- Biosynthesis of monodispersed silver nanoparticles and their activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Nanoparticle toxicity by the gastrointestinal route: evidence and knowledge gaps
- Protein expression profiles of intestinal epithelial co-cultures: effect of functionalised carbon nanotube exposure
- Nickel contamination on MWCNT is related to particle bioactivity but not toxicity in the THP-1 transformed macrophage model
- Aggregation behaviour of carbon nanotubes in aqueous and physiological media and its influence on toxicity
- Engineered nanomaterial interactions with bilayer lipid membranes: screening platforms to assess nanoparticle toxicity
- Preparation of water soluble carbon nanotubes and assessment of their biological activity in embryonic zebrafish
- Using zebrafish to study the biological impact of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles
- Predictive toxicological paradigm and high throughput approach for toxicity screening of engineered nanomaterials
12 May 2020
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology are now available here for free:
Research pick: Cooking Raspberry Pi for the smart home - "Home automation system using Raspberry Pi Zero W"
Researchers in India describe the potential of the low-cost Raspberry Pi computer to be used as a control system for home automation using the so-called Internet of Things. They outline details in the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms.
Vikash Yadav of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the ABES Engineering College, in Ghaziabad, Deepak Kumar Mishra, Prathmesh Singh, and Priytosh Kumar Tripathi of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at the GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, in Greater Noida, demonstrate specifically how a Raspberry Pi Zero W can be used to connect net-enabled domestic appliances and other smart electronic devices in the home or even the workplace so that they can be monitored and controlled from a location anywhere in the world with internet access.
Home automation systems seek to improve our quality of life and remove the need for human intervention in many menial everyday tasks. Sensors, actuators, controllers, and devices exist that one might refer to as “smart” or “internet-enabled”, these are commonly referred to as the Internet of Things, the IoT, and an inexpensive and versatile computer also connected to the internet can be used to monitor and control them all, acting as a connection point within the home for the user to access from outside. The team’s approach, they report, offers a reliable, scalable and highly cost-efficient way to enable home automation. Moreover, the same approach might be used to automate equipment, heating, lighting and other systems in the home and in the workplace.
Yadav, V., Mishra, D.K., Singh, P. and Tripathi, P.K. (2020) ‘Home automation system using Raspberry Pi Zero W’, Int. J. Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp.216–226.
Vikash Yadav of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the ABES Engineering College, in Ghaziabad, Deepak Kumar Mishra, Prathmesh Singh, and Priytosh Kumar Tripathi of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at the GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, in Greater Noida, demonstrate specifically how a Raspberry Pi Zero W can be used to connect net-enabled domestic appliances and other smart electronic devices in the home or even the workplace so that they can be monitored and controlled from a location anywhere in the world with internet access.
Home automation systems seek to improve our quality of life and remove the need for human intervention in many menial everyday tasks. Sensors, actuators, controllers, and devices exist that one might refer to as “smart” or “internet-enabled”, these are commonly referred to as the Internet of Things, the IoT, and an inexpensive and versatile computer also connected to the internet can be used to monitor and control them all, acting as a connection point within the home for the user to access from outside. The team’s approach, they report, offers a reliable, scalable and highly cost-efficient way to enable home automation. Moreover, the same approach might be used to automate equipment, heating, lighting and other systems in the home and in the workplace.
Yadav, V., Mishra, D.K., Singh, P. and Tripathi, P.K. (2020) ‘Home automation system using Raspberry Pi Zero W’, Int. J. Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp.216–226.
