bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Tele-Rehabilitation for Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis and Mobility Disorders—A Feasibility and Pilot Study
Authors: Barksdale Heather , McHugh Brittany , Hodges Wayne , Peters Jessica , Smotherman Carmen , Hoffman Paul M.
Published: November 2020

Objective: To determine the feasibility of conducting an 8-week physical therapist (PT)-guided tele-rehabilitation (TR) program for persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) and mobility deficits.
Design, setting, and participants: This feasibility study had a pre–post-intervention, non-randomized design. Nine subjects with a confirmed diagnosis of MS without a clinical exacerbation in the last year were selected from the MS Center of Excellence at UF Health Jacksonville (UFHJ). Inclusion criteria included demonstrated mobility deficits on initial examination, basic computer competency, and a home with high-speed internet connection. Examinations were performed face-to-face, pre–post-intervention in the Neurology Research Clinic at UFHJ. TR was delivered to the patient’s homes in Florida and South Georgia.
Intervention: An informed consent was obtained prior to initial examination. Self-reported measures included quality of life (QOL) and fatigue. Mobility measures included timed 10-m walk, five times sit to stand, and Berg balance scale. Following inclusion, home safety was evaluated and computer equipment was installed. TR intervention utilized the Jintronix® web-based platform system with a kinetic camera that demonstrated selected exercises by an avatar, allowing for real-time feedback on the quality of performance as well as tracking of adherence. The individualized exercises were assigned by the evaluating PT based on the initial assessment. Subjects participated in weekly TR visits with the prescribing PT to further monitor and adjust the therapy program.
Main outcome measures: Primary outcome measures were patient satisfaction, safety, and compliance. Secondary outcome measures were projected travel cost, self-reported fatigue and QOL, and mobility testing measures. To compare the TR effect on mobility, a comparator persons with MS group was selected retrospectively. Eight persons with MS referred from the MS Center at UFHJ for outpatient (OP) PT from January 2018 through September 2019 were identified by UFHJ electronic database search for ICD 10 code G35. The inclusion criteria for mobility deficits and functional measurements were the same as those in TR group.
Results: Eight subjects completed the TR program with no adverse events. They reported satisfaction, demonstrated compliance, and saved $8,487 in projected travel costs. All TR subjects noted improvement in self-reported fatigue, QOL, or mobility measures. Improvement in mobility measures had wide variability but did not differ between TR and OP groups.
Conclusions: The 8-week PT-monitored TR program was shown to be feasible, safe, and well received by persons with MS. Larger studies focused on specific dysfunction leading to mobility deficits and longer intervention times will be necessary to determine efficacy.
Pre-Analysis of Service Quality Design for Intercultural Care Service Facilities by International Medical Aid
Authors: Eto Hajime
Published: November 2020

This paper presents a rough design of service system for international care service facilities proposed to be constructed in developing areas or countries by the financial and technical aid from developed areas or countries. A main problem is how to fill the cultural gap between care providers and care recipients, both in human service aspects and information-technological aspects. Here, "culture” includes language, food, custom, art, value system, religion, and the views of life and death. Information technology is expected to narrow the medico-technical gap between developed and developing areas or countries. Further, information exchange or frequent communication with the homeland or home countries of care service recipients is expected to mitigate their loneliness in distance from their homeland. Further, the administrative, legal and other formal barriers like the health insurance and the visa system are discussed
The Fermentation Culprit
Authors: Northcott Helen
Published: November 2020

Sitting down to a meal and a glass of wine may seem like you will be well nourished. Most do not care about its nutrients as long as it tastes good. At times indigestion bothers us and we reach for immediate relief. We may wonder what was eaten to cause heartburn and indigestion, but we really don’t know. Well, today is your lucky day in that I will share with you the culprit of fermentation. Realizing that those in the food industry want you to buy their product, they may withhold the truth about the processing process. Preserving food has been going on for centuries and the end always justified the means of doing it. Learning about the byproducts of fermentation was not given that much attention, nor was it suspected that it was harmful
Sexual Abuse Identified after Suicide: Case Report
Authors: Kaya Kenan
Published: November 2020

