Massive Transformation Research Articles

Quantifying the environmental impact of structural timber across multiple future lifecycles

The pressing challenge of reducing human-induced environmental and climate impacts requires a massive transformation in the construction sector, a major contributor to energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The potential for implementing circular strategies in construction is increasingly supported by current standards and reports. Emerging technologies, like cross-laminated reclaimed timber, render cascading options potentially comparable to direct reuse. Simultaneously, wood possesses a high heating value, meaning that incineration remains a competitive alternative to recycling seen from a contemporary market perspective. This study seeks to identify the most environmentally beneficial end-of-life strategy for structural timber elements under diverse future scenarios, taking into account systemic changes occurring over time. It introduces novelty by combining elements that are relevant to this context: (1) the circular economy of timber; (2) structural calculations accounting for material quality and losses; (3) dynamic prospective life-cycle assessments (LCAs); and (4) matching different circular-economy strategies with compatible future scenarios suggested by the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) mentioned in the IPCC’s sixth assessment report. The results indicate that the reuse of timber is beneficial only when there is no need for additional steel brackets, underscoring the importance of a meticulous definition of the unit with all adjoining structures to ensure accurate and appropriate results. Furthermore, the cascading options are valuable primarily in preserving the high performance of the element during its subsequent use.

Massive transformation in dual-laser powder bed fusion of Ti6Al4V alloys

In the present investigation, we fabricated additively manufactured Ti6Al4V parts using dual laser-powder bed fusion (DL-PBF) and identified the occurrence of a massive transformation. A detailed and systematic study of the massive transformation in the DL-PBF process by changing the energy and time offset of the lag laser beam and its effect on the microstructural and mechanical properties was undertaken. A mixture of martensite and massive phases was observed within the prior β grains in DL-PBF, and the dimensions of these massive grains increased with an increase in the lag laser beam energy, while acicular α′ martensite was present in the single Laser-PBF. The massive phase showed a featureless patch-shaped region, which consisted of thin laths, and they were associated with the prior β grain boundaries. The irregular patch-shaped regions showed inferior Vickers hardness when compared with acicular α′ martensite, and the ultimate tensile strength was lower in the DL-PBF than in the single Laser-PBF. The columnar prior-β grain was present in all the samples (both in the single- and dual-beam laser) and the dimensions of the grains varied with increasing the lag laser beam energy. These present results showed that the DL-PBF process significantly influenced the microstructural and mechanical properties of the Ti6Al4V materials, and provided a deep insight into massive phase transformation in AM titanium alloys and its effect on the mechanical properties.

Network Type Recognition Using Machine Learning Techniques

The telecom industry is going through a massive digital transformation with the adoption of ML, AI, feedback-based automation and advanced analytics to handle the next generation of applications and services. AI concepts are not new; the algorithms used by Machine Learning and Deep Learning are being currently implemented in various industries and technology verticals. With growing data and an immense volume of information over 5G, the ability to predict data proactively, swiftly and with accuracy, is critically important. Data-driven decision-making will be vital in future communication networks due to the traffic explosion and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will accelerate the 5G network performance. Mobile operators are looking for a programmable solution that will allow them to accommodate multiple independent tenants on the same physical infrastructure and 5G networks allow for end-to-end network resource allocation using the concept of Network Slicing (NS). Network Slicing will play a vital role in enabling a multitude of 5G applications, use cases, and services. Network slicing functions will provide end-to-end isolation between slices with an ability to customize each slice based on the service demands (bandwidth, coverage, security, latency, reliability, etc). Index Terms: Supervised Learning, Feature Engineering, Python, Network Slicing, Telecom, Classification Problems, EDA – Exploratory Data Analysis.

Analyzing flexibility options for microgrid management from economical operational and environmental perspectives

Power grids have undergone a massive transformation due to increasing number of renewable/non renewable distributed generators, storage technologies and electrical vehicles. This paper focuses on the flexible energy management of grid connected microgrid (MG) in order to analyze the effects of the flexibility options such as electric vehicle with demand response (EV-DR), battery storage system (BSS), hydrogen storage system (HSS) and dynamic line rating (DLR) in presence of renewable sources. In addition, microturbine (MT), fuel cell (FC), biomass (BIO), geothermal (GEO), and diesel engine (DIE) whose output is controllable are also considered as flexible sources. In this paper, optimum operation of grid-connected MG is modeled as a mixed-integer linear programming problem considering uncertainties of wind turbine (WT) and photovoltaic (PV) sources. A day-ahead forecasting of irradiance and wind speed are performed with Decision Tree Regression (DTR) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) algorithms for sensitive calculation of PV and WT output. The cost function merges operating costs including fuel, operation & maintains (O&M), depletion costs with emission cost of CO2, SO2, and NOx. Obtained numerical results show that total cost of the MG is reduced by 9.40% and emission cost is diminished by 5.59% with inclusion of all considered flexibility options. Further, load factor is improved from 0.7932 to 0.8236 with 100% flexibility condition for MG.

