Hot Potato Research Articles

지방 국립대 자율전공학부 신임교수의 대학혁신과정에서의 근무경험에 대한 자문화기술지

Objectives This study is about the experience of a professor who started working as a new professor in the Department of Liberal Study at a local national university and was appointed as a new professor in the process of establishing and operating the department according to the university innovation promoted by the Ministry of Education and the university's own innovation process. Methods We explored the process of being selected and appointed as a professor in the newly established Department of Liberal Study at a local national university located in Region J. While working as a new professor in the department, which is directly related to university innovation, I sought to express in-depth my experience in adjusting admissions units, establishing new educational units, consultation processes with university members, and operating new curricula. For this purpose, the autoethnography research method, which is a research method for one's own culture, was applied. Results By conducting this study, the following five research topics were derived. ｢① Universities’ hot potato ‘Department of Liberal Study’｣, ｢② New professors at the Department of Liberal Study who lack even the basics｣, ｢③ Establishment of new educational units facing various obstacles｣, ｢④ Survival and growth, and the life of a professor moving forward with reflection｣, ｢⑤ Department of Liberal Study moving to the forefront of change and innovation｣ Conclusions Based on these research results, we described the difficulties and adaptation problems of new professors in Department of Liberal study in relation to the non-major admission system. And We discussed ways to advance toward growth and reflection in the university innovation process, which is directly related to the sustainability and survival of the department. This study is significant in that it is the first study to reveal the work experience of a new professor in the Department of Liberal Study, and suggested follow-up research in terms of research subjects and research methods.

Passing the hot potato: a multinational study on public trust in the health policy process

Abstract Background Health data-sharing initiatives are central to European and national e-health strategies, aiming to improve healthcare quality, inform policymaking, and drive research. Public trust is crucial for their success, influencing public participation and policymakers’ legitimacy. This study investigates the role of public trust in the health policy process at both the European level and in Italy, France, and Switzerland to determine 1) if a common conceptual understanding of public trust across different countries and policy stages exists, and 2) if policymakers explicitly discuss and implement trust-building measures in their legislative work Methods A total of 60 interviews were conducted with 16 European, 15 Italian, 14 French, and 15 Swiss policymakers from the World Health Organization, the Council, Parliament, and Commission at the European level, along with representatives from the Ministry of Health, Parliament, regional councils, local health authorities, frontline staff, and relevant agencies at the national levels Results Preliminary results reveal that a common definition of public trust in health data sharing is missing. Associations to public trust are observed at the European level with citizens’ reassurance about their sensitive data being shared, and in Switzerland with data security. In France, public trust is connected to public engagement, while no distinct patterns were identified in Italy. Findings also reveal a consensus among interviewees on the central role public trust plays in health data-sharing initiatives; yet public trust is perceived as a vague concept, often addressed implicitly without a clear strategy Conclusions The study reveals widespread ambiguity among policymakers regarding the definition of public trust and its translation into policy. Practical guidance is crucial to effectively integrate elements of public trust into policymaking, thereby actively reinforcing trust in health data sharing through legislative efforts Key messages • While policymakers recognize the importance of public trust for data-driven health initiatives, they lack a common conceptual understanding on what trust is and how to build it. • Guidance is needed to help policymakers actively contributing building trust in health data sharing through their legislative work.

Concept Development of Multi Blade Potato Slicer

In Domestic field & Professional life situations like that where a home maker or Professional may need to use potato slicer to make potato chips. Usually, regular potato slicer is used by small and medium range hot potato chips maker, but it consumes both time and energy of the chips maker because of its single blade. By introducing multi-blade in potato slicer, we can save the energy and time of the chips maker. Potato slicer with multi blade will not only save the energy and time of the chips maker, it also increase the production rate of the potato chips. For example slicer with three blades will increase the 3 times production of the regular slicer.

Hot potato: Force-multiplying technological innovation for food and agricultural decarbonization

Despite being a widely recognized problem, there is little U.S. public sector support for development of technologies that can directly or indirectly mitigate agricultural emissions, particularly at the production step of the supply chain. Increasing government funding in research and development (R\&D) of food and agriculture innovations, such as rumen methane mitigation and alternative protein production could spur much needed innovation in mitigation of agricultural emissions and enable commercial adoption of these technologies.

My Mothers, My Others: A Conversation about a Hot Potato

ABSTRACT In the process of grieving the loss of her mother, the author notices her personal reluctance to engage emotionally and goes on to identify this as a familial trait. Intrigued as to how far her personal feelings might be affected by inherited reactions to trauma, she uses dialogical thinking to have a conversation with three generations of her deceased female relatives to explore material that has been ‘handed down’.

