A State-of-the-Art Review on Suitability of Granite Dust as a Sustainable Additive for Geotechnical Applications

The increase in infrastructure requirement drives people to use all types of soils, including poor soils. These poor soils, which are weak at construction, must be improved using different techniques. The extinction of natural resources and the increase in cost of available materials require us to think of alternate resources. The usage of industry by-products and related methods for improving the properties of different soils has been studied for several years. Granite dust is an industrial by-product originating from the primary crushing of aggregates. The production of huge quantities of granite dust in the industry causes severe problems from the handling to the disposal stage. Accordingly, in the civil engineering field, the massive utilization of granite dust has been proposed for various applications to resolve these issues. In this context, the present review provides precise and valuable content on granite dust characterization, its effect as a stabilizer on the behavior of different soils, and its interaction mechanisms. The efficacy of the granite dust in replacing sand in concrete is explored followed by its ability to improve the geotechnical characteristics of clays of varying plasticity are explored. The review is even extended to study the effect of binary stabilization on clays with granite dust in the presence of calcium-based binders. The practical limitations encountered and its efficiency over other stabilizers are also assessed. This review is further extended to analyze the effect of the granite dust dosage for various field applications.

B2B digital content marketing in uncertain situations: a systematic review

Purpose Despite the significant potential of digital content marketing (DCM) to establish public and professional awareness, especially in uncertain situations, no previous research has investigated how to plan business-to-business DCM to help firms and society get through a crisis. Thus, this study aims to offer an integrative framework for providing valuable information for managing uncertainty, particularly during the pandemic crisis. Design/methodology/approach Through the lens of business awareness, this research explores relevant content types that can help firms and society get through the pandemic crisis. For this, the systematic review of 52 articles appearing in publication outlets for more than one decade (2010 to 2021) was conducted. Findings Based on the findings from the literature review, this paper identified two main categories of valuable content types for firms and society during the pandemic, namely, business-centered content types to enhance industrial environment awareness and human-centered content types to raise emotional awareness during the pandemic crisis. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research delivers the first scientific article that focuses on presenting an integrative framework for providing valuable content types helping firms and society to manage uncertainty.

Publishing Successful Practitioner (Teaching Techniques) Manuscripts for the Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

The Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities (JSESD)d is the premier journal focusing on the intersections of science education for students with disabilities. JSESD provides valuable content and context for teachers and researchers on what works in advancing science access, practices, and knowledge for all students across settings, grades, ages, and exceptionality. One way in which JSESD supports teachers and researchers is through publication of practitioner manuscripts also referred to as Teaching Techniques. These manuscripts focus on the how-to portion of science education. That is, JSESD practitioner publications give detailed information on how-to provide science instruction or how-to implement instructional strategies or supports, hence Teaching Techniques. The purpose of this paper is the provide guidance to authors on what to include (or not include) in Teaching Techniques practitioner manuscript submissions to JSESD for successful publication.

A novel DNA-based key scrambling technique for image encryption

Nowadays, data are the most valuable content in the world. In the age of big data, we are generating quintillions of data daily in the form of text, image, video, etc. Among them, images are highly used in daily communications. Various types of images, e.g., medical images, military images, etc. are highly confidential. But, due to data vulnerabilities, transmitting such images in a secured way is a great challenge. For this reason, researchers proposed different image cryptography algorithms. Recently, biological deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-based concepts are getting popular for ensuring image security as well as encryption as they show good performance. However, these DNA-based methods have some limitations, e.g., these are not dynamic and their performance results are far from ideal values. Further, these encryption methods usually involve two steps, confusion and diffusion. Confusion increases huge time complexity and needs to send one or more additional map tables with a cipher to decrypt the message. In this research, we propose a novel and efficient DNA-based key scrambling technique for image encryption that addresses the above limitations. We evaluate our proposed method using 15 different datasets and achieved superior performance scores of entropy, keyspace, cipher pixel correlations, variance of histogram, time complexity and PSNR. The experimental results show that our method can be used for image encryption with a high level of confidentiality.

Mindscape Commons

Developed by Coherent Digital, Mindscape Commons provides a platform for VR content relating to the health sciences, counseling, psychology, and social work. Content is either commercial, Open Access, research based, or exclusively developed by Coherent Digital. The VR experiences are available as 180/360 videos or animations, visible within a browser screen, through dedicated head mounted displays (HMD) from Oculus, and smartphones in conjunction with Google Cardboard. Experiences can be searched, browsed, and accessed from Mindscape Commons’ website and there are abundant filters to refine your results. The most valuable content is related to counseling simulations and was developed by Coherent Digital in conjunction with Mercer University and Penn State University. Being able to view content within HMDs is somewhat tricky, but the feeling of immersion and realism is greater. Pricing is reasonable considering the marketplace for educational VR content, and the number of experiences is expected to grow.

