Mobile Project Research Articles

Sahrawi Migration in the Context of a Protracted Refugee Situation – a Description of the Phenomenon and Critical Analysis of the State of Research

Algerian-based Sahrawi refugee camps were established 46 years ago. From that moment, Sahrawis have continuously migrated within organized mobility projects and individually. The aim of the article is to describe this migration as well as critically analyse the state of research. On the basis of a literature review, I have identified both research gaps and some methodological and analytical tendencies: a lack of reliable statistical data, a focus on easily accessible locations and certain groups of migrants, the problem of relating contemporary migration to nomadic traditions, ahistoricism and a lack of processualism in the description of Sahrawi migration, the problematical question of gender in migration processes and the agency of migrants within refugee regimes. Overall, the article introduces the question of Sahrawi migration within a protracted refugee situation and raises questions for further research.

Cultivating Freedom in South Korea: Media Discourse on Chayu during the Early Park Chung-hee Period

This article analyzes the notion of freedom under Park Chung-hee's regime by examining media representations of freedom in South Korean newspapers during the early period of Park's regime from 1964 to 1970. The analysis of the media discourse of freedom brings to light the complex mechanisms of Park's dictatorship and South Koreans' participation in mobilization projects under Park's regime. I argue that the notion of freedom played an essential role in the way in which Park's regime produced and mobilized dutiful, productive citizens. By appropriating conflicting media representations of freedom, Park's regime defined South Korea's own ideal of freedom within the contexts of Cold War South Korea in the 1960s. Whilst Park's regime assured South Korea's enjoyment of freedom in contrast to communist countries, Park's regime convinced South Koreans that freedom in South Korea cannot be same as in other western countries. Specifically, in the name of South Korea's urgent missions of economic development and national security against communism, Park's regime claimed South Koreans should practice freedom in a responsible, restricted manner. Hence, this article highlights that Park's regime utilized the notion of freedom in a way to turn South Koreans into citizens who believed themselves to be free, yet who acted responsibly to serve national interests against communism. By illuminating the notion of freedom under Park's regime, this article discusses both the conditional, limited nature of mass participation under Park's regime and how the regime used the complex, specific conditions of Cold War South Korea to create mass participation.

РОЛЬ ІНТЕРНАЦІОНАЛІЗАЦІЇ СИСТЕМИ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ УКРАЇНИ НА ШЛЯХУ ДО ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКОГО СОЮЗУ

The article is devoted to the training of specialists with higher education in the context of the integration of Ukraine into the European educational space. Nowadays it is necessary to implement European principles, approaches and practices into the Ukrainian education policy through fundamental reforms in the field of education. The analysis of scientific research has shown that the academic mobility of all participants in the educational process contributes to the internationalization and adaptation of the national education system of Ukraine to European criteria. Special attention was paid to the current legislation of Ukraine, which regulates legal, organizational and financial relations in the process of implementing academic mobility in the training of competitive specialists with higher education. The article defines the advantages of international academic mobility in the educational process, contains a list of countries with the largest contingent of Ukrainian students and a list of the most popular universities of Ukraine, chosen by foreign citizens for obtaining higher education. Based on the data of the Erasmus+ National Office, the results of Ukraine's participation in the exchange projects of the Erasmus+ program, and joint master's programs Erasmus Mundus and Jean Monnet were analyzed. The paper outlines exceptional measures taken within the framework of the approved European Union Directives to support Ukrainian educators and facilitate their integration into educational projects. Foreign organizations and programs that support the international academic mobility of participants in the educational process are given as an example of cooperation between well-known Ukrainian HEIs with scientific institutions and universities of other countries. Attention is paid to the modern approaches available to Ukrainian students to obtain quality higher education, namely their participation in virtual international academic mobility and double degree programs. This issue is now relevant and could be the subject of further research. In general, the participation of Ukrainian students and researchers in international academic mobility projects has been identified by the authors as an important factor in achieving the goals of the Bologna process and the training of highly qualified and competitive specialists at the European level.

