bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
How long Parasitidae (Acari: Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata) live?
Authors: LEWANDOWSKI MARIUSZ , PIŃKOWSKA ANNA
Published: December 2024

Understanding the lifespan of organisms is fundamental to explaining their ecology, behaviour, and evolutionary dynamics. The present review provided a survey of the longevity and other life history data of the Parasitidae, a diverse family of mites known for their predatory and phoretic life strategies. This survey covered the influence of temperature and prey preferences as potential factors affecting lifespan variability within this taxonomic group. The findings reveal a wide longevity range, with developmental times ranging from 12 to over 60 days. Remarkably, the presence of phoretic deutonymphs complicates those estimations, with limited data on their maximal lifespan. Laboratory experiments suggest varied generation times, ranging from 8.5 to 10.2 days, yet often overlook the duration of deutonymph’s development and overwintering stage. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of the Parasitidae and underscores the importance of future studies on their life-history dynamics.
The lifespan and growth parameters of mites in the family Rhodacaridae (Acari: Mesostigmata)
Authors: MOMEN FATEN , FAHIM SHIMAA , LAMLOM MOHAMED
Published: December 2024

This review summarized the duration of pre-adult development, adult longevity, and lifespan of the predatory mites in the family Rhodacaridae based on literature published from 1986 to 2024. Information on the biology and growth parameters of few species of rhodacarids were found in a limited number of articles. Some factors affecting lifespan, fecundity and growth parameters of these mites were cited in the literature. Basically, these evaluated factors included different prey species and prey stages, and temperatures. All reported experiments were conducted in the laboratory, which may not reflect their real growth parameters in nature.
Eyes on the Ball: Activist Campaigns and Management’s Response at the Operational Level
Authors: Lungeanu Razvan , Wiersema Margarethe
Published: December 2024

More than 45% of the S&P 500 have been the target of activist investors. As a major shareholder in the firms they target, activist investors’ campaigns raise concerns over the firm’s poor performance and pose a threat to management’s control over the firm. Prior research has found that activist campaigns have significant consequences, as management curtails long-term investments, divests businesses, and foregoes acquisitions. Strategic decisions at the corporate level, however, do not provide insight as to whether activist investors motivate management to improve the operational competitiveness of the firm. Our study seeks to address whether activist campaigns succeed in motivating management to improve the firm’s operational competitiveness. This represents an important issue since the firm’s operational practices are essential to its competitiveness and performance. Our study proposes and finds that firms targeted by activist investors seek new ways by which to improve the firm’s operational efficiency and effectiveness. In addition, the management of target firms shift their emphasis to tactics that can improve the firm’s operations in the short-term. We use a measure of operational competitiveness that provides detail and granularity at a tactical level, enabling us to compare and contrast how firms respond to activist investors at the operational level of the firm. Thus, our study provides important insights not previously found that activist campaigns motivate management to improve the firm’s operational competitiveness.
The burden of headache disorders in the adult population of Morocco: estimates, and a health-care needs assessment, from a cross-sectional population-based door-to-door survey
Authors: Kissani Najib , Adarmouch Latifa , Sidibe Aboubacar Sidik , Garmane Abderrahmane , Founoun Rachid , Chraa Mohamed , Husøy Andreas , Steiner Timothy J.
Published: December 2024

Background

We have previously shown headache disorders to be prevalent in in the adult general population of Morocco, especially migraine (30.8%) and headache on ≥ 15 days/month (H15+; 10.5%). This study, collecting data from the same population-based sample, is the first to estimate headache-attributed burden not only in Morocco but, more widely, in the Maghreb countries of North Africa.

Methods

We used the standard methodology and questionnaire developed by the Global Campaign against Headache. Cluster-based random sampling generated a sample (N = 2,575) representative of the general population aged 18–65 years. Interviews conducted face-to-face enquired into symptom burden (headache frequency, usual duration and usual intensity), and impaired participation in paid work, household work and social or leisure activities during the preceding 3 months. Further enquiry was into headache yesterday (HY). We calculated population-level estimates by factoring in prevalence. Needs assessment estimated the population proportion in need of headache-related health care based on likelihood of benefit.

Results

Participants with headache of any type spent, on average, 12.5% of their time with headache of intensity rated 2.3 on a scale of 1–3. According to age- and gender-corrected estimates, 7.2–8.4% of all time in the population (calculated by two methods) was spent with headache, H15 + accounting for well over half of this. Impaired participation measured as lost time due to headache averaged 0.5 days from paid work, 1.6 days from household work and 0.3 days from social or leisure activities during the preceding 3 months. Of those with HY (17.8% of the sample), 24.1% of males and 50.9% of females could do nothing or less than half of their planned activity yesterday. At population level this diluted to 7.0% of all activity lost to headache. At least 30% of the population were estimated to need headache-related health care.