11 May 2020
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture
The following sample articles from the International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture are now available here for free:
- Type-2 fuzzy logic-based multi-threaded time sequence analysis
- Evaluation of dispersed effect based on social force-based vehicle model and emotional infection model: a data simulation approach
- Weighting schemes based on EM algorithm for LDA
- Research and analysis of video image target tracking algorithm based on significance
- Dynamic Bayesian network threat assessment for warship formation: a data analysis method
- Functional encryption with efficient verifiable outsourced decryption for secure data access control in social network
- Resource scheduling optimisation algorithm for containerised microservice architecture in cloud computing
- Big data analytics in the context of internet of things and the emergence of real-time systems: a systematic literature review
- Extending the common information model for smart grids operational computations based on bus-branch models
- Research on data mining technology for the connotation and measurement of uncertainty for reassembly dimensions
- Analysis of physico-chemical variables and their influence on water quality of the Bogota River using data mining
Special issue published: "Big Data Innovation for Sustainable Vanet Management"
International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems 5(1) 2020
- QoS-based routing for free space optical mobile ad hoc networks
- Reconfigurable hardware architecture of public key crypto processor for VANET and wireless sensor nodes
- Queue size estimation of nodes in a heterogeneous ocean network with multiple priority traffic
- Enhanced cluster-based stable path for load balancing and reducing overhead using artificial bee colony in MANETs
- DESR: Differential evolutionary secure routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks
- A stable link connectivity-based data communication through neighbour node using traffic-less path in MANET
- A conceptual framework and architecture for m-governance
- Prediction and avoidance of real-time traffic congestion system for Indian metropolitan cities
- Assessing the performance of different TCP congestion mechanisms in underwater wireless sensor networks
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Aerodynamics
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Aerodynamics are now available here for free:
- Hydraulic analogy and visualisation of two-dimensional compressible fluid flows: part 2: water table experiments
- Hydraulic analogy and visualisation of two-dimensional compressible fluid flows: part 1: theoretical aspects
- An experimental investigation towards calibration of a shock tube and stagnation heat flux determination
- A computational study of vortex shedding from a NACA-0012 airfoil at high angles of attack
8 May 2020
Research pick: "Unlearning: a systematic literature review"
An international team from Bahrain, Estonia, Germany, and Hungary has looked at the notion of unlearning in the face of new paradigms, understanding and knowledge.
Information and communication technology (ICT) has changed the way we work and in the current crises of climate change, pollution, and emergent disease is more important than ever. Workers, students, and the populus in general must learn new skills and develop new capacity to utilise the ICT of the day as it evolves rapidly. Critically, this is where forgetting the old ways, or unlearning redundant and obsolete knowledge and skills becomes important so that the culture of old technology is not conflated and confused with the new.
Susanne Durst of the Department of Business Administration in the School of Business and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, in Estonia, Ilka of the Heinze School of Management and Organizational Science at Kaposvár University, in Hungary, Thomas Henschel of the Business School at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany, and Nishad Nawaz of the College of Business Administration at Kingdom University in Bahrain discuss the concepts and provide a literature review of unlearning in the International Journal of Business and Globalisation.
“Unlearning of old knowledge, practices, and routines may be key to success. It is argued that an unwillingness or inability to unlearn old knowledge can hamper creativity and innovation in organisations when employees are unwilling to view new knowledge that they do not possess or control as useful or applicable,” the team writes.
Their review reveals gaps in the business knowledge of unlearning. When looking both at the individual as well as organisational levels, there is a clear call for the application of more sophisticated research methods to allow for triangulation, they report. The research findings are practical for entrepreneurs and managers but also highlight where more research might be done to create a more coherent literature in this area and provide guidance for those entrepeneurs and managers, as well as others.
Durst, S., Heinze, I., Henschel, T. and Nawaz, N. (2020) ‘Unlearning: a systematic literature review’, Int. J. Business and Globalisation, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp.472–495.
Information and communication technology (ICT) has changed the way we work and in the current crises of climate change, pollution, and emergent disease is more important than ever. Workers, students, and the populus in general must learn new skills and develop new capacity to utilise the ICT of the day as it evolves rapidly. Critically, this is where forgetting the old ways, or unlearning redundant and obsolete knowledge and skills becomes important so that the culture of old technology is not conflated and confused with the new.
Susanne Durst of the Department of Business Administration in the School of Business and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, in Estonia, Ilka of the Heinze School of Management and Organizational Science at Kaposvár University, in Hungary, Thomas Henschel of the Business School at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany, and Nishad Nawaz of the College of Business Administration at Kingdom University in Bahrain discuss the concepts and provide a literature review of unlearning in the International Journal of Business and Globalisation.
“Unlearning of old knowledge, practices, and routines may be key to success. It is argued that an unwillingness or inability to unlearn old knowledge can hamper creativity and innovation in organisations when employees are unwilling to view new knowledge that they do not possess or control as useful or applicable,” the team writes.
Their review reveals gaps in the business knowledge of unlearning. When looking both at the individual as well as organisational levels, there is a clear call for the application of more sophisticated research methods to allow for triangulation, they report. The research findings are practical for entrepreneurs and managers but also highlight where more research might be done to create a more coherent literature in this area and provide guidance for those entrepeneurs and managers, as well as others.
