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Brief Interventions via Electronic Health Record Messaging for Population-Based Suicide Prevention: Mixed Methods Pilot Study (Preprint)
Authors: Whiteside Ursula , Richards Julie , Simon Gregory E
Published: September 2020

BACKGROUND

New opportunities to create and evaluate population-based selective prevention programs for suicidal behavior are emerging in health care settings. Standard depression severity measures recorded in electronic medical records (EMRs) can be used to identify patients at risk for suicide and suicide attempt, and promising interventions for reducing the risk of suicide attempt in at-risk populations can be adapted for web-based delivery in health care.

OBJECTIVE

This study aims to evaluate a pilot of a psychoeducational program, focused on developing emotion regulation techniques via a web-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills site, including four DBT skills, and supported by secure message coaching, including elements of caring messages.

METHODS

Patients were eligible based on the EMR-documented responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire indicating suicidal thoughts. We measured feasibility via the proportion of invitees who opened program invitations, visited the web-based consent form page, and consented; acceptability via qualitative feedback from participants about the DBT program; and engagement via the proportion of invitees who began DBT skills as well as the number of website visits for DBT skills and the degree of site engagement.

RESULTS

A total of 60 patients were invited to participate. Overall, 93% (56/60) of the patients opened the invitation and 43% (26/60) consented to participate. DBT skills website users visited the home page on an average of 5.3 times (SD 6.0). Procedures resulted in no complaints and some participant feedback emphasizing the usefulness of DBT skills.

CONCLUSIONS

This study supports the potential of using responses to patient health questionnaires in EMRs to identify a high-risk population and offer key elements of caring messages and DBT adapted for a low-intensity intervention. A randomized trial evaluating the effectiveness of this program is now underway (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02326883).
Mental Health and Burnout Syndrome Among Postgraduate Students in Medical and Multidisciplinary Residencies During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study (Preprint)
Authors: Pinho Rebeca Da Nóbrega Lucena , Costa Thais Ferreira , Silva Nayane Miranda , Barros-Areal Adriana F , Salles André De Mattos , Oliveira Andrea Pedrosa , Rassi Carlos , Valero Caroline Elizabeth Brero , Gomes Ciro Martins , Mendonça-Silva Dayde , Oliveira Fernando , Jochims Isadora , Ranulfo Ivan , Neves Juliana De Brito Seixas , Oliveira Lucas , Dantas Maria Nogueira , Rosal Marta , Soares Mayra , Kurizky Patrícia , Peterle Viviane Uliana , Faro Yasmin Furtado , Gomides Ana Paula , da Mota Licia , Albuquerque Cleandro , Simaan Cezar Kozak , Amado Veronica M
Published: September 2020

BACKGROUND

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to high levels of physical, psychological, and social stress among health care professionals, including postgraduate students in medical and multidisciplinary residencies. This stress is associated with the intense fear of occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus known to cause COVID-19. These professionals are at risk of developing physical and mental illnesses not only due to the infection but also due to prolonged exposure to multidimensional stress and continued work overload.

OBJECTIVE

This study aims to evaluate the prevalence of symptoms suggestive of mental disorders and burnout syndrome and determine the risk factors for burnout among postgraduate students in medical and multidisciplinary residencies in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic.

METHODS

For this prospective cohort study with parallel groups, participants were recruited between July and September 2020 to achieve a sample size of at least 1144 participants. Research instruments such as Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale; Patient Health Questionnaire; Brief Resilient Coping Scale; and Oldenburg Burnout Inventory will be used to collect data. Data will be collected in 2 waves: the first wave will include data related to sample characterization and psychosocial evaluation, and the second wave will be launched 12 weeks later and will include an evaluation of the incidence of burnout as well as correlations with the potential predictive factors collected in the first wave. Additionally, we will collect data regarding participants’ withdrawal from work.

RESULTS

The recruitment took place from July 29 to September 5, 2020. Data analyses for this phase is already in progress. The second phase of the study is also in progress. The final data collection began on December 1, 2020, and it will be completed by December 31, 2020.

