Hasil untuk "Information resources (General)"

Hajar Ebrahimi, Fahimeh Babalhavaeji, Dariush Matlabi et al.

Objective: This study aims to investigate the factors influencing professional publishing and propose a model for professional book publishing in Iran. Method: The research was conducted using a survey method with a researcher-developed questionnaire. The statistical population consisted of professional publishing managers in the country, totaling 581 publishers, from which 231 were selected as a sample based on Cochran's formula. Ultimately, 211 questionnaires were completed and analyzed. Data processing was carried out using SPSS software, employing exploratory the factor analysis and multiple regression test. Findings: Based on exploratory factor analysis, nine factors have been identified as influential in professional publishing: the economics of publishing, the supply and display of publishing products, government support and backing, adherence to copyright, publishing evaluation and auditing, advertising, marketing and branding, publishing management, and the creation of publishing content. Additionally, five factors have been recognized as dimensions of professional publishing, which include technical elements, cultural and literary circles and centers, authors and audiences, electronic systems, and distribution and marketing elements. Ultimately, in the regression model, five independent variables were included in the equation due to their significance level being below .05. Conclusion: The findings of this research contribute to enhancing the awareness and understanding of audiences regarding publishing processes. They also assist publishers and industry managers in recognizing successful trends and existing challenges within the field, as well as in formulating supportive policies and strategies for publishing by relevant authorities.

Chun-Wei Huang, Si Ying Yau, Chiao-Ling Kuo et al.

Study region: The Choushui River Fan, Taiwan. Study focus: Groundwater overdraft has led to not only groundwater depletion but also environmental disasters, such as subsidence and seawater intrusion in the Choushui River Alluvial Fan, Taiwan. The influence of land subsidence is gradually shifting from the coast to the center of the fan and threatening Taiwan high-speed rail. However, it remains a great challenge to manage and model the groundwater aquifer due to numerous unregulated wells. This study maps and locates private wells using deep learning technologies. We trained and validated convolutional-based deep learning neural networks (DNNs), using street view images. We applied the DNNs to a land subsidence area along the Taiwan high-speed rail, termed the Golden Corridor in Taiwan. The results showed that DNNs can recognize pumping wells with at least 90% accuracy. The testing cases showed their capability to recall all the pumping wells in three road segments along the Golden Corridor. Finally, we spatially estimated potential pumping of a subsidence area using the fine-trained DNNs. New hydrological insights for the region: Given the prevalence of unknown private pumping in the Choushui River Fan, our image data-driven computer vision approach not only eases labor-intensive private well investigations but also advances hydrologic understanding for groundwater modeling. We enhance comprehension of unknown sinks and provide their spatial distribution to improve groundwater modeling.

Minh Ly Duc, Petr Bilik

Electronic equipment is indispensable in the industrial 4.0 era. Electromagnetic Compatibility issues with electronic devices are increasingly concerning. The phenomenon of electromagnetic field compatibility is getting higher and higher. The operating quality of electronic equipment is more and more adversely affected, such as by the phenomenon of hesitation in operation for the operating structures, the generation of fire and explosion of electrical equipment, the loss of information, and many other negative effects. This paper discusses the relationship between Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) scoring, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) scoring, and Electromagnetic Susceptibility (EMS) scoring with the performance quality of electronic devices (QUA). We perform reviews on regulatory institutions governing Electromagnetic Compatibility on electronic devices. To evaluate the proposed Electromagnetic Compatibility structure and its relationship to electronic devices, we proposed to use the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) method. The research results of the model show that the electronic device layout conditions and the lack of systematic conditions have a negative impact on the operating quality of the electronic equipment, while the conditions on equipment techniques, scientific and technological resources have positive and significant impacts.

Ya Yang, Lichao Xiu, Xuejiao Chen et al.

