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Compliance relationship analysis between environmental governance attention and environmental quality in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region

This study analyzes the changes and allocation characteristics of environmental governance attention in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region based on the government work report from 2002 to 2020 and explores the compliance relationship between environmental governance attention and environmental quality. The results show that the allocation of local government environmental governance attention shows high consistency with that of the central government, and the overall environmental governance attention shows a fluctuating upward trend. There is a long-term stable co-integrated relationship between environmental governance attention and environmental quality in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, as well as a two-way Granger causality relationship in the short term. The non-linear influence of environmental governance attention on the environmental quality in the Beijing–Hebei–Tianjin region can be described using the LSTR2 model. During 2004–2016, environmental governance attention often had non-linear effects on the environmental quality. Since 2016, there has been a stable linear relationship between environmental governance attention and environmental quality. Finally, some policy suggestions on improving the local performance evaluation system and establishing a collaborative environment system for the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region have been put forward for the government.

Materiality and Virtuality, Touch and Distance from the (Femi) Graphic Perspective


 The time of pandemic acted as a magnifying glass – directing one’s attention to features of printmaking practice that correspond with contemporary condition of humans and their needs in terms of communication, contact and relations. As two female printmakers practicing relief printing techniques and trying to push and expand the range of tools and recipes of our graphic kitchen, we exchange and discuss our personal narratives, experiences and experiments. The keywords that kept reappearing during these last two years were for us: materiality, touch, presence, constantly followed and supplemented by virtuality, distance and representation. 
 
 
 The above notions resonate with Jennifer L. Roberts’ series of Mellon Lectures (2021) entitled Contact: Art and the Pull of Print – with conceptual brackets that can be identified with two opposite or complementary concepts: contact and alienation. Using examples of our practices we refer to the idea of “new materiality”, exploring how different materials of a matrix, of paper or fabric “give life to different realities and actualise aspects of subjectivity, embodiment and human-world relations that are particular to their material qualities” (Coleman, Page, Palmer, 2019). 
 
 
 However, the haptic quality of the process as a part of the artist’s experience is difficult to transfer and share with the audience in the situation of the virtual distribution of the image. How can we interpret and make most of the notion of touch in order to translate it into “tuché” (Lacanian “encounter with the real”), despite the mediation of the screen? Can we provocatively argue that virtual presentation can be seen as “porno-graphic” of the printmaking practice with the images being inevitably digitally edited and presented in such way that they look flawless, alienated from the real world? 
 
 
 The paper also explores the narrative strands, entangled with the ambiguous experience of touch, explored through our printmaking practices. 

Comparing and Evaluating Human and Computationally Derived Representations of Non-Semantic Design Information

Abstract Design artifacts provide a mechanism for illustrating design information and concepts, but their effectiveness relies on alignment across design agents in what these artifacts represent. This work investigates the agreement between multi-modal representations of design artifacts by humans and artificial intelligence (AI). Design artifacts are considered to constitute stimuli designers interact with to become inspired (i.e., inspirational stimuli), for which retrieval often relies on computational methods using AI. To facilitate this process for multi-modal stimuli, a better understanding of human perspectives of non-semantic representations of design information, e.g., by form or function-based features, is motivated. This work compares and evaluates human and AI-based representations of 3D-model parts by visual and functional features. Humans and AI were found to share consistent representations of visual and functional similarities, which aligned well with coarse, but not more granular, levels of similarity. Human–AI alignment was higher for identifying low compared to high similarity parts, suggesting mutual representation of features underlying more obvious than nuanced differences. Human evaluation of part relationships in terms of belonging to the same or different categories revealed that human and AI-derived relationships similarly reflect concepts of “near” and “far.” However, levels of similarity corresponding to “near” and “far” differed depending on the criteria evaluated, where “far” was associated with nearer visually than functionally related stimuli. These findings contribute to a fundamental understanding of human evaluation of information conveyed by AI-represented design artifacts needed for successful human–AI collaboration in design.

