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2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjia Li ◽  
Ziwei Li ◽  
Huaiyun Kou

AbstractDesign for poverty alleviation (DPA) is becoming an active promoter and effective practice form of rural social innovation. This study aims to explore the sustainable, collaborative design path of rural poverty alleviation. Based on actor network theory, this study analyzes the poverty alleviation process of rural actor network construction and participatory translation through the perspective of design integration. The case study chooses the traditional Chinese handicraft, Shengzhou bamboo weaving, to discuss the key links and elements of sustainability such as the role, benefits, and interaction of multiple actors. The staged effectiveness and social impact of the design integration are evaluated by questionnaire surveys, in-depth interviews, qualitative and quantitative data collections, a logistic regression model was used to test for significant effects while adjusting for multiple factors simultaneously. The analysis shows that although DPA is difficult to realize the fundamental adjustment of the rights and interests of rural craftsmen, it plays a key role in guiding the development of industrial goals, expected economic and social benefits, brings huge driving force and implementation effect to rural social innovation. The actor network theory solves the problem of separation between the individual and network attributes of DPA among stakeholders, and provides an innovative basis for rural social innovation to choose effective design intervention and mechanisms to balance the rights and interests of various stakeholders.


Author(s):  
Birte Moeller ◽  
Christian Frings

AbstractAccounts of human action control assume integration of stimulus and response features at response execution and, upon repetition of some of those features, retrieval of other previously integrated features. Even though both processes contribute sequentially to observed binding effects in studies using a sequential prime-probe design, integration and retrieval processes theoretically affect human action simultaneously. That is, every action that we execute leads to bindings between features of stimuli and responses, while at the same time these features also trigger retrieval of other previously integrated features. Nevertheless, the paradigms used to measure binding effects in action control can only testify for integration of stimulus and response features at the first (R1, n-1, or prime) and retrieval of the past event via feature repetition at the second (R2, n, or probe) response. Here we combined two paradigms used in the action control literature to show that integration and retrieval do indeed function simultaneously. We found both significant stimulus-response and significant response-response binding effects, indicating that integration of responses must have occurred at the same time as response retrieval due to feature repetition and vice versa.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Wu ◽  
Xuanlin Du ◽  
Xiaohui Meng ◽  
Dong Qiu ◽  
Yan Qiao

AbstractIntegrative colloidosomes with hierarchical structure and advanced function may serve as biomimetic microreactors to carry out catalytic reactions by compartmentalizing biological species within semipermeable membranes. Despite of recent progress in colloidosome design, integration of biological and inorganic components into tiered structures to tackle the remaining challenges of biocatalysis is highly demanded. Here, we report a rational design of three-tiered colloidosomes via the Pickering emulsion process. The microreactor consists of crosslinked amphiphilic silica-polymer hybrid nanoparticles as the semipermeable shell, an enzyme-incorporated catalytic sub-layer, and a partially-silicified adsorptive lumen. By leveraging confinement and enrichment effect, we demonstrate the acceleration of lipase-catalyzed ester hydrolysis within the microcompartment of organic-inorganic hybrid colloidosomes. The catalytic colloidosomes are further assembled into a closely packed column for enzymatic reactions in a continuous flow format with enhanced reaction rates. The three-tiered colloidosomes provide a reliable platform to integrate functional building blocks into a biomimetic compartmentalized microreactor with spatially controlled organization and high-performance functions.


Author(s):  
Inmaculada Armengol ◽  
Alejandro Suarez ◽  
Guillermo Heredia ◽  
Anibal Ollero

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Miguel Susano Pinto ◽  
Mick A. Phillips ◽  
Nicholas Hall ◽  
Julio Mateos-Langerak ◽  
Danail Stoychev ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Custom-built microscopes often require control of multiple hardware devices and precise hardware coordination. It is also desirable to have a solution that is scalable to complex systems and that is translatable between components from different manufacturers. Here we report Python-Microscope, a free and open-source Python library for high-performance control of arbitrarily complex and scalable custom microscope systems. Python-Microscope offers simple to use Python-based tools, abstracting differences between physical devices by providing a defined interface for different device types. Concrete implementations are provided for a range of specific hardware, and a framework exists for further expansion. Python-Microscope supports the distribution of devices over multiple computers while maintaining synchronisation via highly precise hardware triggers. We discuss the architectural features of Python-Microscope that overcome the performance problems often raised against Python and demonstrate the different use cases that drove its design: integration with user-facing projects, namely the Microscope-Cockpit project; control of complex microscopes at high speed while using the Python programming language; and use as a microscope simulation tool for software development.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Halyna Tkachuk ◽  

In the article, the author considers the organization of personalized learning of students of higher education by designing a pedagogical model of education. Personalized learning improves the educational process, as the student can build their own educational trajectory according to their individual needs, interests, preferences, and abilities. The proposed pedagogical model reveals the structure and content of personalized education of higher education institutions, the central figure of which is the student, his educational needs, interests, and abilities. We have identified the purpose of personalized learning, the principles and main stages that reflect the dynamics of its operation, as well as the pedagogical conditions for effective implementation of the proposed model. We have identified the basic principles of personalized learning. These are the principle of consciousness and activity of the student, accessibility and comprehensibility of the content of education, flexibility and adequacy of the educational process, the principle of consistency and dosage of educational content, social participation of participants in the educational process, control and self-control. The implementation of the model should be carried out in stages. These processes include the processes of initiation, diagnosis, and design, integration, with the latter process occurring cyclically. Pedagogical conditions are the main condition for the effectiveness of personalized learning. In the process of implementing personalized learning, it is advisable to adhere to the normative, socio-psychological, and organizational-pedagogical conditions of the educational process. The development of the model made it possible to identify certain characteristics of personalized learning. In particular, it allows to significantly increase the motivation to learn, to build an individual educational trajectory, to adapt the learning process in accordance with the student's interactions and through the mechanisms of electronic environment systems.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolai Iversen ◽  
Oscar Bowen Schofield ◽  
Linda Cousin ◽  
Naeem Ayoub ◽  
Gerd vom Bogel ◽  
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