Ongoing Activities Research Articles

A comprehensive calculation of the Primakoff process andthe solar axion flux

The Primakoff process plays a crucial role in axion productionin astrophysical environments and laboratories. Given the rising interestin axion physics and many on-going experimental activities, we conducta comprehensive calculation of this process and carefully examineseveral aspects that have been neglected in the literature. In particular,our calculation is valid for axions with significantly large masses,which would be of importance to axion searches utilizing crystal andliquid xenon detectors. We present the most updated calculation ofthe Primakoff solar axion flux, with a simple parametrization thatis applicable to a broad range of axion masses up to a few tens ofkeV. Our code is publicly available at GitHub.

Local environmental conditions structured discrete fish assemblages in Arctic lagoons

AbstractRapid changes in sea ice extent and changes in freshwater inputs from land are rapidly changing the nature of Arctic estuarine ecosystems. In the Beaufort Sea, these nearshore habitats are known for their high productivity and mix of marine resident and diadromous fishes that have great subsistence value for Indigenous communities. There is, however, a lack of information on the spatial variation among Arctic nearshore fish communities as related to environmental drivers. In summers of 2017–2019, we sampled fishes in four estuarine ecosystems to assess community composition and relate fish abundance to temperature, salinity, and wind conditions. We found fish communities were heterogeneous over larger spatial extents with rivers forming fresh estuarine plumes that supported diadromous species (e.g., broad whitefish Coregonus nasus), while lagoons with reduced freshwater input and higher salinities were associated with marine species (e.g., saffron cod Eleginus gracilis). West–East directional winds accounted for up to 66% of the community variation, indicating importance of the wind-driven balance between fresh and marine water masses. Salinity and temperature accounted for up to 54% and 37% of the variation among lagoon communities, respectively. Recent sea ice declines provide more opportunity for wind to influence oceanographic conditions and biological communities. Current subsistence practices, future commercial fishing opportunities, and on-going oil and gas activities benefit from a better understanding of current fish community distributions. This work provides important data on fish spatial distributions and community composition, providing a basis for fish community response to changing climatic conditions and anthropogenic use.

Public Relations Management at Family Institutions in Moral Education

Socio-cultural developments and changes indirectly affect children's development and education. This situation affects children, who are basically looking for someone who can become their philosophy of life, making it difficult for families to fulfill their obligations to educate their children. Society has a great influence on the ongoing activities related to education, and family education is the earliest educational institution in human civilization. Before knowing formal education, the position and role of the family in human life is very important, because it is the most basic. the most active and widespread in history. No age limit (covers multiple age groups), no time limit, anytime, anywhere. The purpose of this study was to describe the role of the family in education in public relations management. This study was conducted using a qualitative method, in which appropriate multi-reference studies were used, and then comparisons were made. The family, school and community environment is the center of education, but of the three, the family environment has the greatest influence on children's development. The result of this research is that this family education is basic education, because children get the first education in this family. In addition, family education has a great impact on children's lives, especially on children's psychological growth and development, as well as on social and religious values.
 Keyword : Family, Public, Education

Spectral Imager of the Solar Atmosphere: The First Extreme-Ultraviolet Solar Integral Field Spectrograph Using Slicers

Particle acceleration, and the thermalisation of energetic particles, are fundamental processes across the universe. Whilst the Sun is an excellent object to study this phenomenon, since it is the most energetic particle accelerator in the Solar System, this phenomenon arises in many other astrophysical objects, such as active galactic nuclei, black holes, neutron stars, gamma ray bursts, solar and stellar coronae, accretion disks and planetary magnetospheres. Observations in the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) are essential for these studies but can only be made from space. Current spectrographs operating in the EUV use an entrance slit and cover the required field of view using a scanning mechanism. This results in a relatively slow image cadence in the order of minutes to capture inherently rapid and transient processes, and/or in the spectrograph slit ‘missing the action’. The application of image slicers for EUV integral field spectrographs is therefore revolutionary. The development of this technology will enable the observations of EUV spectra from an entire 2D field of view in seconds, over two orders of magnitude faster than what is currently possible. The Spectral Imaging of the Solar Atmosphere (SISA) instrument is the first integral field spectrograph proposed for observations at ∼180 Å combining the image slicer technology and curved diffraction gratings in a highly efficient and compact layout, while providing important spectroscopic diagnostics for the characterisation of solar coronal and flare plasmas. SISA’s characteristics, main challenges, and the on-going activities to enable the image slicer technology for EUV applications are presented in this paper.

What Made South Korea–Japan Security Cooperation Retreat During the Moon Jae-in Administration?