Child abuse is a maltreatment of a child under the age of 18 by his or her parent, carer, someone living in their home, or someone working with children. Abuse of a child is anything that causes injury or puts the child in danger of physical injury. Child abuse can be physical, sexual or emotional. Sexual abuse has been reported to be the largest component of suicide attempts in childhood. Between 1950 and 1993, children under the age of 15 had a 4-fold increase in suicide-related deaths among causes of death. In 1994, 6 percent of deaths between 5 and 14 years of age were found to be suicidal. Case; on a 14-year-old girl’s body’s external examination, where dead stiffness continued and purple-colored dead stains began to appear in unprinted areas. It was recorded that the telem was viewed as a parchmented area starting from the middle line, 10cm long and 1.5cm wide in the thickest area. On the outer side of the left knee there was a 3x2cm scar tissue. It was observed that the hymen was 2cm wide and had a notched structure and a partial tear at the level of 7 o’clock. There was no ecchymosis and hemorrhage around the anus and hymen. On the internal examination, a 2.5 centimeter fetus was detected in the uterus between 6-8 weeks of gestation. Only male DNA profiles were detected from the pregnancy material. Toxicological analyzes result in no detectable substance. It was determined that death was caused by mechanical asphyxia, the result of hanging. A 14-year-old girl who has been diagnosed with suicide mortality and pregnancy after autopsy will be examined in the light of literature in terms of child abuse and pregnancy
Primeira Ajuda em Saúde Mental: Contributo do programa para o incremento da literacia em saúde mental dos estudantes do ensino superior
Authors: Loureiro Luís Manuel , Rosa Amorim , Frajuca Marina , Cunha Sandrina , Correia Susana , Morgado Tânia , Costa Lúcia
Published: November 2020

Objetivo: O presente estudo tem como objetivo avaliar o contributo em termos da efetividade do programa de Primeira Ajuda em Saúde Mental na literacia em saúde mental acerca da depressão, a partir de uma amostra de estudantes de Enfermagem aquando do ingresso e integração ao curso. Métodos: Utilizou-se um desenho pré-experimental com grupo único, avaliação pré e pós intervenção. O Programa teve a duração de um dia (9 horas). A amostra do estudo foi constituída por 100 estudantes do 1.º ano do curso de Enfermagem (na integração ao curso), tendo sido selecionados de modo aleatório simples com recurso ao softwarerandom.org. A média das idades foi de 18,54 anos (DP = 2,00 anos). Como instrumentos de colheita de dados foram utilizados o Questionário de Avaliação da Literacia em Saúde Mental, aplicado à depressão, a versão breve do Inventário de Crenças acerca das Doenças Mentais e a Escala de Avaliação do Estigma Pessoal. Recorreu-se às estatísticas resumo, aos testes de McNemar e t de Student para grupos emparelhados e, como medidas de tamanho de efeito, o g e o d respetivamente. Resultados: Observou-se com a intervenção um incremento da literacia em saúde mental ao nível do reconhecimento da depressão e estratégias comunicacionais de prestação de primeira ajuda (p < 0,05), especificamente na adequação e utilidade de valorizar sintomas e não expressar julgamentos, assim como uma redução das atitudes estigmatizantes acerca das doenças e doentes (p < 0,05). Conclusões: Apesar das limitações relacionadas com o desenho utilizado, nomeadamente a não existência de grupo de controlo, os resultados indicam que a frequência do programa contribui para aumentar a literacia em saúde mental e reduzir o estigma associado aos problemas de saúde mental.
Estudo preliminar de adaptação e validação do Inventário de Psicoterapia Positiva numa Amostra da População Portuguesa
Authors: Ferreira Marlene , Pereira Ana , Prior Ana , Fonte Carla
Published: November 2020

Contexto e Objetivo: A psicoterapia positiva alicerça-se concetualmente no estudo científico de emoções positivas, traços individuais positivos e pontos fortes. O objetivo é ajudar as pessoas a aprenderem que podem crescer como resultado de suas experiências, mesmo que a experiência seja traumática. Trata-se de um método psicoterapêutico que se foca na construção de emoções positivas, forças e significado na vida dos indivíduos para diminuir e prevenir a psicopatologia e promover a felicidade. Como ferramenta de avaliação, o Inventário de Psicoterapia Positiva (IPP) oferece aos profissionais de saúde mental a oportunidade de ver os resultados do processo terapêutico. Assim, o objetivo do presente estudo é conhecer as qualidades psicométricas do IPP numa amostra da população portuguesa. Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo metodológico, de carácter exploratório e descritivo, que visa a tradução-retroversão e análise das propriedades psicométricas (fidelidade e validade) recorrendo à administração do IPP, da Escala de Ansiedade, Depressão e Stress de 21 itens e do Mental Health Continuum – Short Form. A amostra foi composta por 247 participantes entre os 18 e 69 anos. Resultados: A versão traduzida e adaptada da escala cumpriu os critérios de equivalência semântica e apresentou um nível elevado de consistência interna (α de Cronbach = 0,97), altos valores de correlação entre formas (r = 0,92), assim como uma correlação elevada do item com o total do teste. O inventário ficou composto por 25 itens e explicado por três fatores, cumprindo os critérios de validade convergente e divergente. Conclusões: O estudo preliminar do IPP apresentou boas qualidades psicométricas. Sugere-se o alargamento da amostra para sustentação dos resultados obtidos.
Agradecimentos aos revisores 2020
Authors: Gabinete editorial Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Comportamental e Social
Published: November 2020

