Simple Sense Research Articles

Functionalization of Carbon Nanofibers with an Aromatic Diamine: Toward a Simple Electrochemical-Based Sensing Platform for the Selective Sensing of Glucose.

Despite a variety of glucose sensors being available today, the development of nonenzymatic devices for the determination of this biologically relevant analyte is still of particular interest in several applicative sectors. Here, we report the development of an impedimetric, enzyme-free electrochemical glucose sensor based on carbon nanofibers (CNFs) functionalized with an aromatic diamine via a simple wet chemistry functionalization. The electrochemical performance of the chemically modified carbon-based screen-printed electrodes (SPCEs) was evaluated by electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), demonstrating a high selectivity of the sensor for glucose with respect to other sugars, such as fructose and sucrose. The sensing parameters to obtain a reliable calibration curve and the selective glucose sensing mechanism are discussed here, highlighting the performance of this novel electrochemical sensor for the selective sensing of this important analyte. Two linear trends were noted, one at low concentrations (0-1200 μM) and the other from 1200 to 5000 μM. The limit of detection (LOD), calculated as the (standard error/slope)*3.3, was 18.64 μM. The results of this study highlight the performance of the developed novel electrochemical sensor for the selective sensing of glucose.

Correlated noise enhancement of coherence and fidelity in coupled qubits

ABSTRACT It is generally assumed that environmental noise arising from thermal fluctuations are detrimental to preserving coherence and entanglement in a quantum system. In the simplest sense, dephasing and decoherence are tied to energy fluctuations driven by coupling between the system and the normal modes of the bath. Here, we explore the role of noise correlation in an open-loop model quantum communication system whereby the ‘sender’ and the ‘receiver’ are subject to local environments with various degrees of correlation or anti-correlation. We introduce correlation within the spectral density by solving multidimensional stochastic differential equations and introduce these into the Redfield equations of motion for the system density matrix. We find that correlation can enhance both the fidelity and purity of a maximally entangled (Bell) state. Moreover, by comparing the evolution of different initial Bell states, we show that one can effectively probe the correlation between two local environments. These observations may be useful in the design of high-fidelity quantum gates and communication protocols.

Sense of Magnitude

It is often wondered what is the pattern followed by numbers everywhere. This has applications from science to daily routine of people. This paper answers this problem. In this paper, a simple but accurate sense of numbers or magnitude is presented.

Xenophobia and Anti-Islamism: Framing the News Covering the Shootings Four Years After the Christchurch Mosque Shooting

The concept of xenophobia, defined as fear and hostility towards the strange and different in a simple and general sense, is quite comprehensive and can be addressed in conjunction with Islamophobia. The terrorist attacks on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019 represent extreme examples of both xenophobia and anti-Islamism. In this study, news articles addressing the Christchurch mosque attacks from January 1, 2023, to October 22, 2023, were collected using keywords and analyzed in a total of 81 articles across nine different frameworks. A comparison was made with previous studies that conducted analyses and framed the topic, allowing an examination of how the content of news articles changed over time since the incident. Furthermore, it has been observed that the Western press did not categorize the attack as anti-Islamism, despite the clear statement in the terrorist's manifesto that he targeted Muslims. Given the influence of media content on shaping individuals' attitudes and perceptions of events, this discrepancy could impede efforts to combat xenophobia and anti-Islamism.

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare- An Overview

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been developing fleetly in recent times in terms of software algorithms, tackle preparation, and operations in a vast number of areas. In this review, we epitomize the rearmost of operations of AI in biomedicine, including complaint diagnostics, living backing, biomedical information processing, and biomedical exploration. The end of this review is to keep track of new scientific accomplishments, to understand the vacuity of technologies, to appreciate the tremendous eventuality of AI in biomedicine, and to give experimenters in affiliated field’s alleviation. It can be asserted that, just like AI itself, the operation of AI in biomedicine is still in its early stage. New progress and improvements will continue to push the frontier and widen the compass of AI operations, and fast developments are envisaged in the near future.AI in healthcare is an umbrella term to describe the application of machine learning (ML) algorithms and other cognitive technologies in medical settings. In the simplest sense, AI is when computers and other machines mimic human cognition, and are capable of learning, thinking, and making decisions or taking actions. Artificial intelligence (AI) is gradationally changing medical practice. With recent progress in digitized data accession, machine literacy and computing structure, AI operations are expanding into areas that were preliminary allowed to be only the fiefdom of mortal experts. In this Review composition, we outline recent breakthroughs in AI technologies and their biomedical applications, identify the challenges for further progress in medical AI systems, and epitomize the profitable, legal and counteraccusations of AI in healthcare.

