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An exploration into the use of solution-focused counselling when working with adolescents who report experiencing bullying

International and local studies indicate that bullying is a significant problem within New Zealand schools. School counsellors are positioned to see the impact of bullying on individuals, that is not visible to the wider community. This research provided the opportunity to examine the therapeutic process and the impact it can have on those experiencing bullying. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a collaborative approach that privileges the expertise of the client and encourages change through the amplification of client strengths and past successes while focusing on a preferred future. This research explores the use of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy when working with adolescents experiencing bullying. The context for this research is the school counselling department of a high school in Christchurch, New Zealand. Qualitative, practice-based research methods are used, and data was collected through the recording of counselling sessions, with the researcher as counsellor. Two clients, both in their first year at high school, were participants in this research while undertaking up to six counselling sessions, related to the bullying they were experiencing. Narrative analysis ensured the data is presented with consideration of the wider story it tells. The findings and discussion highlight the ways in which Solution-Focused Brief Therapy has supported the participants through the therapeutic process. Some of those explored include subjective measures such as scaling that indicate improvement over time, how client perceptions about the problem and possible solutions can change and the impact on self-identity. A key insight was the impact that a sense of support and understanding can have on client agency. This research makes a
Accrual-based earnings management and rea activities manipulation to avoid losses: evidence from unlisted public companies in Vietnam

The main aim of this study is to examine whether managers are willing to engage in earnings management to avoid reporting annual losses. We concentrate on firm-years that have net income scaled by total assets just above zero in the period 2012-2017. Consistent with previous articles, we find evidence suggesting income increase by accrual-based earnings management, price discounts to boost sales temporarily and reduction of discretionary expenditures to improve reported margins in these companies. This is the first evidence of earnings management to avoid losses in unlisted public companies in Vietnam. Besides, the results also show that managers may have reduced production costs to deal with a difficult business situation, which is not considered manipulation in real activities.
Acupuncture improves white matter perfusion and white matter integrity in vascular dementia rats: an MRI-based imaging study

Background: White matter lesions induced by chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) are common pathological changes, and are associated with cognitive impairment in vascular dementia (VaD). It has been reported that acupuncture can improve cognitive deficits of VaD rats through increasing cortical cerebral blood flow and attenuating neuroinflammation. However, the effects of acupuncture on white matter perfusion and white matter structural integrity have been not investigated. Methods: VaD was induced by bilateral common carotid arteries occlusion (BCCAO) in Wistar rats. Morris water maze (MWM) was used to evaluated the spatial learning and memory of rats. Arterial spin labeling imaging (ASL) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) were performed to measure the cerebral blood flow and white matter integrity in corpus callosum, external capsule, internal capsule, optic nerve and optic tract. Pathological staining was also applied to detect the myelin loss and neuroinflammation. Results: BCCAO rats with declined cerebral blood flow exhibited significant worse MWM performance, and altered DTI parameters including decreased fractional anisotropy, elevated radial diffusivity and axial diffusivity in white matter regions. After acupuncture treatment at GV20 and ST36, cognitive dysfunction, disruption of white matter perfusion and integrity were reversed. Pathological results supported that acupuncture could attenuate the loss of myelin sheath and microglia activation. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that acupuncture treatment protects cognitive impairment of BCCAO rats through increasing subcortical white matter perfusion and improving white matter lesions. Keywords: Acupuncture; ASL; DTI; cerebral blood flow; white matter; microglia activation
Hedonic Brownian Motion Index for Morocco

In this paper, we propose a new approach to modelling a real estate price index in Morocco, based on the hedonic approach. The basic idea of ​​this paper is to verify the importance of the characteristics of the real estate in the real estate price. Thus, based on data from the three major cities of the capital region of Morocco (RABAT Region), we estimated a hedonic model that takes into account spatial autocorrelation. The results obtained through this modelling generally confirm that the surface area and location of the real estate (land, house, villa and apartment) have a significant influence on the price of real estate. In addition, and because of the static nature of the database, which refers to one year, we have proposed a new approach to building the real estate price index, namely the stochastic Brownian motion approach. The results claim that this index is in perfect agreement with the real estate price index based on the repeat sales approach used and developed by the Central Bank.
Comparison of Physical, Chemical and Biological Soil Properties under Norway Spruce, European Beech and Sessile Oak – a Case Study

