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In the context of information explosion, neuromorphic and hardware‐based security devices have garnered significant attention for their capacity to facilitate parallel computing and not be vulnerable to hacking, respectively. A demonstration of a dual photosynaptic (DPS) and physically unclonable function (PUF) devices characterized by ternary TiO2‐x nanorods (NRs)/Pentacene/C60 heterostructure are simultaneously presented. For the DPS device, the ternary heterostructure leads to parallel‐operating DPS characteristics: i) wavelength‐dependent (WD) synapse and ii) stimulus‐moment‐dependent (SMD) synapse. Each synaptic characteristic demonstrates a remarkable degree of plasticity, which signifies a smooth transition from short‐term potentiation (STP) to long‐term potentiation (LTP). Moreover, The face recognition assessments have unveiled recognition rates of 83.3% for 2 operational modes. Notably, the DPS device maintains stable performance on the business card, even after a rigorous 49‐day testing period and undergoing 1 000 bending cycles. Regarding the PUF device, the security keys with unique patterns are created due to random current distribution induced by placement‐dependent doping effects of SnO2 quantum dots (QDs). Moreover, near‐ideal inter‐hamming distances (inter‐HDs), uniformities, and entropies are verified for all cryptographic keys. These findings introduce a pioneering concept of photonic synapses with their successful integration onto various substrates, including the hardware‐based security PUF device. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the rapid development of the Taishan tea industry has become a business card of local specialty agriculture. However, as consumers' demands for Taishan tea product quality and safety continue to improve, the centralized database traceability system that the traditional Taishan tea industry relies on shows insufficient information credibility and core data security risks, making it difficult to match the diversified expectations of the market and consumers. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a trusted traceability model for Taishan tea based on blockchain technology, which utilizes blockchain technology and data hierarchical uploading mechanism to ensure data accuracy and transparency, and, at the same time, improves data uploading efficiency. The optimized SM2 encryption algorithm is introduced, and the execution efficiency of the encryption algorithm is improved by the concurrent processing framework, which guarantees the security and transmission speed of the data. The experimental results show that the blockchain-based trusted traceability model for Taishan tea significantly improves the data security, query, and writing speed, and greatly optimizes the problems of traditional traceability methods. With this research, the results in this paper not only help to improve the quality and safety of Taishan tea products but also provide technical support for the production enterprises to enhance their brand competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractOnline social capital is a determinant of success for net-entrepreneurs. However, there has been limited research on how net-entrepreneurs acquire online social capital through social media. Therefore, this study aims to explore whether different digital behaviors of net-entrepreneurs lead to differences in acquiring online social capital. We conducted empirical tests using partial least square structural equation method and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) based on survey data from 306 Chinese agricultural net-entrepreneurs. The results revealed that digital business card (profile and state self-disclosure) significantly influences bridging online social capital (BRSC) and bonding online social capital (BOSC). Certain subcomponents of digital information and digital communication serve as significant predictors of online social capital. Furthermore, the acquisition of BRSC has three distinct configurational conditions, while BOSC has four. This study provides valuable insights for net-entrepreneurs on utilizing different digital behaviors to acquire online social capital effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the impact of Ken Burns' documentary series "Baseball" on American culture and the author's personal connection to the game. The author reflects on the series' ability to explore various themes such as race, immigration, and labor through the lens of baseball. They also discuss how the series captures the timeless nature of the game and contrasts it with the modern trends in professional baseball, such as attempts to speed up the game and create a more entertainment-focused experience. The author concludes by emphasizing the importance of storytelling and personal memories in keeping the spirit of baseball alive. [Extracted from the article]

Josephine Botting's book on Adrian Brunel provides a comprehensive exploration of the British filmmaker's career, drawing extensively from his paper archive held by the BFI. The book examines Brunel's reputation as a highbrow filmmaker and his relationships with collaborators, contrasting them with Hitchcock's ability to build a personal brand. While the book focuses on Brunel's work during the 1920s, it acknowledges his later films, many of which are lost. The book also analyzes key films in Brunel's career, offering insights into their production, critical reception, and box office performance. Overall, the book serves as an engaging introduction to the work of an overlooked British filmmaker during a transformative period in the industry. [Extracted from the article]