Rituals of Survival in Single-Room Occupancy Hotels

This article works with a definition of care that encompasses expansive models of kinship and collective and communal life. Specifically, it explores representations of such interdependencies in the liminal space of the single‐room occupancy hotel (SRO) through the literary and artistic creations of two understudied African American artists. Fiction writer Robert Dean Pharr and visual artist Frederick Weston created their work in SROs in New York City beginning in the 1960s, during a time of massive transformation of the city's built environment in the name of urban renewal. Their novels and artwork, respectively, provide some of the only uncovered (to date) literary and cultural representations of New York City's SROs. Pharr's and Weston's works memorialize rituals of survival that center care and interdependencies over and against competitive individualism and a climate of uncare. Further, both explicitly articulate this vision by working with conceptual and material waste. Trash is their literal and metaphoric medium. These artists relied upon what is seen as surplus value by the city. But as Pharr and Weston use it, trash offers a critique of negative assumptions about the lives of SRO residents. The pandemic has shocked us into awareness of our inescapable interdependencies. Therefore, it behooves us to revisit these understudied, early proponents of care—an ethics that today's mutual aid and other liberation movements often center. Pharr's and Weston's documentation and interpretation of care offer us ways to survive within our current environments in crisis without repeating the death‐making logic and history of urban renewal.

Ponds and Wetlands Landscapes of Flood Management in the Cities of the Lower Yellow River Floodplain—The Case of Huaiyang, China

As interest has increased in green infrastructure and nature-based solutions, traditional approaches to managing landscapes have emerged as providing useful models for sustainable water and land management. From local gazetteers, archives, oral histories, maps, and satellite images, we documented the historical landscapes of ponds and wetlands back to the 17th century in the historic city of Huaiyang on the lower Yellow River floodplain. Like neighboring cities, Huaiyang was protected by a ring levee. As the floodplain rapidly aggraded, cities within the levee became topographically lower than the surrounding landscape. In this context, ponds and wetlands were essential for flood and storm water retention in the low-lying city. These seasonal waterbodies alternated between drying and wetting, providing a dynamic and diverse background for native habitats and human uses. CORONA satellite images ca. 1960s show ponds and wetlands shrinking in the dry season to 35.6% of their wet season extent, while the farmed area expanded 5.3 times. The multiple uses of wetlands included dry-season farming, harvesting wetland plants, and fishing, each use adapted to the localized topographic and hydrologic conditions of the wetlands. The late 20th century saw massive transformations for modern agriculture and urbanization. Understanding the historical evolution of this landscape can provide inspiration for developing green infrastructure and resilient designs that preserve cultural diversity and sustainably manage water in an urbanizing landscape.

Financial Analysis of Information Technology Investments: “Assessing Benefits through Cost-Benefit Analysis and Ranti's Generic IS/IT Business Value Approach"

Technology drives economic growth and increases industrial competitiveness and has long been recognized for its dominance of industrial productivity. PT XYZ is a company engaged in the transportation services sector in Indonesia; from 2012 to 2017, PT XYZ carried out a massive digital transformation process by investing in information technology to improve its quality. This investment includes ERP, SAP implementation and improvement, RTS implementation and improvement, web-based information technology platforms, and mobile applications. This study aims to analyze the benefits of information technology investment made in PT XYZ using secondary data from the Company's annual financial statements accessed through the Company's website. The results of this study were conducted by analyzing financial statements from 2012 to 2020 using the Cost Benefit Analysis method and Ranti's Generic IS / IT Business Value method. Based on the Analysis, investment in information technology benefits the Company without distinguishing between tangible and intangible benefits identified in the form of 8 sub-categories in 5 categories based on Ranti's Generic IS/IT Business Value.

PUFchain 3.0: Hardware-Assisted Distributed Ledger for Robust Authentication in Healthcare Cyber-Physical Systems.