This study examined the interaction of tree species and soil development in litter and the 0-10 cm mineral topsoil layer in European beech, Norway spruce, and sessile oak forests. It also compared the main soil chemical, physical, and selected microbiological indicators as well as the microbial biomass, basal and substrate induced respiration, lipid phosphate content, phospholipid fatty acid profiles (PLFA), and respiratory quinones (RQ). With Norway spruce, soil pH, clay, and silt content were significantly lower, while exchangeable acidity was higher. This leads to a major loss of exchangeable cations of the upper soil layer resulting in lower base saturation. The microbial metabolic activity and microbial biomass of deciduous forest soils were significantly higher. The respiratory quotient (q) was highest in spruce, indicating disadvantageous circumstances for microbial activity. Our results demonstrate the importance of a complex study of physicochemical and biological soil parameters when investigating the impact of forest management on soil by, for example, providing data for the development of forest condition monitoring activities.
The relationship between depression, anxiety, and pain catastrophising in cancer patients

Introduction: Catastrophising is a person’s view of an unreasonable belief and a worse situation than exaggerating its consequences. It is defined as individuals believing that their current condi-tion and physical discomfort will worsen each time or that something will be worse than it actually is. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between depression and anxiety and pain catastrophising in cancer patients. Material and methods: Fifty-five cancer patients who were followed and treated in the Oncology Outpatient Clinic were included in the study. The age, gender, marital status, occupation, and psychiatric history of the participants were recorded. A socio-demographic data form, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and the Pain Catastrophising Scale (PCS) were applied to the participants. Results: The mean age of the participants was 59.2 ±12.7 years, and 40% were female. When the total BDI and BAI scale scores of cancer patients were evaluated, it was seen that they were not depressed in terms of mean value ( p = 0.112), but they were in the anxiety scale ( p < 0.05). There was a positive correlation between depression and anxiety, as well as depression and anxiety and pain catastrophising ( p < 0.001, r = 0.782). While the PCS subscales “helplessness” and “rumina-tion” scores were significantly higher in cancer patients with depression and anxiety ( p < 0.001), the “magnification” score was significantly higher in cancer patients with anxiety ( p < 0.001). The Pain Catastrophising Scale total score increased with increasing BDI and BAI severity ( p < 0.001), while the BDI and BAI scores were found to be significantly higher in females than males ( p < 0.001). Conclusions: It was found that cancer patients were generally not depressed but were anxious, and the catastrophising of pain increased with increasing depression and anxiety severity. Health professionals giving care to cancer patients need to be alert to signs of psychological distress in patients experiencing pain.
Analysis of Leading Smes Determination in Ende Districts and Its Sustainability Status in the Pandemic Era of Covid 19

The existence of MSMEs cannot be doubted because they have proven to be able to survive, especially after the economic crisis in 1998. In the Covid 19 Pandemic era like today, MSMEs still play an important role. Many sectors have been affected by the Covid 19 pandemic but MSMEs still show good resilience compared to large-scale economic sectors, one example is MSMEs in Ende Regency. The most dominant businesses in Ende Regency are micro and small businesses, while medium scale businesses also exist, but not too many. Even though people experience limited purchasing power due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the existence of MSMEs in Ende Regency is still taken into account. Efforts to increase the existence and competitiveness of UMKN in Ende Regency were also carried out by the Regional Government and Stakeholders through the empowerment of MSMEs. The concept of empowerment carried out by the Regional Government basically refers to the concept of national empowerment which is carried out to support the creation of job opportunities, increase exports and increase competitiveness. All these efforts are made through increasing business certainty and legal certainty, developing an incentive system to foster new export-oriented technology-based entrepreneurs, and increasing access to and expanding the export market for MSME products. In this context, MSMEs are also given facilities in formalizing and licensing businesses, including by developing a one-stop service pattern. The main objective is to strengthen the sustainability of MSMEs so that they can produce quality and internationally competitive products. Therefore, strategic efforts are needed to increase the competitive advantage of MSMEs. One way that can be done is by enriching the knowledge of MSME actors about business management and financial knowledge so that management and accountability can be better accounted for. Therefore, the central and local governments play an important role in providing support, commitment and assistance so that the status of MSMEs in Ende Regency is sustainable, superior and has high competitiveness.
Teachers’ and Students’ Beliefs on English Language Education at Madrasah Mu’allimin Muhammadiyah

This study investigates both teachers’ and students’ belief in language education at Madrasah Mu’allimin Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta in the academic year of 2019/ 2020. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five teachers and five students as the research participants. Interview results were analyzed though qualitative data analysist. The finding showed that generally their belief on language education was influenced by religious values of Islam. It was the core value of their language education. All respondents showed their social awareness of the importance of language usage and its mastery as part of religious duty.
Chechen and Ingush

