Home City Research Articles

<b><i>The Iraqi governorates are classified according to the factors affecting maternal mortality at birth, using some hierarchical methods for cluster analysis.</i></b>

The research aims to study a very important topic, which is the classification of a group of factors affecting maternal mortality at birth, using one of the important statistical methods in classification, which is the hierarchical cluster analysis method, which in turn depends on data analysis and its adoption in classifying factors based on the clusters extracted from the analysis. Cluster analysis has many features and characteristics that facilitate the process of classification and aggregation, consisting of clusters whose vocabulary is similar to some characteristics and differs with the vocabulary of other clusters. Hierarchical cluster analysis can also display clustering results based on tree diagrams that show the steps of clustering, using hierarchical clustering methods (single link method, comprehensive linking method, central linking method, median linking method, hierarchical linking method) from the results of the hierarchical analysis methods. We note that these methods were similar in their results, all of them unanimously agreed that Salah al-Din governorate is the most affected by factors leading to maternal mortality, followed by the northern governorates (Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok), Anbar, and then the central regions represented by (the Nursing Home and Medical City).

Planting flowers for the bees: spirituality, emotion, and embodied subjectivities through relational practices of socioecological care

This research highlights the ways by which processes of caring for our environments can contribute to health and well-being for the minded body. Drawing upon rich ethnographic accounts of urban cultivation practices and experiences, this research unfolds in the birthplace of the ‘Healthy City’ concept—Kuching, Malaysia—which is an ethnically diverse city home to Chinese, Malay, and Indigenous groups. Building from situated political ecologies—and more specifically, emotional political ecology and the political ecology of religion—I examine the relational values produced through practices of urban cultivation and related benefits for mind-body-environments. I find spirituality, religion, gender, generation, class, and ethnicity are embodied in socionatural relationships facilitated through urban agriculture. Through affective encounters with non-human animals, spiritual meanings inferred from the materiality of plants, and strengthened socionatural relationships with friends, family, even strangers, and the divine, practices of urban cultivation can nurture minds, bodies, and environments in deeply interconnected ways. This adds to a growing literature that reveals the importance of relational values for well-being and argues that socionatural relationships of care can contribute to a meaningful life. With a careful attention to relational dynamics and differentiated embodied experiences, I show that cultivators engage in the production of ecologies of care that confront neoliberal modes of interacting with themselves and others. Recognizing that care is embodied, situated and political can foster more nuanced understandings of the politics of socioecological transformation.

STRATEGIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF POPULATION AND CIVIL REGISTRATION IN RECORDING MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES FOR THE CHINESE-INDONESIAN COMMUNITY IN SINGKAWANG, WEST KALIMANTAN PROVINCE

Singkawang is a city home to a majority Chinese-Indonesian population with diverse cultural practices, one of which is the tradition of photo marriage (kawin foto). Within the Chinese-Indonesian community, this practice is often considered sufficient without formally registering the marriage with the Department of Population and Civil Registration. Consequently, the ownership rate of marriage certificates among the Chinese-Indonesian community in Singkawang remains low. This study aims to explore the strategies employed by the Department of Population and Civil Registration to address the low rate of marriage certificate ownership, focusing on the cultural practices and traditions of the Chinese-Indonesian community as objects of the study. The study employs a descriptive qualitative method with an inductive approach. Data were collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. The data analysis technique utilized is the ASOCA framework, which includes Ability, Strength, Opportunity, Culture, and Agility. The findings of this study indicate that 1) the Department of Population and Civil Registration has implemented strategies to encourage marriage registration, which include socialization among the Chinese-Indonesian community regarding marriage registration, building collaborations among institutions as well as vihara (Buddhist temples) or klenteng (Chinese temples), improving public services, providing foreign language training for staff, and offering mobile or on-the-spot services. 2) The challenges identified include: limited public knowledge about marriage registration, the absence of formalized written agreements, the inability of some vihara and klenteng to issue marriage blessing certificates, a shortage of civil servants (ASN) in the Department of Population and Civil Registration, the inactive status of the Dukcapil Online system, and insufficient foreign language skills among staff members. 3) To address these challenges, the Department of Population and Civil Registration has conducted socialization to the community and submitted requests for additional civil servants. Keywords: Marriage Certificate, ASOCA, Photo Marriage, Chinese-Indonesian Community, Registration, Strategy.