Durst, S., Heinze, I., Henschel, T. and Nawaz, N. (2020) ‘Unlearning: a systematic literature review’, Int. J. Business and Globalisation, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp.472–495.
7 May 2020
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Applied Cryptography
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Applied Cryptography are now available here for free:
- On the security of the Winternitz one-time signature scheme
- Practical hybrid (hierarchical) identity-based encryption schemes based on the decisional bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption
- Secure computation of functionalities based on Hamming distance and its application to computing document similarity
- Parallelisable variants of Camellia and SMS4 block cipher: p-Camellia and p-SMS4
Research pick: For Peat’s sake - "Characterisation of humic acids in fen peat"
Low wetlands known as fens, store huge amounts of organic matter, usually in the form of peat, which is old, decomposed vegetable matter. Drained, agricultural fenland is thus of great importance in terms of growing crops and also fens in general from the perspective of the organic carbon biogeochemical cycle. Work published in the International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology has looked at the chemical characterization of the vast range of humic acids present in fenland peat.
Janis Krumins, Maris Klavins, and Raimonds Krukovskis of the Department of the Environmental Science in the Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Latvia, in Riga, Latvia, explain how humic acids form the major part of fen peat organic matter. “They are also the most refractory and recalcitrant natural substances to degradation,” the team writes, “and thus they contain essential information regarding mire and peat development over large periods of time as well as the organic carbon biogeochemical cycle.”
The team has compared the properties of humic acids isolated from different fen peats of varied botanical compositions and origins. They hope to understand better the humification process that leads to the formation of peat. “The formation of humic acids of varied origins shows similarities; however, at the same time, differences can be found in the further development of humic acids, depending on the environment in which they are present,” the team reports.
At a time, when the importance of fenland and peat conservation are high on the environmental agenda, the work could guide the use of this invaluable resource in a less potentially malignant way. “Fen peat is a potential source for humic acid extraction on an industrial scale; however, geological settings and peat botanical composition of a potential excavation site must be evaluated in high detail in future studies,” the team writes. The better a picture we have of the chemical composition of peat, the easier it will be to utilize this limited resource more wisely.
Krumins, J., Klavins, M. and Krukovskis, R. (2020) ‘Characterisation of humic acids in fen peat‘, Int. J. Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp.74-89.
Janis Krumins, Maris Klavins, and Raimonds Krukovskis of the Department of the Environmental Science in the Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Latvia, in Riga, Latvia, explain how humic acids form the major part of fen peat organic matter. “They are also the most refractory and recalcitrant natural substances to degradation,” the team writes, “and thus they contain essential information regarding mire and peat development over large periods of time as well as the organic carbon biogeochemical cycle.”
The team has compared the properties of humic acids isolated from different fen peats of varied botanical compositions and origins. They hope to understand better the humification process that leads to the formation of peat. “The formation of humic acids of varied origins shows similarities; however, at the same time, differences can be found in the further development of humic acids, depending on the environment in which they are present,” the team reports.
At a time, when the importance of fenland and peat conservation are high on the environmental agenda, the work could guide the use of this invaluable resource in a less potentially malignant way. “Fen peat is a potential source for humic acid extraction on an industrial scale; however, geological settings and peat botanical composition of a potential excavation site must be evaluated in high detail in future studies,” the team writes. The better a picture we have of the chemical composition of peat, the easier it will be to utilize this limited resource more wisely.
Krumins, J., Klavins, M. and Krukovskis, R. (2020) ‘Characterisation of humic acids in fen peat‘, Int. J. Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp.74-89.
6 May 2020
Research pick: Acclimatising in a new country? There’s an app for that - "Use of social networking applications by immigrant children, adolescents, and young adults to maintain contact with those who remained in the country of origin: usage characteristics and habits"
Social networking applications have taken their place in almost all parts of our lives. Writing in the International Journal of Mobile Communications, researchers reveal how immigrant children, adolescents, and young adults are using these apps, which include WhatsApp and Facebook, to maintain contact with the family and friends they have left behind in relocating to a new country.
Gila Cohen Zilka of Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan, Israel, has looked specifically at how youngsters are using these apps to help them acclimatize in Israel as their new home. The research surveyed 551 participants of whom 110 were also interviewed directly. Interviewees shared both positive and negative feelings and experiences.
Fundamentally, writes Cohen Zilka, “participants feel that communication alleviates the sense of longing, enables intimate discourse, sentiment sharing, release of anger, and relief of frustration.” She points out that the use of web applications encourages significant interaction with those who remained in the country of origin, but conversely, to a certain extent, causes social isolation in the new country.