This article elucidates the reasons behind South Korea’s diminished security cooperation with Japan during the Moon Jae-in administration (2017–2022). The author discovered that President Moon halted ongoing security cooperation activities initiated by his predecessor, even though the North Korean nuclear threat became exponential. In particular, this article argues that not the national-level factors, such as South Koreans’ negative perception of Japan on the basis of their collective memory, but the leader factor was the main reason for the worsening of South Korea–Japan’s security cooperation during the Moon administration, contrary to most people’s expectations. The Moon administration’s progressive political leaders, who had acquired anti-United States/anti-Japan and pro-North Korea/pro-China perspectives during their anti-government protests in the 1970s and 1980s, decided to be confrontational towards Japan to their political benefit. The reality that the security cooperation between South Korea and Japan jumpstarted once the conservative Yoon Suk-yeol administration leaders replaced them supports this finding.

Petrogenesis of Late Mesozoic trachydacites in the Jiaolai Basin, Eastern China: Implications for the destruction of the North China Craton

The North China Craton has witnessed a large-scale lithospheric thinning event in the Mesozoic. The volcanic rocks of the Qingshan Group formed during the destruction of the North China Craton, therefore retaining important information to the deep processes in this region. Zircon U-Pb dating and geochemical analyses have been carried out on volcanic rocks of the Qingshan Group collected from southeastern margin of the Jiaolai Basin. In combination with previously published data on the volcanic rocks of the Qingshan Group, the newly acquired data show that: (1) the volcanic rocks of Qingshan Group in Mashan have SiO2 content of 62.82 ∼ 66.3 wt% and total alkali content (K2O + Na2O) of 7.64 ∼ 9.34 wt%. According to TAS diagram, they belong to trachydacite which experienced strong fractionation between LREEs and HREEs with depletion of HFSEs and enrichment of LILEs. (2) The crystallization age of trachydacite in Mashan is 116.4 ± 2.3 Ma (MSWD = 1.9, n = 9). The magma originated from the partial melting of the ancient lower crust and the enriched lithospheric mantle metasomatized by the fluids/melts released from the subducted slab of the Yangtze Craton. (3) The formation age of magmatic rocks in western Shandong is generally earlier than that in eastern Shandong, while the lower crust delamination in western Shandong preceded that in eastern Shandong. The occurrence of magmatism in eastern Shandong is probably attributed to the delamination process in western Shandong as well as the ongoing tectonic activities along the Tan-Lu fault zone. The lithospheric thinning of the North China Craton was mainly controlled by the change of the subduction angle of the Paleo-Pacific plate, and is probably influenced by the continuous activity of the Tan-Lu fault zone in eastern Shandong.

Sosialisasi Dan Pemahaman Masyarakat Tentang Pembuatan Eco Enzyme Serta Pemanfaatannya Dalam Rumah Tangga

This service activity aims to ensure that participants understand the importance of managing household organic waste to overcome environmental problems, increase participants' understanding regarding eco-enzymes and their use in the household; increase participants' understanding regarding the materials used to make eco-enzymes in the household. This counseling was carried out at the Church of HKBP Nommensen Resort Pulu Brayan Medan, to 50 parompuan community (Church Women's Community) of the HKBP Pulu Brayan as participants, then an evaluation was carried out on the 25 participants. The method of this service activity is; socialization by resource persons; discussion and direct practice in making eco-enzymes and evaluation processes. Based on the outreach activities carried out, it was concluded; a) there was an increase in participants' understanding regarding eco-enzymes and their use in the household; b) there was an increase in participants' understanding regarding the materials used to make eco-enzymes in the household; c) socialization and training on making eco enzymes for parompuan community in church of the HKBP Nommensen Pulu Brayan plays a role in increasing participants' knowledge about eco-enzymes and the process of making them, good environmental management, and the use of waste into environmentally friendly products. Based on the conclusions, it is recommended that ongoing outreach activities be carried out and include all members of the church congregation, so that they can utilize organic waste into environmentally friendly products.