Other Worlds Just Like This One: Enchantment at Meow Wolf’s “The House of Eternal Return”

Santa Fe, New Mexico is one of the most iconic cities in the United States, devoted to its distinctive architectural image. Meow Wolf (MW), a Santa Fe–based art collective that began in 2008, has gained widespread attention for their acid-dipped large-scale immersive installations because their first permanent location opened in their home city in 2016. This article interrogates what ideals the attraction depends on and unwittingly encourages, integrating architectural history, cultural, and ethnic studies, to challenge MW’s self-narration against their flagship product in a close reading of the attraction itself, blending ethnographic description, art reviews, and journalism. This article situates MW within a longer history of New Mexico’s tourist image and considers the relationship between artists and how we imagine or script fantasies about place.

A Deep Learning Framework with Learning without Forgetting for Intelligent Surveillance in IoT-enabled Home Environments in Smart Cities

Background: Internet of Things (IoT) technology in smart urban homes has revolutionised sophisticated monitoring. This progress uses interconnected devices and systems to improve security, resource management, and resident safety. Smart cities use technology to improve efficiency, sustainability, and quality. Internet of Things-enabled intelligent monitoring technologies are key to this goal. Objectives: Intelligent monitoring in IoT-enabled homes in smart cities improves security, convenience, and quality of life from advanced technologies. Using live monitoring and risk identification tools to quickly discover and resolve security breaches and suspicious activity to protect citizens. Intelligent devices allow homeowners to remotely control lighting, security locks, and surveillance cameras. Using advanced technologies to regulate heating, cooling, and lighting based on occupancy and usage. Method: This study introduces a deep learning architecture that uses LwF (Learning without Forgetting) to keep patterns while absorbing new data. The authors use IoT devices to collect and analyse data in real-time for monitoring and surveillance. They use sophisticated data preprocessing to handle IoT devices' massive data. The authors train the deep learning model with historical and real-time data and cross-validation to ensure resilience. Result: The proposed model has been validated on two different Robloflow datasets of 7382 images. The proposed model gains an accuracy level of 98.27%. The proposed Yolo-LwF model outperforms both the original Yolo and LwF models in terms of detection speed and adaptive learning. Conclusion: By raising the bar for intelligent monitoring solutions in smart cities, the suggested system is ideal for real-time, adaptive surveillance in IoT-enabled households. By embracing adaptability and knowledge retention, authors envision heightened security and safety levels in urban settings.

Shaping Tomorrow’s Chemistry: Reflections and Goals from IUPAC’s Vice President

Abstract I first heard about IUPAC in 1972 in undergraduate organic (nomenclature) lectures; I already knew about the Periodic Table from high school days, but I did not make the connection between this chemistry and the organisation named IUPAC until much later. In 1996, I became involved in planning for Australia to bid for a General Assembly (GA)/World Chemistry Congress (WCC); ultimately the bid was successful, and the meeting was held in my home city of Brisbane in July 2001. In the way, I learnt much about the various component parts of IUPAC while the Executive Secretary role, which I held for a trio of combined meetings including an Asian Chemistry Congress plus an Asian Federation of Medicinal Chemistry meeting, brought me into contact with the IUPAC leadership. I also interacted with Titular Members, many volunteers, as well as key movers and shakers within the chemistry field. And I got to know our wonderful current IUPAC staff members Fabienne Meyers and Enid Weatherwax.