Conclusion

Headache disorders cause much ill health in the adult population of Morocco. While this will be of obvious concern to health policy in Morocco, the call for provision of health care for almost one third of this population is challenging. On the other hand, economic policy should recognise the lost-productivity costs of inadequately treated headache, especially migraine.
Outcomes of Laparoscopic Radical Hysterectomy in Ia1-Ib1 Cervical Cancer Patients: A Multi-Center Study with 10 Years’ Experiences in the Real World
Authors: Zhang Chenge , Tian Wenfang , Zhou Xiaofang , Li Lesai , Tan Shanmei , Sun Lijuan , Tang Jie
Published: December 2024

Background

The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the outcomes of laparoscopic radical hysterectomy (LRH) for International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) 2018 stage IA1 IB1 patients with low-risk cervical cancer (CC), which was defined as tumor ≤ 2cm, less than 1/2 stromal invasion and no lymph node involvement.

Patients and Methods

We performed a retrospective analysis of patients with CC who underwent radical hysterectomy across three hospitals between 2010 and 2020. The patients were stratified into low-risk and high-risk groups based on risk factors (tumor size, lymph nodes and stromal invasion depth). Within each group, the survival outcomes of open abdominal radical hysterectomy (OARH) and LRH were compared using the Kaplan–Meier analysis.

Results

In the low-risk group (LRH: N = 320; OARH: N = 525), LRH demonstrated equivalence to OARH regarding 5-year overall survival (OS; 98.6% versus 99.3%, P = 0.571) and 5-year progression-free survival (PFS; 97.6% versus 98.4%, P = 0.418). Subsequently, a stratified analysis based on lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI) status revealed no significant differences in 5-year OS and PFS between LRH and OARH in this group. Conversely, in the high-risk group (LRH: N = 355; OARH: N = 926), LRH exhibited significantly lower 5-year OS and PFS than OARH (91.3% versus 94.8%, P = 0.049; 84.0% versus 88.8%, P = 0.029).

Conclusion

Among FIGO 2018 stage IA1–IB1 patients with low-risk CC, LRH demonstrates survival outcomes comparable to OARH. For patients with early-stage and low-risk CC, the appropriate surgical approach (LRH) can be chosen based on preoperative enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) MRI, which is clinically feasible.
Faraz A. Khan. An Introduction to Islamic Theology: Imām Nūr al-Dīn al-Sābūnī’s Al- Bidāyah fī Usul al-dīn: Introduction, Translation, Annotation and Appendices
Authors: Harvey Ramon
Published: December 2024

Faraz A. Khan. An Introduction to Islamic Theology: Imām Nūr al-Dīn al-Sābūnī’s Al-
Bidāyah fī usūl al-dīn: Introduction, Translation, Annotation and Appendices. Berkeley, CA:
Zaytuna College, 2020. 482 sayfa. ISBN: 9780985565992.
Mehmed Emin Üsküdârî’nin Sonsuzluğa Dair Şerhu’l-Berâhîni’l-hamse Adlı Risalesinin Tahlil ve Tahkiki
Authors: Beşikçi M. Necmettin
Published: December 2024

Bu makale, on sekizinci yüzyıl Osmanlı-Türk nazarî düşüncesinin önde gelen isimlerinden Mehmed Emin Üsküdârî’nin (ö. 1149/1736-37) uzaklıkların (mekândaki uzanımların) sonluluğu ve teselsülün geçersizliği problemlerine ilişkin kaleme aldığı Şerhu’l-Berâhîni’l-hamse risalesini şekil ve muhteva açısından incelemektedir. Sonsuzluk problemi çok katman- lı bir yapıya sahip olup isbât-ı vâcib başta olmak üzere teolojik, epistemolojik, ontolojik, ve kozmolojik birçok meselenin dayanak noktasını oluşturmaktadır. Erken dönemlerden itibaren farklı düşünce geleneklerine mensup âlimler tarafından ele alınan sonsuzluk problemi, müteahhir dönemde müstakil risalelerin telif edildiği kozmopolit bir kelâm-felsefe geleneği haline gelmiştir. Müteahhir dönemin son temsilcilerinden Mehmed Emin Üsküdârî de bu konuya dair müstakil eser veren âlimlerden olmuştur. Söz konusu risale, sonsuzluk probleminin Osmanlı entelektüel düşüncesindeki konumunu ve izlerini görebilmek adına önemlidir. Üsküdârî, risalesinde uzaklıkların sonsuzluğu tartışmalarında burhân-ı süllemî ve burhân-ı müsâmeteyi; teselsül tartışmalarında ise burhân-ı tatbîk, burhân-ı tezâyüf, burhân-ı ‘arşî ve beraberinde Mirzâcân Şîrâzî (ö. 995/1587) tarafından zikredilen iki farklı burhânı esas almaktadır. Müellif, bu bağlamda konuya ilişkin zikredilen burhânların muhtasar ve müfit bir sunumunu yapmış ve anlatılan bazı hususları geometrik temsillerle desteklemiştir. De- ğerlendirme ve tahkik olmak üzere iki ana bölümden oluşan bu makale, müellifin zikri geçen burhânlara ilişkin değerlendir- melerini, ilgili burhânların tarihî serencamını ve süreklilik ve değişim noktasındaki farklılıklarını incelemektedir.
Hicazlı Bir Âlimin Diyar-ı Rum ile Entelektüel Etkileşimi İbrâhîm el-Kûrânî’nin Cilâü’l-enzâr Risalesinde Hanefî-Mâtürîdî Geleneğe Eleştirileri
Authors: Çelik Şerife Nur
Published: December 2024