Mobilidade em tempos de imobilidade: estudantes internacionais em Portugal durante a pandemia da COVID-19

ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to understand the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis on teaching and learning by international students in Portuguese higher education. It also focuses on how new student mobility projects have been re-designed and re-negotiated during the pandemic. The methodology includes analysing the results of an online survey and individual online interviews. The former was answered by 703 international students enrolled at higher education institutions in Portugal; the latter was conducted with 22 of those students, as well as with students planning to study in Portugal. While for some students, the pandemic represented the possibility of enjoying “mobility” while being “immobile” (in their countries of origin or even in Portugal, provided they have a computer and an internet connection); for others, it enhanced social and economic inequalities, making this sort of mobility difficult, and often impossible.

“Inhabited by a Cry”: Representations of Music, Self‑Expression and Survivance in Québécois Indigenous Film

For Indigenous youth living in Québec, music is a key tool used for self-discovery and identification. As they listen to pre-recorded albums and make their own their music, they discover what cultural markers they possess in terms of national identities, gender boundaries, sexual preference, etc. This article assesses how recent Indigenous Québécois cinema depicts this process of self-discovery in relation to national markers, through the feature film 3 histoires d’Indiens (dir. Robert Morin, 2014) and three short films from the Wapikoni Mobile project. It contemplates how successful these characters are in using music to discover their own identities, the intercultural encounters they have as they go about this process, and crucially, how Indigenous and settler directors represent this cultural journey in differing manners. Through this analysis, this article assesses the important role that music plays in self-discovery, and why the self-representation of Indigenous voices and musicality matters.

Międzynarodowa mobilność edukacyjna jako determinanta rozwoju osobistego i zawodowego studentów

The aim of the article is to analyze the extent, to which the participation of students in learning mobility projects on the example of the Erasmus+ programme influences the improvement of their individual skills desired from the perspective of the labour market. The text begins with an introduction that outlines the background to the considerations undertaken. Next, the historical context of learning mobility in Europe and the process of internationalization of universities are presented as one of the consequences of the globalizing labour market. In the following part of the article we characterized the best known European programme promoting academic mobility Erasmus+. The end of the article contains a review of the research on the competences of beneficiaries of learning mobility projects, supported by statistical data, and an attempt to draw a link between participation in student exchange and the chances of finding a satisfactory employment after graduation. The analysis shows that graduates with foreign mobility experience develop a number of characteristics and skills, that increase their employability and career opportunities.

Kinematic projection in modern technologies

The trajectories and coordinates of unmanned aircrafts spatial location determination is researched with the help of kinematic projection means. The methodology offered below considers the formation of two mobile and independent kinematic projection centers raised into the air by drones. The electromagnetic radio waves emitted by them, penetrating an unknown aircraft object, form two independent projecting rays intersecting at the searched aircraft location point. In this case, the searched object spatial location instantaneous (at a certain point in time) point will be placed on an imaginary “picture plane” on a line connecting the points projections generated by drones interceptors projecting rays. As far as all of the projection objects in this case are movable, all the moving trajectory projection of the searched aircraft will be displayed on the monitor. The introduction of another “picture plane”, perpendicular to the main one, will help to build an axonometric mapping not only for projections, but also for the aircraft spatial movement trajectory itself. Each point of this trajectory gives an information about the “instantaneous” coordinates of the aircraft spatial location. The method of application of kinematic projection for display of a trajectory of movement and search of coordinates of moving objects is described. In kinematic projection, all its key components, namely the object, the center of projection, the image plane and the projecting rays, are in continuous motion with certain speeds and accelerations. Kinematic projection deepens the field of practical application of descriptive geometry. This is confirmed by the example of practical application of kinematic projection presented in the article for improvement of remote control of tillage equipment in automated land treatment complexes. The main technical support for the practical application of kinematic projection are stationary radio towers or unmanned aerial vehicles (BPLA), such as drones. They are equipped with video cameras and electromagnetic radiation devices. This equipment serves as a center of kinematic projection. The projecting rays generated by the projection center will be received by a stationary command post (center). It is equipped with a radar system (radar) and modern computer equipment with appropriate software. This equipment, in this case, performs the function of a “picture plane”, which will reflect the trajectory of agricultural machinery. Actuators and controls of the movement of tillage equipment are equipped with receivers of control radio waves and means of automated control. The use of kinematic projection helps to improve the quality of tillage. This is ensured by the fact that its use is carried out automatically and eliminates possible errors of operators. Kinematic projection can also be used in military affairs to detect enemy drones in the airspace. In this case, use a kind of kinematic projection with its two centers of generation of projecting rays. This is an example of the solution of the so-called “inverse problem” of kinematic projection, which provides the ability to search for the coordinates of the motion of the projected object at a known trajectory of its motion. The main advantage of kinematic projection is the ability to identify and display an object on a computer screen not only in a flat view, but also taking into account its spatial coordinates.

MONETIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. CASE STUDY: URBAN MOBILITY IN ORADEA

One of the main limitations identified in the specialized literature is represented by the insufficient quantification of the environmental externalities in the process of carrying out the economic analysis within the cost-benefit analysis for the urban mobility projects specific to the local public authorities. Cost-benefit analysis is an essential tool for prioritizing public investment. The research methodology used in this paper includes data analysis, observation and data modeling. The purpose of this paper is represented by the analysis of the monetization of the environmental externalities specific to the economic analysis of the projects in the field of urban mobility of Oradea Municipality. Economic analysis involves estimating the contribution of a public investment to the economic well-being of a city, region or country and is very important because it also includes the economic and social benefits of an investment. In Romania, the economic analysis is mandatory for all investment projects that involve conducting a feasibility study. Socio-economic analysis involves making fiscal corrections, corrections for externalities and transformation into accounting prices. Externalities can be positive or negative and can be caused by production or consumption. Negative externality is an external cost and positive externality is an external benefit. In performing a cost-benefit analysis when an investment is analyzed from an economic point of view, externalities must be quantified from a monetary point of view. Shadow prices are monetary values attributed to externalities. These shadow prices are used in economic analysis specific to cost-benefit analysis. Shadow prices are assigned when market prices are not known accurately or when it is difficult to quantify certain costs. An example of a shadow price is the value attributed to the emission cost of one tonne of carbon dioxide. A limitation of this paper is represented by the fact that we analyzed only the environmental externalities specific to urban mobility. In future works I want to expand the research of other externalities and to carry out the economic analysis at the level of investment projects of local importance.

온택트 시대, 시공간을 공유하고 확장하는 영상 - 거리예술 [LOOP STOP: BROKEN BRIDGE]를 중심으로

This paper focuses on video techniques, production processes, and intentions to collaborate and communicate that transcend time and space based on the street art <LOOP STOP: BROKEN BRIDGE>. This work was done in collaboration between Korean and French creators. On October 17 and 18 of 2020, on Nodeul Island in the Han River, Korea, at 20:00 Korean time, and at the Komplex Kapharnaum Studio located in Lyon, at 13:00 France time, both teams worked simultaneously. The explanation for the form of these works and their creation is the pandemic caused by COVID-19. In a situation where online-based production was inevitable, the creators had to think about how to interact and how to produce the work. It was judged that it was necessary for the researcher to discuss the role of the exchanging and sharing of the temporality and spatiality of video while producing works in such a context of the times. The purpose of this paper is to search for online-based production cases in the ontact era and to search for efficient uses of imaging techniques. The research method is to be conducted in a way that records the production processes and technical achievements, focusing on the street art <LOOP STOP: BROKEN BRIDGE>. The main body is the second chapter, entitled 'Outline and composition of the work', along with the third chapter, 'Imaging techniques for sharing and expanding the time-space used in <LOOP STOP: BROKEN BRIDGE>'. In the third chapter, 'live streaming', 'projection', 'multiscreen' and 'superimposing' are the main video production techniques studied and classified depending on the case. The research result pertaining to the sharing and expanding of space and time with 'live streaming using V-link' is the concept of 'interaction'; that for 'a mix of fixed and mobile projection and the movement of the audience' is the concept of 'movement'; those for 'multiscreen using a video conferencing system' are the concepts of 'borderline, puzzle, and montage'; and that for 'superimposition using live streaming and projection' is the concept of 'simultaneity'. It is expected that the results here will serve as reference materials for those involved in creation techniques using moving images in the new normal.

