Creation Of Links Research Articles

Valuation of Risk Management in Construction Projects Through the Use of Feedback Mechanisms

Experience feedback data can have different types depending on the civil engineering sector for example experimental measurements, expert information, visual observation, these formats can provide several different practices for capitalizing on experience feedback, processing and finally valuation of the information capitalized for the diagnosis. The current article addresses the application of experience feedback to construction sites. As we shall argue, if the concept of experience feedback is applicable it would appear that the devices implemented in the construction sites are not taken into consideration and that, consequently, this sector faces significant risks. This present study enables us to propose an approach to improve experience feedback by taking into account the existence of different practices in a construction site. We shall argue that the implementation of a safety case makes it possible to promote the creation of a communication link between community of practice centered around experience feedback (REX) which systematically promotes the improvement of the practice of this device.

An overview of chemo- and site-selectivity aspects in the chemical conjugation of proteins.

The bioconjugation of proteins—that is, the creation of a covalent link between a protein and any other molecule—has been studied for decades, partly because of the numerous applications of protein conjugates, but also due to the technical challenge it represents. Indeed, proteins possess inner physico-chemical properties—they are sensitive and polynucleophilic macromolecules—that make them complex substrates in conjugation reactions. This complexity arises from the mild conditions imposed by their sensitivity but also from selectivity issues, viz the precise control of the conjugation site on the protein. After decades of research, strategies and reagents have been developed to address two aspects of this selectivity: chemoselectivity—harnessing the reacting chemical functionality—and site-selectivity—controlling the reacting amino acid residue—most notably thanks to the participation of synthetic chemistry in this effort. This review offers an overview of these chemical bioconjugation strategies, insisting on those employing native proteins as substrates, and shows that the field is active and exciting, especially for synthetic chemists seeking new challenges.

МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЕ ТРАНСПОРТНЫЕ КОРИДОРЫ КАК ОСНОВНОЙ ДРАЙВЕР ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО РОСТА ГОСУДАРСТВ – ЧЛЕНОВ ЕВРАЗИЙСКОГО ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО СОЮЗА

The article is devoted to the issues of dynamic development of the infrastructure of international transport corridors in the Eurasian space. The authors presents the “digital storefront” model for the functioning of the transport corridors of the EAEU in order to modernize and optimize the automobile, railway infrastructure and waterways, the need to introduce digitalization in transport, the formation of modern logistics and management schemes, which ultimately should lead to the creation of reliable and well-established transport links.

Specialized Class of Creation Psychological and Pedagogical Direction with Profile Training at the Secondary School

The article is devoted to the description of the experience of creating a specialized class of psychological and pedagogical orientation in a secondary school. The article outlines the organizational directions of its gradual formation, outlines the content component of each stage of the functioning of the psychological and pedagogical class, and determines the theoretical ideas of its creation. The purpose of the article is to describe the experience of creating a specialized class of psychological and pedagogical orientation in a secondary school. Methodology and methods of research. The theoretical basis of the process of organizing a specialized class of psychological and pedagogical direction is the ideas of P. K. Engelmeer, L. S. Vygotsky, B. M. Teplov, Yu. Z. Gilbukh. The main research methods are the analysis of scientific literature, generalization and modeling. The results of the study. In the course of the work carried out, the organizational directions of the phased formation of a specialized class of psychological and pedagogical direction in a comprehensive school are outlined. In conclusion, it is concluded that the creation of a specialized psychological and pedagogical class contributes to an increase in the proportion of graduates who have chosen professional psychological and pedagogical education programs; an increase in the number of students involved in continuing education; the organization of a psychological and pedagogical service to support the learning process in a specialized class; the creation of systemic links with universities.