Meat Yield and the Length–Weight Relationships of the Narrow‐Clawed Crayfish, Pontastacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823)

The present study investigated the length-weight relationships and meat yield of narrow-clawed crayfish, Pontastacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823), in Kocahıdır Irrigation Reservoir. Between July 2015 and June 2016, a total of 653 individuals (255 females and 398 males) were sampled, and their carapace lengths (CL), total lengths (TL), and total weights (TW) were measured. The female-to-male ratio for the entire population was found to be 0.64:1.00. The results showed that the CL of the narrow-clawed crayfish ranged between 37 and 90 mm (39-79 mm for females and 37-90 mm for males), while the TW ranged from 10.10 to 165.61 g (11.13-90.01 g for females and 10.16-165.61 g for males). The TL of female individuals was 114.09 mm, with a weight of 40.43 g, while the TL of male individuals was 116.32 mm, with a weight of 53.45 g. The ratio of individuals above the minimum legal-size limit of 100 mm was determined to be 80.70% for the crayfish population in Kocahıdır Irrigation Reservoir. Regression analysis indicated that the TL-TW and CL-TW relationships for female narrow-clawed crayfish exhibited negative allometric growth, while males showed positive allometric growth in terms of the TL-TW relationship and isometric growth in terms of the CL-TW relationship. Isometric growth was observed in the whole population for both male and female individuals in terms of TL-TW and CL-TW characteristics. Female individuals with carapace lengths ranging from 43-82 mm had a chelae meat yield of 2.48%, an abdomen meat yield of 11.38%, and a total meat yield of 13.85%. Male narrow-clawed crayfish with carapace lengths ranging from 35 to 90 mm had a chelae shear meat yield of 4.13%, an abdomen meat yield of 10.52%, and a total meat yield of 14.64%.

Analysis of Supply Chain Management Performance in the Community Coffee Production System in Bajawa, Ngada Regency

Research on Supply Flow Performance Management in the Bajawa People's Coffee Production System was carried out in Ngada Regency, with the aim of finding out the relationship between cooperation and the performance of the Bajawa coffee supply flow, knowing the relationship between information sharing and the supply flow performance of Bajawa coffee and knowing the long-term relationship with Bajawa coffee supply flow performance. Many factors can influence the performance of supply flow management in companies, including information sharing, long term relationships, and cooperation. The method used in this research is to analyze the relationship between the dependent variable (cooperation, information sharing and long-term relationships) and the independent variable (Bajawa coffee supply flow performance). From the results of the multiple linear regression analysis carried out, it shows that: the long-term relationship variable has the greatest influence on the Bajawa coffee SCM performance variable (dependent) with a coefficient value of (0.047), then the cooperation variable with a value of ( 0.019 ), and which has a The smallest influence is the information sharing variable (0.018). This means that the three independent variables have a positive and significant effect on the dependent variable.

43 A Qualitative Study to Establish a Culture Specific Presurgical Psychological Screening for Patients with Degenerative Spinal Disease in Taiwan

Objective:Presurgical psychological screening (PPS) is a procedure for mitigating possible unfavorable outcomes after spinal surgery. Although the effectiveness of PPS on degenerative spinal diseases has been investigated in Western studies, a potential cultural influence on PPS is still unknown. This study thus aims to explore the experiences of Taiwanese people before spinal surgery and tries to establish culture-specific components of PPS in Taiwan.Participants and Methods:A total of five participants aged from 44–69 with degenerative spinal diseases were eligible in this study. All participants visited a neurosurgical outpatient clinic for potential surgical treatment, and each participant underwent an one-hour semi-structured interview before surgery. The demographical information, medical history, psychological status (e.g., personality traits and emotional disturbances) and considerations to make a surgical decision, were recorded and further analyzed following the rule of grounded theory.Results:Four major components with 21 sub-components were reported when deciding to receive a surgical treatment for their spinal diseases, including disease-related considerations, medical information, self-concept and interpersonal relations. In terms of disease-related aspects, patients concerned about etiology, symptomatology, impacts, coping strategies and rehabilitation methods. As for medical information, patients paid more attention on medical compliance, the relationship with medical system, attitude for treatment, expectation to surgical outcomes, medical decisions and medical information. As for the self-concept, patients considered more on the impacts of disease on self-concept, strategies of emotional regulations and personality traits. In terms of interpersonal relations, patients reported more on the supportive resources, patterns of interpersonal activities and impacts of interpersonal relations on medical decisions. Additionally, other specific factors, such as past negative experiences (e.g., chronic insomnia, experiences of psychological counseling), litigation, physical punishment in childhood and social roles, were also reported.Conclusions:Like previous findings, our results supported that the interpersonal relations and doctor-patient relationship in PPS were important considerations before surgery, while we further evidenced that influences of family members on medical decision is determinant and unique in this culture.