Sadrüşşerîa’nın (ö. 747/1346) Fahreddin er-Râzî’nin (ö. 606/1210) insanın ihtiyârî fiillerini nefyettiği argümanını çü- rütmeye çalıştığı ve Hanefî-Mâtürîdî geleneğin bu husustaki prensiplerini nazarî bir dille yeniden temellendirdiği dört mu- kaddimesi (mukaddimât-ı erba‘) ile Mehmed Birgivî’nin (ö. 981/1573) bu mukaddimeler üzerinden geliştirdiği açıklamaları, diyar-ı Rum’daki düşünürlerin insan fiilleri ve cüz’î iradeye dair tartışmalarına yön vermiştir. On yedinci yüzyılda Hicaz topraklarında faaliyet gösterip Eş‘arî-Ekberî geleneği merkeze alarak ihtiyârî fiillere dair yazdığı eserleriyle bu geleneğin nispeten güçlü olduğu Hicaz, Şam ve Kuzey Afrika’da etki uyandıran İbrâhîm el-Kûrânî (ö. 1101/1690), Hanefî-Mâtürîdî gelenekte Sadrüşşerîa ve Birgivî’nin görüşleri etrafında cereyan eden tartışmalara da bigâne kalmamış, bu âlimlerin me- tinlerini merkeze alarak kaleme aldığı Cilâü’l-enzâr risalesiyle o zamana kadar dolaylı ve nispeten zayıf irtibatının olduğu diyar-ı Rum havzasındaki tartışmalara dahil olmuştur. Kûrânî, bu eserle yaşadığı dönemdeki hâkim Hanefî-Mâtürîdî gele- neğe yönelik eleştiri ve değerlendirmelerde bulunmuş, bu çerçevede insanın sorumluluğunun cüz’î irade ve îkâ üzerinden ispatlanıp ispatlanamayacağı, hallerin yaratmaya konu olup olmadığı ve iradenin tercihinde bir sebebe bağlı olup olmadığı gibi belli meseleleri ele almıştır. Ayrıca mutlak hürriyet (tefvîz) ile mutlak zorunluluk (cebr) arasındaki orta yolun nasıl tesis edileceği konusuna da yoğunlaşmıştır. Kûrânî’nin diğer ilim havzalarıyla kurduğu irtibatlarda olduğu gibi Hanefî-Mâtürîdî geleneğin eleştirisi üzerinden diyar-ı Rum ile kurduğu ilişkinin aynı zamanda kendisinin eğilim ve mezhepleri uzlaştıran fikirlerine alan açmaya matuf olduğunu iddia eden bu çalışma, zikri geçen risalede yer verilen eleştiri ile değerlendirmelerin ortaya çıkarılmasını ve bunun tarihî-fikrî bağlamına yerleştirilmesini amaçlamaktadır.
Estimating Power Losses due to Harmonics in Power Distribution System Components
Authors: Tavakoli Payam , Palizban Ali , Pitis Constantin
Published: December 2024

This paper addresses the urgent need for accurate estimation of power losses caused by harmonics in various components of power distribution systems (PDS). Current methodologies for evaluating such losses in electrical distribution grids (EDG) are underdeveloped, highlighting the necessity for more refined analytical approaches. To address this gap, a mathematical model was developed to quantify harmonic-induced losses across key PDS components, with a focus on dry-type distribution transformers (DDTs). Expected accuracy range for estimating methodology was Class 2 accuracy range according to AACE1. Mathematical model was validated by using pre-existent tests performed on a 250 kVA DDT.
Power losses of DDTs are especially significant because these components play a critical role in power system efficiency and revenue generation. In the commercial and industrial sectors, approximately 50% of electricity passes2 through DDTs, of which 40% of DDT efficiency is affected by harmonic losses [2]3. As electrification and electric vehicle adoption grow, these losses are expected to increase. By identifying components most affected by harmonics, the model enables targeted mitigation strategies, potentially saving 600 GWh annually and reducing power losses by 70 MW4 [3].
The paper concludes with a guide to the use of the proposed mathematical model for the estimation of Harmonic Power Losses and Applicable PDS Components (Appendix C).
Proposed mathematical model offers consultants, engineers and end-users a practical tool to improve transformer sizing, implement energy-saving measures, and enhance the efficiency and reliability of PDS. The outcomes support stakeholders, including utilities and customers, by reducing operational costs, extending equipment lifespans, and improving energy efficiency. The findings are a useful tool for government organizations and utilities in refining their energy efficiency programs and standards.
“Workers without Borders:” Envisioning Sociality in Xiao Hai’s Poems
Authors: Yang Xin
Published: December 2024

