Research Orientation Research Articles

Revealing The Academic Terrain: A Bibliometric Analysis of AI Virtual Reality Research Patterns

"Revealing the Academic Terrain: A Bibliometric Analysis of AI Virtual Reality Research Patterns," the author explores the complex field of academic works that investigate the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR). Using bibliometric techniques, we carefully investigate the development, patterns, and influential figures in this ever-changing subject. Our investigation reveals the intricate network of academic publications, clarifying trends in publishing trends, cooperation networks, and topical areas of interest. Our study offers useful insights for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers who want a thorough grasp of the present and potential future orientations of AI virtual reality research by negotiating this scholarly landscape.

Measuring novice auditor orientation and its impact on judgment

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to construct and test a new measure of auditor orientation using two audit quality-related tasks.Design/methodology/approachThe sample consists of 66 Dutch and US graduate auditing students. Participants complete two tasks: one involving a lease classification and another, supplemental experiment involving a contingent liability judgment. The purpose is to construct a new measure for rules-based/ principles-based orientation. Rigorous, psychometric testing confirms that parts of tolerance for ambiguity (TOA) and need for cognition (NFC), together, form a new construct the authors identify as auditor orientation. The authors next conduct a main and supplemental experiment with novice auditor participants from both the USA and the Netherlands.FindingsThe authors begin with rigorous, psychometric testing using participants from the USA and the Netherlands. The resulting 10-item scale combines parts of TOA and NFC to reflect auditor orientation. The common themes across scale items are high (low) adaptability to complexity and a substance-over-form (form-over-substance) preference for principles-oriented (PO) (rules-oriented [RO]) auditors. Conducting two experiments, results from two distinct tasks confirm our research question; novice auditors classified as RO (PO) are more (less) likely to recommend a more aggressive/client-favorable disclosure judgment.Originality/valueAuditor orientation (i.e. rules or principles) has a significant impact on the application of rules-based or principles-based standards. How the standards are applied, therefore, influences auditor decision-making and thus audit quality. However, there is a paucity of auditor orientation research to date, including a validated measure. The study contributes a new measure for future research in the related accounting standards and audit quality literatures, while also identifying a potentially important construct in auditor training.

Typology of agricultural holdings: a starting point for understanding the performance of irrigated systems in Baalbek Al Hermel Lebanon.

The Mediterranean region is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change (CC) which raises important problems for Mediterranean agriculture. In fact, climate disruption creates some uncertainty in the decision-making of farmers in the management of their farms. This understanding can help researchers to better orient agricultural research on adaptation at the farm level and can help policy makers to develop adaptation policies. The semi-arid region of Baalbeck El Hermel is increasingly threatened by climate change. The agricultural systems constituting the main source of household subsistence in this zone show a significant vulnerability to these disturbances, especially about the limit in water resources. In this research we propose a framework to represent agricultural activities using typologies of farms and production units aggregated at a regional scale. We used empirical data from a local case study of the five most representative farming systems in the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. Analysis of the results showed several behaviors and several levels of resilience of these farms:1-farms specializing in market gardening or perennial crops are very sensitive to drought conditions and are not resilient in the face of water limit conditions;2-the diversified farm with olive tree dominance is less sensitive and more resilient.

Nanotechnology-based non-viral vectors for gene delivery in cardiovascular diseases.

Gene therapy is a technique that rectifies defective or abnormal genes by introducing exogenous genes into target cells to cure the disease. Although gene therapy has gained some accomplishment for the diagnosis and therapy of inherited or acquired cardiovascular diseases, how to efficiently and specifically deliver targeted genes to the lesion sites without being cleared by the blood system remains challenging. Based on nanotechnology development, the non-viral vectors provide a promising strategy for overcoming the difficulties in gene therapy. At present, according to the physicochemical properties, nanotechnology-based non-viral vectors include polymers, liposomes, lipid nanoparticles, and inorganic nanoparticles. Non-viral vectors have an advantage in safety, efficiency, and easy production, possessing potential clinical application value when compared with viral vectors. Therefore, we summarized recent research progress of gene therapy for cardiovascular diseases based on commonly used non-viral vectors, hopefully providing guidance and orientation for future relevant research.

