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Automatic insect identification system based on SE-ResNeXt

The Wudalianchi Scenic Area in Heilongjiang Province is the greatest place in the world to study species adaption and the evolution of biological communities. To solve the problems of heavy workload, poor timeliness, strong professionalism, and low accuracy in insect identification, an automatic insect identification system based on SE-ResNeXt is proposed. Firstly, to be suitable for the study of Wudalianchi insects, the dataset adopts the images of 105 species of eight orders insect in Wudalianchi. Then, through the comparison of three convolution neural networks, SE-ResNeXt has higher accuracy of insect identification than ResNet and Inception-V4, and its recall, precision, F1-score and accuracy all reach over 98%. Finally, based on Django framework, the website and app of system are built to realise the visualisation of identification results and the digital storage of insect data in Wudalianchi. The system has the characteristics of strong interactivity and convenient operation, and it was designed to provide technical assistance for insect protection, insect knowledge popularisation in agriculture and forestry, and a data foundation for the long-term evolution of insect variety in Wudalianchi, China.

Попытка реализации проекта «новый советский человек» в контексте региональных потребностей. На материале политпросвета Ставропольского округа в 1924–1925 гг.

The article deals with the process of party and state leadership in the area of cultural and educational work on the local level due to the strategic goal – upbringing «a new man» for communist future. It was revealed that in the process of implementing this goal in the regions, the task of matching the actions of local authorities with the formal requirements of the Center was brought to the fore and at the same time the issues that arose from the needs of the local community were resolved. Those were the difficulties of financial support, human resources at cultural and educational organizations and their work as well. The authors make the reconstruction of the main directions of cultural and educational work: schools, reading rooms, rural clubs, clubs, museums, libraries as the means for enlightenment and ideological and political influence on the adult, capable of functioning population of the country. On the local level the aim of the formation a “new man” was brought to a certain social practice, which was not always accepted with joy by the local population. On the one hand, it was an attempt to overcome the political ignorance of people, especially in the countryside, and on the other hand, all political and educational activities were seen as a means of attracting local residents to active social work. To a certain extent, it solved the problem linear personnel and fostered loyalty to the Soviet authority. The authors pay great attention to the elimination of illiteracy, which faced with the passivity of the population in the middle of 1920s. In the work, a great place is given to the financing all these activities, which was shifted to the regional budgets. In Stavropol, they were enhanced by the poverty of the district budget, the remoteness of the district from the Center and the relatively late final establishment of Soviet power in the region.

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Satisfação no trabalho e contexto de trabalho entre profissionais de reabilitação em Alagoas, Brasil: um estudo observacional

ABSTRACT Job satisfaction is multifactorial and is directly related to the quality of health services. The main objective of this study was to characterize the level of job satisfaction and the work context of the multidisciplinary teams in specialized rehabilitation services in the state of Alagoas, Brazil. We evaluated the professional profile of participants and sociodemographic information. The Work Context Assessment Scale (WCAS) which is divided into three dimensions and questions adapted from the satisfaction and remuneration dimensions of the Great Place to Work methodology for the Organizational Climate Survey, was used. We included 190 professionals, the mean age was 35.47±9.25 and 86.3% were women. Most participants worked in the capital (60%) and 84.7% had a monthly wage ranging from R$1,000 to R$3,000. The dimension of “work organization” was crucial. The items “pace of work,” “strong demand,” “performance monitoring,” and “repetitive tasks” presented the worst results, but 92.7% are satisfied with their professional activities. The logistic regression analysis showed that more years since graduation and lower scores of Work conditions and Socio-professional relationships were associated with higher job satisfaction. Job satisfaction was found to be high, the dimension of work organization was crucial, and almost half of the participants have already thought about leaving their careers.