This article presents a novel hardware-assisted distributed ledger-based solution for simultaneous device and data security in smart healthcare. This article presents a novel architecture that integrates PUF, blockchain, and Tangle for Security-by-Design (SbD) of healthcare cyber-physical systems (H-CPSs). Healthcare systems around the world have undergone massive technological transformation and have seen growing adoption with the advancement of Internet-of-Medical Things (IoMT). The technological transformation of healthcare systems to telemedicine, e-health, connected health, and remote health is being made possible with the sophisticated integration of IoMT with machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and other technologies. As healthcare systems are becoming more accessible and advanced, security and privacy have become pivotal for the smooth integration and functioning of various systems in H-CPSs. In this work, we present a novel approach that integrates PUF with IOTA Tangle and blockchain and works by storing the PUF keys of a patient's Body Area Network (BAN) inside blockchain to access, store, and share globally. Each patient has a network of smart wearables and a gateway to obtain the physiological sensor data securely. To facilitate communication among various stakeholders in healthcare systems, IOTA Tangle's Masked Authentication Messaging (MAM) communication protocol has been used, which securely enables patients to communicate, share, and store data on Tangle. The MAM channel works in the restricted mode in the proposed architecture, which can be accessed using the patient's gateway PUF key. Furthermore, the successful verification of PUF enables patients to securely send and share physiological sensor data from various wearable and implantable medical devices embedded with PUF. Finally, healthcare system entities like physicians, hospital admin networks, and remote monitoring systems can securely establish communication with patients using MAM and retrieve the patient's BAN PUF keys from the blockchain securely. Our experimental analysis shows that the proposed approach successfully integrates three security primitives, PUF, blockchain, and Tangle, providing decentralized access control and security in H-CPS with minimal energy requirements, data storage, and response time.

The Great War in the Middle East from a Poetic Bedouin Perspective: A Close Reading of Two Poems about the Sinai Campaign and the Battles in the Negev During World War I

ABSTRACT Through a close reading of two Bedouin poems about the World War I era, this article examines how Bedouin in northern Sinai and Palestine’s southern coastal plain perceived the moment at which the Ottomans lost their hold over this region. By anchoring symbolic expressions from each poem in their historical, cultural, and poetic contexts, this inquiry sheds some light on the feelings and outlooks of ordinary people in response to the war’s massive transformation of the area in which they lived.

Индийско-китайские экономические направления – на пути к четвертой промышленной революции

As the second and fifth largest economies in the world, China and India have embraced the vicissitudes of world economy and re-adjusting their policies to strengthen their economies as well as to usher in a multipolar world. Both have launched their long-term strategic plans for self-strengthening in Made in China 2025, “socialist modernisation” by 2049 by China and Vikas (Development)/Viksit Bharat (Developed India) 2047 campaigns by India. In its current 14th Five Year Plan, China had announced a shift towards an innovation-driven model, emphasising technological advancements and domestic consumption. India had also launched Make in India, Skill India, Digital India and other plans. Despite challenges, both of these countries are currently experiencing massive social transformations in human resources development, talent generation, industrial growth specifically knowledge economy and other related fields. Both China and India have also been aware of the socio-economic stress that globalisation has set in and hence have undertaken social welfare policies like addressing “san nong”, “jandhan” (direct bank transfers) and other schemes. It is argued that, despite problems, the efforts of China and India are transforming the socio-economic fabrics of these countries.

Military Alliances of the Great Powers

While global geopolitics has undergone a massive transformation since the end of the Cold War, the importance of formal military alliances remains central to the U.S. and its allies. NATO’s expansion and strengthening and the formation of AUKUS, I2U2, QUAD, Squad, etc. manifest unchanged geopolitical thinking and strategy.

Заглавия романов «Каирской трилогии» (1956–1957) Нагиба Махфуза как интерпретационный материал

The article studies the novels of The Cairo Trilogy written by the famous Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006, Nobel prize 1988), which is considered one of the greatest literary works of the 20th century and the prime work by the author. The titles of the books Bayn al-Qasrayn, Qasr ash-Shawq, and as-Sukkariyya, which literary mean ‘Between two palaces’, ‘Palace of desire’, and ‘Sugar street’, are taken from the names of actual streets situated in the old quarters of Cairo. The novels follow the life of a Cairene family ‘Abd al-Gawwad living in a historic Cairo district; the titles point at the streets where the family’s houses are located. The principle of entitling the books may seem simple – by location. Regarding titles as a special type of texts, sometimes called frame texts, the article examines the following questions: is it true that the titles of the novels do not point at anything except geography? Do the texts meet the reader’s expectations created by the titles? The article concludes that the locations named in the titles not only highlight the national character of the novels but also prioritize the space of the family’s universe that survives a massive transformation during the first half of the 20th century. The novels show how the social changes ruin all the hierarchical family relations. The first title conveys the idea that the ‘Abd al-Gawwads ‘hang between’ two historic periods; the subsequent books show that the family does not cope very well, and there reigns corruption, illness, and lack of morality. From this point of view, on the one hand, the titles fulfil the reader’s expectations because the characters are shown to prefer ‘forbidden desire’ and alcohol to family life and honest business; on the other hand, there is a contradiction with the expectations created by the third title as this lifestyle does not bring any ‘sugar’ to their lives.

