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A Study on the Path of Narrative Renewal of Traditional Villages: A Case of Shawan Ancient Town, Guangdong, China.

Traditional villages are a valuable for their historical and cultural heritage, and have long been the focus of academic research regarding their protection and renewal methods in the face of increasing urbanization. In the village renewal model, the continuation and regeneration of cultural context is the core issue. This paper aims to construct the updated narrative text of Shawan Ancient Town on the basis of narrative rules and methods, while also exploring how to generate the conservation and renewal strategies based on the narrative text. Drawing on the concepts and methods of narratology and based on the cultural background and current conditions of Shawan Ancient Town's architectural heritage, this paper takes "narrative in terms of theme, clue, path, and material" as the basic framework to construct the narrative text in the context of traditional village renewal. Then four aspects, such as "base combing, interface integration, patch symbiosis, and debris collection", are used to update the methods of the spatial situation of individual places. Additionally, multiple construction forms are explained, generating a historic, interesting, and experiential strategy for the protection and renewal of ancient towns. This study demonstrates logical thinking from the construction of narrative text to the generation of renewal strategies from a narrative perspective while deepening the typical research on the traditional village narrative renewal mode. It is advantageous to build a protection mechanism for historical and cultural villages, and explore a path to protect, inherit, and promote the cultural heritage of villages based on China's current situation.

A Methodology for Clustering Items with Seasonal and Non-seasonal Demand Patterns for Inventory Management

Item clustering has become one of the most important topics in terms of effective inventory management in supply chains. Classification of items in terms of their features, sales or consumption volume and variation is a prerequisite to determine differentiated inventory policies as well as parameters, most common of which is service levels. Volume classification is easily obtained by well-known Pareto approach while coefficient of variance is usu-ally used for variation dimension. Hence, it is not always applicable to classify items under different product families with different demand patterns in terms of variation. In this paper, we propose two algorithms, one based on statistical analysis and the other an unsupervised machine learning algorithm using K-means clustering, both of which differ-entiate seasonal and non-seasonal products where an item’s variation is evaluated with respect to seasonality of the product group it belongs to. We then calculate the efficiency of two proposed approaches by standard deviation within each cluster and absolute difference of percentage of volume and item numbers. We also compare the outputs of two algorithms with the methodology which is based on coefficient of variance and is currently in use at the company which is a leading major domestic appliance manufacturer. The results show that the statistical method we propose generates superior outputs than the other two for both seasonal and non-seasonal demand patterns.

OP99 Participatory Approaches Used In Research And Development Of Medical Devices: A Comparison Of Focus groups, Interviews And Surveys

IntroductionMulti-stakeholder engagement in the development and evaluation of medical devices is crucial for aligning devices with stakeholders’ views, needs, and values. Focus groups, interviews, and surveys are often used to involve stakeholders, but these methods have rarely been compared to analyse their relative merits. Therefore, we systematically compared these three methods in terms of themes, interaction, and feasibility.MethodsThe methods were compared in a case-study on surgery with a new endoscopic device for patients with intracerebral haemorrhage. We asked patients, relatives, healthcare professionals and decision-makers about their perspective on this device, and about their perceived quality of hospital care. We conducted the focus groups and interviews in one explorative and one interactive round. The comparison was made in terms of number and content of themes, who and how participants interact, and in terms of hours that needed to be worked by researchers to apply a method.ResultsWe enrolled 18 participants in the focus groups, 17 in the interviews and 43 in the survey. Focus groups generated 31 and 19 themes, and interviews 58 and 40 themes in the explorative and interactive round. Surveys generated 42 themes. Interviews produced various themes about the device that did not occur in the other methods. In the two rounds of the focus group, 13 and 42 percent of the interactions were directly between participants. In interview round one, 98 percent of the interactions were between the interviewer and participant, whereas 80 percent of the interactions in round two were discussions of other participants’ opinions. In focus groups participants were inclined to emphasise agreement, whereas the interviews generated more in-depth discussions. Interviews took three times as many hours as the focus groups and survey.ConclusionsMethods for multi-stakeholder involvement in device development vary considerably. These methodological differences should be taken into account when selecting a method for engaging stakeholders in the early stages of the lifecycle of a medical device.

