Technical Work Research Articles

Comparison between RCC and Composite Buildings: A Comprehensive Review

Abstract: This review paper presents a comprehensive analysis of Reinforced Concrete (RCC) and Composite buildings, evaluating their performance, design, seismic behavior, cost-efficiency, and sustainability. It outlines their distinct characteristics and structural suitability. The review examines construction methods and technology, highlighting advantages and limitations. Environmental impact, embodied energy, and recyclability are assessed for sustainable construction practices. Economic considerations encompass initial costs, maintenance, and life-cycle analysis. Seismic performance and design strategies are analyzed for resilience in seismic-prone regions. This review paper provides an in-depth analysis of various research papers associated with the topic of RCC and Composite buildings comparison and its various advancements. A thorough literature review has conducted along with analysis of previous works in this field, our study has identified conclusive outcomes from the gap of the study that form the basis of our research objectives that will offer technical insights and propose recommendations for technical research work in this field.

MELODYSTREAM

MelodyStream is a web application built on the MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) stack that provides a reliable platform for audio and video streaming, content uploading, and content verification. The application addresses the challenges faced by its target users, including difficulty finding and streaming high-quality content, lack of a reliable platform for sharing and uploading content, and the need for content verification. MelodyStream offers a range of features, including user authentication, content streaming, content uploading, and content verification by a designated verifier. The application provides a user-friendly interface and accommodates the needs of its different user types (admin, verifier, and user), while ensuring security and privacy for its users. The platform's key features, user roles and permissions, and technical architecture work together to provide a seamless and enjoyable user experience.

ANALYSIS OF LOGISTIC RISKS OF TRANSPORTATION OF GRAIN GROUP LOADS TO EUROPEAN PORTS USING PIGGYBACK TECHNOLOGY

Purpose. Since the beginning of russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine, our state has lost the existing established routes for the export of grain cargoes. The export of grain and grinding products was based on the delivery of grain by land transport and, in small volumes, by river transport to seaports with subsequent transshipment to sea transport. The traditional sales markets for Ukrainian grain and grinding products are Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The limitation of the European grain market requires the search for new ways of delivering grain cargoes to sales markets. The Polish ports of Gdansk, Gdynia, Szczecin and the Romanian port of Constanta are being considered as alternative seaports for the transshipment of grain cargoes. Against the background of the problems of crossing the border by rail and road transport and the need to minimize transport and logistic costs, the task of finding alternative transportation options with the minimum duration of border crossing arises, and one of the options is the use of piggyback transportation technology. The purpose of the study is the estimation of the logistic risks of using piggyback technology to improve the efficiency of the multimodal process of grain cargo transportation. Methods. A comprehensive analysis of the technical equipment and work technology of railway transport in interaction with road transport, the infrastructure of border crossings and the technology of crossing them during cargo transportation, statistical analysis. The results. On the basis of the analysis of the main schemes of crossing the border during the transportation of grain cargoes and the logistic risks that arise, the following scheme was chosen. Grain is delivered by road to the Khyriv railway station, which is connected by a combined track of 1435-1520 mm, and there are also tracks with a width of 1435 mm, and where road trains are loaded onto the platforms of the Ro-La system piggyback train. Further transportation is carried out by rail transport to the port without overloading and changing carts. The time of transportation of road trains can be combined with the driver's rest in accordance with the working mode of the tachograph. Practical significance. The organization of a loading point for road trains on railway platforms of the Ro-La system at the Khyriv station of regional branch of «Lviv Railway» will allow to speed up the delivery of grain cargoes from Ukraine to one of the ports of the Black or Baltic Seas and reduce the overall logistic costs.

Nursing Competencies in the Nursing Curriculum

Florence Nightingale is the modern founder of nursing and professionalized nursing by creating training programs for aspiring nurses. Nursing standards for education started in the early days of nursing education, beginning in the late 1800s. National accreditation standards shape nursing educational programs and clinical practices; however, state-level boards of nursing establish and monitor practice standards. Nursing education accreditation agencies recently shifted their focus to competency-based education, including core abilities required to function as a nurse, provide comprehensive care, and meet patients' complex and diverse needs in every setting. This manuscript reviews the state of current competencies that educational institutions are adopting. A relationship between competencies, standards of practice, and emerging opportunities is needed to develop further education programs that address current clinical practice needs in today's technical and post-pandemic work and clinical environments.