Does political distance spur populist reportage? media framing of a geopolitical conflict

ABSTRACT In 2019, the Indian government revoked Article 370 of its Constitution that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir – a state within India and the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan. It became a political hot potato, with both the Indian and foreign media vigorously covering it for months – quite often, exhibiting conflicting views. While the Indian mainstream media are proximal to the political establishment and – thanks to their habitual coverage of the decades-old Kashmir conflict – have an outstretched understanding of political players and diverse discourses, the geographical distance of foreign media could embolden an unschooled standpoint affording political-ideological variations. To examine the relevance of political distance and differences in media narratives, a content analysis was performed on 162 news articles, using five factors – sources, topics, tone, literary-rhetorical devices and frames. Study results indicate that geopolitical distance inspirits populist reportage characterized by an anti-establishment view and advocacy of rights and privileges of the people, with statistical differences exhibited in terms of topic and source selection (filtering through gatekeeping) and employment of frames and devices (as a part of wider discourses). While the Indian media was more pro-abrogation to preserve national interests, the foreign media substantially defended protest and violence.

Millennial nostalgia, social media with kids and connection via The Wiggles

The Wiggles are often called popular ‘children’s musicians’—yet their music and influence clearly extend beyond child audiences. Examining the period of the first COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia in 2020 and continued disruption into 2021, the article explores the ways The Wiggles used specialist recorded and live content to appeal to diverse groups of audiences, including co-watching/listening family groups, and older fans returning to the group as a form of musical nostalgic comfort. Particularly important during this period was the way The Wiggles used a number of social media outlets to allow for as many of their fans to engage with them as possible. The article includes a cultural history of key media posts and interactions between artists and families made during the time period 2020–21, and how these informed other forms of nostalgic engagement like the The Wiggles’ cover of Tame Impala’s ‘Elephant’, which won the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2021/2. Subsequently they have also been the subject of a 2023 documentary, ‘Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles’ (Sally Aitken, dir.). The preservation of fan and artist engagements like this demonstrate the continued importance of popular music during, and beyond, periods of crisis.

Hot potato causing full-thickness esophageal burn and perforation: a case report

Hot potato causing full-thickness esophageal burn and perforation: a case report

Passing the torch or the hot potato? Leadership in the wine industry: an empirical investigation

ABSTRACT Most studies that investigate sustainability across the wine industry and related support industries focus on the ‘triple-bottom-line.’ None directly consider company leadership as a sustainability driver. What skills will leaders of successive generations need? Two qualitative field research methodologies are used for this investigation: content analyses of published wine business case studies and focus groups with wine business leaders. Findings indicate that leaders continuously develop a combination of transactional and transformational skills and capabilities that comprise: (a) support from the previous generation, (b) emotional intelligence, (c) industry knowledge, and (d) active listening. A 2 × 2 matrix modeling optimal vs. sub-optimal leadership styles, as well as propositions for further research and implications for practitioners are presented.

Plating the hot potato: how to make intermediate bioenergy carriers an accelerator to a climate-neutral Europe

BackgroundWith sustainable bioenergy in the European energy mix, intermediate bioenergy carriers (IBC) become of growing importance, as they can ensure a more efficient utilisation of biomass feedstocks from agricultural and forest residues. A high potential for market uptake is foreseen for fast pyrolysis bio-oil (FPBO), one of several IBCs. While facing the chicken and egg problem in market entry, the aim of this study was the development of adequate strategies to support market implementation. The case study findings and methodological approach can provide policymakers, industry, and a broader audience with a vision for addressing similar challenges in market adoption of innovations in the bioeconomy and beyond. Therefore, we tested a new PESTEL + I approach and its practical applicability to an IBC value chain.ResultsWith an adopted PESTEL method, we analysed a promising value chain in which FPBO is produced from sawdust in Sweden and Finland, transported to the Netherlands and upgraded and marketed as a marine biofuel. Our results show that the market uptake of IBCs such as FPBO and subsequently produced biofuels is above all driven by the European Renewable Energy Directive II (RED II). In Annex IX Part A, sawdust is listed as a feedstock for advanced biofuels, which can be double counted towards the 14% renewable energy share goal in the transport sector in 2030. To support the use of advanced biofuels in the maritime and aviation sector, the proposal for revision of RED II 2021 contains a new multiplier (1.2x) for fuels delivered to these sectors, while all other multipliers are deleted. These legal European obligations and implementation into national law of member states create strong incentives for many downstream market actors to use advanced biofuel. However, technological challenges for FPBO use still hamper fast market introduction.ConclusionsOvercoming technology challenges and the creation of long-term validity of guidelines and regulatory framework will create stable market conditions, investment security and finally stimulate long-term offtake agreements between feedstock providers, technology developers and downstream customers. The approach and findings can provide a vision to overcome similar challenges in other bioeconomy innovations’ market uptake and beyond.

