Rani Mohanraj, Shuba Kumar, Sylvia Jayakumar
et al.
Polished white rice (WR), high in refined carbohydrates, the main staple in South India is associated with enhanced risk of diabetes. Brown Rice (BR), with lower glycemic load, high fibre content and micronutrients, is a healthier choice. Two hundred and twelve Persons with Diabetes (PwD) attending a tertiary diabetes care centre in a city in South India responded to a questionnaire documenting types, frequency and reasons for rice consumption, awareness and beliefs about BR. A sub-set of 10, participated in qualitative interviews, which additionally, explored the influence of traditional beliefs on and consumption patterns of rice, barriers to BR consumption and willingness to accept it in their diet. Ninety-three percent reported consuming WR with traditional usage (97 %) being the main reason for its preference. Brand image, grain size, texture and taste, of rice were other decisional considerations. Awareness about health benefits of BR was limited, with 69 % and 51 % believing it to be nutritious and helping to reduce blood sugar respectively. Appearance, texture, taste and cost were deterrents to its use. Over half agreed to switch to BR if they believed it would improve their health. Participants with a shorter duration of diabetes were more willing to change to BR. The study highlights the need to promote greater literacy regarding health benefits of BR and other forms of less polished rice. Larger trials examining the effectiveness of BR viz-a viz other types of less polished rice on blood glucose levels, metabolic factors and nutritional content among PwD are needed.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social sciences (General)
Skyler Hawkins, Jaya Sravani Mandapaka, Logan McCorkendale
et al.
The increasing size of the Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) ecosystem necessitates effective infrastructure and Collision Avoidance (CA) systems to facilitate high-density UAS traffic in urban environments. Unfortunately, current-generation Air Traffic Management (ATM) and CA systems used for crewed aircraft cannot be used with UAS due to scalability issues and operational constraints. This paper introduces a novel UAS intersection called the Roundabout, specifically designed for facilitating UAS traffic in structured airspace. This paper also proposes the methodology for a CA system based on Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications, specifically UAS-to-UAS (U2U) communications, for Tactical Deconfliction (TD) between UAS in real-time. Simulation results demonstrate the system's efficacy in handling the deconfliction process between two quadrotor UAS and can be expected to generalize to deconfliction scenarios involving UAS of all types, given that the proper control systems and trajectory generation methods are available. Overall, these findings highlight the Roundabout's potential for enhancing UAS operations in the National Airspace System (NAS).
Transportation engineering, Transportation and communications
Energy intensity is one of the most important energy feature that has a dramatic value in energy system of Iran. Indeed, Iran is one of the most energy intensive countries in the world and its main reason is related to high energy consumption in household section. In this article, we present a non-linear model that considers three scenarios in management of household energy demand reducing. Therefore, a rational percentage of energy consumption reduction in the household sector, which firstly eliminates the imbalance between energy production and consumption, and secondly, derives a rational amount of profit from various reduction scenarios, will be presented. The mentioned rational profits in this article are obtained from three scenarios. In the first scenario, it is assumed that the percentage reduction in household energy consumption will be allocated to reducing energy demand in the industrial sector, resulting in profits from value-added creation in this sector. In the second scenario, all benefits from reducing energy consumption in the household sector will be devoted to energy exports, yielding profits from this source. Finally, in the third scenario, the reduction in energy consumption will lead to a decrease in energy supply and consequently a reduction in energy supply costs. To conduct a comprehensive study, a combination of the mentioned scenarios has also been modeled and investigated. The model results indicate that with a 25% reduction in household energy consumption in the 2024-2034 timeframe, the energy imbalance will be eliminated, and allocating 5% of this reduction entirely to the industrial sector will result in profits equivalent to $164.18 billion. However, it should be noted that in the considered combined scenarios, the greater the share of the first scenario, the higher the resulting profit, and the optimal point is achieved in the first scenario.
