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Some studies have been conducted to cross-culturally adapt the paper-based methods and instruments of ergonomics to minimize the accuracy discrepancy when utilized by non-English speakers, including Indonesians. However, no comprehensive reports are available on the paper-based methods and instruments in ergonomics adapted to the Indonesian versions. Hence, a systematic literature review was conducted to fill the gap. The review focused on understanding the adaptation approach, validity, and reliability of the methods and instruments. The literature review found six papers that reported adapted methods and instruments in ergonomics, including Rating Scale Mental Effort, System Usability Scale, User Experience Questionnaire, Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire, Chatbot Usability Questionnaire, and me CUE 2.0 Framework. The adaptation approach to determine the Indonesian versions of the methods and instruments followed partial or complete stages of cross-cultural adaptation guidelines. It was found that several adapted instruments were valid, with the levels being "excellent" to "good." Furthermore, the reliability assessment indicated that several instruments have Cronbach alpha values ranging from 0.7 to 0.8, indicating that some of the adapted versions were reliable. Since limited methods and instruments were adapted to Indonesian versions, cross-cultural adaptation attempts have to be continued to ease the ergonomics implementations in Indonesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China Beach is located near the mouth of the Coal River estuary, via Pitt Water, in SE Tasmania and is opposite the spit at the conjunction of Seven Mile and Five Mile Beaches. China Beach and Okines Beach are separated by China Creek. Pitt Water, a large waterway (380 km²), is predominantly tidal; numerous watercourses drain into it from a 540 km² catchment with the largest inflow being from the Coal River at the upper 'end'. Pitt Water is relatively shallow downstream from the Midway Point and Sorell Causeways albeit the main channel is deep (10 m); at lower tides the sandy seabed is often exposed over large areas. China Beach is eastwards from the estuary and has a wide low tide terrace backed by a sand dune that is eroding noticeably. Some small swell waves can occur there but that's uncommon and the conditions are relatively benign. The key influence is the predominantly northwest winds down the axis of the estuary near Lewisham and the short waves caused by same. Tides usually reach the dune toe which causes scarp slumping. Erosion of the dune has been occurring for longer than 50 years but seemingly its progress has accelerated as evidenced by the undermining of many mature trees that then topple onto the beach. Several theories have been posited about what causes the dune erosion and these are discussed in this paper. What is its fate to be? Options for remediation have been considered including sand scraping. However, that was subsequently abandoned due to the possible environmental consequences (the terrace is home to and a food source for a vulnerable bird species). This paper discusses possible revetment types for dune stabilisation although local opinion varies about whether it should be a 'hard' type or not. Time will tell!. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing impacts of climate change have necessitated a comprehensive reassessment of large infrastructure projects, particularly highways, to ensure their resilience and sustainability. The article focuses on the analysis of climate change vulnerability, mitigation measures, and adaptation strategies within the context of a major highway project in Romania. With climate change accelerating, highways in Romania are becoming increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events, shifting precipitation patterns, temperature fluctuations, and related environmental changes. The paper highlights key findings from vulnerability assessments, emphasizing the project's exposure to climate-induced risks and its implications for the highway's infrastructure. Mitigating the impact of climate change is a fundamental objective for this highway project. The article discusses mitigation efforts, which include minimizing greenhouse gas emissions during construction and operation phases, incorporating sustainable construction materials, and adopting energy-efficient technologies and practices. These measures align with Romania's commitment to reducing its carbon footprint. Also, the paper outlines adaptation measures, such as engineering design solutions to withstand extreme weather events, the integration of flexible design elements, and the establishment of climate monitoring and early warning systems to mitigate disruptions. In conclusion, the article underscores the urgency of integrating climate change vulnerability assessments, mitigation measures, and adaptation strategies into the planning and construction of highways in Romania. By adopting a comprehensive approach that addresses climate-related challenges, this highway project aims to contribute to a sustainable, resilient, and environmentally conscious transportation network for the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research in joint action focuses on the psychological, neurological, and physical mechanisms by which humans collaborate with other agents, and overlaps with several domains related to human-robot interaction. The development of artificial systems that can support or emulate the requisite aspects of joint action could lead to improved human-robot team performance as well as improvements in subjective metrics (e.g., trust). This workshop highlights theoretical and technical considerations about humanrobot joint action and real-time adaptation, with a particular focus on socio-motor entrainment, showing how the emulation of psychological mechanisms (e.g., emotion, intention signaling, mirroring) can lead to improved performance. We will invite speakers with backgrounds in robotics, neuroscience and psychology, as well as speakers with a focus in adjacent works, such as in human-robot coordinated dance, alignment, or synchronization. We will call for papers that utilize the theory of joint-action in an interactive human-robot context. We will also call for position papers on the application of the theory of joint action to robotics, with a heavy focus on psychological mechanisms that could potentially be emulated or adapted to a human-robot context. Participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm considerations and techniques that would be applicable to joint action inspired works through breakout sessions with the aim to lead to new and improved collaborations across fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Empirical studies show that adaptations of existing agile methods are necessary for developing physical products creating obstacles and challenges. This paper aggregates the gathered findings from several cross-sectional industry surveys and establishes a relationship between the extent of utilization of individual agile elements based on Scrum and the need to adapt these elements in applying agile procedural models. The emphasis of examination resides in the purpose perspective of agile elements with the aim of facilitating context-specific adaptations more effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The idea that individuals can have a digital mindset has gained popularity against the backdrop of radical shifts toward digital transformation and the future of work. Despite the burgeoning scholarly interest across disciplines, efforts to conceptualize digital mindset remain fragmented so far. This paper starts a discourse about unresolved ontological assumptions and theoretical inconsistencies. We address the prevailing knowledge fragmentation by synthesizing three research streams on individuals’ affect, behaviors, and cognitions in the context of digital transformation and revealing their underlying commonalities. We propose that two beliefs jointly form the integrative foundation of individuals’ digital mindset: how individuals think about and perceive (a) digital technologies (as opportunity or threat) and (b) their own abilities (as malleable or fixed) in the context of digital transformation. Our theoretical synthesis lays the groundwork for future research to work toward an inter-nomological network and a more holistic understanding of individuals’ digital mindset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