Maintenance study on WCLL-TBS ancillary systems in process room

The Water-Cooled Lithium Lead Test Blanket System (WCLL-TBS) is one of the European TBS candidates for being installed and operated in ITER. The ongoing activities toward the Preliminary Design Review of the WCLL-TBS Ancillary Systems include the reallocation of their units in the reserved space, also in the view of the proper execution of the maintenance activities. Starting from the available documentation (System Design Description, Process Flow Diagrams, Process and Instrumentation Diagrams), detailed 3D CAD models have been developed for two Ancillary Systems to be installed in the Process room: the Tritium Extraction System (TES) and the Tritium Accountancy System (TAS). In the Process room (PR), the largest part of the TES process units is placed inside a Glove-box, as enclosure to avoid the contamination of the room in case of radioactive release due to failure of units. Based on the expected radioactivity content, all the TAS units are placed inside the Glove-box. Maintainability studies have been performed, focusing on the preventive (i.e. planned) and corrective (i.e. required by failures) maintenance tasks on the units installed inside the Glove-box. They were based on the 3D CAD models and supported using Virtual Reality as intuitive and immersive human-computer interface. They provided insights for the iterative improvement and consolidation of the Systems design and information for the evaluation of their availability.

Choosing Wisely: Applying Value-Based Economic Principles to Population Science Research Investment.

Scientific research requires a substantial investment of time, effort, and money by researchers and funders. The funding that would be needed for all meritorious proposals far exceeds available resources. Major funding organizations use a multistep process for allocating research dollars that follows and extends beyond scientific peer review with considerations including mission priority, budget, and potential duplication of past or ongoing research activities. At the level of programmatic review, the process tends to be less proscribed than scientific review, but considerations relate to and are akin to basic value-driven economic principles. We propose a framework that encompasses the elements of programmatic review and provide examples of how the economic principles of opportunity costs, diminishing marginal productivity, sunk costs, economic optimization, return on investment, and option value apply to both research planning and funding decisions. Examples use cancer control population science research, as the nature of observational and interventional research involves large population studies (large sample size, recruitment, and often long-duration follow-up costs) which demand a high level of resource utilization; the same principles can be applied throughout medical and population health research. Awareness of the aspects of programmatic review and context to focus discussion regarding funding decisions may help guide research planning, decision-making, and increase transparency of the overall review process.

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Large‐Scale H2 Storage and Transport with Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier Technology: Insights into Current Project Developments and the Future Outlook

The green hydrogen economy is evolving rapidly, accompanied by the need to establish trading routes on a global scale. Currently, several technologies are competing for a leadership role in future hydrogen value chains. Within this context, liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) technology represents an excellent solution for large‐scale storage and safe transportation of hydrogen. This article presents LOHC technology, recent progress, as well as further potential of this technology with focus on benzyltoluene as the carrier material. Furthermore, this contribution offers an insight into previous and ongoing project development activities led by Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies together with an evaluation of the economic viability and an overview of the regulatory aspects of LOHC technology.

Better Regulation and its Evolution in the Hellenic Legislative and Parliamentary System

Abstract This article highlights the state-of-play in law-making in Greece especially following the adoption of law 4622/2019 aiming at establishing a culture of principles and means for enhancing the quality of laws. The revised model for new legislation, as well as the approach taken for the transformation of existing laws into the new model, the so-called codification process, are presented. In this framework, the role of the Hellenic Parliament is discussed and its position vis-à-vis other regulatory authorities is highlighted. The ongoing legislative modernization activities are approached under the light of digital tools and services that are being developed to further advance law-making processes in Greece.

Nursing students experienced academic emotions during education - a longitudinal descriptive study from a nursing bachelor’s program in Sweden

AimTo explore nursing students’ academic emotions during ongoing learning activities focusing on perceived challenge and competence.BackgroundEmotions plays an important part in learning. Positive emotions can be beneficial while negative emotions can be detrimental to educational outcomes. Optimal experiences are situations when learners simultaneously experience sufficient challenge and competence. Since various learning activities are performed in different learning environments during the nursing program, it is of interest to investigate students’ ongoing emotions in the occurring contexts.DesignA longitudinal descriptive study.MethodsBy using the Contextual Activity Sampling System, data was collected every third week on a three-year nursing program. From August 2015 to January 2020, a total of 2, 947 questionnaires were answered by 158 students. Experiences of positive and negative academic emotions were calculated for the entire program. Optimal experience was calculated for courses where high discrepancy between positive and negative experiences were identified.ResultsStudents self-reported academic emotions varied over time and in relation to learning activities. High ratings of negative emotions were reported during clinical practice in all semesters except the final. Students’ positive academic emotions and optimal experience in clinical practice increased after having deepened their academic knowledge.ConclusionNursing students had an increased positive experience when they themselves practice a learning activity and it appeared that they benefit from academic preparation prior to entering internship. Nursing students need an academic competence to develop their skills during training in the clinical reality. Increased collaboration between academia and clinic would be beneficial for students’ clinical development.

Activity Detection in Indoor Environments Using Multiple 2D Lidars.

