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Identifying Landscape Relevant Natural Language using Actively Crowdsourced Landscape Descriptions and Sentence-Transformers

Natural language has proven to be a valuable source of data for various scientific inquiries including landscape perception and preference research. However, large high quality landscape relevant corpora are scare. We here propose and discuss a natural language processing workflow to identify landscape relevant documents in large collections of unstructured text. Using a small curated high quality collection of actively crowdsourced landscape descriptions we identify and extract similar documents from two different corpora (Geograph and WikiHow) using sentence-transformers and cosine similarity scores. We show that 1) sentence-transformers combined with cosine similarity calculations successfully identify similar documents in both Geograph and WikiHow effectively opening the door to the creation of new landscape specific corpora, 2) the proposed sentence-transformer approach outperforms traditional Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency based approaches and 3) the identified documents capture similar topics when compared to the original high quality collection. The presented workflow is transferable to various scientific disciplines in need of domain specific natural language corpora as underlying data.

Mapping Uncharted Terrain: A Systematic Review of Complementary and Integrative Health Communication Using Observational Data in Biomedical Settings

ABSTRACT Complementary and integrative health (CIH) use is diverse and highly prevalent worldwide. Prior research of CIH communication in biomedical encounters address safety, efficacy, symptom management, and overall wellness. Observational methods are rarely used to study CIH communication and avoid recall bias, preserve ecological validity, and contextualize situated clinical communication. Following PRISMA guidelines, we systematically reviewed studies at the intersection of social scientific observational research and findings about CIH communication between clinicians, patients, and caregivers in biomedical settings. We identified international, peer-reviewed publications from seven databases between January 2010 and December 2020. Titles and abstracts were first screened for inclusion, then full studies were coded using explicit criteria. We used a standard checklist was modified to assess article quality. Ten of 11,793 studies examined CIH communication using observational methods for CIH communication in biomedical settings. Studies used a range of observational techniques, including participant and non-participant observation, which includes digital audio or video recordings. Results generated two broad sets of findings, one focused on methodological insights and another on CIH communication. Despite methodological and topic similarities, included studies addressed CIH communication as a process and as proximal and intermediate health outcomes. We recommend how observational studies of CIH communication can better highlight relationships between communication processes and health outcomes. Current research using observational methods offers an incomplete picture of CIH communication in biomedical settings. Future studies should standardize how observational techniques are reported to enhance consistency and comparability within and across biomedical settings to improve comparability.

Corporate Governance in Business: A Review of Qualitative Literature

The research is based on the impact of corporate governance in the business sectors. In that case, a systematic review has been done including 10 articles on similar topics. The PRISMA and CASP tool has been taken into consideration and a PICO question has been formed that highlights the agenda of the research. In addition, the primary articles have been reviewed to highlight their corporate governance is necessary for the financial status and the management of the company. Based on that, the Board of Directors (BOD) are responsible for the modification and strategizing of the corporate governance of the company. Keywords: Corporate Governance, Board of Directors, Stakeholders, Financial status and Management

A Scientific Paper Recommendation Framework Based on Multi-Topic Communities and Modified PageRank

Personalized PageRank is a variant of PageRank, widely developed for citation recommendation. However, the personalized PageRank that works with a vast amount and rich scholarly data still results in information overload. Sometimes, junior scholars still need help to arrange queries quickly because of limited domain knowledge. Senior researchers need reference papers regarding a similar topic they intend to search for and related topics as a new insight. In this research, scientific citation recommendation aims to find the most influential papers with similar and related topics. Related topic papers in serendipitous perspectives are reference papers that are novel, diversified and unexpected to a user. The unexpectedness of recommended papers can be papers with different topics to queries but still relevant. To accomplish these challenges, we propose a framework of scientific citation recommendation with serendipitous perspectives. The framework includes feature extraction of an academic citation network, selection of multi-topic communities, and ranking papers in the selected multi-topic communities by modified PageRank. Papers in the chosen communities tend to link to similar and related papers. Modified PageRank is an extension of personalized PageRank, which works on multi-topic communities and manuscript queries. The experiments reveal that the proposed models outperform some models of personalized PageRank and some models of Content-Based Filtering. The multi-topic communities-based models work more effectively than the baselines if they run in a large dataset since the topic communities become more cohesive.