West Vancouver possesses an attractive coastline that consists of high value residential areas as well as large tracts of recreational parks. Areas of West Vancouver's waterfront are however vulnerable to flooding from extreme weather. This risk will continue to increase in the future due to projected sea level rise, with low-lying areas becoming even more vulnerable to flooding over time. This impacts both privately owned properties and publicly owned infrastructure. Following an earlier study on coastal inundation across the foreshore areas of the District of West Vancouver, three areas were identified as needing a focused approach on potential adaptation measures that could be employed to mitigate the impacts of the expected coastal inundation. The three areas selected were Ambleside Park, Rodgers Creek and Stearman Beach. These areas are all located on the northern foreshore of Burrard Inlet, the main estuary in the City of Vancouver. This paper provides detail of the coastal inundation risks to each of these areas and provides details of the adaptation measures that were considered and proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The historical practice of modern colonialism is strongly connected to the entrepreneurial culture of the 19th century. The colonial ideal of the civilizing mission was to be achieved with the help of colonial agents with entrepreneurial spirit whose capitalist enterprises would bring progress and prosperity to the exotic pre-modern cultural spaces of Africa. In this context of optimism with respect to entrepreneurship, capitalism, and colonization, Joseph Conrad's late Victorian novel, Heart of Darkness, conveys a harsh critique of 19thcentury colonial practices with focus on the Congo Free State. Despite the local focus of the novel, its narrative has evinced remarkable adaptability at the beginning of the 21st century. In the context of globalisation and the digital revolution, Heart of Darkness has become a source text for many popular video games that have adapted Marlow's experience on the Congo to the contemporary cultural climate. By relying on recent developments in adaptation studies and video game cultural studies, in particular the emerging understanding of video games as procedural adaptations, my paper analyses the manner in which action-adventure video games, particularly shooters, appropriate Conrad's work in order to criticize contemporary neo-colonial power relations, and the neoliberal myth of the entrepreneur. My analysis considers the video games F.E.A.R. (Monolith, 2005), Spec Ops - The Line (2K Games, 2012), and Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly, 2014). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the calls for a target-culture-oriented approach in the localization definitions, to the encouraged foreignization tendencies for the sake of intercultural interaction, it is necessary to look at the approaches followed in reality and to what extent they achieve the intended purpose of localization effectively. This paper aims to find out common approaches used in localizing industry terms and product names. It looks at the conventions in use, the emerging hybrid strategies and how they correspond to the existing localization and translation theories. This corpus-based paper consists of blurbs localized from English into Arabic and taken from 15 international corporate websites. It should pave the way for further research that investigates the internet user's favorable conventions in product naming and translation of terms in the advertising context. The presented results show how language can play different roles, whether to preserve the targeted culture or spread the original culture of the product, all in the framework of localization and marketing online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on press translation and its importance in today's globalized world and comprises a case study: the analysis of the way in which a statement pertaining to France's president Emmanuel Macron has been translated into the anglophone and Romanian press. Press translation is marked by at least two paradoxes: it is different from what is called "professional translation" and it is not based on a single source text. We inquire whether press translation exists as such: would it be more accurate to speak about adaptation and localization of the informative content for the target audience? The case study is represented by the various translations of the verb "emmerder" uttered by Emmanuel Macron during an interview in January 2022, when he expressed his desire to make life difficult to unvaccinated people. For any foreign audience, this declaration of the French president may be characterized as "soft news". We provide the definition of the verb "emmerder" as mentioned by the French dictionary and investigate the way in which this verb has been translated in the anglophone and Romanian press: from milder choices to stronger or even shocking translations. The paper also examines the objectivity of the press discourse when characterizing Macron's statement and analyzes the titles of several articles published in the anglophone and Romanian press, scaling them based on their objectivity/subjectivity. The manner in which political statements are translated is of maximal importance, as it has a major impact on the target audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the modern era, artificial intelligence and autonomous weapon systems represent an important step in the evolution of military conflicts. The ability of these technologies to make fast and accurate decisions in real time brings significant benefits to the military, improving the efficiency of actions and protecting the lives of soldiers. Artificial intelligence can analyze vast amounts of data and information in a much shorter time than humans, thus providing critical information for decision-making in order to surprise the adversary and achieve strategic objectives. Artificial intelligence is becoming an indispensable tool for modern armed forces because it allows actions to be carried out with maximum efficiency that would involve a high consumption of human resources, time and would involve numerous risks for human operators, from data analysis to identifying enemy targets and anticipating adversary movements or even engaging adversary forces under certain conditions. At the same time, autonomous weapon systems, equipped with AI technologies, have the ability to act independently, reducing the dependence on human intervention and speeding up the response time in critical situations. These systems can detect and neutralize threats faster and more efficiently than humans could. However, the use of artificial intelligence in military conflicts raises numerous ethical and moral challenges. Concerns about the loss of control over the technology and the possibility that it could be mistakenly used against civilians or against protected targets have generated intense debate in the international community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most pronounced observed climate change is the rising surface temperature of the Earth. In view of extreme weather events, existing risks and possible consequences, adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change has become a global challenge in recent decades. The interaction between climate change and its possible consequences is a complex and very dynamic system that needs a great deal of information to be properly managed. These facts were also reflected in the Council of the European Union, which approved that at least 20% of the Union's budget will be used for activities in this area in the 2014-2020 programming period. The topic of adaptation to climate change is extremely actual not only in the world, but also in Slovakia. It is in the interest of all of us to identify and implement and at least mitigate the economic and social consequences of climate change. Thanks to European powerful