PEDESTRAIN OVERPASSES IN THE COMPLEX TRANSFORMATION OF DEVASTED CITY TERRITORIES

The preservation of the historical, urban planning and architectural heritage of historical cities requires a special approach to the environment modernization. The modern period is characterized by the search for new safe waste management algorithms. It often leads to the construction of large-scale discordant objects. This process puts forward new requirements for the preservation of the visual protection zones of cultural heritage objects. The article is devoted to a promising strategy for optimizing of devastated territories. It includes the creation of overpass pedestrian links, which can be an additional source of landscaping, as well as open up new opportunities for the transit of engineering networks. The article analyzes the possibility of using such architectural and spatial solutions to modernize the waste management infrastructure of urban devastated.

Ecology-oriented social entrepreneurship: analysis of waste management legal regulation in Russia

The article deals with the main issues of municipal and industrial waste management legal regulation. The authors substantiate the idea that waste management entrepreneurs are environmental entrepreneurs, which in turn belong to social entrepreneurship. The relevance of legal research on the regulation of environmental-oriented social entrepreneurship lies in the fact that the system of legal regulation of environmental entrepreneurship has not been formed. Moreover, environmental entrepreneurship is not classified as social entrepreneurship. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the concept according to which entrepreneurial activity in the field of waste recycling and environmental protection should be considered through the prism of social entrepreneurship. The leading approach is dialectics, analysis, synthesis, deduction, formal legal method and comparative legal method. Conclusions: The performed analysis can contribute to the creation of developed environmental-entrepreneurial relations in Russia, which is achieved by building a verified conceptual and categorical apparatus, defining a model of legal regulation. Legislative regulation related to waste management is new, unsystematic, declarative and sometimes contradictory. To implement an effective waste management system, it is necessary to create an open and understandable waste management system, where citizens, legal entities and government bodies will be involved and motivated for its implementation. It is required to exclude the creation of intermediate links, such as regional operators, since their existence only causes a negative reaction from society. Acknowledgments: The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-011-00222.

Analyzing Contextual Linking of Heterogeneous Information Models from the Domains BIM and UIM

Information models from the domains Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Urban Information Modeling (UIM) are generally considered as information silos due to their heterogeneous character. These information silos can be bridged through linking where corresponding objects are identified and linked subsequently. However, whether two objects are considered as corresponding might depend on the scenario for which the links are created. The dependency of the link creation and the scenario refers to the term contextual linking and is analyzed in this paper with respect to building and city models. Therefore, different situational aspects influencing the link creation are discussed. Afterwards, the issue of contextual linking is demonstrated based on three different integration scenarios. In summary, this paper has three major outcomes: First, this paper introduces an application-oriented perspective on information integration and emphasize the role of the application when linking heterogeneous information models. Second, this paper shows that linking heterogeneous information models from the domains BIM and UIM at instance level depends on the scenario. Third, the results of the discourse about contextual linking serve as a framework supporting the design and development of artifacts for linking heterogeneous information models from the domains BIM and UIM.

The essential synchronization backbone problem.

Network optimization strategies for the process of synchronization have generally focused on the re-wiring or re-weighting of links in order to (1) expand the range of coupling strengths that achieve synchronization, (2) expand the basin of attraction for the synchronization manifold, or (3) lower the average time to synchronization. A new optimization goal is proposed in seeking the minimum subset of the edge set of the original network that enables the same essential ability to synchronize in that the synchronization manifolds have conjugate stability. We call this type of minimal spanning subgraph an essential synchronization backbone of the original system, and we present two algorithms: one is a strategy for an exhaustive search for a true solution, while the other is a method of approximation for this combinatorial problem. The solution spaces that result from different choices of dynamical systems and coupling schemes vary with the level of a hierarchical structure present and also the number of interwoven central cycles. Applications can include the important problem in civil engineering of power grid hardening, where new link creation may be costly, and the defense of certain key links to the functional process may be prioritized.