The value propositions of Smart City Mobility projects

ABSTRACT Public city administrators who have been seeking to reduce traffic congestion and pollution, while improving livability and economic competitiveness, via increased investment in promising Smart City (SC) Mobility solutions. However, despite scholarly interest and booming market of solutions and technologies, there is still the need to unlock the value that SC Mobility projects can bring and to understand how these projects define and deliver value. To this end, this study presents an empirical analysis of 300 mobility projects internationally. Projects are scrutinized according to a business model framework and the variety of project characteristics are analyzed. Classification of business modeling characteristics of SC Mobility projects is given, illustrating the main benefits and objectives of smart mobility projects and how such value is generated and distributed among stakeholders. The resulting implications are two-fold. First, it helps scholars with a common business model reference to evaluate SC Mobility projects. Second, it supports the decision-making processes of both public and private organizations and acts as a best practice guide for design and implementation of innovative SC Mobility projects.

Analysis and Assessment of New Permanent Teacher Training Activities under the Erasmus+ Program from the Perspective of the Participants of Spain in Times of COVID-19

The Erasmus+ program (2014–2020) is one of the main initiatives developed by the European Commission in the field of education and is the final joint evolution of other minor and prior actions that provide schools and teachers with funding to carry out international mobility projects with a variety of formative activities. The benefits of carrying out international mobility activities to strengthen student learning and teacher training are well known and have been researched or reported even from the early stages of a program that was born back in the 1980s but has always been focused on the university level. When considering teachers at early levels (schools and high schools), the 2014–2020 Erasmus+ program was the main source of funding to grant Spanish teachers permanent training activities abroad with a direct positive impact on their careers. The year 2020 is the last year of the first evolution of the Erasmus+ program, which has been renewed, extended, and strengthened for a new six-year term (2021–2027). However, 2020 has also been a significant year. The COVID-19 global pandemic continues to affect the mobility of citizens within the different territories of the union and, thus, have a direct negative impact on international teacher and student mobility. Being 2020 the end of a cycle and a critical moment, it is the perfect time to conduct an analysis of the data associated with the participation of teachers and schools in Spain, their perceptions of the program, the different activities carried out, and the impact of the pandemic. This research study is based on an analysis of an opinion survey through a nationwide sample of teachers participating in KA101 Erasmus+ projects. This paper gathers and presents data and conclusions using information previously not available that most of the time is published in official reports globally without considering the particularities of the different states of the European Union.

Solidarity as Value in Journalism

The paper is researching the value of solidarity in contemporary Russian journalism, actualized in its professional and civic aspects. The pandemic has contributed to the development of practices of solidarity and mutual aid, and a surge in discussions about this value. Journalism reflects the processes of the birth of new practices and the reincarnation of traditional ones, and takes part in the formation of solidarity, sharing its humanist and civic character. At the same time, solidarity in journalism is actualized as a professional value, allowing the media community to resist external pressure. The object of the study is civil and professional values in journalism; the subject of the study is the value of solidarity. Monitoring of posts and comments in social networks, primary and secondary data analysis, and case analysis were used as methods of research. The empirical material includes cases from contemporary journalistic solidarity practice.The author examines the circumstances that become the background for journalistic solidarity, its traditional and new actors. The fragmented and discrete nature of journalism also manifests itself in the interaction (or lack thereof) between the various actors of journalistic solidarity. The digital nature of the modern media environment makes its contribution: solidarity is being implemented in an online format and the role of the community manager is increasing. Other trends of journalistic solidarity are its publicity, its mediatization, and monetization. The palette of solidarity tools in journalism is constantly expanding, incorporating tools from other fields. Modern solidarity absorbs elements of social projection, taking the form of public campaigns and mobilization projects. Manifestations of journalistic solidarity are situational, often centered around a particular media outlet, an iconic or high-profile event, or a journalist in a particular short period of time. Publicity becomes the primary goal. Examples of extended solidarity are rare and forced to be informationally recalled, interest maintained and moderated. The author concludes that various solidarity practices in journalism are built on the actualized value of solidarity and offers an understanding of it.