CRITERIA, INDICATORS AND LEVELS OF FORMATION OF THE ECONOMICS TEACHER’S METHODOLOGICAL CULTURE

University education has all the opportunities for the formation of methodological culture of future teachers of economics as an important characteristic of their professionalism. However, practice shows that not all of them are used to overcome the contradiction between the promising tasks of training a creative specialist and the reproductive nature of the methodological training of teachers of economics. To overcome it, a mechanism of methodological growth is needed for each student, who should be involved in active methodological activities, help to achieve positive growth dynamics of his methodological culture through the realization of goals and tasks that constantly complicate and affect the accumulation of his methodological experience. The success of this process is determined by how clearly students imagine the final product of methodological training in the form of positive dynamics of growth of the level of their methodological culture. The article is aimed to the theme of formation of the future economics teacher’s methodological culture. In accordance with certain structural components of the economics teacher’s methodological culture (motivational-valuable, content-procedural, intellectual-emotional, reflexive-evaluative) we determined the levels of formation of the economics teacher’s methodological culture, the criteria (motivational-axiological, semantic-operational, creative-emotional, evaluative criteria) and the corresponding indicators of this complex personal formation. In connection with the above we can state that the methodical culture of the teacher of economics combines in its content all aspects of methodical activity, methodical baggage of personality, methodical actions and solving methodical problems, without which there can be no optimal professional achievements of the teacher of economics, his innovative actions. methodical sphere of teaching activity. Methodical culture is manifested in two ways: on the one hand, it is an ideal structure that reflects the teacher of economics about the organization and implementation of methodological activities, indicates the readiness of the teacher to fully participate in methodological activities, providing sustainable interests, values, methodological competencies. type of professional pedagogical activity; on the other hand, is a measure and a way of his creative self-realization in methodical activity.

Brand Promotion Peculiarities

The brand promotion peculiarities are studied. It has been determined that the process of brand promotion includes: marketing a brand name and logo, making souvenirs, placing on various media, releasing videos, layouts for advertising, announcements on the Internet and much more. Used methods to promote brands are considered, such as: advertising, personal selling, packaging, 360° campaign, brand promotion on the Internet. The ways to promote a brand have been proven to be: website building, search engine optimization, social media, live streaming, storytelling, creating valuable content, blogging, email, LinkedIn Publishing Platform, prizes, infographics, car wraps, networking events, offline ads, promotions, loyalty programs, free trial product giveaways, strong branding. As a result of the study, it was found that brand promotion is the creation of consumer confidence in a product.

Correspondence between Ivan Aksakov and his Wife as a Source for the Study of Conservative Ideas in the Second Half of the 19th Century

The article provides a characteristic of the archive of letters between Ivan Aksakov and wife. It also analyses main aspects of valuable content of the correspondence. Anna Aksakova, the eldest daughter of Fyodor Tyutchev, was talented and well-educated. The woman not only loved and married Ivan Aksakov, she was his soulmate and committed interlocutor. In their letters Ivan Aksakov and wife mention a number of Russian intellectuals of the second half of the 19th century: writers, poets, servicemen, philosophers, historians and religious figures, representatives of the imperial house and ministers, diplomats, family members of relatives and close acquaintances. Religious, historical, political, aesthetic and other matters discussed in the correspondence are not only an important source for the study of social, literary and domestic environment of reformation period and, specifically, the works of Ivan Aksakov. They also allow to clarify conservative standpoint of certain Russian intellectuals in the second half of the 19th century.

Benefit-Driven Approach to Writing for the Internet

There is a dual challenge for writing content for the internet: conquering search engines and attracting the attention of target audiences. This chapter proposes a content planning and development approach with a triple focus: main keyword power, target audience, and benefit provided. It argues that keyword power, given by its search volume and effective competition level, provides only an incomplete starting point for creating valuable content, as content effectiveness will ultimately depend on the benefit provided for the target audience. A benefit-driven approach to writing valuable and optimized content is particularly interesting for increasing reach, interaction, and involvement, thus being recommended for inbound and content marketing strategies. The phases of benefit-driven content writing are described, from keyword choice to the main optimization procedures.