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The current transition to the electric car by all users is advancing steadily, and hence the design of these products occupies a prominent place in the car design sector. Likewise, the user experience is one of the determining aspects for the choice of a model. The main objective of this work is to determine, through eye tracking, which areas of an image (in this case, images of the front of cars) are more influential in the perception of the vehicle as either electric or combustion-powered, by segmenting the most important areas of a vehicle and users' perceptions thereof according to gender and other socio-demographic variables. This work provides an experimental design and a way to analyse and draw conclusions from an oculometry study for vehicles, as well as an initial design briefing for the generation of the visual identity of electric vehicles based on the perception of users for different elements of the vehicle. A methodology is proposed that includes the use of tools such as ANOVAs, eye-tracking, heat maps, tracking maps and fixation times. Through this data it is possible to develop optimal designs aligned with the user's perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in healthcare settings has revolutionized patient care and medical diagnostics. However, this rapid proliferation of connected medical devices has also brought forth unprecedented challenges in ensuring the security and privacy of sensitive healthcare data. This paper aims to address the pressing issue of cybersecurity in healthcare IoT ecosystems, investigating potential vulnerabilities and proposing a comprehensive framework to enhance the resilience and security of medical data and connected devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Patient triage is crucial in emergency departments, ensuring timely and appropriate care based on correctly evaluating the emergency grade of patient conditions. Triage methods are generally performed by human operator based on her own experience and information that are gathered from the patient management process. Thus, it is a process that can generate errors in emergency-level associations. Recently, Traditional triage methods heavily rely on human decisions, which can be subjective and prone to errors. A growing interest has recently been focused on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to develop algorithms to maximize information gathering and minimize errors in patient triage processing. We define and implement an AI-based module to manage patients’ emergency code assignments in emergency departments. It uses historical data from the emergency department to train the medical decision-making process. Data containing relevant patient information, such as vital signs, symptoms, and medical history, accurately classify patients into triage categories. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieved high accuracy outperforming traditional triage methods. By using the proposed method, we claim that healthcare professionals can predict severity index to guide patient management processing and resource allocation.

Patient triage is crucial in emergency departments, ensuring timely and appropriate care based on correctly evaluating the emergency grade of patient conditions. Triage methods are generally performed by human operator based on her own experience and information that are gathered from the patient management process. Thus, it is a process that can generate errors in emergency-level associations. Recently, Traditional triage methods heavily rely on human decisions, which can be subjective and prone to errors. A growing interest has recently been focused on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to develop algorithms to maximize information gathering and minimize errors in patient triage processing. We define and implement an AI-based module to manage patients' emergency code assignments in emergency departments. It uses historical data from the emergency department to train the medical decision-making process. Data containing relevant patient information, such as vital signs, symptoms, and medical history, accurately classify patients into triage categories. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieved high accuracy outperforming traditional triage methods. By using the proposed method, we claim that healthcare professionals can predict severity index to guide patient management processing and resource allocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indonesia is frequently plagued by intense lightning activity, leading to a multitude of incidents causing harm and devastation. As a proactive measure to mitigate future damages, an extensive research endeavor focusing on lightning peak currents was under taken in the maritime tropical continent region, particularly in Cilacap. This research aimed to curtail potential risks and enhance safety measures in the region. The impetus for this investigation stemmed from a series of incidents involving tank explosions in Cilacap, located in Central Java, Indonesia. These occurrences served as pivotal triggers, prompting a comprehensive analysis of lightning peak current statistics. According to the data collected, there exists a 85% probability of a lightning event in Cilacap producing a peak current of 18 kA. The implications of this research