Challenges and opportunities perceived by Swiss vocational education and training (VET) teachers during emergency remote teaching: The role of teachers’ digital competence

This research explored the association between teachers’ digital competence and their perception of specific topics as challenges or opportunities during the emergency remote teaching caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The data were collected from 2282 Swiss vocational education and training (VET) teachers through open-ended questions and self-reported measures based on DigCompEdu. The results suggest that digital competence is associated with the tendency to perceive specific topics in terms of challenges or opportunities. Specifically, the teachers who reported assessment, students’ empowerment and self-directed learning as opportunities had higher levels of competence in the respective DigCompEdu areas compared to those who perceived the same topics as challenges.

Influences of George Gordon Byron on Asdren

Abstract Poets and writers who introduced Byron to the Albanians a few years before his death, who expressed their sympathy, respect, and admiration for his works, and who were influenced by him in one way or another are Jeronim De Rada, Elena Gjika, Anastas Kullurioti, Faik Konica, Asdren, Luigj Gurakuqi, Ismail Kadare, Agim Shehu, Dhori Qirjazi, Faik Deda, etc. Some of them even wrote poems about Byron. Out of all the aforementioned Albanian poets, one of the Albanian poets most influenced by Byron was Asdren. Using qualitative and comparative literary methods, this article examines the impact of Byron’s poetry on Asdren’s poetry by focusing on the main similarities and differences of these two poets who belong to different literatures and cultures. The paper concludes that Asdren is beyond doubt one of the poets most influenced by Byron. His poems have strange and interesting similarities as well as concordance with the themes, motifs, messages, and style of Byron’s poems. Most likely, Asdren read Byron’s poems and tried to imitate his way of writing, therefore Asdren’s poems are quite similar to Byron’s poems in terms of themes, motifs, symbols, style, etc., though there are differences between their poems as well. The themes and motifs of tyranny, rebellion, struggle for freedom, sacrifice, suffering, honor, death, etc., connect Byron’s poetry to Asdren’s.

Foster Care Case Management and Child developmental Outcomes: Big Data Analysis for Case Management Records

연구목적: 본 연구의 목적은 가정위탁 사례관리의 현황과 그 성과를 파악하는 데 있다. 이를위하여 이전에 분석된 적이 없었던 가정위탁 사례관리기록의 내용을 분석하고 위탁아동, 위탁부모, 친부모에게 제공된 서비스의 양과 아동 발달성과 간의 관계를 파악하였다. 방법: 본 연구는 2019 가정위탁패널 1-2차년도 조사에 참여한 261명 아동에 대한 10개월 간의사례관리 기록(서비스제공일지)과 설문조사를 통해 측정된 그들의 발달성과를 분석하였다. 서비스제공일지 내용 분석을 위해서는 빅데이터 분석방법 중 키워드 빈도분석, 토픽모델링 분석등을 활용하였으며 서비스 제공 양과 아동 발달성과 간의 관계는 회귀분석을 통해 확인하였다. 결과: 서비스제공일지 분석 결과, 우선 위탁유형 별로 제공된 서비스 종류에 있어 큰 차이가없음을 알 수 있었다. 키워드분석 및 토픽모델링 분석 결과, 여성 양육자에 대한 키워드와 토픽이주되게 드러나 가정위탁의 주양육자는 여성이라고 인식된다는 점과 가정위탁 사례관리 기록이아동 중심보다는 양육자 중심으로 기술된다는 것을 파악할 수 있었다. 또한, 일반위탁의 경우친족위탁에서 나타나지 않던 ‘친가정서비스’, ‘자조모임’, ‘공적자원연계’ 등이 제공일지의 토픽으로 등장하였다. 각 서비스 종류의 양이 아동발달에 미친 영향을 보면, 전화상담이 많이 제공될수록 자아존중감, 우울·불안, 위축, 공격성에, 자립지원서비스는 위축에 각각 영향을 미치는것으로 나타났다. 결론: 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 가정위탁 사례관리 개선 및 사례관리 기록 체계 개선방안에대하여 논하였다.Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the status of foster care case management and the relationship between case management and children's developmental outcomes. Methods: This study analyzed the contents of case management records of ten months of 261 foster care children who participated in the second wave survey of the 2019 foster care panel. In addition, the study merged data pertaining to the service provisions and survey results which measured children’s developmental outcomes. Results: As big data analysis, we used the keyword frequency analysis and topic modeling analysis methods. To analyze the relationship between service provision amounts and children's developmental outcomes, a partial correlation analysis was utilized. The results of the big data analysis were as follows. Firstly, there were no significant differences according to the types of foster care. Secondly, case management records showed that the main caregivers for children were women regardless of the type of foster care. Thirdly, the results of the topic modeling analysis revealed that ‘family home service’, ‘self-help groups’, and ‘links to public services’ were the main topics in terms of services provided only in non-kinship foster care groups. The results of the regression analysis showed that when more ‘telephone counseling’ and ‘services for independent living’ were provided, better outcomes in children's self-esteem, depression/anxiety, social withdrawal, and aggression could be expected. Conclusions: Based on these results, practice and policy implications were discussed to improve foster care case management.

