bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Automated Recognition of Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome Using Continuous Wavelet Transform-Based Multiscale Dispersion Entropy of Single-Lead ECG Signal
Authors: Benghenia Hadj Abdelkader , Zine-Eddine Hadj Slimane , Alexandre Andrade
Published: March 2022

A new method is proposed for recognition of the sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) using electrocardiograms (ECG) signal in order to find an alternative with the same performance of polysomnography (PSG). Heart rate variability (HRV) signals generated from an ECG signal are used to examine a wide range of indices. A novel aspect of this work is the use of a method to decompose the HRV spectrum into total power spectrum (TP), high frequency (HF), low frequency (LF) and very low frequency (VLF) sub-band signals, and correlates their energy content with sympathetic and parasympathetic activity. The HRV signal was decomposed using the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) followed by the inverse continuous wavelet transform (ICWT), and sub-band signals were extracted from 5-minute episodes. In this regard, the suggested technique provides novel indices based on the mean of small (1 to 5), medium (6 to 10) and large (11 to 20) time scales of multiscal dispersion entropy (MDE) for each sub-band signals. In order to choose the best classifier, the indices of the MDE are submitted to a t-test technique and categorized using three classifiers: decision trees (DT), support vector machines (SVM-RBF) and K-nearest neighbor (KNN). The proposed method is evaluated using the combination of Physionet Apnea–ECG database and the University College Dublin Sleep Apnea Database. Using a 10-fold cross validation technique, the SVM-RBF classification approach achieves an average sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 93.91%, 96.92% and 93.94%, respectively. The results demonstrate that the approach presented is as precise as the best contemporary methods investigated using the same ECG datasets.
YOLO Object Detector and Inception-V3 Convolutional Neural Network for Improved Brain Tumor Segmentation
Authors: Shoaib Muhammad , Sayed Nasir
Published: March 2022

For a range of medical analysis applications, the localization of brain tumors and brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are challenging yet critical jobs. Many recent studies have included four modalities: i.e., T1, T1c, T2 & FLAIR, it is because every tumor causing area can be detailed examined by each of these brain imaging modalities. Although the BRATS 2018 datasets give impressive segmentation results, the results are still more complex and need more testing and more training. That’s why this paper recommends operated pre-processing strategies on a small part of an image except for a full image because that’s how an effective and flexible segmented system of brain tumor can be created. In the first phase, an ensemble classification model is developed using different classifiers such as decision tree, SVM, KNN etc. to classify an image into the tumor and non-tumor class by using the strategy of using a small section can completely solve the over-fitting problems and reduces the processing time in a model of YOLO object detector using inceptionv3 CNN features. The second stage is to recommend an efficient and basic Cascade CNN (C-ConvNet/C-CNN), as we deal with a tiny segment of the brain image in each and every slice. In two independent ways, the Cascade-Convolutional Neutral Network model extracts learnable features. On the dataset of BRATS 2018, BRATS 2019 and BRATS 2020, the extensive experimental task has been carried out on the proposed tumor localization framework.: the IoU score achieved of three datasets are 97%, 98% and 100%. Other qualitative evaluations & quantitative evaluations are discussed and presented in the manuscript in detail.
The Role of Chain Processes in Cool Flames and Soot Formation
Authors: Mansurov Z.A.
Published: March 2022

The 125th anniversary of Academician N.N. Semenov, the great natural scientist of the 20th century, is a significant event for the world scientific community. With his discoveries and tireless scientific, organizational, pedagogical, and social activities, he made an invaluable contribution to the formation of chemical physics and to the development of physics, chemistry, and biology. Nobel Prize laureate, academician N.N. Semenov played a huge role in the creation of the Department of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and the Institute for Problems in Combustion. Contacts with the disciples of Academician N.N. Semenov made it possible for the researchers of the Institute for Problems in Combustion to discuss their candidate and doctoral dissertations at the seminars of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Moscow. With the support of N.N. Semenov, Ya.B. Zel’dovich, and A.G. Merzhanov, All-Union Symposia on Combustion and Explosion (1980 in Alma-Ata) and on Structural Macrokinetics (1984 in Alma-Ata) were organized. The article provides an overview of the author’s works on studying the structure of the front of cool flames of diethyl ether and butane, the preflame zone of normal propane flames, and soot formation during combustion of hydrocarbons. The phenomenology, kinetics and mechanism of soot formation, and the influence of various factors on the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, graphene, and soot are considered.
The Development of Motivation to Achieve Students in the Context of Modernization of Educational Content
Authors: Babaian Yuliia , Polina Yakymenko , Breslavska Hanna , Cherednyk Lidiia , Kostrytsia Nataliia , Semenog Olena
Published: March 2022