Os altos padrões científicos mantidos pela Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Comportamental e Social nos seus artigos deveram muito ao esforço dos revisores, que ofereceram livremente o seu tempo e conhecimento. Assim, os Editores da Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Comportamental e Social agradecem aos seguintes revisores que reviram artigos no período de novembro de 2019 a novembro de 2020.
Manajemen Pendidikan Inklusi
Authors: Mukhtar
Published: November 2020

Abstrak:Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian lapangan (field reseach) menggunakan pendekatan penelitian naturalistik yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui manajemen perencanaan, pengorganisasian, implementasi dan evaluasi kurikulum pendidikan inklusi. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah Kepala Sekolah, Waka Kurikulum, Guru Mata Pelajaran dan Guru Bimbingan Konseling. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Teknik keabsahan data menggunakan trianggulasi data dan teknik analisis data menggunakan model Mills dan Huberman. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan perencanaan kurikulum menggunakan pendekatan grass roots approach, yang melibatkan seluruh stake holder di SMPN 1 Sangatta Utara. Pengorganisasian kurikulum menggunakan pendekatan Integrated Curriculum, menyusun dan memodifikasi mata pelajaran secara terintegrasi. Implementasi kurikulum menggunakan pendekatan model TORI, mengarahkan peserta didik lebih kepada aspek terjadinya perubahan sosial dan sistem pengajaran menyesuaikan kebutuhan ABK. Evaluasi kurikulum menggunakan pendekatan Educational System Evaluation, mencakup input (bahan, rencana, peralatan), proses dan hasil yang dicapai dalam arti yang lebih luas.Kata Kunci : Manajemen Kurikulum, Pendidikan Inklusi
Khoa học Việt Nam với giải thưởng bình duyệt toàn cầu Global Peer Review Awards 2019
Authors: AISDL
Published: November 2020

Bất chấp sự khắt khe hơn về quy chuẩn báo cáo phản biện trong năm 2019, các cơ sở đào tạo và nghiên cứu Việt Nam vẫn duy trì được 6 cây bút có mặt trong top 1% các nhà bình duyệt toàn cầu do Global Peer Review Awards vừa công bố.
FGF1 is differentially expressed in the tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: November 2020

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined published microarray and gene expression data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most significant transcriptional changes associated with trastuzumab treatment. We identified the growth factor FGF1 as among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed higher levels of FGF1 messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, and a single administration of trastuzumab was sufficient to result in differential expression of FGF1 in primary tumors of the breast, demonstrating that increased expression of a growth factor (5) whose therapeutic blockade results in decreased primary tumor volume and impairment of lung metastasis (6) as a direct transcriptional result of treatment with trastuzumab.
Strategi dakwah rasulullah dalam persepektif hadis
Authors: Aifah
Published: November 2020

AbstrakStrategi dakwah Nabi Muhammad SAW. selama kurang lebih 23 tahun, yaitu periode Mekah dan Madinah telah berhasil membangun pondasi tauhid dan membangun peradaban tinggi. Strategi dakwah tersebut antara lain sebagai berikut: (1) Dakwah dengan dua tahapan, yaitu dengan cara sembunyi-sembunyi dan terang-terangan. Keberhasilan pada periode ini telah dibuktikan dengan beberapa nama mula-mula beriman dan masuk Islam bahkan mendukung serta menbantu dakwah Nabi SAW. yaitu: Siti Khadijah (istri Rasulullah) Ali bin Abi Thalib (kalangan pemuda dan putra paman Rasulullah Abu Thalib), Zaid bin Harisah (seorang budak, yang kemudian menjadi anak angkat Nabi Muhammad SAW.), Abu Bakar al-Siddik (sahabat Rasulullah), dan kemudian menyusul masuk Islam beberapa tokoh Quraiys, seperti Utsman bin Affan, Zubair bin Awwam, Saad bi Abi Waqas, Abdurahman bin Auf, Talhah bin Ubaidillah, dan Hamzah bin Abi Thalib, (2) membangun pondasi tauhid, (3) Mengangkat harkat dan martabat kaum perempuan.Strategi dakwah yang dilakukan di Madinah telah berhasil menanamkan nilai-nilai sosial keislaman di Madinah antara lain: (1) membangun masjid sebagai pusat dakwah dan pembinaan umat, yaitu masjid Quba, (2) persaudaraan dan tolong menolong, terutama antara sahabat Muhajirin (pendatang dari Mekah) dan sahabat Anshar (penduduk asli Madinah), (3) membangun teloransi dan asas-asas pemerintahan, untuk membangun Madinah menjadi negara dan kota peradaban tinggi. Maka untuk memantapkan asas tersebut, Nabi membuat perjanjian dengan beberapa suku dan kabilah yang ada di Madinah, termasuk dengan Yahudi, yaitu Piagam Madinah.Kata Kunci: Strategi, Dakwah, Sirah Nabawiyah
The joining chain of multimeric IgA and IgM is differentially expressed in metastatic breast cancer, both in metastases to the brain and to the lymph nodes.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: November 2020