The study found that many young immigrants to Israel did not feel as if they had been uprooted from one country and placed rootless in a new land, but rather that they still had roots in the country of origin and were already putting down new roots in their new home. “The use of internet applications for communication made them happy and gave them a sense of relief in the process of acclimatisation in the new country,” the team reports.
Zilka, G.C. (2020) ‘Use of social networking applications by immigrant children, adolescents, and young adults to maintain contact with those who remained in the country of origin: usage characteristics and habits’, Int. J. Mobile Communications, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp.257–272.
Gila Cohen Zilka of Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan, Israel, has looked specifically at how youngsters are using these apps to help them acclimatize in Israel as their new home. The research surveyed 551 participants of whom 110 were also interviewed directly. Interviewees shared both positive and negative feelings and experiences.
Fundamentally, writes Cohen Zilka, “participants feel that communication alleviates the sense of longing, enables intimate discourse, sentiment sharing, release of anger, and relief of frustration.” She points out that the use of web applications encourages significant interaction with those who remained in the country of origin, but conversely, to a certain extent, causes social isolation in the new country.
The study found that many young immigrants to Israel did not feel as if they had been uprooted from one country and placed rootless in a new land, but rather that they still had roots in the country of origin and were already putting down new roots in their new home. “The use of internet applications for communication made them happy and gave them a sense of relief in the process of acclimatisation in the new country,” the team reports.
Zilka, G.C. (2020) ‘Use of social networking applications by immigrant children, adolescents, and young adults to maintain contact with those who remained in the country of origin: usage characteristics and habits’, Int. J. Mobile Communications, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp.257–272.
5 May 2020
Special issue published: "Cognitive Computing for Emerging Internet of Things"
International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications 11(2/3) 2020
- HOG features and connected region analysis-based workpiece object detection algorithm
- Energy-saving algorithm for data centre network based on genetic algorithm
- Damage prevention analysis of heavy-duty gear body based on finite element neural network
- On-demand distance vector refinement-based car networking stable routing
- Cognitive and artificial intelligence system for logistics industry
- Study on oceanic big data clustering based on incremental K-means algorithm
- A fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model for smart city application
- Multi-feature fusion energy-saving routing in internet of things based on hybrid ant colony algorithm
- Quantitative structure-activity analysis of predicted drug targets based on Adaboost-SVM
- Dynamic node adaptive incremental interaction optimisation in micro-blogging community
- MeTis meshing-based Bayes 3D ship model geometry reconstruction
- Markov model-based low delay data aggregation tree algorithm
- SLFNs interpolation fingerprint particle filter-based shared bicycle tracking algorithm
- A chameleon hash authentication tree optimisation audit for data storage security in cloud calculation
- Optimisation of CoMP-based cellular network design and its radio network parameters for next generation HetNet using Taguchi's method
- Implementation of fuzzy logic controller-based quadratic buck converter for LED lamp driver applications
Free open access article available: "Sustainable engineering master module – insights from three cohorts of European engineering team"
The following paper, "Sustainable engineering master module – insights from three cohorts of European engineering team" (International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing
4(2/3/4) 2020), is freely available for download as an open access article.
It can be downloaded via the full-text link available here.
4(2/3/4) 2020), is freely available for download as an open access article.
It can be downloaded via the full-text link available here.