extend beyond the local scope, as the statistical insights gleaned from this study can serve as a foundational basis for the development of both national and international lightning protection standards. By integrating local statistics into the broader framework, a more comprehensive and effective approach to lightning protection can be devised, fostering greater resilience and safety measures not only in Cilacap but also in regions facing similar challenges globally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Title: Alleviating Personality Shadows among Iranian Women through Clothing Style Adjustment: An Archetypal Analysis according to Jean Shinoda Bolen's Theory According to Jung's psychoanalytic theory, predetermined archetypes reside in the human unconscious, profoundly influencing human life. Jean Shinoda Bolen, an American psychologist, identifies seven female archetypes derived from Greek myths, including Athena, Artemis, Hestia, Demeter, Persephone, Hera, and Aphrodite. Imbalance in these archetypes casts certain personality traits into shadow, amplifying the unconscious and impeding personal growth. Awareness and reconciliation of these shadows foster internal harmony and enhance self-understanding. This study proposes addressing personality shadows through psychoanalytic techniques and modifying clothing styles to mitigate the dominance of the unconscious mind and promote better decision-making. Clothing serves as an external expression of internal dynamics, reflecting one's psyche. By understanding a person's shadow archetype and considering cultural and social contexts, tailored clothing styles can promote mental equilibrium and diminish shadows. Encounters with the psyche's darker aspects often trigger intense reactions, hindering personal development. This research asserts that subtle changes in clothing can facilitate shadow confrontation, ultimately preparing individuals for deeper psychological exploration and growth. Aligning clothing styles with psychoanalytic interventions accelerates therapeutic progress and fosters inner peace. The study poses the question: How can community clothing designs effectively address personality shadows among women, drawing from Shinoda Bolen's archetypal framework? By identifying personality shadows, recognizing individual strengths and weaknesses, and acknowledging clothing's impact on the psyche, tailored clothing designs can complement therapeutic interventions. Given the diverse personality shades among Iranian women, exacerbated by modern communication dynamics and increased societal roles, this study focuses on this demographic. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis, involving 254 women aged 20-45 in Tehran, the research reveals that aligning clothing styles with desired archetypes accelerates therapeutic progress. Utilizing design elements to engage individuals in self-reflection enhances treatment efficacy alongside traditional psychoanalytic methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este estudo investiga as preferências de cores em diferentes tipos de roupas (casual, íntima, de dormir e social) no Brasil. Através de um questionário online, de abordagem quantitativa, com 501 participantes, descobrimos que o preto é a cor mais preferida dentre todos os segmentos, exceto em roupas de dormir, onde o cinza é preferido. As cores acromáticas em geral dominam as escolhas. Exploramos também a relação entre a preferência pelo preto, a cromofobia e o simbolismo sociocultural da cor. O estudo demonstra que as preferências de cores variam de acordo com o tipo de roupa, desafiando generalizações.

With the advancement of Mixed Reality (MR) technologies and bioinformatics, researchers are exploring new ways to enhance the visualization and analysis of genomic data. The integration of MR technologies in bioinformatics research has the potential to revolutionize the way scientists interpret complex biological information. This article discusses the application of MR in genomic data visualization and analysis, highlighting its advantages in facilitating a more immersive and interactive experience. In particular, we will present case studies related to the implementation of the Unreal Engine in MR for bioinformatics research. As part of the research, the role of intellectual property in bioinformatics will be analyzed, providing insights into its significance and implications in the field. The integration of MR can improve collaboration among researchers and assist in the understanding of intricate patterns within genomic datasets. Furthermore, the article examines the challenges faced in implementing MR technologies in bioinformatics and addresses possible solutions to overcome these obstacles. Overall, the integration of MR in bioinformatics research has the potential to reshape the field and drive innovation in genomic data analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This project promotes a human-computer interaction (HCI) approach where the movement of the cursor can be controlled by the camera in real time, it is an alternative to current methods including manual button entry or change the position of the physical computer mouse. Instead, it uses a camera and computer vision technology to control various mouse events and is capable performing all the tasks that a physical computer mouse can do. The Virtual Mouse color recognition