implementations, the Slovak Republic is also implementing numbers of adaptation measures and activities. They focus on early warning and better preparedness for the territory of emergencies, reduction of landslide risk, reinforcement of emergency management or technical and institutional support for rescue modules. The aim of this paper is to identify and explore the tools and measures that are being implemented in the Slovak Republic in the 2014-2020 programming period, particularly with a view to increasing the effectiveness of comprehensive emergency management affected by climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper focuses on the main translation mistakes that Romanian students in Law make when faced with original texts in legalese. Taking into account all the features that characterize legal English in comparison to plain English (apud Tiersma 2008), i.e. specific vocabulary, verbosity, lengthy convoluted structures, complex syntax, conjoined phrases, redundancy and repetition, negation, impersonal constructions, vagueness, ritualization, etc, the subject of our analysis bears on how these difficulties are usually tackled in specialized translation seminars. The paper also proposes various repair work strategies materialized in different types of exercises specifically aimed at the study of legalese. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The coal processing industry uses a various technology for the process control. Various devices and control systems there can be implemented. With the support of automation, the production of final product can be more effective. Modern control system requires an advanced control algorithm on a several control levels (i.e. stabilization, optimization). The paper focuses to the process of coal combustion and coal gasification. Primarily two processes are examined i.e. underground coal gasification (UCG) and coking. In both, a various gases are produced on output. By stabilization of exhausted gassed we can control the transformation coal to the final product (i.e. syngas in UCG or coke in coking). Paper presents stabilization of oxygen in syngas during UCG and stabilization of CO as a combustion product during coking. The nature of both processes requires the adaptation of discrete controller. In the first case, the method of repeated identification was used in order to adaptation of system model and controller parameters. In the second case, the heuristic principle based on optimization method was used in order to find optimal controller parameters. Paper presents the principle of adaptation and also some results from the controller application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will discuss a model to facilitate double-loop learning in teams by applying sociotechnical and cognitive systems concepts to a model previously developed by Ackoff (1999). The proposed model will provide a holistic means for implementing a problem solving methodology within sociotechnical and cognitive systems contexts. The main audience of this paper are practitioners interested in improving his or her team learning and knowledge sharing capability. Individuals from academia interested in team learning and knowledge sharing may also find elements of the model of interest. The contents of this paper focuses on learning within a problem-solving context but could be applied to other types of engineering team activities with little effort. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wikipedia is one of the largest virtual communities of practice aimed at building and sharing knowledge online. Its ambitious goals require the cooperation of millions of users around the world. The development of the project has slowed down over the last few years, hence the acquisition and retention of new users is becoming more and more challenging. Consequently, properly organized adaptation, and encouragement of newcomers to become a part of the community emerges as a crucial issue for the existence of Wikipedia. This paper presents the results of the quantitative research carried out with the use of the content analysis method on the different language versions of Wikipedia. The issues investigated included the following aspects: the level of advancement of the newcomers' adaptation process, the use of various adaptation tools, forms of welcoming and enhancing newcomers to learn and edit the Wikipedia content, while also their potential effect on the productivity and engagement of users. The results of the research indicate great diversity among the tools used, depending on the language version of the project. Not all the statements directed to the newcomers are encouraging and friendly, as some cultures create more restrictive and punitive content than the others. The latter leaves the newcomer with the responsibility for the process of learning the rules of behaviour of the Wikipedia community. The more advanced the adaptation process is, the more active and productive users are. The conclusions of the research may be of use to different virtual communities of practice and organizations which face the problem of adapting newcomers in the online activity connected with knowledge sharing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There have been significant studies of adaptation in IS research. However, our knowledge of adaptation has been skewed toward the user side, that is, to user adaptation. Users are not always able to make desired changes, especially in cases of radical adaptation, due to a lack of deep IT knowledge or design limitations in an IT. Therefore, they reach out to designers for help. Designers are the programmers or user experience (UX) experts who develop an IT and are in charge of its maintenance and upgrade. Despite the increasing ease of obtaining user feedback, we know less about how designers make observable changes to an IT in response to user feedback, here termed designer adaptation. Our paper aims to understand the factors that influence designers' adaptations. We draw on the elaboration likelihood model to explore how designers process user feedback as a key source for designer adaptation. A research model and several hypotheses are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban open spaces are considered as active nodes in any urban fabric. In dealing with the urban physicality, it can be deeply noticed that it is affected by non-physical agents. Light is one these intangible factors, that affect the open spaces' system by controlling the plants' behavior. Accordingly, as nature is perfectly working, simulating the sensory mechanism of plants into open spaces formation can provide a new understanding of these urban open spaces as light reflectors; an infrastructure for an intangible agent, that can highly contribute in defining the space use according to the plants behavior. This paper focuses on the ability of understanding open spaces not only as photoreceptors but photo-reflectors as well, through an analytical study for the plants' sensory mechanisms, aiming at reintroducing light as a contributing agent in defining the plants behavior in respect to the open spaces uses and infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conceptual models of specific domains provide a general overview of a software system design. Structural models, as a technical version of conceptual models, serve as development blueprints that may have to be adapted to fit special enterprise-specific demands. However, a flexible and dynamic adaptation of the design is necessary to respond fast and efficiently to new or changing requirements for reducing time and costs in the later development. In this paper, we utilize the "Business Role-Object Specification" (BROS), a rolebased modeling language, for dynamic and structured adaptation. We demonstrate our approach by adapting an existing structural model from the cloud service provider domain with regard to a partner program process. Further, by comparing the BROS adapted model with a traditional UML-based adaptation, we are able to evaluate both approaches and show the benefits of the new BROS adaptation method, e.g., extended expressiveness and flexibility towards changing requirements and features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Modern-day coastal engineering