The article reveals the role of achievement motivation in the context of updating the content of primary education. Based on the analysis of scientific literature, the relevance of the research topic is substantiated, the main conceptual provisions for the study of the psychological characteristics of achievement motivation of primary schoolchildren are formed.
The aim is to identify individual differences in the strength of achievement motivation for younger students. In particular, we study the features of the manifestation of motivation for the achievement of junior schoolchildren in educational activities. The article presents the results of an experimental study of the psychological characteristics of the achievement motivation of primary school students. The methodological apparatus for studying the achievement motivation of junior schoolchildren included the most effective research methods of psychology, which were aimed at identifying individual differences in the strength of the achievement motivation of younger schoolchildren. A thematic apperception test, a method of collision of motives, observation of students, conversations with younger students and teachers, analysis of home and control assignments in order to identify how achievement motivation manifests itself in educational activities were used. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the results of the ascertaining experiment revealed the predominance of middle and low levels of achievement motivation among junior schoolchildren. The results obtained underline the need for further research on the mechanisms of development of achievement motivation in junior schoolchildren.
How to Improve the Mathematical Competences of Future Primary School Teachers in Ukraine? Innovative Aspect
Authors: Zaporozhchenko Tetiana , Vykhrushch Vira , Paguta Tamara , Bykov Ivan , Chykurova Olha , Pysarchuk Oksana
Published: March 2022

The article attempts to optimize the development of mathematical competence in future primary school teachers via innovative technologies within the framework of the transitional form of Ukrainian higher education. The article aims to determine, substantiate and experimentally verify the effectiveness of organizational-pedagogical conditions for developing mathematical competence in future primary school teachers via innovative technologies. The study was an experiment and carried out during 2017-2020 and enrolled 648 students from faculties of training future primary school teachers (6 universities in Ukraine). For the successful carrying out of the study, theoretical, empirical (the main ones are molding and control experiments) methods, as well as methods of mathematical statistics to objectify the results of the experiment, were used. Previously, we have identified and described the organizationally necessary pedagogical conditions for successful development of mathematical competence in future primary school teachers via innovative technologies. In turn, we found a significant difference between the levels of students’ mathematical competence. The data obtained in the process of the molding experiment confirm the effectiveness of the author’s model and the specified pedagogical conditions for developing mathematical competence in future primary school teachers via innovative technologies, which bespeaks the achievement of the set goals of the work and the solution of the formulated tasks.
The Statistical Analysis of the Game Actions of the Middle-Blocker Based on the Application of the “Data Volley” Software
Authors: Harabagiu Neculai , Pârvu Carmen
Published: March 2022

The purpose of the present study is to increase the action efficiency of the center players in the Arcada Galaţi Club by using the ”Data Volley” Software, analysing the attack and defense of our own players, as well as the analysis of the opponent centre players participating in the national senior voleyball championships.
As coaches of the Arcada Galaţi team it was possible for us to access the tracking statistics of 24 centre players participating in the 2018 National Senior Volleyball Championships and evaluate our own centre players in relation to the national level statistics, as well as the actions within the team.
In the ample statistics for each play action, rotation, upon analysing 18 matches (stage I-III) we observed the efficiency of the serve and attack at national level as 43% and 36% respectively, as compared to 48% and 43% as it was recorded for the average centre in Arcada Galaţi.The differences of 5% for the serve and 7% for the attack over the national level point to an advantage in the attack phase. The centre play’s low blocking efficiency of 10% as compared to the 40% national average was the point of interest in the technico-tactical training for a three-month period, so that based on the distribution of the opponents’ passes/attacks an improvement of 8% was achieved in comparison to the initial analysis of the defense phase.
Psychological and Pedagogical Features of the Organization of Collective Forms of Work in Different Age-Related Groups
Authors: Prysiazhniuk Larysa , Genkal Svitlana , Nadon Viktoriia , Tomchenko Maryna , Fomina Iryna , Lytvyn Andrii
Published: March 2022

The article identifies the main problems of the organization, the features of collective educational activities in multi-age classes and ways to overcome them. The relevance of the article is determined by the demographic problem of Ukraine - the threat of closure of small rural schools for economic reasons. The position of the authors in this regard is as follows: if to develop a theoretical basis for the effective association of small classes into large, but mixed-age classes and to stimulate administrative and legal support of such association, it is possible to preserve schools even in the most marginalized areas. The general purpose of the article is to determine the peculiarities of functioning of multi-age classes in today's conditions and to provide recommendations for constructive organization of educational activities of multi-age classes in the realities of modern Ukrainian schools on the basis of the received data. Partial aims of the article - analysis of domestic and foreign literature and consideration of ideas and problems of teachers of Ukrainian small schools to obtain data, analyze them, and formulate recommendations. Criteria for selection and analysis of the literature - thematic, temporal (mainly the latest sources), problematic (coverage of the maximum number of problematic aspects) and practice-oriented (data can be extrapolated, adapted, borrowed). This determined the methods of the article: typological. comparative, pragmatic analysis of the content of educational conditions and principles related to the topic; sociological (elements of questioning teachers unrepresentative sample) for general opinion of teachers, getting suggestions (request) and teachers' attitude to the problem. At the final stage, methods of extrapolation (according to the installation "world tendencies - Ukrainian realities"), generalization and forecasting were used. Prospects for further research lie in the development of integrated teaching methods and forms. The latter should be both maximally differentiated, but expediently integrated, and subjects of different ages should minimally interfere and maximally mutually assist in achieving educational goals.
Comparison of Procedures Applied on the Auditive Feedback Equipment, Neuromuscular Electrostimulation and Kinesitherapy in Kyphotic Attitudes Recovery
Authors: Ordean Mircea-Nicolae , Grosu Emilia Florina , Grosu Vlad Teodor , Rozsnyai Radu Adrian , Muresan Alexandru Dorin
Published: March 2022