The article aims to analyze the possibilities of using metaphoric associative cards for working with businesses and organizations. Metaphoric associative cards could be used as an additional tool in counseling to provide the ability to work simultaneously within the emotional, mental, and physical dimensions of the client, creating a secure space for reflections during the team sessions and enhancing creativity during brainstorming. Enterprise organizations and small and medium businesses overcoming market challenges, and financial changes should adapt to any scenarios and transform rapidly by representing innovative solutions (new products, services, processes, opening new markets, going through M&A, etc.). Such transformations bring anxiety for an organization and all employees as the level of uncertainty is high and bringing clear communications to the company culture, developing space for reflection is critical (Giernalczyk, Lohmer, 2012). To discover potential scenarios of strategic development, working with a portrait of the customers for improvement for customer journeys, discovering blockers or potential root causes of new project initiations working with metaphors through the session with MAC could be helpful. Practical techniques that could be used during the work on requests of organizations described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the significance of business cards in the professional world, with a focus on their relevance for students navigating their career paths. Business cards are seen as a tangible representation of one's professional identity and a convenient way to exchange contact information. They are also viewed as a tool for networking and meaningful conversations. The article showcases examples of student assignments, highlighting their unique and creative approaches to designing business cards. It emphasizes the importance of embracing diverse perspectives and empowering students to leverage their individual strengths. The article references various sources, including articles on personal branding, career success, the evolution of artists, and the use of IoT technology in collaborative learning analysis. [Extracted from the article]

How we shape and socially present our body has extraordinary social importance: appearance is our first business card by which people frame and judge us. This evaluation ends up conditioning our daily lives, from social to professional opportunities. In Portugal, as in many other contexts, one of the most important criteria for determining whether someone is healthy and beautiful is thinness. In a society where thinness and physical perfection are pursuable ideals, this article explores through qualitative methodologies the impact of the discourse linked to the problem of obesity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the multiplication and exacerbation of body-related conflicts in Portuguese women aged 18 to 65. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We build a bridge between relationship lending and transactions lending—investigating relationship effects on contract terms for credit cards, a relatively pure transactions-lending technology. Using more than 1 million accounts, we find that during normal times, consumers with relationships obtain better terms but small businesses with relationships do not. Both groups obtain improved terms during COVID-19, consistent with intertemporal smoothing—relationship borrowers obtain more favorable terms during crises, paid for by worse terms in normal times. Among other findings, CARES Act impediments to reporting consumer delinquencies to credit bureaus, designed to protect customers, reduced informational value of credit scores, penalizing safer consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How people pay is critically important to consumers and businesses alike. Many consumers are choosing to pay for goods and services from an increasing number of options. Tech‐savvy urbanites buy coffee by tapping their phone on a reader. Parents returning from a night out use peer‐to‐peer payment apps, such as Venmo, to pay the sitter. The recent explosion of financial innovations promises faster, more efficient, and cheaper transactions. These increasing digital payment options coincide with decreased number and volume of cash transactions. However, vulnerable populations face more constrained payment choices and often rely exclusively on cash. Without experience, devices, or acceptable credit histories, vulnerable populations may have little access to digital transactions. The advantages of falling digital costs and other benefits thus accrue to the digitally connected. At the same time, those who must transact in coins and paper money are likely to find their relative costs increasing. This paper highlights payment trends and the potential impact on vulnerable populations in the United States as we move toward a cashless society. This paper should stimulate discussions of public policy initiatives to mitigate digital payment issues for vulnerable people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The rapid development of information and communication technology has fostered a natural integration of technology and design. As a result, there is increasing interest in Augmented Reality (AR) business card systems that leverage digital media. This research aims to advance the design of an AR-based participatory business card information system in line with contemporary trends. Key aspects of this study include applying technology to acquire contextual information from paper business cards, transmitting it to a server, and delivering it to mobile devices; facilitating interactivity between users and content through a screen interface; providing multimedia business content (video, image, text, 3D elements) via image markers recognized by users on mobile devices, while also adapting the type and method of content delivery. The AR business card system designed in this research enhances traditional paper business cards by incorporating visual information and interactive elements and automatically generating buttons linked to phone numbers, location information, and homepages. This innovative approach enables users to interact and enriches their overall experience while adhering to strict quality control measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to explore the history of scribes in the printing world. Scribes of printers were first needed with the using of lithography in the Ottoman World and by the time they became an actor of printing and publishing world. Printing clerks were first needed in the Ottoman world with the use of lithography, and in time they became an actor in the world of printing and publishing. Although they initially wrote books for lithographic printers, as new printing techniques develop, they wrote not only books but also business cards, invitations, company invoices, etc. Scribes of printers entered the market as freelance workers, then took permanent positions in printers and in the 20th century they opened calligraphy stores for printers but their story ended with language reform in 1928. It is emphasized that the development of printing capitalism after 1908 and that scribes became important actors in the new market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Per capita meat consumption in post-industrial countries is higher today than it has been ever since the transition of hunter-gathering to agriculture, while attitudes toward meat production and animal killing have become increasingly characterized by moral ambiguity and disgust. To contribute to our understanding of the genesis of this meat paradox, this study analyses how mid-nineteenth-century Belgian meat retailers constructed the image of their product. Analyzing 54 porcelain cards, uniquely early pictorial business cards used to advertise, shows how they constructed a very specific image of meat and its production process, an image in which meat itself was almost wholly absent. As shifts in the production process removed the animals behind the urban meat supply further and further from urbanites' sight, meat retailers deliberately called upon images of idealized healthy living animals in profoundly natural settings. Reminders of the brutal production process were avoided at all costs. Rather, meat retailers sold the idea of meat consumption as intricately linked to a romanticized pastoral life, where animals lived free from human constraints or instrumentalization. This highly paradoxical "naturalisation" process, cutting out all human intervention in the production of meat, still serves to underpin important cultural aspects of the meat paradox today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A smart business card printing system that automatically prints business cards requested by customers online is being activated. What matters is that the business card submitted by the customer to the system may be abnormal. This paper deals with the problem of determining whether the image of a business card has been abnormally rotated by adopting artificial intelligence technology. It is assumed that the business card rotates 0 degrees, 90 degrees, 180 degrees, and 270 degrees. Experiments were conducted by applying existing VGG, ResNet, and DenseNet artificial neural networks without designing special artificial neural networks, and they were able to distinguish image rotation with an accuracy of about 97%. DenseNet161 showed 97.9% accuracy and ResNet34 also showed 97.2% precision. This illustrates that if the problem is simple, it can produce sufficiently good results even if the neural network is not a complex one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects on the author's journey to overcoming their fear of networking as a doctoral candidate, starting with a missed opportunity at a conference and eventually learning to embrace small, genuine connections, realizing that networking is about building relationships.