Determination of Custody Rights (Hadhanah) for Children Who Are Not Yet Mumayiz to the Father

Background. One of the legal consequences of the breakdown of marriage due to divorce is the custody of children, which in fiqh literature is called Hadhanah. Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to: (a) provide information on the distribution of hadhanah rights to fathers for children who are not yet Mumayiz due to divorce. Method. The research method used in this research is a qualitative method with the type of normative juridical research based on primary and secondary legal materials, namely research that refers to the norms contained in the legislation. Hadhanah is a right that must be fulfilled by adults who are required to take care of the needs of a child including providing education and support to children who are not old enough. Results. The results of this study indicate that hadhanah in Islamic law prioritizes the best interests of the child. This is in accordance with the basic principles of Islamic law (found in the Qur'an and Hadith), which state that children have inherent rights in relation to both parents. Likewise, it is used in positive law in Indonesia. Parental authority over children after divorce according to the provisions of the two laws (Islamic Law and Indonesian Positive Law) is in line. Both divorced parents must continue to fulfill their children's hadhanah in accordance with the rights of children in the Child Protection Law, namely, the rights to life, growth, protection and participation. Conclusion. Therefore, when a divorce occurs, it will have certain legal consequences, especially the issue of Hadhanah (child custody). Hadhanah itself in fiqh terms is used two words but intended for the same purpose, namely Kafalah and Hadhanah. what is meant by Hadhanah or Kafalah in a simple sense is 'Maintenance or 'Care.

Description of Level Education and Employment of Nagari Gurun Panjang Induk Community, Bayang District, Pesisir Selatan District

Population development without being balanced with controls to measure the desired population will only cause social, economic problems with all the high population growth from year to year requiring investment and facilities in the fields of education, health, employment, housing, and so on. This of course will be a quite complicated problem for the government in building and improving the standard of living for the country. Methods this research is study eksploratif with primary and secondary data. Populasi is citizen at nagari gurun panjang induk community. The sample is total sampling. The highest percentage of community work is housewives 23.5%. Te percentage of education in the community is high school 38.6%. In a simple sense, education is a human effort to develop his personality in accordance with the values in society and culture. The level of community education can affect the level of employment, this is evidenced by the percentage of housewives who do not work which is higher than other jobs, while at the level of education, the average community only has education up to high school level

Allegory as Language Game: Spenser with Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein’s early philosophical masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, builds to a logical picture of the whole world and asks what words can give us pictures of. Broadly speaking, this “picture-theory of language” exposes the underlying assumptions of allegory. Rejecting logic in his late work, especially the Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein asks what, in the vast array of human circumstances, words are used for. Meaning is no longer a spectral picture inside the head; it is out in the world, woven into all our interactions. Similarly, when we interpret The Faerie Queene, we are not constructing models of what each of us alone (in competition with everyone else) pictures as the true meaning. We are interacting with the text and with one another in the delicate web that is the poem’s field. All, or almost all, such interpretations are illuminating, but none of them is final, comprehensive, or in any simple sense true.

A Simple and Effective Visual Fluorescent Sensing Paper-Based Chip for the Ultrasensitive Detection of Mercury Ions in Environmental Water.