Problem statement: The general objective of our study has the investigation of the effectiveness of three different procedures used to improve kyphotic attitudes.
Purpose of the study: to analyse and compare which correction is the most important to address the deficiency. The following procedures are analysed: auditive feedback equipment, neuromuscular electrostimulation and kinesitherapy.
Methods: subjects were 20 young people aged 15-18 years who were diagnosed with this deficiency.
Research designs: these measurements were made in three different spatial times: initially, intermediate (after one month) and at the end (after two months).
Findings and results: the most effective procedure were kinesitherapy, followed by the neuromuscular electrostimulation procedure, and the last in this hierarchy being the auditive feedback equipment procedure. Within the three groups, higher values were obtained at the initial measurement, compared to the intermediate one and the final one. The results obtained were statistically processed using the SPSS software, more precisely we used the ANOVA method to make comparisons between the three experimental groups and the T test to compare the three measurement moments. Therefore, at the end of the study, following the comparison of procedures, the most effective procedure for correcting the kyphotic attitudes was established.
Conclusion Based on the results of this study we want to see if we can track the performance of other recovery methods through a software tracking.
The Problem of Subject and Subjectivity in Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences in the Context of Training Future Teachers
Authors: Zhurat Yuliya , Yanovskyi Anatolii , Ianovska Larysa , Tsymbal Mykhailo , Kozyr Marharyta , Kokorina Lyudmyla
Published: March 2022

The article analyzes the multimodality of approaches to the concept of subjectivity of a primary school teacher in Ukrainian education. The purpose of the article is how to determine the well-established traditional (mostly destructive) and promising directions for the development of the doctrine of subjectivity in the Ukrainian psychological and pedagogical discourse against the background of historical and current experience. We identified a number of contradictions in the qualification of this phenomenon, the stability of traditional approaches and the avoidance of interdisciplinary neurophysiological and pedagogical understanding of the problem in Ukraine. We also found out that the ideas of Ukrainian scientists are of an expressive dual nature: they are divided into sociocentric representations of the subject as an indicator of the social level and nature-centered (subjectivity as an innate permanent resource for self-development). We also made some comments on the use of traditional and innovative ideas of subjectivity in the educational process. The greatest drawback of the Ukrainian scientific discourse is the lack of consideration of neurophysiological patterns in the understanding of subjectivity. Nevertheless, the maximum use of such ideas outlines the prospects for a new stage in the development of psychological and pedagogical science in Ukraine. The international contribution of the article lies in the re-inventory of views on the subjectivity of the post-totalitarian state against the background of world trends. This will allow countries that have little experience in transforming education, psychology and sociology (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc.) not to formally adopt the experience of Western democracies, but also to acquire constructive traditions in their own discourse.
Andragogy in Ukraine and Western Europe: Common and Different Features throughout Its History
Authors: Tymchuk Liudmyla , Honchar Mykhailo , Medynskyi Serhii , Bilyk Nadiia , Topolnik Yana , Serheieva Valentyna
Published: March 2022

The article aims to study and summarize the historical experience of training adult education specialists in Ukraine and compare it with the politically unbiased experience of Western Europe. It analyzes the origins of adult education didactic and justifies the evolution of scientific-theoretical approaches to building the content, organizational forms and methods of adult learning. Besides, the article traces the stages and reasons behind socio-political and sociocultural changes in the content of education. It describes a stable development of organizational forms and methods of adult learning which adhere to the specifics of adult learners and boost their activity. The article proves that Soviet Ukrainian andragogy depended on state planning, ideology and favoured the public good over the personal good. Furthermore, the article substantiates evolutionary processes in the development of the professional training system for adults in Ukraine and Western Europe and identifies the coverage of the issue in question in the scientific literature. The findings of the comparative study suggest ways to improve the current system of adult education in Ukraine and develop andragogy as its scientific-theoretical and methodological basis.
Doświadczenie historyczne finansowania modernizacji ekonomicznej na Ukrainie
Authors: Nebrat Victoria , Gorin Nazar
Published: March 2022

W artykule zostało opisane historyczne doświadczenie z zakresu finansowania modernizacji gospodarki Ukrainy. Na podstawie analizy porównawczej ujawniono potencjał, możliwości i ograniczenia rynkowego i planowo-mobilizacyjnego modelu modernizacji. Uzasadnia się celowość przeprowadzania systemowej polityki modernizacji, która przewiduje zmiany w obszarach gospodarczych, społecznych, prawnych, politycznych i innych. Podkreślono niebezpieczeństwo mechanicznego transferu już aprobowanych na Zachodzie sposobów organizacji produkcji, techniki i technologii bez odtworzenia socjalnych i ekonomicznych warunków, w których się sformowały i, w których funkcjonują. Uogólnione zostały źródła finansowania i determinanty przeprowadzania nowoczesnych przekształceń modernizacyjnych.
Problem finansowania budownictwa sakralnego i kościelnego w okresie Polskiej Rzeczpospolitej Ludowej na przykładzie diecezji łódzkiej
Authors: Opaliński Mateusz
Published: March 2022

