Interdisciplinary Subject Research Articles

Levels of incompetence. On the place of rationality in an irrational world

The phenomenon of incompetence as an interdisciplinary subject requires multiple analyses embracing various spheres of life, and scientists whose knowledge is limited to only one discipline may face difficulties in capturing the core of the issue. This article is based on a meta-reflection inspired by the discourse revealed in post-humanist and post-pandemic reality. Its aim is to define sources of irrationality, areas of ignorance and, above all, levels of incompetence to reveal the primary categories. One of the problems standing in the way of development is a lack of interest, which leads to ignorance. A limited number of experiences and stimuli different from those in our everyday lives can lead us to a perception of the world solely from our own perspective. In the political sphere, cooperation between the authorities and specialists for the good of the community is crucial. The greed for power and money is fatal, causing numerous abuses, scientific knowledge becomes “inconvenient”, so it is easier to ignore it. A lack of unanimity among researchers and a divergence of views, cause the people who are not fully aware of how science works to begin to doubt it, which increases the obstinacy of their own views. It is impossible not to question and to systematize knowledge completely; the problem arises at the level of the dissemination of knowledge. Moreover, emotions and the phenomenon of resentment play one of the key roles in rationality, and controlling them and continuing education can reduce the phenomenon of incompetence.

Strategic Planning and Safety of Mountainous Areas in Türkiye’s Public Administration Organization

Türkiye is a country with lots of mountainous areas. Türkiye’s total area is 782219.7269 km2 and 583770.9139 km2 of this total area is composed of mountainous areas. In other words, our country’s 74.63% consists of mountains. 50% of our country’s lands are higher than 1000 meters and 2/3 of the total area is above 500 meters of altitude. Studies have shown that Türkiye’s average height is higher than the continent of Asia. Mountains are being opened to settlement in an ever-increasing fashion starting from the foothills. Despite the climate changes and the increasing population on the mountains, there is still no mountainous area administration policy in Türkiye. Nevertheless, administration of mountainous areas is related to the important topic of sustainable society, sustainable resource management. In other terms, the issue is strongly related to the important matter of social development enhanced by the untouched and natural environment. Humans first need to design the environment that they live in. It is crucial to highlight the importance of mountainous areas and define multifaceted safety issues related to the features of those areas depending on their geographical position. There are lots of interdisciplinary subjects regarding mountains to be directly or indirectly studied. What is the important factor? Is it the organization? Or is it the effects of that organization? The answers to these questions lie in the lack of administrative awareness regarding mountains in Türkiye and the problems arising from the lack thereof. Accordingly, it is crucial to include the administration of mountains into the public administration agenda and adapt the current protective improvements regarding mountainous areas taking place in the Council of Europe of which Türkiye has been an official member of since 1950. Due to unplanned settlement and the lack of administration structure’s adaptation to new circumstances, we directly face serious threats listed below. The mountains and their administration should not be considered as another element of the bundle of human or nature-induced problems such as intense heats, intense cold temperatures, strong winds and storms, drought, falling rocks, landslides, fires, terror, and etc. The responsibility to separate the mountains from other issues, the need to turn the “planning and administration of mountainous areas” into a matter of public policy, preparation of action plans regarding the structure of the necessary organization and the safety of mountainous areas are all included in the scope of this study. In addition, the paper also includes an administration model suggested by the Council of Europe supported by the notes of the author taken during the Academic Workshop on Sustainable and Effective Administration of Mountainous Areas and Society 5.0 held on December 11, 2019 in Izmir with the help of the Governorship of Izmir in celebration of the International Mountain Day.