faces two key challenges: firstly, providing adequate protection under anthropogenic increases in sea level, and secondly, reducing environmentally detrimental engineering practices that are further driving changes to the climate. With this, nature-based solutions that minimise detrimental environmental effects whilst providing sufficient protection are increasing in their uptake. At present, the application of these nature-based engineering strategies is restricted to low-energy wave environments with minimal spatial constraints. Hybridisation (combined use of nature-based and traditional hard engineering strategies) enables the use of these nature-based principles in higher-energy and urban environments. This paper explores the use of hybridisation with coastal vegetation, by exploring the ability of vegetation to attenuate wave overtopping flow on the crest of coastal defence structures. Physical modelling experiments were conducted in the University of Auckland's wave flume with a small-scale sloped seawall retrofitted with model vegetation on the crest of the seawall. This preliminary testing found that the model vegetation reduced mean overtopping discharges by 60-80% when evaluated against their nonvegetated counterpart. Numerical model testing was conducted by calibrating to and expanding on the physical model analysis. This was achieved by implementing a one-dimensional non-hydrostatic XBeach model. Numerical model testing used a multiple linear regression analysis to test the sensitivity of the wave overtopping response to various vegetation parameters. From this, the reduction in mean overtopping flow due to the incorporation of vegetation was found to be most strongly correlated to vegetation width, stem density and stem diameter, with increases in any of these parameters leading to substantial decreases in mean overtopping flow. Both the physical and numerical model testing were limited by their use of idealised structure and vegetation parameters. However, despite these limitations, this study provides a framework for future testing that should seek to further solidify the wave overtopping performance of this hybrid strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a synthesis on the psycho-pedagogical premises of children's preparation for school. It presents the framework of the informational content of the knowledge that a child has to possess at the entrance to the school, as well as the most important, instructive-educational functions of the education. At the same time, it offers the possibility of improving acceleration adaptability to school request. Systems of concrete measures to prevent, reduce and avoid school adaptation difficulties can be helpful in educating children, kindergartens or schools to ensure school success and prevent the persistence of some of the difficulties that may arise in the process education. The present paper tries to provide theoretical and practical information useful in the work with children, carried out both in institutions - under the leadership of teachers and in the family under the guidance of parents. The adaptation of the child to the educational process, to the new living conditions, to the physical and social environment of the school is an imperative psycho-pedagogical and medical-social requirement necessary to maintain and improve morpho-functional, psycho-moral and social integrity of the pupil. It is important for each school teacher to quickly and easily adapt to the new requirements, to comply with them without bio-psycho-social disturbance. The way in which adaptation to the requirements of everyday life takes place can be felt, both positively and reversely, over the years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This conceptual contribution presents a new systems theory of IT innovation, adoption, and adaptation that suggests a direction for moving beyond IT adoption research in the style of TAM and UTAUT. Its literature review covers three topics: 1) the contexts of adoption research to date in IS, 2) background about systems theories, and 3) a brief summary of work system theory, which is the basis of this paper's proposed systems theory. The subsequent section presents a new systems theory of IT innovation, adoption, and adaptation. Individually and in combination, that theory's six parts can contribute to research and practice related to the adoption and adaptation of IT innovations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The impact of climate changes on rural areas will take place in the context of many and dynamic political, economic, social, and land-use trends, the focus being on water supply, food security, agricultural incomes and rural infrastructure. Adapting rural areas to climate changes challenges is not an easy task and involves complex and multidimensional processes which are developed at different scales. Adopting and implementing adaptation measures for a climate smart and resilient rural space is only a stage (which specifically addresses the rural development challenges magnified by climate changes) in the process of achieving sustainable developed rural areas. This rural development dimension of adapting to climate changes must be approached in framework which also includes aspects like sensitivity, exposure, vulnerability, resilience, mitigation. Agriculture is an economic sector where climate change adaptation will require complex measures approached from different angles and different perspectives. Agricultural activities are, by nature, prone to risks and uncertainties of various natures. Thus, the processes of adaptation and/ or transformation should take in consideration that many of these risks have a climatic component and most of them will be affected by climate change, either in intensity, scope or frequency. This paper will present and analyze several climate change adaptation measures for rural space using an agricultural perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historic military complexes form a separate typological genre, with unique hieratic site plans, stately yet austere stylistics and a multiplex functional program. They form a significant portion of historic landscape in garrison towns, as both material and immaterial heritage. It is essential, that as many of the complexes as possible are preserved to serve as historic links for future generations. Luckily, their innate characteristics predispose them to adaptations for diverse purposes once demilitarized. The paper aims to present the full scope of possibilities of these regeneration efforts. However, one of the specifics of the military facilities is restriction. They are by default self-sufficient and removed from the urban area and as such require effort to reintroduce them into city scope. Understanding that only the most significant examples should be preserved to allow for evolution of historic cities, in the course of her research the author established a set of criteria which can be found in those compounds that are worth the effort and in the paper embarks to verify and refine the findings through vide variety of case studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While most of the research in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) focuses on short-term interactions, long-term interactions require bolder developments and a substantial amount of resources, especially if the robots are deployed in the wild. Robots need to incrementally learn new concepts or abilities in a lifelong fashion to adapt their behaviors within new situations and personalize their interactions with users to maintain their interest and engagement. The "Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI)1" Workshop aims to take a leap from the traditional HRI approaches towards addressing the developments and challenges in these areas and create a medium for researchers to share their work in progress, present preliminary results, learn from the experience of invited researchers and discuss relevant topics. The workshop extends the topics covered in the "Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (PLOTHRI) 2" Workshop [12] at the 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and "Lifelong Learning for Long-term Human-Robot Interaction (LL4LHRI)3" Workshop at the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), and focuses on studies on lifelong learning and adaptivity to users, context, environment, and tasks in long-term interactions in a variety of fields (e.g., education, rehabilitation, elderly care, collaborative tasks, customeroriented service and companion robots). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper does a qualitative assessment of the current European Union policies for dealing with climate change. In the EU mitigation policies are derived from the international agreements for reducing and limiting greenhouse gases emissions. Mitigation policies have a strict compliance regime using both positive and negative reinforcement. On the other side, adaptation measures, meant to increase nature's and society's resilience to climate change negative impact, are designed more as recommendations complementing sectoral policies. Agriculture has a relatively low potential of curbing GHG emissions but are some of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. By examining the relative projected efficiency of EU's mitigation efforts compared to the overall goal of stopping global warming, the paper finds that there is clear imbalance between mitigation policies and adaptation policies. It concludes that in the absence of matching binding commitments from other large emitters of GHG, the climate objective will not be met. This requires at European level a medium and long-term strategy for the societal and economic adaptation to the new climate conditions and, on short-term, more focus on adaptation policies in vulnerable sectors such as agriculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interesting application for social robots is to act as a presenter, for example as a museum guide. In this paper, we present a fully automated system architecture for building adaptive presentations for embodied agents. The presentation is generated from a knowledge graph, which is also used to track the grounding state of information, based on multimodal feedback from the user. We introduce a novel way to use large-scale language models (GPT-3 in our case) to lexicalise arbitrary knowledge graph triples, greatly simplifying the design of this aspect of the system. We also present an evaluation where 43 participants interacted with the system. The results show that users prefer the adaptive system and consider it more human-like and flexible than a static version of the same system, but only partial results are seen in their learning of the facts presented by the robot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The incarceration is stressful and traumatic experience for everyone. The inmates can adopt different coping or adjustment strategies to the new environment. What they adopt depends on the environmental factors and personal characteristics, as well as of their own sense of protection from victimization. In the literature, three types of adaptation are predominantly recognized: cooperation, withdrawal and resistance and violent behavior. Based on that, this paper examines the manifestation and connection of different adopting strategies of young inmates with their personal as well as institutional features during incarceration. The analysis is based on qualitative data collected by using in-depth interviews with incarcerated young inmates in one educational-correctional facility. The main findings pertain to the recognition that young inmates have adopted several coping strategies in order to adopt to the prison life, but mainly develop violent behaviour during their incarceration. This small scale survey is particularly valuable in filling up the exiting empirical gap and findings within criminological literature and might be used as basis for developing prerequisites for eliminating, or at least, mitigating negative consequences of the deprivations related to loss of liberty, security, autonomy etc. generated by pains of imprisonment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent research regarding personalized web based educational systems demonstrate learners’ motivation to be an essential component of the learning model. This is due to the fact that low motivation results in either students’ less engagement or complete drop out from the learning activities. A learner motivation model is considered to be a set of perceptions and beliefs that the system has developed about a learner. This includes both short-term and long-term motivation of learners. Short-term motivation encompasses specific, challenging and attainable goals that develop in the limited timespan. On the other hand, long-term motivation indicates a sort of continuing commitment that is required to complete assigned task. Since, short-term motivational problems span for a limited period of time such as a session, therefore, needs to be addressed in real-time to keep the learner engaged in the learning process. This paper proposes the framework of a domain independent short-term learner motivation model based on Keller ARCS motivation theory and Social Cognitive Theory. The proposed motivation identification framework consists of two modules. The primary module deals with real time identification of motivation, and the secondary module maintains the profile of learners associated with the short-term motivation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The negative effects of climate change are felt in the form of rising temperatures, weather variability, shifting boundaries of agro-ecosystems, the spread of invasive species and pests, and more frequent extreme weather events. Climate change reduces crop yields, the nutritional quality of most cereals, and lowers productivity in the livestock sector. In this regard, substantial investment in adaptation will be required to maintain current yields and to achieve increases in food production and quality to meet food needs under the expected exponential growth of the world's population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the main transformation and adaptation measures taken by NATO between its establishment in 1949 and with a view to the upcoming Warsaw Summit in 2016. NATO has been engaged in continuous transformation for many years to ensure that it has the policies, capabilities and structures required to deal with current and future challenges, including the collective defence of its members. With Allied forces militarily engaged across several continents, the Alliance needs to ensure that its armed forces remain modern, deployable, interoperable and sustainable. The changes in the security environment have forced the Alliance to adapt continuously. The effects of financial crisis, reset the relationship with Russia, NATO's nuclear status, creating anti-missile shield, NATO commitment in Afghanistan, new threats like cyber-attacks and hybrid warfare, the ambitions of international terrorist groups, the emergence of new players in the world are the main factors that gave rise to the need to transform the Alliance to ensure an adequate response. I do consider the subject of major relevance today as well as in the next future, and the paper could provide a ground for further analyses and improvements to be useful for those interested in understanding how and why the Alliance resisted over time and what still needs to be done to remain relevant as a political-military Alliance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The issues related to the research of the immigrant integration into the community, despite a large number of scientific papers on this topic, are still most relevant. Although the main approaches and measures of the integration have already been determined, substantiated and developed at the new level of modern theory and practice, their effect and result obviously do not correspond with the social significance of the problem. The main problem seems to be the underestimation of the integration of immigrant youth as an important social group, the organization and mobilization of which will largely depend on the stable and forward progress of the Russian society. Today, the problem of integration of immigrant youth accents on the research into the socio-cultural and institutional aspects of their adaptation and assimilation. At the same time, many important aspects