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Research On Personal Privacy Protection From The Perspective Of Domestic Laws And Regulations, Xiaoping Sheng, Junjie Tang

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]By sorting out 71 current personal privacy laws and regulations in China,this paper provides references for improving personal privacy protection.[Method/process]This paper uses text analysis method to summarize the overall characteristics and protection content of Chinese personal privacy protection laws and regulations,and propose corresponding optimization strategies.[Result/conclusion]The current laws and regulations of personal privacy protection paths in China from the seven dimensions, including information processing,risk assessment,joint supervision,entrusted cooperation,safety education, liability punishment, emergency plan,points out the defects of personal privacy protection in current laws and regulations in China,and puts forward four optimization strategies:to establish and improve the legal and regulatory system for personal …

Research On Classification And Evaluation Of Sustainable Development Pilot Zones Based On Cluster Analysis: Take Hunan Province As An Example, Leo Miao, Meihua Huang, Xisheng Hu, Juntao Zhu, Lin Chen

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]The construction of sustainable development pilot zones aims to compre-hensively improve the sustainable development capacity of the experimental zones and explore the mechanism and mode of coordinated development of economy,society,resources and environment in different types of areas.This paper analyzed and summarized the status quo and characteristic features of sustainable development pilot zones,which would provide reference value for the classified guidance and unique development of other experimental zones in china.[Method/process]Firstly,take the construction of sustainable developement pilot zones in Hunan as an example,construct taking a comprehensive evaluation index system composed of 4 primary indicators and 23 secondary indicators.Then,by IBM SPSS statistics statistical …

Research On Image Perception Of Red Tourist Destinations Based On Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis, Xu He, Liu Yang, Chunlin Deng

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]The popularity of the Internet provides convenience for users to express their opinions on the OTA platforms,and accurately mining of user comments is beneficial to understand the perception image of tourists of tourist destinations.[Method/process]The red tourist reviews on OTA platforms such as Tongcheng Travel were used as the data source,combined with aspect-level sentiment analysis and word frequency analysis to analyze the red tourist reviews of A province in our country.[Result/conclusion]The analysis results showed that:on the whole,tourists have a positive emotional attitude towards the red tourist attractions in the province,and the corresponding aspects include scenic tour guides,services,and scenery; the negative emotional …

Resource Allocation For Mec System With Multi-Users Resource Competition Based On Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach, Bin Qu, Yan Bai, Yul Chu, Li-E Wang, Feng Yu, Xianxian Li

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an effective computing paradigm for mobile devices in the 5G era to reduce computing delay and energy consumption. However, in a multi-user resource competition environment, the revenue-driven behavior of edge servers will cause some users to increase delays or fail tasks. Considering this situation, we take the success rate of computation offloading as the trust value of the edge server, and build a system model from the user’s perspective, taking delay and energy consumption as the multi-objective task of joint optimization. In the optimization goal, we consider three factors: offloading delay, energy consumption, and queuing …

How Do Healthy Women Perceive The Risk Of Breast Cancer? The Role Of Illness Perceptions And Compared Risk Between Portugal And The U.A.E, Maria J. Figueiras, David Dias Neto, Joao Marôco, Catarina Carmo

All Works

(1) Background: Breast cancer (BC) shows significant epidemiological differences between Eastern and Western countries. These may arise from socio-cultural factors influencing how healthy young women perceive this condition, their risk of getting cancer, and the implications for preventive screening behaviors. In this study, the illness perceptions, individual risk perception, compared risk, and beliefs about preventive behaviors for BC of female university students were compared using an anonymous online survey between a European country (Portugal) and the United Arab Emirates. (2) Method: A structural equation model (SEM) was developed to investigate the hypothetical relationship between illness perceptions and compared risk as …

Association Between Serum Vitamin D And Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms In A Sample Of Adults, Myriam Abboud, Suzan Haidar, Nadine Mahboub, Dimitrios Papandreou, Fatme Al Anouti, Rana Rizk

All Works

Vitamin D may be associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) pathways. This cross-sectional study evaluated the associations between serum Vitamin D and IBS symptoms in a sample of Lebanese adults. Participants (n = 230; mean (SD) age: 43.36 (16.05) years, 62.9% females) were adults, free of diseases affecting Vitamin D metabolism, and recruited from a large university and the surrounding community. Serum Vitamin D (25-hydroxyvitamin D) was assessed using an automated chemiluminescence micro-particle immunoassay kit. The Birmingham IBS Symptom Questionnaire total scale, and pain, constipation, and diarrhea subscales were used to study IBS symptoms. Four linear regression analyses were performed, …

Rethinking Behavior - Fall 2022, Midwest Symposium For Leadership In Behavior Disorders

ReThinking Behavior Magazine

A magazine for professionals serving children and youth with behavioral needs.