Staged reality in cinema: Contemporary interpretations and meanings

Relevance. The relevance of this subject is related to the development of information technology and new media, which has allowed wide access to cinema as a visual activity. The information media space is increasingly connected to human existence, and the demand for intangible goods and services inherent in post-industrial society is causing increasing demands for intellectual products outside the science and production industry.Purpose. In this context, the purpose of the study is to identify the plane of the significance of the staged reality of cinema as a dominant form of synthetic art, the attitude between artistic and nonartistic features of staged reality on the example of fiction and documentary cinema, and to outline the transformation of the structure of film reality as a constructor and medium.Methodology. The principal approaches to the study were structural and hermeneutic approaches to structural analysis in terms of the semiotics of culture of cinema reality sign space and the use of interpretive practices on textual objects.Results. The study describes the connection between the simulacrisation of cinema as a separate staged reality, capable of gaining independence from the original author's idea; the loss of the original author's role and the work itself as a text that is part of the global inter- and hypertext; and the role of the medium as a coherent, semantic carrier of content in the act of communication, which in its unity infinitely increases the possible perceptible meanings determined by the form.Conclusions. The materials of this study harmonise the theories of simulacra, author's death and mediumship in the context of cinema semiotics in the interpretative vector "mediumship-discourse-sign" and orient further research towards establishing the attitude between individual authorial language and cinema discourse in the context of hyperreality.

The Role of Collective Group Orientation and Social Norms on Physical Distancing Behaviors for Disease Prevention

ABSTRACT To reduce the impact of communicable diseases like COVID-19, collective action is required and likely to be susceptible to normative influence as well as whether people are more or less collectively oriented. We extend the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB) to account for group orientation and predict the relationships between social norms and physical distancing behaviors. Using a rolling cross-sectional design during 17 weeks of the pandemic, a national sample of US residents from 20 states (N = 8,778) participated in the study. The findings show that perceived descriptive norms, injunctive norms, and group orientation are significantly associated with physical distancing. The descriptive norm-behavior relationship and injunctive norm-behavior relationship are moderated by group orientation and the other predicted moderators in the TNSB. The findings extend the TNSB and highlight the need to understand social norms and group orientation in formative research for health communication campaigns designed to promote prevention behaviors.

A study on the combination of functional connection features and Riemannian manifold in EEG emotion recognition.

Affective computing is the core for Human-computer interface (HCI) to be more intelligent, where electroencephalogram (EEG) based emotion recognition is one of the primary research orientations. Besides, in the field of brain-computer interface, Riemannian manifold is a highly robust and effective method. However, the symmetric positive definiteness (SPD) of the features limits its application. In the present work, we introduced the Laplace matrix to transform the functional connection features, i.e., phase locking value (PLV), Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC), spectral coherent (COH), and mutual information (MI), to into semi-positive, and the max operator to ensure the transformed feature be positive. Then the SPD network is employed to extract the deep spatial information and a fully connected layer is employed to validate the effectiveness of the extracted features. Particularly, the decision layer fusion strategy is utilized to achieve more accurate and stable recognition results, and the differences of classification performance of different feature combinations are studied. What's more, the optimal threshold value applied to the functional connection feature is also studied. The public emotional dataset, SEED, is adopted to test the proposed method with subject dependent cross-validation strategy. The result of average accuracies for the four features indicate that PCC outperform others three features. The proposed model achieve best accuracy of 91.05% for the fusion of PLV, PCC, and COH, followed by the fusion of all four features with the accuracy of 90.16%. The experimental results demonstrate that the optimal thresholds for the four functional connection features always kept relatively stable within a fixed interval. In conclusion, the experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Consultants as discreet corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the outside‐in

AbstractDespite their central role in the construction and development of the market for virtues as well as in the design, implementation, and evaluation of corporate sustainability strategies and governmental sustainability policies, sustainability consultants remain at best “hidden” corporate change agents. In this paper, we bring sustainability consultants back to the fore to account for how these actors discreetly regulate and shape contemporary sustainability transformations from the outside‐in. We do so first by unpacking various roles of consultants as engineers, market builders, power vehicles, boundary workers, issue translators, and soft regulators; then we conceptualize how, through these roles, they contribute to empowering, legitimizing but also potentially supplanting and undermining the activities of corporate change agents operating inside corporations. We finally propose some research orientations for studying further the role of sustainability consultants in corporate transformations toward sustainability.