The future of artificial intelligence in neurosurgery: A narrative review.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms are on the tremendous rise for being incorporated into the field of neurosurgery. AI and ML algorithms are different from other technological advances as giving the capability for the computer to learn, reason, and problem-solving skills that a human inherits. This review summarizes the current use of AI in neurosurgery, the challenges that need to be addressed, and what the future holds. A literature review was carried out with a focus on the use of AI in the field of neurosurgery and its future implication in neurosurgical research. The online literature on the use of AI in the field of neurosurgery shows the diversity of topics in terms of its current and future implications. The main areas that are being studied are diagnostic, outcomes, and treatment models. Wonders of AI in the field of medicine and neurosurgery hold true, yet there are a lot of challenges that need to be addressed before its implications can be seen in the field of neurosurgery from patient privacy, to access to high-quality data and overreliance on surgeons on AI. The future of AI in neurosurgery is pointed toward a patient-centric approach, managing clinical tasks, and helping in diagnosing and preoperative assessment of the patients.

Decoding Vietnam's Foreign Policy After the Thirteenth National Party Congress: Process, Continuity, and Adjustment

AbstractAs the third decade of the twenty-first century begins, Vietnam embarks on a more advanced phase of national development and international integration, with a greater emphasis on foreign policy as part of the country's overall national defence and development strategy. This informs greater expectations about shifts in Vietnam's foreign policy perception and discourse in pursuit of national interests and the regime's legitimacy amidst major domestic and international developments. This article analyses the making, in terms of processes and actors, and the evolution, in terms of themes and directions, of Vietnam's foreign policy under the Thirteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, which was held in early 2021. The article argues that while embedding continuity with what the country has been pursuing since its renovation process (known as Doi Moi) started in the mid-1980s, Vietnam's foreign policy under the Thirteenth Party Congress is crafted on a broader base of domestic consensus and features new dimensions, implying stronger domestic support for Hanoi's conduct of foreign affairs and a Vietnamese nation brand with greater visibility and contribution in the regional and global arenas in the coming years.

Themes and Tones of Blog Posts about Animal Agriculture and Protein Production

Research on blogs’ role in public relations about animal agriculture production is limited at best. This case study set out to describe the characteristics of selected bloggers’ writing about protein-related topics and issues, with a special focus on how the protein industry was represented, what themes were most common, and what the tonal characteristics of the blog posts were. Researchers used a content analysis approach to describe the content of 37 blog posts from eight purposively selected blogs that contained posts about protein-related topics. The content analysis showed at least three types of blogs about protein—organizational, which included meat industry organizations as well as activist groups that seek to effect changes in the protein industry; professional, which included blog entries by experts (such as dieticians) representing their own opinions; and personal, which included lifestyle bloggers who were not experts but who provided information to readers on a variety of topics. In terms of themes, four prominent overarching themes were identified by coders, including environment, consumption of protein, alternative protein sources, and alternative dieting. Tones associated with the environmental theme were mostly negative toward the protein industry. Tones associated with the consumption of protein were mostly positive toward the industry. Tones in the blog entries about alternative protein sources and alternative dieting were mixed—both positive and negative toward the protein industry.