Passing on the hot potato. Dutch municipalities under financial pressure have incentives to shift the costs of social care for older people to the central government

In view of the impending ageing of the population, countries have been searching for ways to restructure their social care system. Reforms often involve a decentralisation of authority from central to local government. Although such a decentralisation presents the opportunity to be receptive to social demand, it could provide the incentive for local governments that bear the burden of the costs to (partly) transfer their costs back to the central level. In this paper we examine the impact of fiscal distress of municipalities on cost-shifting behaviour to the central long-term care system in the Netherlands. Using data on both the municipal level as well as the level of individual applicants for the period 2016–2019, we find that municipalities with fiscal distress in social care have higher percentages of applications for centrally funded long-term care. However, we also observe that higher percentages of applications and rejections are positively correlated suggesting that the Dutch independent need assessor has the capacity to (partly) discard cost-shifted applications.

A Research on Measuring the Impact of Olympic Games Based on MOIM Model

Due to the high cost of hosting, the Olympic Games have gone from being a "sweet pastry" to a "hot potato". To quantify the impact of the Olympic Games on the host country, the impact of the Olympic Games on the host country's economy, land use, satisfaction (athletes and spectators), travel, opportunities for future improvement, host city/country prestige, and environmental factors were considered in the selection of indicators, and the absolute and relative impact methods were used to classify these variables. In model building, the weights of the indicators were determined comprehensively by combining the subjective and objective methods of EWM-AHP to establish the Olympic Games Impact Metric (MOIM) measurement model. Finally, by constructing a functional relationship between the indicator variables and the degree of impact of the Olympic Games on the host country, TOPSIS analysis is applied to quantitatively measure the impact of the Olympic Games on the host country.

Political Barriers to Abortion Access in New Brunswick: A Qualitative Exploration of a Political Hot Potato

New Brunswick has been an outlier concerning abortion access for decades. In 2015, the Liberal government under Premier Brian Gallant made significant legislative changes to regulation 84–20 to make abortions more easily accessible in the province. Despite these changes, the Liberal government fell short of publicly funding community-based abortions outside hospitals. This qualitative study aimed to examine the political dynamic and pressures explaining why New Brunswick remains behind on abortion access compared to other Canadian provinces. From September until November 2020, we conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 22 participants. Participants were a mix of past and present politicians, health care leaders, and high-ranking public officials identified as key stakeholders in the abortion debate in New Brunswick. Some participants shared their challenges separating their personal views on abortions and admitted wanting to limit access to make it difficult for people to get an abortion. At the same time, other participants described concern for the most vulnerable segments of the New Brunswick population who may struggle with accessing abortions, leading to undue stress and anxiety levels. Ultimately, this article describes the challenges politicians face with power dynamics within their parties and the balance between managing political risks to maintain popularity within the New Brunswick electorate without infringing on people’s right to medical care.

In-Game Toxic Language Detection: Shared Task and Attention Residuals (Student Abstract)

In-game toxic language becomes the hot potato in the gaming industry and community. There have been several online game toxicity analysis frameworks and models proposed. However, it is still challenging to detect toxicity due to the nature of in-game chat, which has extremely short length. In this paper, we describe how the in-game toxic language shared task has been established using the real-world in-game chat data. In addition, we propose and introduce the model/framework for toxic language token tagging (slot filling) from the in-game chat. The data and code will be released.

A typology of resistance: the ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa

ABSTRACT Forced returns from Europe are politically highly sensitive across West Africa. Yet, there is enormous pressure from the European Union on West African governments to improve cooperation on returns. This paper seeks to answer how countries such as Nigeria, Senegal and The Gambia are resisting this pressure. Based on 129 qualitative interviews on both continents, the paper develops a typology that shows that states use a range of responses in the face of external and domestic pressures. These range from reluctant compliance to both reactive and proactive incompliances. States are likely to use all these strategies at different times, sometimes simultaneously. Thus, countries are resisting return, albeit in subtle ways given their asymmetric bargaining position.

Climate Change and ESG - Focused on Green Bond Design -

We investigate about climate change, which is now emerging as a hot potato, and realize its seriousness. To respond to climate change, carbon reduction strategies are vitally important. We examine the effect of carbon reduction on ESG score improvement and show the importance of ESG management by using the concept of green spread which is a financial environmental cleanliness measure. An aim of this study is to predict numerically the impact of carbon reduction on national cleanliness and economic benefits using the methodology of CO2 emission-backed securities.
 Also, we expect that this study gives countries an incentive to reduce their CO2 emissions and prepare for climate change.