New worker poetry has emerged as a unique literary voice in contemporary China. This paper places Chinese new workers as the global working class and focuses on the poetics of their global vision. Through a close reading of poems written by Xiao Hai (1980-), one of the prolific worker poets, I argue that the new worker poet constructs global sociality at the levels of aesthetics, social critique, and cultural proposal. Aesthetically, Xiao Hai has borrowed inspiration from classical Chinese poetry, western counter-culture icons, and contemporary avant-garde spirit in his writings on laborers’ ordeals. Global sociality embodies a powerful critique of hierarchical global systems in which laborers are positioned at the bottom. It is also a cultural ideal rooted in revolutionary nostalgia and classical notions, a passionate call for connection among like-minded people, and an awareness of workers’ shared identity. Raising their voices in poetry, Xiao Hai, as well as other worker poets, actively explore opportunities to make their voices heard on a broader scale
Responding to the Rhythms of Labor: Lola Ridge’s Work Songs in The Ghetto and Other Poems
Authors: Gaffey Michelle B.
Published: December 2024

Although nearly forgotten by the end of the twentieth century, Irish-born poet Lola Ridge is now recognized as a highly influential, socially engaged writer and editor who was active in various Modernist and activist circles in the United States from 1907-1941. This essay discusses the lesser-known poems within the “Labor” section of her 1918 publication, The Ghetto and Other Poems. I suggest that these labor poems draw from and participate in the American traditions of work and sorrow songs, thereby positioning Ridge as an avant-garde poet of the working class, a kind of Modernist troubadour. I read Ridge’s “The Song of Iron” alongside Kane O’Donnell’s 1863 long poem, also titled “The Song of Iron,” drawing intertextual connections between these poems, both of which appropriate hymn-like rhythms that gesture toward the work and sorrow song traditions. I address how Ridge’s engagement with these traditions attempts to “make new” various images, metaphors, and cadences found in O’Donnell’s poem, and I situate Ridge’s “Labor” poems within the context of World War One, conscription, labor radicalization, and the suppression of free speech by the federal government. I offer close readings of select poems to further demonstrate her textual play with antiphony and other communal poetics and themes, all of which model on the page the collective action necessary to challenge the capitalist and imperialist aims of the modern era.
“The Tale is Soon Told”: Working-Class Storytelling in Sylvia Pankhurst’s “Thrift” and May Westoby’s “The Injustice of the King”
Authors: Timlin Carrie
Published: December 2024

From 1880 onwards British Socialists produced a substantial body of short fiction using working-class oral literary traditions to frame their narratives. Women remain underrepresented in scholarship on this aspect of literary studies in part because much of what they wrote has been lost to history or remains hidden. Retrieving Sylvia Pankhurst’s “Thrift” (The Woman’s Dreadnought, June 1914) and May Westoby’s “The Injustice of the King” (Justice, November 1910) from the archives, and republishing them for a contemporary audience, contributes to restorative projects by scholars seeking to broaden the scope of writing on Socialist women’s creative activism by expanding the existing body of available work to include unpublished or neglected fiction, plays and poetry. These short stories, originally published in British newspapers, are examples of Pankhurst and Westoby’s ability to appeal to a socially situated readership of working men and women by simulating oral literatures, and more specifically, forms typical of the parable, fairy tale, moral tale, and working-class life writing. These stories exemplify how Socialist writers brought non-fiction and fiction into dialogue to simplify complex ideas, humanize the cold constraints of politics, draw connections between the social and the political, and pay tribute to British working-class culture and traditions.
Girls’ Class and Character in Contemporary YA Fiction
Authors: Paolucci Lisa
Published: December 2024

Two contemporary works of young adult fiction that appeared on the New York City 365 Book List are examined in this paper as examples of the socioeconomic diversity that the creators of the list intended to include. Nic Stone’s Jackpot (2019) and Ibi Zoboi’s Pride (2018) both depict female high schoolers—Rico and Zuri—who grapple with their own identity-building as they demonstrate awareness of their socioeconomic situations, both of working-class backgrounds, and how their personal contexts contribute to the future opportunities available to them. Ultimately, even as the novels are propelled forward with romantic relationships with male teens of higher socioeconomic statuses, with greater access to power and privilege, both protagonists ultimately develop agency in their lives and powerfully negotiate their futures, especially through their understandings and analyses of class and its connection to their identities and relationships.
Working-class Academics: Challenging Deficit Narratives Through Cultural Wealth
Authors: Crew Teresa
Published: December 2024