Artykuł opisuje nieznany dotąd aspekt finansowania budownictwa sakralnego w okresie PRL. Prezentowane zagadnienie ma na celu wypełnienie luki w dotychczasowej historiografii. Żadna z powstałych dotąd publikacji nie odnosi się do badanego problemu widzianego z perspektywy stosunków państwo–Kościół po 1945 r. Niniejsza praca ukazuje zatem trudności związane z pozyskiwaniem funduszy na budowę nowych świątyń w okresie hamowania lub zwalczania przez władze tzw. Polski Ludowej wszelkich inwestycji sakralnych. Represyjne i dyskryminujące stronę kościelną przepisy prawne miały na celu utrudnianie wznoszenia miejsc kultu religijnego, co pośrednio miało także przyczynić się do zniechęcenia duchownych do podejmowania tego rodzaju działalności. Z kolei „usłużnych” księży nagradzano za ich lojalną postawę wobec rządzących przydzielaniem na drobne prace budowlane subwencji z powołanego m.in. na ten cel Funduszu Kościelnego, będącego pod kontrolą Rady Ministrów. Wszystkie te czynniki powodowały, że największy koszt budowy kościołów ponosili świeccy katolicy, organizujący na własną rękę zbiórki publiczne, narażając się tym samym na karę grzywny. Trud ponieśli także księża parafialni, którzy wykorzystując zagraniczne znajomości zdobywali pieniądze na kontynuowanie prac budowlanych.
Japońska wizja dziewiętnastowiecznej historii Łodzi. Kilka uwag o monografii Fujii Kazuo „Socjoekonomiczna historia Polski XIX wieku – kształtowanie przedsiębiorcy i nowoczesnego społeczeństwa w Łodzi”, Kwansei Gakuin University Press, Nishinomiya 2019, s
Authors: Kita Jarosław
Published: March 2022

Japoński historyk Fujii Kazuo, od czterech dekad podejmuje tematy zawiązane głównie z różnymi aspektami XIX-wiecznych dziejów Łodzi, a przede wszystkim zajmuje go odmienność rozwoju tego ośrodka miejskiego w czasach zaborów w skali nie tylko ziem polskich, ale Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Tej tematyce poświęcił już wiele lat temu pierwszą monografię, a obecnie recenzowana książka, stanowi niejako podsumowanie prac badawczych tego japońskiego badacza dziejów społecznych i gospodarczych w momencie przejścia na emeryturę. Według jego tezy, Łódź, która nie posiadała tradycji szlacheckich, ani nie odgrywała roli centrum politycznego, jakim była Warszawa, w XIX stuleciu właśnie wraz ze stolicą Królestwa Polskiego stała się wyjątkowym w skali zaboru rosyjskiego wielkim miastem. Dynamizmem rozwoju w nim nowoczesnego przemysłu stała się ogromna aktywność tutejszych przedsiębiorców, głównie pochodzenia niemieckiego i żydowskiego, którzy jednak na trwałe wnikali w tkankę miasta, tworząc swoją „małą ojczyzną”.
"Udział ziemian w odzyskaniu niepodległości Polski w 1918 roku", red. S. Kordaczuk, Wyd. Muzeum Regionalne w Siedlcach, Siedlce 2020, ss. 144
Authors: Staniszewska Aleksandra
Published: March 2022

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Jubileusz 80-lecia urodzin Profesora Wiesława Pusia, założyciela czasopisma „Studia z Historii Społeczno-Gospodarczej XIX i XX Wieku”
Authors: Kita Jarosław
Published: March 2022

sprawozdanie naukowe
Advances in bioprotectants for plant disease control in horticulture
Authors:   INRAE, Pathologie Végétale, France, Nicot Philippe C. , Pressecq Thomas ,   INRAE, Pathologie Végétale, France, Bardin Marc ,   INRAE, Pathologie Végétale, France
Published: March 2022

Microbial bioprotectants and natural substances have been increasingly available and implemented for disease management in horticultural crops. This chapter presents the status of registered products and their current insufficiency to fulfill farmers’ needs for disease control solutions. It highlights possible advances to meet those needs, which include extending the spectrum of activity of existing products, finding new active substances, and facilitating registration of bioprotectants. It addresses issues on enhancing the field efficacy of bioprotectants on horticultural crops, through the expansion of knowledge on their modes of action, the Identification key factors of efficacy, the improvement of delivery and the complementation of bioprotectant use with other solutions from the IPM toolbox. It provides data on adoption of bioprotectants by horticulturists in France and reviews possible obstacles for wider adoption and proposes perpectives on ways to help farmers cope with the technical complexity of deployment.
Practical application of integrated pest management in greenhouses and protected cultivation
Authors:   PCS-Ornamental Plant Research, Belgium, Gobin Bruno , Audenaert Joachim ,   PCS-Ornamental Plant Research, Belgium
Published: March 2022