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), Social sciences (General)
El artículo analiza los dilemas respecto de la protección de la población en edad de trabajar. Mediante grupos focales con personas de distintas categorías ocupacionales, indagamos las circunstancias que hacen legítima la protección, las condiciones del merecimiento y los atributos que deberían reunir las intervenciones estatales. El análisis registra un extendido malestar asociado a las dinámicas de precarización, que moviliza demandas de protección. En este marco, los “planes sociales” son cuestionados como estrategia para hacer frente a un mercado que no garantiza inserción laboral ni reconocimiento social.
Innovation serves as the cornerstone for high-quality development in high-tech enterprises, with intelligent development emerging as a central aspect of innovation efforts. However, how intelligent development promotes the innovative development of high-tech enterprises is still a topic of continuous debate and exploration. By integrating enterprise innovation theory and knowledge-based theory, this paper constructs a theoretical framework to examine the influence of intelligent development on high-tech enterprise innovation. Through an analysis of 694 listed high-tech enterprises on China’s manufacturing A-share market from 2013 to 2021, we empirically investigated the effects of mediating mechanisms and moderating effects of intelligent development on high-tech enterprise innovation. The results show that intelligent development significantly boosts high-tech enterprise innovation. Knowledge breadth plays a mediating role in the relationship between intelligent development and high-tech enterprise innovation, indicating that intelligent development promotes high-tech enterprise innovation by enhancing knowledge breadth. Additionally, knowledge absorptive capacity can strengthen the impact of knowledge breadth on high-tech enterprise innovation, that is, the stronger the knowledge absorptive capacity, the greater the impact of knowledge breadth on high-tech enterprise innovation. The conclusion of this paper provides a theoretical basis and practical guidance for high-tech enterprises regarding how to better use intelligent technology for innovation. Relevant enterprises can strengthen their knowledge management and mobility strategies and fully utilize the potential of intelligent technology to achieve more innovative and competitive development.
This research article aims to study the Phitsanulok political movements and behaviors of a political machine in terms of voter mobilization in the year 2023. Research data were collected by a qualitative research method, including documentary research, in-depth interviews of 19 key informants who were involved as a political machine, including participant and non-participant observations. Research findings showed that Thai structural changes (political economy landscape), institutional change (constitutional amendments and a new electoral system), and technological change (social media) connected all political actors in an electoral process into a closer relation. This led to transformative political behaviors of the political machine of Phitsanulok, from personal favoritism, beneficial reciprocity, and patronage system into upholding political ideologies and party favoritism. However, the political machine did not fade away; it adjusted its operations and processes. As a result, the election in Phitsanulok province in 2023 had changed the political machine into the voter mobilization based on the ideology contestation between conservatism and liberalism, at both local and national levels. Each party and its representatives had opportunities to create an 'open' political space that had not been taken by any political groups.
Toplumsal cinsiyet eşitsizliği toplumsal yaşamın bütün katmanlarında gözlemlenebilen bir olgudur. Televizyonda yayınlanan medya ürünleri de toplumsal cinsiyet eşitsizliğinin ve ataerkil ideolojinin yeniden üretilmesi noktasında önemli bir rol oynamaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türk televizyonlarında yüksek reyting oranlarıyla yayınlanan ve geleneksel/muhafazakâr ve seküler/modernist aile dikotomisi üzerinden iki farklı toplumsallaşmayı yansıtan Kızılcık Şerbeti dizisinin toplumsal cinsiyet eşit(siz)liği bağlamında incelenmesidir. Bu doğrultuda yöntem olarak eleştirel söylem analizi seçilmiş ve dizinin dört tema altında toplumsal cinsiyet eşitsizliğini ve ataerkil ideolojiyi yeniden ürettiği anlaşılmıştır. Dizi üzerinden geleneksel/muhafazakâr toplumsallığın kadını ikincil, erkeği ise birincil cins olarak algıladığına; seküler/modernist toplumsallaşmanın ise toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliğine daha fazla vurgu yaptığına yönelik bir anlatının topluma iletildiği görülmüştür. Çalışma, Türk toplumunun büyük bölümüne hızlı şekilde toplumsal cinsiyet eşitsizliğine ve ataerkil ideolojiye yönelik anlatılar sunan Kızılcık Şerbeti’nin bilinen ilk eleştirel söylem analizini gerçekleştirmiştir.