Bibliometric Analysis: Analysis of Government Social Media Innovations from 2012 to 2023

Government social media innovation is a trend carried out as an effort to respond to needs in the era of technological development and as an effort to improve services, especially in the public sector. Therefore, government social media innovation has become one of the research topics developed in recent years. As research on the topic of government social media innovation continues to develop, stakeholders need an up-to-date perspective on government social media innovation research. The aim of this research is to provide an objective and accurate summary of government social media innovation research using 194 documents taken from the Scopus database and analyzed using a bibliometric approach. Research was analyzed by publication per year, country of contributor, subject area, author, affiliation, and source. This research uses the CiteSpace application to analyze connectivity trends on related topics using keywords and reference nodes. The results of this research are useful for identifying clusters and research in communities such as royal colleges, sustainable development, public service delivery, and other clusters. This research can contribute to the body of knowledge quantitatively and accurately in terms of contributing to the knowledge map regarding government social media innovation and can be used as material for research reviews on similar topics and developed in the future.

Pipeline Infrastructure Required to Meet the Requirements on AI

The theme of this issue is infrastructure as code (IaC). This concept typically refers to the application of software engineering practices in managing deployment infrastructure. Moving from physical hardware to virtual machines using configuration files that are way more flexible—and they can be version controlled and distributed. As such, IaC paves the way for automation and DevOps. This column touches upon similar topics: pipeline infrastructure to meet regulatory requirements on trustworthy AI solutions.

Investigation on Picture Books Reading Education in Primary School <br/>—Taking H Province for Example

Picture book reading facilitates the acquisition of reading literacy. How picture books are used in primary school education and whether picture book reading foster students’ learning ability are the two questions to be discussed in the passage. According to the investigation, lack of time, difficult in choosing picture books and the renovation of teaching methods are the main problems exist. In order to promote the reading literacy: teachers should categorize picture books or stories with the same or similar topics, grammar, words and sentence structure in their ordinary teaching; Teachers or parents should know a general form of asking questions to enhance the effect of students’ in picture book reading and improve students’ reading literacy.

Investors' Decision-making Under Risk: Evidence from the Croatian Stock Market

Purpose: This article deals with the retail investors’ decision-making under risk, firstly addressing several theories of decision-making under risk. Following this theoretical framework, an analysis on investment strategies on the Croatian capital market has been conducted. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper a non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology is used to estimate input-oriented efficiency (minimization of risk i.e. stock return volatility, standard deviation) in retrospect to monthly stock returns of 15 selected stocks (due to a liquidity criteria) and five stock indices on the Croatian stock market in the period from 2016 until 2021. Findings: Results show that just but a few stocks provide high efficiency levels on the Croatian stock exchange, while the general CROBEX stock index proves to be a viable investment option for retail investors whose financial knowledge, expertise and time are limited. Research limitations/implications: This study was conducted on a limited sample of 15 most liquid stocks and five stock indices on the Croatian stock market in the period from 2016 until 2021. Due to the limited number of liquid stocks through time, the shallowness and illiquidity of the Croatian stock market provides a major limitation of this study. Furthermore, the limited sample attained dictated the use of nonparametric static DEA methodology that is suboptimal. For future studies, it is recommended to internationally expand the sample and use dynamic nonparametric and parametric techniques in stock efficiency estimation. Originality/value: The main aim of the study was to provide a theoretical overview on the theories of decision-making under risk. These theories provide insight that investors (retail but institutional nonetheless) are more loss avoidant than return seeking (risk aversion) which in the end affects their optimal investment strategy. In addition, this study used DEA methodology in efficiency estimation of 15 stocks on the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE). The results from this study suggest that for untrained and inexperienced retail investor the investment in the general stock index could be a viable investment strategy. This study builds upon several studies on investment strategies on the Croatian stock market by providing more insight on stock and stock indices returns and efficiency several years previously and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Future studies dealing with similar topics should expand to a multinational sample that would solve the two main limitations of this study. Therefore, by expanding the sample to neighbouring countries, and increasing the number of liquid stocks observed and the possibility of using dynamic nonparametric and stochastic models in efficiency estimation of stocks to determine adequate investment strategies.

BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES WHEN USING THE TECHNIQUE OF ROLE-PLAYING IN SPEAKING EXERCISES IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

The aim of this paper is to show the complete experiences, both benefits and challenges that A2 level students have when using role-plays in learning English as a foreign language. The respondents included in the survey consist of two groups of students: teenagers aged 12 to 15 (36 of them) and first-year students (38 of them) at the Department of Applied and Fine Arts of the University of Kragujevac (aged 18 up to 20 years). The teenage students attended an English language course at a private school in Kragujevac and were preparing for the international A2 knowledge test of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge A2 test also known as KEY (KET) in its pre-2020 version. In part 3 (conversation), task 2, the knowledge of those taking the test is assessed by means of a kind of a role play. Role-play is organized in pairs where both members of the pair have an equal chance to ask questions and provide information in predetermined situations that are partially structured. The task of the students was to play a role, to understand the situation and to express themselves in an adequate way both linguistically and in accordance with communicative competences. It was noticed that the students did not or to a lesser extent met with such activities, that their motivation for learning was higher than usu- al during and after the activities. There was also a gradual reduction of stage fright and fear of public speaking. On the other hand, the challenges that the examinees faced were the inability to form sentences grammatically correctly, especially questions, that they lack everyday vocabu- lary, as well as that they often sound unnatural and not polite enough. Some respondents could not avoid using their native language for more than a few seconds or not make long pauses in communication using postman’s sticks. Pedagogical implications of this research are the need for English teachers to systematically, and for a longer period, devote at least part of the lesson to such activities with the aim of relieving students of nervousness, activating knowledge and preparing for the challenges of the 21st century and the international circumstances of the use of the English language. We hope that this is one of a series of further investigations on similar topics that will give us better insight into how to improve learners’ communicative competence of English as a foreign language.

Topic and Content of Personal Narratives of Children from Three East Asian Cultures and Three English-Speaking Cultures: A Collaborative Qualitative Analysis.

Narrative language skills are critical for effective social interactions and academic success. Consequently, narratives are regularly an aspect of assessment and intervention for children with communication impairments, supporting the need for information about typical development from children across cultures. Development of coherent personal narratives is associated with growth of both one's individual identity and cultural identity which are linked to psychological well-being. The topics and contents of children's personal stories can provide insight into cultural influences on what children consider important, how they interpret experiences, and their values and beliefs, which in turn contribute to their developing individual and cultural self-identity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the topics and content of personal narratives told by typically developing 10-year-old children from East Asian and Western English-speaking cultures. There were 20 children in each of three East Asian language groups - Mandarin, Cantonese, and Korean; and 62 children in the English-speaking groups (22 in the USA and 20 each in the Australian and New Zealand groups). In each group, half were boys and half were girls. Children responded to prompts from the Global TALES protocol to elicit personal narratives. All language samples were transcribed, translated, and coded for topic choices using qualitative content analysis in collaborative discussions by the four authors, who included an English-speaking author from the USA (C.E.W.), and three authors, who are native speakers of the three East Asian languages, Mandarin (K.-M.C.), Cantonese (A.M.-Y.W.), and Korean (J.P.L.). Results on topics in stories from East Asian and Western English-speaking cultures are described in relation to literature on anthropology. English-speaking children and East Asian children in this study talked about similar topics in their personal narratives, but the frequency of these topics within their stories varied. Possible explanations for differences in story topics are discussed within a framework on cultural dimensions. Evaluation of the topics of children's personal narratives provides insight into what is important to the children and the way they view their worlds. This information may inform clinical approaches to assessment and intervention with children with communication impairments, encouraging clinicians to go beyond analysis of language structure to consider multiple factors that influence communicative competence.