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE GHAZAL OF JOSH MALIHABADI

Josh Malih Abadi's name has a unique place in the history of Urdu literature as a shining and brilliant chapter in terms of poetic aspects and creative energy. While Josh is a poet with a lively heart and mind and an open eye. With its free nature and a vast sea of words and phrases. Like the great poets, his style of using words and phrases is unparalleled and unique, and his great place in Urdu poetry is established with all distinctions. Josh wrote modern and ancient Ghazal like Hali and if there is anything wrong with the Ghazal, he tried to write it in a new style. It is as if Josh claimed to have included glorious subjects in the Ghazal, leaving out the general themes. Due to this effort, the new style of Ghazal has more resemblance to the poem. However, this ode-like Ghazali also has its own style and it has a very deep color of the individuality of passion. If think about it, in the Ghazal of passion, you can see beautiful and intoxicating performances about the beauty of the beloved, the colorful and charming nature of attractive nature, and the head of pleasure and fun.

SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS: DISCUSSION ON COVID-19 VACCINE SIDE EFFECTS IN A FORUM

Vaccines have been an important topic in recent years due to the prevalence of COVID-19. Discussions were mainly conducted online during this period, which makes COVID-19 discussion forums a great place to start examining the discourse surrounding this topic. The objective of this study is to examine the speech act strategies performed by participants in an online forum on their perception of COVID-19 vaccine side effects and how they promote or influence others with their viewpoints. The study extracted 7 pages or 105 posts, from a forum called Veda (Vestibular [inner-ear and brain balance] Disorder Association) as the data. Participants of different beliefs in the forum shared their thoughts upon taking the vaccine through the forum’s “Covid-19 Vaccine Side Effects” tab. Using Searle’s Speech Act Theory, the study first identified the types of speech acts performed. Then, each of the posts were categorised into three groups (pro, anti and vaccine-hesitant groups) based on the content and previous posts made by the same participant. Findings revealed that assertives (46.9%) were the most prominent speech act, amongst all three groups. The pro and anti groups who had a firmer position on vaccination used more assertives as compared to vaccine-hesitant groups who used slightly more directives to request answers or clarifications. Declaration (1.9%) speech acts were used the least frequently since participants did not possess a special institutional role to bring about changes in real-life other than possibly influencing the perceptions of other participants.Keywords: speech act theory, online forum, COVID-19, vaccines, computer-mediated communication, synchronous discussions

IMPACT OF MOBILE E-LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ON PROCESS PERFORMANCE AT UAE EDUCATION INDUSTRY

The aim of this research is to show the e-learning to be viable there should be proper technical assistance. Online instruction promotes learning by encouraging students to use the variety of learning resources at their disposal and boosting their level of commitment to their majors. The virtual world is a great place to study since it provides users with access to knowledge that has been earned through experience. This research helps to evaluate the educational performance through mobile e-learning management on the basis of literature, research studies, and journals.

Toward a sociology of evolution in the Anthropocene-Shared intentionality and cooperation through understanding minds.

Sociology has a long tradition of diagnosing contemporary societies, but little theoretical and empirical instruments for analyzing the long-term evolution of human coexistence. This goes hand in hand with a bias to disregard insights of evolutionary theory and research. The main argument here to develop is that a sociology of evolution should enter at the core of our discipline. This becomes even more important in the era of the Anthropocene as a new geo-chronological period of the planet's evolution that is characterized by substantial human influencing of planetary ecological mechanisms and could be found in earth sediments. If human intervention in the planet has reached such a scale that its future fate is no longer shaped mainly by natural cosmological laws, but by human intervention, then sociology has to broaden its temporal and substantive perspective; it should reflect more explicitly on the relationship between nature, culture, and technology. In what follows, we plead for giving evolutionary sociology, especially the long-term evolution of human coexistence between nature and culture, a greater place in sociology. To this end, we address three points. First, we ask why sociology is not concerned with the co-evolution of other creatures, but almost exclusively focused on the development and social change of humans over the short period of the last few centuries. Second, we argue that, with respect to the nature-culture relationship, sociology has essentially followed a questionable scientific division of labor, according to which the natural sciences deal with natural phenomena and sociology with sociocultural phenomena. Finally, we address the debate on the Anthropocene and distinguish between two ways of responding to the challenges it poses, namely with more technology or with more culture.

