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Place value is a foundational competency for primary school mathematics and for this reason we have sought to investigate what the recent and current academic conversations are around this important concept. In this paper we present a survey of literature presented in the Australasian, European and Southern African contexts through a review of purposively selected conference proceedings and journals to establish what the conversations have been about the teaching and learning of place value in these research communities from 2013 to 2022.

In alignment with the theme of the conference "Education in Developing, Emerging, and Developed Countries: Different Worlds, Common Challenges," this paper brings attention to the challenges associated with the implementation of sustainable research capacity building (SRCB) in the context of BRICS nations and African countries. Employing a comparative document analysis method to explore the unique contexts of developing nations, this research provides insights and recommendations to strengthen research capacity in academia, address shared challenges and promote national prosperity. The scholarly literature revealed that higher education institutions (HEIs) in developing countries have intensified their efforts in building the research capacity of their academics and institutions. Regardless of their commitment, HEIs face challenges such as gender inequalities, teaching workloads, doctoral program deficiencies, lack of multidisciplinary research approaches and funding constraints. Addressing the challenges will require improved funding for research training and research productivity. One of the main concerns is that instead of advancing knowledge and being producers thereof, most developing countries remain knowledge consumers. The findings revealed that developing the next generation of academics plays a critical role in the sustainability of an emerging country's research system. [For the complete Volume 22 proceedings, see ED656158.]

COVID-19 has brought a substantial impact on women's livelihood around the globe, including women in Asia. Countries are trying to mitigate this disruption by applying various gender-sensitive policies and regulations during the pandemic. Yet, little is known about how Asian countries are prioritising this strategy. The current paper aims to navigate how countries are responding to the spread of the virus whilst ensuring women's welfare through gendersensitive policies, programs, and regulations. Using a dataset created by UNDP and UN Women, gender response policies are characterised into four main areas, namely Social Protection Measures, Labor Market Measures, Fiscal and Economic Measures, and Violence Against Women Measures. In addition, this paper aims to analyze the correlation of women's leadership in the COVID-19 national task force towards the policies that advocate women's interests. The findings suggest that women's low representation in the COVID-19 national task force is resulting in the lack of gender-sensitive policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the relationship between the passion for entrepreneurship and corporate sustainability, considering that the desire for entrepreneurship is the fuel that entrepreneurs need to continue and achieve sustainability. This study aims to identify the nature of the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and corporate sustainability, an applied study in Asia Telecom. Passion is an important behavior, despite all the recent attention towards entrepreneurship passion, one particularly important question that has not been fully addressed What makes entrepreneurs passionate? The literature on the passion for entrepreneurship has almost universally focused on the passion towards "activities", as the current study aims to investigate a variety of activities related to the context of entrepreneurial passion (i.e. activities related to invention, establishment and development). As a result of the research, if the research sample consisted of (100) entrepreneurs, and a set of statistical methods were used for the Spss v.28 (Amos) program, standard deviations, arithmetic averages, correlations and variance analysis, and the study problem centered on the following essential question "What is the impact of the passion of entrepreneurship on the sustainability of companies," and the current study tried to verify the main hypothesis "there is a correlation between the passion for entrepreneurship and corporate sustainability. More about this source textSource text required for additional translation information. Design: Methodology: Approach The data was collected by designing a questionnaire distributed to (100) employees of the Asia Telecom Company. The hypotheses developed through the literature related to the research variables were tested. Results:The findings revealed a correlation and impact relationship between entrepreneurship passion and corporate sustainability, indicating the importance of entrepreneurship passion. The extent of its contribution to achieving success, discovering innovative opportunities, developing a new business intends to achieve corporate sustainability, and the method of effective performance in light of competition and unexpected environmental factors. Suppose it is based on three elements (Passion for invention, establishment, and passion for development and development). In that case, passion plays a critical role in creating new projects and their results, whichaligns with the sustainability requirements of a successful organization.Originality and value: This research develops and tests a model that explores the impact of entrepreneurship passion on corporate sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban landscape of today Ho Chi Minh is known as the significant increase of individual transportation. Extremely high-density living but inadequate levels of infrastructure provision create serious health