Abstract This study aimed to examine the influence of emotional media information on information-processing mechanisms in the current post-truth era. A cognitive conflict monitoring and evaluation (CCME) model was proposed to explore news audiences’ attention and implicit attitudes. The study had a 2 (information type, emotional vs. neutral) × 2 (condition, compatible vs. incompatible) × 3 (electrode position: Fz vs. Cz vs. Pz) design, and an implicit association test (IAT) was administered, with event-related potential (ERP) data collected. The results revealed that emotional information evoked different information-processing mechanisms than neutral information. First, in the early conflict-monitoring stage, emotional information altered arousal, and more attentional resources were allocated to semantic processing. Second, in the late evaluation stage, the lack of attentional resources (due to prior allocation) reduced the late-stage evaluation of the target stimuli by participants. Thus, in this post-truth era, attentional resources may be exhausted by processing emotional information in unnecessary media cues irrelevant to facts, inducing early cognitive conflict and prolonged late-stage evaluation of news articles.

Ekaterina G. Nikulina, Ekaterina K. Starkova, Vera G. Ryabchikova et al.

Problem statement . The modernization of higher education is a good ground for the use of electronic resources in ensuring accessibility, continuity and quality of teaching foreign languages. The use of interactive tools (simulators, flash cards, virtual whiteboards) meets the requirements to educational training programs for students of pedagogical directions and the challenges of modern society. A flash card is a card with a word, a concept, an image on one side and a translation on the other. The study aimed at substantiating the effectiveness of the use of flash cards for the formation of foreign language competence of future teachers. Methodology . Theoretical and methodological analysis and generalization were used to determine trends in the development of language education, the inclusion of informatization tools in foreign language activities and professional communication. The online platform Quizlet was chosen to work with ready-made flash cards and to create new thematic sets in digital format. The questions for the control work grouped into two blocks “Digital educational technologies” (50 points) and “Foreign language in professional communication” (50 points) were compiled. The study involved 54 students from Vyatka State University (the direction of 44.03.05 “Pedagogical education”, with two training profiles, bachelor's degree level). Pearson's chi-squared criterion was applied at the stage of statistical processing of the results. Results . The system of working with flash cards in the foreign language professional communication of future teachers is described: the study of the Quizlet functionality, working with ready-made sets of cards, automating and improving lexical units, developing their own thematic sets. In the course of independent work and network collaboration the students of the experimental group used Flashcards, Speller, Scatter, Quizlet Live modes. Statistically significant differences in the qualitative changes that occurred in the level of formation of foreign language competence were determined. Conclusion. The use of flash cards in the preparation of students of pedagogical specialties has a significant didactic potential for the development of their foreign language competence: the effect of immersion, competitiveness and obtaining positive emotions; resources for independent language learning in extracurricular time; overcoming the language barrier in the virtual gaming environment of information interaction. However, there are some drawbacks: monotony of forms for tests, lack of opportunity to practice pronunciation, partial support of operating modes in the mobile version.

Ubaldo Jorge Augusto de Filipe André, Ana Paula Sarmento do Santos, Onelis Portuondo Savón et al.

Context: Today, quite a few environmental problems require swift responses toward adjustment, mitigation, and sustainability. Accordingly, how could university students acquire effective environmental education so they can play their social roles in balance with environmental protection? Aim: To recommend methodological actions to contribute to student education at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the University of Namibe, Angola. Methods: Consequently, this study took from qualitative methods of social research. Methods and techniques, such as analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive, and documentary review for processing information about environmental education and climate change in university education. Results: Five methodological guidelines for environmental education were established. They were inserted in subject Physics II, in the first year of the Marine Biology Bachelor Degree, with six general actions that link theory and practice, through the teaching process in the degrees of Oceanography, Marine Biology, and Marine Resources. The study demonstrated the fulfillment of learning objectives related to Sustainable Development Goals No. 13 and 14, based on UNESCO (2017) guidelines. Conclusions: There is a potential for students to acquire environmental information through methodological actions by the staff, in terms of subject preparation at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the University of Namibe.

Marie V. Brasseur, Jonas J. Astrin, Matthias F. Geiger et al.