PENERAPAN METODE THE SIGNAGE PYRAMID (TSP) MODEL PADA ANGKOT STOP SIGNAGE DI KOTA BANDUNG

Stop signs for public transportation as visual communication placed on pedestrian areas serve to provide information as a sign where public transportation must stop and become a place where passengers can wait for a ride. In 2016 the City of Bandung through the Department of Transportation imposed a stop sign with a new design. This change was made in connection with the Bandung Urban Mobility Project (BUMP) as one of Bandung's visions to become a smart city. The purpose of the sign is to meet the needs of the community in carrying out activities using public transportation to stop at the right place. But in reality, there are still many people who misunderstand the function of signs because they are considered unable to meet their needs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate signage based on user experience, especially on Angkot stop signs designed by Kudos Design Collaboratory. By using The Signage Pyramid Model (TSP) method for analysis, this study will provide evaluation results and recommendations for the Angkot Stop Signage design concept that has taken into account the needs and experiences of public transport users. Keywords: User Experience; Signage; Stop Signage; TSP; Environmental Graphic Design

A journey of gender in health: Transforming health by promoting gender considerations through comic art

Sex and gender are determinants of health outcomes across an individual’s life course. However, often in health research and practice, sex and gender considerations are either overlooked or confounded. Recent developments in health research and practice ask for the inclusion of sex and gender considerations within health research and practice. This article is a reaction to these calls. It explores the ways in which an international team of health researchers created a comic book that highlighted the impact of gender in many areas of health across an individual’s life course. The creative processes are critically explored, as well as selected images. Through this work, it is proposed that comic art knowledge mobilization projects can be viewed as means to transform health research and practice by critiquing and disrupting dominant cis-heteronormative sex and gender discourses.

Regional Resource Urbanism, Envisioning an Adaptive Transition for the Urbanising Periphery of Kathmandu

Despite a strong tradition of harmony between the landscape and its settlements, Kathmandu's periphery now stands altered due to the contemporary challenges of modernisation. It has become the contested territory where rapid urbanisation and infrastructure projects conflict with the valley's last remaining resources. i.e., fertile soil, floodplains, water sources, forests, and agricultural land. The periphery is essential in preserving the remaining agricultural landscape, which is the mainstay of the numerous traditional communities of Kathmandu. Both the occupants and the productive landscape are threatened due to haphazard urbanisation and future mobility projects, resulting in speculative and uncontrolled sprawl. A detailed investigation was conducted on a site 15km south of Kathmandu to address the city's landscape challenges. The chosen investigation frame presented the suitable conditions to study and test strategies posed by the research objectives. The research utilises landscape urbanism and cartography to reveal the landscape's latent capacities, identify the spatial qualities, stakeholders, and typologies involved in the production and consumption of resources. The study identifies existing resource flows and their ability to generate future scenarios. Systematic design strategies were applied in resource recovery projects by optimising enterprising capacity building within communities after the earthquake. The research recognises the merit in existing practices, community networks, the ongoing post-earthquake rebuilding efforts in offering an alternative design strategy in which landscape becomes the carrying structure for the sustainable reorganisation of Kathmandu's periphery.

DESIGN OF MIXED-USE AREA IN LEUWI PANJANG BUS TERMINAL BASED ON TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT (TOD), BANDUNG CITY, INDONESIA

AbstractLeuwi Panjang Terminal of Bandung City is a terminal with an A-type category in the city of Bandung. This terminal is one of the proposed Transit Oriented Development in Bandung Urban Mobile Project 2031 programs. Listed in the BUMP 2031 program, the Leuwi Panjang Terminal area will be equipped as a public transportation transit, monorail. Based on the existing criteria, the Leuwi Panjang terminal doesn’t fulfill the criteria as a Transit Oriented Development area, including inadequate facilities, the circulation systems that are not mutually integrated and the unavailability of signage makes visitors confused about their activity paths, and the stiffness of pedestrians and cyclists to move around in this area. This study discusses the architectural design recommendations of the TOD area that fill the TOD standards of the Leuwi Panjang Terminal. The method used is by conducting area studies, activity studies, and circulation studies. The study is analyzed and processed to produce a synthesis and application to the design to fulfill the TOD criteria and government regulations. Keywords: Transit-Oriented Development, Integration, Terminal, Of Bandung City.