In health monitoring systems for the elderly, a crucial aspect is unobtrusively and continuously monitoring their activities to detect potentially hazardous incidents such as sudden falls as soon as they occur. However, the effectiveness of current non-contact sensor-based activity detection systems is limited by obstacles present in the environment. To overcome this limitation, a straightforward yet highly efficient approach involves utilizing multiple sensors that collaborate seamlessly. This paper proposes a method that leverages 2D Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) technology for activity detection. Multiple 2D Lidars are positioned in an indoor environment with varying obstacles such as furniture, working cohesively to create a comprehensive representation of ongoing activities. The data from these Lidars is concatenated and transformed into a more interpretable format, resembling images. A convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Neural Network is then used to process these generated images to classify the activities. The proposed approach achieves high accuracy in three tasks: activity detection, fall detection, and unsteady gait detection. Specifically, it attains accuracies of 96.10%, 99.13%, and 93.13% for these tasks, respectively. This demonstrates the efficacy and promise of the method in effectively monitoring and identifying potentially hazardous events for the elderly through 2D Lidars, which are non-intrusive sensing technology.

Developing Student Abilities Through Classroom Management: Principles, Components and Role of the Teacher

The purpose of this research is to find out what classroom management is, to know the objectives of class management, to know the principles of class management, to know the components of class management and the scope of class management. The research method uses the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method or systematic literature review, namely a literature review method that identifies, examines, evaluates and interprets all available research. Researchers conducted a review and identified journals in a structured manner that in each process followed predetermined steps. The conclusion of the research results on classroom management is that there are still many problems related to ongoing teaching and learning activities. Often there are various complaints or criticisms from students, parents or teachers regarding the implementation of these teaching activities. These complaints actually do not need to occur or at least can be minimized, if all parties can play a role, especially teachers as class managers in their proper functions. Meanwhile, the understanding of classroom management still seems to be wrong. Often class management is understood as the arrangement of classrooms relating to facilities such as seating, bookcases and teaching aids.

Equity in vaccine coverage in Uganda from 2000 to 2016: revealing the multifaceted nature of inequity

BackgroundThis study analyses vaccine coverage and equity among children under five years of age in Uganda based on the 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) dataset. Understanding equity in vaccine access and the determinants is crucial for the redress of emerging as well as persistent inequities.MethodsApplied to the UDHS for 2000, 2006, 2011, and 2016, the Vaccine Economics Research for Sustainability and Equity (VERSE) Equity Toolkit provides a multivariate assessment of immunization coverage and equity by (1) ranking the sample population with a composite direct unfairness index, (2) generating quantitative measure of efficiency (coverage) and equity, and (3) decomposing inequity into its contributing factors. The direct unfairness ranking variable is the predicted vaccination coverage from a logistic model based upon fair and unfair sources of variation in vaccination coverage. Our fair source of variation is defined as the child’s age – children too young to receive routine immunization are not expected to be vaccinated. Unfair sources of variation are the child’s region of residence, and whether they live in an urban or rural area, the mother’s education level, the household’s socioeconomic status, the child’s sex, and their insurance coverage status. For each unfair source of variation, we identify a “more privileged” situation.ResultsThe coverage and equity of the Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus vaccine, 3rd dose (DPT3) and the Measles-Containing Vaccine, 1st dose (MCV1) – two vaccines indicative of the health system’s performance – improved significantly since 2000, from 49.7% to 76.8% and 67.8% to 82.7%, respectively, and there are fewer zero-dose children: from 8.4% to 2.2%. Improvements in retaining children in the program so that they complete the immunization schedule are more modest (from 38.1% to 40.8%). Progress in coverage was pro-poor, with concentration indices (wealth only) moving from 0.127 (DPT3) and 0.123 (MCV1) in 2000 to -0.042 and -0.029 in 2016. Gains in overall equity (composite) were more modest, albeit significant for most vaccines except for MCV1: concentration indices of 0.150 (DPT3) and 0.087 (MCV1) in 2000 and 0.054 and 0.055 in 2016. The influence of the region and settings (urban/rural) of residence significantly decreased since 2000.ConclusionThe past two decades have seen significant improvements in vaccine coverage and equity, thanks to the efforts to strengthen routine immunization and ongoing supplemental immunization activities such as the Family Health Days. While maintaining the regular provision of vaccines to all regions, efforts should be made to alleviate the impact of low maternal education and literacy on vaccination uptake.