problems and environmental impacts in HCM inner districts. In mid 1990s, many papers describe HCM is the city where traffic is transformed from bicycles to motorcycles. In mid 200s, it is labeled as "motor dependent city" and traffic congestion becomes more serious than ever. HCM as under the hyper urbanism are faced with the problem of traffic congestion on a large scale, like many other cities in Asia. Concerning this issue, a lot of solutions were applied but the traffic situation has not much improved. The study predicts that the next step of HCM traffic action will be the shift to cars. Moreover, the future reduction of car taxes in order to reach the globalization is threatening the city by shifting from motor-based to car-based system. In fact, a few years ago, the City Authorities started a series of initiatives and produced several political documents for future development. One of them is the Transport Master Plan for 2030 developed in 2004 and approved in 2013. To overcome HCMC's transport challenges, TMP is planned to modernize and extend the existing road and highway network, and especially an extensive public transport improvement program including metro line as Mass rapid transit (MRT) and bus corridor (BRT) encouraging friendly environment for cycling and pedestrian. This master plan based on the concept of sustainable urban transport towards the integrated approach between transit and spatial land-use. HCM city has potential of densities to support these mass transit systems, yet, the shifts in development are not yet in place and they need a long-term transformation to measure the impacts. Meanwhile, worsening congestion of motorized situation is adversely affecting the city's competitiveness and human life. By redefining the transportation and city interaction, can transit once again play a central role in HCM city after having been structured since colonial time? Would a future of HCM paired with integration concept be an alternative to the motorized city? Being considered as a means of public transport for those who cannot afford cars, what can be the prediction of advantages and disadvantages after Transport Master Plan towards 2030 are done? Transport differs from other problems developing societies face, because it gets worse rather than better with economic growth. While sanitation, education, and other challenges improve with economic growth, transport gets worse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is a collection of desludging and sanitation service models in sanitation value chain in south-east Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The paper presents a holistic analysis on different desludging and sanitation service models, what worked in different geographical region of south-east Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and reflecting the best sanitation practices for creating an enabling environment making sustainable sanitation value chain. From the study and literature it has been observed that desludging schedule is different for dry and wet toilets from 24–36 months to 1–2 months respectively depending upon the institutional and domestic utilization and sanitation practices. Also, It is has been reflected upon the construction quality of containment and its issues with emptying practice by development of hard crust of sludge. The study also briefly comments on the overall desludging practices affecting the digestion process of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Concrete is the most popular material construction which can be applied in broad construction projects. In addition, concrete is also featured with robust strength, durability, reflectivity, and versatility. However, concrete is prone to rupture that results in decreasing life span and its quality, so it requires additional cost for repair toward its damage. Self-healing concrete is one of the innovations developed by researchers to solve the cracks in concrete allowing the concrete to recover the cracks through the healing process. A self-healing concrete has more superior mechanical properties compared with normal concrete. Self-healing mechanisms can be divided into two types: autogenic and autonomic self-healing. Autogenic self-healing takes advantage of the formation of calcium carbonate crystals from unhydrated cement or mineral particles. Meanwhile, autonomic self-healing uses a healing agent capsulized into microvascular, microencapsulation, and pallets. Researchers applied self-healing concrete on a macro-scale, such as in panel walls, roof slabs, and river floodgates. This paper uses the literature review method to collect the data about self-healing concrete. This study aims to discuss self-healing concrete, its mechanical properties, durability, and analysis of the use of self-healing concrete from multi-perspective disciplines including economy, health and environment, construction, and public policy in Asia's countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These proceedings contain the papers of the 20th International Conference on e-Society (ES 2022) and 18th International Conference on Mobile Learning (ML 2022), organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, held virtually during 12-14 March 2022. Due to the unprecedented situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the conferences were hosted virtually. The e-Society 2022 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. The Mobile Learning 2022 Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning research which illustrate developments in the field. These events received 152 submissions from more than 28 countries. In addition to the papers' presentations, the conference also included one keynote presentation by Professor Pedro Isaias (Information Systems & Technology Management School, The University of New South Wales, Australia) and a Special Talk by Wilson Ramon Hernandez Parraci (Ph.D. Student, Northern Illinois University, USA). [Individual papers are indexed in ERIC.]