This chapter is a grammar sketch of Chechen and Ingush, which form the Vainakh subbranch of the Nakh branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian family. The emphasis is on Chechen, since a reference grammar of Ingush exists. Attention is given to points of typological and theoretical interest. Chechen and Ingush distinguish themselves from the Daghestanian languages by having a much richer set of vowel phonemes, containing short and long diphthongs. Accompanied by extensive examples from existing texts, the chapter offers insight into features such as stress and tone, pharyngealization, verb classes, verb template, meanings of TAM categories, evidentiality, valence changing, the addressee dative construction, word order, clause chaining, clefting and the VIP demonstrative. A number of issues that need further research are outlined in the chapter, such as tone, intonation and schwa-zero alternations. Differences between Chechen and Ingush are identified, especially where they involve the semantics and pragmatics of morphological forms or syntactic constructions.
A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Classifiers for Credit Card Fraud Detection

Now a day’s credit card transactions have been gaining popularity with the growth of e-commerce and shows tremendous opportunity for the future. Therefore, due to surge of credit card transaction, it is a crying need to secure it . Though the vendors and credit card providing authorities are showing dedication to secure the details of these transactions, researchers are searching new scopes or techniques to ensure absolute security which is the demand of time. To detect credit card fraud, along with other technologies, applications of machine learning and computational intelligence can be used and plays a vital role. For detecting credit card anomaly, this paper analyzes and compares some popular classifier algorithms. Moreover, this paper focuses on the performance of the classifiers. UCSD -FICO Data Mining Contest 2009 dataset were used to measure the performance of the classifiers. The final results of the experiment suggest that (1) meta and tree classifiers perform better than other types of classifiers, (2) though classification accuracy rate is high but fraud detection success rate is low. Finally, fraud detection rate should be taken into consideration to assess the performance of the classifiers in a credit card fraud detection system.
Associations of vascular risk factors, APOE ɛ4 allele, and TOMM40 G allele with cognitive function in Chinese older adults: a community-based study

Background : The associations of vascular risk factors (VRFs) , apolipoprotein E (APOE) ɛ4 allele, and translocase of outer mitochondrial membrane 40 (TOMM40) G allele with cognitive function have been investigated mostly in western societies. In the present study, we sought to examine the associations of VRFs, APOE ε4 allele, and TMM40 G allele (rs2075650) with global cognitive function among Chinese older adults, with a focus on potential interactions between VRFs and the susceptibility genes. Methods : This is a cross-sectional study that included 422 participants (mean age 69.2 years, 54.3% female) in the China Longitudinal Ageing Study , who were free of dementia. Data were collected through interviews, clinical examinations, and laboratory tests. The clustering of multiple VRFs was scored by counting the number of VRFs potentially related to cognitive function. Global cognitive function was assessed with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Data were analyzed with multiple general linear regression models. Results : Physical inactivity and diabetes were independently associated with performance lower MMSE score ( p <0.05). Moreover, physical inactivity interacted with APOE ε4 and TOMM40 G allele (rs2075650), and diabetes interacted with TOM40 G allele to affect cognitive function, such that having physical inactivity in combination with either APOE ε4 allele or TOMM40 G allele, or having diabetes and TOMM40 G allele, compared to having neither, was significantly associated with markedly lower MMSE scores ( p <0.05). Finally, when four modifiable VRFs (i.e., current smoking, physical inactivity, high LDL-C, and diabetes) were aggregated, an increasing number of having these factors was associated with a decreasing MMSE score in a dose-response manner ( p for trend<0.05). Conclusion : Some VRFs (e.g., physical inactivity and diabetes), when concurrently occurring with APOE ε4 or TOMM40 G allele, are associated with substantially poor performance in global cognitive function among the Chinese elderly .
Improved survival rate and functional recovery of TKA in cementless fixation compared with cemented component: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: Whether the cement could be given up in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was still in controversy. We perform this meta-analysis to compare the rate of revision and functional recovery between two kinds of fixation in TKA. Methods: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs), prospective/retrospective observational studies from PubMed (on 2019 Sep), EMBASE (on 2019 Sep), and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) and Web of Science (on 2019 Sep) were searched. Continuous outcomes were presented as mean difference or standard mean difference with 95% CI and discontinuous outcomes were reported as relative risk (RR) with 95% CI. Random-effects or fixed-effects model was conducted to analyze the extracted data. The PRISMA guidelines and Cochrane Handbook were adopted to assess the quality of the results reported in included studies to ensure that the results of our meta-analysis were reliable and veritable. The continuous and dichotomous outcome were collected in a standard form, and the data were analysed by using Review Manager 5.3 software. Finally, the results were presented in the Forest plots. The rate of revision and reasons caused revision was the primary outcome of our study.Results: Twenty-six studies involving 2369 patients in cementless TKA and 2654 patients in cemented TKA were finally included in our meta-analysis. 26 studies were divided into three subgroups according to the length of follow-up. The studies in the first subgroup followed less than 5.5 years, the second followed less than 10.5 years, and the third followed more than 10.5 years. Cementless fixation significantly decreased the rate of aseptic loosing (p=0.0002) and revision (p=0.0002) in the first subgroup. Other reasons such as periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), instability and polyethylene wear were not significantly different between two groups. Significantly better functional recovery was got in cementless TKA in terms of Knee Society Function Score (p=0.01) when followed longer than 8.5 years. Significantly less patients in cementless group require manipulation under anesthesia (p=0.02) when duration was longer than 5.5 years. However, there was no significant difference regarding the rate of complication between two kinds of fixation in TKA.Conclusion: Not only the rate of aseptic loosing was decreased, rate of revision was also significantly decreased in cementless TKA within 5.5 years. In addition, the cementless TKA seemed performed better in postoperative functional recovery when had a long-term follow-up. However, the rate of complication was not significantly different in two kinds of fixation in TKA.
On the Generation of Daily Gridded Ocean Surface Vector Wind Products From Scatsat-1