COSMOPOLITAN CAIRO OF THE 1920S AND THE QUEEN OF THE "TARAB"1 MUNIRA AL-MAHDIYYA

The 1920s were full of drastic changes in Egypt's political, social and cultural life. On the one hand, the new anti-European movement formed in the wake of the 1919 uprising, and on the other hand, the vibrant nightlife of cosmopolitan Cairo, were the two main lines defining the character of this period. In the 1920s, Cairo was also part of the great international disturbance. After the World War I, many people left Europe and moved to Cairo in search of new opportunities. The search for a new life led many of them to Azbakiya (الأزبكية), the center of Cairo's nightlife at that time. In the 1920s, Cairo also proved to be a great place for some African American musicians. In 1923, in a letter published in the American newspaper The Chicago Defender, two African American residents of Azbakiya wrote how they were fascinated by the Cairo nightlife where they decided to stay. In December 1922, the news of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb was covered by the world press. Egypt was on the front pages of magazines and newspapers, which brought even more fame to Cairo and even more people headed to its theaters, cabarets and clubs. In 1905, an influential person from Cairo listened to the little girl singing in one of the villages of Al-Sharqiya and, attracted by her voice, offered her to move to Cairo and sing in his cafe. This is how Munira started her musical journey in Cairo.

Sustaining New England's iconic tourism landscapes: An exploratory study to examine perceptions of value from farmers and fishermen

Tourism generates billions of dollars in New England. Maine and Vermont rely heavily on the iconic imagery of lobstering and dairy farming to attract visitors to their states. The collapse of either industry would not only deal a direct economic and cultural blow to their respective states but be compounded by their impact on the tourism industry. How do these industries work in symbiosis with tourism? From the biological world, symbiosis is the close interaction of two different species in a mutually beneficial or parasitic relationship. To what extent do these primary sector industries benefit from tourism and how might the benefits of tourism be more effectively shared with farmers and fishermen? Using in-depth interviews, this exploratory study captures perceptions of tourism’s value to farmers in Vermont and fishermen in Maine as a place to start this important conversation. While tourists consume less than 10% of the bounty from Vermont dairy farmers and Maine lobstermen, producers capture a variety of other benefits from tourism, including such economic benefits as the opportunity to promote their company or industry brand, attract new customers, generate supplemental income, and create employment opportunities, along with non-economic benefits such as the opportunity to provide authentic experiences, create great places, showcase their conservation efforts, and highlight their family’s pride and heritage. Public policy could redistribute the benefits of tourism to facilitate a more mutually beneficial symbiosis, including direct subsidies to producers, preservation of working landscapes, marketing and branding activities, and investment in cooperative infrastructure.

FERGANA VALLEY POPULATION OF ANCIENT FAITH AND PRIVATE RELIGIOUS CONSIDERATIONS

In the traditional culture of the ancient Fergana people, religious beliefs and views occupied a great place. Religious beliefs, while illuminating various aspects of the life of the ancient society, covered behavioral norms, social relations, aesthetic views, and others.In this article, as was the case in all nations in ancient times, in the Fergana Valley, the first forms of religion - fetishism, animism, sorcery (magic), totemism, worshiping the spirits of parents, shamanism and religious views related to Zoroastrianism were analyzed on the example of archeological finds. The purpose of the research is to reveal the history of the origins of the cultures of ancient peasant groups and herders of Fergana, as well as the history of socio-economic, cultural and religious beliefs and attitudes. This study was carried out wit

Reshaping social housing spaces as vibrant places Case study: Msaken el Magzar, Mansoura, Egypt