of the support young immigrants, as well as the creation of effective mechanisms for their interaction with the host community, has not been studied yet scientifically and practically. The purpose of the article based on analysis of the problem and results of the survey of young immigrants, which will help to find a gap and suggest new approaches to solve the problem and complete the results that can be used on the implementation process of the state youth policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When entering the university, the student is invited to develop another type of learning, more rigorous, and with a more consistent intellectual autonomy, at the same time freshmen are developing new relationships with knowledge. Once in university, the learning habitus the students had at the end of secondary studies such as memorizing, passive assimilation of disparate, disarticulated materials, lose relevance. Meeting the requirements of a university education involves a change in the way of learning and addressing towards academic tasks. This intellectual and methodological metamorphosis is supplemented by other disruptions due to shifting of this new learning environment for instance the acceptance of behaviours and practices adapted to the pedagogical and social context of the university. The student must build a new temporality, he also must learn how to manage and dominate the time, since his/her whole social and psychological life is being targeted by the new settings. Switching from pupil to student means altering his social role, moreover it is essential he/she changes the way of learning and how he/she intermingles with the academic environment. The main difference between school and higher education is often the amount of support and supervision that is being offered. During secondary school a teacher meets his/her students relatively often and together they set up and monitor the assignments on a regular basis, the teacher being willing to lead the learning they hope to develop, in contrast, the professor cannot meet with students too often due to the particularities of the classes. A certain problem arises when as a young student they feel very lonely and somehow, they have a sense of absence of interaction with their professors, so it is very likely that the freshmen have to assume more responsibilities for planning and completing work tasks, far more then when they were in school. The aim of this article is to show students' perception regarding the way ICT is used for making the transition from secondary education to university considering their communication with the administration staff, professors and colleagues. The paper is based on an exploratory empirical research with a hypothetical-deductive reasoning with premises and variables based on postulates and hypotheses with chances of logical verifiability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the understandings of home and border perceived by mainland Chinese dual migrant laborers in Macao, China. "Dual migrants" are individuals who have left family and friends in other provinces of China, and migrate daily across a regulated, political border; in this case the border lies between Zhuhai (for housing) and Macao (for work). A total of 24 un-skilled mainland Chinese dual migrant participants (13 male security guards; 11 female cleaners) were recruited and engaged in in-depth interviews, group discussions and WeChat interviews. Findings show the co-existence of temporality and situatedness in the mobilized experiences of Chinese mainland dual migrants. Home is found to be both an emotional and social investment, tied to a fixed, remembered space, and a mobile, multi-layered, and unstable site, impacted by the experience of daily cross-border mobility. Taking the lens of transnationalism, the Zhuhai-Macao border is constructed as an important entity in participants' everyday life; the border is also an ambivalent and liminal space, serving the role of both connectivity and detachment. This study contributes to an understanding the strategies participants develop to adapt new environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the beginning of the third millennium, rural areas are still representing the home for more than 45% of the world's population. Despite the lacks of a clear definition for rural space, there are sufficient classifications and approaches which can give an almost clear image of the rural areas importance and dynamics. IPCC reports do not approach rural space as a distinct element of human society but many rural space components are approached from specific viewpoints and through specific disciplines. Relevant findings on rural areas from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development indicate a high number of climate stressors which result in negative consequences for rural areas state-of-and, evolution and development. Climate change adaptation in rural areas require a major continuing need for research tradeoffs and synergies between adaptation and mitigation in rural areas, the impact of climate policies on rural livelihoods, identify the most vulnerable areas, populations, and social categories, formal and non-formal educational methods. This paper will approach this last mentioned aspect of climate change adaptation in rural areas, an efficient education being highly needed for participatory approaches that build on both local and scientific knowledge, and encouraging among rural people the interest for learning the importance of adaptation and resilience techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental Citizenship is a key factor in EU's growth strategy (Europe 2020) and its vision for Sustainable Development and Green and Circular economy. Significant behavior change amongst both individuals and organizations is required in order to meet Europe's sustainability objectives and climate change targets. At a general level, policies aimed at changing behavior have tended to rely on two aspects: the introduction of fiscal measures and statutory legislation or market-based measures. Unfortunately, relatively less attention has been given to ecological education and the possibilities for promoting pro-environmental behavior. Environmental Citizenship is not clearly defined and framed in relation to other concepts such as environmental behavior, environmental attitudes, environmental literacy, environmental education, environmental knowledge, awareness and sustainability, the environmental citizenship domain being very complex. Education plays here an important role being a fundamental instrument that contributes to behavioral changes within the society, which is ultimately translated into environmental citizenship. This paper will approach several formal and non-formal education factors that affect environmental citizenship in Romanian education sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While most research in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) studies one-off or short-term interactions in constrained laboratory settings, a growing body of research focuses on breaking through these boundaries and studying long-term interactions that arise through deployments of robots "in the wild". Under these conditions, robots need to incrementally learn new concepts or abilities (i.e., "lifelong learning") to adapt their behaviors within new situations and personalize their interactions with users to maintain their interest and engagement. The second edition of the "Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI)" workshop aims to address the developments and challenges in these areas and create a medium for researchers to share their work in progress, present preliminary results, learn from the experience of invited researchers and discuss relevant topics. The workshop focuses on studies on lifelong learning and adaptivity to users, context, environment, and tasks in long-term interactions in a variety of fields such as education, rehabilitation, elderly care, collaborative tasks, service, and companion robots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of adaptation of children and teenagers from migrant families to the educational system is becoming urgent. The educational system is the key institution of socio-cultural