Research Tendency Research Articles

Non-thermal plasma decontamination of microbes: a state of the art.

Microbial decontamination is a critical concern in various sectors, from healthcare to food processing. Traditional decontamination methods, while effective to a degree, present limitations in terms of environmental impact, efficiency, and potential harm to the target material. This review investigates the emerging realm of non-thermal plasma (NTP) as a promising alternative for microbial decontamination, emphasizing its mechanisms, reactor designs and applications. The mechanism decomposed into physical, chemical and biological effects of plasma, are elaborated upon to provide a foundational understanding of the intrinsic principles of plasma decontamination. Except for the generation type of NTP, reactors and other parameters by which NTP achieves microbial decontamination, emphasizing the design considerations and parameters that influence its efficacy. Moreover, the latest applications of NTP in decontaminating air, water, and surfaces, supported by the latest research findings in each domain are explored. Additionally, the perspectives on the future research tendencies of NTP decontamination and disinfection are highlighted with potential avenues for exploration and innovation. Through this comprehensive review, the aim is to underscore the potential of NTP, particularly DBD plasma, as a versatile, efficient, and environmentally friendly method for microbial decontamination.

CiteSpace-based Survey of International Advances in Chinese Traditional Culture Research in 1999-2019

With the globalization strategy and the initiative “One Belt and One Road” in China, Chinese traditional culture has a great impact on the world. This study, based on CiteSpace, explores the total numbers, hotspots, characteristics and tendency of international research on Chinese traditional culture, by retrieving 866 articles from SSCI and A&HCI in the Web of Science (Core Collection). The results of the study revealed that: there is a strong increases in total output from 1999 to 2019 and the research on the theme of Chinese traditional culture has become interdisciplinary; the most productive authors aren’t the ones in the most cited documents and the journals on which the most cited documents publish aren’t the prolific journals; most of the researchers are from Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland of China, Canada and USA. In view of the results, it is obvious that it is a good way to spread Chinese traditional culture over the world. It is strongly recommended that we should do more analysis on the international literatures with different paradigms, methods and metrics in order to get a more comprehensive and correct domain visualization map of Chinese traditional culture research.

Beyond the ‘gender gap’ in agriculture: Africa's Green Revolution and gendered rural transformation in Rwanda

The African Green Revolution (AGR) aims to modernize, intensify, and commercialize agriculture through increasing technology adoption by smallholder farmers. AGR interventions also promote gender equality, aiming to close the ‘gender gap’ in agriculture by enhancing women's access to purchased inputs, technology, land, and finance. With an empirical focus on Rwanda, this article examines the gendered implications of the AGR. We critically reflect on the notion of gender gaps and the associated tendency of development research to treat gender as a variable, assessing outcomes for male-headed versus female-headed households in terms of their access to material assets. We argue that these assessments overlook (1) the differential impacts of AGR policies within households and (2) how agricultural modernization influences gendered access to material resources as well as immaterial responsibilities, norms, and identities. Our findings from a mixed-methods study with four Rwandan communities show how the AGR empowers men as ‘modern’ farmers while marginalizing women's agricultural spaces, labor, and crops. We argue that development research and practice should move beyond the narrow focus on gender gaps to additionally consider how technologies and policies are themselves gendered in ways that can constrict food security, entrench inequitable power dynamics, and further marginalize women.

The impact of augmented reality on education: a bibliometric exploration

Education is one of the many sectors in which augmented reality has been successfully implemented. To determine how Augmented Reality (AR) supports education, this bibliometric study analyzes 1734 articles extracted from the Scopus database between 2010 and mid-2023. The study aimed to determine patterns in productivity, authorship and collaboration patterns, publications, citation structures, general research tendencies, and bibliographic coupling. Biblioshiny and VOSviewer were employed in this investigation. The outcomes of the study indicate an ongoing trend of increasing publication counts or more contributions since 2016, and still a trending topic studies on interactive learning environments and AR in education and knowledge constitute niche areas, while epidemiology, science education, and mobile augmented reality are important research topics that were underdeveloped and indicate a relationship that is both emerging and declining, based on a thematic analysis of the papers. Furthermore, the outcomes demonstrate that the USA, Spain, and the United Kingdom have the strongest global cooperation despite the USA writing more articles. To offer an ideal road map for scholars who would like to carry out research in this area, this paper also looks at the trendsetting in augmented reality in education.