Analysis of Learning Components of Quantitative Reasoning in the Core Curriculum

Quantitative Reasoning (QR) requires students to think critically and to apply basic mathematics and statistics to interpret data, draw conclusions, and solve problems within a disciplinary or interdisciplinary context. In this study, the learning goal, learning content, learning method, and learning evaluation of QR were identified and analyzed. In other words, the learning components and characteristics of QR as a type of general education were examined. As a result, QR can be defined as follows:</br>1. a habit of mind and one of the practical intellectual abilities that should be developed as a core curriculum in general education.</br>2. integrated learning in an interdisciplinary context across the curriculum.</br>3. a problem-centered, active participatory approach to learning that focuses on the process of inquiry rather than the learning of fixed knowledge.</br>4. appropriate for process-oriented evaluation using a rubric.</br>5. allowing us to be critically informed as citizens of a democratic society.</br>QR thus takes on an over-arching status across the curriculum similar to effective communication skills. QR is an interdisciplinary subject that can be studied within various fields of learning, and can be opened in several departments with a focus on mathematics. Indeed, the call for QR to ‘permeate the curriculum’ and to become a centerpiece for interdisciplinary learning, linking a wide range of subjects to a common methodological framework, is highly recommended.

Archival Odds and Ends. What Can the Cartographic Source of 1701 Tell Us about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania?

Seeks to cover interdisciplinary research topics on book and digital media history and culture, including book history and historiography, traditional and digital publishing, research on media literacy and reading, printed and digital heritage etc. Indexed in the Scopus database from 2018.

The Lithuanian Standard for Information and Documentation Terminology

Seeks to cover interdisciplinary research topics on book and digital media history and culture, including book history and historiography, traditional and digital publishing, research on media literacy and reading, printed and digital heritage etc. Indexed in the Scopus database from 2018.

Wilderness in Ruskin Bond’s Dust on the Mountains

Throughout reading short stories one realizes how the most fundamental stories of Indian culture also narrate tales of human existence. The Pañcatantra fables written in Sanskrit have also originated in India addressed to children that have stories that have been tailored distinctively to the evident needs of the child. Most of these stories are immersed in the Indian culture in which children grow up. Interestingly, Ruskin Bond as a story writer focuses on the epistemological foundation of the stories while incorporating fiction and personal experiences and, at the same time, with ecological concerns. His stories then become an assortment of experiences and anecdotes to understand the postulate in the story of humanity and the wilderness. This research paper is a study of Bond’s Dust on the Mountains that examines the stories as an expression of the narratives of civilization and wilderness. The aim of this paper is not only to read the book of stories that bridge different interdisciplinary subjects defining and describing wilderness but also to explore how the narrative speaks to readers with a wide range of backgrounds and interests. The study incorporates an ecocritical perspective to examine the metanarrative that frames both author’s and readers’ imagination, perception, and way of life.

The Relationship Between Organizational Commitment and Work Alienation: A Study on the Health Sector

Alienation, which is built on Hegel’s social psychology studies and Karl Marx’s philosophical studies, is considered to be an increasingly important problem as an interdisciplinary subject. Work alienation is a state of incompatibility that occurs as a result of the individual’s getting distanced from himself/herself and society. It is important to handle this state of incompatibility, which is affected by external and internal factors, from an administrative point of view. In this connection, the purpose of the current study is to determine the level of work alienation of employees and the effect of alienation on the level of organizational commitment. The study employed the questionnaire method to collect data. The population of the study consists of health sector workers in the city of İstanbul. The sample of the study is comprised of 322 people selected from the population by using the random sampling method. Correlation and regression analysis methods were used to determine the interaction between the perceptions of organizational commitment and work alienation. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that there is a negative and significant correlation between work alienation and organizational commitment.

Review of Visual Saliency Prediction: Development Process from Neurobiological Basis to Deep Models

The human attention mechanism can be understood and simulated by closely associating the saliency prediction task to neuroscience and psychology. Furthermore, saliency prediction is widely used in computer vision and interdisciplinary subjects. In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning, deep models have made amazing achievements in saliency prediction. Deep learning models can automatically learn features, thus solving many drawbacks of the classic models, such as handcrafted features and task settings, among others. Nevertheless, the deep models still have some limitations, for example in tasks involving multi-modality and semantic understanding. This study focuses on summarizing the relevant achievements in the field of saliency prediction, including the early neurological and psychological mechanisms and the guiding role of classic models, followed by the development process and data comparison of classic and deep saliency prediction models. This study also discusses the relationship between the model and human vision, as well as the factors that cause the semantic gaps, the influences of attention in cognitive research, the limitations of the saliency model, and the emerging applications, to provide new saliency predictions for follow-up work and the necessary help and advice.