Traces of mercury ions in environmental water can harm humans and animals. Paper-based visual detection methods have been widely developed for the rapid detection of mercury ions; however, existing methods are not sensitive enough to be used in real environments. Here, we developed a novel, simple and effective visual fluorescent sensing paper-based chip for the ultrasensitive detection of mercury ions in environmental water. CdTe-quantum-dots-modified silica nanospheres were firmly absorbed by and anchored to the fiber interspaces on the paper's surface to effectively avoid the unevenness caused by liquid evaporation. The fluorescence of quantum dots emitted at 525 nm can be selectively and efficiently quenched with mercury ions, and the ultrasensitive visual fluorescence sensing results attained using this principle can be captured using a smartphone camera. This method has a detection limit of 2.83 µg/L and a fast response time (90 s). We successfully achieved the trace spiking detection of seawater (from three regions), lake water, river water and tap water with recoveries in the range of 96.8-105.4% using this method. This method is effective, low-cost, user-friendly and has good prospects for commercial application. Additionally, the work is expected to be utilized in the automated big data collection of large numbers of environmental samples.

Taste

In his book on the ecology of perception (An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden, 2022), science writer Ed Yong emphasizes the simplicity of taste. He writes: "Taste, then, is the simpler sense. As we've seen, smell covers a practically infinite selection of molecules with an indescribably vast range of characteristics, which the nervous system represents through a combinatorial code so fiendish that scientists have barely begun to crack it. Taste, by contrast, boils down to just five basic qualities in humans - salt, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami (savory) - and perhaps a few more in other animals, which are detected through a small number of receptors. And while smell can be put to complex uses - navigating the open oceans, finding prey, and coordinating herds or colonies - taste is almost always used to make binary decisions about food. Yes or no? Good or bad? Consume or spit? It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

Scenarios of technological progress in Italy: what can we expect?

ABSTRACT The simple but deep sense of technological progress (TP) lies in the possibility of improving human life. The immediate question thereafter is clearly about the distribution of the gains from TP. With the diffusion of automation and artificial intelligence, fears about the implications of TP on employment and wages have gained renewed importance. While scholars are divided on the effects of this new wave of TP, they agree that every economy will be affected differently, and hence, it will require tailored policy measures. In this paper, we frame how TP could affect the Italian economy, as it is now. We simulate four different scenarios through a dynamic computable general equilibrium model with three types of labour and six types of households. We calibrate the model on the social accounting matrix, and we find that TP returns higher growth patterns albeit with disruptive effects on labour.

2015 개정 중학교 체육과 교육과정의 적정성과 교과서 태권도 단원의 내용 적합성 분석

Objectives The purposes of this study was to analyze the appropriateness of the 2015 revised physical education curriculum composition system of Taekwondo and the content suitability of the textbook Taekwondo unit to provide basic data that can correctly implement Taekwondo, our physical culture, in the revised physical education curriculum and textbooks.
 Methods For this purpose, the comparative methodology of the four-step research process of Bereday (1964)'s description, interpretation, juxtaposition, and comparison of the 2015 revised physical education curriculum document and 11 kinds of physical education textbooks was compared and analyzed.
 Results First, Taekwondo as a challenge area was presented as a speculative challenge, but it did not correspond to the value and meaning of the speculative challenge, and the meaning of the content characteristics of the speculative challenge was unclear and ambiguous. Taekwondo had a difference from the contents of the challenging area in terms of core concepts and generalized knowledge, but in terms of the content elements, it was different only in the classification form, and the details of the area type, field type, and net type competition activities are the same. Second, the Taekwondo content system implemented in physical education textbooks had the same direction, but there were many differences and limitations in the composition of contents. In terms of propositional knowledge, the contents were unclear or described as abstract in understanding Taekwondo. In terms of exercise function, it was found that it was somewhat difficult to understand the contents of the curriculum and the Taekwondo competition function presented in understanding. In terms of subject competency, training and practice were presented in a simplified way with equal meaning, and the meaning of overcoming is presented in a simple and abstract sense, even though it should be understood as a comprehensive superordinate concept including the meaning of practice. In terms of learning contents, learning contents showed many errors in concept explanation, title, and technical composition of Taekwondo. In terms of personality and safety education, it was analyzed that there was a limit to understanding, practicing and internalizing the value of virtue in terms of document level and formal level.
 Conclusions There were many problems in the appropriateness of the contents system of the physical education curriculum of Taekwondo and the contents composition of 11 kinds of textbooks, and there were many differences in the level between the textbooks.

