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Rushan Ziatdinov (ziatdinov.rushan@gmail.com) is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Keimyung University, Daegu.

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Will 5th Industrial Revolution shape the future of humanity?

By Rushan ZiatdinovThe four Industrial Revolutions have had a significant and far-reaching impact on humanity. They also significantly influenced social, economic and political institutions. These revolutions ushered in a shift from manual labor to machine-based production, leading to new smart industries, AI and robot-based technologies and other innovations.The Industrial Revolutions enabled mass production and increased labor productivity, allowing more goods and services to be produced in a unit of time. On the other hand, they also led to the displacement of many traditional jobs and the emergence of new forms of social, economic and technological inequality that can be seen today in countries' levels of development. Now, there is a gap in technological development among nations that is sometimes very large.IBM's website states, “Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the way companies manufacture, improve and distribute their products. Manufacturers are integrating new technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and analytics, and AI and machine learnin

May 14, 2023By Rushan Ziatdinov
Will 5th Industrial Revolution shape the future of humanity?
Rushan Ziatdinov

Use of ChatGPT and future of academia

By Rushan ZiatdinovLaunched in November 2022, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Although it is still in its infancy, ChatGPT has already become a sensation and has attracted admiration and criticism. The notable linguist Noam Chomsky recently described the ChatGPT chatbot as, in essence, high-tech plagiarism. On the other hand, there are already many Facebook groups discussing the usefulness of ChatGPT, and some practical examples can be found online at https://platform.openai.com/examples Plagiarism can also be produced not only by ChatGPT, but by rewriting published texts with the help of Quillbot, DeepL Writer, Paraphrase tools, Wordfixer Bot, AI Article Spinner, SpinBot, and other online tools. Deepl Writer is especially good at paraphrasing sentences and offers the user several choices in the selection of sentences.I tested ChatGPT by asking it to rewrite a sentence in 10 different ways without changing its meaning and I received 10 sentences in the output. Currently, ZeroGPT is used as a detector for ChatGPT written texts, but I don't know if Tu

Mar 23, 2023By Rushan Ziatdinov
Rushan Ziatdinov

Benford's law applications and earthquakes

By Rushan ZiatdinovIt was anticipated more than a century ago that the distribution of real-world observations' first digits would not be uniform but would exhibit a trend where numbers with lower first digits (1,2,...) occur more frequently than those with higher first digits (...,8,9).Simon Newcomb, an astronomer, first proposed this idea in 1881 after observing that pages of logarithm tables were more frequently thumbed for lower digits than higher ones. He presented a mathematical formula that predicted the distribution of first digits to support his claim that this was the case because scientists were more likely to need to check up logs of real numbers with smaller first digits than larger ones.Later on, it was rediscovered by physicist Frank Benford, who stated it in 1938 in an article titled “The law of anomalous numbers.” This phenomenon is known as Benford's law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law. A set of numbers is said to satisfy Benford's law if the leading digit d (d ∈ {1, ..., 9}) occurs with probability P(d)=log(1+1/d), where log i

Feb 21, 2023By Rushan Ziatdinov
Rushan Ziatdinov

20 suggestions to improve Google Scholar and motivate global scholars

By Rushan Ziatdinov Google Scholar is a wonderful, freely accessible web search engine that indexes academic publications' full text and metadata from various publishing formats and disciplines. It indexes many more documents than Scopus or Web of Science databases, which can be found without registration in Google Scholar.After using it since 2006, it seems there has not been much change visually. This, of course, does not mean that search algorithms and various statistics are not developing. However, I would like to propose 20 suggestions in this article to advance Google Scholar. 1. The landing page looks overly simple, with a metaphor reading: “Standing on the shoulders of giants.” I suggest that other inspirational quotes from notable international scientists, or inspirational images could be displayed. These could be changed daily or weekly. Such inspirational texts could vary based on research interests, geographic location, etc. As a part of a global company, Google Scholar can find better ways to motivate and inspire researchers globally.2. Behind the search fiel

Jan 30, 2023By Rushan Ziatdinov
Rushan Ziatdinov

Universities need to design liquid syllabuses

By Rushan ZiatdinovA traditional syllabus serves as a learner's guide to a course and outlines the expectations for each participant. Typically, it comprises topics covered, a schedule for submitting assignments, a list of the required textbooks and other instructional materials, course policies, rules, and regulations. Many professors use personal websites to host syllabi in the form of an HTML webpage that can contain hyperlinks and other necessary elements. HTML pages are easy to design, and there are several free online WYSIWYG editors such as https://www.htmeditor.com/, https://html-online.com/editor/, https://onlinehtmleditor.dev/, https://www.cssportal.com/html-online-editor/, that can be helpful to create a single page syllabus. A syllabus can be freely hosted on github.io or Google Sites. Also, there is a populr.me website that offers a robust ad-free account for educators. Pacansky-Brock (2020) claims that a syllabus is a lengthy list of things students should not do that is written in a deficit-based language and hidden from the public inside a learning management system (