CONCLUSIONS

We believe the findings of this study will help evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health conditions of health professionals in Brazil as well as contribute to the planning and implementation of appropriate measures that can alleviate these mental health challenges.

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Authors: Mahayana Indra Tri , Angsana Natalia Christina , Ayyasy Muhammad Zhafran , Hutajulu Anastasya Sondang , Suhardjo Suhardjo
Published: September 2020

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease which is caused by the latest discovered coronavirus. Conjunctivitis is allegedly the first presentation of COVID-19 since it can spread by aerosol contact with the conjunctiva. The present study aimed to systematically review the employment of conjunctival swab with Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction in detecting SARS-Cov-2. The research is a systematic review of the published scientific literature on findings of conjunctival swab of COVID-19 from PUBMED database and other additional sources (i.e: Google Scholar). The search method was done using “COVID-19 OR coronavirus OR SARS-COV2, AND conjunctivitis, AND ocular manifestations, AND conjunctival swab” as keywords. Inclusion criteria were any papers that related to the entered keywords and have conjunctival swab as a reported outcome. Letters, reviews, and editorials describing other studies reporting COVID-19 and conjunctival swab were excluded. Only four research papers were found and included in the literature review. From the four current research papers, positive SARS-CoV-2 results were yielded from 0-5.26% of conjunctival swab specimens. In conclusion, although the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the ocular surface remains unclear, the prevention of infection transmission through an ocular surface is mandatory by wearing goggles (or shield), mask (N-95 recommended) and gown.
Coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19 and impacts on medical education: a systematic review
Authors: Kelly Kelly , Hwei Lie Rebecca Yen , Octavius Gilbert Sterling
Published: September 2020

Since the beginning of 2020, the world has been affected by the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The virus’ infectious nature pushed all sectors to implement social distancing measures in an effort to limit its transmission, including the education sector. We searched PubMed and Science Direct on June 12th and found 24 papers that are relevant to our review. After the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 is a global threat, various countries took a variety of measures to limit the disease spread such as social distancing, self-quarantine, and closing public facilities that hold large gatherings, including universities and schools. Hospitals started to prioritize services for COVID-19 cases. Medical education programs are also affected by this disease, but not continuing in-person classes outweighs any benefit from traditional teaching methods. The previous Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) pandemics have shown ways to shift medical education to online platforms. In the current pandemic, online meetings are being used to hold lectures, classes, laboratory practices, and clinical skills classes. For clerkship students, online platforms might not be feasible because this eliminates patient-doctor relationships, but it appears for now to be the only option. Some institutions have involved medical students in the frontlines altogether. We encourage all parties to constantly evaluate, review, and improve the efforts of continuing medical education, especially during this pandemic. Further research is needed to evaluate students’ performance after adopting e-learning and to discover the best methods in medical education in general and clerkship education in particular.
The Proliferation of Definitions of Terrorism in International Law
Authors: Baumer-Schuppli Fabian
Published: September 2020

This paper analyses the proliferation of definitions of terrorism in international law and across national jurisdictions. On the one hand, this paper argues that terrorism legislation mainly pursues a symbolic function in international and criminal law by constructing the common enemy to the community of states. However, the fundamental disagreement on the nature of terrorism undermines this core function of terrorism legislation because violence becomes relativized by competing definitions of terrorism. On the other hand, this paper highlights how, in the presence of competing legal definitions of terrorism across states, the duty to prosecute or extradite (aut dedere aut iudicare) threatens the fundamental principle of foreseeability of criminal accountability (nullum crimen sine lege certa). As individuals are held accountable to multiple overlapping jurisdictions, self-determination struggles and legitimate acts in armed conflicts become increasingly criminalised. Therefore, the proliferation of definitions of terrorism in international law and across domestic jurisdictions has the effect of weakening collective action in international law and at the same time strengthening unilateral prosecution of terrorism.
The Architecture of Illicit Nuclear Trafficking
Authors: Le Moal Mathilde
Published: September 2020