Trends and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship Education Research

The objective is analyzing the trends in Social Entrepreneurship Education as a multidisciplinary research field. A systematic review of the literature on the intersection: Education and Social Entrepreneurship, with the support of scientific literature and a careful search methodology. It collects articles from the WOS Core collection database published between 2000 and 2022. A total of 367 articles are analyzed to answer the three research questions. The results of the analysis are twelve dimensions identified according to the literature in the field of social entrepreneurship education; after using lexicometric analysis and Iramuteq software, the main trends on the topics are found and discussed and the relationship of terms and concepts in the abstract and title text of the analyzed articles is shown, showing the frequency, importance of linkage, and co-occurrences of lexical units. Six clusters of nodes and related terms are confirmed: entrepreneur, development and innovation, education, entrepreneurial university, context, and types of study. These clusters show the concern for the field of study of social entrepreneurship education and the need to find a consensus on the concept of an entrepreneur and on what is social entrepreneurship in education. The wide range of topics, dispersed and fragmented, continues to offer opportunities for specificity.

Public perspective on renewable and other energy resources: Evidence from social media big data and sentiment analysis

To address global climate change, many countries are reducing CO2 emissions and replacing conventional energy resources with alternative ones. When developing national energy plans, it is essential to investigate public perspectives on the relationship between renewable and other energy resources. This study employs sentiment and correlation analyses of social media data to assess public perspectives on the complex relationships between renewable and other energy resources. The results show that renewable energy and nuclear energy have a complementary relationship in terms of positive emotions, but a substitute relationship in terms of negative emotions. These findings can inform regional and national energy plans and policies for renewable and nuclear energy. Additionally, this study demonstrates that the proposed methodology can be used to assess public perspectives on various energy resources.

Between friend and foe: drivers and patterns of dyadic relationship framing in policy network

PurposeThis article aims to explore (1) specific frames of dyadic relationship in policy network beyond a simplistic dichotomy of “friend or foe” and (2) the multi-dimensional drivers behind the framing patterns.Design/methodology/approachTo that end, the interviews with the key actors in a nuclear energy policy network in South Korea were conducted, and their relationships in terms of three dimensions were analyzed: belief accordance, communication frequency and resource symmetry.FindingsAs a result, 12 relationships that can occur in the policy networks were identified: helping, collaborating, cooperating, unconcerned, stabilizing, observing, pushing, confronting, challenging, ignoring, watching and avoiding. These 12 frames were observed in various in-/congruent patterns between network actors.Originality/valueThe findings provide theoretical and practical implications on why and how the network actors may assess one another through the 12 discrete frames, which are drawn from the three dimensional drivers of belief accordance, communication frequency and resource symmetry.