Dynamic Multicast Routing Management for Robust Wide Area Power Grid Communication

High-volume synchrophasor data generated by the wide area measurement system (WAMS) present new challenges for the design of scalable and robust communication architectures suitable for the large-scale deployment in power grid monitoring and control applications. Features of information and communication technology (ICT) can be harnessed to devise a more flexible infrastructure than the conventional unicast-based hierarchical architecture. Multicast has been suggested as a potential solution for scalability issues in the current WAMS architecture. This article proposes a decentralized dynamic multicast routing management algorithm that manages network traffic efficiently, improves scalability, and makes the system resilient to component failures. The algorithm models the creation of alternate links as a stochastic process using the random-graph theory and manages connections between end hosts at the session layer. This protocol can be implemented using existing ICT protocols at a minimal cost. Numerical simulations and study of frequency control in an IEEE 39-bus system testbed show that the proposed algorithm improves the topological efficiency and resilience of the network.

Ecological and functional features of forest plantations of the Forest-steppe of Ukraine

Forest plantations are very important to provide the raw materials and living needs of the population, despite the various ways of their origin, formation and development. They are an important factor in restoring the ecological and biological balance of agricultural lands and objects for the formation of floristic and faunal diversity, the creation of new topical links, the balanced reproduction of new biogeocenoses. Therefore, the forest ecosystems of the Forest-Steppe of Ukraine are considered based on their importance and value for the studied area, in addition, the leading directions of socio-economic services and features of their manifestation and development are reproduced. A very important aspect of stabilization and reproduction of the natural state of forest plantations, along with studies of ecosystem services that can provide these plantations, is the dependence of their existence on the existing set of threats. Therefore, a list of major threats to ecosystem services has been developed, where they are presented in terms of threats to biodiversity development. The most important of which are continuous felling on large areas and excessive plowing of land, resulting in a decrease in the percentage of forest cover in this area. Regarding the complex of identified threats to the existing forest plantations, their main features and possible directions of their reproduction and preservation are given. It is especially important in this direction to increase the forest cover of the territory, create additional field protective forest strips to increase their number and territorial availability and reduce the anthropogenic load on forest ecosystems.

Artistic Practices as Gestures of Resistance and Repair

Two artists and college dance professors, Carolina Caballero and Ana Milena Navarro, began quarantine as roommates in Barranquilla, Colombia on March 18, 2020. They decided to host a series of dance performances in their small apartment, to be broadcast on Facebook and Instagram. The premise was very simple. It began as a game: to perform and publish one dance a day until the 14th of the next month, when the isolation period for COVID 19 was supposed to end. They eventually undertook 21 performances. A spontaneous community of followers enjoyed, encouraged, and contributed to their initiative. At the start of the pandemic, some people raised the possibility that this unique event would detonate a change in social attitudes towards capitalism; but as soon as governments re-opened malls, people seemed to return to the dynamics of consumption with renewed zest. In Colombia, particularly, instead of widespread positive changes, the country’s endemic agonies intensified during confinement: mafias were strengthened, the killing of social leaders multiplied, the criminalization of social protest intensified, and the dynamics of political corruption adapted in order to continue business (Castro et al. 2020, Saldarriaga 2020). That does not mean nothing positive has happened. Consider the political potential of art to help repair solidarity between ordinary people and care for them. In this article we examine that potential in relation to three interconnected aspects: one, the emancipatory significance of people’s gestures in doing what they want; two, the ability of artistic practices to take care of oneself and establish a bond with others; and three, the political exemplariness of artistic practices as an ethos of openness to the joy of the body, care, and the creation of links with the community. In addition, we explore the potency of the creative idea of the two dancers, the process of repetition that facilitated an interpenetration between everyday life and their creative practices, and the multiple elements of the dance process: various genres, the relationships between contemporary dance and the popular dances of the Caribbean, the music, and the dancers’ bodies.

On the Evolution of Wikipedia: Dynamics of Categories and Articles

We present several statistics related to English Wikipedia category and article evolution between Wikipedia 2012 (Oct) and 2014 (Jun) instances. This includes analysis of categories, articles and links creation and deletion. We also present the distribution of Wikipedia articles over 14 broad topics and compare them across 2012 and 2014 Wikipedia. We provide several statistics of Wikipedia category graph. We demonstrate that Wikipedia category hierarchy can be treated as an is-a graph locally, but over longer paths it is no more an is-a graph.