This research examined the bibliometric characteristics and trends of articles on intelligent transportation systems (ITS) indexed in Scopus by all around the world authors. Data from the Scopus database were collected, published between 1960 and December 2020. The combination of terms. The combination of words used to find the article related to ITS were "intelligent transportation system" or "intelligent transport system". This led to the finding of 17,373 articles Descriptive analysis was carried out to demonstrate the increase of publishing in literature, the number of published articles each year, the open access type, the publication source and the major journal. Next, the bibliometric analysis was carried out using VOS-viewer software to visualize patterns of the co-authorship, citations of documents, co-occurrence of keywords (co-words analysis). According to the findings, the ITS study has grown in recent years. Articles on the ITS study have appeared in 160 institutions, 160 journals, and 198 countries. The bibliometric analysis revealed that Tinghua University had the most publications on ITS-related research, with a total of 274 articles. Asia, and especially Chinese institutions, dominated the top 30 institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In March 2021, an ultra-large container ship, the M.V Ever Given, was stranded at the southern part of the Suez Canal and blocked the two ways of the canal and subsequently deferred more than 100 vessels traversing between Asia and Europe. The blockage was cleared within five days; however, notwithstanding the short period, the incident had caused huge world trade losses. One of the prevailing causes of ship groundings is manoeuvring difficulties due to ship-bank interaction. This study is therefore aimed at understanding the effect of the ship's size on the ship-bank interaction in a canal. In this paper, a mathematical model was developed to study the effects of ship-bank interaction on the manoeuvring performance of a large container vessel in a canal, with different ship parameters. The results showed that the increase in size and speed significantly influenced the bank-effect and contributed to the eventual grounding of the ship. The effect of rudder surface area to counter the bank-effect was also investigated. This study showed that increasing the rudder surface area can improve the counter-actions of the ship against the bank effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fish oil are currently high in demand due to its wide range of therapeutic benefits. High content of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) derived from various sources of marine life in fish oil are essential in human mental developments and metabolism. Swamp Eel Fish, scientifically known as Monopterus Albus is a freshwater fish that highly in demands across South-East Asia and can easily be found in Malaysia. This paper presents the study on the extraction of fish oil from the Monopterus Albus eel fish using microwave assisted extraction (MAE) process with ethanol as a solvent. The yield, acid value and free fatty acid (FFA) content of the Monopterus Albus eel fish oil were studied at different solvent concentrations (0 % v/v-100 % v/v) and solid-to-solvent ratios (0.04 g/ml-0.13 g/ml) with constant time, temperature and power of 30 min, 60 °C and 800 W, respectively. Concentrated Monopterus Albus fish oil was analyzed using 785 DMP Titrino Metrom and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results showed that the oil yield increases with the increases of solvent concentration and solid-to-solvent ratios with the highest yield of 14.60 % at 100 % v/v and 0.13 g/ml, respectively. Acid values and free fatty acid content recorded was 2.19 mg KOH/g and 1.14 %. Morphology of the before and after extraction process displayed significant structural changes on the surfaces of the sample indicated effectiveness of microwave-assisted extraction in extracting fish oil. The findings from this study suggested the best operating conditions to extracts fish oil from the Monopterus Albus eel fish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The global increased of market integration for the past few decades has been staggering. Although numerous research have shown market integration as one of the main drivers of economic growth, existing literature has yet to find a conclusive result. Hence, this study examines the impact of stock market integration on economic growth in 32 countries of Asia and Europe regions. The study utilizes the Kalman Filter method to generate the stock market integration index and heterogenous panel models to investigate its relationship towards economic growth. Overall, the result shows that stock market integration has positive impact on economic growth in Asia and Europe high-income countries. However, the impact is not significant in Asia Middle-Income Countries, which suggest the insufficient absorptive capacities in these countries to benefit from the market integration. Such findings call for more appropriate market liberalization policies that fits the economic environment and geographical location of these countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malaria is a national and global scale problem on Covid pandemic, with number of cases 516,272 (2020) in Indonesia and 7.9 million in Asia. Resistance use of insecticides, increase doses that harm non-target organisms. This research aims to determine LC90 in toxicity test of synthesis Nanosilver, Carbamate, and Organophosphate. It uses controlled post-treatment design, with total samples of 40 of treatment of Anopheles larvae in malaria endemic areas. LC90 calculation based on estimates and plotting the observed data with the y = ax + b formula. LC90 in synthesis of Nanosilver nitrate and Organophosphate is (0.5 mg/lt + 0.87mg/lt mg). LC90 in synthesis of Nanosilver nitrate and Organophosphate Carbamate are (0.5 mg/lt + 2.235 mg/lt). The absorption of silver nanoparticle into the body of larva Anopheles sp. occurs through the spiracles. Synthesis of Nanosilver and Organophosphate is more effective than Carbamate due to the nature of the Organophosphate and Carbamate