Greenhouse production is at the forefront of using IPM systems to tackle pests and diseases. The shift to IPM was a challenge for growers, but was overcome through research, extension and demonstration of the strengths of biocontrol. We provide examples from ornamental plant greenhouse horticulture with a focus on how: (1) good communication and education of growers is important for facilitating transition to IPM; (2) increased hygiene measures reduced disease pressure and control needs; (3) the success of predatory mites increased confidence in further IPM, especially when adapted to specific greenhouse circumstances; (4) management of broad mite, a difficult and elusive pest, benefited from biological control; (5) adding food to the crop will help establish a standing army of beneficials; and (6) mealy bug control still poses a major challenge, but biocontrol shows promise. We see that the increased use of dynamic spectral lighting, increased automation and multilayer growing will pose future challenges that should be addressed in ongoing research.
Observing Data-Driven Approaches to Covid-19: Reflections from a Distributed, Remote, Interdisciplinary Research Project
Authors: Allsopp Rachel , Bessant Claire , Ditcham Keith , Janjeva Ardi , Li Guangquan , Oswald Marion , Warner Mark
Published: March 2022

The Observatory for Monitoring Data-Driven Approaches to Covid-19 (OMDDAC) is an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project investigating data-driven approaches to Covid-19, focused upon legal, ethical, policy and operational challenges. The project is a collaboration between Northumbria University (Law School, Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Department of Mathematics) and the Royal United Services Institute, a defence and security think-tank, and aims to carry out integrated interdisciplinary research, regarded as the most challenging type of interdisciplinarity but where the outputs can be the most impactful. Due to the constraints of the pandemic, the project has been carried out in a fully distributed and remote manner, with some team members never having met in person. The subject of the research is continually changing and developing, creating unique project management issues, with the impact of the pandemic pervasive in the lives of the researchers. This article takes the form of a series of reflections from the points of view of individual project researchers – the specialist legal researcher, the think-tank Co-Investigator, the post-doctoral researcher, statistical and data science researchers, and the Principal Investigator – and organised under two main themes - project management and internal communication; and methodologies/interdisciplinary research. We thus draw out lessons for future remote and distributed research, focused upon interdisciplinarity, the benefits and challenges of remote research methodologies, and issues of collegiality. Finally, we warn that it will be a false economy for universities and funders to assume that research projects can continue to be conducted in a mainly remote manner and therefore, that budgetary savings can be made by reducing time allocations, travel and academic networking.
Eurasian integration and the interstate conflict potential of the countries of the Central Asian region
Authors: Seleznev Igor
Published: March 2022

The article considers external security challenges in the Central Asian region (CAR), the causes of interstate instability and the emergence of regional conflicts. This study was conducted within the framework of the theory of conflict. The main conflict-causing foreign policy factors in the CAR are: the presence of hotbeds of military conflicts near the countries of the region; the threat of the spread of instability in the countries of the region and the likelihood of armed provocations; the activities of international terrorist and radical organizations and groups, the strengthening of the positions of religious extremism in neighboring countries near the borders of the CAR countries; the strengthening of China's economic role and its penetration into the CAR, the growing dependence of the countries of the region on the PRC; the penetration of extra-regional, Western actors into the CAR; conflicting interethnic and interstate contradictions and territorial-border disputes. The problems of cross-border interaction and the general use of water and energy resources in the CAR are considered. The reasons for the emergence of interstate conflict situations are indicated. These are the shortage of water and energy resources; territorial and border disputes with neighbors and the claims of some states to regional leadership; unresolved territorial claims, accumulated territorial disputes between the CAR states with insufficient validity of borders. Various approaches to solving the problem of water scarcity in the CAR are analyzed. Conclusions and forecasts of developments regarding the development of Eurasian integration and ensuring Russia's national interests in the CAR are given. It is concluded that the current and prospective situation in the CAR is based on integration and conflict scenarios. These two categories make up a dialectical pair, with the help of which it is possible to understand and describe the processes in the CAR, and throughout the post-Soviet space. Probabilistic scenarios of the development of integration processes in the Central Asian countries for the medium and long term are proposed.
Women first-person narrative as a tool for deconstructing stereotyped representations of gender-based violence
Authors: Saccà Flaminia , Belmonte Rosalba
Published: March 2022