The SDGs: A change agenda shaping the future of business and humanity at large

The <scp>SDGs</scp>: A change agenda shaping the future of business and humanity at large

영유아 부모교육 이론과 연구동향을 통해 본 방향 탐색

Objectives This study aims to present guidelines for parent education through the exploration of theories, programs, and research trends. Methods The theories and programs related to the education of parents of young children were reviewed, and a total of 143 domestic journals were analyzed. Results Results Five theories and four programs related to parent education were compared and analyzed, and the results of analysis of trends in domestic academic journals related to parent education were presented by research period, research method, and research topic. 1) Research on education of parents of young children has continued to increase since 2000. 2) In terms of research methods, quantitative studies were mainly conducted, and investigatory research studies and program development studies were the most frequent. In the second phase, qualitative research increased markedly. 3) In terms of themes, during the first phase, many studies were conducted in relation to parent education programs, whereas during the second phase, many studies were conducted in relation to the social aspects of parent education. Conclusions The direction of education proposed for parents of young children derived through the exploration of parent education theories, programs and research trends is the strengthening of each of the following: expert-parent cooperative parent education; diversification of parent education according to changes in family form; parent education focused on young children of a future society; sustainable development parent education; reinforcement of preliminary parental education. In addition, a practical alternative to early childhood institution- centered parental education was suggested. The results of this study is intended to provide direction for future research on parent education, provide practical guidelines for parent education in early childhood education institutions, give policy direction in the education of parents of young children, and serve as the impetus for finding a solution for the low fertility rate problem.

Lippmann’s triangular relationship on the crime scene: Pseudo-environments convicting the innocent

Lippmann noted that analyses of public opinion must start ‘by recognizing the triangular relationship between the scene of action, the human picture of that scene, and the human response to that picture working itself out upon the scene of action’. This is certainly the case for crime scenes. The majority of the public will never be a victim of serious crime, and many people will not have close contact with law enforcement and the court system. Hence, much of what is learnt about crime is from exposure to news reports and depictions in popular media. Lippmann noted that crime is among the most important topics in terms of news output. Two case studies of persons who were initially convicted and later exonerated provide examples of how journalists report on eyewitness testimony when those eyewitness reports formed the main evidence for the prosecution. These case studies also provided opportunities to explore how pseudo-environments were developed by journalists to signify that the wrongfully convicted individuals were indeed guilty after such a jury verdict – without much, if any, reference to the possibility that those individuals were convicted based on witness misidentification.

Analysis of Public Agenda during Covid-19 Pandemics Based on Turkish and English Tweets Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Hypothesis Testing

In this study, Turkish and English tweets through Twitter Application Program Interface (API) between 1-31 January 2021 are analyzed with respect to Covid-19. The collected tweets are preprocessed, labeled with the Vader Sentiment library, and then analyzed by topic modeling with Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. The analysis show that the most frequently mentioned word is “vaccine/aşı” after “Covid”. The topics modelled in the study are grouped into themes and the themes are seen to be similar in both languages, which means that the Turkish and world agenda are not very different in terms of themes in pandemics. Moreover, hypothesis tests are conducted to understand whether language and time period are related to sentiment class. The results show that the Turkish people are more neutral about the Covid-19 issue than other people in the world during the given period of time. Moreover, independent of the language, there are more negative and neutral tweets in the first half of January 2021, whereas there are more positive tweets in the second half of the month. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to analyze Covid-19 related tweets in two languages to compare the local and global agendas using topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and hypothesis testing methods.

Incorporating soft information from financial news media for management decisions in dynamic business environments

Because the nature of numerical information is intuitive and comprehensible, it has been widely used to form a basis for decision making, yet numerical information based on historical principle does not reflect messages about future corporate performance. To confront this issue, one may consider textual information that can transmit future corporate potential without any hysteresis. The key point is how to digest an extensive amount of textual information and identify those topics most likely to precede changes in operation status. Topic modeling can categorize these textual disclosures based on their underlying content and help examine which topics have a strong relevance to corporate operations. To extract decisive words from textual information, we set up a statistical-based approach with objectivity as opposed to frequently used heuristics (i.e., dictionary-based approaches with human involvement). Joint utilization of topic modelling and a statistical-based approach can compress an excessive amount of textual information into a manageable size in a timely manner and further realize a discrepancy among various topics in terms of relevance and influence on corporate operations. Our results benefit managers and current and future investors in how to structure regulatory filings and how word choices are decisive to them in their decision judgments.

