scholarly journals Significant Applications of IoT in Covid Pandemic: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
SASEEKALA M
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Agriculture Education ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Education Industry ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Entire World

Today the entire world is in the exigency state-COVID-19 quarantine days. We should stay home to live. To avoid a fight over the spread of corona, the governments of all the countries have enforced a nationwide lockdown. Though the lockdown may have helped to control the spread of COVID, it has had a devastating impact on numerous domains like health, agriculture, education, global supply chains, trade, and various industries like automotive, power – electronics, travel, aeronautical, tourism industry…etc, which are the basic roots of the growth of a nation. This censorious situation can be wielded with the eminent technology “IoT”. Anytime, Anything, Anywhere”- this is the most significant feature of IoT. Any real-world object can be transformed into an intelligent object by the technology “IoT”. Because of the affordability and availability of smart devices, the entire world is more connected with IoT than ever before. From this standpoint, the authors have chosen five real-time areas health, education, industry, agriculture, and society. This survey initiates from the impacts of COVID in the above-chosen areas, how it diminishes the day-to-day events of human life, the vitality of IoT, how it helps to tackle the COVID issues without any quality degradation in this quarantine period. This systematic review completely appraises the innovations and contributions of IoT used by various researchers to defend the impacts of COVID and concludes with the pros and cons. A detailed exploration has been done in this article particularly on “IoT in COVID pandemic”. This will be more useful to the researchers to acquire clear-cut knowledge about the power of IoT, in particular how IoT plays a significant role in the period of COVID and further assists them to travel towards an innovative and serviceable direction in their research.

scholarly journals Smart Devices and Wearable Technologies to Detect and Monitor Mental Health Conditions and Stress: A Systematic Review

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3461
Author(s):  
Blake Anthony Hickey ◽  
Taryn Chalmers ◽  
Phillip Newton ◽  
Chin-Teng Lin ◽  
David Sibbritt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Stress Detection ◽  
Wearable Technologies ◽  
Detection Of Stress ◽  
Anxiety Depression

Recently, there has been an increase in the production of devices to monitor mental health and stress as means for expediting detection, and subsequent management of these conditions. The objective of this review is to identify and critically appraise the most recent smart devices and wearable technologies used to identify depression, anxiety, and stress, and the physiological process(es) linked to their detection. The MEDLINE, CINAHL, Cochrane Central, and PsycINFO databases were used to identify studies which utilised smart devices and wearable technologies to detect or monitor anxiety, depression, or stress. The included articles that assessed stress and anxiety unanimously used heart rate variability (HRV) parameters for detection of anxiety and stress, with the latter better detected by HRV and electroencephalogram (EGG) together. Electrodermal activity was used in recent studies, with high accuracy for stress detection; however, with questionable reliability. Depression was found to be largely detected using specific EEG signatures; however, devices detecting depression using EEG are not currently available on the market. This systematic review highlights that average heart rate used by many commercially available smart devices is not as accurate in the detection of stress and anxiety compared with heart rate variability, electrodermal activity, and possibly respiratory rate.

The Impact of Classroom Chatter Noise on Comprehension: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 003151252110059
Author(s):  
Anne-Sophie Lamotte ◽  
Aziz Essadek ◽  
Gérard Shadili ◽  
Jean-Michel Perez ◽  
Julien Raft
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Noisy Environment ◽  
Student Comprehension ◽  
The Impact

Communication through discussion and conversations is fundamental to human life; but when such discourse escapes the control of a teacher in the classroom, it becomes little more than chatter. This noise challenges teaching methods and the teaching stance with students. Yet, its impact on comprehension has rarely been studied. The aim of this literature review was to examine the research on the impact of classroom noise generated by chatter on students’ comprehension performance. We adopted the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Metanalysis) guidelines to examine this literature. This review covered a 10-year period (papers written between 2009 and 2019), with nine experimental studies selected from the 2,954 papers screened. In 89% of these nine studies, there were significant comprehension differences on all tests, revealed when comprehension took place in a noisy environment due to chatter. This review indicated an essential need for a field survey to better understand the impact of chatter on comprehension. Other studies are recommended to highlight any correlation between measured chatter and student comprehension in a real classroom environment.