Metastasis to the brain is a clinical problem in patients with breast cancer (1-3). We mined published microarray data (4-6) to compare primary and metastatic tumor transcriptomes to discover genes associated with brain metastasis in patients with metastatic breast cancer. We found that the joining chain of multimeric IgA and IgM, J chain, encoded by JCHAIN, was among the genes whose expression was most different in the metastatic tumor tissues of patients with metastatic breast cancer, both in metastases to brain and to the lymph nodes when compared to primary tumors of the breast or to normal breast tissues, respectively. We have recently demonstrated transcriptome-wide differential expression and down-regulation of IGKC (7) and TdT (8) in brain metastasis of patients with metastatic breast cancer. Molecular functions of JCHAIN (9-11) and down-regulation of these functions may be important for metastasis of primary tumor-derived cancer cells to the lymph nodes and to the brain in humans with metastatic breast cancer, and these data suggest some level of common origin for metastases that reside in the lymph nodes and colonize the brain.
Quỹ NAFOSTED và các công bố trên hệ thống xuất bản của Nature, Science: Quả ngọt đầu mùa
Authors: AISDL
Published: November 2020

10 công bố đáng tự hào và đang góp phần làm nên uy tín cho NAFOSTED thời gian gần đây đều nằm trong các lĩnh vực khoa học tự nhiên và kỹ thuật và hầu hết là kết quả của hợp tác quốc tế.
Quyền lực tỉnh thức và những hoạt động bác ái đóng góp cho xã hội
Authors: AISDL
Published: November 2020

Sự thức tỉnh của quyền lực kinh tế trước các giá trị mỹ học và văn hóa của khoa học – công nghệ đã trở thành một mô thức vận hành của thế giới hiện đại, đặc biệt ở các xã hội có trình độ văn hóa phát triển cao.
PTPN XII: a company under monopolistic competition with oligopoly product type
Authors: Tan Natalie Christy
Published: November 2020

PT Perkebunan Nusantara XII, that is abbreviated as PTPN XII is engaged in plantations for cocoa, tea, sugar cane, rubber and coffee. One of its famous product is Kopi Luwak. Since the production process is labor-intensive, the cost is high and not many firms could easily produce this type of coffee. So, is the PTPN XII is under monopolistic competition or oligopoly?
Người Việt góp sức "gác cửa" các ấn phẩm khoa học quốc tế: Góc nhìn từ Publons Peer Review Awards 2018
Authors: AISDL
Published: November 2020

Ở hạng mục những nhà bình duyệt thuộc top 1% của 23 ngành khoa học của Giải thưởng Bình duyệt Publons 2018, có tổng cộng 25 nhà nghiên cứu Việt Nam.
ТЕХНОЛОГИИ ИСКУССТВЕННОГО ИНТЕЛЛЕКТА В МЕДИЦИНЕ И ЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИИ: ПОЗИЦИИ РОССИИ НА ГЛОБАЛЬНОМ ПАТЕНТНОМ И ПУБЛИКАЦИОННОМ ЛАНДШАФТЕ
Authors: AISDL
Published: November 2020