When navigating higher education (HE), working-class academics (WCAs) encounter persistent socioeconomic, cultural, and personal barriers throughout their academic careers. This study, grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu and Tara Yosso, sought to illuminate the cultural wealth of WCAs. Employing a mixed-methods approach over a five-year period, the research engaged with 244 WCAs from various institutions across the United Kingdom (UK). The findings challenged the dominant deficit narratives surrounding WCAs, revealing that WCAs actively cultivate and leverage a rich array of cultural assets, encompassing examples of aspirational, navigational, linguistic, familial, social, and resistant capital. Two overarching themes emerged from the data: the profound impact of shared lived experiences in empowering marginalised students, and the crucial role of WCAs as change agents. The study demonstrates how WCAs employ their backgrounds as pedagogical assets while advocating for structural reforms. These findings suggest institutions should formally recognise working-class cultural wealth through revised hiring criteria, targeted support programmes, and inclusive decision-making frameworks. This research advances understanding of how marginalised groups can transform rather than simply adapt to institutional cultures.
Crime of Abuse in the Light of University Students’ Opinions and Court Statistics
Authors: Kałdon Barbara Małgorzata
Published: December 2024

Objectives

The article is based on empirical data. It covers crimes specified in Art. 207 of the Penal Code, including the amendment to the Penal Code of July 7, 2022, i.e., hereinafter referred to as “Zmkk2022” (Ustawa 07.07.2022). The aim of the research was to find out the opinions of students regarding hypothetical penalties that should be imposed for crimes specified in Art. 207 of the Penal Code and to compare them with legally binding regulations.

Material and methods

The author based her research on the survey method and on the interpretative-descriptive methodology, specific primarily to legal professions (Dobosz, 2001, p. 24), using the purposive method of interpretation, which consisted in defining the legislator’s purpose of implementing the regulation (Łętowski, 1995, p. 45).

Results

Although, the introduction of new statutory limits of penalties for acts punishable by imprisonment under Article 207 § 3 of the Penal Code may undoubtedly be assessed positively, in view of the results of the survey conducted for the purposes of this article, the indicated penalties still seem to be too low. The respondents expressed their preference for long-term penalties of imprisonment, and even occasionally opted for the introduction of death penalty, which is currently not envisaged by Polish legislation.

Conclusions

The conducted research was aimed at understanding the viewpoint of the general public in the scope of preferences regarding the minimum and maximum penalty of imprisonment for crimes specified in Article 207 of the Penal Code. The opinions expressed by the respondents regarding the possible penalties for the above-mentioned prohibited acts vary significantly from the limits specified in the Code as well as from actual penalties imposed by courts.
Adaptation to the challenges of adulthood and the level of depressiveness. Comparison of the control and clinical groups in the context of the theory of positive youth development
Authors: Barłóg Mateusz , Zając Angelika
Published: December 2024

Objectives

This article addresses the issue of depression and the development of competencies that promote adaptation to adulthood. The foundation of the presented research is the theory of positive development based on strengthening the potential of the individual and focusing less on deficits. Offering creative leisure time, is at the same time a distraction from inappropriate behavior.

Material and methods

The article analyzed the relationship between the level of depressiveness and indicators of adaptation to adulthood (mentioned in the theory of positive development). Self-esteem and interpersonal emotion regulation strategies were also included in the analysis, as the mentioned individual and environmental factors are important resources in coping with stress. The study conducted on a group of 184 people, of which 150 were the control group and 34 were the clinical group.

Results

The analysis of the results leads to the conclusion that there is a relationship between the indicators of adaptation to adulthood and the level of depression. Both selected indicators of positive youth development, self-esteem and selected interpersonal emotion regulation strategies constitute resources that protect against depression.

Conclusions

Preventive actions should include strengthening self-esteem and be based on recognizing potential and strengths, in accordance with the theory of positive development.
Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for European countries - relation to objective household financial situation
Authors: Grzywińska-Rąpca Malgorzata , Ptak - Chmielewska Aneta
Published: December 2024

Objectives

The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) has been constructed in order to measure consumer attitudes. Its construction takes into account not only the assessment of the current financial and economic situation in the country and the current level of savings, but also the expectations of consumers with regard to the above-mentioned areas of life and the management of financial resources. The objectives of the article are (1) to test and select the components contributing to the consumer confidence index by proposing a new approach to its calculation and (2) to test the links between consumer sentiment and the level of financial instruments held by European households.

Material and methods

The modelling was carried out using data on the components of the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for the countries of the European Union and data on the financial situation of households. The data were taken from the Eurostat database. The analysis period covers the period 2015-2022, depending on data availability.

Results

The results presented in this study indicate a statistically significant relationship between the subjective assessment of household finances and the actual financial situation of households. The analysis carried out made it possible to select the components that make up the consumer confidence index and to propose a new approach to its calculation.
The study of the impact of the individual components of the CCI therefore constitutes a very important area of research crucial for modelling economic phenomena.

Conclusions

Based on the available literature, we can conclude that the issue of household financial well-being is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon. Relying solely on objective monetary factors does not allow us to identify the main determinants of household financial behaviour.
Artificial Intelligence and Social-Emotional Learning: what relationship?
Authors: Indellicato Rosa
Published: December 2024

Objectives

Among the skills included in the Compass for Tomorrow are new skills for teachers and educators in the context of emotional artificial intelligence. Is it possible to teach social-emotional skills? And how is it possible to do so? Can socio-emotional competences be considered as curricular standards?
This contribution aims to answer these questions, highlighting opportunities and risks that the digital revolution and affective computing pose today.