An optimal interpolation (OI)-based technique is utilized to generate global daily gridded wind products from Scatsat-1 data. The first guess (i.e., background) for the OI is used from the analyses of National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) global operational model. The generated gridded products are subsequently validated using observations from global moored buoys and surface winds analyses from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), and that shows a root mean square error of ~1.3 m/s in wind speed and ~19° in wind direction. Along with the gridded winds, several wind-dependent products (e.g., wind stress, wind divergence, wind stress curl, sensible and latent heat flux, etc.) are also generated. The gridded products from Scatsat-1 are available freely from Meteorological and Oceanographic Satellite Data Archival Center (http://www.mosdac.gov.in) since October 03, 2016.
SEMIACTIVE SEAT SUSPENSION FOR AGRICULTURAL MACHINES

: This paper deals with the simulation of a seat suspension with a magnetorheological (MR) damper for agricultural machines. The dynamic model of the seat is a single degree of freedom model with non-linear damping characteristics and response time of the damper. In the model, three control algorithms were implemented – two-state Skyhook, Skyhook linear approximation damper control, and Acceleration Driven Damper control. The excitation signal for the model was a real record of acceleration measured on the frame of the tractor. The suspension quality was compared using a standard deviation of acceleration. Results have proven significant improvement in suspension quality when any of the three mentioned algorithms was used.
Relation of Access Information with Satisfaction and Loyalty in Medical (Dental) Tourism: Systematic Review

This systematic review aims to assess and understand the relation of access information with satisfaction and loyalty in dental tourism. Materials and methods: This research was conducted with a systematic review method using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyzes (PRISMA) as a guideline in methodology. PubMed, Science Direct, and Research Gate from 2016 to 2020 were used in this study as electronic search engines. Results: 15 research articles met the inclusion criteria. It was positively identified in methodology that information access has interrelated influences on satisfaction and loyalty in dental tourists. Inadequate and unsupported information access will affect patients satisfaction regarding their treatment. Conclusion: Information access to dental tourism patients can affect ones satisfaction. Inadequate and unsupported information access will. Affect patients satisfaction regarding dental tourism treatment that will be done.
On almost everywhere convergence of the generalized Marcienkiwicz means with respect to two dimensional Vilenkin-like systems

In this paper we investigate the almost everywhere convergence of two dimensional Marcinkiewicz-like means of two variable integrable functions which is given by t α n f = 1 n n − 1 ∑ k = 0 S α 1 ( | n | , k ) , α 2 ( | n | , k ) f ( M | n | ≤ n < M | n | + 1 ) and give a sufﬁcient condition for functions α : N 2 (cid:55)→ N 2 in order to have the a.e. relation t α n f → f for all f ∈ L 1 ( G 2 m ) with respect to two dimensional bounded Vilenkin-like systems. Finally, we give an application of the main result with respect to triangular summability of Vilenkin-like-Fourier series.
RASA Conversational Agent in Romanian for Predefined Microworlds

Technology is becoming omnipresent in our lives due to its accessibility and ease of use. Conversational agents facilitate interactions in natural language and are frequently employed to perform repetitive tasks in a specific context. We introduce a conversational agent for Romanian built on top of the open-source RASA framework, capable to communicate in predefined microworlds. Two scenarios were considered, namely: a smart home assistant which interprets commands to IoT devices, and an interactive info-point for our university focusing on providing guidance to students. Several enhancements were considered, including an NLP pre-processing pipeline from spaCy and a knowledge graph implemented using Grakn for conceptualizing the information accessible to the agent. Our agent can quickly classify intents and extract entities with high accuracy for a given microworld (F1-score of 97% for the first microworld and 93% for the second). A survey on 10 users showed high satisfaction in terms of the usefulness and the succinctness of the provided information.