Fall 2022, Volume 6, Issue 1

The Global Publishing Industry In 2021, World Intellectual Property Organization

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Mixed forces shaped global publishing activity in 2021. The spread of different COVID-19 variants throughout the world still caused hardship and widespread social distancing. At the same time, the rollout of vaccines helped to contain the pandemic’s impact and enabled a recovery of the global economy, which grew by around 6 percent in 2021. The preliminary release of data from WIPO’s global survey of publishing activity shows that recovery extended to the publishing industry. Still, industry performance varies by country, reflecting the nature of book markets and other local economic forces.

The highest number of books published and deposited in …

Implementation Of Routine Screening To Detect Early Cases Of Depression And Anxiety In Hispanic Adolescents In The Primary Care Setting, Latoya Hayward

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Depression and anxiety are among the leading causes of illness and disability in adolescents and are two of the most prevalent mental health conditions in Latino youth. If left unrecognized and untreated, these conditions can lead to decreased quality of life and increased rates of suicide. Researchers recommend early mental health screening to occur in the primary care setting. Through routine screening using evidence-based screening tools (PHQ-9 and GAD-7), the primary goal of this quality improvement project was to increase early detection of depression and anxiety in primary care and initiate early treatment. Project methods included implementation of new workflow, …

Church-Based Research: Using Theories, Concepts, And Operationalizations, David R. Dunaetz

Great Commission Research Journal

Church-based research requires working with abstract concepts ranging from sin to sanctification. Theories, concepts, and operationalizations allow us to work with these abstractions. Theories are sets of statements describing how specific concepts relate to each other. Concepts are broad ideas that exist in our thinking that can be used to describe phenomena, both within and exterior to the church. If we measure the concepts in our theories among multiple people, we can determine to what degree the relationships in our theories are true or discover under what conditions they are true. Sometimes concepts can be measured directly; other times they …

Applying Paul’S Areopagus Model To Generation Z, Tanita Maddox

Great Commission Research Journal

The members of Generation Z are today’s adolescents and young professionals, bringing with them their own culture. This culture requires other generations to use a cross-cultural approach to evangelism, as modeled by Paul in Athens (Acts 17:16-34). Paul observed the Athenian culture, built rapport, used common language with his audience, found common ground as a cultural doorway for his message, and redefined the audience’s understanding of the relationship between God and humans. The same steps can be applied to gospel proclamation to Generation Z for effective and relevant evangelism.

Forming Saints In A Digital Context, Mark R. Teasdale

Great Commission Research Journal

Biblical and scholarly sources agree on the importance of forming Christians to seek after holy living to make them more effective evangelists, such that the ministries of evangelism and spiritual formation are intertwined. They also agree that one of the primary roles of the church is to provide for this formation. However, the practices for doing this have been complicated by the heavy move toward digital ministry because of COVID-19. Congregations can continue this formational work even in highly digital contexts by helping Christians tell their story through lifelogging, providing rituals and disciplines to sanctify time and physical spaces, and …

About The Great Commission Research Network Fall 2022, David R. Dunaetz

Great Commission Research Journal

No abstract provided.

On The Razzle (October 27-29, 2022), Tom Stoppard

Student Theatre Programs

Program for On the Razzle.

Innovation Transition Success: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect, Kaitlyn Ryan, Amy M. Cox, Ethan Blake, Clay Koschnick, Alfred E. Thal Jr.