Smart tourism destinations: a systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanaz Shafiee ◽  
Ali Rajabzadeh Ghatari ◽  
Alireza Hasanzadeh ◽  
Saeed Jahanyan
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Review Protocol ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Smart Tourism

Purpose This study aims to present a systematic review of smart tourism articles using a meta-synthesis method. Effective systematic reviews are essential for assisting stakeholders in implementing smart destinations. A systematic comprehension of studies on smart tourism is needed regarding the various components of smart tourism destinations, the metrics to map these components and their expected results. This study creates a framework for understanding how smart tourism destinations are theorized and developed. Design/methodology/approach Based on the meta-synthesis approach, this study collects, analyzes and synthesizes relevant research in smart tourism published in online databases by following a predetermined review protocol. Findings This study contributes to the discourse on smart tourism destinations by increasing the knowledge on the subject of smart destinations in regard to different categories. The selected articles were analyzed according to the proposed research questions and classified into three main categories: components, measurement and outputs. This study presents a new archetype for developing smart destinations and addresses efforts to bridge the gap in this research field. Practical implications This paper is noteworthy for stakeholders because it provides a comprehensive vision into the components that influence the growth of smart destinations. The advantage of the proposed methodology is that it creates a framework for understanding how smart destinations are theorized. Furthermore, it is helpful to use qualitative methodologies that efficiently allow the analysis of related literature and that also offer conceptual insights. Originality/value The findings provide information that can be used to help shape a fully conceptualized understanding of the smart destinations concept and can also prove important in providing a guide for policymakers and stakeholders in the tourism industry who seek to intelligently develop tourism destinations.

scholarly journals Strategies of contemporary culture in the concept of simulacres by J. Bordriyar

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
S. M. Forkosh
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Principal Role ◽  
The Real ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article analyzes the concept of simulators of J. Baudrillard in the context of the formation of a methodological toolkit for the research of contemporary culture. It is determined that attempts to consider the work of Baudrillard by certain stereotypes hide the fact that this philosopher, when creating models of the field of research, did not address the emerged methodological structures. The actual formation of a conceptual apparatus describing author’s models of the field of research turns methodological tools into signs that determine the field of Baudrillard’s research. One of the main conclusions that can be  made by exploring the Baudrillard concept is the provision of modern consumption as a consumption of signs and symbols that has lost touch with the pleasure of biologically based human needs. This process is called the desire of buyers to be identified. Baudrillard seeks to show that the signs themselves produce their referents and meanings. Moreover, the signs try to break with all meanings and references and to be closed only on interaction with each other. As a result, a real universe of signs appears and this sign-object machine seeks to absorb the «real» world. This is probably because language has always been a means of social control, and since in the era of globalization such exploitation of language has only intensified, now the signs are completely detached from their referents and the «era of simulation and simulacra» arises. The fundamental is discussing the evolution of the sign in its similarity with the evolutionary interpretation of labor. A «free» worker can produce only equivalences and a «free and emancipated sign» can only refer to equivalent values. That is why the philosopher determines the significance of the new European sign in the simulacrum of «nature» (the simulacrum of «nature» is regarded as the Idea of Nature). The problems of natural science and the metaphysics of reality are characteristic features of the entire bourgeoisie since the Renaissance.The principal role in the formation of Baudrillard’s conceptual representations belongs to language. The postmodern overcoming of the subject-object difference is realized by Baudrillard by appealing primarily to the linguistic or «sign» nature of reality. The object is transformed into an object-sign and as such, within the framework of the general theory of sign systems, becomes an encoded fragment whose main characteristic is not simply the stereotyped craving for «difference philosophy» but the subordination of the object system code to its totality. Objects appears from human life, and the life disappears as a subject, turning into a human-object, which like a thing, performing a certain function, appears in inter-human relations. Signed consumption covers the whole life of people, from consumption of things and ending with consumption of the environment of human life, which includes labor, leisure, culture, social sphere, nature. All this enters into human life in the form of consumed signs, «simulacrum», transforming it as a whole into a simulation, in the manipulation of signs. The sign, the «simulacrum,» indirectly helps a person to master reality, but at the same time he destroys the real, replaces it with himself. Therefore, it is impossible to distinguish reality from error, since a significant feature of our culture is that illusion, imitation or simulation is so deeply preserved in our lives that it makes impossible the distinction between the real world and the realm of the imagination. The position of the researcher that in the era of postmodernity the distinctions between true and false, authentic and unauthentic, real and unreal are disappearing, is one of the central in his works and indicates a possible vector of cultural development.

scholarly journals The Persuasive Power of Religious Metaphor in Selected Qur’anic and Biblical Verses

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (135) ◽  
pp. 11-32
Author(s):  
Hayder Sadeq Naser ◽  
Ali Badeen Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Persuasive Power ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Intensive Investigation ◽  
Metaphorical Analysis