The social representation of gender-based violence constitutes a subject of increasing interest by researchers in many sub-disciplinary areas of sociology. The growing interest of social scientists in this topic is due to the crucial role of culturally transmitted social mechanisms, that are reflected in the language through which institutions and social actors represent male violence against women, thus reproducing the conditions underlying it.
Every social phenomenon lies in its narrative, in the way it is constructed and, in the language chosen to represent it. Therefore, narrative constitutes a fundamental heuristic and hermeneutical instrument through which it is possible to give meaning to a social phenomenon. Nevertheless, it often happens that third people, institutions, or various social actors construct narrative of social phenomena, without involving the people that experienced it. This happens with the narration of gender-based violence that all too often comes from external social actors, while the women who are protagonists – against their will –of the episodes of violence, are excluded from the construction of the social representation of what they suffered.
This work, after briefly illustrating the main characteristics of the dominant social representation of male violence against women, proposes a theoretical reflection on the importance of women first-person narrative, as a tool for deconstructing the distorted social representation of gender-based violence that contributes to the perpetuation of its normalization, to the “de-responsibilization” of its perpetrator and of the sexist prejudices against women victims of such violence.
Global consumer society and trend of consumption in India
Authors: Laskar Mahmudul Hasan
Published: March 2022

For sociologists and social scientists, contemporary global society has entered into the phase that is labelled as advanced capitalism, advanced industrialism, information era and post-modernity. Consumer society is a kind of characteristic feature of this phase and an ideological force underlies the global development trends. This paper has discussed the development of consumer society and its implication for social well-being.
Social well-being is symbolically measured in consumer society; people’s manifested well-being is determined by consumption of industrial commodities or objects. Social well-being is again linked to the notion of ‘need’ and different standards of life define ‘need’ differently. Marcuse (1964) differentiated between true needs and false needs; false need causes variation of standard of life and objective well-being. Consumer society shows greater interest in mass production and freedom of consumption. Technological advancement particularly Web.20 (Advancement of WWW) during the beginning of 21st Century reshaped the service sectors of the world.
India has become a part of global consumer society that is not a desired gain for its large weaker sections. Socio-historical inequalities like caste and class still remind us of the reality of social ill-being though affluent sections were able to attain objective well-being. Launching of Reliance Jio (Offering unlimited internet data plan at cheaper price) in 2007 marked the beginning of new digital life and mass consumption among Indian people, as it created a new service industry in the fields of food, cloth, aestheticism, entertainment and many more. But social well-being is not yet ensured; still there are large sections of the population striving for basic needs like quality education and quality healthcare. Until capability equality is achieved, social well-being in Indian society will be a utopia.
Social dependents: political tale and scientific reality
Authors: Simoyanov Alexey
Published: March 2022

Russian society's fear of the social dependents’ hegemony is similar to an analogical fear in the political discourse of Western countries. Opponents of the concept of the social state criticize it for its tendency to multiply the masses of freeloaders. However, evidence from foreign research’s show that most of the common myths about the "class of lazybones living on welfare benefits" haven’t the factual basis. The author's discovery confirms that the problem of "social dependency" is extremely overestimate. The number of people who could be classified as social dependents is minimal, as is the damage to society from their activities. Despite this fact, right- liberal politicians use the mass dependency fear to justify the implementation of the sequestering the state's social responsibility policy and to increase hardness the order of support to the poor. If Russian society gets rid of the irrational fear of mass social dependency, it won’t become a victim of such political manipulation.
Humanities teachers in Russian universities: the crisis of the professional group or adaptation to the "new normality"?
Authors: Shinyaeva Olga , Akhmetshina Ekaterina
Published: March 2022

The article examines the characteristics of the professional identity of humanitarian teachers working in Russian universities, the peculiarities of their behavior in the context of global and national changes in higher education. The strengthening of the unstable position of the professional group "university teacher of social and humanitarian profile" led the authors to the need for a new large-scale study, which was based on the theory of professional identity, social adaptation, as well as on the author's empirical research carried out ten years ago. The traditional appointment of university teachers associated with the roles of a teacher, scientist, educator, mentor in modern conditions has come into conflict with the functions of providing and promoting educational services dictated by the inclusion of higher education in market relations. The purpose of our work is aimed at identifying the resulting indicators of values and behavior of university humanities teachers, establishing the nature of their professional identity. Functional-role, axiological and communicative approaches were used in the study, which made it possible to link new social, cultural, and political processes with the implementation of the functions and roles of teachers of the humanities. Based on the author's definition of the professional identity of university teachers, including the awareness and living of the subjects of their involvement in the group, readiness to implement the qualities and behaviors demanded by the university-employer, the authors analyzed the empirical data of an interregional sociological survey and came to scientific conclusions within the framework of the goal. The resulting indicators of values and behavior of humanities teachers working in Russian universities indicate that in their group consciousness there was a reassessment of the functions performed, which led to professional re-identification: a gradual departure from the role of "university intelligentsia" and the development of the role of "intellectuals", for whom the main quality is the development of professionalism and its advantageous offer. The traditional and previously sought-after qualities of teachers of the humanities cycle - intelligence, citizenship, social activity, mentoring, justice - are being pushed to the periphery of the consciousness of teachers of the socio-humanitarian cycle of the Russian higher school.
Konstytucyjne prawo dostępu do świadczeń opieki zdrowotnej finansowanej ze środków publicznych po wprowadzeniu „sieci” szpitali. Uwagi o racjonalności ustawodawcy
Authors: Jarosz-Żukowska Sylwia
Published: March 2022