Yeni ‘Film’ veya ‘Sinema’ Tarihi: Sinema Tarihi Yazımında Yeni Gelişen İlkeler, Kuramlar ve Metodolojiler Üzerine Düşünceler

Film as an artefact has long been the subject of study by “film historians,” whether in terms of stylistic authenticity, genre specificity, or “high theory” analysis. Conversely, film history has been written as if films had no audiences (Biltereyst et al, 2012, p. 693). This kind of filmic-textual research tendency lies at the heart of the legacy of film studies discipline. In 1973, Jean Mitry proposed an ideal of film history as simultaneously, a history of its industry, its technologies, its systems of expression (or, more precisely, its systems of signification), and aesthetic structures, all bound together by the forces of the economic, psychosocial and cultural order (Maltby, 2006, p. 80). Humanities-based film studies were first re-conceptualized by the initiatives of International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), during its 1974 and 1978 conferences. Drawing on the methodological stance of the French Annales school’s histoire totale, participants at the 1974 FIAF conference agreed on new historiographical methodologies for all rather than linear national cinema histories. In 1990, American historian Robert Sklar brought forward three types of “cinema historians” in which only second sub-type might be labeled as ‘film historian’ which has been emerged from one of the following disciplines: art history, philosophy, literary studies.

구암(久菴) 한백겸(韓百謙)의 산문 세계 일고

This paper examines the world of his prose as part of a study on the literature of Guam(久菴) Han Baek-gyeom(韓百謙, 1552~1615). In order to complement the tendency of Han Baek-gyeom's research to date to focus on a specific field and to verify the traditional period evaluation of his literature, this paper conducts a study on his literature. Research on Han Baek-gyeom's literature must ultimately be conducted on his prose works. The reason is that his collection of works, Guamyugo(久菴遺稿), contains only prose works. The works included in this collection were generally created in old age, after the age of 50. His prose works were examined from three aspects. The writing of detailed arguments is intended to confirm the evaluation of Han Baek-gyeom's prose in the traditional era, the writing of reflection and edification is intended to illuminate the world of works that reflect his life and values, and the writing of novel arguments is intended to demonstrate his excellence as a prose writer. First, we looked at Dogdabanghae(讀多方解) as a form of detailed argumentative writing. His actions as a scholar, making arguments and clarifying reasons based on critical awareness, without carelessly overlooking specific records or descriptions, demonstrate his academic methodology. Second, we looked at Bansidanggi(返始堂記) as a writing of reflection and edification. He expanded the meaning of bansi(返始) by overlapping self and others, space and morality. Third, we looked at Jeobmogseol(接木說) as a novel piece of argumentative writing. It contains reflections on one's life and insight into human morals and values through the cultivation method called grafting and its series of processes.

Editor’s note: Foreign Language Education in Poland

The aim of this monograph is to acquaint and interest the reader with some of the vast array of issues concerning foreign language education in Poland. There are a few contextual historical factors which have had a great impact on the country's educational priorities in relation to foreign languages. Nowadays learning an L2 (usually English) is compulsory from the first grade of primary education. Current methodological trends in Poland are similar to general tendencies in Europe and contemporary research on foreign language education draws from different fields including sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, computer-oriented studies, and others.

Sensitivity analysis with various parameters in undermoded reverberation chambers

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of measurement uncertainties and the environment characteristics themselves on the desired field uniformity (FU) in reverberation chambers (RCs) by means of state-of-the-art global sensitivity analysis techniques. There are many quantities to describe the FU. The authors attempted to inspect many of the most important ones in two different orientations of the stirrer (horizontal, vertical).Design/methodology/approachSurrogate modelling techniques are involved to compute the Sobol’ indices efficiently with a modest number of required electromagnetic (EM) simulations. This can be only achieved if the behaviour of an appropriately chosen output quantity is predictable in such a way, which enables to extract useful information. Therefore, this choice should be made with extra care of the stochastic fluctuations, which have to be as low as possible. To this end, in this paper, various figures of merit are investigated.FindingsThis method can provide useful knowledge in the lower frequency range, where the ideal properties of the EM field in RCs cannot be established, and the importance of the setup parameters can vary from configuration to configuration.Originality/valueConsidering the current research tendencies related to RCs, the application of the method of Sobol’ indices to RCs is unique, which has only been done by the authors of this work so far. The main contribution presented in the paper is the thorough investigation of the effect of configuration parameters on the statistical properties of RCs through many output quantities describing the FU.