Special issue published: "Sustainable Manufacturing for Global Circular Economy" (includes free Open Access paper)
International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing 4(2/3/4) 2020
- Multi-criteria decision-making for the life cycle of sustainable high pressure die casting products
- Design of disassembly-to-order system for reused components and recycled materials using linear physical programming
- Decentralised identification of used exchange parts with a mobile application
- Quantitative risk modelling for evaluating sustainable product designs
- A fracture mechanics approach to enhance product and process sustainability in diamond wire sawing of silicon wafers for solar cells through improved wire design
- Comparison of abrasive water jet technologies in terms of performance and kerf geometry accuracy for cutting ceramics
- Characterising the sustainability performance of cyclic manufacturing processes: a hybrid manufacturing case
- Investigating the microstructure and morphology of chips in dry, flood coolant and MQL machining of Ti-6Al-4V alloy
- Constant surface roughness over tool-lifetime due to online process monitoring and cutting parameter adaption in turning of gear steel
- Guidelines to compare additive and subtractive manufacturing approaches under the energy demand perspective
- Minimising carbon emissions and machining costs with improved human health in sustainable machining of austenitic stainless steel through multi-objective optimisation
- Modelling, simulation and optimisation of the comminution and flotation circuits of platinum for sustainable mineral processing
- Evolution of supply chain management: a sustainability focused review
- Demand-oriented barriers and potentials for remanufacturing in Vietnam
- Increasing the sustainability of composite manufacturing processes by using algorithm-based optimisation and evaluation for process chain design
- Methodology for manufacturing sustainability evaluation of human-robot collaborations
- Environmental and social sustainability of the tea industry in the wake of global market challenges: a case study in Sri Lanka
- Augmented learning for industrial education
- Sustainable engineering master module – insights from three cohorts of European engineering team
Special issue published: "Safety and Lifestyle in Web-Based Communities"
International Journal of Web Based Communities 16(2) 2020
- International Efforts for Children Online Safety: A Survey
- The examination of self-service replenishing solutions' potential
- An empirical model of mobile shopping attitudes and intentions in an emerging market
- Analysis of the use of Twitter as a tool for the management and communication of the CSR of leading European firms
- Research on mining key nodes of complex web-based communities based on mining algorithm
- Data analysis algorithms for mining online communities from microblogs
Research pick: Reducing the net risk to children - "International efforts for children online safety: a survey"
Keeping children safe online should be a major priority of internet providers, content creators, and the authorities. Writing in the International Journal of Web Based Communities, a team from India has surveyed international efforts.
To overcome online risks, we need to understand the characteristics of the online ecosystem and to learn how to cope once risks are faced. The online ecosystem involves different stakeholders such as service providers, the physical network, online users being connected, social media sites and tools and technology, the team reports. “Elimination of online risks is difficult,” they have found, “but the intensity of risks can be reduced.”
Dittin Andrews of the Center for Development of Advanced Computing, in Electronics City, Bangalore, worked with Sreejith Alathur and Naganna Chetty of the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, in Surathkal, Mangalore, on the survey.
With an increase in the availability of rich content over the internet, information and communication technology (ICT) has brought many benefits to users of all ages around the world,” the team writes. ICT is transforming societies and economies. It has also attracted children to its benefits, with many regularly accessing social networking sites, playing video games, and sharing videos, for instance. With any positive benefit, there is always a negative, however, and access to the boundless resources of the online world brings with it risks to vulnerable young people. This might be through exposure to inappropriate materials, exploitation through malware or social engineering, cyber-bullying, and even the risk of physical and mental harm when the online world spills into their offline lives.
“International bodies are providing assistance to children online with different tools, technologies, regulations, legal protections, safety resources, education, training, guidance, safety measures, crime reporting system, and child-friendly search engines,” the team writes. However, much remains to be done to address the countless risks to which children are exposed online.
Andrews, D., Alathur, S. and Chetty, N. (2020) ‘International efforts for children online safety: a survey’, Int. J. Web Based Communities, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp.123–133.
To overcome online risks, we need to understand the characteristics of the online ecosystem and to learn how to cope once risks are faced. The online ecosystem involves different stakeholders such as service providers, the physical network, online users being connected, social media sites and tools and technology, the team reports. “Elimination of online risks is difficult,” they have found, “but the intensity of risks can be reduced.”
Dittin Andrews of the Center for Development of Advanced Computing, in Electronics City, Bangalore, worked with Sreejith Alathur and Naganna Chetty of the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, in Surathkal, Mangalore, on the survey.
With an increase in the availability of rich content over the internet, information and communication technology (ICT) has brought many benefits to users of all ages around the world,” the team writes. ICT is transforming societies and economies. It has also attracted children to its benefits, with many regularly accessing social networking sites, playing video games, and sharing videos, for instance. With any positive benefit, there is always a negative, however, and access to the boundless resources of the online world brings with it risks to vulnerable young people. This might be through exposure to inappropriate materials, exploitation through malware or social engineering, cyber-bullying, and even the risk of physical and mental harm when the online world spills into their offline lives.
“International bodies are providing assistance to children online with different tools, technologies, regulations, legal protections, safety resources, education, training, guidance, safety measures, crime reporting system, and child-friendly search engines,” the team writes. However, much remains to be done to address the countless risks to which children are exposed online.
Andrews, D., Alathur, S. and Chetty, N. (2020) ‘International efforts for children online safety: a survey’, Int. J. Web Based Communities, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp.123–133.