program will continuously acquire in real time images, where the images go through a series of filters and conversions. Whenever the process is complete, the program will apply image processing technique to obtain the coordinates of the position of the targeted colors from converted frames. It then proceeds to compare the existing colors within the boxes with a list of color combinations where there are different combinations consists of various mouse functions. If the current color combination was found and match, the program will execute the mouse function, which will be translated into the actual function of the mouse to the user's computer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Formative elements of industrial design, i.e. design factors, represent components of its content, where together with the form of the design, they form an indivisible whole. Besides the aesthetic component, the other formative elements are not visually precisely defined, therefore an analysis is needed to determine their value. In the modern science and theory of industrial design, new knowledge and changes are constantly incorporated into the essence, in the value and in the meaning of certain formative elements of industrial design, where the interdisciplinary approach in creative activity is emphasized. With the development of mass production and consumption, the satisfaction of aesthetic factors in industrial design has an increasing importance. Also, with the development of the social standard and the general culture, the need for the design to be more and more attractive automatically opened up. The aesthetic characteristics that are most acceptable to people are: Compliance of the form, harmony, proportions of the dimensions, the unity of the product, the choice of color etc. Styling - Styling indicates the way in which something is made, designed or executed. Styling is a method and direction in design, in which designers impose inappropriate shapes on certain products, thus, in an unnatural or artificial way, they try to only seemingly change the shape of the objects, in order to get the impression that it is a new product. Fashion is a collective social phenomenon, but when it comes to industrial design, it is short-lived. It has a growing importance for certain categories in industrial design and is used as a tool for successful design. The influence and significance of fashion in industrial design cannot be neglected and has a decisive influence on the placement, and therefore on the existence of producers.

Currently, interest in the development of Internet-of-Things technologies is increasingly penetrating the field of clinical medicine. This paper provides an overview of the use of Internet-of-Things technologies in medical practice using the Scopus database of publications. The classification of publications on the topic of research directions with promising development trends has been performed. With this in mind, the concept of the architecture of a system for monitoring the condition of a patient with Parkinson's disease is presented. The necessary hardware and software solutions have been developed, taking into account the needs in order to more effectively adjust treatment and monitor the course of the disease. To more accurately determine the state of progression of the patient's disease, tests have been designed and developed to assess overall emotional and physical well-being. For the most effective correction and control of drug therapy, a prototype of a drug administration device with four compartments for a drug has been designed, each compartment of which is individually controlled by a specially developed Bluetooth data transmission protocol. Access to each compartment is individual, which ensures the versatility of the device for taking several medications throughout the day. The practical application of the solution has also shown the relevance of its use in the task of studying the course of Parkinson's disease as well as for monitoring the condition of a patient with existing concomitant diseases and the degree of their influence on the course of the underlying disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to this article, the development of production in the field of light industry requires the improvement of the production process and the introduction of excellent modern systems in it. One such system is materials for clothes, ensuring the marketability and other indicators of the manufactured product. In modernizing the fabric production process, it is considered an important factor in researching and improving the efficiency of fabrics for clothing.

This is a scientific article detailed information about the essence, principles, rules, elements, basic principles and methods of costume design. The features and tools of costume design are not only found in clothes, but also in works of art. It is presented as a broad theoretical information about color, styles in costume, details about styles and styles, ensembles are discussed in detail.The methods of artistic design of the costume are widely covered with information about decor and plastic and decorative features of selected materials, fashion functions, and accessories used in costume design. Teaches basic concepts of the concept of fashion and the functions of design and ensures the correct and intelligent use of design in future creative work.