Представлен обзор мер государственной политики, направленных на развитие технологий искусственного интеллекта(ИИ) в мире и в России. С целью оценить конкурентоспособность отечественных разработок, созданных для использования техно-логий ИИ в медицине и здравоохранении, выполнен наукометрический и патентный анализ направления за период 2010–2019 гг.На основе анализа фронтов исследований по методологии Essential science indicators выявлены наиболее перспективные на се-годняшний день исследовательские стратегии. Показано, что на глобальном публикационном ландшафте Россия занимает 27-уюпозицию в мире по числу публикаций, посвященных применению ИИ в здравоохранении: на долю российских исследователей при-ходится менее 1% публикаций, проиндексированных в Web of science. Для вхождения в топ 5 стран по публикационной активности в этом тематическом кластере России необходимо увеличить число публикаций более, чем в 6 раз. Из 16 компаний, аффилиации которых указаны в публикациях с участием российских авторов, 13 являются зарубежными. В целом, только 14% публикаций в тематической категории «Сomputer science, artificial intelligence», выполнены в коллаборации с индустриальным сектором. На ландшафте, сформированном патентными документами, защищающими технические решения в области ИИ в медицине, Россия занимает позиции, не подтверждающие ее намерения вступить в борьбу за перспективные рынки товаров и услуг, созданные на базе этих технологий. В области разработок ИИ медицинского назначения число патентов РФ, выданных нерезидентам страны, существенно превосходит число отечественных правообладателей. Обнаружены всего 12 патентов российских разработчиков технологий ИИ для здравоохранения, выданные зарубежными патентными ведомствами.
Etos kerja,
Authors: Komala Komala
Published: November 2020

Etos kerja menggambarkan segi-segi etos kerja yang baik pada manusia, bersumber dari kualitas diri, diwujudkan berdasarkan tata nilai sebagai etos kerja yang diimplementasikan dalam aktivitas kerja.
The EphB4 receptor is differentially expressed in the tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: November 2020

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined published microarray and gene expression data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most significant transcriptional changes associated with trastuzumab treatment. We identified EphB4 as among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed lower levels of EphB4 messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, and a single administration of trastuzumab was sufficient to result in differential expression of EphB4 in primary tumors of the breast, demonstrating decreased expression of a receptor tyrosine kinase that can impair tumorigenicity of breast cancer cells (5) as a direct transcriptional result of treatment with trastuzumab.
Việt Nam tăng trưởng nhanh nhất khu vực Nam và Đông Nam Á về công bố khoa học
Authors: AISDL
Published: November 2020

Việt Nam tăng trưởng nhanh nhất trong khi Singapore, Ấn Độ và Pakistan có tổng sản lượng nhiều nhất về kết quả công bố khoa học.
Influence of Structure Forming Components on The Viscosity of Oils
Authors: Al-Obaidi Sudad H , NI Guliaeva , VI Smirnov
Published: November 2020

In the oil industry almost all flow models have viscosity as an intrinsic variable. Many flow behaviours will be affected by the oil viscosity. In this work model oil systems were used to study the influence of paraffin wax and asphaltenes on the viscosity of oils. In these systems the content of paraffin wax varied in the range of 3.2–8%, and asphaltenes in the range of 1.2–5.2%. It was found that the viscosity of light oils changes slightly with increasing the content of asphaltenes or paraffin wax . It was also found that the viscosity of heavy oils increases with asphaltenes content growth and decreases almost twice with the increase of paraffin wax content.
Effects of Poor Workmanship on Building Construction and Its Implication to Project Management Practice: A Case Study in Addis Ababa City
Authors: Fromsa Alsen , Ararsa Woyesa , Quezon Emer
Published: November 2020

The construction of building structure involves very complicated undertakings. It requires a trained workforce at the design stage, approval process, supervision, and construction stages. Inferior quality of workmanship is one of the significant issues facing the workforce to perceive and apply the proper construction methods and techniques following the quality control assurance for building projects. This study considered some of the construction stakeholders participated in the implementation of projects in Addis Ababa City. It focused on assessing and investigating poor workmanship on the quality of projects that included concreting works to accessible ongoing construction sites across the study area. It involved determining the cause of low-level workmanship and identifying factors that would significantly minimize the problems and increase client satisfaction. The study comprised of 20 construction sites, of which 55 questionnaires were collected. The data collected are related to the challenges facing the construction industry and concrete quality as well. The causes and strategies applied to improve construction quality were analyzed using the study's variable. Results indicated that inadequate construction management represented a low level of workmanship and a lack of training rated first with RII of 0.9556. At the same time, the Workers' motivation was placed second with RII 0.775. Hence, it recommends close observation of construction management factors like supervision, training, motivation, and good communication on-site to minimize the cost and effects associated with poor workmanship when implementing building projects.
Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Examine How Visual and Tactile Cues Drive the Material-Weight Illusion
Authors: Naylor Caitlin Elisabeth , Proulx Michael , Buckingham Gavin
Published: November 2020