A Feminist Dialogic Reading of the New Woman: Love, Female Desire, and Family in The Virgin and the Gypsy by D. H. Lawrence and in The Tragedy of Demetrio by Hanna Mina

This paper explores the depiction of female characters as New Women in a comparative analysis of two selected short stories by two seemingly anti-feminist authors; D. H. Lawrence in England and Hanna Mina in Syria. I argue that these short stories signal the need for a new perspective, analyzing how these two authors challenged the conventional fictional treatment of womanhood and created complex female heroines struggling against restrictive social roles and values. Examining these selected narratives, “The Virgin and the Gypsy” by D. H. Lawrence and in “The Tragedy of Demetrio” by Hanna Mina, sets forth an unexpected area of comparison between English and Arabic literature with a specific interest in the construction of New Woman identity at the turn of the century, namely the fragmented and complex presentations of the heroines’ inner struggle between the traditional female roles and their aspirations for a freer, more fluid identity. A close reading will, therefore, bring out certain similarities in terms of themes and style that call for a Bakhtinian insight into dialogism to account for the fragmented character of the New Woman in both texts.

Effect Of Ball Milling Time on Microstructural Properties of Mg/MgO

Magnesium and its alloys are among the important research topics in terms of low density, large damping capacity, recyclability, and dimensional stability. The contact of Magnesium with oxygen easily causes the formation of Magnesium oxide. In this study, the Magnesium metal purchased in powder form was grinded by mechanical milling method for various hours. The effect of milling times on Mg/MgO powder composite formation was investigated. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of the samples were examined and Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) analysis were performed.

معالجة البرامج الحوارية التلفزيونية لمظاهر التطرف

تسعى هذه الدراســـة لمعرفة كيفية وطبيعة المعالجة الاعلامية وطبيعتها والتي تقدمها البرامج الحوارية التلفزيونية للموضوعات والقضايا المرتبطة بمظاهر التطرف. وتنتمي الدراسة الى البحوث الوصفية، وقد اســـتخدم الباحث المنهج المسحي- التحليلي، اذ قام بتحليل مضمون حلقات برنامجي اوكار الظلام في قناة العراقية الاخبارية وبرنامج اسلام حر في قناة الحرة لعام 2019 بمعدل 25 حلقه من كل برنامج، وتم اختيار مجتمع البحث والعينة بشكل قصدي لأنها تغطي مشكلة البحث واهدافه.&#x0D; وقد خلصت الدراسة الى مجموعة من الاستنتاجات نورد اهمها: &#x0D; &#x0D; الحوارات المتعددة في حلقات البرنامجين بينت مفهوم التطرف وانواعه ومظاهره وتفكيك منظومته الفكرية وبيان انحرافها عن نهج الاسلام المحمدي وبيان اسباب هذه الظاهرة.&#x0D; وظف البرنامجان أطرا عدة لمعالجة موضوعات التطرف الديني وكانت اطر الصراع واسناد المسؤولية هي الاكثر استخداما ثم اطر الاهتمامات الانسانية والجوانب الاخلاقية.&#x0D; استخدام أليات البروز والانتقاء بشكل كبير وكذلك استخدام اليات الاغفال والاستبعاد، وغالبا ما تكون هذه الاليات متلازمة في عملية التأطير، فإبراز عناصر معينة يستلزم اغفال اخرى.&#x0D; أكد البرنامجان على استضافة المفكرين والباحثين المختصين في هكذا مجالات وذوي الخبرة.&#x0D; عالج البرنامجان الموضوعات المرتبطة بالتطرف عن طريق بيان مفاسد ظاهرة التطرف ومخاطرها بتفاصيلها كلها وملابساتها ومحاولة خلق رأي عام مناهض للتطرف، لكن هذه المعالجة بالرغم من ايجابياتها لم تصل الى مرحلة التكامل المطلوب فهي لم تخلُ من تأثيرات القناعات الايدولوجية وتوجهات القائمين على هذه البرامج وسياسة القنوات الراعية والباثة.&#x0D; اتفق البرنامجان في اغلب الموضوعات التي طرحاها للحوار وكانت الاختلافات قليلة نسبيا.&#x0D;