The aim of the study is to describe and analyze the most important causes that lead to postpartum hemorrhage. This research was carried out at The Bent al-Huda Hospital for Maternity and Children's Hospital in Nasiriyah, where the study included (63) cases of women with postpartum hemorrhage from the reviews of the hospital for the period from February 2020 to December 2020 as shown in the hospital records, and collected information for the study through a simple questionnaire, including information: age of women, place of residence, place of birth, type of birth and causes of hemorrhage. Age groups between (40-44) accounted for (22?), (35-39), which are the highest age groups at risk of postpartum hemorrhage. The most frequent deliveries take place in the hospital, because natural or cesarean deliveries increase in this percentage. The results of the current study also show that there is no difference between natural childbirth and caesarean section with the occurrence of postpartum hemorrhage , that the condition of non-constriction of the uterus (inertia of uterus) constitutes (30%) and is considered the highest percentage among the causes of hemorrhage after birth, and then the causes such as the remnants of part of the placenta and the frequency of caesarean section by (16%), the use of accelerated medicines for childbirth and by percentage (14%) while the other causes came in low rates of cases postpartum hemorrhage.

The advent of the recent pandemic has remodelled the education system like any other profession. Changes in the education system have affected students of every age group and its effects will stay for generations. Online classes are the 'new normal' for educational institutions and they will be integrated into the mainstream education system at healthy doses even though the pandemic situation has come to an end. Online classes have taken education to the next level by bringing knowledge to the fingertips of students and had made highly sought- after information easily available to young minds. On the other hand, this unprecedented and abrupt shift from the conventional education model to the online model has taken the education system off balance. Online education is a change of paradigm for teachers and it is a great deal of effort to forego traditional methods to accommodate the new teaching methods for delivering the content more precisely and to maintain authority and rapport during the classes. Also, the overhead placed on parents, to make online education successful has been heavily understated. In addition to ensuring the required infrastructure, a heavy part of teaching and ensuring proper online behaviour of the ward has been handed over to parents instinctively and the parental efforts were drastic in the case of young students. This paper attempts to view the effects of online education from the perspectives of Teachers, Parents and attempts to unearth the ground-level difficulties of Students in the online education system caused by factors such as infrastructure limitations, physical strain, digital diversions, psychological barriers and lack of peer interactions. This work also attempts to study the responses of a group of students on the levels of difficulty with respect to the factors stated above. This work outlines possible ways to make online teaching mechanisms more effective and sustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Sew Me a Quilt. Tell You a Story. was a performative conversation between Sequoia Barnes and Carol Tulloch that took place at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (25 April 2019). It was in response to the exhibition Senga Nengudi (16 March–26 May 2019), notably her work Ceremony for Freeway Frets (1979) and the RSVP series. These feature costume and textiles associated with Black bodies which Barnes argues lean on the concept of fashioning – establishing design, making and aesthetic codes engineered by and superimposed onto marginalized people – a theme that Barnes explores in her research practice. For Tulloch these works reflect styling – the construction of self through the assemblage of garments, accessories, hairstyles and beauty regimes that may, or may not, be 'in fashion' at the time of use. To style one's body is part of everyday life, which is agency and a form of self-telling. 'Fashioning' and 'styling' are different, yet equally valid, approaches to thinking about making the self. In this article we will discuss how exploration of the concepts Black fashioning and Black styling informed the performance Sew Me a Quilt. Tell You a Story. through two women hand-stitching a quilt, a joint act that is a longstanding signifier of Black women's making traditions, storytelling and communal experience. As two Black women who are culturally and generationally different – Barnes is African American and Tulloch is Black British – our shared diasporic connections to quilt-making engendered our pursuit of authorship and agency through making in the otherwise privileged space of the 'white cube gallery'. Additionally, the article will discuss how this performative conversation blurred the lines between making and performance, materiality and lived experiences as well as how our performative exchange of knowledge – academic, cultural and political – created something that went beyond the usual experience of visiting a gallery to 'look at art' to seeing and listening. The original idea for the performance, instigated by Barnes, was for her and Tulloch to talk while hand-stitching an unfinished quilt, which Tulloch began in 2010, in front of an audience they were not to engage with. The intention was to hold space for the audience to enable listening. In practice, the performative conversation also held space for: different kinds of conversations and listening; emotional experiences and healing; and consideration of how Tulloch and Barnes fashion/style their own identities through memories as they stitched towards completing a quilt as a form of remembrance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]