Goal orientation and business model innovation in dynamic environments: Evidence from the creative industries

Even though business model innovation (BMI) is crucial to enhance competitive advantage, our understanding about how organizations innovate their business model when pursuing contrasting goals is rather underdeveloped. To address this issue, we explore how and why managers' learning and performance orientations affect BMI. Using a survey among managers at companies within the creative industries, such as design, architecture and gaming, we find a positive relationship between learning orientation and BMI, while a performance orientation does not affect the ability to innovate the business model. We also explain that learning orientation has a stronger effect in dynamic environments. Our study contributes to research on business model, exploring the antecedents of BMI and showing how companies can enhance innovation, while navigating contrasting goals. We also contribute to goal orientation research, showing the consequences of different orientations for companies embracing the complexities of BMI.

NEP and Research Orientation in Higher Education

NEP and Research Orientation in Higher Education

Intention to have children of young couples in Ho Chi Minh City – the case study in Thu Duc City and Binh Chanh District

The article aims to investigate the intention to have children in the next 3 years of young couples in Ho Chi Minh City along with the factors affecting their intention to have children. The research orientation is the theory of planned behavior applying in the fertility intention by Ajzen I and Klobas J. The sample size includes 120 young couples (60 men and 60 women), who have no children and have one child in Thu Duc City (directly under Ho Chi Minh City) and Binh Chanh District. The information collection tools are structured questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The analytical methods used in this study are the descriptive statistics, the bivariate correlation analysis, and the binary logistic regression. The research findings show that young couples agree with the norm of having more children in the future, have a positive attitude towards having children, but their ability to control having children is limited. Majority of young couples want to delay childbirth and do not intend to have children in the next 3 years. Attitudes towards having children and professional work are the strongest predictors of childbearing. Based on the research findings, the article proposes the functional agencies need to issue policies to create favorable conditions for young couples to have children.

Structural engineering of atomic catalysts for electrocatalysis.

As a burgeoning category of heterogeneous catalysts, atomic catalysts have been extensively researched in the field of electrocatalysis. To satisfy different electrocatalytic reactions, single-atom catalysts (SACs), diatomic catalysts (DACs) and triatomic catalysts (TACs) have been successfully designed and synthesized, in which microenvironment structure regulation is the core to achieve high-efficiency catalytic activity and selectivity. In this review, the effect of the geometric and electronic structure of metal active centers on catalytic performance is systematically introduced, including substrates, central metal atoms, and the coordination environment. Then theoretical understanding of atomic catalysts for electrocatalysis is innovatively discussed, including synergistic effects, defect coupled spin state change and crystal field distortion spin state change. In addition, we propose the challenges to optimize atomic catalysts for electrocatalysis applications, including controlled synthesis, increasing the density of active sites, enhancing intrinsic activity, and improving the stability. Moreover, the structure-function relationships of atomic catalysts in the CO2 reduction reaction, nitrogen reduction reaction, oxygen reduction reaction, hydrogen evolution reaction, and oxygen evolution reaction are highlighted. To facilitate the development of high-performance atomic catalysts, several technical challenges and research orientations are put forward.

Артлоготерапия в образовательных практиках: становление профессиональной и смысложизненной ориентаций личности подростка

Background. Issues of adolescents’ self-determination in the process of their formation are of particular importance, since their solution determines success and competitiveness in adulthood. In this regard, the development and implementation of programs aimed at research and formation of professional and life meaning orientations is in demand by the specialists in educational and psychological practice. Objective. The study had its purpose to assess the effectiveness of art-logotherapeutic methods in the formation of professional and life meaning orientations of adolescent personality. Study Participants. The study involved 50 adolescents (26 boys and 24 girls) aged 13 to 15 years (M age = 14.04; SD = 0.84) from the general education schools of Krasnogorsk (Moscow region). Methods. The study consisted of diagnostic and experimental (forming) stages. The diagnostics included “Life Meaning Orientations Test” by D.A. Leontiev, “Questionnaire of professional self-determination” by G.V. Rezapkina, “Motives for choosing a profession” by R.V. Ovcharova. The experimental group was engaged into vocational guidance and professional orientation classes using art-logotherapy techniques (8 classes of 2 hours each). Student's t-test was implemented for the statistical analysis of obtained results. Results. The implementation of the program “Creativity, profession, meanings” including art-logotherapy techniques in the experimental group led to a statistically significant increase in the level of life meaningfulness, the ability to control their life events and make important decisions. The use of creative techniques helped teenagers to change their ideas about certain aspects of professional life, adjust their primary professional choice, and also increase the priority of internal individual motivation when choosing a future career. Conclusions. Art-logotherapy is an effective method that can be recommended for practice with adolescents to develop their professional and life meaning orientations.