ANALISIS DAN RANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI MONITORING PIUTANG PELANGGAN BISNIS MENGGUNAKAN WHATSAPP GATEWAY API

PT XYZ as a company engaged in the service sector has services for sending letters and packages on credit to partners who already have cooperation agreements. Every incoming shipment from partners will become receivable, then the company records each incoming receivable so that it is monitored so that partners do not pay receivables beyond the due date. Activities that support the management of receivables are reporting of each receivable to determine the amount and maturity of the receivable. The current accounts receivable management business process is still semi-computed, therefore it is necessary to have a special system that can manage accounts receivable activities properly so that they can be controlled from period to period by providing receivable notification features to partners.
 In this study, which is part of the development of a receivables information system, which is reflected in the financial rules regarding receivables. Research activities are carried out in the analysis phase and the information system design phase. Information system analysis uses Porter's value chain to describe ongoing activities and BPMN notation to model the main activity business processes. As for the design is done using an object-oriented approach. In designing this system, the tools used to describe processes and databases are designed using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) which provides accounts receivable management features, notifications using Whatsapp chat media and accounts receivable reporting features.
 The output of the research is in the form of a report on the design of an information system for monitoring receivables using the Whatsapp Gateway API, software documents and research publications. The design of the information system built can make it easier for system developers to build management systems and monitor receivables at PT XYZ.

The Rise of Quantum Information and Communication Technologies

Today, we are already using several-component devices and systems based on the technologies developed during the first quantum revolution. Examples include microchips for servers, laptops and smartphones, medical imaging devices, LED, lasers, etc. Now, a second quantum revolution is progressing fast, exploiting technological advances for the ability to engineer and manipulate other quantum phenomena such as superposition, entanglement and measurement. As a matter of fact, there is an impressive increase in research and development activities, innovation, public and private investments in a new wave of quantum services and applications. In this scenario, quantum information and communication technologies (QICTs) can be defined as a set of technological components, devices, systems and methods for elaborating, storing and transmitting/sharing quantum information. This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities enabling the rise of QICTs. In order to provide a concrete example, the paper describes an overview of the European project EQUO (European Quantum ecOsystems) dealing with ongoing innovation activities in the QICT avenue; in fact, EQUO aims at developing and demonstrating the feasibility of QKD (quantum key distribution) networks and their related integration in current telecommunications infrastructures towards the quantum internet.

African Nuclear Educational Network (AFRA-NEST): Assessment, challenges, and the way forward

As eleven African countries are planning or moving ahead with the implementation of national nuclear programs, the role of nuclear education networks in preparing the needed national workforce cannot be underestimated. A 2022 IAEA publication on Nuclear Educational Networks benchmarked the different nuclear networks. It suffices to mention that; as of 2022; the African Nuclear Educational Network, AFRA-NEST, does not have a network platform and the position of the regional coordinator is vacant. Also, the network did not witness any major activities since nearly 2013. This opinion paper is an attempt to better understand the history and status of AFRA-NEST, address the challenges and provide some recommendations on re-activating it to cope with the ongoing nuclear activities in Africa.

Learning Fun English through Pop-Up QR Book: An Audio-Visual Aid for Early Childhood Foreign Language Development

English is a language that has been widely studied at almost every level of education. Especially at the PAUD level, English can be introduced in portions that are appropriate to the child’s level of language development. Introduction to English for children can start with the introduction of simple English vocabulary and expressions. In practice, English language learning in PAUD does not go completely well due to various factors. This research aims to respond to the needs of English language learning in PAUD, namely by implementing Pop-Up QR Book media, which has been developed within the framework of classroom action research. This research uses classroom action research by applying the Kemmis and McTaggart (1988) model. This model is often quoted in books and articles and consists of four stages: plan, act, observe, and reflect. The research consisted of 2 cycles, each cycle consisting of 2 meetings. This research was carried out at a preschool in Salatiga, Indonesia. The class used to conduct research was Kindergarten A class, consisting of 5 children with an age range of 3–4 years. The data collection uses observational techniques by observing ongoing activities. Activities are performed as needed to achieve goals. The results of the observations are recorded in anecdotal records summarizing key events or processes for use as documents for analyzing the development of children’s English skills in terms of vocabulary recognition. To analyze the data from this classroom action research, there were four criteria related to children’s vocabulary recognition ability using the Pop-Up QR Book learning media as a reference: ‘attracted’, ‘active’, ‘remember’ and ‘understand’. The result of this study shows that the Pop-Up QR Book “Trip to Grandparents’ House” is very good to use as a medium for learning English vocabulary for children aged 3–4 years. It stimulates students’ interest and the ability to remember and understand English vocabulary.