Niniejsze opracowanie podejmuje w pierwszej kolejności próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie, na ile założenia i cele wprowadzonej w 2017 roku reformy funkcjonowania i finansowania lecznic-twa szpitalnego w Polsce sprzyjają realizacji konstytucyjnego prawa dostępu do świadczeń opieki zdrowotnej finansowanej ze środków publicznych. Ponaddwuletnie działanie tak zwanej sieci szpi-tali skłania do oceny, na ile adekwatne okazały się instrumenty zastosowane przez ustawodawcę w kontekście zdiagnozowanych problemów w ochronie zdrowia i założonych celów ustawodaw-cy z punktu widzenia jego racjonalności. Dotychczasowe doświadczenia podmiotów leczniczych, a także ogłoszony w połowie 2019 roku raport Najwyższej Izby Kontroli o funkcjonowaniu nowego systemu zabezpieczenia świadczeń opieki zdrowotnej uzasadniają negatywne oceny jego efektów i postulaty dokonania koniecznych zmian.
Poza kontrolą. Negocjacja z subnaturą
Authors: Kwapisz Anna
Published: March 2022

Antropocentryczne wiązanie przestrzeni miasta jedynie z praktykami społeczno-kulturowymi, skłania do przemyślenia kwestii tego, czy przypadkiem nie pomijamy innego, niezwykle ważnego, a mianowicie „naturalnego” wymiaru życia miejskiego. Podstawowym problemem ery antropocenu okazuje się bowiem być to, że wszelkie inne przejawy tego, co żywe, w mieście traktuje się jako „dawców” różnorodnych usług ekonomicznych i rozpatruje korzyści, jakie ich nabywanie, namnażanie i eksploatowanie może przynieść gatunkowi homo sapiens. Dlatego też w postwzrostowych postulatach potrzebna jest zmiana naszych wyobrażeń na temat „natury” w przestrzeni miejskiej. Artykuł poświęcono zatem temu, co pozostaje odrzucane i pomijane w tkance miejskiej, a jednocześnie zdaje się przedefiniowywać relacje ludzko-nieludzkie. Mowa o subnaturze — określonych tak przez Davida Gissena wszelkich formach życia uważanych „za prymitywne (jak błoto czy wilgoć), niekontrolowane (chwasty, owady) czy wręcz przerażające (gaz lub szczątki)”. Choć te zazwyczaj niespodziewane, zniekształcone czy wręcz odrażające formy spotykają się z niechęcią, być może warto zwrócić uwagę na pewne architektoniczne projekty, które konfrontują i negocjują zbliżenie z subnaturą. Daje to pole do namysłu nad tym, w jaki sposób bardziej radykalna koncepcja przyrody w mieście może pomóc nam wyobrazić sobie nie tylko zmodyfikowane środowisko miejskie, ale w szerszej perspektywie — postwzrostowe i ludzko-nieludzkie.
Ruch społeczny na rzecz sprawiedliwości środowiskowej a dewzrost: bariery i możliwości współpracy
Authors: Wiktor-Mach Dobrosława
Published: March 2022

Dynamicznie rozwijający się ruch na rzecz sprawiedliwości środowiskowej włącza niektóre wątki i postulaty dewzrostu do debat wokół pojęcia rozwoju i szukania alternatyw dla dominujących modeli ekonomicznych. Ruch, który narodził się w Stanach Zjednoczonych na fali sprzeciwu wobec nieproporcjonalnego obciążenia mniejszości etnicznych i biednych społeczności skutkami degradacji środowiska, obecnie nie tylko koncentruje się na protestach przeciwko nowym megaprojektom, kopalniom czy odwiertom, ale też szuka konstruktywnych pomysłów na zmianę łączącą wrażliwość społeczną i ekologiczną. Artykuł przedstawia dyskusję na temat barier i możliwości współpracy pomiędzy ruchem sprawiedliwości środowiskowej a dewzrostem. Chociaż podzielają one przekonanie o potrzebie radykalnej transformacji obecnych ścieżek rozwojowych, nie jest to wystarczający warunek udanej współpracy. Potrzebne jest wzajemne zrozumienie odmienności w postrzeganiu źródeł problemu, priorytetów, a także możliwych alternatyw.
THE SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF POSTERS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN JORDAN
Authors:   PhD.in Gender and Diversity., University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, Salhab Altamimi Rasha
Published: March 2022

This paper aims to define the role of the communication posters designed by feminist protesters in expressing the rejection of domestic violence against women in Jordan, since few studies address such topics. In response to a notorious incident in 2019 where a suburban woman in Jordan was physically abused by her husband in front of her children, Jordanian feminists staged a protest march in the heart of the capital city, Amman. The victim became permanently disabled due to this violence. Several female protesters joined the demonstration, carrying reflective visual and verbal posters to show their empathy towards the victim and repudiation of the victimization. Moreover, these posters have been circulated via Twitter, with users writing empathic comments on the images and using several hashtags such as #Jerash Crime and #Enough, which prove that these posters are effective in vindicating women's rights, besides claiming security and protection against violence. The research methodology involved conducting a semiotic analysis on the most explicit posters raised during the march and distributed via Twitter to show condemnation of the brutal physical violence against the Jordanian victim.
Text-based interest from a linguistic perspective: Emotive pragmatics of history textbooks
Authors:   Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, Trushchelev Pavel N.
Published: March 2022