‘I will never forgive him’: blame, precarious kinship, and illness in low‐income urban India

AbstractThis article examines the constitutive role of blame in kinship as a practice in a low‐income neighbourhood in India's capital city, Delhi. Using ethnographic data, I show how women with serious or chronic illness express blame towards kin for their failures in critical moments: for not providing care during illness, not fulfilling kinship obligations, and even for causing or exacerbating illness. As relationships rupture to reveal the underlying precariousness of kinship, women use blaming statements, accusations, and critique to leverage toeholds of power and take matters into their hands against their families’ wishes. Yet even as women forge a degree of agency through blaming practices, I show that these practices can lead, paradoxically, to the repair and reconstitution of kinship. This article builds upon existing scholarship that addresses both the failure of kinship as a system of mutual support and the work of kinship repair in similar marginal contexts in north India characterized by neglect, which render women vulnerable to negative effects. My focus on blaming acts offers a new angle on this intimate terrain, illustrating how women enact the social practice of blame to reshape the dynamics and terms of kinship relations, rather than reconciling themselves to kinship failings.

A preliminary model for optimal control of moisture content in unsaturated soils

In this paper we introduce an optimal control approach to Richards’ equation in an irrigation framework, aimed at minimizing water consumption while maximizing root water uptake. We first describe the physics of the nonlinear model under consideration, and then develop the first-order necessary optimality conditions of the associated boundary control problem. We show that our model provides a promising framework to support optimized irrigation strategies, thus facing water scarcity in irrigation. The characterization of the optimal control in terms of a suitable relation with the adjoint state of the optimality conditions is then used to develop numerical simulations on different hydrological settings, that support the analytical findings of the paper.

Türkiye Ekonomisinde Bankacılık Sektörü Tarafından Yaratılan Yurt İçi Kredi Hacmi İle Ekonomik Büyüme Arasındaki İlişki: ARDL Sınır Testi Yaklaşımı

Banks are one of the most important elements of the financial system. Banks are organizations that are involved in the development of the money market by ensuring the collection of savings in the economy, transferring surplus funds to economic units that need funds. Banks expand the money supply through the credit channel and ensure that savings are converted into investments in the economy. Increasing investments in the country will contribute to production and employment. The rise in the number of goods and services produced will also lead to development in the rate of economic growth. From this point of view, this study analyzes the short and long-run effects of the aggregate domestic credit volume created by deposit banks, development and investment banks, and participation banks on economic growth in the Turkish economy by adopting the autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing (ARDL) approach for quarterly data covering 2008:01-2022:02 periods. As a result of the analysis, a cointegration relationship has been found between the aggregate domestic credit volume and economic growth. It is concluded that there is no long-term relationship between the aggregate domestic credit volume and economic growth, but they are in a relationship in the short term.

A cross Transformer for image denoising

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) depend on feedforward and feedback ways to obtain good performance in image denoising. However, how to obtain effective structural information via CNNs to efficiently represent given noisy images is key for complex scenes. In this paper, we propose a cross Transformer denoising CNN (CTNet) with a serial block (SB), a parallel block (PB), and a residual block (RB) to obtain clean images for complex scenes. A SB uses an enhanced residual architecture to deeply search structural information for image denoising. To avoid loss of key information, PB uses three heterogeneous networks to implement multiple interactions of multi-level features to broadly search for extra information for improving the adaptability of an obtained denoiser for complex scenes. Also, to improve denoising performance, Transformer mechanisms are embedded into the SB and PB to extract complementary salient features for effectively removing noise in terms of pixel relations. Finally, a RB is applied to acquire clean images. Experiments illustrate that our CTNet is superior to some popular denoising methods in terms of real and synthetic image denoising. It is suitable to mobile digital devices, i.e., phones. Codes can be obtained at https://github.com/hellloxiaotian/CTNet.

The Power of Chaos

The Power of Chaos

An institutional ethnographic investigation into the pastoral work of course leaders for college-based higher education

ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to investigate the pastoral work carried out by Course Leaders of College-Based Higher Education (CBHE), asking the question of how does the pastoral work of Course Leaders for CBHE happen? Taking the standpoint of Course Leaders for CBHE and using the work of Dorothy E. Smith, I adopted an institutional ethnographic approach to investigate the pastoral work. Informants were purposively sampled, and data was collected from interviews with Course Leaders and managers, observations of Course Leaders, field notes and texts relating to the work of Course Leaders. I found that the pastoral work of Course Leaders for CBHE was taking place. It was taking place in the talk of the Course Leaders and visible through the observations I carried out. Yet this work was unseen in terms of the documentation relation to the work of the Course Leaders and the absence of facilities in which to carry out this work. However, pastoral work is something that is required for Course Leaders to deliver with the requirements of their role due to the audit culture inherent in The College Group, driven by the need for accountability and financial stability.