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nuclear trafficking in Russia and the former Soviet Republics has become an ever-prevalent threat for international security. This essay provides an assessment of the organisational structure of this transnational organised crime (TOC). Using the instrumental approach to network analysis and Bourdieu’s concept of social and human capital as a methodological framework, this essay investigates the nature of connections maintained among criminals during the various stages of the nuclear trafficking process – acquisition, transportation, sale – and contends that nuclear trafficking displays characteristics both of a stable hierarchy and a fluid network. Thus, it reaches the conclusion that TOC groups involved in this illicit activity present a hybrid form of organisational structure which is best described as a directed network – that is, a criminal entity with a stable group of organisers located at its core, and fluid nodes of individuals in charge of executing the different phases of the trafficking process at its periphery.
The Application of Durkheimian Theories in the 21st Century
Authors: Lazzarotto Anna-Maria
Published: September 2020

Classical sociological theorists have been criticised for being too vague, incomplete, and ever too conservative and notwithstanding all the efforts and consideration that has been dedicated to linking different parts of Durkheimian thought to the law itself, contemporary sociology and criminology frequently disregard its potential within the current study of law and criminology. This paper, however, will strive to explore and prove, through a Durkheimian lens, how classical sociological frameworks can provide us with a series of diverse aspects to analyse modern values and circumstances.
Relaciones entre los procesos de urbanización, el medio natural y la vulnerabilidad en Acapulco y Cancún
Authors: Moreno Galván Felipe de Jesus , Mora López Rafael
Published: September 2020

Las ciudades turísticas costeras en México se ubican en zonas amenazadas por fenómenos naturales. A esto se suman procesos de urbanización en terrenos que forman parte de los ciclos hídricos, los cuales aumentan la vulnerabilidad de la población al desviar y bloquear los cauces y eliminar las coberturas vegetales y sus biomas asociados.Estos procesos se analizaron con Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) y mediante una modelización hidrológica de seis áreas en crecimiento, que permiten pronosticar las zonas con mayores riesgos, con lo que se destaca que es necesario reinterpretar las áreas ambientales periféricas y los recursos turísticos a partir de sus servicios de mitigación y regulación de los eventos naturales.
Diseño complejo para la vulnerabilidad y el riesgo en megaciudades
Authors: Platas López Francisco
Published: September 2020

El presente artículo propone criterios metodológicos de la complejidad susceptibles de ser aplicados para la prefiguración de la vulnerabilidad y el riesgo en megaciudades. Para lograr lo anterior, se parte del argumento que sostiene que, aunque para la formación del diseñador se requieren de muchas disciplinas, no es trivial la integración disciplinar que busca el diseño. A partir de ahí, se fundamenta una crítica a los excesos de sumar saberes de planteamientos epistémicos disímiles e incluso antagónicos. Para enfrentar el rebasamiento cognoscitivo en las disciplinas proyectuales, se propone el empleo de los enfoques de la complejidad para generar la convergencia disciplinar ante fenómenos emergentes de los riesgos. Tal diseño complejo se fundamenta en principios, criterios y presupuestos ónticos, epistémicos y metodológicos. Finalmente, se presenta una propuesta de diseño complejo para la vulnerabilidad y el riesgo, y se describen sus retos y limitaciones.
Educación 4.0 y formación directiva: caso del Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México
Authors: J. Guzmán Francisco , Velázquez Marco , López Angélica
Published: September 2020

El objetivo de este artículo es proponer una trayectoria de formación para personal directivo de instituciones educativas en la perspectiva de la cuarta revolución industrial. Esta se sustenta teóricamente en una revisión documental sobre industria 4.0 y metodológicamente en el ciclo de la política (Schwab, 2016; Aguilar, 1993). A partir de los resultados obtenidos, es posible aportar a la construcción de perfil directivo, capaz de renovar su gestión y tomar decisiones que respondan a la agenda de transformación institucional y a las demandas del sector productivo. En conclusión, la propuesta realizada se aplicó en el Instituto Politécnico Nacional o IPN, una institución mexicana de nivel medio y superior, y se comparte para que instituciones homólogas la extrapolen, dialoguen o modifiquen, según su contexto.
The influence of humor on workplace mentoring and employee attitudes
Authors: Love Zachary M. , Bowler Jennifer L. , Bowler Mark C.
Published: September 2020