Infrastructuring arrival and homemaking in COVID‐19 times: Experiences of newcomer Chinese students in Dutch cities

AbstractThis paper examines the experiences of newcomer Chinese students in Dutch cities during the COVID‐19 pandemic, building on three strands of literature on (i) arrival infrastructure, (ii) homemaking and (iii) the nature of conflating digital and offline spaces. Based on qualitative research findings from two research projects, the paper illustrates resilience among the students in infrastructuring their arrival and making a new home in an unfamiliar city that was rather inaccessible due to recurrent social distancing restrictions and incidents of ‘Corona racism’. Narratives of the research participants offer insights into their arrival experiences and homemaking practices in key interlinked life spaces, namely academic, residential and socialising spaces as well as spaces of interactions with the broader (unwelcoming) society. In addition to students' agency, our findings demonstrate the importance of (transnational) communal care and the role of the digital in students' arrival experiences and homemaking practices.

Conditions for higher education study: the perspectives of prospective students from rural areas

ABSTRACT Background Access to higher education in rural areas has been a recurring theme of debates and government inquiries in many countries in recent decades. Previous research is relatively unequivocal regarding the importance of higher education for regional or national development, identifying the local presence of highly educated individuals in a municipality as crucial for its prosperity and development. Purpose This study aims to contribute to the development of scientific knowledge regarding linguistic discursive representations by rurally located prospective university students in Sweden, of the conditions for further study at university level. Method A total of 23 qualitative interviews and/or discussion groups were held with 34 prospective university students in three rural municipalities in Sweden. Data were collected and analysed to answer the research question: How do prospective university students in rural areas describe the conditions for further study at the university level? Findings Prospective university students created and reproduced a series of linguistic representations in two discursive categories: (1) proximity/distance to study; and (2) education offerings. In the first category, narratives related to the physical distance to study; commuting by public transport or private car; and moving to the home city of a higher education institution. In the second category, narratives focused around the importance of location; remote learning; and doubts about pursuing higher education and/or making the right choice. Conclusion Linguistic representations in both categories were tense, balancing depictions of conflict and consensus. This balancing act represents a linguistic means of creating and re-creating cohesion, involvement, integration, participation, unity, and normality in the discourse and can be interpreted as a form of social pedagogical recognition that is important for the individual’s success in the context that the narratives reflect.

Home City Norms in Foreign Equity Size and the Isomorphic Decision of Firms in the ICT Sector

Home City Norms in Foreign Equity Size and the Isomorphic Decision of Firms in the ICT Sector

To Identify the Factors Affecting on Setup of New Township in MIDC Area

Increasing expenditures and financing charges on housing credits guarantee a property in a linked township springing up in the city's borders, making city home ownership increasingly inconvenient and expensive. These townships are billed as India's new land improvement strategy to satisfy urbanites' wealth and goals. Despite their initial launch, these independent townships with private, retail, and business operations will quickly spread across the country. Demographically, urbanization is the growing urban population of a nation. Due to rising urbanization, 52 percent of Maharashtra's population lived in urban areas in 2021, compared to 39 percent nationally. Given the expanding population in urban Maharashtra and Mumbai, the government has prioritized connecting new townships to better communication. Development is typically thought to improve people's lives. Net rural-to-urban migration drives most urbanization. Due to increased migration from rural to Pune city, population growth, traffic, drinking water, and other issues affect Pune residents' lifestyles. This study concentrates on Town-1 MIDC Park Project near Dehu and Jadhav Wadi. This area is neglected, but Maharashtra has allocated about 100 crores to develop it.

Voice interactive information metasurface system for simultaneous wireless information transmission and power transfer

Intelligent voice interaction offers a flexible and powerful way to connect individuals with smart devices beyond our expectations. The real-time nature of voice communication enables smart devices to comprehend the user language, execute the corresponding instructions, and facilitate seamless communications, transforming our lives in unprecedented ways. Owing to self-adaptive and reprogrammable functionalities, information metasurface (IMS) opens up a new avenue for smart home and smart cities. To further enhance the intelligence of IMS, we propose an IMS system via intelligent voice interaction and information processing. The voice interaction enables the efficient remote control on the IMS in a flexible, convenient, touchless manner. Leveraging speech recognition, speech synthesis, target detection, and communication technologies, the IMS system achieves automatic beam manipulation capabilities for wireless information transmissions and wireless power transfers. The IMS system is designed to operate in two distinct modes: instruction mode, wherein the user instructs the operations, and autonomous mode, wherein the automatic detections govern the actions, in which seamless mode switching through the voice commands is supported. Users can flexibly achieve precise control over the functions of the intelligent metasurface system through voice interaction at a distance, without the need for close-range manual touch control, which greatly simplifies the operation difficulty and is particularly suitable for remote control and complex application scenarios. A series of experiments, including wireless video transmissions and wireless power transfers are conducted to demonstrate the flexibility and convenience of the IMS system. The incorporation of intelligent voice interaction technology with the IMS presents a novel paradigm for the applications of programmable and information metasurfaces.