Post-Truth and the Epistemological Crisis

ABSTRACT The polarization and charges of “post-truth” that mark contemporary politics may have its source, ultimately, in a crisis of epistemology, which is characterized by a tension between different forms of naïve realism—the view that reality appears to us directly, unmediated by interpretation. Perhaps too schematically, those on the right tend to be first-person naïve realists in treating economic and social realities as accessible to the ordinary political participant by simple common sense, while those on the left tend to be third-person naïve realists in treating credentialed experts as forming a consensus—a new common sense. In treating reality as transparent enough to be legible either to oneself or to a group of experts, both sides tend to treat disagreement as a motivational problem—a problem of bad faith, motivated reasoning, perversity, and refusal to see the truth—rather than as an epistemic problem caused by the possibility that each side may hold a different set of interpretive frameworks that determines how and what it sees of reality. In obviating the possibility of genuine disagreement, the epistemological crisis is quite naturally transformed into a political crisis.

The Use of Mantras in Traditional Health Treatment

Proposed Topic of Discussion --The Use of Mantras in Traditional Health Treatment. The literal meaning of the word ‘mantra’ means a chant used to worship a god or goddess. This is the meaning of the word ‘mantra’ found in the two Assamese dictionaries, namely Hemkosh and Saraighat. Etymologically Mantra is a secret conversation or repetition of some words in a rhythmic manner. On the other hand, the Tantra literature suggests that the word mantra is derived from two words– 'Mon' and 'Troi''. In other words, the mantra is uttered secretly to save the mind and body from any disease or evil spirits. In simple sense, a mantra is one that protects both the body and the mind. The popular belief was that Mantras could remove any disease or misfortune along with application of meditation at the same time. In English, Mantra is defined by the word ‘charm’ which is related to magic.

A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY ON EVALUATION OF DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS OF LINEAR SONOGRAPHIC TRANSDUCER IN VARIOUS DISEASES

Introduction: An ultrasonography scan is a medical test that uses high-frequency sound waves to produce live images of the body. Linear transducer is used to create the images of superficial organs. Superficial sonography used for diagnose various pathologies like Large vessel vasculitis, carpel tunnel syndrome, thyroiditis, carotid artery disease etc. The aim of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic application of linear sonographic transducer in various diseases of superficial organs. In the simple sense of word, Transducers are the devices that converts a form of energy into another. These devices have been throughout the history, taking an example of Pythagoras in 550 BC, who sited that pitch and frequency is co-related and this lead to creation of Sonometer, instrument used in music1. A major physics breakthrough occurred in 1880 when the brothers Jacque and Pierre Curie demonstrated the piezoelectric effect, which results in formation of Ultrasound transducer. Over 60 years later, Dr Karl Dussik of Austria in 1940s, becomes the first physician to use the ultrasound in medical diagnosis2.
 Research Methodology: In this prospective cross-sectional study 40 patients, prescribed for superficial organs ultrasonography (USG) (thyroid {neck}, musculoskeletal, and doppler) were included and stat for result was mean and percentage stats used. This was a quantitative prospective cross sectional study in which high frequency ultrasonography of a maximum of 40 patients with proper indication under taken. Ultrasonography is performed after taking proper history and relevant physical examination performed by the linear transducer (6 – 12 MHz). In this study convenience sampling was used as the sample was taken from a section of the population that was easily accessible or readily available to the researcher.
 Findings: Total 40 (100%) patient’s data used in this study who undergone the superficial organ examination (Musculoskeletal, Doppler, thyroid {neck}) during the period of study. Out of which 50% (20) patients undergo Thyroid ultrasonography, 25% (10) patients undergo musculoskeletal ultrasonography and 25% (10) patients undergo Doppler imaging ultrasonography. Result of scan collected and master chart is prepared. Author found that in thyroid ultrasonography scan 15% patients have swollen neck and pain was due to cervical varicocele, 12.5% patients have lymph nodes, 2.5% patients have goitre, 2.5% patients have thyroiditis, 2.5% patients have cyst, 2.5 % patients have thyroid mass, and 12.5% patients have normal study. In Doppler ultrasonography scans 5% patients have edema, 2.5% patients have varicocele, 5% patients have varicosities, 2.5% patients have periphery arterial disease and 5% patients have thrombus/plaque and 5% have normal scan with no findings. In musculoskeletal ultrasonography scans 22.5% patients have normal study with no significant findings and 2.5% patients have focal encepahalocele.
 Conclusion: It is concluded that ultrasound is the best modality to rule out the problems at any stage so that treatment can be started on behalf of reports of Ultrasonography scan in patients of superficial organs with various diseases, as it is fast and safe to patients, it does not include any ionizing radiation so female patients of reproductive age go through scan without any risk. And most common reason of swelling and pain in neck is cervical lymphadenopathy, lymph nodes, mass or goitre, and pain in joints and swelling is varicosities or thrombus in lower extremities and in musculoskeletal cranium study mostly has normal study with no significance but few have focal encepahalocele as per in this study.