Faculty Publications

The authors of this research examine and evaluate organizational factors associated with commercialization under the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Their objective is to improve return on investment. The data set used was the SBIR Phase II program data set, which contains information on 433 SBIR topics with closed contracts reported during Department of Defense (DoD) fiscal years (FYs) 2015 to 2018. Each data point contained characteristics of the topic, including commercialization. Military capability or topic areas were hypothesized to have varying commercialization rates. Incumbency was theorized to be a characteristic of successful programs, while increased company …

Increased Eosinophils In The Muscularis Propria Of Appendix May Indicate Early Symptomatic Appendicitis, Ping L. Zhang, Zhenhong Qu

Conference Presentation Abstracts

Background: The presence of neutrophils in muscularis propria is known to best correlate with clinical symptoms of acute appendicitis. Eosinophils present in the muscularis propria were noted in cases of acute appendicitis in 2000 (Carr, NJ. Annal of Diagnostic Pathology 2000;4:46–58), but the significance of their presence there has been unclear. The goal of this study was to investigate whether increased eosinophils in muscularis propria could be correlated with early symptoms of patients with clinical diagnosis of symptomatic appendicitis.

Methods: Seventeen patients with clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis were identified as having acute symptomatology, but the resection specimens displayed a …

Use Of The Social Cognition And Object Relations Scale-Global To Evaluate The Impact Of Parental Divorce On College Students’ Interpersonal Functioning, Rachel Davenport

Theses and Dissertations

Research has shown parental divorce to have long-term impacts on various domains of children’s interpersonal functioning, extending into young adulthood and beyond. The purpose of this study was to assess the potential impacts of parental divorce in college students using the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global (SCORS-G) with narratives derived from the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). SCORS-G variables of interest included composite, factor, and dimension scores. Two additional measures of rejection sensitivity, which has been shown to be impacted by parental divorce, and perceived social support, which may mitigate maladaptive outcomes in interpersonal functioning, were also examined. The primary …

The Art Of Getting It Wrong: Developing Persistence, Nicole Ross, Allison Albert

Publications & Research

Winston Churchill once said “success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Unfortunately, highly structured traditional lab activities are often confirmatory in nature and do not require or encourage students to engage authentically in the scientific process. These confirmatory labs do not provide students with the opportunity to fail, reevaluate and redesign – all necessary components in science and research. In this session, participants will explore and reflect on an open-ended activity that provides a more authentic learning environment and better reflects the nature of science.

From The Editor, Sean Schat

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

No abstract provided.

Unm Medicine Fall 2022, University Of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center, School Of Medicine

School of Medicine Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

Except For My Commute, Everything Is The Same: The Shared Lived Experience Of Health Sciences Libraries During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Bart Ragon, Elizabeth C. Whipple, Melissa L. Rethlefsen

Publications

OBJECTIVE: To understand the experience of academic health sciences libraries during the pandemic using a phenomenological approach.

METHODS: This study used a multisite, mixed-method approach to capture the direct experience of academic health sciences libraries as they evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Phase one of the study involved administering a qualitative survey to capture to capture current evolutions of programs and services. The survey for phases two (August 2020) and three (February 2021) contained eight questions asking participants to share updates on their evolution and experiences.

RESULTS: Qualitative data were analyzed using open coding techniques to ensure emergent themes were …

Essential Emergency And Critical Care: A Priority For Health Systems Globally, Dabota Yvonne Buowari, Christian Owoo, Lalit Gupta, Carl Otto Shell, Tim Baker, Eecc Network Group

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Critical illness is a state of ill health with vital organ dysfunction, a high risk of imminent death if care is not provided, and the potential for reversibility. An estimated 45 million adults become critically ill each year. While some are treated in emergency departments or intensive care units, most are cared for in general hospital wards. We outline a priority for health systems globally: the first-tier care that all critically ill patients should receive in all parts of all hospitals: Essential Emergency and Critical Care. We describe its relation to other specialties and care and opportunities for implementation.

Investigating Perceived Digital Literacy Skills Of Master Students: A Case Study At The University Of Social Welfare And Rehabilitation Sciences, Fahimeh Baghernejad-Javid, Saeideh Valizadeh-Haghi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Introduction: Researchers and students, who play an essential role in promoting education and research, must inevitably use various information sources to obtain information in order to meet their information needs. However, to use digital resources, they need the ability to use digital technology, referred to as "digital literacy".