4 May 2020
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology are now available here for free:
- Effects of slaughter house wastes on soil properties and cocoyam corm yield in Abakaliki, Nigeria
- Performance measurement system for the cold fish supply chain: the case of National Fish Logistics System in Indonesia
- Motivations for sustaining urban farming participation
- Assessment of ammonium hydroxide effect on Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826): acute toxicity and avoidance tests
- Food security performance assessment of the US states: a DEA-based Malmquist productivity index approach
New Editor for International Journal of Management Development
Associate Prof. Fabio Cassia from the University of Verona in Italy has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Management Development. He will be joined by its new Executive Editor, Assistant Prof. Francesca Magno of the Università degli Studi di Bergamo.
1 May 2020
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting are now available here for free:
- The association between accounting disclosures and stock market price: an empirical study on Jordanian commercial banks
- Auditor's knowledge and firms' investment decisions in MENA countries: evidence from Tunisian context
- Changes in liquidity associated with removal of companies from the FTSE 100 index
- An empirical investigation of determinants of firm dividend payouts in Egypt: an agency perspective
- Nonlinear relationship between institutional investors' ownership and capital structure: evidence from Iranian firms
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Electronic Governance
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Electronic Governance are now available here for free:
- Integrating offline and online participation tools for engaging citizens in public space management: application in the peripheral town of Karditsa-Greece
- Innovation, technologies, participation: new paradigms towards a 2.0 citizenship
- Experiencing the soundscape with mobile mixing tools and participatory methods
- Citizen informatics: integrating urban data and design for future stakeholders
- Social innovation, games and urban planning: an analysis of current approaches
Newly announced journal: International Journal of Student Project Reporting
The International Journal of Student Project Reporting is the first journal dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed reports on the research and design process, validation and implementation of student-conducted projects in the fields of computing science, engineering, architecture and related areas. The journal also publishes short communications, letters to the Editor and reviews of textbooks in the same areas.
Research pick: Parental alcohol impact on children - "Parental alcohol use and children’s mental health: the case of Turkey"
A paper published in the International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research looks at the link between parental alcohol consumption and the mental wellbeing of children in the household. Nazli Ezgi Sidal and Tekin Kose of the Department of Economics, at TED University, in Ankara, Turkey, have taken their home country as a case study on this issue. They use data from the Turkey Health Survey of 2016, which is conducted by the Turkish Statistical Institute.
In their analysis, the team looked for correlations between mental deficiency, learning disability, attention deficit, late talking, and behavioural issues in children within a household where the parents consume alcohol. They found that there is a negative association with the children’s mental wellbeing status and alcohol consumption. Additionally, the self-assessed health status of mothers was positively correlated with children’s mental health. The greater the alcohol use in mothers, the more likely were offspring to have problems.
It is well-known that parental behaviour can have a significant impact on children’s life outcomes such as health status and educational performance. That said, many other factors are involved. Smoking and alcohol use, for example, can have an impact on the parents’ health as well as direct and indirect effects on offspring.
“Policymakers should consider giving priorities in enhancing life and health conditions of parents in Turkey to improve life outcomes of children,” the team suggests. They add that “Improvements in health literacy of parents and specifically health statuses of mothers may significantly contribute children’s life outcomes.”
Sidal, N.E. and Kose, T. (2019) ‘Parental alcohol use and children’s mental health: the case of Turkey’, Int. J. Behavioural and Healthcare Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.65–76.
In their analysis, the team looked for correlations between mental deficiency, learning disability, attention deficit, late talking, and behavioural issues in children within a household where the parents consume alcohol. They found that there is a negative association with the children’s mental wellbeing status and alcohol consumption. Additionally, the self-assessed health status of mothers was positively correlated with children’s mental health. The greater the alcohol use in mothers, the more likely were offspring to have problems.
It is well-known that parental behaviour can have a significant impact on children’s life outcomes such as health status and educational performance. That said, many other factors are involved. Smoking and alcohol use, for example, can have an impact on the parents’ health as well as direct and indirect effects on offspring.
“Policymakers should consider giving priorities in enhancing life and health conditions of parents in Turkey to improve life outcomes of children,” the team suggests. They add that “Improvements in health literacy of parents and specifically health statuses of mothers may significantly contribute children’s life outcomes.”
Sidal, N.E. and Kose, T. (2019) ‘Parental alcohol use and children’s mental health: the case of Turkey’, Int. J. Behavioural and Healthcare Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.65–76.
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