GLOBALIZATION AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR GEORGIA

. To define the conceptual vision of the unified development of Georgia, it is necessary to understand it as a systemic process against the background of continuous historical and civilizational progress, which emphasizes the main features of the dynamic picture from time immemorial to the present. These visions have largely led to the development of the Georgian. National Security Concept. The geo-economic strategy of the country is an important part of it. Geoeconomics as a separate science emerged in the late twentieth century and studies the interaction between the man and the space. The formation of geoeconomic science is linked to the emergence of global economic problems. A characteristic feature of modernity has been the shift of the center of gravity of the struggle against the government to the economic sphere. Problems that have been solved by force of arms for centuries are finally being solved on the basis of finances and information. Economic wars have largely replaced conventional warfare. According to the American Scientists, Robert Blackville and Jennifer M. Harris's three-component definition, geoeconomics is the use of economic tools: to pursue and protect national interests; to achieve positive geopolitical results. Currently, in theory, geopolitical applications have seven economic instruments: trade policy, investment policy, economic and financial sanctions, cyber attacks, economic development assistance, financial and monetary policy, energy and commodity policy. They may be very different from each other, but it still makes sense to discuss them together. Geoeconomics is an interdisciplinary subject. It allows you to study and connect the best of different subjects around one topic. Therefore, the role of geoeconomics in the preparation of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students of economic profile is important. It allows to strengthen the interdisciplinary academic approach which will facilitate the optimal use of geo-economic instruments and the country's geo-economic potential for the interests of Georgia. The National Security Concept of Georgia, in order to realize and dispute the national interests of Georgia, analyzes the threats, risks and challenges facing Georgia and defines the main directions of Georgia's security policy. The use of geo-economic instruments plays an important role in the implementation of this policy.

American fall webworm in China: A new case of global biological invasions

American fall webworm in China: A new case of global biological invasions

Project-Based Learning on the Topic of Aromatic Wax Production

Project-based learning is one of the most effective and successful teaching methods for STEM topics. Project-based teaching is an open-ended teaching method that helps teachers stimulate students’ initiative and teamwork skills and promote creativity. Of the interdisciplinary STEM topics, teaching students how to produce aromatic wax proved an interesting topic, causing excitement to students. Through collaborative teaching, this research has shown that students are very interested in learning to produce aromatic wax. The research results also show that there are five factors that greatly affect project-based teaching: (1) Teachers must split the class into groups to implement projects effectively; (2) Topics must be attractive and motivate students to appreciate, explore and produce STEM products; (3) Students must have a positive attitude, unafraid of encountering difficulties and challenges in completing STEM tasks; (4) Students must be competent to implement STEM products; (5) Students must be facilitated by their school and their parents to complete the STEM tasks. The research findings have important implications for proposing a specific project-based learning curriculum on the STEM topic of aromatic wax production.

DESEMPENHO DE ALGORITMOS QUÂNTICOS E CLÁSSICOS EM TREINAMENTO DE MACHINE LEARNING SUPERVISIONADO

This article addresses the interdisciplinary theme of Quantum Computing with Machine Learning, two technologies potentially capable of making changes in how computing is performed, solving initially unsolvable problems. The focus of this research was Quantum Computing applications that result in computational performance gain in specific Machine Learning tasks. The objective is to analyze the feasibility of using quantum algorithms for Machine Learning. More specifically, to analyze which quantum algorithms can be applied to Machine Learning tasks, compared to classical algorithms, in the search for better performance. For the development of the research, a bibliographic review of quantum algorithms was carried out and, subsequently, the implementation and performance verification of the quantum algorithm QSVM and its corresponding classic version SVM, in supervised learning with the AD HOC and IRIS datasets.

Palindromes in the school

Various palindromes are considered: words, sentences, numbers, polynomials. The topic could be offered as interdisciplinary theme for high school.

Impact of poetry-based ethics education on the moral sensitivity of nurses: A semi-experimental study.