교육과정 시기 및 학술지별 가정과교육과정 연구의 동향

This study examined the trends in home economics education research across different curriculum periods and journals. A total of 374 papers related to the 2009, 2015, and 2022 revised curricula were selected and analyzed using network analysis from four journals. First, research trends were analyzed by curriculum period. Keyword frequency analysis revealed that articles on the 2009 and 2015 revised curricula primarily focused on analyzing the curriculum to develop textbooks or programs. In contrast, papers on the 2022 revised curriculum explored broader directions. Topic modeling results highlighted the prominent topics for each period: ‘environmental education’ in the 2009 revised curriculum, ‘safety and health education’ in the 2015 revised curriculum, and ‘ecological transition’ in the 2022 revised curriculum. Second, research trends were analyzed by journal. Keyword frequency analysis by journal exposed specific research tendencies. For example, in the Journal of Home Economics Research, ‘perceptions of practical classes’ and ‘analysis of safety textbooks’ were major topics for the 2009 revised curriculum, while ‘teaching and learning plans for competence development’ dominated research on the 2015 revised curriculum. This study demonstrates that the concepts and goals emphasized in curriculum revisions are reflected in the corresponding research.

노인 대상 노래중심 음악치료의 연구 동향 분석

Objectives This study analyzed research trends of research information in domestic academic journals related to song-centered music therapy interventions for the elderly, characteristics of study participants, intervention-related characteristics of music therapy, and song-related characteristics. in domestic academic journals published from 2000 to 2021. Methods The literature selected for study went through the following process. Among the 156 papers found in the first screening stage, 6 duplicated papers were excluded. After checking the specific information about the participant, 40 papers that were not studies on the elderly were extracted, and 86 papers in which singing was not a major music therapy intervention factor were removed. Finally, a total of 21 papers were put into the analysis, excluding three papers in domestic journals that were not registered papers. Results As a result, there were 20 quantitative studies (95.24%) and 1 qualitative study (4.76%) among the literature on song-centered music therapy for the elderly. As for the classification related to the characteristics of the research participants, 12 papers (57.14%) were for the disabled group, 8 papers (38.10%) were for the non-disabled group and 1 Others(4.76%). Regarding the intervention-related characteristics of the study, 15 studies (71.43%) used only music therapy and there were 6 studies (28.57%) that combined other treatments or activities other than music therapy. In addition, the place of intervention of singing-centered music therapy for the elderly was the most frequent, with 5 cases(27.74%) in hospitals and 4 cases(17.37%) in nursing homes. There were 14 studies in which music therapists directly mediated therapy sessions(66.67%) and two theses (9.52%) were mediated by individuals other than music therapists. Besides, there were 5 papers (23.81%) that did not report on the moderator. Most of the studies implemented by music therapists had descriptions and therapeutic rationales for session-by-session music therapy programs. On the other hand, some studies lacked information on session programs or therapeutic rationales. Finally, a total of 10 genres of songs used in research trend identification were presented. Conclusions It is hoped that the tendency of song-centered music therapy research identified through this study will help the direction of future research on song-centered music therapy for the elderly and its practical application in the clinical field.

Trends in the research of world-modeling from the perspective of Russian linguistics: Paradigmatic framework and conceptual apparatus

In the first quarter of the XXI century, world-modeling has been actively discussed in the theory of literature, text studies and discourse studies. The concept of world-modeling in linguistics significantly differs from that in literary studies, which determines the relevance of this research. The paper aims to review the publications by Russian scholars that raise the problems of world-modeling in communication, to highlight the dominant tendencies of research within the framework of the cognitive-discursive paradigm and to discuss their theoretical potential. The sample consists of 334 publications retrieved from eLibrary database. The paper argues that due to the influence of the dominant paradigm in linguistics, an independent cognitive and discursive trend of world-modeling research is being developed in Russia, and is becoming more specific, which leads to the emergence of discrete areas of research that accumulate their own system of concepts. The paper discusses the research potential of lingua-cognitive, conceptual, functional, axiological, semantic, stylistic, lingua-ideological, cognitive and pragmatic trends. The author argues that the logic of the development of discrete trends is determined by the inter-paradigm interaction, thanks to which knowledge about the representation of the world in communication is built on general paradigmatic principles as well as the achievements of particular disciplines. The paper concludes by drawing attention to the lingua-cultural, socio-semiotic, lingua-personological and psycholinguistic research traends observed in some recent publications. The interdisciplinary nature of modern linguistics makes it possible to combine several perspectives of the world-modeling analysis. The results of the study can contribute to the further development of the cognitive and discursive world-modeling theory in linguistics and social studies.