Organizations are under continual pressure to cultivate an environment in which employees feel valued and committed, and mentoring provides one channel through which this may be achieved. In particular, the dynamics characterizing the mentoring relationship are of paramount importance.
In the current study of 108 direct-care staff at a psychiatric hospital, we investigated the influence of 2 aspects of these dynamics—mentor humor style and the frequency with which humor is used—on protégé satisfaction with the mentoring relationship and on several
key work-related outcomes (i. e., organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions). Overall, mentor humor style and frequency were both positively associated with protégés' mentoring satisfaction. Furthermore, mentoring satisfaction favorably influenced protégés'
affective organizational commitment and job satisfaction, both of which were inversely related to their turnover intentions. Theoretical and practical implications of these results, along with the role of indirect effects, are discussed.
Effect of leadership styles on organizational commitment and performance in small- and medium-sized enterprises in Iraqi Kurdistan
Authors: Qadir Karwan Hamasalih , Yeşiltaş Mehmet
Published: September 2020

Since 2003 the number of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has increased exponentially in Iraqi Kurdistan. To facilitate further growth the owners and chief executive officers of these enterprises have sought to improve their leadership skills. This study examined the effect
of transactional and transformational leadership styles on organizational commitment and performance in Iraqi Kurdistan SMEs, and the mediating effect of organizational commitment in these relationships. We distributed 530 questionnaires and collected 400 valid responses (75% response rate)
from 115 SME owners/chief executive officers and 285 employees. The results demonstrate there were positive effects of both types of leadership style on organizational performance. Further, the significant mediating effect of organizational commitment in both relationships shows the importance
of this variable for leader effectiveness among entrepreneurs in Iraqi Kurdistan, and foreign entrepreneurs engaging in new businesses in the region.
LONG CHAIN POLYMERIC CARBOHYDRATE DEPENDENT NANOCOMPOSITES IN TISSUE ENGINEERING
Authors: Aslam Muhammad Shahzad
Published: September 2020

The use of nanomedicine has increased enormously, especially in the field of gene delivery and targeted drug delivery. The objective of current review to identify long-chain polymeric carbohydrate dependent nano-composites in tissue engineering such Gellan gum incorporated TiO2 nanotubes, Poly(vinyl) alcohol-gellan gum-based nanofiber, Cross-linked gellan/PVA nanofibers, Nanocellulose reinforced gellan-gum hydrogels, Dextran and sol-gel derived bioactive glass-ceramic nanoparticles, Aminated β-Cyclodextrin-Modified-Carboxylated Magnetic Cobalt/ Nanocellulose Composite, Chitosan-chitin nanocrystal composite scaffolds, Sodium alginate-xanthan gum-based nano-composite scaffolds, Nano-hydroxyapatite Pullulan/dextran polysaccharide composite, Chitosan/Carbon nanofibers Scaffolds, Nano-bio composite scaffold of chitosan–gelatin–alginate–hydroxyapatite, Alginate/gelatin scaffolds with homogeneous nano apatite coating,Nano-hydroxyapatite-alginate-gelatinmicrocapsule,Poly(ε-caprolactone)/keratin nano fibrousmats, Keratin nanoparticles-coating electrospun PVA nanofiber, Nano-hydroxyapatite/chitosan/chondroitin sulfate/hyaluronic acid and Chitosan/chondroitin sulfate/nano-bioglass. The current review has identified a list of medicinal herbs that have been incorporated into long chain polymeric carbohydrate-based nano-composites
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Received 15 July 2020; Revised 13 August; Accepted 28 August, Available online 15 September 2020
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Affiliation: University of Basrah, Iraq
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Authors: Sriyanti Ika
Published: September 2020