Conceptual and technical work: Who will disrupt science?

Conceptual and technical work: Who will disrupt science?

Localizing Corporate Dei Practices among Technical Communicators

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to better understand how technical communicators understand and implement DEI initiatives in their workplaces, how corporate approaches to DEI impact technical communication work, how the physical and surrounding locale of the company impacts those DEI practices, and the ways technical communicators find themselves intervening, supporting, or advancing those initiatives. Method: Using a qualitative interview methodology, we conducted one-hour interviews with practicing technical communicators. Four different participants representing different demographics and locations in the United States are profiled here. Results: Based on our interviews, we noticed several general commonalities in our technical communicators' experiences of DEI in their workplaces, including a division in the different kinds of labor in the workplace and a lack of feeling like technical communicators had agency in respect to DEI. We also noticed that some trends were influenced by the location and work modality. Conclusion: Practitioners need to be aware of DEI practices in their workplaces and how those practices can impact their work as technical communicators. Technical communicators should also notice how the local community/region, as well as company structure, might impact their work. Educators need to incorporate more attention to DEI as a rhetorical and audience-centered feature in TPC academic programs.

Barriers to Adoption of Tailored Drug-Drug Interaction Clinical Decision Support.

Despite the benefits of the tailored drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts and the broad dissemination strategy, the uptake of our tailored DDI alert algorithms that are enhanced with patient-specific and context-specific factors has been limited. The goal of the study was to examine barriers and health care system dynamics related to implementing tailored DDI alerts and identify the factors that would drive optimization and improvement of DDI alerts. We employed a qualitative research approach, conducting interviews with a participant interview guide framed based on Proctor's taxonomy of implementation outcomes and informed by the Theoretical Domains Framework. Participants included pharmacists with informatics roles within hospitals, chief medical informatics officers, and associate medical informatics directors/officers. Our data analysis was informed by the technique used in grounded theory analysis, and the reporting of open coding results was based on a modified version of the Safety-Related Electronic Health Record Research Reporting Framework. Our analysis generated 15 barriers, and we mapped the interconnections of these barriers, which clustered around three entities (i.e., users, organizations, and technical stakeholders). Our findings revealed that misaligned interests regarding DDI alert performance and misaligned expectations regarding DDI alert optimizations among these entities within health care organizations could result in system inertia in implementing tailored DDI alerts. Health care organizations primarily determine the implementation and optimization of DDI alerts, and it is essential to identify and demonstrate value metrics that health care organizations prioritize to enable tailored DDI alert implementation. This could be achieved via a multifaceted approach, such as partnering with health care organizations that have the capacity to adopt tailored DDI alerts and identifying specialists who know users' needs, liaise with organizations and vendors, and facilitate technical stakeholders' work. In the future, researchers can adopt the systematic approach to study tailored DDI implementation problems from other system perspectives (e.g., the vendors' system).

Pengembangan Modul Service Advisor Talk Menggunakan Framework ERP Odoo 10 Pada PT. Tunas Dwipa Matra

PT. Tunas Dwipa Matra is the main dealer of HONDA motorcycles in Lampung which is engaged in the development of a network of sales, maintenance, repair and service of spare parts for HONDA motorcycles. A service advisor is someone who helps customers at a dealership to understand vehicle maintenance or repair options, answering customer questions before being scheduled with a technician. This study aims to help a service advisor to be able to access materials regarding understanding motor maintenance and repair as well as other program information. The method used in this study is an agile method with a scrum framework. Based on the research conducted, a service advisor talk menu is produced that can be used for workshop employees, especially a service advisor. Tests carried out in the study were Alpha Test, Beta Test, and Functional Test. Based on the test results, it can be concluded that the service advisor talk module can make it easier for a service advisor to get material and program information related to technical work.