materials which influenced by the size of the compounds. Synthesis Nanosilver nitrate (Ag2NO3) has LC90, 0.5 mg/lt + 0.87 mg/lt, which is effective for controlling larva of Anopheles sp. and eco-friendly material as it is better than Carbamate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to identify the implementation of Work-Based Learning (WBL) during the covid 19 pandemic in vocational education. The literature review systematic method approach is used for decision making from the implementation of Work Based Learning. We identified 151 articles from the Scopus database with keywords work-based learning virtual pandemic and conducted citation searches using five articles to identify relevant literature. Research using the term virtual educational, virtual reality landscape describe work-based learning for medical students. Apprenticeship and other forms of work-based learning can be an opportunity for empowering young people and adults, boosting their long-term employability through quality education and training. Consensus in Asia that apprenticeships and other forms of work-based learning may support the transitions of young people from school to employment and increasingly contribute to upskilling and reskilling of adults. Recommendations The implementation of WBL activities in the future will be carried out online and offline by continuing to apply the process but hard skills and soft skills are still obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brunei is considered as one of the countries which are the highest consumers of electricity per capita in Asia. Most of the consumption is mainly for domestic purposes, which includes the use of a water heater. The water heater is mostly used for showering, washing, and cooking. A flat plate solar water heater was designed to provide the inhabitant with hot water that utilizes natural convection, which is known as the thermosiphon effect. A prototype of a solar water heater was constructed and tested for its functionality and performance. The experiment was done for ten days which was held from the end of March to early April 2021. The results from the experimental study have shown that the prototype was able to achieve a temperature within the range of 50°C to 67.2°C. In addition, it also achieved an instantaneous optimum rate of thermal output of 6.19 kW and a maximum average daily solar collector efficiency of 67.2%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Progressive development of intellectual and expert information systems in plant agriculture requires more fundamental knowledge about local land agro- and ecosystem unique features, especially for regions with extreme climate conditions like Northern Asia. Each farm agriculture complex needs a lot of specific customization for digital technology applications which rises a need for effective knowledge base organization to perform an efficient data analysis and simulation modelling. For this purpose, conceptual modeling of spatial land characteristics was conducted using semantic network model. Formal modeling language UML was applied to fix 46 classes, attributes and relations as main abstract objects for agriculture land characteristic ontologies. Basing on which and independently of expert knowledge, a variety of 11 218 UML methods was designed and described. Upon expert consideration of the research, 7 types of data dependencies were classified, each of them allowing to calculate one given land characteristic using collected data for other ones. Results reveal clear classification of trajectories to build a digital image of agricultural land saving all possible variants for simulation modeling interpretations. Generalized semantic network for agricultural intellectual information system development is presented containing 36 basic entities and separating real agriculture from its digital image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with the analysis of expertise of a number of countries that were actively engaged in the process of transitioning their learning environment from campuses with their in-person classes to an online learning environment using various learning management systems, or online educational platforms, each of which possesses a number of tools. The term 'remote learning' is used together with more conventional terms of 'distance learning' or 'distance education'. The key purposes of the current research are to systematically describe the factual situation in the system of higher education in different world regions - from North-America to Asia – during the Covid-19 Pandemic spread in the year 2020 and to compare the online platforms used in the mentioned regions in the course of digital and distance learning in higher educational establishments. The findings of this multi-faceted research are compared and contrasted in the Discussions section which is aimed at summarizing the technological and methodological solutions of the leading learning management systems (LMS) that could be used in the process of developing a locally targeted educational platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Faw port was designed to be one of the great ten ports in the world, it connects Asia and Euro countries. There are more than 10 Million containers can be received each year. Therefore, storing these containers in the yard produces an optimization problem, which is a container handling problem (CHP). We propose a new method to solve handling problems that are designed and simulated depend on the Faw port requirements. The idea is to add a parameter to each container is a departure time. Therefore, it can be ranging the containers in the yard depending on the departure time to reduce the number of shuffling and retrieving the containers. The proposed method uses many roles to sort the container in the yard, then simulate the movement of containers from the yard crane to the yard side. Also, we compare the results of the proposed method with the traditional method to prove the efficient of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This systematic literature review article focused on the factors affecting the agricultural technology adoption decision among farmers of