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana minat siswa yang menggunakan pembelajaran kooperatif tipe STAD dan Pembelajaran Ekspositori. Minat belajar siswa adalah penerimaan akan suatu hubungan antara diri sendiri dengan sesuatu di luar sendiri. Semakin kuat hubungan tersebut semakin besar minat siswa untuk belajar matematika. Populasi yang diambil di SMPN 1 Pamanukan dengan sampel siswa kelas 8A untuk kelas eksperimen yang menggunakan model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe STAD dan siswa kelas 8C untuk kelas kontrol dengan menggunakan pembelajaran Ekspositori. Metode yang digunakan dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Instrumen dalam penelitian ini yaitu jenis non tes, berupa angket dan wawancara. Berdasarkan analisis MSI bahwa rata-rata siswa yang mendapatkan pembelajaran kooperatif tipe STAD rata-ratanya 91,065 lebih besar dari rata-rata siswa yang menggunakan pembelajaran Ekspositori dengan rata-rata 85,478. Angket disusun dengan menggunakan skala Likert, dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui setiap indikator dari minat siswa dengan menggunakan pembelajaran kooperatif tipe STAD dan pembelajaran Ekspositori. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa minat pembelajaran kooperatif tipe STAD lebih baik dari pada minat siswa dalam pembelajaran Ekspositori dan minat siswa dalam pembelajaran kooperatif tipe STAD bersifat positif.
A plane-stress plasticity model for masonry for the explicit finite element time integration scheme
Authors: Lundqvist Oliver Gustav Sebastian , Chauhan Michael
Published: September 2020

Masonry is a composite material and can be considered anisotropic on a macroscopic scale, i.e., masonry exhibits different properties in different directions, both in the elastic and inelastic range. Like other quasi-brittle materials, masonry exhibits softening and hardening behavior after failure for compression and tension. In this paper a smeared continuum plasticity model of masonry is presented as well as it numerical implementation in an explicit finite element time integration scheme, as such a material model does not exist for a commercial explicit finite element solver. The implementation is done by writing a user-defined material model (VUMAT) as a Fortran subroutine in the commercial software ABAQUS Explicit. The material model is tested both in uniaxial and biaxial loading against similar tests from earlier research. The results show good agreement with earlier research.
PENGARUH INTRODUKSI ISOLAT RIZOBAKTERIA INDIGENUS TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN DAN HASIL TANAMAN KENTANG (Solanum tuberosum L.) DAN DINAMIKA POPULASI GULMA DI ALAHAN PANJANG, SUMATERA BARAT
Authors: QOLBY FRISKIA HANATUL , CHANIAGO IRAWATI , DWIPA INDRA , RESTI ZURAI
Published: September 2020

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is of important major crops for its carbohydrate and plays important roles to support food sovereignty along with rice, wheat, corn, and sorghum. Potato growth and yield at West Sumatra has not reached its maximum potential due to some factors including cultivation. One major important constraint in potato growing in West Sumatra is the fact that farmers use the 8th to 12th generation of potato seedlings which have a very low agronomic potential. Yet, weeds have caused another problem in the field and reduce potato yield. An experiment has been conducted at the Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Andalas and Nagari Alahan Panjang, Subdistrict Lembah Gumanti, Solok Regency from November 2018 to March 2019. The experiment was aimed at determining the best indigenous rhizobactria isolates to increase the growth and yield of potato plants as well as weed population dynamics associated with potato plants. Six isolates of indigenous rhizobacteria and a control treatment group were tested in a completely randomised design with three replicates. The isolates were L1 S3.1, L1 S3.2, L1 S4.4, L2 S1.2, L2 S2.3, L2 S3. 2. Data were analyzed with analysis of variance and mean separation with Duncan's New Multiple Range Test (DNMRT) at 5%. Results showed that isolate L1 S4.4 was best in increasing the number of branches, number of tubers, and weight of potato yield. The isolates tested affected weed populations dynamics, prior to treatments there were 8 species of weeds found at the field i.e Bidens pilosa L., Leptochloa chinensis, Eleusine indica L., Agerathum conyzoides, Richardia sp, Galinsoga parviflora, and Sonchus arvensis. During potato growing at the field, weed species of Eleusine indica L. and Gynura divaricata dissappeared from the soil. In contrast,  Amaranthus spinosus emerged demonstrating that weed population dynamic has occurred.
Determinants of job satisfaction in a transport company: a Polish case study
Authors: Jędrzejczak-Gas Janina , Wyrwa Joanna
Published: September 2020