TECHNICAL SKILL, WORK EXPERIENCE, WORK DISCIPLINE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON CRAFTSMEN PERFORMANCE AT POTTERY CLUSTER IN TULUNGAGUNG REGIONS

Purpose- This study was aimed to determine the influence of technical skills, work experience, work discipline on the performance of craftsmen in the pottery cluster in Tulungagung Regency.
 Design/Methodology/Approach- The population in this study were 35 pottery craftsmen who had more than 2 years of work experience. The sampling technique use complete enumeration method where all members of the population are used as respondents. Using primary data related to technical skills, work experience, work discipline and their impact on the pottery craftsmen's performance. While the analysis tool uses multiple linear regression analysis.
 Findings-The results of the study show that technical skill, work experience, and work discipline have positive and significant effect on the craftsman's performance in the pottery cluster in Tulungagung Region.
 Practical Implication- many workers lack of discipline at work and less innovate in form of creating new product. Meanwhile most of the owner of small bussiness had years in experience inherited from their parents.

Voltage Stability Margin Estimation Using Machine Learning Tools

Real-time voltage stability assessment, via conventional methods, is a difficult task due to the required large amount of information, high execution times and computational cost. Based on these limitations, this technical work proposes a method for the estimation of the voltage stability margin through the application of artificial intelligence algorithms. For this purpose, several operation scenarios are first generated via Monte Carlo simulations, considering the load variability and the n-1 security criterion. Afterwards, the voltage stability margin of PV curves is determined for each scenario to obtain a database. This information allows structuring a data matrix for training an artificial neural network and a support vector machine, in its regression version, to predict the voltage stability margin, capable of being used in real time. The performance of the prediction tools is evaluated through the mean square error and the coefficient of determination. The proposed methodology is applied to the IEEE 14 bus test system, showing so promising results.

Designing Public Identity: Finding Voice in Coalitional Technical Writing with Black-Led Organizations

This experience report offers an applied example of coalitional communication design, written collaboratively by a white faculty member for a student grant writing program and a Black executive director of a community organization. Highlighting the needs, thought processes, and practical considerations of doing antiracist technical communication work collaboratively from varied identity positions, we detail an ongoing effort to redesign a Black community organization's public voice to honor Black humanity and communal healing. This example spotlights the possibilities of coalitional technical writing that deeply engages with and supports community needs, one way to meet the challenge of TPC's social justice imperative.

The role of management information systems in improving international human resources management practices in multinational companies: An analytical study

The aim of this research is to reveal the important role of management information systems in the management of international human resources in oil licensing companies in the province of Basra, using in this study the analytical approach because the study is applied in more than one company, and a special questionnaire form has been developed to ensure that there is a relationship of influence and correlation between the main variables of the study and its sub-dimensions, so the researcher has distributed an electronic questionnaire form by e-mail to a sample of managers and officials in Oil licensing companies, to which the number of respondents reached (200) respondents out of (422), which were analyzed and clarified the most important results of this study. The results of the analysis showed a positive correlation and impact of statistical significance between the independent variable (management information systems) and the dependent variable (international human resources management), through the use of management information systems technology in senior management and all levels led to improving international human resources management practices in oil licensing companies, through the use of management information systems in their administrative and technical work Help the company's management to carry out international human resources management practices (planning, recruitment). Training and compensation) faster and better than in the past, can benefit from the findings of the current study by strengthening and supporting the adoption of management information systems in oil licensing companies in Basra Governorate, in order to improve their international human resources management practices, which are like a wall that surrounds the companies concerned and helps them to develop and keep pace with the changes in the modern environment, and helps them to compete with other companies and surpass them if they are used efficiently and thus Leads to improving international human resources management practices in terms of (planning, recruitment and training, compensation).

Exploring Technostress in Video Medical Consultation: A Study of Private Doctors in South European Countries

This study investigates the factors contributing to technostress in the context of video medical consultations among private doctors offering this service in south European countries. The study focuses on technical support, information availability, social support, social presence, work overload, and role ambiguity in video consultations. The conceptual framework is based on the person-environmental fit theory and theory of planned behavior. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), data from a cross-sectional field survey of 330 private doctors in southern Europe were analyzed. The results indicate that technical support has a positive impact on reducing workload and role ambiguity in video consultations. This study adds to the existing literature on technostress among private doctors in South Europe and contributes unique insights by integrating two prominent theories. The findings have important implications for administration, practitioners, and policymakers in terms of policy development and implementation. Future research should aim to include a diverse sample of doctors to enhance participation and explore the influence of various factors such as backgrounds, fellowship areas, genders, beliefs, and experience levels. The study concludes with policy recommendations, suggestions for further research, and implications for theory and practice.