Clinical points of digital dental implant traction technique in mandibular reconstruction

At present, mandibular defect repair and reconstruction is not only a simple sense of mandibular continuity restoration, but also a restoration of the physiologically positional relationship and movement balance of the upper and lower jaws. Eventually, the implantation of osseointegrated dental implants and implant-supported dental restoration should be accomplished to complete the reconstruction of the functional mandible. The technique can integrate multiple procedures such as fibular bone grafting, simultaneous dental implants and traction osteogenesis, and the perfect integration with digital technology can significantly improve the accuracy of digital dental implant traction technique. This paper will summarize and conclude the key points of the application of digital dental implant traction technique in mandibular defect reconstruction, in order to provide new ideas for the development of digital technique.

Concerning Science

Concerning Science David K. Hecht (bio) Andrew Jewett,Science under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. 356 pp. Notes and index. $42.00 Science matters. In his impressive Science under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America, Andrew Jewett skillfully explores a variety of different critiques of science across twentieth-century United States history. These critiques do not always align in their particulars: some are based in religion, while others are secular. Some come from the political right, others from the left. Some seem to originate from the cultural margins, whereas others were mainstream. Moreover, as Jewett acknowledges, there is no consistent definition of science that runs through all the critiques. What unites them is a sense that there is something amiss in the world—modernity, secularism, amorality, dehumanization, totalitarianism, materialism, technocracy—and that science is to blame. Science matters, for these critics, and in all the wrong ways. Science under Fire can be profitably read as a comprehensive treatment of science skepticism in modern U.S. history. Jewett effectively distills the essences of a staggeringly wide range of thinkers and writers across many decades. “Although a concern with science’s corrupting cultural effects has never been the dominant strain in American thinking about science,” he writes, “it has been persistent, influential, and consequential for nearly a century—above all, in the post-World War II ‘golden age’” (p. 16). Having accelerated after 1945, such skepticism has become entrenched in recent decades and one of its most prominent manifestations—climate change denial—is proving to have planetary implications. However, Jewett, counterintuitively but powerfully, scarcely mentions climate change. While some readers might wish for a greater engagement with our contemporary crisis, I welcomed Jewett’s more historical focus. After all, we have any number of thoughtful analyses concerning the origin and nature of climate change denial.1 What we don’t have is exactly what Science under Fire provides: a synthesis of science skepticism before the current era. Like all good history, this book demonstrates that its subject is far more complicated than we might assume simply by considering its most recent form. [End Page 389] This is an important contribution. But science also matters here in a deeper and more methodologically novel way. Jewett uses “science” as a tool with which to explore American intellectual history more broadly. This is not a history of science, but rather an account of the many ways in which American thinkers, writers, clergyman, and educators mobilized science as a rhetorical concept in defining and pressing their social visions. Jewett explains: “this book explores conceptions of science as a social and cultural force, rather than a method or a subject” (p. 5). Precisely because these actors’ ultimate concerns lay outside of science, the stakes of the debate were monumental. Jewett writes, for example, of the concerns of many American Catholics that teaching evolution was just one more expression “of a materialistic, self-divinizing form of rationalism that had plagued the West for centuries” (p. 61). Similarly, he contends that after World War II “it became a matter of simple common sense for many scholars that the Western world was experiencing an epochal modern crisis and that scientism lay at its root” (p. 123). Few of the critics who populate the pages of Science under Fire saw their concerns in narrow, policy terms; even those who offered political critiques did so with an eye toward epic battles between democracy and freedom on one hand with totalitarianism and repression on the other. Science under Fire is thus an intellectual history of (perceived) cultural and intellectual crisis. As such, it should be read alongside such books as Andrew Hartman’s A War for the Soul of America (2015), Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas that Made America (2019), or Daniel T. Rodgers’ Age of Fracture (2011). All three of these books—and there are certainly others—are ambitious and impressive syntheses of much intellectual history (and historiography) in the service of understanding the grand sweep of American culture and ideas. Jewett’s contribution to this literature is to focus on science. Of course, he is not the first intellectual historian...