The article discusses interest-evoking rhetorical strategies, that are used by authors of school textbooks. It treats such strategies as a part of the emotive pragmatics of a text. The data of the investigation are texts from textbooks for 7–9 grades on History (in Russ.) The study applies communicative and functional linguistic methods. There are two aspects of emotive pragmatics of history textbooks, expository and narrative. They correspond to two ways of provoking the reader’s interest, involvement in learning from text and involvement in the narrative world. To provoke the reader’s interest, Russian authors of history textbooks turn only to the narrative aspect and use specification strategies. Such strategies are focused on identifying and describing characters, their actions and internal states, locative and temporal parameters. The specification narrows down the referential domain of a text through linguistic resources of concrete language and egocentric units introducing character’s perspectives. These means allow authors to expand a narrative framework and increase a fascination of a plot as well as present events in characters’ perspectives.
Is Spanish parental leave 'traditionalising' the gender distribution of childcare and housework?
Authors: Romero-Balsas Pedro , Meil Gerardo , Rogero-García Jesús
Published: March 2022

Objective: The question addressed in this study is the possible effect of mothers' use of parental leave on the share of childcare and housework assumed by each parent.

Background: Whilst the length of parental leave is greater in Spain than in other European countries, as it is unpaid, take-up rates are low. Such leaves are taken more frequently and for longer periods by women than men.

Method: To determine the answer, two multivariate regression models were applied to National Statistics Institute 2018 Fertility Survey data. The main independent variables were fathers' and mothers' use of parental leave. The models also controlled for the effects of family and socio-economic variables on the share of childcare and housework assumed by each parent.

Results: The findings showed that mothers' use of unpaid full-time parental leave traditionalises the distribution of domestic chores only when the leave extends beyond one year, whereas part-time leave-taking has no effect whatsoever. That such reversion to tradition can be neutralised when fathers take leaves attests to the advisability of encouraging paternal use. The effects apply to childcare only, however, for other household chores are still distributed along very traditional lines.

Conclusion: Unpaid parental leave use by mothers "traditionalizes" the allocation of childcare within the couple, but only when it takes longer than a year.
Data Policies in Europäischen Smart Cities: Erfahrungen, Chance und Herausforderungen
Authors: Pagliarin Sofia , Herrmann Dominik , Nicklas Daniela , Glückert Hannes , Meyer Jon , Vizitiu Patrick
Published: March 2022

The report illustrates why a smart city should develop a data policy. Guiding questions for the creation of such a data policy in the context of the Smart City Bamberg are discussed. Furthermore, the report shows how the smart cities of Barcelona, Hamburg, Helsinki, Stuttgart, Vienna and Zurich proceed. The presented analysis is based on public documents and interviews.
Data policy models in European smart cities : Experiences, opportunities and challenges in data policies in Europe
Authors: Pagliarin Sofia , Herrmann Dominik , Nicklas Daniela , Glückert Hannes , Meyer Jon , Vizitiu Patrick
Published: March 2022

The report illustrates why a smart city should develop a data policy. Guiding questions for the creation of such a data policy in the context of the Smart City Bamberg are discussed. Furthermore, the report shows how the smart cities of Barcelona, Hamburg, Helsinki, Stuttgart, Vienna and Zurich proceed. The presented analysis is based on public documents and interviews.
Shocks to Monetary Policy Instruments: Does Credit to the Private Sector Respond in a Similar Manner to Public Sector Credit in Nigeria? A Vector Autoregressive Approach
Authors: Chile Nzeh Innocent , Uzoechina Benedict I , Eze Millicent Adanne , Nwamaka Ozoh Joan , Victoria Okoli Uju
Published: March 2022

This paper aims to investigate the response of private and public sector credit to shocks in monetary policy instruments with a view to ascertaining if the responses differ. The study utilized the vector autoregressive (VAR) model with monthly data covering the period from 2010M1 to 2021M8. Findings show that credit to private sector responds positively to shocks in money supply and monetary policy rate (MPR) in all periods. However, the response to cash reserve requirement (CRR) was negative beginning from period five, and it also responded negatively to foreign interest rate shock. On the other hand, credit to government was found to respond positively to shocks in money supply up to period two and CRR in all the periods, but it responded negatively to MPR starting from period three. The results of the variance decomposition show that other than shocks to itself, which was 100% in the first period, shocks to other variables influence private sector credit. Also, other than shocks to itself, which was 99.89% in the first period, shocks to other variables lead to shocks to credit to government. We therefore recommend that policies used to influence financial intermediation should factor in the sensitivity of both public and private sectors to these policy instruments and the impact of exogenous shocks should be factored into policy formulation.