General elections are a mechanism for determining the people's representatives who will occupy the people's representative institutions and elect the president and vice president. The history of General Elections in Indonesia has unique characteristics that are interesting to research, with several elections that have been held since the Old Order era in 1955, the New Order in 1971, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, and 1997, as well as during the ongoing Reformation period. from 1999 to 2019. This research was conducted through literature study with a focus on how general elections were carried out from the beginning of independence until 2019. The results of the research show that elections during the Old Order era could be considered democratic, characterized by the participation of many political parties. However, during the New Order era, this democracy declined along with the dominance of the Soeharto regime. Meanwhile, general elections during the Reformation period, especially in 2004, became more democratic. The 2019 elections were held simultaneously for the first time, although many obstacles occurred in its implementation. The author hopes that this journal will be useful in increasing academic insight regarding the implementation of general elections, as well as providing political learning for the community and input for subsequent elections.
A formal game-theoretic model of an intertwined supply network, in full and simplified versions, is proposed. Conditions for the sustainable development of an active system are presented in general form and then specified to the class of intertwined supply networks. As an illustration, a concise example of the dynamic Cournot duopoly and a detailed example of the model of Social and Private Interests Coordination Engines (SPICE-model) for a marketing network are considered and analytically investigated and sustainability conditions are established. An important conclusion is that the sustainable development of the active system is possible only under the viability conditions satisfied simultaneously with coordinating the interests of all active agents of the system.
As climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, the legal and economic issues of global environmental security deserve high praise. In the area of industrial competitiveness, where the negative effects of global climate change include floods and droughts, forest fires, and rising sea levels, climate change is highly problematic. Climate impacts affect public and private agricultural infrastructure (including the coastal zone), resulting in lost productivity and increased costs for agriculture. The article applies climate change on a global scale in the form of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to determine how the mixtures and emissions of any one entity affect other areas (e.g., individual, community, company or country emissions). Exploring the theoretical and practical premises of climate change as a complex phenomenon, the novelty of this article is that it examines the current framework of the environmental-legal concept, not just the political implications of the legal framework. The research aim of the article lies in two dimensions: the European Union's current climate change policy framework (the climate and energy package, a set of climate change strategies and related policies targeting EU candidate countries); recent environmental operations in Ukraine as an EU candidate country under extraordinary conditions. This article examines recent changes in climate legislation and climate policy in EU member and candidate countries, as well as other highly developed countries, such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. Focusing on the impact of the EU Climate and Energy Package (2020 and 2030), this article examines the main implications of EU climate legislation regulating the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and promoting the role of renewable energy in global energy consumption and energy efficiency in general. As a result of this study, this analysis offers multifaceted conclusions based on the interaction of a number of current administrative acts on climate change and environmental policy on a global scale.
Since China became the world’s leading producer on the world map, China’s environmental conditions have been unfavorable and have long been the main source of damage to health and society. At the same time, in the past two decades, environmental and emission policies have undergone tremendous changes, especially the transition from poor implementation to implementation.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) affects the functioning of the human immune system (HIS). Objectives: To evaluate the predictive role of social support in general health among HIV+ patients, and the moderating role of gender between social support and general health. Methods: Cross-sectional study was carried out at the Jinnah Hospital Lahore, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Association of people living with HIV and AIDS Islamabad, and New Light AIDS control program (NGO) Rawalpindi from February 2019 to March 2020. Berlin Social Support Scale and General Health Questionnaire were used to assess perceived social support and general health among HIV patients. Results: Social support significantly predicted general health components (p < .001), and significant moderating effect of gender (β= -.32, t = 2.49, p<.05) was found between social support and general health among HIV patients. Conclusions: Social support emerged as a protective factor of general health in HIV+ patients in Pakistan that helped them to manage stress and fight with their illness. The high level of social support system tends to decrease general health problems among HIV + patients; however relationship between perceived social support and general health was stronger among women as compared to men.