A Simple Current Sensing and Reconstruction Scheme of VSI with Three Shunt Resistors

A Simple Current Sensing and Reconstruction Scheme of VSI with Three Shunt Resistors

Art and typology of Women’s sights of northern and northeastern Montenegro

Research and study of sights is not new in the Balkan area. The first important research in this field was carried out by two Bosnian-Herzegovinian researchers, namely Mehmed Mujezinović and Šefik Bešlagić. Those researches were carried out in Bosnia and Herzegovina through three levels - history, epigraphy and art. In addition to these two great men, we also have some other researchers who worked on sights such as Ćiro Truhelka, Antun Hangi, Seid Mustafa Trajlić, Alija Nametak, Alija Bejtić, Džemal Čelić. Often, these and many other authors classified men's sights into ulema, dervish, martyr, pashin, agin, hajji, clerical, etc. They did this, first of all, because of their rich decoration, which is as different as the weapons that are a frequent motif on those sights - shield, sword, bow, mace. It is not difficult to distinguish the sights of men from the niches of buried women. Men's sights are reminiscent of medieval tomb in their dimensions, with the difference that the headboards are represented with creases. Women's sights are significantly different: smaller, more modest and simpler, mostly in the form of a truncated shield, less often, on the frontal edges, decorated with floral motifs, leaves and tree branches. In addition to these ornaments, we also notice some that reflect and symbolize female beauty and elegance. In this section, it should be mentioned to the readers that women's sights could also be characterized in a better way, that is, they could get their own characteristic shapes. For example, until now every female sights has been treated in a broader scope and in the simplest sense as a sights of a deceased woman. Certainly, there were those researchers who classified the sights into stelae and women's caps. All this points to the fact that the division within the circle of women's sights is poor and that this allows deepening and classification in a new and appropriate way. In this sense, we are of the opinion that a new division could be made among women's sights based primarily on their external appearance. Such a starting point gives us the right to classify them into women's sights in the form of a stele, women's sights in the form of pillars with a women's cap and women's sights with solufs. But, even for this division, it could be stated that it is poor and not comprehensive, because women's sights can also be observed and explained from the point of view of social position and affiliation. Large and well-decorated nishans belong to rich women, while those of smaller dimensions and with less decorative ornaments belong to poorer people. Just as the Agin and Pašina sights are very richly decorated and of large dimensions, some women's sights could be classified in a similar category. However, we cannot prove this, because in that case we would have to conduct archaeological research, with the help of which it would be possible to obtain more detailed information that would enable better illumination of the deceased person's belonging to a certain social class. On the other hand, shapes can also help us to chronologically place women's sights in the appropriate century. Steles, as the oldest form, began to be used in a slightly older period of making women's sights, already in the second half of the 15th century, and are still in use today. These niches, initially without Arabic epitaphs, with ornaments that are represented on tombs, were carved mostly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in a somewhat wider area. In the 17th century, women's nishan got another very different form, in the way that a woman's cap was placed on the columnar sights, which began to receive an Arabic epitaph. With these sights, the upper part is in the shape of an inverted fez, while the lower part has a collar that helps us identify these sights. We also have a sight with solufluks that symbolize women's zulufs and their beauty. With this, we have briefly presented the art and typology of sights from the 15th to the 20th century. There are sights that do not correspond to these types, but we have presented them in this work.

Fashion, Thresholds, and Borders

Fashion, Thresholds, and Borders