scholarly journals Scaffolding Biomaterials for Cartilage Regeneration

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Cao ◽  
Ce Dou ◽  
Shiwu Dong

Completely repairing of damaged cartilage is a difficult procedure. In recent years, the use of tissue engineering approach in which scaffolds play a vital role to regenerate cartilage has become a new research field. Investigating the advances in biological cartilage scaffolds has been regarded as the main research direction and has great significance for the construction of artificial cartilage. Native biological materials and synthetic polymeric materials have their advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantages can be overcome through either physical modification or biochemical modification. Additionally, developing composite materials, biomimetic materials, and nanomaterials can make scaffolds acquire better biocompatibility and mechanical adaptability.

Author(s):  
Libor Juhaňák ◽  
Jiří Zounek

The goal of this chapter is to present and describe a relatively new research field, known as learning analytics, which focuses on use of a wide spectrum of analytical methods and techniques to analyze data coming from educational contexts. The first part of the chapter focuses on the historical context of analytics in education and introduces several research fields that participated in the creation and formation of learning analytics. At the same time, the development of learning analytics and basic related concepts are described in more detail. In the second part, the authors provide an overview of the main research fields and topics within learning analytics, including an overview of commonly used analytical instruments and systems. The final part of the chapter then focuses on challenges currently faced by the field of learning analytics, as well as on opportunities for further development and research within learning analytics in the upcoming years, which are now under development.


2007 ◽  
Vol 336-338 ◽  
pp. 2600-2604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Chun Ge ◽  
Xiao Feng Wu ◽  
Gui Ying Xu

Functionally graded thermoelectric material (TE FGM) is one of main research direction in research field of thermoelectric (TE) materials all over world. A lot of research work on TE FGM has been done to improve the conversion efficiency of TE. Here the development of TE FGM in recent years is discussed in the aspects of the model design, the materials selection, the barrier or joining choice and the device fabrication.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1287
Author(s):  
Angela Repanovici ◽  
Cristina Salcă Rotaru ◽  
Cristinel Murzea

Developing the sustainable thinking of students is an important preoccupation of specialists, teachers, and civil society. Information literacy represents the development of students’ skills to search, identify, evaluate, and ethically use scientific information. Is there a connection between sustainable thinking (ST) and information literacy (IL)? Through a scientometric study in the Web of Science (WOS) database, the authors identify clusters of keywords, analyze the articles identified in WOS, and identify the main research directions and the existing concepts. At the same time, a qualitative research study is performed regarding the opinions of students who participated in the IL class. By corroborating and interpreting the results obtained by the two previously mentioned research, the authors demonstrate a close correlation between the two, thus creating an extended map of these concepts, a limited map of the concepts used, and a theoretical map of the concepts. The connection between information literacy and the development of ST is demonstrated, thus creating the premise for a new research direction.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2(58)) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Tetiana Naumenko ◽  
Anatolii Petrenko

The object of research is the problems of storing and processing data in serverless technologies. The research carried out is based on a logical approach to storage, data processing and transmission processes. The main hypothesis of the study is that when moving from a monolithic architecture to microservice architecture, and then from a microservice architecture to a serverless architecture, the process of storing and processing data requires modifications and new approaches to solving classical problems of working with data. The problem of interacting with data is an integral part of the work of almost all computer systems, as they lay the basis for the goal of creating such systems. Serverless computing has already taken root in cloud computing. Improving its work is now one of the most popular tasks in the research field. In this article, let’s review one of the global problems – integrating serverless computing system with a database. As well as currently existing partial or complete solutions. Progress in this area can give impetus to the development of serverless technologies that supplant more outdated software development approaches. The result of these studies brings a certain understanding at what stage of development the above question is now. It also describes the advantages and disadvantages of the new systems. It is considered what innovations have been brought by the global giants in the development of serverless platforms, and what solutions are applied to open source platforms. This issue has not been fully resolved and requires developments and improvements, and therefore remains an excellent direction for development and new research.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 1210
Author(s):  
Xiaoxue Zhang

With the rapid development of computer technology and deep integration of disciplines, translation technology has gradually become an important research direction and a new focus of translation studies. In order to reveal the present situation of research on translation technology, we take the academic journals on translation technology from CNKI published between 1999 and 2017 as our data sample for analysis. The results show that the main research hotspots of translation technology cover four areas, i.e. computer-aided translation, human-computer interaction, translation technology teaching and talent training, as well as terminologies of the field. Through analysis of the current situation and existing problems in the above mentioned areas, some thoughts and prospects are put forward to provide guidance and illumination to scholars in this research field and promote further and deeper studies into the subject.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3 (27)) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Vadim V. Serov

There are grounds in this publication for the urgency as a separate scientific direction of the “Siberian numismatics”. Complex analysis of historiography and different historical sources demonstrates the substantial potential of this new discipline. Its research field assumes the consideration both proper numismatic objects such as coins themselves or coin techniques, and the objects of economic history, which include the coin circulation, commodity-money relations, or the financial policy of the central and local departments in the period of time. Absolutely new for the Siberian numismatics research methods are supposed to use as well. Besides author produces already published articles that have be related to this new research direction thematically.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (XXIII) ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Wojan

This article outlines the original research concept developed and applied by the Voronezh researchers, which brought both quantitative and qualitative results to the field of linguistic comparative research. Their monograph is devoted to the macrotypological unity of the lexical semantics of the languages in Europe. In addition, semantic stratification of Russian and Polish lexis has been analyzed. Their research concept is now known as the “lexical-semantic macrotypological school of Voronezh.” Representatives of this school have created a new research field in theoretical linguistics – a lexical-semantic language macrotypology as a branch of linguistic typology. The monograph has been widely discussed and reviewed in Russia.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 5926-5929

Blind forensic-investigation in a digital image is a new research direction in image security. It aims to discover the altered image content without any embedded security scheme. Block and key point based methods are the two dispensation options in blind image forensic investigation. Both the techniques exhibit the best performance to reveal the tampered image. The success of these methods is limited due to computational complexity and detection accuracy against various image distortions and geometric transformation operations. This article introduces different blind image tampering methods and introduces a robust image forensic investigation method to determine the copy-move tampered image by means of fuzzy logic approach. Empirical outcomes facilitate that the projected scheme effectively classifies copy-move type of forensic images as well as blurred tampered image. Overall detection accuracy of this method is high over the existing methods.


Author(s):  
Almaz F. Abdulvaliev

This article presents the conceptual foundations for the formation of a new research field “Judicial Geography”, including the prerequisites for its creation, academic, and theoretical development, both in Russia and abroad. The purpose of the study is to study the possibility of applying geographical methods and means in criminal law, criminal procedure, and in judicial activity in general via the academic direction “Judicial Geography”. The author describes in detail the main elements of judicial geography and its role and significance for such legal sciences, as criminal law, criminal procedure, criminalistics, and criminology among others. The employed research methods allow showing the main vectors of the development of judicial geography, taking into account the previous achievements of Russian and worldwide academics. The author indicates the role and place of judicial geography in the system of legal sciences. This study suggests a concept of using scientific geographical methods in the study of various legal phenomena of a criminal and criminal-procedural nature when considering the idea of building judicial bodies and judicial instances, taking into account geographical and climatic factors. In this regard, the author advises to introduce the special course “Judicial Geography”, which would allow law students to study the specifics of the activities of the judiciary and preliminary investigation authorities from a geographical point of view, as well as to use various geographical methods, including the mapping method, in educational and practical activities. The author concludes that forensic geography may become a new milestone for subsequent scientific research in geography and jurisprudence.


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