The material-weight illusion (MWI) demonstrates how our past experience with material and weight can create expectations that influence the perceived heaviness of an object. Here we used mixed-reality to place touch and vision in conflict, to investigate whether the modality through which materials are presented to a lifter could influence the top-down perceptual processes driving the MWI. University students lifted equally-weighted polystyrene, cork and granite cubes whilst viewing computer-generated images of the cubes in virtual reality (VR). This allowed the visual and tactile material cues to be altered, whilst all other object properties were kept constant. Representation of the objects’ material in VR was manipulated to create four sensory conditions: visual-tactile matched, visual-tactile mismatched, visual differences only and tactile differences only. A robust MWI was induced across all sensory conditions, whereby the polystyrene object felt heavier than the granite object. The strength of the MWI differed across conditions, with tactile material cues having a stronger influence on perceived heaviness than visual material cues. We discuss how these results suggest a mechanism whereby multisensory integration directly impacts how top-down processes shape perception.
Development and validation of the Beliefs about Revenge Pornography Questionnaire
Authors: Harper Craig A. , Smith Lorraine , Leach Jessie , Daruwala Neil , Fido Dean
Published: November 2020

Revenge pornography has become an increasingly prominent topic in social and legislative discussions about sexual crime, but has received relatively little attention within psychological research. Here, we leveraged existing theorizing in the area of sexual offending proclivity to systematically develop and validate of a measure of beliefs about revenge pornography. Using a large international community sample (N = 511) we found our ‘Beliefs about Revenge Pornography Questionnaire (BRPQ)’ to be comprised of three underpinning domains: ‘Victims as Responsible’, ‘Sociological Explanations’, and ‘Revenge Pornography as a Sexual Offense’. Concurrent validity is demonstrated through relationships with trait empathy, belief in a just world, dark personality traits, and rape myth acceptance. Randomly dividing the sample, we also show that the BRPQ predicts both revenge pornography proclivity (n = 227) and social judgements of this type of offending (n = 233). Implications and future directions are discussed.
Normative responding on cognitive bias tasks: Some evidence for a weak rationality factor that is mostly explained by numeracy and actively open-minded thinking
Authors: Erceg Nikola , Galic Zvonimir , Bubić Andreja
Published: November 2020

We conducted two studies with two goals in mind. First, we investigated the dimensionality of several prominent cognitive bias tasks to see whether a single rationality factor can explain a performance on these tasks. Second, we validated this factor by correlating it with a number of constructs from its nomological network (fluid intelligence, numeracy, actively open-minded thinking, conspiracy and superstitious thinking, personality traits) and several real-life outcomes (decision-outcome inventory, job and career satisfaction, peer-rated decision-making quality). Although in both studies one-factor solution was the most appropriate for our tasks, this factor (i.e., “rationality factor”) was weak and only able to account for modest portion of variance among the tasks. Across both studies, the two strongest correlates of this rationality factor were numeracy and actively open-minded thinking. We conclude that cognitive bias tasks are highly heterogeneous, having very little in common. What they had in common, however, was largely underpinned by abilities and dispositions assessed with numeracy and actively open-minded thinking. We discuss how our findings relate to the dual-process theories and offer our view on the place of rationality in a broader model of human intelligence.
Retrospective confidence judgments: Meta-analysis of fMRI studies
Authors: Martín-Luengo Beatriz , Zinchenko Oksana , Dolgoarshinnaya1 Aleksandra , Leminen Alina
Published: November 2020

The confidence in our retrieved memories, i.e. retrospective confidence, is a metamemory process we perform daily. There is a wide variety of applied research focused on this metamemory judgements and a very diverse studies including a wide a range of clinical populations. Yet, the neural correlates that support its functioning are not well defined. We used the activation likelihood estimation method (ALE) on the 18 eligible studies in the functional magnetic resonance imaging literature available on the topic. The main analysis of confidence revealed concordant bilateral activation in the parahippocampal gyrus, left middle frontal gyrus, right amygdala and right caudate. These activations support the involvement of a frontoparietal network in metamemory evaluations, and the requirement of the medial temporal lobe. Activations for the exploratory high > low subtraction analysis were also noticed in the main analysis on retrospective confidence, whereas in our exploratory low > high subtraction analyses showed distinctive activations of the right precuneus, previously attributed to low confident evaluations.
The object as the unit of interaction between visual working memory and visual attention
Authors: Chen Litian , Zheng Jiewei , Mengjiao  , Zhu Ping , shen mowed , CHEN HUI
Published: November 2020

