Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 534-549
Author(s):  
Theofanis Exadaktylos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Area ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
New Curricula

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a ‘state of the art’ contribution about education in Greece, reviewing recent developments and reforms. As a policy area, education remains highly controversial in Greece from developing new curricula to the politicization of higher education. The chapter reflects on the pedagogical and political debates of the recent decades focusing on issues of policy implementation. It highlights the most recent round of reforms since 2011 including those resulting from the advent of Syriza to power, and looks at the period of the financial crisis to discuss issues of funding, the bailout agreements, and neoliberal ideas behind higher education. The chapter concludes by offering some suggestions for future research and sets out some of the respective challenges.

Status of Centrifugal Impeller Internal Aerodynamics—Part II: Experiments and Influence of Viscosity

1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 738-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Adler
Keyword(s):  
Viscous Flow ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Centrifugal Impeller ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Flow Problems ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Internal Aerodynamics ◽  
The Subject

Recent developments in internal viscous aerodynamics of centrifugal impellers and related flows are critically reviewed. The overall picture which emerges provides the reader with a state-of-the-art perspective on the subject. Gaps in understanding are identified to stimulate future research. Topics included in this review are: experimental work carried out in the last decade, the structure of turbulence in curved rotating passages and solution of viscous flow problems in impellers.

scholarly journals EEG-Based Emotion Recognition: A State-of-the-Art Review of Current Trends and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Nazmi Sofian Suhaimi ◽  
James Mountstephens ◽  
Jason Teo
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Eeg Signals ◽  
Recent Developments

Emotions are fundamental for human beings and play an important role in human cognition. Emotion is commonly associated with logical decision making, perception, human interaction, and to a certain extent, human intelligence itself. With the growing interest of the research community towards establishing some meaningful “emotional” interactions between humans and computers, the need for reliable and deployable solutions for the identification of human emotional states is required. Recent developments in using electroencephalography (EEG) for emotion recognition have garnered strong interest from the research community as the latest developments in consumer-grade wearable EEG solutions can provide a cheap, portable, and simple solution for identifying emotions. Since the last comprehensive review was conducted back from the years 2009 to 2016, this paper will update on the current progress of emotion recognition using EEG signals from 2016 to 2019. The focus on this state-of-the-art review focuses on the elements of emotion stimuli type and presentation approach, study size, EEG hardware, machine learning classifiers, and classification approach. From this state-of-the-art review, we suggest several future research opportunities including proposing a different approach in presenting the stimuli in the form of virtual reality (VR). To this end, an additional section devoted specifically to reviewing only VR studies within this research domain is presented as the motivation for this proposed new approach using VR as the stimuli presentation device. This review paper is intended to be useful for the research community working on emotion recognition using EEG signals as well as for those who are venturing into this field of research.

scholarly journals State of the Art in Alcohol Sensing with 2D Materials

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramin Boroujerdi ◽  
Amor Abdelkader ◽  
Richard Paul
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
2D Materials ◽  
Chemical Species ◽  
Weight Ratio ◽  
Layered Compounds ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Recent Developments

AbstractSince the discovery of graphene, the star among new materials, there has been a surge of attention focused on the monatomic and monomolecular sheets which can be obtained by exfoliation of layered compounds. Such materials are known as two-dimensional (2D) materials and offer enormous versatility and potential. The ultimate single atom, or molecule, thickness of the 2D materials sheets provides the highest surface to weight ratio of all the nanomaterials, which opens the door to the design of more sensitive and reliable chemical sensors. The variety of properties and the possibility of tuning the chemical and surface properties of the 2D materials increase their potential as selective sensors, targeting chemical species that were previously difficult to detect. The planar structure and the mechanical flexibility of the sheets allow new sensor designs and put 2D materials at the forefront of all the candidates for wearable applications. When developing sensors for alcohol, the response time is an essential factor for many industrial and forensic applications, particularly when it comes to hand-held devices. Here, we review recent developments in the applications of 2D materials in sensing alcohols along with a study on parameters that affect the sensing capabilities. The review also discusses the strategies used to develop the sensor along with their mechanisms of sensing and provides a critique of the current limitations of 2D materials-based alcohol sensors and an outlook for the future research required to overcome the challenges.

Report of the Executive Secretary

PMLA ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-541
Author(s):  
William David Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Financial Problems ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
Recent Developments

These are not the best of years for our Association, or, I suspect, for any professional association involved with higher education. The problems are, of course, financial, problems on which I hardly need elaborate since they are problems with which, in our colleges and universities as well as in our homes, we are all familiar. I do feel obliged to make a few comments on the Association's financial crisis before concluding this report, but, since this is the season to be jolly, I prefer to begin on a happier note by discussing recent developments that I think are of special importance to the Association.

scholarly journals Categories for Barriers to Digital Transformation in Higher Education: An Analysis Based on Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 658-664
Author(s):  
Bayu Rima Aditya ◽  
◽  
Ridi Ferdiana ◽  
Sri Suning Kusumawardani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Fish Bone ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Structured Literature Review

For higher education institutions that encourage digital transformation, understanding the barriers are necessary for the digital transformation accomplishment. The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the literature on barriers to digital transformation in higher education. To get a wide overview in identifying the barriers to the implementation of digital transformation, a structured literature review was used to select the relevant studies published. Nine categories were identified based on the literature reviewed: vision, strategy and policy, resources, leadership, digital skill and knowledge, technology, adaptability, resistance to change, and government and economic. Our findings provided a fish-bone diagram that outlines twenty-two barriers to digital transformation in higher education. The main contribution of this study is a synthesis of the state of the art of barriers to digital transformation in higher education. We contribute to provide a common basic understanding of barriers to digital transformation in higher education to overcome barriers for improving the possibility of success. Moreover, we give an insight into future research on barriers exploration

scholarly journals Intelligent Robots for Fruit Harvesting: Recent Developments and Future Challenges

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongyu Zhou ◽  
Xing Wang ◽  
Wesley Au ◽  
Hanwen Kang ◽  
Chao Chen
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
System Architectures ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intelligent Robots ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Growing Population

Abstract Intelligent robots for fruit harvesting have been actively developed over the past decades to bridge the increasing gap between feeding a rapidly growing population and limited labour resources. Despite significant advancements in this field, widespread use of harvesting robots in orchards is yet to be seen. To identify the challenges and formulate future research and development directions, this work reviews the state-of-the-art of intelligent fruit harvesting robots by comparing their system architectures, visual perception approaches, fruit detachment methods and system performances. The potential reasons behind the inadequate performance of existing harvesting robots are analysed and a novel map of challenges and potential research directions is created, considering both environmental factors and user requirements.

Social Welfare Policy

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Carl Rom
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Area ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Redistribute Income

This article examines social welfare policies and policymaking, which concern programs that either redistribute income or provide services to individuals to improve the quality of their lives. The author explains major social welfare policy areas, their history, and their content. The article then explores the politics of policymaking in this policy area, with particular attention to the roles of institutions, federalism, and reform, as well as the politics of policy implementation and the important role of race in this policy area. Avenues for future research are discussed.

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