The nurses' moral sensitivity is the first step to make right decisions in difficult moral situations. Therefore, its education and promotion is highly important. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of poetry-based ethics education on the nurses' moral sensitivity. This was a semi-experimental study. The sample consisted of 108 nurses who were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to three groups: intervention with poetry (G1), who read a booklet about values and principles of professional ethics as well as poems related to these subjects for 1 month; intervention without poetry (G2), who only read the booklet without any poetry; and control group (G3), who did not receive any intervention. Data were collected by Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire that was completed by the participants prior to the intervention (T1), 1-month post-intervention (T2), and 2-month post-intervention (T3). Data were analyzed by SPSS 16 software. This study was conducted in accord with the principles of research ethics and regulations relating to informed consent. Changes in the mean score of total moral sensitivity were significantly higher in G1 than in G2, which was in turn significantly higher than in G3. This increase was significant from T1 to T2 and T2 to T3 (P < 0.001). In all subscales, there was a significant difference between the mean changes in the three groups, so that in these subscales, the mean changes in G1 were significantly higher than those in other groups. In line with previous studies, our results showed the effectiveness of poetry-based education on the transfer of educational concepts and increase moral sensitivity scores with greater lasting effect. The use of interdisciplinary subjects such as poetry, due to its entertaining, fun, and lasting effect on minds; level of awareness; and actions of nurses, can help raise nursing moral sensitivity.

PREFACE

The 13th International Scientific Conference of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the PhD. students and young scientists below 35 years - Young Scientists 2021 (YS21) under auspices of- assoc. prof. Peter Mésároš, the dean of the Civil Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Košice,- Ing. Andrej Doležal, the Minister of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic,- Mgr. Branislav Gröhling, the Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, and- Ján Budaj, the Minister of Environment of the Slovak Republic,was held in Štrbské Pleso, the High Tatras, Slovakia on 13th - 15th October 2021. The traditional meeting of PhD. students, their supervisors and young scientists working in the field of civil and environmental engineering was organised by the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia.The Young Scientist 2021 offered an international platform for the dissemination of the original research results. It provides a pleasant environment to present a new, great ideas of young researchers and discovered advances in the field of civil and environmental engineering and related interdisciplinary topics. The conference provided an opportunity for PhD. students and young researchers to discussed scientific topics and research results, to share their knowledge and experiences, to collaborate in innovative designs and proposals.List of Editors, Committees, Review Statement are available in this pdf.

Evaluating the impact of the first 10 years of the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership

AbstractConservation lacks sufficient well-trained leaders who are empowered to catalyse positive change for the natural world. Addressing this need, the University of Cambridge launched a Masters in Conservation Leadership in 2010. The degree includes several features designed to enhance its impact. Firstly, it recruits international, gender-balanced cohorts of mid-career professionals, building leadership capacity in the Global South and providing a rich environment for peer learning. Secondly, teaching includes applied leadership training in topics such as fundraising, leading people and networking, as well as interdisciplinary academic topics. Thirdly, the degree is delivered through the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, a partnership of international NGOs and networks, facilitating extensive practitioner-led and experiential learning. We present details of programme design and evaluate the impact of the Masters after 10 years, using data from course records, student and alumni perspectives, and interviews with key stakeholders. The course has broadly succeeded in its design and recruitment objectives. Self-assessed leadership capabilities, career responsibilities and the overall impact of alumni increased significantly 5 years after graduation. However, specific impacts of alumni in certain areas, such as on their professional colleagues, have been less clear. We conclude by outlining future plans for the Masters in light of growing demands on conservation leaders and the changing landscape of leadership capacity development. These include reforms to course structure and assessment, long-term support to the alumni network and developing a conservation leadership community of practice.

Teaching alcohol and smoking counselling in times of COVID-19 to 6th-semester medical students: experiences with a digital-only and a blended learning teaching approach using role-play and feedback.