Developing a relationship to shape the integration of placemaking practices in social housing spaces is the main issue of this paper; where social housing is meant to be based on fulfilling the human needs of people in their places, while placemaking represents the suitable diverse, variable, and multi-scaled approach to root the social housing patterns in the urban context.This paper aims to extract a draft code to measure the applicability of placemaking characteristics of great places in social housing spaces to reach reasonable criteria for successful social housing places and to investigate the ability of these criteria to apply a new layer of socio-urban studies that deepen the relationship between man and urbanism yet enhances their impact on the environment. Through following qualitative and quantitative methods to deduct a formula to shape the relationship between social housing and placemaking, analyzing human needs theories to deduct social housing dimensions, integrating placemaking principles, and qualities to draft a code for social housing great places, and investigating the application of this code on the case of Msaken El Magzar in Mansoura, Egypt.Based on this, the research concludes with a proposed draft code of 3 levels 1) basic measurements of social housing dimensions and placemaking characteristics, 2) secondary requirements, and finally 3) standard indicators. The research suggests that this draft code should be investigated and activated through a set of questions to experts, shareholders, stakeholders, and, parties involved in the process of establishing and remaking successful places of social housing spaces.

ISLAMIC MURABAHA CONTRACTS AND ITS ROLE IN IMPROVING THE ECONOMIC LEVEL OF LIBYAN FAMILIES (AN ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE JUMHOURIA BANK)

Murabaha has a great place among the types of banking transactions in most Islamic countries. Murabaha under Islamic law means selling the commodity at the price at which it was bought and increasing the profit. The Bank of the Republic - which is considered the largest commercial bank affiliated to the Central Bank of Libya One of the most important findings of the study is that the Islamic Murabaha contracts in Jumhouria Bank are divided into two main types: 1-Murabaha for the order to buy “internal Murabaha”: It is conducted with individuals in the purchase of cars, furniture and others. 2-Import Murabaha: which takes place with companies by opening letters of credit to customers with a contract to sell goods with import Murabaha. Key words: Islamıc Murabaha Contracts; The Economic Level; Libyan Families

Feeding Innovation and Creativity [Editor’s Column

One of the main qualities of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) is to be at the crossroads between information and energy technologies. This characteristic makes our Society a great place for innovation. Its 24 technical committees, gathered in four clusters, are replete with talented individuals who are experts in their field. In such a buoyant context, your magazine, through the articles it offers, promises to feed the creativity of each of you, both readers and authors.

Assessment of soil properties from coir pith waste dump yard

The research region, Kallipatti, is surrounded by coconut farms, coir pith companies, and other businesses, and people report that water has become their primary concern in the last three years. Skin and eye allergies, as well as lung and throat infections, have been on the rise. Coir pith degrades slowly and can be found in the soil for long periods of time. Coir pith is tenacious and accumulates in the environment, generating hillocks that pollute the environment in locations near coir fibre extraction plants. These units contribute significantly to the pollution of the environment, both on land and in the water. Coir pith is easily blown by the wind, causing pollution in the air. The leaching of tannin and salts from coir pith hillocks during monsoon rains pollutes ground water, which is detrimental to fisheries, animals, and humans because most of these pollutants are difficult to remove using waste treatment procedures. Because of the vast quantities of coir pith kept, leachates containing residual phenol from these landfills seep into the soil, thereby polluting it. and causes contamination of ground water, especially during the rainy season. It’s a great place for rats and other bug pests to breed. Despite the fact that coir pith is a hazardous waste, it can be turned into beneficial organic manure by microbial breakdown. Pollution sources are identified, soil samples are taken, physical properties of the soil samples are measured, and critical nutrients for crop growth such as nitrogen and soil OC (organic carbon) are examined in this study. These criteria should be evaluated to determine the health of the soil. The results are compared to IS code 1498-1970 (Soil classification and identification) and IS 2720-1985 (Methods of testing for soils).

Teaching in a natural history museum: what can we learn from Estonian elementary school teachers?