Homes of Stroke Survivors Are a Challenging Environment for Rehabilitation Technologies.

The design of digital technologies that support poststroke rehabilitation at home has been a topic of research for some time. If technology is to have a large-scale impact on rehabilitation practice, then we need to understand how to create technologies that are appropriate for the domestic environment and for the needs and motivations of those living there. This paper reflects on the research conducted in the Motivating Mobility project (UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council: EP/F00382X/1). We conducted sensitizing studies to develop a foundational understanding of the homes of stroke survivors, participatory design sessions situated in the home, and experimental deployments of prototype rehabilitation technologies. We identified four challenges specific to the homes of stroke survivors and relevant to the deployment of rehabilitation technologies: identifying a location for rehabilitation technology, negotiating social relationships present in the home, avoiding additional stress in households at risk of existential stress, and providing for patient safety. We conclude that skilled workers may be needed to enable successful technology deployment, systematizing the mapping of the home may be beneficial, and education is a viable focus for rehabilitation technologies.

Predictive Analytics for Smart Parking: A Deep Learning Approach in Forecasting of IoT Data

Nowadays, a sustainable and smart city focuses on energy efficiency and the reduction of polluting emissions through smart mobility projects and initiatives to “sensitize” infrastructure. Smart parking is one of the building blocks of intelligent mobility, innovative mobility that aims to be flexible, integrated, and sustainable and consequently integrated into a Smart City. By using the Internet of Things (IoT) sensors located in the parking areas or the underground car parks in combination with a mobile application, which indicates to citizens the free places in the different areas of the city and guides them toward the chosen parking, it is possible to reduce air pollution and fluidifying noise traffic. In this article, we present and discuss an innovative Deep Learning-based ensemble technique in forecasting the parking space occupancy to reduce the search time for parking and to optimize the flow of cars in particularly congested areas, with an overall positive impact on traffic in urban centres. A genetic algorithm has also been used to optimize predictors parameters. The main goal is to design an intelligent IoT-based service that can predict, in the next few hours, the parking spaces occupancy of a street. The proposed approach has been assessed on a real IoT dataset composed by over than 15M of collected sensor records. Obtained results demonstrate that our method outperforms both single predictors and the widely used strategy of the mean providing inherently robust predictions.

Onward migration: An introduction

Onward migration: An introduction

‘They are not very open to people’: how mobile students construct interculturality through metaphor and narrative

ABSTRACT This study utilises the ‘small story’ approach to investigate metaphor in mobile students’ narratives of intercultural experience. Metaphor in narrative is seen as a dynamic, discursive, and sociocognitive phenomenon. The narrative accounts presented in this paper derive from interviews conducted for mobility project evaluation. The participants were South Korean student teachers, and English was used as a lingua franca. The segments demonstrate how metaphor emerges in the flow of interview talk; for instance, using oppositional image schemas, the exchange students tell how they experienced school education and people’s identities in their host and home contexts. Soveltaen pienten kertomusten lähestymistapaa tämä tapaustutkimus paneutuu metaforiin, joita vaihto-opiskelijat konstruoivat kulttuurienvälisestä kokemuksestaan. Suulliseen kerrontaan kietoutuva metafora nähdään tässä tutkimuksessa dynaamisena, diskursiivisena ja sosiokognitiivisena ilmiönä. Raportoidut aineistoesimerkit ovat peräisin vaihto-opiskelijoiden haastatteluista, jotka tuotettiin liikkuvuushankkeen seurannan ja arvioinnin tarpeisiin. Haastateltavat olivat aineenopettajiksi valmistuvia eteläkorealaisia opiskelijoita, ja englannin kieli oli haastattelijalle ja tutkimushenkilöille yhteinen lingua franca. Aineistoesimerkit selvittävät kuinka metaforat nousevat esiin haastattelun interaktiossa. Metaforisilla vastapareilla opiskelijat syventävät kertomustaansa ihmisten identiteeteistä ja koulujen opetuksesta ja vaihto- ja kotikontekstissa.