Objectives: Digital teaching formats have seen increased use, and not just since the beginning of the pandemic. They can also be used to teach cognitive, practical and communicative learning objectives effectively. We describe the implementation of an online-only course on alcohol/smoking counselling in the COVID-19 summer semester (SS) 2020 and an inverted classroom (IC) concept in the winter semester (WS) 2020/21 at the University Hospital of Würzburg. Methodology: The interdisciplinary subject of “prevention” teaches students about high-risk alcohol consumption/smoking and how to conduct a brief verbal intervention. All 143 (SS) and 131 (WS) 6th-semester medical students completed a 90-minute course: module 1 included a Prezi® presentation on alcohol/smoking basics. Module 2 introduced a counselling concept (alcohol or smoking) online or classroom-based (WS only), depending on the participants’ choice. In the online practical component, each student created a counselling video and reflections at home, and later received written feedback from lecturers/tutors. Supervised role-playing was used in the classroom-based format in the WS. There were 2 exam questions on module 1 at the end of each semester.Results: The students surveyed (11%) were satisfied with module 1. Practical exercises and feedback received praise in the evaluation of the classroom-based format (response: 97%). It was not possible for all students to perform counselling due to time constraints. A majority of participants filmed live role-playing in the online practical component. The exam questions were answered correctly by 31% (SS) and 36% (WS) respectively.Conclusions: Counselling can also be taught digitally: creating one’s own videos with delayed written feedback is an innovative form of teaching. We are now aiming for a mix of both aspects as an IC with 90 minutes of classroom-based practical exercises.

Local food research: a bibliometric review using Citespace II (1970–2020)

PurposeIn recent years, one of the most important and active research areas has been local food. This study aims to examine the evolution and trends of local food research in several disciplines or fields in the 50 years, highlighting emerging research themes, collaborations such as authors, institutions, journals and co-citations such as documents, authors and journals.Design/methodology/approachA total of 869 local food-related articles from the Web of Science (WoS) database from 1970 to 2020 were analyzed by several bibliometric analyses using CiteSpace II software.FindingsThe findings indicate that the number of studies in the local food field has increased rapidly and it is an interdisciplinary subject. Moreover, the results indicate that there is partly collaboration among authors, institutions or countries that conduct research on local food. For example, the most productive authors in this field are in USA, India, Brazil and European countries. Another remarkable result of this study is that tourism and hospitality discipline has focused on local food subject, especially in the last five years.Originality/valueThis is one of the first attempts by using network analysis to directly understand and visualize the interrelated structures of the local food research. Furthermore, the results of this study may provide researchers a reference guide to better evaluate and monitor local food research.

Coauthorship Network Mining for Scholar Communication and Collaboration Path Recommendation

With the increasing penetration of interdisciplinary subjects, it is more difficult for researchers to complete a paper individually, showing that the division of labor can improve the level and efficiency of scientific research. Thus, collaboration among multiple scholars has become a trend in academic research. However, because the numbers of scholars and papers are increasing and cooperation between scholars has become more frequent in recent years, it is an increasingly challenging task to discover useful knowledge resources for researchers. Against the background of big data, how to help scholars quickly find interested target collaborators, encourage them to participate more actively in academic communication, and create high-quality achievements in scientific research has become a significant problem. Considering this challenge, this article proposes a framework of coauthorship strength, author contribution, and search (CCS，taking the first letter of the keyword), which is based on the coauthorship feature of Google Academics. In CSS, we combined the search algorithm to select the optimal connection path to help scholars find interested target scholars efficiently and to better solve practical application problems. Finally, our proposal is evaluated by a set of experiments based on a real-world dataset. Experimental results of our approach show better search outcomes compared to other competitive approaches.

Preface

The title of the Conference XXI Conference of PhD Students and Young Scientists “Interdisciplinary topics in mining and geology” The location and the date of the conference virtual event - online conference, Poland, June 23-25, 2021 XXIth Conference of PhD Students and Young Scientists “Interdisciplinary topics in mining and geology” continues a series of events that started in 2000 at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. Scientific programme of the Conference focuses on four thematic panels:1. Mining Engineering: sustainable development, digitalisation in mining, problems of securing, protecting and using remnants of old mining works, underground mining, opencast mining, mineral processing, waste management, mining machinery, mine transport, economics in mining, mining aeronautics, ventilation and air conditioning in mines2. Earth and Space Science: geology, hydrogeology, extraterrestrial resources, groundwater and medicinal waters, geotourism3. Geoengineering: environmental protection, applied geotechnics, rock and soil mechanics, geohazards4. Geoinformation: mining geodesy, GIS, photogrammetry and remote sensing, geodata modeling and analysis.List of Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee, Editorial Team are available in this pdf.