Abstract Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences are often found as byproducts in next‐generation sequencing (NGS) datasets that were originally created to capture genomic or transcriptomic information of an organism. These mtDNA sequences are often discarded, wasting this valuable sequencing information. We developed MitoGeneExtractor, an innovative tool which allows to extract mitochondrial protein coding genes (PCGs) of interest from NGS libraries through multiple sequence alignments of sequencing reads to amino acid references. General references, for example on order level are sufficient for mining mitochondrial PCGs. In a case study, we applied MitoGeneExtractor to recently published genomic datasets of 1993 birds and were able to extract complete or nearly complete sequences for all 13 mitochondrial PCGs for a large proportion of libraries. Compared to an existing assembly guided sequence reconstruction algorithm, MitoGeneExtractor was faster and substantially more sensitive. We compared COI sequences mined with MitoGeneExtractor to COI databases. Mined sequences show a high sequence similarity and correct taxonomic assignment between the recovered sequence and the assigned morphospecies in most samples. In some cases of incongruent taxonomic assignments, we found evidence for contamination in NGS libraries. MitoGeneExtractor allows a fast extraction of mitochondrial PCGs from a wide range of NGS datasets. We recommend to routinely harvest and curate mitochondrial sequence information from genomic resources. MitoGeneExtractor output can be used to identify contaminated NGS libraries and to validate the species identity of the sequenced animal based on the extracted COI sequences.

Jimmy Martin‐Delgado, Carla Tovar, Israel Pazmiño et al.

Abstract Introduction Diabetes is the second leading cause of death in Ecuador, as 79% of the indigenous population live in rural areas that are difficult to access and have below‐average health resources. The objective of this study was to define person‐centred indicators to monitor the care received by patients with diabetes in the indigenous population. Method Qualitative research combining three focus groups (with the participation of 10 patients and 18 professionals) to capture relevant information and Delphi to reach a consensus on the pertinence, relevance, and feasibility of a set of indicators was conducted. Two rounds of the Delphi technique were performed, with the participation of 64 professionals in the first round (90% response rate) and 34 in the second round (53% response rate). Results A total of 23 indicators were identified which were distributed in the previously identified six dimensions (cosmovision, accessibility, adaptability to cosmovision, resources, equipment, community care, quality culture and results). Conclusions The consensus on the set of indicators among all the participants in this study strengthened the results obtained. These indicators have considered the feasibility and relevance and aimed to achieve comprehensive person‐centred care for diabetes among the indigenous population in Ecuador and possibly the Andean community. Patient or Public Contribution These indicators’ development included patients and caregivers since its conception. During the qualitative phase of this research, relevant information on cultural and social beliefs was gathered directly from the study population to achieve patient‐centred indicators for adequate diabetes care.

Anh Ngoc Hoang, Claire Mahéo, Sandra Mellot et al.

Maryam Fallah, Ahmad Reza Pirali Zefrehei, Seyyed Aliakbar Hedayati et al.

Urgent is growing to have reliable information from the country's water resources. In recent years, data mining models such as artificial neural network (ANN), gene expression programming, Bayesian network, machine algorithms, such as a support vector machine (SVM), and Random Forest have found widespread use in the field of simulation and prediction of components in aquatic ecosystems. Variables vary greatly on water quality parameters (due to nonlinear and complex relationships). Therefore, conventional methods are not eligible to solve water resource quality management problems. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of simulating the spatial and temporal alterations in water quality parameters during the period 1985-2014 in Anzali Wetland using a SVM model. Based on principal components analysis (PCA), the parameters EC, TDS, pH and BOD5 were selected for analysis in this study. Spearman correlation was calculated to determine the inputs of the model and the correlation coefficient(CC) between the water quality parameters. According to the results of the correlation table analysis, 8 types of structures including different inputs were used to predict the parameters with machine vector. In the next stage, 70% of the data were used to train, while the rest were used for analyzing the models. Criteria for determination coefficient (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE) were used for evaluation and model performance. The results revealed that in verification stage among different used models, the pH had the highest accuracy (0.95), while the lowest RMSE (0.20). Trend of alterations for optimal model of each parameter on a time scale, indicated an adequate estimation at most points. In general, the results exhibited the appropriate accuracy and acceptable performance of the SVM model in simulating water parameters.

Meirong ZHANG, Mengting HAO, Chuang WANG et al.