Платформенные экосистемы: накануне нового прорыва в области коммерциализации интеллектуальных прав

The aim of the work is to analyze the new investment capabilities that appeared as a result of the development of new platform ecosystems that form the economic circulation of digital intellectual assets of copyright. The productive ideas of the possible use of intellectual assets in financial engineering were voiced back in the 1980s, i.e., almost at the dawn of the emergence of financial engineering as a science itself. For example, in one of the first reference books on financial engineering and financial innovation, the growing use of legislation on intellectual property protection was mentioned as one of the aspects of financial engineering, the significance of which would grow in the coming years. The main stage of development is characterized by a massive transformation of business models and the transition to platform ecosystems, much more mobile and susceptible to organizational and financial innovations. A huge role in this process was played by the rapid development of information technology. The work shows that, by analogy with the period preceding the first transactions of the intellectual property secretion in the 1990s, there is currently a steady increase in the income of microstock platforms. In addition to ordinary investors, the ecosystem of microstocks includes an extensive contingent of the so-called creative investors – authors of digital images, video and sound files posted in the collections of such companies. Investors of this category are participants in the total intellectual capital successfully controlled by microstocks. The basics of the business of microstocks were laid back in the early 2000s, in fact, in the wake of the “dot-com”, when there was a stir of exciting, sound and literary content from the multimillion-dollar army of creators of the modern Internet. On the basis of ten-year observations of the portfolio of digital images, the study confirms that (1) the position of the author/investor on digital assets is not exposed to losses in the classical sense; (2) a correlation between the yield of the portfolio of digital images of the individual author and the profitability of the action of the microphotostock company, in the collection of which the portfolio is located, is absent. The results prove that the portfolio of digital intellectual assets of the author/investor can be used as a hedging element as part of a hybrid investment position that includes the shares of a microstock company. In addition, preliminary quantitative assessments of the possible contingent of investors who are interested in implementing the ideas of the proposed hybrid tool are made in the work. The study allows predicting the emergence of new ideas and investment capabilities in the field of commercial circulation of digital intellectual assets.

All eyes will be on California as voters weigh MH transformation

California voters in March will consider a massive transformation of the state's mental health service delivery system, a proposal that would direct more resources to the most seriously ill individuals. While there are many nuanced implications to the two legislative measures that are being combined into Proposition 1 on the March 5 ballot, observers said they think voters likely will be swayed by supporters' aim to reduce highly visible and crisis‐level homelessness in many California communities.

Digital Environmental Humanities: Scholarship and Activism in India

The advent of digital age impacted a massive transformation in the academia and dissemination of information and communication and also how human cognition takes place and such changes will only accelerate. Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that uses the methodologies of digital technological innovations to study humanities. Digital environmental humanities is a branch of digital humanities that deals with the intersections of digital arena and environmental concerns This article intends study the position of digital environmental humanities in Indian environmentalism. It also attempts to place on the Indian context of the field and trace the scholarship and activism of digital environmental humanities in India.

KINERJA BISNIS USAHA BAHAN MAKANAN SEGAR ONLINE DI BANDAR LAMPUNG

Human civilization is entering a disruptive era of technology indicated by behaviour changes and the discovery of new patterns, one of which is digital transformation. It was further triggered by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The right digital marketing model contributes to a massive digital technology-based market transformation to increase the welfare of agricultural business actors. The research focuses on business actors that utilize digital technology in the category of fresh food products. The aims of this research are: 1). Analyzing the effectiveness of digital marketing, and 2). Analyzing business performance. The research using basic case study method. The research location was chosen purposively, namely three business actors, by utilizing digital innovation.The results shows that the business performance of selling fresh food online in Bandar Lampung is divided into two aspects, namely production performance and management performance. Production performance is based on productivity, quality, capacity, process, delivery speed, flexibility, and processing speed to layout. Meanwhile, management performance is based on guidelines regarding good food production methods for home industries, from 13 assessment indicators, it was found that business A was in the category of minor deviation, business actor B and C was in the category of major deviation.Keywords: Digital Transformation, Digital Marketing Effectiveness, Groceries

Phase transformation in additively manufactured Co-Cr-Mo alloy after solution and aging heat treatment