ЭВОЛЮЦИЯ КОНЦЕПЦИЙ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ПЕРСОНАЛОМ

The author reviews historically formed concepts of personnel management with a description of the main trends and prerequisites for their formation. The article describes the evolutionary changes in the views of various scientific schools on the interaction of people within an organization, starting from the pre-industrial period to the present day. At the same time, the transformation of ideas about a person is shown - from an element of labor resources to an object of social entrepreneurship and a full participant in all organizational processes. The work presents a summary comparative table comparing the main concepts of personnel management, the organizational model of the employee, the usual management functions of the personnel management system, as well as the main drivers of labor relations. The conclusions made on the basis of the presentation of the material orient further research to special attention to human well-being, talent management and comprehensive development of the individual, which corresponds to both individual and corporate modern priorities.

Challenges and Strategies of Fast-Charging Li-Ion Batteries with a Focus on Li Plating

As the world enters into the era of electrifying transportation for cleaner energy, lithium-ion battery (LIB)-powered electric vehicles have drawn great attention in recent years. However, the fast-charging capability of LIBs has long been regarded as the technological obstacle to the wider adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the market. A substantial challenge associated with fast charging is the formation of Li plating on the graphite anode as it is the major contributor of side reactions during cell operations. In this review, the fundamentals of Li plating and corresponding influencing factors (including state of charge [SOC], charging current density, temperature, and N/P ratio) for the Li-ion intercalation process are first elucidated under fast-charging conditions. Furthermore, conventional strategies to suppress Li plating by enhancing ion transport kinetics between interface and electrode through anode engineering and electrolyte design are also summarized and analyzed. Then, innovative strategies for achieving ultrahigh SOC of anodes by regulating Li plating morphology on host materials to construct hybrid anode storage are discussed in detail. Two types of strategies are compared in terms of cell performance, process simplicity, and safety concerns. Last, we highlight some research orientations and perspectives pertaining to the development of hybrid anode storage, providing effective approaches to address Li plating issues for fast-charging LIBs.

Selective aerobic oxidative C–C bond cleavage using a high-entropy oxide-derived multimetallic catalyst

A stable and efficient high entropy catalyst is developed for the selective oxidative C–C bond cleavage in the presence of O2.

Community Enterprise Flexibility Competency Affecting Firm Survival in the Product Manufacturing Sector in Northeast Thailand Via New Product Creation, Market Fulfillment Efficiency, and Product Advantage

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between community enterprise flexibility competency and firm survival of the product manufacturing sector in northeast Thailand in terms of new product creation, market fulfillment efficiency, and product advantage.We postulated five dimensions of community enterprise flexibility competency (i.e., continuous process improvement, product research and development orientation, dynamic learning capability, intensive knowledge-based operation, and proactive operation mindset). The data were collected from 380 community enterprise CEO working in the product manufacturing sector in northeast Thailand using a self-reported questionnaire. Data were analyzed using multiple correlations and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that the community enterprise flexibility competency in the aspects of continuous process improvement, intensive knowledge-based operation, and proactive operation mindset were positively associated with new product creation and market fulfillment efficiency significance level test 0.01. New product creation and market fulfillment efficiency were positively associated with product advantage and firm survival significance level test 0.01. Product advantage was positively associated with firm survival significance level test 0.01. Firm experience above 5 years has positive relate to product advantage significance level test 0.01. Community enterprise flexibility competency in terms of product research and development orientation and dynamic learning capability demonstrated non-association with new product creation and market fulfillment efficiency. Firm reword has not relate to new product creation, market fulfillment efficiency, product advantage, and firm survival.