Material and methods

In order to explore the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), a multidisciplinary approach combining technological and psycho-pedagogical research methods is required.
Main sources: scientific databases (e.g. Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus), educational and technological journals; case studies where AI is integrated into SEL programmes.

Results

Artificial intelligence can play a key role in teaching social-emotional skills, helping students develop skills such as empathy, self-management, social awareness, and effective interpersonal relationships. AI platforms can create simulated or interactive scenarios that allow students to practise managing complex social situations.

Conclusions

In conclusion, we can say that AI can help teachers in their work by facilitating the identification of suitable strategies to foster and develop social-emotional competences in students. It can also help to broaden and achieve that vision suitable for understanding and fostering school inclusion, which is the goal to be achieved (Rivoltella, 2014).
It must also be emphasised that training and refresher courses are needed to use robotics correctly, to assist schools in their choice of aid and to train teachers in the acquisition of skills or teaching practices that make its use effective.
Changes in value system and life aspirations of youth in Poland from the perspective of thirty years (1989-2019)
Authors: Jaworowska Mirosława
Published: December 2024

Objectives

The aim of the analysis of the research results was to find out about changes in the system of values and life aspirations of the young generation of Poles from the perspective of the thirty years (1989-2019). The research was conducted in 1989, 1995, 2000 and 2019 was carried out based on comparative analyses, using a uniform research tool in all four research periods.

Material and methods

My research in 1989, 1995, 2000 and 2019 was carried out in order to find out facts, as well as opinions and attitudes used to describe the life politics of the Polish youth. I carried out comparative analyses, using a uniform research tool in all four research periods.

Results

The results of the research indicate a clash occurring between the bearers of consumerism and emancipation values. They are the ones that dominate the aspirations and aspirations of Poland's young generation for their own and the country's civilizational advancement.

Conclusions

The generation of civilisation advancement is a term which reaches the heart of the processes of forming aspirations, system of values, lifestyles and goals of today's young generation, not only in Poland, but globally - in varying degrees of intensity in various countries, as indicated by the results of research conducted in Poland.
CSR practices in human capital management in local government administration on the example of Staszów county in Świętokrzyskie voivodeship
Authors: Kusto Barbara Anna , Klepacki Bogdan
Published: December 2024

Objectives

In recent years, there have been a number of initiatives to promote the social responsibility of public administration. The concept has largely become recognized in the central administration, but it is different at the regional or local administration level. Thus, the purpose of the study is to identify, review CSR activities and assess the extent of their application in the area of human resources management in local government units, i.e. at the local level. An indirect goal of the study is also to promote the idea of social responsibility among representatives of regional and local administrations.

Material and methods

The purpose of the research was to identify and review CSR activities and assess the extent of their application in the area of human capital management in local government units at the local level. The research was conducted using a structured interview with municipal managers (mayors, secretaries of municipalities) according to a prepared interview questionnaire.

Results

The research identified CSR practices used by municipalities in the area of human capital management. These were mainly related to organizing working time, integrating employees, building ethical standards, and spreading preventive health and healthy lifestyles.

Conclusions

In the surveyed municipal offices, practices were identified that can be categorized as activities within the framework of social responsibility of administration, mainly in such areas as work organization, integration of employees, building ethical standards or spreading preventive health and healthy lifestyles. 5. CSR activities undertaken in offices also testify to the growing awareness of local government management of the importance of the human factor for the efficiency of the entity, as well as the influence of employees on its performance.
Personal dispositions for the sense of coherence in people with physical disability
Authors: Olejnik Urszula
Published: December 2024

Objectives

The process of adaptation in people with physical disability is conditioned by a number of interrelated psychological and social factors, such as e.g.: sense of coherence, self-concept and patterns of psychosocial reactions to disability. This study presents the relationships between the sense of coherence and personal dispositions, such as the self-concept and different patterns of reactions to disability in persons with physical disability.

Material and methods

The following measures were used in the study: The Sense of Coherence Questionnaire (SOC-29) by Aaron Antonovsky, The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale by William H. Fitts, The Reactions to Impairment and Disability Inventory (RIDI) by Hanoch Livneh and Richard F. Antonak. Data are presented from 204 people with physical disability, including 86 female (42.16 %) and 118 male (57.84 %) respondents.

Results

The study has shown relationships between the majority of analysed variables. Predictors of the sense of coherence in respondents with physical disability were two reactions: adjustment and anxiety. Each reaction marked its predictive power in all components of the sense of coherence and its summed score. Adjustment enhanced whereas anxiety weakened the sense of coherence. Adjustment was most often supported by moral-ethical self-concept and personal self-concept, whereas anxiety by the social self-concept and, although to a lesser extent, physical self-concept.

