Analysis of Mass Media Influences on British Contemporary Art: A Turner Prize perspective

Turner Prize has grown from an unattended state to an authoritative art festival. Besides the innovation of its own evaluation criteria, it also benefits from the extensive involvement of the media in the Turner Prize. The upsurge of visits and public discussion caused by this changed the cultural influence of contemporary art on the public, promoted the prosperity of the art market, and gave birth to new art forms. This paper attempts to analyse the positive and negative influences of mass media on British contemporary art from the Turner Prize and mass media. Keywords: Contemporary Art; Mass media; Turner Prize; Art Market eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under the responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI7.377

Art throughout the Industrial Revolution and Art Framework for the Industrial Revolution 4.0

This review paper presents the scenario of the revolution in Malaysia. The industrial revolution has changed from Industrial Revolution 1.0 to Industrial Revolution 2.0, Industrial Revolution 3.0 and now its culmination of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. Several documents were reviewed to identify the dynamic framework of art within Industrial Revolution 4.0. With the art framework related is detailed with a component of the artist as co-creator, hybrid types of production and the attribute of a super bright society. Creative humans should refer to several key points to be more prepared, equipped and, realistic, coherent with society 5.0. Keywords: art framework, Industrial Revolution 4.0, society 5.0 eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under the responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI7.377

Implementation of a positive youth development program by class teachers in a Chinese context

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Laser Generation and Detection of Surface Acoustic Waves Using Gas-Coupled Laser Acoustic Detection

Laser generation and detection of ultrasound has the advantage of requiring no mechanical contact with the materials under investigation. We previously reported [1] laser-based measurements on Lamb waves in graphite/polymer composite laminates using a confocal Fabry-Perot interferometer for detection. Related work by other groups includes air-coupled detection of Lamb waves in similar composites using capacitive transducers [2,3] and interferometric detection of Lamb waves in paper [4]. Our earlier work has been extended using Gas-Coupled Laser Acoustic Detection (GCLAD), an economical alternative laser-based method which has the additional advantage that the detection laser beam is not reflected from the sample surface. GCLAD is thus particularly useful for materials with surfaces of poor optical quality. We demonstrate below that the combination of laser generation and GCLAD can be used to obtain well-resolved surface-acoustic waves (SAWs) in a variety of materials, including metals, paper, thin films, and composite pre-preg tape. We also show some preliminary SAW scans obtained with laser generation and GCLAD using metallic samples. Each pixel in the scans represents the strength of a SAW passing through a portion of the sample with an area of about 1 cm2. Scans of this type offer the possibility of economical testing of large sample areas, potentially on-line in a manufacturing environment

Identification of masses in digital mammogram using gray level co-occurrence matrices

Digital mammogram has become the most effective technique for early breast cancer detection modality. Digital mammogram takes an electronic image of the breast and stores it directly in a computer. The aim of this study is to develop an automated system for assisting the analysis of digital mammograms. Computer image processing techniques will be applied to enhance images and this is followed by segmentation of the region of interest (ROI). Subsequently, the textural features will be extracted from the ROI. The texture features will be used to classify the ROIs as either masses or non-masses. In this study normal breast images and breast image with masses used as the standard input to the proposed system are taken from Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) digital mammogram database. In MIAS database, masses are grouped into either spiculated, circumscribed or ill-defined. Additional information includes location of masses centres and radius of masses. The extraction of the textural features of ROIs is done by using gray level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM) which is constructed at four different directions for each ROI. The results show that the GLCM at 0º, 45º, 90º and 135º with a block size of 8X8 give significant texture information to identify between masses and non-masses tissues. Analysis of GLCM properties i.e. contrast, energy and homogeneity resulted in receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve area of Az = 0.84 for Otsu’s method, 0.82 for thresholding method and Az = 0.7 for K-mean clustering. ROC curve area of 0.8-0.9 is rated as good results. The authors’ proposed method contains no complicated algorithm. The detection is based on a decision tree with five criterions to be analysed. This simplicity leads to less computational time. Thus, this approach is suitable for automated real-time breast cancer diagnosis system

Murine and related chapparvoviruses are nephro-tropic and produce novel accessory proteins in infected kidneys.

Mouse kidney parvovirus (MKPV) is a member of the provisional genus Chapparvovirus that causes renal disease in immune-compromised mice, with a disease course reminiscent of polyomavirus-associated nephropathy in immune-suppressed kidney transplant patients. Here we map four major MKPV transcripts, created by alternative splicing, to a common initiator region, and use mass spectrometry to identify "p10" and "p15" as novel chapparvovirus accessory proteins produced in MKPV-infected kidneys. p15 and the splicing-dependent putative accessory protein NS2 are conserved in all near-complete amniote chapparvovirus genomes currently available (from mammals, birds and a reptile). In contrast, p10 may be encoded only by viruses with >60% amino acid identity to MKPV. We show that MKPV is kidney-tropic and that the bat chapparvovirus DrPV-1 and a non-human primate chapparvovirus, CKPV, are also found in the kidneys of their hosts. We propose, therefore, that many mammal chapparvoviruses are likely to be nephrotropic

Epidemiological and genomic investigation of chikungunya virus in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, between 2015 and 2018

Since 2014, Brazil has experienced an unprecedented epidemic caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), with several waves of East-Central-South-African (ECSA) lineage transmission reported across the country. In 2018, Rio de Janeiro state, the third most populous state in Brazil, reported 41% of all chikungunya cases in the country. Here we use evolutionary and epidemiological analysis to estimate the timescale of CHIKV-ECSA-American lineage and its epidemiological patterns in Rio de Janeiro. We show that the CHIKV-ECSA outbreak in Rio de Janeiro derived from two distinct clades introduced from the Northeast region in mid-2015 (clade RJ1, n = 63/67 genomes from Rio de Janeiro) and mid-2017 (clade RJ2, n = 4/67). We detected evidence for positive selection in non-structural proteins linked with viral replication in the RJ1 clade (clade-defining: nsP4-A481D) and the RJ2 clade (nsP1-D531G). Finally, we estimate the CHIKV-ECSA's basic reproduction number (R0) to be between 1.2 to 1.6 and show that its instantaneous reproduction number (Rt) displays a strong seasonal pattern with peaks in transmission coinciding with periods of high Aedes aegypti transmission potential. Our results highlight the need for continued genomic and epidemiological surveillance of CHIKV in Brazil, particularly during periods of high ecological suitability, and show that selective pressures underline the emergence and evolution of the large urban CHIKV-ECSA outbreak in Rio de Janeiro