Vehicle Automation System Using Arduino

Abstract: The current exploration is to epitomize the technical work in the form of design which illustrates how mortal driving can be made safer to avoid accidents and make the roads safer to drive for the drivers & also the pedestrians. The work is developed by integrating sensors predicated on alcohol content discovery conglomerating with Microcontroller board like Arduino, ATmega328 is more versatile in handling farther functions than any other conventional microcontroller. The MQ3 module is used to find the alcohol as well as smoke speck. It has reasonable perceptivity range around two measures. It is also suitable for any kind of vehicle. The sensor has one farther unique quality that it can simply be unseen from the defendants. It's too compact to fit complete set up in the form of product in machine.

Learning for Air Traffic Management: guidelines for future AI systems

The SESAR-funded Modern ATM via Human / Automation Learning Optimisation (MAHALO) project recently completed two years of technical work exploring the human performance impacts of AI and Machine Learning (ML), as applied to enroute ATC conflict detection and resolution (CD&R). It first developed a hybrid ML CD&R capability, along with a realtime simulation platform and experimental User Interface. After a series of development trials, the project culminated in a pair of field studies (i.e., human-in-the-loop trials) across two EU countries, with a total of 35 operational air traffic controllers. In each of these two field studies, controller behaviour was first captured in a pre-test phase, and used to train the ML system. Subsequent main experiment trials then experimentally manipulated within controllers both Conformance (as either a personalised-, group average-, or optimized model) and Transparency (as ether a baseline vector depiction, an enhanced graphical diagram, or a diagram-plus-text presentation). The proposed paper presents guidelines on the design and implementation of ML systems in Air Traffic Control, derived from the results and lesson learned from the Simulations, as well as the qualitative feedback received from the controllers themselves.

The Effectiveness of Computer-Based Monitoring and Evaluating Vessel Inventory List for Human Resource Performance

The urgency of this research is how a company is able to obtain better of HR performance, develop knowledge, improve service quality and can create competitiveness for the company. This study objective is to describe whether quality knowledge can encourage technical superintendent motivation so that it can improve technical superintendent work performance during monitoring and evaluation of inventory on board using computer-based applications and knowing quality knowledge can improve technicalsuperintendent work performance so as to realize the performance of monitoring and evaluation of inventory list on board effectively. The method used in this study is the explanatory method. Data collection was carried out online from the distributed instruments. The target population in this study were employees in the fleet division at 7 (seven) shipping companies which were used as research objects with a total number of employees of 160 employees. The data obtained is then tabulated, then data reduction is carried out and after obtaining proper data, calculations are carried out using the SPSS application by carrying out validity tests, variable reliability tests, normality tests and homogeneity tests. According to the results, it is known that there is a strength relationship between the knowledge quality and human resources performance.

Adopting Machine Learning in Demographic Filtering for Movie Recommendation System

In this era of big data explosion, humans widely use the movie recommendation system as an information tool. There are two common issues found in the machine learning movie recommendation system that is still undeniable: first, cold start, and second, data sparsity. To minimize the problems, a research study is conducted to find a decision-making algorithm to solve the complex start problem in a movie recommendation system with precise parameters. It involves the implementation of the proposed demographics filtering technique with the k-means clustering method. The research findings present the effects of demographic filtering for movie recommendations. Demographic filtering can group users into clusters based on gender, age group, and occupation. The clusters distribution representative group based on the top 100 results of the experiment. The user with the least distance to the cluster center is chosen as the usual group in that cluster. Three clusters were experimented: Cluster 0, Cluster 1, and Cluster 2. Cluster 0 has a representative group of male, college, or graduate students aged 25 to 34. Cluster 1 has a representative group of females, executive or managerial, aged 25 to 34. Cluster 2 has a representative group of males, sales or marketing aged 35 to 44. It is shown that user from different collection has various preferred movie genre. The preferred movie genre in Cluster 0 is action, adventure, comedy, drama, and war. Cluster 1 has preferred comedy, crime, drama, horror, romance, and sci-fi movie genres. Cluster 2 has chosen action, comedy, drama, film-noir, mystery, and thriller movie genres. This research has contributed to the demographic filtering studies as an alternative solution for future technical development work.