Research background: This article concerns job satisfaction considered as an important impulse affecting employee behavior, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the significance of the factors that shape it.
Purpose of the article: The purpose of this paper is to analyze and evaluate environmental factors shaping job satisfaction in a company from the TSL industry. This article addresses the problem of job satisfaction, considered as an important impulse influencing employee behavior, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the importance of the factors that underlie it. The search for an answer to the question of what determines the satisfaction of the employee and whether the employees are diversified based on their preferences in this area, relied on own research carried out among employees of a transportation company.
Methods: First of all, for each factor indicated in the questionnaire a measure was calculated ? weighted average number of points. Using the criterion of decreasing value of this measure, a ranking of the importance of factors shaping job satisfaction in the surveyed company was prepared. Secondly, in order to supplement the analyses, the correlation between general job satisfaction and particular factors of job satisfaction was examined. The values of Spearman's rank correlation coefficients and Kendall's tau coefficients (?-Kendall) were calculated. The correlation analysis allowed us to examine the strength and direction of the influence of 20 factors on the overall job satisfaction.
Findings & Value added: The conducted research shows that the two most important factors necessary to achieve job satisfaction are access to information necessary for proper performance of work and independence in performing the entrusted tasks. The correlation analysis confirmed that in the surveyed company job satisfaction is shaped primarily by factors that influence the employees' needs related to affiliation. On the other hand, the correlation coefficients between general satisfaction and factors shaping the need for respect and recognition and self-fulfillment turned out to be statistically insignificant. Building job satisfaction requires identification of its sources and recognition of the nature of the relationship between general satisfaction and its determinants. Without knowledge of these factors and the extent to which they are responsible for employee satisfaction and dissatisfaction, actions taken by employers may turn out to be misguided and become only a source of costs and not the expected benefits. In conditions of limited resources, employers should optimize activities aimed at building employee satisfaction and focus their efforts on those attributes of the working environment, the modification of which will have the most desirable consequences.
Factors influencing true and fair view when preparing financial statements under IFRS: evidence from the Czech Republic
Authors: Homola David , Paseková Marie
Published: September 2020

Research background: Accounting records provide a wide range of data necessary for decisions of the management as well as for users of a company?s financial statements. IFRS represents one of the widely accepted accounting principles, often mentioned in relation to the preparation of high-quality financial statements.
Purpose of the article: The aim of this paper is to identify the factors contributing to the occurrence of misstatements when preparing financial statements under IFRS. The subsequent goal is to identify the possible influences of such misstatements on the users of the financial statements.
Methods: The research itself focuses on perceived problems in IFRS application in the Czech Republic. The total tested population is 193 Czech companies preparing their financial statements under IFRS. Descriptive statistics, the chi-square test of independence along with proportional tests, are used for the statistical data analysis.
Findings & Value added: The results indicate that, while misstatements in accounting do not occur regularly, a statistical dependence can be shown be-tween the frequency of misstatements occurrence and the average size of mis-statements. The frequency of the subsequently identified misstatements is also proven to be statistically dependent on the average size of misstatements. The IFRS themselves are not proven to influence misstatement occurrences in financial statements, which is in contrast with previous studies. Managerial pressures, similarly to other studies, are proven by the research to be affecting the quality of accounting information. This paper broadens the literature on the factors influencing the quality of financial statements prepared under IFRS and simultaneously reaches conclusions disproving the frequently noted bene-fits of IFRS implementation.
WATER BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES OF THE REPUBLIC OF MORDOVIA: THE MOKSHA RIVER
Authors: Asanov Alik Yusupovich , Nosov Aleksey
Published: September 2020

The article is focused on the problem of biological resources of the Republic

of Mordovia. The Moksha River is traditionally the main fishery water body in the Republic

of Mordovia. There have been presented the results of comprehensive fisheries research for