Confronting Inadequacy, Imposture, and Inaction: Ukraine, Hong Kong, and Difficult Knowledge

In this piece, I explore the deluge of thoughts and emotions triggered by the opportunity of writing about the war in Ukraine. Thinking with Noddings’s ethic of care, Britzman’s idea of difficult knowledge, Dewey’s and Ingold’s visions on education and commoning, and Probyn’s arguments on writing about affects, I reflect on academic practices of research and writing, what constitutes the urge of responding to the call for papers of this special issue, the affective response it sparks in me concerning my relation with my own home city, and some sense of how to move forward.

The Paradox of Choice in Palliative Care Decision-Making in Managed Long-Term Care: A Qualitative Study

Palliative care offers undeniable advantages to elderly patients with multiple chronic illnesses in managed long-term care. However, only approximately 14% of those who require palliative care actually receive it. To investigate factors influencing decision-making regarding palliative care acceptance, and healthcare providers’ communication strategies, which patients or family caregivers perceive during managed long-term care. Qualitative thematic content analysis study. Two data sources from home and community-based health care organization in a metropolitical city in the Northeastern United States were used: (a) retrospectively collected 79 phone call audio recordings between patients and/or family caregivers with healthcare providers when initiate palliative care option, and (b) prospectively collected 10 exploratory qualitative interviews with patients and/or family caregivers for this study purpose. From a total of 89 conversations, 7 themes emerged during palliative care decision-making: (a) capability for self-management; (b) symptom severity; (c) perceptions of chronic disease; (d) satisfaction with current health services; (e) code status; (f) caregiver burden and (g) other reasons, including financial considerations and service affiliations. In addition, from 10 qualitative interviews, 4 key themes in healthcare providers’ communication that optimize palliative care conversations were indicated: (i) trust and relationship dynamics; (ii) positive reinforcement and personal connection; (iii) conversation setting and initiator; and (iv) collaborative approach to care coordination. Enhancing decision-making around palliative care and improving acceptance of palliative care services may be improved through the integration of personalized care plans, empathetic communication, use of symptom-inclusive assessments for timely care, and proactively addressing caregiver burden.

Boomerang Entrepreneurs and the Declining Home City’s Place Image: Away on the Brain Drain Flow and Back on the Homesick Flow

Abstract Boomerang entrepreneurs (practicing and nascent entrepreneurs who return to their declining home cities after years away) may especially be an answer to the brain drain, suppressed innovation, and often tepid entrepreneurial ecosystem condition that plague declining cities such as U.S. Rust Belt cities. This conceptual article addresses how the declining home city’s place image might inform and promote a boomerang entrepreneur’s return migration and venturing decisions and with what implications for the place’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Even given homesickness, this kind of return migration is unlikely unless prospective boomerang entrepreneurs revise their place images of their old hometowns. We conceptually develop and support propositions on the relationships between place image and brain drain, between affect and both place image revision and entrepreneurial intentions, and between place image revision and both return migration intentions and entrepreneurial opportunity recognition. We also discuss implications for microfoundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems in declining cities, place branding that can encourage boomerang entrepreneurs’ place image revision and return migration to the declining home city, and related research data collection.