Objectives: This research aimed to examine the digital information behaviour and digital literacy of master's students at the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences. On this basis, it will be possible to determine web users' level of expertise and knowledge in utilizing the information available on the web. By determining …

The Role Of Law Librarians In Knowledge Based Society; Nigerian Perspective, Ayomide Joy Lala, Okuonghae Nosakhare

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

The term knowledge society depicts societies having a strong reliance on the use of knowledge in varied forms, discovered through technological or scientific research. The explosion of information resources characterized by the information age has contributed significantly to the competitive advantage among nations, companies and societies through the skillful application of knowledge. A major attribute of the knowledge society is the prominent attention given to education, research and development(R&D) for the purpose of scaling up the human capital resources needed to proffer effective solutions to problems. In this regard, the focus of stakeholders is to ensure continuous networking between …

Guaranteeing Timed Opacity Using Parametric Timed Model Checking, Étienne André, Didier Lime, Dylan Marinho, Jun Sun

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Information leakage can have dramatic consequences on systems security. Among harmful information leaks, the timing information leakage occurs whenever an attacker successfully deduces confidential internal information. In this work, we consider that the attacker has access (only) to the system execution time. We address the following timed opacity problem: given a timed system, a private location and a final location, synthesize the execution times from the initial location to the final location for which one cannot deduce whether the system went through the private location. We also consider the full timed opacity problem, asking whether the system is opaque for …

What Machines Can't Do (Yet) In Real Work Settings, Thomas H. Davenport, Steven M. Miller

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

AI systems may perform well in the research lab or under highly controlled application settings, but they still needed human help in the types of real world work settings we researched for a new book, Working With AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration. Human workers were very much in evidence across our 30 case studies. In this article, we use those examples to illustrate our list of AI-enabled activities that still require human assistance. These are activities where organizations need to continue to invest in human capital, and where practitioners can expect job continuity for the immediate future

Adaptive Structural Similarity Preserving For Unsupervised Cross Modal Hashing, Liang Li, Baihua Zheng, Weiwei Sun

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Relation Extraction (RE) is a vital step to complete Knowledge Graph (KG) by extracting entity relations from texts. However, it usually suffers from the long-tail issue. The training data mainly concentrates on a few types of relations, leading to the lack of sufficient annotations for the remaining types of relations. In this paper, we propose a general approach to learn relation prototypes from unlabeled texts, to facilitate the long-tail relation extraction by transferring knowledge from the relation types with sufficient training data. We learn relation prototypes as an implicit factor between entities, which reflects the meanings of relations as well …

Ergo: Event Relational Graph Transformer For Document-Level Event Causality Identification, Meiqi Chen, Yixin Cao, Kunquan Deng, Mukai Li, Kun Wang, Jing Shao, Yan Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Document-level Event Causality Identification (DECI) aims to identify event-event causal relations in a document. Existing works usually build an event graph for global reasoning across multiple sentences. However, the edges between events have to be carefully designed through heuristic rules or external tools. In this paper, we propose a novel Event Relational Graph TransfOrmer (ERGO) framework1 for DECI, to ease the graph construction and improve it over the noisy edge issue. Different from conventional event graphs, we define a pair of events as a node and build a complete event relational graph without any prior knowledge or tools. This naturally …

Reflecting On Experiences For Response Generation, Chenchen Ye, Lizi Liao, Suyu Liu, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Multimodal dialogue systems attract much attention recently, but they are far from skills like: 1) automatically generate context- specific responses instead of safe but general responses; 2) naturally coordinate between the different information modalities (e.g. text and image) in responses; 3) intuitively explain the reasons for generated responses and improve a specific response without re-training the whole model. To approach these goals, we propose a different angle for the task - Reflecting Experiences for Response Generation (RERG). This is supported by the fact that generating a response from scratch can be hard, but much easier if we can access other …

Accurate Generation Of Trigger-Action Programs With Domain-Adapted Sequence-To-Sequence Learning, Imam Nur Bani Yusuf, Lingxiao Jiang, David Lo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Trigger-action programming allows end users to write event-driven rules to automate smart devices and internet services. Users can create a trigger-action program (TAP) by specifying triggers and actions from a set of predefined functions along with suitable data fields for the functions. Many trigger-action programming platforms have emerged as the popularity grows, e.g., IFTTT, Microsoft Power Automate, and Samsung SmartThings. Despite their simplicity, composing trigger-action programs (TAPs) can still be challenging for end users due to the domain knowledge needed and enormous search space of many combinations of triggers and actions. We propose RecipeGen, a new deep learning-based approach that …