This study aimed to determine the unit of interaction between visual working memory (VWM) and attention by examining two opposing hypotheses: (a) the unit of interaction is a Boolean map, a data format that can contain only one within-dimension feature (e.g., “red” or “circle”; Boolean-map-unit hypothesis) and (b) the unit of interaction is an object (object-unit hypothesis). In Experiments 1 and 2, participants held in their VWM one color, or multiple colors (two or three) that either came from one integrated object or separate objects, and then performed a visual search task that sometimes contained a distractor with a memory-matching color. Results showed that the VWM-driven attentional-capture effect triggered by colors from an integrated object was larger than that from separate objects. Moreover, surprisingly, the magnitude of the attentional guidance effect of multiple color representations from the integrated object was almost equivalent to that of a single-color object. Experiment 3 replicated the modulation effect of objecthood and demonstrated that it was not driven by different memory fidelity. Experiments 4 and 5 extended these findings by generalizing the effect to two features from different dimensions (i.e., color and orientation), and from different modules (i.e., visual and verbal color representations). These results suggest the objecthood of multiple representations could modulate their ability to guide attention, supporting the object-unit hypothesis. These findings have crucial implications for understanding the architecture of interactions between VWM and attention.
An Initial Investigation of Disrupted Intracortical Myelin as a Novel Brain Marker of Alcohol Use Disorder
Authors: Morris Vanessa , Minuzzi Luciano , Bock Nicholas , MacKillop James , Amlung Michael
Published: November 2020

Abstract: Although disruption of cortical gray matter and white matter tracts are well-established markers of alcohol use disorder (AUD), this is the first study to examine the specific role of intracortical myelin (ICM; i.e., highly myelinated gray matter in deeper cortical layers) in AUD. The current study used a 3T MRI sequence optimized for high intracortical contrast to examine patterns of ICM-related MRI signal in 30 individuals with AUD and 33 healthy social drinkers. Secondary aims included exploring continuous associations with alcohol problem severity and examining sex differences. Surface-based analytic techniques were used to quantify ICM-related MRI signal for a priori region of interest analyses (20 bilateral regions) and exploratory vertex-wise analyses (using Cohen’s d). Although the distribution of ICM-related signal was generally comparable between groups, the AUD group exhibited significantly (p<.05) greater ICM-related MRI signal in precuneus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate, middle anterior cingulate, middle/posterior insula, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and posterior cingulate, among other regions (Cohen’s d = .50-.75, indicating medium magnitude effects). Significant positive correlations between ICM signal and AUD severity were found in several frontal, parietal, cingulate, and temporal regions (rs .25-.34). No sex differences in ICM were observed. These findings provide initial proof-of-concept for examining ICM in relation to AUD. Understanding the pathophysiological mechanisms of these associations (e.g., neuroinflammation) and the clinical relevance of ICM is warranted.
Financial Literacy Education: Implication on the Economic and Social Life of the Teacher in Ghana
Authors: Matey Juabin , Duut Joseph Yennukua , Kombian Mensah Felix
Published: November 2020

Financial literacy education is a lifelong asset that every individual needs to function and fit well in modern-daysociety. It provides the financially savvy better decision making, best investment alternatives and family wellbeing.Unfortunately, most consumers especially in this part of our world appear relatively less active and less confident inparticipating meaningfully in the financial sector due to lack of knowledge about the complex nature of financialproducts and services and indeed the risk that goes with them. As a contribution in addressing this problem, thisstudy looked at financial literacy education and its implication on the economic and social life of the teacher in theUpper East Region of Ghana. With a descriptive survey design, 118 participants responded to questionnaires. Resultsshowed low levels of financial literacy among participants which can negatively affect their daily financialmanagement. It is therefore definite that the financially literate has the advantage to undertake prudent alternativeinvestment decisions and able to make informed retirement planning. Being financially illiterate adversely affectsone’s life in relation to the culture of savings, expenditure pattern, investment decisions and budgeting skills, makingthe individual economically insecure. The study has policy frontier implications; policy makers in the financial sector,governments, non-governmental organisations and equity owners are encouraged to come to the aid of consumers,especially teachers, by way of introducing professional teacher development programmes specifically tailored atuplifting their financial literacy knowledge and skills
The Interplay of Online Network Homogeneity, Populist Attitudes and Conspiratorial Beliefs
Authors: Cargnino Manuel
Published: November 2020