With the vigorous development of space communication technology and the continuous advancement of space-integrated-ground information network, satellite communication networks resource management and control is becoming more and more complex.Due to the scarcity of satellite resources, the slowness of resource scheduling compared to the status refreshing, and uneven distribution of business, eff ciently managing resources has become one of urgent problems to be solved in the development of satellite communications.In view of the heterogeneous network system architecture of high and low orbit satellites, the challenges, its network resource management and control facing, were analyzed.Integrating on the basis of traditional management and control architecture, the collaborative management and control architecture based on group management was introduced.The management strategy of satellite network virtual resource pool was explained to relieved resources scarcity.Resource scheduling algorithms based on deep reinforcement learning(DRL) was introduced to solved the mismatch problem of traditional scheduling methods in complex environments.Beam-hopping technology was adopted to deal with the two-dimensional unevenness of service distribution in time and space.

Md. Nasif Ahsan, Amina Khatun, Md. Sariful Islam et al.

Cyclone early warning systems are the primary sources of information that enable people to develop a preparedness strategy to mitigate the hazards of cyclones to lives and livelihoods. In Bangladesh, cyclone early warnings have significantly decreased the number of cyclone related fatalities over the last two decades. Nevertheless, several challenges remain for existing early warning services (EWS), urging for both technical and non-technical improvements in the said services. Given limited financial resources, the economic efficiency assessment of the improvement is highly important. Therefore, this study aims to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) for improved warning services by considering the at-risk households' trade-off between proposed improved EWS and existing EWS in coastal Bangladesh. Applying systematic random sampling, 490 respondent households were selected from Khulna, Satkhira, and Barguna districts, with whom a choice experiment (CE) was performed. The CE was designed by incorporating impact-based scenarios for improved EWS. As analytical tools, Conditional and Mixed-Logistic regression models were used that derived the WTP for improved EWS attributes. Empirical results show that the WTP of an at-risk household for improved EWS was estimated at Bangladeshi Taka BDT 468 (≈ US$ 5.57) per year, implying respondents were ready to pay for the improvement of the warning attributes, including precise information of the cyclones landfall time with possible impacts, more frequent radio forecasts, and voice messages in the local dialects over mobile phones. A revenue stream for improved EWS was developed, implying investments in EWS would be a no-regrets approach. This study concludes with four policy recommendations on mitigating the existing challenges for improving EWS in Bangladesh. Keywords: Cyclone, Bangladesh, Early warning, Disaster risk, Willingness-to-pay, Choice experiment

Radnović Branislav S., Ilić Milena P.

Today in the new economic and geopolitical circumstances, in the era of globalization with which the world is affected, each individual country has the difficult task to allocate for something and on this basis quality economic and political positions. The Republic of Serbia, as well as any other small country, can and must offer only the best that it has. The people who are coming out as a product of an educational system, which for decades has graced these space are definitely the best of all what this country has always had. However, the situation in the Europe and in the international scene is constantly changing, many other countries our's competitors saw that to big countries may be in the field of interest only if they offer two things: either work or knowledge, or preferably both. Therefore, national education policy makers must continually take attention, except the needs of economic actors which are now present on the Serbian market, on the supply and demand in the domestic and international labor market. It takes ever greater speed and flexibility in creating new educational profiles that will monitor dynamic changes in the economic environment caused by information technology innovation and meet the needs of innovative companies for new human resources. Because, in this way the Republic of Serbia will be interesting in the economically and politically sphare and through this work we want to show the importance of qualified human factor to create a comparative marketing advantages of the Republic of Serbia, in the Europe and in the world market too.

Yan Yu, Jianhua He, Wenwu Tang et al.

Urban agglomeration has become the predominant form of urbanization in China. In this process, spatial interaction evidently played a significant role in promoting the collaborative development of these correlated cities. The traditional urban model’s focus on individual cities should be transformed to an urban system model. In this study, a multi-scale simulation model has been proposed to simulate the agglomeration development process of the Wuhan urban agglomeration area by embedding the multi-scale spatial interaction into the transition rule system of cellular automata (CA). A system dynamic model was used to predict the demand for new urban land at an aggregated urban agglomeration area scale. A data field approach was adopted to measuring the interaction of intercity at city scale. Neighborhood interaction was interpreted with a logistic regression method at the land parcel scale. Land use data from 1995, 2005, and 2015 were used to calibrate and evaluate the model. The simulation results show that there has been continuing urban growth in the Wuhan urban agglomeration area from 1995 to 2020. Although extension-sprawl was the predominant pattern of urban spatial expansion, the trend of extensive growth to intensive growth is clear during the entire period. The spatial interaction among these cities has been reinforced, which guided the collaborative development and formed the regional urban system network.