The article in Advanced Functional Materials discusses the creation of a dual photosynaptic (DPS) and physically unclonable function (PUF) device using TiO2‐x nanorods/Pentacene/C60 heterostructure on a business card paper. The DPS device demonstrates high plasticity and 83.3% accuracy in face recognition tests, maintaining performance over time and bending cycles. The PUF device generates unique security keys with strong cryptographic properties. [Extracted from the article]

In this study, digital-business card holder software was developed that digitally stores physical business cards prepared in Turkish in a cloud-based database. In the proposed software, the information on the physical business card is converted into text by optical character recognition method (OCR) using business card photos, and then the texts obtained with the help of developed algorithms are separated and grouped. Finally, the digitally obtained business card data is stored in the cloud-based database for later use. Considering the Turkish business cards, it is known that there are a wide variety of complex business cards unique to the country as well as the characters specific to the Turkish language. In this context, first of all, a method that correctly recognizes Turkish characters has been determined in the study. Later, name, mobile phone, e-mail address, company title, position and similar meaningful information were separated from the data read. In order to make these decompositions, special methods have been developed for each field and more accurate and meaningful data has been obtained with field-based algorithms. Thanks to the developed cloud-based platform-independent interface, it is possible to access data from more than one device with a single user over the internet. The study also offers a layered service architecture and database infrastructure that can be used by multiple accounts and multiple users connected to it simultaneously from a single platform. In addition, in the analyzes performed with the developed software, it was determined that 15 business cards with different features were read with an accuracy rate of over 80%.

Counterfeiting of financial cards and marketable securities is a major social problem globally. Electronic identification and image recognition are common anti-counterfeiting techniques, yet they can be overcome by understanding the corresponding algorithms and analysis methods. The present work describes a physically unclonable functions taggant, in an aqueous-soluble ink, based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering of discrete self-assemblies of Au nanoparticles. Using this stealth nanobeacon, we detected a fingerprint-type Raman spectroscopy signal that we clearly identified even on a business card with a pigment mask such as copper-phthalocyanine printed on it. Accordingly, we have overcome the reverse engineering problem that is otherwise inherent to analogous anti-counterfeiting techniques. One can readily tailor the ink to various information needs and application requirements. Our stealth nanobeacon printing will be particularly useful for steganography and provide a sensitive fingerprint for anti-counterfeiting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]