EGA-Net: Edge feature enhancement and global information attention network for RGB-D salient object detection

With the supplement of texture and geometry cues in depth maps, salient object detection (SOD) shifts from 2D to 3D, aiming to detect the most attractive object in a pair of color and depth images. Previous work primarily focused on regional integrity. Few methods are used to improve the edge quality of prediction results, resulting in a final prediction with a complete structure but blurred edges. Moreover, due to the complexity of real-life scenarios, the problem of effectively separating the salient object from complex background has become a hot potato. Aiming to address these issues, we propose a novel network, EGA-Net, to improve the edge quality and highlight the main features of the salient object. Specifically, in the EGA-Net, we propose a feature interaction (FI) module and an edge feature enhancement (EFE) module, respectively. Among them, the FI module is used to remove unimodal feature redundancy, capture multi-modal feature complementarity, and reduce the contamination of low-quality depth maps. The EFE is used to improve the edge quality of the final salient object prediction results. Furthermore, a Global Information Guide Integration (GIGI) module has been proposed to suppress the background noise and effectively highlight the salient objects’ main features. It uses interleaving and fusion methods to automatically select and enhance the vital information in the original input features under the guidance of global features. We put the training of EGA-Net under the supervision of a new hybrid loss function that can simultaneously take global pixel point, foreground, and depth map quality into account. Quantitative and qualitative experiment results demonstrate that our method outperforms the 19 advanced methods on eight publicly available RGB-D salient object detection datasets with five evaluation metrics. You can find the code and results of our method athttps://github.com/guanyuzong/EGA-Net.

Becoming a “Gospel Woman”: agency, youth, and gender at a Charismatic church in Brighton and Hove, UK

ABSTRACT This article explores the paradoxical gendering of charisma in the lives of congregation members at a Charismatic Pentecostal church, the Church of Christ the King (CCK), in Brighton and Hove, UK. Gender is discussed as a ‘hot potato’ at CCK, a point of divergence and negotiation. I show how these dialogues are shaped by specific symbolic and embodied forms of gendered imagination and practice, which often operate counter to gender norms outside the Church. Looking at the intersection of youth and gender at the Church, I show how countercultural opposition serves to underwrite a culture of service and submission, which buttresses patriarchal authority and cements gendered hierarchies within the Church. As I argue, the overlooking of the relationship between religious leadership and gender is increasingly challenged by the younger generation bringing together self-making processes from both the sacred and the secular realm.

인터넷상의 악성댓글과 관련한 대응방안에 대한 고찰

Comments on the Internet are the result of responding behavior of recipients(readers) to posts in the Internet space and are written in the form of messages, whereas malicious comments are intentionally posted content that criticizes or ridicules the publisher or a specific person regardless of the content. can Therefore, malicious comments include abusive language or slander against others, invasion of privacy, promotion of violence or speculative behavior, obscene language, and spamming posts. However, the problem related to malicious comments has occurred since the use of the Internet became common, and it is not a problem of yesterday or today. Of course, in the past, the issue of malicious comments in media articles related to public figures (politicians, famous celebrities, sports stars, etc.) was mainly discussed, but recently, malicious comments against the general public have also become a social problem due to the influence of interactive media platforms. is beginning to be recognized. Accordingly, discussions on countermeasures related to malicious comments on posts mediated through media platforms have recently emerged as a hot potato in our society. In this paper, based on the content and implications of Japan's “Service Provider Liability Limitation Act”, which was recently revised as part of a consideration of countermeasures related to malicious comments on the Internet, appropriate regulatory types for service providers related to malicious comments were derived. So, we considered the desirable way to move forward.

Technical research of pyrolytic carbon black prepared on rotating moving bed equipment

Nowadays, waste tires have been one of the worst environmental pollution sources. How to solve the waste tires is a hot potato for the environment. Pyrolysis is one of the most commonly used method. In China, rotary kiln reactor has been widely used for pyrolysis and can be used as a large-scale production equipment form, but there is no mature case of rotating moving bed. In this paper, CBp was produced in rotating moving bed. The continuous pyrolysis device, rotating moving bed, which is a new type of equipment to replace the batch reactor. Temperature is studied as the most important character in the cracking process. The results showed that the productivity of CBp, Pyrolytic oil and gas were obviously affected by temperature. The oil could improve the compatibility of CBp with rubber, increasing the dispersion in rubber, resulted in the good reinforce property. High temperature causes more groups be detected on the surface of CBp by FT-IR spectrometer. The Payne effect of CBp reinforced NR compound increases with the increasing of pyrolysis temperature.