The aims of this study is to find out TEYL students’ perception and experience in using Cartoon Story Maker and Comic Life in creating short story for young learners and to identify their obstacles and problems in using those applications. This qualitative study has been conducted in a TEYL class in one English Department in West Java. The sample of the study consisted of thirty students. Questionnaires and interviews were used as data collection techniques in this study. The questionnaires were used to collect evidence from students about their experience and perception towards the use of CSM and Comic Life in creating short story for young learners. The questionnaires used in this study focus on exploring students’ experience and perception toward the use CSM and Comic Life in creating short story for young learners, whereas interview was used to explored more the data about obstacles faced by the students in using CSM and Comic Life. The data collected from the respondents were gathered together to be analyzed using qualitative analysis of interactive models. The results of this study are TEYL students have positive perception toward the use of CSM and Comic Life in creating short story for young learners, CSM is easier and more suitable to use than Comic Life in creating story for young learners, and the obstacles faced by students are choosing appropriate template for young learners, writing text in text tool or bubble, and record the voice in audio bubble.
Ali Ghahramani, Ali Ghahramani, Parson Galicia
et al.
In buildings, one or a combination of systems (e.g., central HVAC system, ceiling fan, desk fan, personal heater, and foot warmer) are often responsible for providing thermal comfort to the occupants. While thermal comfort has been shown to differ from person to person and vary over time, these systems are often operated based on prefixed setpoints and schedule of operations or at the request/routine of each individual. This leads to occupants’ discomfort and energy wastes. To enable the improvements in both comfort and energy efficiency autonomously, in this paper, we describe the necessity of an integrated system of sensors (e.g., wearable sensors/infrared sensors), infrastructure for enabling system interoperability, learning and control algorithms, and actuators (e.g., HVAC system setpoints, ceiling fans) to work under a governing central intelligent system. To assist readers with little to no exposure to artificial intelligence (AI), we describe the fundamentals of an intelligent entity (rational agent) and components of its problem-solving process (i.e., search algorithms, logic inference, and machine learning) and provide examples from the literature. We then discuss the current application of intelligent personal thermal comfort systems in buildings based on a comprehensive review of the literature. We finally describe future directions for enabling application of fully automated systems to provide comfort in an efficient manner. It is apparent that improvements in all aspects of an intelligent system are be needed to better ascertain the correct combination of systems to activate and for how long to increase the overall efficiency of the system and improve comfort.
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), City planning
Reseña del libro: Toledo Tello, Sonia (2019). Espacios sociales en una región agraria del norte de Chiapas (siglos XIX-XXI). San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas: CIMSUR-UNAM.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social sciences (General)
Objetivo: con este artículo se busca mostrar de qué manera las cooperativas y las organizaciones de economía solidaria han aportado a través de las microfranquicias solidarias, en los procesos de inclusión social a las víctimas de desplazamiento rural en Colombia. Metodología: se han examinado, además del respaldo teórico y normativo, dos casos de estudio: la microfranquicia “Limestport Nariño” y la microfranquicia solidaria “tierras cafeteras, sabor y origen”. Hallazgo: se pudo conocer no sólo la oportunidad ofrecida por el Estado colombiano para aprovechar las ideas
emprendedoras de los campesinos y campesinas víctimas de desplazamiento, sino el proceso que siguen estas personas en condición de vulnerabilidad, social y económica, para crear sus propias empresas. Conclusión: las microfranquicias solidarias pueden ser una iniciativa que aporta a la inclusión social y a la superación de la pobreza; además, con la ayuda de las comunidades rurales interesadas en el proceso que implica su implementación, se logran modelos de negocio de amplio y rentable crecimiento
Resumo O capitalismo cultural-digital tem como núcleo o processo de digitalização do simbólico. Esse processo abriga quatro fenômenos interdependentes: (1) a consolidação da tecnologia do streaming; (2) a expansão global do uso dos dispositivos digitais móveis, especialmente os smartphones; (3) a convergência digital; (4) o advento e a profusão da Web 2.0, etapa da Internet na qual a maioria dos conteúdos é criada, distribuída, compartilhada e consumida pelos próprios usuários. As interfaces entre esses quatro fenômenos permitiram que as maiores corporações de tecnologias digitais do planeta (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple e Microsoft) também tenham se tornado grandes corporações de arte, cultura e entretenimento, construindo novos modelos de negócios - os serviços culturais-digitais, especialmente a oferta dos serviços por assinatura via streaming. Tendo em vista o cruzamento de diferentes dados quantitativos acerca desses fenômenos, este trabalho objetiva compreender a expansão dos serviços culturais-digitais no Brasil nos últimos dez anos.