Subject matter and methodological competencies of mathematics teachers revealed in the digital transformation of education

Introduction. Creating conditions and opportunities for self-realization and reveal of each person’s talent in the conditions of digital transformation actualized the problems of improving the quality and competitiveness of Russian education in the modern world. The priority of developing the competencies of a teacher of general education organization at different stages of professional career was also determined. The purpose of this article is to monitor and analyze the formation of subject matter and methodological competencies of teachers of mathematics, revealed in the process of teaching activities in the conditions of digital transformation of continuing teacher education. Materials and methods. The survey involved 919 mathematics teachers from 7 regions of the Russian Federation. The survey considered such characteristics of the respondents as place of work, amount of workload, gender, age, teaching experience. Results of the study. The research showed the following professional deficits of the surveyed mathematics teachers in the area of subject matter and methodical competencies, manifested in the conditions of digital transformation of education: from 20% to 55% of teachers have difficulties in organizing subject teaching in different conditions of transferring typical algorithms to a new situation, about 25% have problems when analyzing educational and life situations that require application of mathematical apparatus, 34% do not know the ways of criterial evaluation of learning outcomes About 20% of the teachers with up to 10 years of experience show insufficient ability to select subject and meta-disciplinary content of the learning material required to solve mathematical problems, as well as the ability to build logical reasoning in mathematical contexts together with students, which is a potentially problematic area. Conclusion. Several recommendations were given based on the results of the conducted survey of teachers. Monitoring of the formation of professional subject matter and methodological competencies of teachers of mathematics should be systematic in nature and have clear range of tools. It is advisable to conduct a separate monitoring of the formation of professional competencies of students of the 3rd-5th courses, studying on the basic educational programs of training future teachers at the bachelor level. It is necessary to conduct a more in-depth analysis of problematic topics in terms of the identified professional deficits and to develop and implement individual and group programs of methodological support for teachers based on this analysis, including professional development and professional retraining, in order to eliminate the identified deficits with the objectives of digital transformation of continuing teacher education. It is necessary to actively implement comprehensive programs to develop the system of teaching mentoring at the regional and general education levels.

The Skin of Our Teeth, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland

<i>The Skin of Our Teeth</i>, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland

PAK-US ALLIANCE ON WAR OF TERROR: EVOLUTION OF PAKISTANI CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE WAKE OF INCREASED VIOLENT EXTREMISM

This paper presents the findings of exploratory research that attempts to establish the relationship between the Pakistan-United States of America alliance in the post-9/11 era and increased violent extremism in Pakistan. Moreover, its efforts to link the rise of violent extremism with the evolution of Pakistani contemporary artwork – demonstrate greater political activism. Pakistan emerged as a frontline state and key non-NATO ally of the US and the West for the War of Terror. The study offers a perspective on changes in the artwork in terms of themes and messages. The study findings suggest that Pakistan’s participation in the US-led War on Terror did work to transform the political and religious sentiments, having security implications across Pakistan. The most profound changes are evident in terms of violent extremisms in particular suicide bombing and the State’s response in waging military operations against extremist elements. The changing landscape did influence the societal sentiments and heightened skepticism of the Pakistan-US partnership. The mounting skepticism and antagonism worked to influence the artistic expressions with the rise of political activism in contemporary artwork. The artists used the visual artwork (of painting) to express their political ideas, which demonstrates a marked departure from pre-9/11 artwork. The study’s findings suggest that the artwork became more critical of the changing realities and questioned both the government and the extremist elements, including Pakistan's relationship with the US. The study concludes that the Pakistan-US partnership did result in hardening the extremist views and as a consequence rise of violent extremism. And in turn, it changed the contemporary artwork in terms of themes and messages and the emergence of political artwork in Pakistan. Keywords: War on Terror, Violent Extremism, Pakistani Contemporary Art, Political Imageries.