The unique structure and solute distribution of CoCrMo alloys produced using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) technique require custom heat-treating processes to achieve the targeted phase distribution and mechanical properties. The rise of multi-material additively manufactured structures also prompts further study at temperatures beyond standard aging and solution treatment conditions. In the present study, the phase transformation behavior, precipitate distribution, and γ-ε phase boundary orientation relationships of as-printed and solution heat-treated CoCrMo samples after aging heat treatment at 940 °C were investigated. The results show a higher ε-phase fraction of 71.2% in directly aged samples compared to 49.2% in solution heat-treated samples. This discrepancy is attributed to band-like isothermal transformation, coherent grain face massive transformation, and recrystallization. Carbide nucleation sites shifted from disintegrated cellular structures in directly aged samples to grain boundaries and twin interfaces in solution-treated samples. The presence of transgranular ε-phase bands and adjacent grains with analogous orientations observed after direct aging were linked to the weak 〈110〉 // BD and 〈111〉 // BD texture after printing. Tensile tests demonstrated an increase in tensile strength from 1162 MPa to 1261 MPa after direct aging, while significant enhancement in ductility from 16.4% to 26.1% was attained after solution heat treatment. While direct aging is more suitable for applications requiring high strength and wear resistance, solution heat treatment is advantageous when a consistent morphology and stress-free isotropic structures are desired.

In-situ observation on the δ to γ transformation behavior of carbon steels

In recent in-situ observations on the solidification of thin carbon steel experiments, the primary δ-phase appears to be highly undercooled into the single γ phase region of the phase diagram, where the massive δ to γ transformation occurred without the intervention of the liquid phase following a typical peritectic reaction. Whether such a massive transformation is the main mode, even in bulk steel alloys, is of prime importance because it would drastically change our view on the defect generation mechanism during steel solidification in continuous casting. In this research, the in-situ imaging technique using synchrotron white X-ray beam was conducted to investigate the effects of carbon content and the specimen thickness on the δ to γ transformation behaviors in the carbon steel. The moment of δ to γ transformation is identified through synchronized recording of Laue diffraction patterns and in-situ images. The relative average brightness (RAB) change during solidification was evaluated to analyze the transformation. The results revealed that hypo-peritectic steel grades predominantly underwent a massive transformation, while hyper-peritectic steel grades showed a combination of massive and diffusional transformations. The sudden drop in liquid fraction after massive transformation was detected, while diffusional transformation exhibited a gradual decrease in the present study. The findings demonstrated that specimen thickness influenced the transformation mode in hyper-peritectic steel grades. The study provides insights into the behavior of δ to γ transformation and its implications for carbon steel solidification processes.

The Impact of Social Media Marketing on the Gaming Industry: A Case Study of "Glory of the King"

The gaming industry has undergone a massive transformation in recent years with the emergence of social media as a powerful marketing tool. This article uses "Glory of the King" as a case study to explore the role of social media marketing in the game industry. Through literature review and 4p, SWOT, and other models, this study analyzes the ways mainstream social media platforms are used to promote and publicize games. The findings suggest that social media marketing played a key role in the success of "Glory of the King", helping to attract and retain players and creating a sense of community around the game. Furthermore, research has found that social media marketing enables game developers to gather valuable feedback from players and improve the game based on their suggestions. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of social media marketing to the gaming industry and suggests that game developers should take full advantage of the power of social media to interact with their audience and build brand loyalty.

Analysis and Prediction of Winning Team and Player Performance in Franchise Cricket using Machine Learning

Sports, especially cricket, produces an enormous amount of statistical data that has led to the evolution of the game. Unlike other sports, cricket involves numerous variables ranging from pitch conditions, weather, boundary length, and several other factors that make each game unique. These variables make every match have its own significance, making cricket an ever-evolving sport that continues to captivate its audience. Over the years, cricket has witnessed a massive transformation with the integration of analytics. The use of data analytics has changed the way players and coaches approach the game. It has brought a new dimension to the game and has opened several new avenues for analyzing and interpreting the game. The Indian Premier League (IPL) has acted as a catalyst in showcasing the potential of cricket to the world and has bridged the gap between different cultures and audiences. In the present-day IPL, every statistic available is being used due to the high level of competitiveness of the tournament. Teams use data analytics to understand their strengths and weaknesses, analyze their opponents' gameplay, and devise strategies to win matches. These analytics provide valuable insights into various aspects of the game, such as player performance, team strategies, and game trends, among others. This paper is a sincere effort to uncover hidden insights in IPL by utilizing data from previous seasons. The vast amount of data available offers a treasure of formation that can help us to understand the nuances of the game and make informed decisions. By analyzing this data, we can identify patterns and trends, assess player performance, and make informed decisions that can impact the outcome of a match.