국내 상담 및 심리 분야 중년 대상 연구 분석

This research aims to review the studies in the counseling and psychology field on middle-aged. A total of 144 articles were analyzed. There is a growing research tendency during the last 10 years. There were 67(46.5%) studies in which male and female participated, female-focused were 64(44.5%), and male-focused were 13(9.0%). Regarding research method, quantitative were 110(76.3%), qualitative were 31(21.5%) and mixed method were 3(2.1%). Research topics were primarily related to ‘Psychological Health’ and ‘Relationship(family),’ while ‘Relationship(others)’ and ‘Meaning in life’ were scarce. In mid-life, cognitive function and future time perspective change. Compared to adolescents, the middle-aged put an emphasis on family/community and internal values. The implications of the findings, as well as suggestions for counseling and further research, were discussed.

Turning a Blind Eye to Gender at Work: A Call to Action for Management Scholarship

In this paper, we provide a fiery critique of the tendency for management research to adopt gender-blind perspectives and call on management scholars to step up and call workplaces what they are: gendered. Blending perspectives from diversity scholarship, organizational sciences, popular culture, feminism, etc., we provide a multifaceted argument for why ignoring gender in our work is harmful to our field and to gender equity efforts.

The Shifting Tendency of Inquiry Learning Research in the Last Five Years: Real Contribution in Physics Education

The research objective is to explore the trends research of inquiry learning in physics education in the last five years (2017-2021). This research is a bibliometric analysis. The findings show that research related to physics education is dominated by the most developed during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 – 2021) country Indonesia. Meanwhile, the Journal of Physics Conference Series is the journal that publishes the most publications (Scopus) related to physics education, followed by the AIP Conference Proceeding. For research implications tolibrarians, and policy makers, (1) Research and development need to be carried out in-depth related to the growing trend of physics education so that it can be published in Scopus. (2) Cooperation and collaboration between other universities to increase publications at the international level. (3) The need for continuous research to follow current trends. Keywords: shifting tendency, inquiry learning research, real contribution, physics education

Research tendency of China ESP teaching from 2007 to 2021 based on visualization analysis using CiteSpace

With the increasing demand for the enhancement of interdisciplinary competence in English teaching reform, English for specific purposes (ESP) teaching has become a hot topic in the field of English education. In order to better understand the phenomena and problems of ESP teaching in China, this study investigated the research tendency in China ESP teaching between 2007–2021 based on 206 articles from the Web of Science (WOS) by employing the CiteSpace Atlas. The study revealed that the literature in China ESP teaching formed an inverted "V" shape over the past 15 years. It can also be seen that most of the institutions with cooperative relations are in the same region, and cross-regional cooperation is less. In addition, the latest research focuses on cutting-edge topics as keywords such as "ESP teaching," "ESP," and "ESP theory" emerged. The findings suggest that it needs to develop effective methods for ESP teaching in China and expand research areas for the future.

Virtual, augmented reality and learning analytics impact on learners, and educators: A systematic review

AbstractVirtual and Augmented Reality technologies have emerged as promising tools in the education sector, offering new possibilities for immersive learning experiences. Many researchers have focused their research on examining the potential of these technologies in education from different perspectives. However, it was discovered that there are research gaps in current systematic reviews regarding the examination of the impact of Virtual, Augmented Reality and Learning Analytics utilization on various types of learners and educators across different educational systems, including K-12 Education, Higher Education, Vocational, and Industrial Training, in addition to the educational systems’ research tendencies and their adoption of these technologies. Therefore, our study aims to address these gaps by searching various studies in Google Scholar, Scopus, and the IEEE Xplore databases. By following the PRISMA protocol, 150 research papers were selected for analysis, and our findings show that improving motivation and attention, improving learners’ understanding & performance, and increasing knowledge retention are the most significant impacts on all types of learners. For educators, we found that these technologies have a prominent effect on assisting educators in teaching and training and reducing the burden. Furthermore, we discovered that Higher Education and Augmented Reality were the dominant educational system and the technology type in the selected studies. We also found that most Virtual and Augmented reality researchers preferred to use questionnaires and online surveys for data collection. We further identified that analyzing learners’ traces when interacting with Virtual and Augmented Reality applications can improve learners’ performance and learning experience. Our review offers valuable insights into how integrating these technologies with Learning Analytics can benefit learners and educators and how educational institutions and industrial organizations can take advantage of adopting these technologies.