Trends and Issues in Research on Social Media and Collaborative Learning in PAI Learning from 2018 to 2023: Bibliometric Analysis

This article aims to identify and analyze trends and problems in research on social media and collaborative learning in Islamic Religious Education (PAI) from 2018 to 2023. The author uses a bibliometric study method using Publish or Perish and bibliometric software. The research results show that 1) RQ1: Distribution of Social Media Research and Collaborative Learning in PAI Learning (2018-2023), namely research authority is focused on social media, which is connected to several themes such as Islamic religious education (PAI), and Islamic education. shows that research orientation on social media topics is used in several studies related to PAI learning and Islamic teaching. However, no one has researched the relationship between social media and collaborative learning in PAI learning. So the researcher's orientation in further research needs to be to conduct research on social media in collaborative learning in PAI subjects; 2) RQ2: Network Theme in Social Media Research and Collaborative Learning in PAI Learning, namely the distribution of publication of articles related to "social media" starting in 2019 with one piece, and there is no increase until 2021 which is only 1 article per year, then experienced an increase in 2022 by two articles, and the peak occurred in 2023 with three publications in nationally accredited journals (Sinta). Meanwhile, the publication of articles about "collaborative learning" will only start in 2022 with two pieces. There will be no increase in 2022, which will only be two articles, and in 2023, there will be a significant increase of 5 articles published in nationally accredited journals (Sinta). Meanwhile, publications about "social media and collaborative learning in PAI learning started in 2022 with 1 article and increased in 2023 with two pieces; and 3) RQ3: Authors with the most citations (2018-2023), namely the five best authors with the highest number of citations in the 2018-2023 publication period, namely Susanto & Dwijayanto (27.27%) in 2022, followed by Kambali et al . (18.19%), Lubis et al. (13.63%), and Luthfiyah et al. (13.63%).

PETA DAN ORIENTASI PENELITIAN

The development of research in higher education for academic improvement and knowledge development as well as for the professionalism of lecturers is a necessity, as is research based on community service. Therefore, a map and orientation for community service-based research is needed at the Research and Publishing Center of the Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM) UIN Sunan Kalijaga. The results of the research show firstly, the research map at the LPPM Research and Publishing Center has experienced a shift in terms of quantity, clusters, research output, and research that has been carried out by lecturers/research researchers if they need credit numbers, now there is awareness and this has changed to become an academic need for lecturers /researcher. Second, the research orientation is that research results are required to be published in the OJS journal and research based on community service at the Research and Publishing Center started in 2018. Third, the research results have been used as a reference for preparing Semester Learning Plans (RPS) for courses, namely 80%, and not used as a reference of 20%.

Mit Apps gegen den Tinnitus? Ein systematisches Review zu Qualität, Interventionselementen und Techniken der Verhaltensänderung

ZusammenfassungHintergrundÜber App-Stores werden Applikationen (Apps) für Tinnitusbetroffene angeboten und versprechen schnelle Hilfe gegen die Ohrgeräusche. Für Betroffene und Behandelnde ist es jedoch gleichermaßen schwierig, deren Qualität, Potenziale oder Risiken einzuschätzen. Ziel dieser Studie war es, eine Übersicht zu deutschsprachigen Tinnitus-Apps zu erstellen und damit eine Orientierung für Forschung und Versorgung zu geben.MethodenEs wurde eine systematische Recherche (November 2020–April 2021) in den umsatzstärksten Stores (Google Play Store und Apple App Store) durchgeführt. Spezifisch für Tinnitus entwickelte Apps wurden von unabhängigen Wissenschaftlerinnen multiperspektivisch bewertet: (a) ein Qualitäts-Screening erfolgte anhand der deutschen Version der Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS-G), (b) Interventionselemente wurden mittels neu entwickelten Kategoriensystems und (c) implementierte Strategien für aktives Tinnitus-Management anhand von Techniken der Verhaltensänderung (Behavior Change Techniques, BCTs) analysiert.ErgebnisseDie Suche ergab 1073 Apps, wobei 21 Apps in die Analyse eingingen. Die Apps wiesen nach MARS‑G eine mittlere Qualität auf (M = 3,37; SD = 0,39). Die meisten Apps boten Geräusche (n = 18) und Informationen (n = 9) an oder erfassten Charakteristika des Tinnitus (n = 13). 24 der 93 BCTs wurden mindestens einmal identifiziert. Nur eine App wurde in nicht-randomisierten Studien evaluiert.DiskussionWenngleich eine Vielzahl von Apps vorliegt, fokussiert die Mehrzahl auf wenige Elemente (z. B. Geräusche und Informationen). Das Potenzial, über die Apps wichtige, evidenzbasierte Inhalte zur Tinnitusbewältigung zu vermitteln, wird damit nicht ausgeschöpft. Die multiperspektivische Evaluation zeigt Verbesserungspotenzial für Tinnitus-Apps auf.