Joel Tucto berrios, Bernardo Damaso mata, Nadia Malpartida Beraun
et al.
Objetivo: Evaluar la calidad de vida relacionada a la salud (CVRS), describir sus dimensiones
y explorar su probable asociación con la hemoglobina, albumina sérica y adherencia al
tratamiento, en pacientes en hemodiálisis crónica de la Red Asistencial de Huánuco – EsSalud.
Métodos: Estudio observacional descriptivo, prospectivo, serie de casos. Se evaluó la CVRS
en 39 pacientes en hemodiálisis crónica utilizando el cuestionario KDQOL-SF. Se recogieron
datos sociodemográficos, clínicos y laboratoriales. Se evaluó la adherencia al tratamiento.
Se exploraron asociaciones bivariadas. Resultados:
La media de edad fue 51.44±17.81
años. El 59 % no fue adherente. En el análisis CVRS, el puntaje total fue 54.14±12.14;
las dimensiones con las puntuaciones más altas fueron síntomas/problemas (78.47±6.91)
y actitud del personal de hemodiálisis (75.64±5.44) salud mental (71.79±8.75) y con las
puntuaciones más bajas función cognitiva (28.93±9.75) rol físico (23.07±5.53) y calidad de
relaciones sociales (20.00±8.89). Se encontró relación entre el nivel de hemoglobina y el
rol emocional (rs=0.326 p=0.042); los no adherentes tienen mayores puntuaciones en las
dimensiones salud general (51.73±16.96 vs 39.06±15.72 p=0.023), PCS (52.22±17.28 vs
40.35±14.44 p=0.030) y la función social (73.91±20.26 vs 53.12±33.38 p=0.020). No se
halló relación significativa respecto a la albúmina. Conclusiones: La población estudiada tiene
mejor CVRS en las dimensiones síntomas y problemas, actitud del personal de hemodiálisis,
salud mental y peor CVRS función cognitiva, rol físico y calidad de relaciones sociales. A
mayor hemoglobina el puntaje en el rol emocional aumenta. Además el ser no adherente
está relacionado con mejores puntajes en salud general, PCS y función social.
An important problem in statistics is to obtain information about the form of the population from which the sample is drawn. Goodness of fit (GOF) tests is employed to determine how well the observed sample data “fits” some proposed model. The well known standard goodness of fit tests; Kolomogorov-Smirnov (KS), Cramer von Mises (CVM) and Anderson-(AD) tests are used for continuous distributions. When the parameters are unknown, the standard tables for these tests are not valid. The complete sample procedures of goodness of fit tests are inappropriate for use with censored samples. The critical values obtained from published tables of the complete sample test statistic are necessarily conservative.In this paper, we obtain the tables of critical values of modified Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test, Cramer-Von Mises (CVM) test and Anderson-Darling (AD) test for the Compound Rayleigh (CR) distribution with unknown parameters in the case of complete and type II censored samples. Furthermore, we present power comparison between KS test, CVM test and AD test for a number of alternative distributions. Applications of the considered distribution to real medical data sets given by Stablein et al. (1981) are presented.