and socio-psychological adaptation. Scientists write about the need to develop special measures, educational programs aimed at integrating migrant children into a new socio- cultural environment, and organizing comprehensive educational work with migrant children. It is also pointed out that the teaching and learning process of migrant children should include the study of the personality of a migrant student as a socio-pedagogical phenomenon, to the justification of the specifics of the goals, content and methods of educational work with migrant children in a foreign cultural educational environment. They point to the development of a special program for their education and upbringing, the identification of features of adaptation, cultural identification and self- realization in various socio-cultural conditions. The purpose of the study is to test the effectiveness of the authors’ program of teaching migrant children in primary school. Quantitative research methods and an anonymous survey were conducted. An education program for teaching and socialization of migrant children in primary school was created. Methodological recommendations on the use of modern technologies and the practice of educational activities of primary school teachers with migrant children were developed. The results of the study can be used in the educational process of Russian and foreign educational institutions, in the practice of primary school teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the issue of adaptation of the existing railway facilities to the new needs and their potential and significance for the local communities in small towns. Presented examples of adaptation indicate the possible functional solutions and methods of investment implementation. The examples of modernization and adaptation carried out include station buildings in rural areas and small towns. Based on these examples, an attempt was made to create a model way of program planning and functional layout as well as the conditions and level of interventions in the existing architectural form. The proposed model activities are based on the idea of utilizing spatial determinants, location potential and social participation. The investments of successful adaptations of the station buildings in the rural municipality of Straszyn and the municipality of Rumia were subject to analysis. Effective and proven experiences and patterns should be modified depending on the current location, and model solutions can be used in the planned investments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1990s post-Soviet countries had to face an immensely unstable economic situation and were bound to cope with all difficulties of social adaptation to the new reality. Proceeded from the fact that an adaptive process often takes long and its fixation in the collective consciousness appears only after two of three generations, the problem of adaptation is worth investigating and thinking over. Moreover, this kind of radical transformation has had a lot of precedents in Russian history that is why the authors chose to scrutinise this matter. The paper represents research on the socio-economic conditions of the workers occupied in the Ural mining and metallurgical plants in the late 19th century. In those times, they could be called 'yesterday's peasants' and, for this reason, their adjustment to the new economic reality and way of life ought to be regarded as a serious challenge. The knowledge in this field is still limited and much remains to be done. The work on the base of the documents extracted from federal and local archives let us classify all adaptive practices into two groups: active and passive. The former is various attempts to improve productivity by the introduction of workers' control over the enterprises. To survive people also kept being active in cottage industry and secondarily occupied in agricultural works. As for passive adaptation, it included retrospective thinking, preservation of binding relationships and retaining paternalistic values. It should be remarked that, in real life, all above-mentioned forms of behaviour appeared in blended forms. Ascertainment of the factors determining the Uralian workers' adaptation led to the conclusion that there are two of them: the regional specificity of mining and metallurgical industry and workers' archaic thinking. Summing up, the authors estimate the process of workers' adaptation in the Tsarist Russia as complicated and unsuccessful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studying of socio-pedagogical and psychological issues of foreign students adaptation in Russian higher education institutions allows to determine the contradictions between: the demand of organization of educational support in first year of training that effectively promotes social adaptation and immaturity of these issues in higher school pedagogics; the demand of Russian higher education system in theoretical developments on issues of social adaptation of foreign students and the lack of educational background; the availability of educational technologies and insufficient research and methodology maintenance, allowing lecturers to model various educational ways, considering the aspects of optimum social adaptation of students foreigners. The conditions providing the efficiency of social adaptation of foreign students which specifies the need of competitive recovery of Russian Universities in the sphere of international educational services are presented in the paper. Dynamic incoming of Chinese students in Russian Universities is obvious; it is connected with economic growth, shortage of highly qualified personnel in China and affordability of higher education in Russia. In 2011 in order to facilitate the development of Russian-Chinese cooperation in the sphere of higher education and strengthening the national innovative capacity the Association of technical universities of Russia and China (ATURC) was founded. We conducted the survey of Chinese students training in 12 ATURC Russian Universities. The important factors influencing the processes of Chinese students adaptation are a new system of high school teaching; weather and climatic conditions; difficulties of interpersonal communication; peculiarities of ethnos mindset. In our opinion, teachers of higher education institution need to consider the peculiarities of material acquisition of Chinese students when developing educational programs and training process structuring. To promote foreigners social adaptation is also necessary to carry out more intensive work: actions for acquaintance with city, region, Russia, Universities history (visit museums, hold discussions and meetings with famous scientists and successful graduates, etc.); studying the migration legislation of Russia; team, academic group building. To develop the international relations providing the specific features of activity in east direction, the constructive activity is necessary for many Russian Universities. It will bring forward the integration into international educational system. The creation and development of joint educational programs and research with leading Chinese higher education institutions will allow modern Russian higher institutions become more attractive for training foreign citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work is devoted to the task of intellectual team’s management, namely the problem of their formation, adaptation and training. The paper presents a mathematical model of the multifactor estimation of intellectual team, allowing to choose the best of its composition from a plurality of possible options. To formalize the problem using utility theory, candidates in the team are assessed for their professional, profile and personality characteristics. The model also takes into account the requirements for the competence of the performers. Various options for the formation of the optimality criteria are considered. The paper also considers the process of motivating the members of the intellectual team for their development, namely, adaptation and training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cognitive profile-based user interface adaptation allows modifying basic interfaces considering the current user’s (operator’s) cognitive and