Daniel M. Stout, Alexander J. Shackman, Walker S. Pedersen et al.

Abstract Dispositional anxiety is a trait-like phenotype that confers increased risk for a range of debilitating neuropsychiatric disorders. Like many patients with anxiety disorders, individuals with elevated levels of dispositional anxiety are prone to intrusive and distressing thoughts in the absence of immediate threat. Recent electrophysiological research suggests that these symptoms are rooted in the mis-allocation of working memory (WM) resources to threat-related information. Here, functional MRI was used to identify the network of brain regions that support WM for faces and to quantify the allocation of neural resources to threat-related distracters in 81 young adults. Results revealed widespread evidence of mis-allocation. This was evident in both face-selective regions of the fusiform cortex and domain-general regions of the prefrontal and parietal cortices. This bias was exaggerated among individuals with a more anxious disposition. Mediation analyses provided compelling evidence that anxious individuals’ tendency to mis-allocate WM resources to threat-related distracters is statistically explained by heightened amygdala reactivity. Collectively, these results provide a neurocognitive framework for understanding the pathways linking anxious phenotypes to the development of internalizing psychopathology and set the stage for developing improved intervention strategies.

Joshua Mark Galanter, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez, Christopher R Gignoux et al.

Most individuals throughout the Americas are admixed descendants of Native American, European, and African ancestors. Complex historical factors have resulted in varying proportions of ancestral contributions between individuals within and among ethnic groups. We developed a panel of 446 ancestry informative markers (AIMs) optimized to estimate ancestral proportions in individuals and populations throughout Latin America. We used genome-wide data from 953 individuals from diverse African, European, and Native American populations to select AIMs optimized for each of the three main continental populations that form the basis of modern Latin American populations. We selected markers on the basis of locus-specific branch length to be informative, well distributed throughout the genome, capable of being genotyped on widely available commercial platforms, and applicable throughout the Americas by minimizing within-continent heterogeneity. We then validated the panel in samples from four admixed populations by comparing ancestry estimates based on the AIMs panel to estimates based on genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. The panel provided balanced discriminatory power among the three ancestral populations and accurate estimates of individual ancestry proportions (R² > 0.9 for ancestral components with significant between-subject variance). Finally, we genotyped samples from 18 populations from Latin America using the AIMs panel and estimated variability in ancestry within and between these populations. This panel and its reference genotype information will be useful resources to explore population history of admixture in Latin America and to correct for the potential effects of population stratification in admixed samples in the region.

Ivo Volt

Mutaek Lim, Jiyoung Moon, Yeongsue Park et al.

NGII(National Geography Information Institute) of Korea consigned KIGAM(Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources) to do absolute geomagnetic measurements on 32 geomagnetic repeat stations evenly distributed on the southern part of Korean Peninsula in the year 2010 and to produce geomagnetic field components' distribution maps for the year 2010.0. The result of the processing of the measured data, i. e., the geomagnetic field components' distribution, shows a near similarity with that calculated from IGRF-11 although the latter was processed without any real geomagnetic data measured on the Korean Peninsula as an input. This implies that we installed the repeat stations on sites with good geomagnetic conditions and that our result in accordance with the IGRF represents well the regional distribution trend, i. e., it is dominated by relatively long wavelength components.

Testa James

Descreve o processo de seleção de revistas científicas adotado pelo Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) para incorporar publicações em sua base de dados, abordando critérios como periodicidade, conteúdo editorial, internacionalidade e análise de citação.

Macias-Chapula Cesar A.

O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir o papel da informetria e da cienciometria numa perspectiva nacional e internacional, analisando seu uso e sua prática. Inicialmente, apresenta as definições de bibliometria, cienciometria e informetria para, em seguida, tratar do papel da ciência enquanto um processo social, com o objetivo de identificar as limitações dos indicadores científicos. Algumas dificuldades para o desenvolvimento dos indicadores científicos também são abordadas.