicine is one of the first to offer a GH curriculum in France. The objective was to identify the characteristics and profile of students involved in a GH curriculum. Material and methods. In 2016 and 2017, a cross-sectional study was conducted, including enrolled in the GH course: 3rd and 4th year in medicine, midwifes studies and pharmacy. Based on self-questionnaire, data collected were motivations for health studies, investment in humanitarian associations, opinions about the GH topics. Results. A total of 422 students were included; 122 students attended to GH cursus (GH+) and 300 in control group (GH-). The students of the GH+ group were more likely to get involved in a humanitarian association (22.3% versus 6.7%, p<0.001) and to have already taken part in a humanitarian action (20.5% vs 9.3%, p=0.002). GH+ students were more likely to engage in professional practice abroad or in humanitarian medicine (67% versus 38%, p=0.001). Work in vulnerable populations, the impacts of climate change on health are frequent topics in GH+ group. Conclusions. Students enrolled in GH cursus presented a particular profile: predominantly female, open to The World, involved in caritative associations and aware of the importance of interculturality in the care relationship. Integrated training of future health workers is a promising avenue for a better management of effect of sanitary crisis (i.e. pandemic, climate change and health effects, etc.).

A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Publicly Available Sports Data in the Era of Big Data: A Scoping Review of the Literature on Major League Baseball

Sports big data has been an emerging research area in recent years. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the most frequent research topics, application areas, data sources, and data usage characteristics in the existing literature, in order to understand the development of data-driven baseball research and the multidisciplinary participation in the big data era. A scoping review was conducted, focusing on the diversity of using publicly available major league baseball data. Next, the co-occurrence analysis in bibliometrics was used to present a knowledge map of the reviewed literature. Finally, we propose a comprehensive baseball data research domain framework to visualize the ecosystem of publicly available sports data applications mapped to the four application domains in the big data maturity model. After searching and screening process from the Web of Science, Science Direct, and SPORTDiscus database, 48 relevant papers with clearly indicated data sources and data fields used were finally selected and full reviewed for advanced analysis. The most relevant research hotspots for sports data are sequentially economics and finance, sports injury, and sports performance evaluation. Subjects studied ranged from pitchers, position players, catchers, umpires, batters, free agents, and attendees. The most popular data sources are PITCHf/x, the Lahman Baseball Database, and baseball-reference.com. This review can serve as a valuable starting point for researchers to plan research strategies, to discover opportunities for cross-disciplinary research innovations, and to categorize their work in the context of the state of research.

Frequency of Neuroendocrine Tumor Studies: Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and HJ-Biplot Statistical Methods

Background: Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are severe and relatively rare and may affect any organ of the human body. The prevalence of NETs has increased in recent years; however, there seem to be more data on particular types, even though, despite the efforts of different guidelines, there is no consensus on how to identify different types of NETs. In this review, we investigated the countries that published the most articles about NETs, the most frequent organs affected, and the most common related topics. Methods: This work used the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) method to identify and interpret scientific information in relation to the categories in a set of documents. The HJ-Biplot method was also used to determine the relationship between the analyzed topics, by taking into consideration the years under study. Results: In this study, a literature review was conducted, from which a total of 7658 abstracts of scientific articles published between 1981 and 2020 were extracted. The United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Italy published the majority of studies on NETs, of which pancreatic tumors were the most studied. The five most frequent topics were t_21 (clinical benefit), t_11 (pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors), t_13 (patients one year after treatment), t_17 (prognosis of survival before and after resection), and t_3 (markers for carcinomas). Finally, the results were put through a two-way multivariate analysis (HJ-Biplot), which generated a new interpretation: we grouped topics by year and discovered which NETs were the most relevant for which years. Conclusions: The most frequent topics found in our review highlighted the severity of NETs: patients have a poor prognosis of survival and a high probability of tumor recurrence.

AI, Democracy, and the Importance of Asking the Right Questions

Democracy is widely praised as a great achievement of humanity. However, in recent years there has been an increasing amount of concern that its functioning across the world may be eroding. In response, efforts to combat such change are emerging. Considering the pervasiveness of technology and its increasing capabilities, it is no surprise that there has been much focus on the use of artificial intelligence(AI) to this end. Questions as to how AI can be best utilized to extend the reach of democracy to currently non-democratic countries, how the involvement in the democratic process of certain demographic groups (e.g. ethnic minorities, women, and young people) can be increased, etc. are frequent topics of discussion. In this article I would like not merely to question whether this is desirable but rather argue that we should be trying to envisage ways of using AI for the exact opposite purpose: that of replacing democratic systems with better alternatives.

AI & Democracy, and The Importance of Asking the Right Questions

Democracy is widely praised as a great achievement of humanity. However, in recent years there has been an increasing amount of concern that its functioning across the world may be eroding. In response, efforts to combat such change are emerging. Considering the pervasiveness of technology and its increasing capabilities, it is no surprise that there has been much focus on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to this end. Questions as to how AI can be best utilized to extend the reach of democracy to currently non-democratic countries, how the involvement in the democratic process of certain demographic groups (e.g. ethnic minorities, women, and young people) can be increased, etc. are frequent topics of discussion. In this article, I would like not merely to question whether this is desirable but rather argue that we should be trying to envisage ways of using AI for the exact opposite purpose: that of replacing democratic systems with better alternatives.

Knowledge Development Trajectories of the Radio Frequency Identification Domain: An Academic Study Based on Citation and Main Paths Analysis

The study collected papers on radio frequency identification (RFID) applications from an academic database to explore the topic’s development trajectory and predict future development trends. Overall, 3820 papers were collected, and citation networks were established on the basis of the literature references. Main path analysis was performed on the networks to determine the development trajectory of RFID applications. After clustering into groups, the results are twenty clusters, and six clusters with citation counts of more than 200 were obtained. Cluster and word cloud analyses were conducted, and the main research themes were identified: RFID applications in supply chain management, antenna design, collision prevention protocols, privacy and safety, tag sensors, and localization systems. Text mining was performed on the titles and abstracts of the papers to identify frequent keywords and topics of interest to researchers. Finally, statistical analysis of papers published in the previous 4 years revealed RFID applications in construction, aquaculture, and experimentation are less frequently discussed themes. This study provides planning directions for industry, and the findings serve as a reference for business domain. The integrated analysis successfully determined the trajectory of RFID-based technological development and applications as well as forecast the direction of future research.