Delving into sustainability reporting literature: The role of ethics

Research background: After major scandals in apparently reputable and solvent companies, added to the great economic crises of recent decades, accounting and finance have become a fundamental discipline for the correct study of these events from an ethical point of view. Philosophers, economists and even religious people have wanted to contribute their grain of sand to the study of the ethical behaviour of companies and make it go beyond mere administration. In recent years, non-financial reporting has been gaining ground, to the point that the legal system now makes it compulsory in most Western countries. Purpose of the article: This study aims to review and summarize the role of ethics in the sustainability reporting so as to develop a holistic framework of ethics in the sustainability reporting; review the evolution of the research field; and identify the most significant research tendencies enabling the proposal of several future research directions. Methods: Using the Scopus and Web of Science databases, a bibliometric analysis has been carried out in the field of accounting on this topic from its formal origins in the 1980s to the present day, in addition to highlighting the importance of sustainability. 271 articles have been used as a basis for developing the main trends at bibliographic, geographical and institutional levels. Findings & value added: This study highlights the importance of incorporating ethics in non-financial information as a field of research, through two very different lines of research that have gained importance in recent years: ethics in business and the growing relevance of non-financial information. It also incorporates a bibliometric analysis with information obtained from two major databases: Scopus and Web of Science. The use of both databases makes it possible to broaden the body of articles covered, compared to other bibliometric analyses previously carried out on similar topics, and allows for the inclusion of more relevant articles on this subject.

Performativity: Model and meaning in a post-Austinian frame

This article proposes a post-Austinian approach to performativity by drawing from Peircean semeiotics. The argument proceeds on three fronts. First, we establish how the performativity approach of John L. Austin has served as a model case for performativity research, but the problems of this are currently being seen in the fragmentation and nominalism of the field. Second, we argue that the problem with Austin’s ‘doing things with words’ approach to performativity is that it cannot account for performativity on its own terms as sui generis. Third, using Peircean semeiotics, we reconstruct certain post-Austinian tendencies in performativity research and propose a formal model of performativity that draws especially from what Peirce called an Immediate interpretant. We conclude the article by discussing three distinct performativities not related by a model case but as examples of the same objective possibility.

Regional development is not a dinner party: a research agenda on power relations and the use of language in regional development studies

Regional development is not a dinner party, but rather a largely contested matter in which its political dimension and power relations play key roles. This paper calls for a research agenda to understand more about how power relations and the use of language—specifically, metaphors—can be integrated into regional development studies. In contrast to major strands of the regional development literature, an important contribution of this paper is that we treat regional development processes not as a purely economistic process, but rather as a conflictual process in which different opinions or even divergent views emerge and compete through different language relationships. This occurs on a multitude of occasions, such as when there is a discussion about building new infrastructure and its related socio-economic and environmental impacts, when people have different views on possible regional futures or when certain regional economic sectors are prioritised by politicians and policymakers. We address three main research questions. (1) What can scholars in the field of regional development learn from previous studies of power relations in the fields of economic geography and political science? (2) What are the most promising research tendencies in which the study of politics and power relations can be embedded? (3) Through which original lens (i.e., language) and methodology (i.e., narratives) might empirical analyses best be conducted on the topics we illustrate?

The Multi-Skilled Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem: A Systematic Review and an Exploration of Future Landscapes

Abstract The Multi-skilled Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (MS-RCPSP) is a complex and multi-faceted problem that involves scheduling activities whilst considering various resource constraints. These constraints include limited availability of workers, equipment, and materials, with each activity requiring a minimal set of skills to be executed. Furthermore, for a better resemblance to reality, workers/machines are assumed to be multi-skilled/multi-purpose posing another dimension of complexity to the problem. The objective is to minimize project duration, cost, or other relevant criteria while accounting for the inherent resources flexibility. This paper provides a systematic review of the literature pertaining to MS-RCPSP, and an in-depth analysis of 171 papers published between 2000 and 2021 inclusive. The conducted bibliometric analysis identifies the top contributing authors, most influential papers, existing research tendencies, and thematic research topics within the field. In addition, this review highlights different aspects of the MS-RCPSP, spanning the significance of performance measures, solution approaches, application areas, and the incorporation of time constraints. While project completion time, cost, and tardiness are common performance indicators, other measures such as multi-skilled staff assignment and schedule robustness are also deemed important. Although various methods have been employed to solve the MS-RCPSP including exact and approximate approaches, the selection of the most-suited approach depends on the problem’s scale, complexity, and constraints, necessitating careful consideration of each method’s strengths and weaknesses. Interestingly, several studies have jointly addressed resource and time constraints in the context of MS-RCPSP, often considering tardiness, and have proposed different algorithms, models, and metaheuristics to tackle these challenges. This paper clearly highlights research gaps and promising avenues for future research. This work provides valuable insights for project managers to effectively schedule tasks in the presence of multiple flexible resources.