AbstractNatural history museums are great places for learning new concepts and enhancing social skills and motivation. However, it is often difficult for teachers to make full use of the museum as a learning environment. Some teachers seem to be more successful than others in crossing the boundaries—they enjoy and value field trips and advocate for them in the teaching community. Such teachers are a valuable source of information on how to overcome factors that hinder field trips and support meaning-making in the museum. This study explored the practices of eight Estonian elementary school teachers who create, conduct, and analyse learning activities at a natural history museum without the direct help of museum educators. All participants frequently and willingly teach across different learning environments. A qualitative multiple case study strategy was used. The teachers were interviewed and learning activities were observed. Field notes, interview transcripts, lesson plans, and thick descriptions of observations were analysed. The participating teachers valued learning across different learning environments and were skilful in overcoming most problems connected to field trips. Teachers demonstrated supportive relationships with their students, which seemed pivotal in facilitating engagement. Estonian elementary teachers seem to have more autonomy in their teaching practices compared with their colleagues from other countries. However, participants struggled to use hands-on and interactive exhibits. This study highlighted the need for more collaboration between museum educators and Estonian elementary school teachers, especially in order to create more individualized and problem-solving oriented learning tasks.

Realistic Evaluation of the Integrated Electronic Diagnosis Approach (IeDA) for the Management of Childhood Illnesses at Primary Health Facilities in Burkina Faso.

In 2014, Terre des Hommes (Tdh) together with the Ministry of Health (MoH) launched the Integrated electronic Diagnosis Approach (IeDA) intervention in two regions of Burkina Faso consisting of supplying every health centre with a digital algorithm. A realistic evaluation was conducted to understand the implementation process, the mechanisms by which the IeDA intervention lead to change. Data collection took place between January 2016 and October 2017. Direct observation in health centres were conducted. In-depth interviews were conducted with 154 individuals including 92 healthcare workers (HCW) from health centres, 16 officers from district health authorities, 6 members of health centre management committees. In addition, 5 focus groups were organised with carers. The initial coding was based on a preliminary list of codes inspired by the middle-range theory (MRT). Our results showed that the adoption of the electronic protocol depended on a multiplicity of management practices including role distribution, team work, problem solving approach, task monitoring, training, supervision, support and recognition. Such changes lead to reorganising the health team and redistributing roles before and during consultation, and positive atmosphere that included recognition of each team member, organisational commitment and sense of belonging. Conditions for such management changes to be effective included open dialog at all levels of the system, a minimum of resources to cover the support services and supervision and regular discussions focusing on solving problems faced by health centre teams. This project reinforces the point that in a successful diffusion of IeDA, it is necessary to combine the introduction of technology with support and management mechanisms. It also important to highlight that managers' attitude plays a great place in the success of the intervention: open dialog and respect are crucial dimensions. This is aligned with the findings from other studies.

Intentional and unintentional benefits of minority writing accountability groups.

A faculty position can be a balancing act. Many new faculty, particularly minorities, struggle due to a lack of mentorship. Writing accountability groups (WAGs) offer new faculty an opportunity to glean advice from mentors and improve their writing skills and enhance their career development in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

A perspective for transforming central areas of South African cities into great places

ABSTRACT The city centres of South African cities are in the process of degeneration and need transformation. The study assessed the current scenario of the various physical, spatial, and socio-economic attributes of central areas of three South African cities and explored how they can be transformed into great places. The challenges related to physical and visual elements, liveability, social and cultural elements, productivity and sustainability, and human experience and richness were identified. Three important strategies that include community participation is likely to change perceptions and enhance belongingness and ownership, the integration of ICT and the revitalisation of public artefacts and places including cultural and tourist elements and enhancement of accessibility are found to be essential for the revitalisation of the city centres, enhancement of economic activities and vibrancy. Therefore, it is theorised that a combination of these strategies could transform the degenerating city centres into great places.