The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First Century Perspectives Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Theologians on the Boundary between Humans and Animals

<i>The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First Century Perspectives</i> <i>Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Theologians on the Boundary between Humans and Animals</i>

ЕМІГРАЦІЯ ЯК ЛІТЕРАТУРНИЙ СЮЖЕТ У НОВІТНІЙ УКРАЇНСЬКІЙ ПРОЗІ: ХУДОЖНІЙ ДОСВІД ТАНІ МАЛЯРЧУК

The article is devoted to the topic of emigration in modern Ukrainian literature. It is noted that its various variants - motives for departure, actions, deeds, psychology of migrants, their achievements and illusions were artistically interpreted in the latest Ukrainian prose, most often in the novel genre (the works of Irene Rozdobudko "Morning cleaner", 2004, "I know, what do you know, what I know", 2011, V. Eshkilieva "Paphos", 2002, Natalka Doliak "Gastarbaiterka", 2012, Natalky Snyadanko "Frau Müller is not ready to pay more", Irena Karpa "Good news from the Aral Sea", 2019, A. Chapaia "We have arrived”, 2015, Olga Slonivska "Lost in Time", 2018, as well as the British writer of Ukrainian origin, Maryna Levytska "Two vans", 2008, "A short history of tractors in Ukrainian", 2013, and others). Similar topics and issues are raised by Tanya Malyarchuk in another genre format - in the story "Frogs in the Sea" (2019), written in German and awarded the Austrian Ingeborg Bachmann Literary Prize. For this, the author chooses a "plot of external displacement" (Olena Romanenko), focusing on the fate of two lonely, abandoned people from different worlds - a Ukrainian emigrant Petro and an aristocratic Viennese Frau. In the development of the plot, the writer combines external (life without a passport in a foreign country, violation of the law, constant desire to be unnoticed, to do the dirtiest work) and internal (reflections on one's own life) conflicts, focuses on the loss of the usual coordinate system by the main character - not only in a foreign country, but also in the homeland, where no one is waiting for him - neither his mother nor his lover. Therefore, with the help of the symbol that was included in the title of the work (frogs in the sea), intertextual elements (allusions to the image of smoke in the poetry of Lesya Ukrainka, the images of Natalka and Peter from I. Kotlyarevsky's drama Natalka Poltavka) the author, starting from the theme of emigration, raises essential, common human problems: about the meaning of human life, about love as the highest measure of humanity, about the inevitability of time, about a person's right to choose and responsibility for it.

Правовые и иные смежные аспекты по вопросу оказания медицинской помощи онкобольным в условиях рисков распространения и противодействия коронавирусной инфекции (COVID-19) и ее штаммам: «на стыке» профессиональных воззрений и опыта

A lively interest in the topic of the real state of affairs in the field of healthcare, regarding the determination of the level of cancer incidence in Russia, the search and development of fundamental and progressive approaches to the tactics of treating cancer patients, the quality of palliative care, and even during a situation associated with a high level incidence of COVID-19 and acute respiratory viral infections, can hardly be questioned in terms of substantiating its relevance. The subject of the study is the modern system of providing medical care to cancer patients, from the point of view of legal regulation and medical practice, existing and predicted “pros” and “cons”. Tasks: to prove the relevance of the problem in the quantitative and statistical aspect, to reveal common and special characteristic elements (“traits”), to identify risks, legal bases and their assessment, the most successful legal solutions in the appropriate direction, as well as to draw practice-oriented conclusions, and, first of all, related to the adoption of a new departmental order for the provision of medical care in Russia in the field of “oncology” from January 2022. In a methodological way, the empirical method of analysis, the method of synthesizing “legal matters” that define and provide a system of care for cancer patients in modern conditions of countering coronavirus infection, is quite actively used. The results obtained will be interesting for studying and taking into account in the environments of medical and legal communities interested in similar or related topics in rethinking, contrasting, developing scientific and medical legal, special, expert and other views and hypotheses.