The Impact of Spousal Relationships on Fertility Intentions of One-Child Urban Young Couples*

Below-replacement fertility has spread from developed industrialized countries to some developing countries, including China. Based on the theory of the transformation of intimacy, this study utilizes the data from the Xi’an Special Survey on Child Rearing Costs and Fertility Intentions to explore the impact of spousal relationships on the fertility intentions of young urban couples and gender differences in this regard in terms of power relations, distribution of responsibility, and emotional connection. The study reveals that 1) an inverse J-shaped relationship (initially showing a decline followed by a rise) exists between family power equalization and fertility intentions, especially for women; 2) the greater the husband’s share of housework, the less he will desire fertility, but a wife’s level of satisfaction with her husband’s housework sharing increases her fertility motivation; and 3) frequent spousal interactions and emotional intimacy contribute to increased fertility intentions, especially on the part of women. From the perspective of the transformation of intimacy, the above results suggest that the impact of spousal relationships on young couples’ fertility intentions is increasingly strong and that continued promotion of gender equality in the family sphere is of great significance to reversing low total fertility rates.

Research on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty from the Use of Digital Channels for Purchasing Insurance Products in Bulgaria

The innovative high-tech solutions, implemented in the processes of insurance companies, enhance efficiency and their impact and return on investment are more easily measurable and assessable. However, considering the specific nature of insurance services and a customer-centric approach, particular attention should also be paid to the perceived benefits and customer satisfaction with the use of digital channels for purchasing insurance. Customer loyalty becomes a potential source of market and financial prosperity, due to the significance for an insurance company to maintain long- term relationships and effectively manage a large customer base. Customer loyalty towards the brand in the insurance sector inspires a considerable interest among managers and justifies research through the lens of the digital transformation of sales.

Developing the Driver-Employer Relationship in Terms of Internal Public Relations Activities

Developing the Driver-Employer Relationship in Terms of Internal Public Relations Activities

Mathematical tools of solving the problem of restoring the surface distribution of radiation pollution based on remote measurement data

The modern achievements in the construction of small flying machines cause the active development of remote monitoring, in particular geophysical airborne gamma-ray spectrometer surveying. Such observations are important, since large amounts of man-made radioactive materials get into the environment, especially during accidents like at the Chornobyl or Fukushima nuclear plants. On the other hand, the natural distribution of radioactive sources is inhomogeneous and can provide us with useful information about the soil structure. One of the problems appearing at the handle of information collected with unmanned aerial vehicles concerns the correction of readings to identify the peculiarities of gamma-ray fields. To perform this, the analytical method based on the solution of the inverse problem formulated in terms of integral relation is used. In this research, to reconstruct the surface distribution of the gamma-ray field, the Tikhonov and Landweber techniques are applied. It is shown that these algorithms allow one to distinguish radioactive hot-spots located closely.

Quasi-Semilattices on Networks

This paper introduces a representation of subnetworks of a network Γ consisting of a set of vertices and a set of relations, where relations are the primitive structures of a network. It is proven that all connected subnetworks of a network Γ form a quasi-semilattice L(Γ), namely a network quasi-semilattice.Two equivalences σ and δ are defined on L(Γ). Each δ class forms a semilattice and also has an order structure with the maximum element and minimum elements. Here, the minimum elements correspond to spanning trees in graph theory. Finally, we show how graph inverse semigroups, Leavitt path algebras and Cuntz–Krieger graph C*-algebras are constructed in terms of relations.