Supporting Requirements to Code Traceability Creation by Code Comments

Requirements-to-code tracing is an important and costly task that creates trace links from requirements to source code. These trace links help engineers reduce the time and complexity of software maintenance. Code comments play an important role in software maintenance tasks. However, few studies have focused intensively on the impact of code comments on requirements-to-code trace links creation. Different types of comments have different purposes, so how different types of code comments provide different improvements for requirements-to-code trace links creation? We focus on learning whether code comments and different types of comments can improve the quality of trace links creation. This paper presents a study to evaluate the contribution of code comments and different types of code comments to the creation of trace links. More specifically, this paper first experimentally evaluates the impact of code comments on requirements-to-code trace links creation, and then divides code comments into six categories to evaluate its impact on trace links creation. The results show that the precision increases by an average of 15% (based on the same recall) after adding code comments (even for different trace links creation techniques), and the type of Purpose comments contributes more to the tracing task than the other five. This empirical study provides evidence that code comments are effective in tracing links creation, and different types of code comments contribute differently. Purpose comments can be used to improve the accuracy of requirements-to-code trace links creation.

Консорциум сетевых электронных библиотек: опыт 280 вузов России и стран СНГ

The activity of the modern university library is connected, among other things, with the creation of strong links between different educational and scientific organizations. The goal of such cooperation is to improve the quality and accessibility of Russian higher education, including its digital forms. These problems are solved by a non-profit project of the electronic library system Lan, called Consortium of Network Electronic Libraries (Consortium NEL). It helps universities to optimize costs, increase the number of books and manuals for free. The project already involves 284 universities from Russia and the CIS countries (Kazakhstan, Belarus). Their publications form a book collection of 37 000 textbooks, manuals, workshops and lecture courses on the Lan’s platform. The article describes how the project was created, what is its current state and what are its opportunities. The experience of 284 Russian universities and universities of the CIS countries can be useful for libraries of all educational organizations.

Trading networks of price-taking buyers and sellers

We consider a situation in which sellers and buyers trade divisible goods as price-takers in a network. We first characterize equilibrium market structures under which actual trading occurs through the links. Even when the sellers and buyers are connected in a network, several markets with different prices can appear in an equilibrium. The equilibrium market structure is essentially unique in the sense that each individual faces the same price and ends up with the same quantity traded in every equilibrium. We also show how the creation of additional links in the network affects the individual payoffs and the social welfare. A creation of a link can increase or decrease the payoffs of an individual seller or buyer, but it always weakly improves the social welfare.

Link Recommendation for Social Influence Maximization

Social link recommendation systems, like “People-you-may-know” on Facebook, “Who-to-follow” on Twitter, and “Suggested-Accounts” on Instagram assist the users of a social network in establishing new connections with other users. While these systems are becoming more and more important in the growth of social media, they tend to increase the popularity of users that are already popular. Indeed, since link recommenders aim to predict user behavior, they accelerate the creation of links that are likely to be created in the future and, consequently, reinforce social bias by suggesting few (popular) users, giving few chances to most users to create new connections and increase their popularity. In this article, we measure the popularity of a user by means of her social influence, which is her capability to influence other users’ opinions, and we propose a link recommendation algorithm that evaluates the links to suggest according to their increment in social influence instead of their likelihood of being created. In detail, we give a factor approximation algorithm for the problem of maximizing the social influence of a given set of target users by suggesting a fixed number of new connections considering the Linear Threshold model as model for diffusion. We experimentally show that, with few new links and small computational time, our algorithm is able to increase by far the social influence of the target users. We compare our algorithm with several baselines and show that it is the most effective one in terms of increased influence.