Upgrade of JCNS SANS instrument KWS-2 for improved performance and beam-time efficiency

KWS-2 is a classical small angle neutron diffractometer where, following recent upgrades, the pinhole mode with different neutron-wavelengths and detector distances can be combined with focusing mode with MgF2 lenses to reach a wide Q-range between 2x10−4 and 1.0 Å−1. Further upgrades of the detection system and sample positioning system are currently in progress. A wide-angle detection prototype is currently being tested and optimized aiming at measurement conditions over an extended Q-range up to 2.0 Å−1, which will be beneficial for semi-crystalline materials and small biological morphologies. The high neutron flux provided by the FRMII reactor and transported by the optimized neutron guidance system requires an adjustment of the measurement routine for a more rational use of the beam time. A new versatile in-beam sample positioning system, which includes a multi-position carousel with temperature control, robotic elements, and a storage pool for sample cuvettes, has just been installed at the instrument’s sample position. This allows the instrument to be continuously supplied with samples and provides the ability to combine experiments on similar samples or topics into a common long experimental session. Here we report in detail on the expanded Q-range option of the KWS-2 from the perspective of current performance and planned upgrades, as well as the new sample positioning system with robotic elements.

Революция 1905-1907 гг. в воспоминаниях крестьян Тамбовской губернии

The paper examines the memoirs of participants in the revolution of 1905–07 stored in the State Archive of the Socio-Political History of the Tambov Region (GASPITO). Fond 382 “Department of the Gubernia Committee of the RCP (B) for Studying the History of the October Revolution and the Party” has been analyzed. Due to scarcity of personal provenance documents created by peasants, analysis of the memoirs written in the Soviet era is of great importance. Most national and foreign scientists who studied similar topics mainly used the reports of the police department and other official documents. Peasant memoirs were rarely considered. The memoirs compiled in 1925 contain various data on the revolutionary movement in the Russian village in the early 20th century. The authors provided information on their origin, occupation, political beliefs, etc. Peasant uprisings, their orientation, and punitive actions of the government were described in sufficient detail. The relevance of the study is determined by the importance of comprehensive analysis of the Russian peasantry. When examining the memoirs, the author has used historical-comparative and retrospective methods. The key scientific principle is historicism. The article underscores special role of the “revolutionary turning point” generation representatives in the events of the first third of the 20th century. The majority of peasants who wrote memoirs was born at the turn of the 20th century and took an active part in the revolution of 1905–07. Generational history provides a deeper understanding of the motivation of the young people who became organizers of the agrarian riots. The article focuses on the impact of the revolutionary events on the behavioral practices of rural society. It cites instances of revolutionary agitation of peasants by seasonal workers. Relations between peasants and landlords are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of peasant uprisings. The research showcases great generational gap in the village. The youth, by virtue of its inherent psychosocial qualities, was the most important catalyst for the revolution. There was characteristic influence of marginal elements on the peasant community. The study shows that memoirs created in the Soviet period were characterized by politicization and ideological predestination. However, these shortcomings do not reduce their importance for understanding the peasant worldview. The memoirs of direct participants point to continuity of the events of 1905 and 1917.

Indicadores bibliométricos na pesquisa em Educação Física: o Brasil em comparação

ABSTRACT Scopus and Web of Science were used to evaluate papers on Physical Education worldwide and in Brazil. Most documents are published in the USA and England, Brazil being the 6th largest. Brazilians tend to publish in Brazil. Countries with a higher % of documents in Q1 journals have higher % of top 10% cited documents. Most countries increase their Top 10% score when publishing in open access, while Brazil decreases. Differentiation between country clusters is due to % documents in Q1 journals, international collaboration, Open Access, citations/paper and documents in Top 10%. Brazil researches similar topics to those worldwide. Publishing in Q1 journals, and more industry and international collaboration can increase the impact of publications by Brazilian authors.

Self-service kits to scale knowledge to autonomous teams - concept, application and limitations

In large organizations, it is not trivial to spread knowledge to all teams. Often, individual teams need to handle similar topics and re-invent the wheel. Another scenario is that a group of people with a common role (for example ?guild? in Spotify model) has to distill their practices to make them shareable. Trainings should have empower participants so to apply the learnings easily in their daily businesses. To realize this, the proposed Self-Service Kit (SSK) approach can be used in the context of a holistic methodology that fosters team autonomy while leveraging knowledge spread and sharing throughout a large organization. Such a methodology is presented and instantiated in an enterprise context in facing the mentioned challenges.