Design Of Karo Traditional Virtual Museum In Medan City

One of the biggest cities in Indonesia is Medan, which serves as the provincial capital of North Sumatra and is growing pretty quickly. There are many different cultures ingrained in the city of Medan itself. The several varied tribes who call the city home demonstrate this. In Indonesia, diversity and cultural distinctions are highly valued. As a result, it is imperative to conserve the artistic traditions of the many ethnic groups that make up Medan. A museum is, broadly speaking, an organization or non-profit that works to educate and serve the public. Its open-minded approach is used in the gathering, preservation, study, sharing, and public display of actual and virtual artifacts for educational purposes. both learning and enjoyment. A museum's primary purpose is to gather, preserve, and periodically display artifacts for the general public or select guests. The primary issue is that there is now no Karo Museum in Medan City, despite the fact that it is one of the biggest cities in Indonesia and was founded by a member of the Karo Tribe. Consequently, it is anticipated that the layout of the Karo Traditional Virtual Museum would offer more thorough historical details regarding the history of Medan City and the Karo Culture.

Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal

In response to the special issue on the Afghanistan War published by Armed Forces & Society, this article offers alternative perspectives regarding America’s longest war from the point of view of scholars who experienced the war firsthand and continue to live in its aftermath. We argue that Afghanistan was invaded by Western militaries who came to experience political failures and moral regrets. The soil could be conquered, but the Afghan nation has always strictly rejected foreign rulers and dictations. As our research critically evaluated the special issue articles published in the Armed Forces and Society Journal, we believe these articles fall short of reasonable analysis by only considering and analyzing the military strategies, war tactics, and failed stabilization efforts in Afghanistan. Civilian casualties owing to military operations by U.S.-led forces, not establishing an inclusive central government, strong resistance of the Taliban, ignoring the Afghan nation’s core ambitions, Pakistan’s double game policy, and high level of corruption led the U.S. to defeat. Nevertheless, we conclude that the U.S. approach to getting revenge for 9/11 victims and restoring their dignity through banzai attacks, blind bombardments, and night raids in civilians’ homes in Afghan cities and villages and taking innocent lives must be recognized, remembered, and condemned.

The Nutritional Status of Elderly People in A Nursing Home City of Sabzevar In 2015

Due to physiological changes in the elderly, elderly nutritional status in developing countries is an important issue that has received little attention. Nutritional factors on mortality, morbidity and quality of life are effective. Through epidemiological diseases, increased life expectancy and an increase in the number of old age, and consequently the number of elderly who need medical services will be added. Studies show that the turnout at the world's largest nutritional status, play a prominent role in health and disease and people 65 years and older for many low-income elderly and the poor, the most important factor. Known dietary factors, including chronic diseases, oral health problems, lack of emotional functioning, social isolation, taking multiple medications, socioeconomic status / F physical disability, sedentary lifestyle, depression and dementia, and reduced production gastric acid. The cognitive factors that make a person vulnerable to severe illnesses exhausted physical condition of the body and finally admitted to the hospital. Studies have shown that malnutrition is an independent risk factor for hospital admission in the elderly. Materials and Methods This study is a cross-sectional descriptive study population included all elderly men and women living in nursing homes has been a city of Sabzevar. 120 samples were randomly selected (60 males and 60 females). Collect data using observation and questionnaires were used. Anthropometric values weighing, measuring height, weight, body mass index (BMI) was calculated. Standard questionnaire MNA (Mini Nutritional Assessment) that was used for grading the nutritional condition of the elderly. Results Mother in a nursing home survey data show that 5 people suffer from malnutrition, 31 people were at risk of malnutrition and 14 normal powers. In the process of absorption of nutrients that are in trouble and have not enjoyed the life of a healthy lifestyle and diet has been previously Condition risk factors.