Conclusions

Sense of coherence is an important factor impacting social rehabilitation of people with physical disability, as it is associated with the sense of meaningfulness in these individuals, guiding them to undertake any daily professional or social activities.
Selected elements of crisis communication
Authors: Pietrek Grzegorz Wojciech , Kuhlmey Marcel
Published: December 2024

Objectives

The aim of this article is to identify the significance of the crisis for the functioning of the company and to find possible ways to solve it. This setting of the research objective should allow the research problem to be identified and solved as follows: how should an ‘entrepreneur’ behave in order to avoid or relatively smoothly pass through a crisis in a company.

Material and methods

In order to solve the research problem and realise the research objective, research methods such as analysis of literature and legal acts, comparison, analysis, synthesis, inductive and deductive reasoning and abstraction, among others, were used.

Results

The above made it possible to clarify working results and generalisations: the company should ensure crisis preparedness. In order to ensure that information about the crisis does not spread and gain momentum, thereby weakening the financial situation or image of the company, it must react quickly to emerging threats by monitoring the symptoms of the crisis. Early detection and precisely developed operational procedures can lead the company out of the crisis without excessive losses. The earlier the symptoms of a crisis are recognised, the smaller the losses.

Conclusions

Efficient communication can effectively (efficiently) prevent a crisis from spreading further both outside and inside the company.
The governing system of the Vatican City State under the Fundamental Law of the Vatican City State of 2023
Authors: Romanko Agnieszka
Published: December 2024

Objectives

This article aims at characterising the current Fundamental Law ("constitution") of the Vatican City State with particular attention given to the amendments introduced by Pope Francis in 2023. The article will attempt to answer the following questions: What was the reason for the reform of the Vatican City State? What is the structure of the Vatican City State? What distinguishes the Vatican City State from other states?

Material and methods

The article will use the sources of law and available literature on the subject. Historical-legal and dogmatic-legal methods will be used.

Results

In the article the reasons for the reform were presented. For this purpose, the origins, the concept and the specificity of the Vatican City State as guarantor of the independence and sovereignty of the Holy See were described. This was followed by a characterisation of the governing system of the Vatican City State. This issue required an in-depth analysis due to the fact that the Vatican City State, despite being an absolute monarchy in which the Sovereign enjoys full power, has specialised bodies equipped with legislative, executive and judicial functions, which they always exercise on behalf of the Pope.

Conclusions

Pope Francis justified the necessity of the reform by “the needs of our time”. In this context, he recalled that the Vatican State was created in 1929 as an instrument to ensure the Holy See’s independence and guarantee its sovereignty also in the international arena. It must be pointed that the structure of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State has been changed, which can also include “other members”, thus also lay persons.
Trends in the development of the ISO 9001 quality management system – a parameter of the logistic function
Authors: Rządkowski Grzegorz Kazimierz , Szczepańska Katarzyna
Published: December 2024

Objectives

The main objective of the article is to demonstrate that the number of ISO 9001 certificates issued can be modelled with high accuracy using a sum of logistic functions (multilogistic function). An attempt was also made to explain this phenomenon on the basis of the Triple Helix (TH) theory applied to the area of quality management.

Material and methods

In order to estimate the parameters of the logistic functions, normalized second-order logistic wavelets were used. The method allows specifying these parameters based on a scalogram - a graph of the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) applied directly to the number of ISO 9001 certificates issued. Moreover, the authors discuss the theoretical model of the Triple Helix - the interaction of innovation with elements of the innovation system: globalization, competitive developments, and customer requirements in the context of the increase in the number of ISO quality management system certificates issued.

Results

Studies and calculations have fully confirmed that the number of ISO 9001 certificates between 1993 and 2022 can be effectively modelled using an appropriate multilogistics function. Using scalograms and CWT analysis, the type and position of successive logistic waves can be identified and their parameters can be estimated. This indirectly confirms that the Triple Helix theory is also applicable to quality management.

Conclusions

The possibility of using logistic wavelets, scalograms and, CWT analysis to detect logistic waves in time series related to quality management, has been confirmed. Once the parameters of the consecutive logistic waves have been estimated, the corresponding multilogistic functions can be used for forecasting.
Migrants and refugees between sociology and law:
Mental health and integration strategies for the most fragile individuals
Authors: Piliu Salvatore
Published: December 2024

Objectives

The contribution aims to carry out a socio-anthropological and juridical analysis of the issues concerning the status of migrants and refugees, in order to identify the strategies prepared by the Italian State regarding the protection of the mental health of migrants and refugees and the prospects for integration and legal protection of the most fragile subjects.

Material and methods

The research will be conducted through a terminological analysis to understand the meaning of the italian words 'migrante' and 'rifugiato' and then examine the influences of supranational legislation on Italian legislation on this topic. In particular, reference will be made to recent Italian legislation and strategies for the integration of the most fragile subjects and for the protection of the mental health of migrants and refugees.

Results

From the updated framework of supranational and Italian legislation, and of migratory flows, it is hoped that we can contribute to identifying the most suitable strategies for effective integration of the most fragile subjects involved in migratory flows.