Opening up corporate political strategizing – An institutional work approach

I apply an institutional lens to explore how strategists in a pharmaceuticals firm successfully include managers in the formulation and implementation of corporate political activity (CPA). I depict these strategists as institutional carriers who face mindset-, skills-, and commitment-related barriers when importing new industry norms favoring inclusive CPA processes into an organizational setting where exclusive strategic practices prevail. They reduce barriers resulting from this confrontation of institutional logics by enacting specific instances of institutional work. Strategists' ability to perform cultural and technical work aimed at shifting managers’ perceptions about CPA and empowering them to design and conduct new forms of political action is facilitated by their expertise and social capital. In the absence of hierarchical authority, they draw on personality traits – chiefly, their perseverance – to enact more challenging political work aimed at reconfiguring organizational rules and increasing commitment to CPA. I stretch understandings of open strategy by exploring the inclusion of managers in a complex and uncertain strategic activity previously overlooked, and providing new insights into how strategists manage individual-level constraints to open strategizing. I build on CPA literature by opening up the black box of corporate political strategizing and exposing political strategists as internal lobbyists who drive strategic change in firms.

Mindfulness for violinists

An overabundance of mental distractions may prevent musicians’ minds from being in the moment while practicing. The present mixed-methods study examined the effects of three newly designed mindfulness meditations on six conservatory violinists’ levels of dispositional mindfulness, mind-wandering and respective variables. Thought probes were used before and after the intervention to examine frequency of mind-wandering and contextual variables (task difficulty, fatigue and stress, and motivation) during two hours of participants’ instrumental practice (one of technical work another of a new piece in their repertoire). FFQM (Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire) and MfM (Mindfulness for Musicians) questionnaires were used to measure mindfulness levels before and after the intervention. Interviews and meditation logs were used as qualitative data. Results indicated that all participants became more mindful at the end of the meditation week for all mindfulness’ facets for the FFQM and MfM questionnaires. However, the improvements were particularly noticeable for the “Acting with Awareness” and “Non-Judge” facets for the FFQM and for “Describe” in the MfM. Results showed opposing trends in mind-wandering levels throughout the intervention. That is, some participants showed higher mind-wandering at the post-intervention and others lower. However, contextual variables such as fatigue, motivation or worry, may have also affected how much participants wandered while practicing (e.g. some of them showed more rumination when being more worried and having slept less). Overall, results from the experiment evidenced the importance of including mindfulness in violinists’ daily practice as a useful routine to become more aware and less distracted.

Physical training of a boxer and its importance for successful performance in competitive activities

The article analyzes the scientific and methodological literature on the physical training of qualified boxers and its importance in successful performances at boxer competitions. The goal is to analyze the content of boxers' physical training as one of the criteria for success in boxers' competitive activities.
 The results. The main characteristics of the training process of boxers are considered, some of which have a certain contradiction in some aspects of the athletes' physical training. It was determined that physical training is one of the most important aspects of the training process of boxers at the stage of specialized basic training, which affects the performance of boxers in competitive activities. The main aspects in the training process of boxers, which are aimed at physical and technical work, are indicated: the means and methods of physical training must be adequate for the modes of muscle work in competitive exercise and for the coordination of the movement structure; purposefully focus attention on the primary development of muscle groups, body parts that ensure the performance of basic technical actions; it is necessary to timely eliminate individual deficiencies in the level of development of physical qualities that interfere with the formation of the correct technique of movements. According to the results of the researchers, physical abilities are described in the following sequence according to the degree of their importance for boxers: speed and strength qualities; fastness; agility; endurance; power; flexibility. Accordingly, the special physical training of boxers should be aimed at the development of special speed-strength, speed and strength work.
 Conclusion. Physical training is one of the most important aspects of training boxers, which has a great influence on their achievement of optimal training in the system of sports training. Also, experts do not have a unanimous opinion regarding the degree of significance of individual physical qualities and abilities in boxing. Nevertheless, there is a sufficient amount of scientific and methodical literature devoted to the study of the improvement of individual physical abilities of boxers.