Yaşlı Bakımında Manevi Yönelimli Psiko-Eğitim Uygulamaları için İhtiyaç Analizi

In the world and Türkiye, elderly care’s importance is increasing day by day and new approaches are suggested. Those, aiming to support elders to live happier life, are valued by institutions and the academic world. The purpose of the study is to determine the spiritual needs of nursing home elders through literature review, observations, and bilateral interviews. Literature on spirituality in elderly care was searched; with ethical committee permission and institutional permission from the Ministry of Social Services, those were observed in nursing homes in Sinop, Konya and Kastamonu cities; bilateral interviews were held with 24 people. Exploratory design and phenomenological research method were followed up and several techniques were used to determine the elders’ spiritual needs. Studies relating to the subject were examined thorough literature review. Also, data were collected through interview questions and categorized. In the observation phase, data was collected by spending time in the nursing homes for three months. Data obtained from all were examined in coordination with each other. With those techniques, it has been determined that elders’ spiritual needs in nursing homes are concentrated on 13 topics: intention, towbah, spirituality as transcendental, positive thinking, love, shukr, sabr, tawakkul, forgiveness, loneliness, peace, wisdom, happiness.

Evaluation of Person-Centered Dementia Care Utilizing the CARES® Observational Tool

The training of staff in residential long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes and assisted living facilities, is increasingly being conducted via asynchronous, online training platforms. Even when organizations have in-person trainers to conduct synchronous training on-site or via online video tele-conferencing formats, a paucity of research has evaluated how training in any form affects staff members’ actual, observable, person-centered care practices, particularly when working with individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease or other related dementias (ADRD). This study sought to fill this gap by evaluating the impact of the two CARES® online dementia care training programs on staff members’ observable care practices, as measured by the CARES® Observational Tool (COT), a previously published person-centered observational tool.1 The study hypothesized that staff completion of the two CARES® online training programs would not only result in increased knowledge of ADRD and person-centered care practices within long-term care facilities, but also lead to an observable increase in the use of person-centered care practices, as measured by the COT. A single group pre-test/post-test design was used, which included a baseline, immediate post-test, and one-month post-test data collection interval among the entire staff of a memory care unit (N = 26) at a nursing home in a large Midwestern city in the United States. The results showed statistically significant increases in both ADRD knowledge (p < .0001) and observable person-centered care (p < .0001). The CARES® online training programs and the COT seem to offer a promising solution to address the ongoing and expanding gaps in delivering and demonstrating effective person-centered care to people living with dementia (PLWD) in residential long-term care.

Внебогослужебное духовное пение в российском культурном пространстве XVIII – начала XIX вв.

Out-liturgical spiritual singing in the 18th and early 19th centuries was represented by genres that were formed at various times. In this context the problem of identifying the mechanisms of adaptation of samples created in the previous period to the changed realities of New Age culture is of interest. On the example of spiritual songwriting of the inhabitants of the Old Believers' Vygo-Leksinskoye settlement, the peculiarities of the traditional genres that had developed earlier and appeared after the church schism are presented. The authors of these genres used artistic techniques typical of the New Age culture in their creation. The hook collections of verses that emerged in the Old Believers' environment contributed to the consolidation and spread of the repertoire. The enrichment of the artistic system of non-denominational spiritual singing in the 18th century with new samples was caused by the appearance of verse arrangements of psalms by V. K. Trediakovsky, M. V. Lomonosov, A. P. Sumarokov, and M. M. Kheraskov. The arrangements penetrated both the Old Believer performing environment and the musical life of the townspeople. Russian songs and romances became popular in home and salon music from the late 18th century, among which there are samples of spiritual content, as well as works that transform the spiritual text into sentimental love lyrics. As an example, M. V. Zubova's song "Ya v pustynyu udalyayus’ [I am going away to the desert]", created in 1770 on the basis of the psalm of the same name, is presented. In the context of the unfolding cultural dialogue between the capital and remote territories during the formation of the Russian Empire, the territorial distribution of samples of extra-liturgical spiritual singing is of interest. In the province, the traditions that had developed earlier were mainly preserved. Their main performer was Old Believers. The migratory nature of the Old Believer movement contributed to the geographical spread of works, which formed local specificity at the level of repertoire, principles of functioning, stylistics, and performing manner. Romances with a spiritual content, which emerged at the turn of the 18th–19th centuries, at that time sounded in the space of home and salon musicmaking in capitals and large cities. Later they would become widespread in the provinces, which would contribute to their further popularisation and repertoire enrichment.