Conclusions

In light of these brief remarks made, it is clear that promoting the health of migrants and refugees, reorienting health policies, strengthening the skills of health workers, and improving information systems for collecting, analyzing and sharing data, means guaranteeing a fundamental right, which is in line with the goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to leave no one behind, promoting mental health and well-being for all.
Sources of funding for denominational higher education institutions in Poland
Authors: Sitarz Mirosław
Published: December 2024

Cel pracy

Celem artykułu będzie analiza obowiązujących aktów normatywnych w zakresie finansowania wyznaniowych szkół wyższych w Polsce. Dlatego też w pierwszej kolejności zostanie przedstawiona geneza finansowania szkół wyższych, a następnie aktualne regulacje prawne dotyczące finansowania zarówno szkół wyższych Kościoła katolickiego, jak też innych kościołów i związków wyznaniowych.

Materiał i metody

W artykule zostaną wykorzystane źródła prawa polskiego i kanonicznego oraz dostępna literatura przedmiotu. Wykorzystane zostaną metody historyczno-prawne i dogmatyczno-prawne.

Wyniki

Ustrojodawca w Konstytucji Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej gwarantuje finansowanie ze środków państwowych szkół i uczelni prowadzonych przez kościoły i inne związki wyznaniowe. Zakłada przy tym równy dostęp do środków publicznych. Tworzenie i prowadzenie przez kościoły i inne związki wyznaniowe szkół wyższych, a także zasady udzielania im przez państwo pomocy finansowej regulują odrębne ustawy. Aktualne regulacje w tym przedmiocie zawiera ustawa z dnia 20 lipca 2018 r. Prawo o szkolnictwie wyższym i nauce.

Wnioski

Współczesne państwa demokratyczne zapewniają finansowanie katolickich szkół wyższych z funduszy publicznych także w umowach międzynarodowych ze Stolicą Apostolską. Gwarancje w tym przedmiocie są wpisane do konkordatów zawartych z takimi państwami, jak: Niemcy, Włochy, Hiszpania, Chorwacja, Słowacja, Litwa.
Freedom as a natural ability in Roman law
Authors: Sitek Bronisław
Published: December 2024

Objectives

The subject of this study is the issue of perception of individual freedom by Roman lawyers. It is generally accepted that slaves were treated as property. However, in order to understand what was the actual perception of slaves and slavery, it is necessary to analyze selected sources of law, especially such lawyers as: Florentinus, Ulpian. Marcianus or Hermogonianus. The institution of favor debitoris was also quite often used to resolve doubts about human freedom.

Material and methods

The analysis of selected texts by Roman lawyers allows us to illustrate the technique of weighing the value of individual freedom with other values, especially those of a property nature or with the purpose of performing a legal act.

Results

The study analyzed general sources, and then in the scope of a family's application for regaining freedom by a relative and the case of freedom when a free human being was fraudulently sold. The analysis of these sources allows us to conclude that in many cases the value of individual freedom outweighed other property interests.

Conclusions

This was the result of the recognition that freedom is a natural human condition, which was clearly expressed by the lawyer Florentinus.
The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Distance Education
Authors: Tuczyński Krystian
Published: December 2024

In this article, the examination of the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on the educational process is conducted, with a particular focus on its impact on individualized teaching, the monitoring of educational progress, and student motivation. The discussion delves into diverse AI applications, including the customization of educational materials, adaptive progress tracking, and the introduction of innovative motivational techniques. Emphasis is placed on the positive aspects of incorporating AI into education, while concurrently underlining the importance of using this technology with awareness and discretion. Furthermore, the article seeks to dispel common misconceptions about the role of AI, particularly in generating educational content, and stresses the irreplaceable role of the teacher as a mentor in the learning process. A critical point is made about the imperative need to educate all participants involved in the educational sphere to effectively leverage the potential benefits of artificial intelligence.
Non-formal education as a form of supporting the development of programming skills in primary school students
Authors: Warchoł Tomasz
Published: December 2024

Objectives

The main goal of the article is to analyze the role of non-formal education in the context of teaching programming to primary school students in non-formal educational settings, considering current technological developments and the need for adaptation in educational approaches.

Material and methods

The text employs descriptive and analytical approaches, examining the characteristics and benefits of non-formal education in programming. The author utilizes theoretical and practical examples to illustrate the issues of non-formal education and the development of programming skills among primary school students.

Results

The conclusions highlight the advantages of non-formal education in teaching programming to primary school students, such as flexibility, individualization, and emphasis on practical skill development. The article emphasizes that through various forms of non-formal education, such as workshops, e-learning courses, webinars, and experiences in virtual reality, there is an opportunity to teach programming to primary school students in engaging and interactive ways.

Conclusions

The article underscores the promising future of non-formal education in programming for primary school students, driven by technological advancements and growing interest in non-traditional educational approaches. It discusses potential tools, platforms, and methodologies that can improve programming education in non-formal settings, leading to greater accessibility and effectiveness.