developing countries in Asia. This topic is widely discussed among scholars. However, most of the past studies were not focusing on the social science perspectives of Asian farmers. Hence, this review takes into consideration of several past studies on the topic of agricultural technology adoption within the Asian farmers. This review is guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analyses review protocol, which utilized one of the main journal databases of the Scopus and one supporting database of Dimension.ai. The selected articles review resulted in seven main themes as the main factors, which are socio-economic, agro-ecological, institution, informational, farmer's perceptions, behavioral, and technological based on the thematic analyses. From the seven main factors, it produced a total of 39 sub-themes. This review offered some significant contributions for government agencies related to agriculture, technology provider agency, and the body of knowledge toward understanding the effective factors of Asian farmer's technology adoption decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Xiong'an railway station near Beijing in China is the largest railway station in Asia. It was opened in December 2020 and took just 2 years to build. Novel features include extensive use of fair-faced concrete, self-sufficiency in lighting energy, sound-absorbing platform walls and artificial intelligence for real-time building management. The construction team focused on quality management and control throughout delivery, with extensive use of smart construction techniques. These included cloud computing, the internet of things, big data, artificial intelligence, mobile internet and building information modelling technology. The result is a world-class transportation hub delivered in record time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fish pastes are commonly consumed in Asia and it is made from ground fish meat mixed with flour, water, salt and spices.The study investigatedinfluence of microwave poweronmass transfer kinetics of fish paste drying. The moisture content and product temperatures were recorded in order to obtain the effective diffusivity that governs the mass transfer process. Drying rates were observed to increase with increment inmicrowave power from 300 to 900W. The drop in moisture ratios followed exponential decaying trend typical for food products. COMSOL Mutiphysicswas used to simulate the mass transfer process in 2D geometry. The effective diffusivities were incorporated into the Fick' slawmodeland able to provide good prediction of the moisture distribution within the fish paste sample. Effective diffusivities were determined and fall within the range as reported in published literatures (10−8 – 10−12 m2/s). Simulation showed that middle section of the hot air dried sample registered higher moisture ratio (MR = 0.11)than the microwave dried samples (MR=1.3E-4 and below). Microwave is therefore recommended as one of the drying options to the food industry due to faster drying rate and more efficient heating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges with range of ecological, physical and health impact to civilization. The main cause of climate change is massive amount of CO2 emissions released due to anthropogenic. This study investigates the long-run relationship and short-run dynamic between carbon emissions with the selected economic variables and socioeconomic indicators. Utilizing data from twenty selected countries in Asia, the variables employed in this study consist of economic growth, energy consumption, government integrity and education level during the period 1995 to 2017. To achieve the objectives, the study has employed heterogeneous panel data techniques. The results of panel cointegration analysis indicates that there exists long-run relationship between total CO2 emissions into atmosphere and economic growth, energy consumption, government integrity and education level. In general, LGDP is found to be negatively affecting the LCO2 while LEC, LGOV and EDU are found to be positively related to LCO2. On the contrary, the income level of Asian countries does not have any impact in the long-term in analyzing the impact of economic and socioeconomic variables on CO2 emissions. Government bodies will need to promote the development and utilization of energy-efficient technologies. The more efficient the government regulate environmental policies, the better the countries able to mitigate the environmental pollution. A change of perception in education role is needed to create awareness for better and cleaner atmosphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technological advances have provided a variety of new touches in the website development process. The Asian Entrepreneurship Profiling website was developed to meet the needs of mapping the profiles of entrepreneurs in Asian so that users can independently conduct self-profiling of their capacity as entrepreneurs. This study aims to develop a website by following the Eight Golden Rules so that website development goals can be achieved. Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design serve as the main guide for developing a good website interaction design. This research combines two research methods in the process and activities of website development www.aseanentrepreneurshipprofiling.com, namely the System Development Life Cycle method and the Neuroresearch method. This study shows that the website has met the rules of the indicators contained in the Eight Golden Rules, namely Strive for consistency, seek universal usability, offer informative feedback, Design dialogues to yield closure, Prevent Errors, permit easy reversal of actions, keep users in control and reduce short-term memory load. Various indicators that can describe how the profile of a successful entrepreneur can be studied through the website www.aseanentrepreneurshipprofiling.com. This website has been developed in such a way as to meet various requirements in the Eight Golden Rules to meet the needs of today's entrepreneurs who must adapt to changing times and technological advances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]