The issue of identifying metaphors is not clear-cut in most religious texts (Charteris-Black, 2005). For metaphors that are dealt with by religious texts such as human life as a journey or as a game, a prayer as a flowing river, the living martyrs (the living dead), a taste of death, the journey of the dead and “die, yet shall he live” are mostly spiritual matters for which academic appraisal is essential (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Gibbs, 2008). That is, the quality of the explanations that are presented by such metaphors need an intensive investigation, because these are the key function of metaphor in religious texts. Moreover, metaphors in sacred texts may be misjudged due to: the absence of the image in the target language and the different symbolic meanings of metaphor in the source text. Therefore, we aim to tackle such a problem via analysing the different forms and functions of metaphors in selected Qur’anic and Biblical verses. To operate such metaphorical analysis, a two-dimensional model is adapted from two different discourse analysts: aI-Sakaaki (2000) and Lakoff & Johnson (1980). The study reveals how the persuasive power of metaphor in the Qur’anic and Biblical verses related are regulated around the diversity of ontological, structural and orientational forms, and how every correlation between two domains of metaphors can shape its functions.

scholarly journals Review of Safety Requirements Regarding Trading and Storing of Pyrotechnical Articles in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
Marzena Półka ◽  
Dorota Bielesza ◽  
Anna Szajewska
Keyword(s):  
Blast Wave ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Explosive Load ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Dangerous Goods ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Storage Facilities

Aim: The objective of the paper was to identify and analyse relevant requirements regarding the safety of storage and usage of pyrotechnic materials, intended for civil use. The review was based on binding applicable Polish and European legal acts. The results of the review pointed to the ambiguity of the provisions regulating the issues of safe usage and storage of pyrotechnical materials. Introduction: Some pyrotechnic articles, when triggered by a proper impulse, can lead to a violent reaction resulting in the release of a large amount of heat, and the creation of a blast wave. The effects of this reaction have a destructive impact on buildings situated nearby and pose a hazard to human life. Use and storage of pyrotechnic articles against the set rules is associated with the risk of fire or explosion, therefore a number of requirements have been introduced in this area. Methodology: In Poland there are many legal acts applicable to explosives. One of the most important one is the Act of 21 June 2002 on explosives designated for civil use, which presents pyrotechnic materials with respect to the safety of their usage and storage. Several key requirements have also been specified in agreements ratified in Poland and in other international acts, such as for example: the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road(ADR), and the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council 2013/29/EU of 12 June 2013 on the harmonisation of laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pyrotechnic articles. Results: It was established that there is a need of adopting a legal solution for storing pyrotechnical products for temporary sales in containers located near commercial facilities (and serving as back-up facilities). Although the regulations are not clear-cut, such a solution is used in practice, thus it would be advisable to determine by means of legal acts whether it is permissible and what requirements should be fulfilled, for example by a container, in which pyrotechnic articles are temporarily stored. Conclusions: The specification presented in the article allows to see the need to minimize the hazards associated with the marketing of pyrotechnical materials and justifies the necessity of adopting a particularly diligent classification and use of nomenclature for these products. In case of storing pyrotechnical materials, it is erroneous to adopt the determination of class “G” for two variable of net mass values of the explosive (when determining safe distances for explosive storage facilities, including among others class 1, sub-classes 1.3, 1.4). The same applies to the hexogen equivalent of an explosive load (when determining safe distances for explosive storage facilities including class 1, sub-classes 1.1, 1.5 and 4.1). Such provisions are misleading and may cause erroneous interpretations of regulations.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Tourism Industry: A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 458-469
Author(s):  
Arnaldo Borges Pinheiro ◽  
Agostinho Sousa Pinto ◽  
António Abreu ◽  
Eusébio Costa ◽  
Isabel Borges
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The Impact

Smart Technologies

2015 ◽  
pp. 116-132
Author(s):  
Evrim Çeltek
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Augmented Reality Application ◽  
Smart Technologies

The growing number of applications available through smart devices provides an increasing diversity of travel-related services like looking up menus for restaurants, finding directions, making reservations, marketing, advertising and using translations. In the last decade, marketers have developed more creative practices to attract consumers. One of these new marketing tools is augmented reality application with the smart technologies, which is considered as an advertising and new marketing communication instrument that increases awareness and helps get information. This chapter presents the profile of AR applications and marketing benefits in tourism industry.

Gamification Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 397-412
Author(s):  
Kingsley Ofosu-Ampong ◽  
Thomas Anning-Dorson
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Real World ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Agriculture Education ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Education Business

Despite advances in information technology, studies suggest that there is little knowledge of how developing countries are applying gamification in agriculture, education, business, health, and other domains. Thus, from a systematic review, this chapter examines the extent of gamification research in the developing country context. In this chapter, 56 articles were reviewed, and the search was done in the Scopus database. This chapter explains the idea of game design elements in information systems and provides real-world examples of gamified systems outcomes from developing countries. The authors conclude with directions for future research to extend our knowledge of gamification and advance the existing methodologies, domains, and theories.

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