psychophysiological characteristics to increase the efficiency of user-system interaction. However, for such an adaptation data should be gathered on the users and means should be developed to manipulate the interface’s elements. An optimal level of adaptation has to be found to balance the cost of adaptation and its benefits. This paper considers different approaches and levels of user-system interaction’s adaptation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change is one of the most important economic, social and environment challenges facing humanity, the impact of climate change depends on the vulnerability of different economic and environment sectors. Agriculture is one of the sectors affected by increasing temperature and changing precipitation regime. The paper aims to identify and assess the types of the climate change impacts on water resources in agriculture and to propose measures for adaptation in order to provide resources and to optimize production. In this context, the adaptation to climate change in agriculture is an objective of the Romania climate change strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ITSs have the requirement to be adaptive to the student with AI. The classical ITS architecture defines three components to split the data and to keep it flexible and thus adaptive. However, there is a lack of abstract descriptions how to put adaptive behavior into practice. This paper defines how you can structure your data for case based systems in a way that adaptivity is easier to achieve while maintaining the classical splitting of the system and reducing the data footprint. Building a case based system from a collection of exchangeable steps is also possible with this approach. Two variants of adaptivity based on the data structure are explored and both can be used in conjunction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most intriguing objectives when teaching computer science in mid-adolescence high school students is attracting and mainly maintaining their concentration within the limits of the class. A number of theories have been proposed and numerous methodologies have been applied, aiming to assist in the implementation of a personalized learning environment that approaches these objectives. In this paper, an empirical study is performed with the support of the "Hour of Code" initiative which took place for a second consecutive year at the end of previous year. The initiative was presented to a number of high-school students as a motivation for teaching computer programming to them. An evaluation of the students' programming skills is attempted with the aid of a questionnaire and a simple personalization framework is presented in order to adapt to the students' personal needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Buildings play a critical role in the challenge of mitigating and adapting to climate change. It is estimated that buildings contribute 39% of the total U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions [1] primarily due to their operational energy use, and about 80% of this building energy use is for heating, cooling, ventilating, and lighting. An important premise of this paper is about the connection between energy and comfort. They are inseparable when one talks about high performance buildings. Worldwide data suggests that we are significantly overcooling buildings in the summer, resulting in increased energy use and problems with thermal comfort. In contrast, in naturally ventilated buildings without mechanical cooling, people are comfortable in much warmer temperatures due to shifting expectations and preferences as a result of occupants having a greater degree of personal control over their thermal environment; they have also become more accustomed to variable conditions that closely reflect the natural rhythms of outdoor climate patterns. This has resulted in an adaptive comfort zone that offers significant potential for encouraging naturally ventilated buildings to improve both energy use and comfort. Research on other forms for providing individualized control through low-energy personal comfort systems (desktop fans, foot warmed, and heated and cooled chairs) have also demonstrated enormous potential for improving both energy and comfort performance. Studies have demonstrated high levels of comfort with these systems while ambient temperatures ranged from 64-84°F. Energy and indoor environmental quality are inextricably linked, and must both be important goals of a high performance building. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To cope with growing strategic discontinuities and disruptions, scholars have suggested the creation of strategically agile companies, including new ways of managing business transformation and renewal, developing dynamic capabilities, creating imitation abilities, maintaining a high level of organizational flexibility, developing learning and knowledge transfer skills, as well as having an adaptive corporate culture. In a chaotic environment in which markets emerge, collide, split, evolve, and die one of the primary determinant of a firm's success is strategic agility, the ability to remain flexible in facing new developments, to continuously adjust the company's strategic direction, and to develop innovative ways to create value (Vogel 2011). The ability to adapt quickly and act flexibly is largely related to entrepreneurship, which is one of the attributes of an agile enterprise. The aim of this article is to identify instances of entrepreneurial behaviour in an agile enterprise and their impact on the adaptation of business enterprises to new challenges. The research methods used in the study include an in-depth analysis of the literature and a case study, which helps to illustrate the issue in question. Referring to the concept of agility, which is firmly embedded in the theory of strategic management and has been developed with the aim of adapting to the environment and its changes, the paper first examines different types of entrepreneurial activities and delineates the attributes of an agile enterprise. Then the issue under discussion is illustrated through the example of the Polish company Hortimex. This company is an eminent representative of the world's leading manufacturers of food additives and ingredients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The New Wharf at HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin is designed to cater for a wide range of vessels and operational requirements. The wharf is 250m long by 25m wide and is designed to cater for cyclonic waves and climate change. The design development has been thorough, and at each stage identified and quantified critical elements in the design. This case study describes the final stage of the design process and execution of the construction works. Originally issued as a Construct Only contract, but with an option to bring a Design and Construct (D&C) solution, the Department of Defence and their Managing Contractor opened the door to a contractor to bring a cost effective and risk managed solution. McConnell Dowell and design partner Royal HaskoningDHV developed an optimized D&C offer which focused on identifying the key residual risks on the project and developing a solution to address them. These are summarized as follows: Reducing the concrete volume due to logistical challenges of local supply and local traffic considerations within the base. Reducing the thickness of concrete elements to minimize thermal issues. Controlling the design schedule to enable reliable fast track procurement of long lead items such as piles. Amending the design to align with the contractor's preferred construction methodology and equipment. This case study will discuss in detail how a D&C contract can be used as a mechanism by which to control project risks. How aligning contractual priorities such as reducing cost, can align with environmental priorities including reducing material usage, and with stakeholder priorities i.e. controlling schedule. Also included will be updates from the construction of the wharf with particular emphasis on some of the more challenging aspects of the construction. Construction is scheduled for completion by mid 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]