The Role of Knowledge Brokers in Improving Financial Literacy

Several governments around the world have tried strategies based primarily on financial education programs to improve the financial literacy of their citizens. In this study, we discuss a new strategy that involves using knowledge transfer activities carried out by intermediary agents, called financial knowledge brokers, to achieve significant improvement in financial literacy. Thus, the aim of this paper is to test the impact of the five activities of financial knowledge brokers (i.e., financial knowledge acquisition, financial knowledge integration, financial knowledge adaptation, financial knowledge dissemination, and creation of links) on financial literacy. For this, we built a database from a questionnaire carried out to nearly 103 financial advisers during the period June 2015 to June 2017. Overall, the results of Structural equation Modeling (SEM) technique showed that the financial knowledge brokerage activities (four of the five activities) have a positive impact on improving financial literacy as well as on its four dimensions, namely financial attitude, financial behavior, basic financial knowledge, and advanced financial knowledge. JEL classification numbers: D80, F65, G20, I20. Keywords: Financial literacy, Knowledge brokers, Structural equation modeling.

Explaining destinations and volumes of international arms transfers: A novel network Heckman selection model

What determines the volumes of international weapon transfers? And why do countries establish such arms trading relationships in the first place? We propose an innovative statistical strategy that builds on the gravity approach and combines a Heckman model with a network analysis. This allows us, for the first time, to analyze the impact of network structures on both the extensive and the intensive margins of the international arms trade simultaneously. We argue that the structure of the arms transfer network conveys important information for exporting and importing countries. Therefore, past topological properties of the trade network play a central role in its future evolution. Using data on the trade of major conventional weapons between 1955 and 2018, our estimation results and out-of-sample predictions show that network structures have considerable explanatory power with respect to the creation of trade links. They are far less relevant for the explanation of trade volumes, which are mainly determined by demand factors.

Social network analysis and community detection on spread of COVID-19

This paper explains the epidemic spread using social network analysis, based on data from the first three months of the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak across the world and in Canada. A network is defined and visualization is used to understand the spread of coronavirus among countries and the impact of other countries on the spread of coronavirus in Canada. The degree centrality is used to identify the main influencing countries. Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM) are used to identify the processes that influence link creation between countries. The community detection is done using Infomap, Label propagation, Spinglass, and Louvain algorithms. Finally, we assess the community detection performance of the algorithms using adjusted rand index and normalized mutual information score.

The 2nd International Annual Meeting on STEM education (IAMSTEM 2019)

Since, the 1st International Annual Meeting on STEM education (IAMSTEM) 2018 was organized based on seed funding of Thailand Ministry of Education and Khon Kaen University with aiming to bring STEM education researchers and teachers together for building up STEM education community. The ASEAN Research Network for STEM education (ARN-STEM) was formed in 2018 when the group of STEM education researchers in Southeast Asia jointly organized the IAMSTEM 2018. The primary objective was to encourage the creation of links, and the exchange of ideas and information among the academic community, private-sector firms and organizations, and government policy makers, leading to a better understanding on STEM education related policy and innovations in the ASEAN region.In 2019, our group is growing up. The 2nd International Annual Meeting on STEM education (IAMSTEM 2019) was held in 27-29 September 2019 at Thai Nguyen University of Education, Thai Nguyen, Vietnam. It gives us great pleasure to announce that the 2nd IAMSTEM 2019 was a resounding success, with over 250 participants from throughout Vietnam and from other countries. On behalf of the organizers, ASEAN Research Network for STEM education (ARN-STEM), ASEAN Comparative Educational Research Network (ACER-N), Science Education Association of Thailand (SEAT), Thailand Office of Basic Education Commission (OBEC); Khon Kaen University, Rajabhat Yala University, Thailand; Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri (STAIN) Sorong, State University of Malang, Indonesia; Mindanao State University–Iligan Institute of Technology, the Philippines as well as other corporate sponsors whose generous contributions made this a successful meeting. IAMSTEM 2019 provided a unique opportunity for experts, academics, and educators to exchange knowledge and build friendships. The meeting consisted of four keynote speakers, and a number of contributed oral and poster presentations. Resulting from the success of IAMSTEM 2019 are qualified full research articles from the presentations, which have been reviewed and compiled in this IOP Journal of Physics: Conference Series. It is our sincere hope that these proceedings will contribute to advancing our understanding of STEM education and applications and serve as initiators for even greater achievements in the field.List of Committees are availble in this pdf.