Dec 22, 2022By Rushan Ziatdinov
Rushan Ziatdinov

Technologies for crowd management in a smart city

By Rushan ZiatdinovThe tragedy at Itaewon made humanity pay more attention to the issues related to crowd management. Thinking about this sad tragedy, I am overwhelmed with tears of bitterness that everything turned out this way. I remember the time when I was a postdoc at the College of Engineering of Seoul National University in 2011. That year, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, and I was impressed by how the Japanese, without widespread panic, managed to cope with its terrible consequences. It seemed to me, a person who arrived in Asia from nearly another planet, that here in Asian countries, people are more disciplined and responsible.In fact, crowds are everywhere, especially in highly dense regions and countries. And crowds can result in hazardous conditions.The crowd is a huge, often unpredictable power. A wild flock of bees can kill a human, a swarm of locusts can destroy a field of crops in a few minutes, and a pack of hyenas can tear apart an elephant.Is managing a crowd that simple? It isn't from a scientific and engineering viewpoint. Crowd management is relate

Nov 20, 2022By Rushan Ziatdinov
Technologies for crowd management in a smart city
Rushan Ziatdinov

Importance of soft skills for current and future jobs

By Rushan ZiatdinovSoft skills, also known as common skills or core skills, are transferable skills that may be used in a variety of professions. Soft skills are often considered as a hypernym for skills falling under three key functional elements such as people skills, social skills, and personal career attributes. They differ from hard (technical) skills, which are directly relevant to the job for which people are applying. Hard skills are often more measurable, and easier to learn than soft skills. Technical skills are always changing, while people's soft skills can be preserved throughout their careers and lives.In the past, employers valued hard skills more highly than soft skills. But during the past few years, that has substantially changed. Rohan Rajiv, LinkedIn's director of product management, claims that, “Foundational soft skills have become even more important given the rise of remote and autonomous work, and are growing in importance across industries, levels and work environments. In fact, these soft skills were featured in 78 percent of jobs posted globally over

Oct 27, 2022By Rushan Ziatdinov
Rushan Ziatdinov

Video CVs - new tool for self-promotion in labor market

By Rushan Ziatdinov A video CV is a short recording used by a candidate to apply for a job. It can be used to support a written application, not simply replacing traditional CVs. They can be emailed to potential employers as a video file or published on a video hosting website like YouTube. According to the article, “Video CVs: fab or fad,” published by the journalism.co.uk portal, some journalists utilize video CVs to fully express themselves, get employers' attention, and highlight their skills.Video CVs are not new in the Western world, but are almost unknown in South Korea. In 2010, Forbes released an article entitled, “Viral Video Resume Wows Potential Employers,” about a job hunter from London who managed to get the attention of potential employers.According to an article published in The Guardian in 2014, video CVs are a great opportunity to show one's presentation skills and they tend to be most appropriate when applying for creative or customer-facing roles in sales, media, marketing, PR, and advertising.There are many opinions about using video CVs d

Sep 22, 2022By Rushan Ziatdinov
Video CVs - new tool for self-promotion in labor market
Rushan Ziatdinov

Venus Project: a new socio-economic system for a humanistic future

By Rushan Ziatdinov The Venus Project is the brainchild of Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows and is situated in Venus, Florida. Fresco was an American futurist, engineer, industrial designer, author and inspiring lecturer. Meanwhile, Meadows is a technical and architectural illustrator and model-maker.The Venus Project was built as an organization advocating a doable and realistic action plan to change society. Specifically, it aims to strive for a harmonizing civilization across the borders of the globe in a way that is humane and sustainable. In its outcomes, it seeks to serve as an alternative in striving for a world where human rights are put into action in everyday life, and not just written about in credible documents. The Venus Project has an approach that is innovative and universal, deals with both environmental and human issues, and the whole ensemble of economic ideas in the project is based on research.The vision of the Venus Project is to promote a society that has never before existed. This aim is based on years of studies and experiments. Among the social changes that

Aug 29, 2022By Rushan Ziatdinov
Rushan Ziatdinov

Harvesting rain energy

By Rushan ZiatdinovRainwater has been collected for centuries to be used to irrigate the land. Nowadays, the use of rainwater reduces the depreciation costs of pumping and purification equipment and lowers personal expenses. But can rain be used to generate electricity like the sun or the wind, for example? This is a good question. Scientists and engineers have already found answers. As of now, “rain energy” and “energy of rain” phrases are found in the titles, abstracts or keywords of 81 Scopus indexed documents, 28 of which were published in the last five years.Rain has potential as an energy source and an alternative way of generating electricity. Harvesting the energy of rain provides a lot of advantages. First and foremost, rainwater energy harvesting helps lessen the wide and ever-pressing need for water. Additionally, it lessens the demand that withstands imported water. It is also an efficient way to develop both the quantity and quality of groundwater.As a sustainable energy source, rain energy harvesting can be useful in providing an alternate way of

Jul 21, 2022By Rushan Ziatdinov
Harvesting rain energy
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