Intelligent Ambulance – AI and Human Interface Technology

This paper involves the review of papers related to an efficient ambulance management system in this project report we will be going through research papers related to similar topics and find information to improve the process of making an ambulance intelligent. India’s population is increasing as each day is passing. The increase in population puts a lot of strain and management of resources from medical, government services and many more. The strain on the resources results in citizens not getting proper help in the time of need. The main example of this process is ambulance management system which is the first line of help process in time of need. If a patient or a victim does not get an ambulance in time then the patient’s life is surely at risk. So there needs to be proper mechanism to handle this important resource and help patients in time. Latest technologies such as cloud computing, IoT, AI, ML and mobile computing can be used to improve the ambulance management and emergency help services. . Ambulance service is one of the crucial services that gets delayed. Sometimes on-sight doctors are not available, so the patient does not get medical attention immediately. In health monitoring system, the patient's vital health parameters such as ECG, Heart Rate and Body Temperature are monitored. These parameters are sent the hospital server using IoT and cloud technology. In the current era of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing a vital role in the health care sector especially cardiac disease detection which is a major cause of sudden death. The work given here is a mini-project that is taken up as a part of the curriculum completed by electronics and communication engineering students in the second year of the electronics &amp; communication engineering department at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering in Bangalore.

Barriers To Accessing Mental Health Services Among Syrian Refugees: A Mixed-Method Study.

Although Syrian refugees have high rates of mental health problems due to war trauma, little is known on their degree of need for and contact with mental health services. Using a population sample of Syrian refugees living in Ankara, we assessed the perceived need for and contact with mental health services, as well as the barriers to access these services. This was a cross-sectional mixed-method study of 420 Syrian refugees living in Ankara city center, using face to face interviews administered at the respondents' home by trained, Arabic-speaking interviewers. PTSD and depression were assessed using Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and Beck Depression Inventory, respectively. Of all the refugees in our sample, 14,8% (N=62) stated that they felt the need for mental healthcare since arriving in Turkey. The actual number contacting any mental health service was very low (1,4%, N=6). The most important barriers to accessing mental health services were reported by the respondents to be language problems and lack of information on available mental health services. Service providers and policymakers also reported similar topics as the most important barriers: low awareness about mental health problems, daily living difficulties, and language and cultural barriers. Multivariate analyses revealed that presence of medical or mental disorders and female gender predicted the perceived need for contacting services. Our results show that, although refugees report high rates of mental health problems, the perceived need for and actual contact with services are very low. To address this treatment gap, and to provide adequate care for refugees with mental health problems, common barriers (language and awareness) should be identified and dealt with.

Characteristics of land and climate indicators as the basis for agricultural production planning in the municipality of Vlasotince

This study explores the characteristics of land and climate indicators as a basis for planning agricultural production in the municipality of Vlasotince. Aim of the research was to provide concise information about agricultural land, relief, pedological characteristics, and basic climate indicators in this area. Data were collected from relevant strategic documents and scientific papers that address similar topics. In the field of agricultural land, the analysis encompassed the scope and structure of agricultural land use, agricultural land used by agricultural households, land consolidation, and agricultural land in state ownership within the territory of the municipality of Vlasotince. The relief analysis included the identification of key relief characteristics in municipality, which have a significant impact on microclimate conditions and agricultural production possibilities in mentioned area. The results of the pedological characteristics of the land indicate the occurance of various types of soil, such as humus-silicate soils (rankers), eutric brown soils (cambisol), alluvial or fluviatile soils, and pseudogleys. The obtained results offer insight into soil fertility and its capability to support growing of various crops. Analysis of basic climate indicators in the municipality of Vlasotince includes temperature, precipitation, and the length of the vegetation period. According to research results and discussion, this study provides a comprehensive overview of the characteristics of land and climate indicators in observed municipality that are of essential importance for agricultural production planning.