2009-2015 carried out on the segment of the Moksha within the Republic of Mordovia. Analysis of the food supply has shown a significant underutilization of zoobenthos, phytoplankton and macrophytes. Using the data, which are the average indicators of the food reserve over the years, the river’s production capabilities were calculated and made 418.6 tons or 186.9 kg/ha. According to the results of research catches with fixed nets and minnow seines, the composition of the fishing ichthyofauna was determined, where roach, perch, goldfish dominated in number, roach, crucian carp, bream, perch dominated in biomass. There were recorded in total 29 fish species, mainly carp species. There has been defined the ichthyomass of fish aged two years and older, which varies from year to year within 141.3-180.2 tons or 63-81 kg/ha, and taking into account juvenile species it will make 108 kg/ha. As for the most significant species in the fish ichthyofauna (roach and silver carp) the increase in fish production was calculated (8.6 and 14.9, correspondingly) and the total catch quotas were determined. Under the constant value of the average catch per year effort, they amount to 50-60 tons. Taking into account the free food reserve due to the reproduction and protective measures carried out at the expense of compensation funds for the damage caused to aquatic biological resources, the catch of marketable fish species in the Moksha River can be in-creased in 2.0-2.5 times.
E-democracia: Una construcción conceptual
Authors: Romero Molina Manuel Isaías
Published: September 2020

El concepto de e-democracia tiene un gran potencial heurí­stico; refiere a aquellos fenómenos polí­ticos que se dan por la convergencia entre las TICs y la democracia. Si bien la emergencia de la expresión es reciente, se considera que, si se trabaja el término de una manera crí­tica, este puede volverse un instrumento analí­tico de mucha utilidad para estudiar los fenómenos polí­ticos contemporáneos. En este contexto, se efectúa un trabajo de conceptualización de tres niveles sobre dicha expresión. La construcción conceptual permite disponer de una herramienta con gran capacidad abstractiva, la cual ayuda a ordenar, comprender y explicar la emergencia y dinámica de un sinnúmero de procesos bajo un mismo marco analí­tico.
Protagonistas de la investigación educativa. Investigador-investigado en construcción recí­proca
Authors: Pons-Bonals Leticia , Espinosa Torres Iván de Jesús
Published: September 2020

El ensayo aborda las relaciones entre investigador e investigado. Recupera planteamientos de diversos autores que asumen posiciones no positivistas proponiendo el término coinvestigador para referirse a las personas que acompañan a quien investiga durante el proceso de indagación, compartiendo y reflexionando acerca de sus experiencias de vida. Se revisan distintos paradigmas o tradiciones de investigación y se recuperan planteamientos teórico-metodológicos de la hermenéutica, autoetnografí­a, investigación narrativa, investigación-acción, pensamiento posmoderno y decolonialidad para colocar al investigado como productor de conocimiento que influye la investigación. Se concluye enfatizando en la reflexividad y los compromisos que entraña la relación investigador-investigado.
Análisis de contenido analógico: una aplicación de la hermenéutica analógica para el análisis de contenido curricular
Authors: Contreras Islas David Sebastian
Published: September 2020

El análisis de contenido analógico (ACA) combina los análisis de contenido con la hermenéutica analógica, permitiendo jerarquizar la validez de las categorí­as analí­ticas e integrar varios niveles interpretativos dentro de un mismo ejercicio. El objetivo de este artí­culo es exponer los alcances y limitaciones de ACA, tomando como ejemplo el análisis de la bioética en el currí­culum de la División de Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, donde ACA facilitó realizar inferencias sobre el contexto de producción de los textos, el ejercicio de la práctica docente, y establecer horizontes para orientar el (re)diseño curricular.
The voting of EU members for common consolidated corporate tax base and the tax benefits
Authors: Dąbroś Wojciech , Kudła Janusz
Published: September 2020

This paper examines the relationship between the voting behaviour of European Parliament members on the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) proposal and economic characteristics of their respective countries. We are concerned about the political and economy factors behind policy and decision making of CCCTB in European Parliament. The analysis is conducted with Logit model identifying factors affecting the voting consultation decision of the Parliament of the European Union in 2018. Particularly, we investigate the impact of four components taken from tax benefit index proposed by W. Orłowski. We have found that economic factors alone are responsible the voting behaviour of the European Union deputies, not their personal characteristics.