Social networking sites are suspected to impede the communication between members of different political camps and thereby increase network homogeneity, particularly in some rather extreme groups. This homogeneity can be a result of humans’ tendency to process information in biased, confirmatory ways – a characteristic which is also ascribed to populist citizens and those who hold conspiratorial beliefs. It is hypothesized that populist views and conspiratorial beliefs are associated to higher exposure to like-minded information within Facebook and that conspiratorial beliefs fuel this association. An online survey (N = 469) revealed that populist attitudes are positively associated to conspiratorial beliefs but negatively to homogeneity, while conspiratorial beliefs are unrelated to homogeneity. Findings are discussed in the light of research on online network homogeneity.
Security of Life (Acts 23:10): The Essence of All Security Agents. Appraisal of Security Agents in Nigeria
Authors: Ezeogamba Anthony Ikechukwu
Published: November 2020

This paper sees the security of life as the essence of all security agents in the light of Acts 23:10. This is studied in the context of security agents in Nigeria. Life guarantees growth, success, productivity and development in all its ramifications. Security gives assurance that something highly valuable like life will not be taken away. Any idea that such will happen introduces uneasiness, fearfulness, retardation in development, self-doubt, lack of freedom and vulnerability of all will always be imagined. In the context of Acts 23:10, the government agent and the security agents are highly proactive which means taking the initiative to protect rather than acting afterlife has been extinguished, hence, Paul's life was secured. The spate of kidnappings, killings and maiming going on in Nigeria today have in so many instances introduce hopelessness and fearfulness in the minds of all and sundry. This is to the extent that some people no longer visit their rural villages. These reveal that security agents are not proactive but react to events. This work aims at showing that a security agent has no other business except to save life first and every other discussion will follow after that. To unpack the ideas in Acts 23:10, the author used hermeneutics and textual critical method of exegesis. The work recommends, among other things, that security agents should be made to understand the value of human life, hence a living person can answer any charge, unlike a dead one. Significantly, this work will be relevant to the Nigerian Government and her security agents and indeed all Nigerians.
The New ‘Bond-age’, Climate Crisis and the Case for Climate Reparations: Unpicking Old/New Colonialities of Finance for Development within the SDGs
Authors: Perry Keston K.
Published: November 2020

In the current crisis period, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have provided a framework for establishing new norms about governance of and access to external development financing that emphasize stimulating investor interest and creating a suite of innovative instruments to address major development challenges. However, the inadequacies associated with extant financing streams are in sharp relief since they do not address damages and losses associated with the climate crisis. The current global configuration aimed at generating from “billions to trillions” of development finance are awfully mute on historical responsibility for the uneven and extreme consequences facing climate-impacted communities in the Global South. This paper interrogates the role of the SDGs, in particular SDG17, in both adducing financialisation as an evolutionary process, further extracting profit from racialized communities, and a source of instability in the global economy. It points to the manner in which the “trillions” deemed necessary are ostensibly mobilized in pursuit of financial returns to be made from climate disaster that generate further debt, dispossesses populations in the global south, and thereby ushering in a new era of “bond-age” and coloniality. Current development financing arrangements under the SDGs would increase the cost burdens and compromise the Global South’s capacities to democractically manage and meet their developmental needs due to accumulating losses and damage from major extreme climate-induced events. Loss and damage compensation for marginalised developing countries at the forefront of the climate crisis must therefore come from another source: climate reparations. Climate reparations offer an appropriate encompassing philosophical and policy apparatus for first understanding the magnitude of climate breakdown, and second for mounting a response to ongoing environmental harm in vulnerable countries that is centred on climate justice.
The Human Capital Peace Dividend
Authors: Prem Mounu , Vargas Juan F. , Namen Olga
Published: November 2020

While the literature has documented negative effects of conflict on educational outcomes, there is little evidence on the effect of conflict termination. We show how the permanent ceasefire declared by FARC’s insurgency during peace negotiations with the Colombian government caused a differential improvement on several educational outcomes in the areas affected by FARC violence prior to the ceasefire. This effect is not explained by peacebuilding and post-war recovery investments, and they are only partially driven by wartime child soldiering. Instead, we find support for other mechanisms such as the post- ceasefire plummeting of victimization and new economic opportunities in treated areas.
Lewacka sałata. Ekonomiczne aspekty weg*anizmu
Authors: Alicja Węcławiak Alicja
Published: November 2020

Wegetarianizm to – najkrócej rzecz ujmując – niejedzenie mięsa. Weganizm jest nieco bardziej radykalną opcją – to nie tylko niespożywanie mięsa, ale generalnie produktów zwierzęcych: jajek, mleka, nabiału, miodu. Są to stosunkowo proste definicje dla tych rodzajów diet. Problem zaczyna się jednak już wtedy, kiedy określimy wegetarianizm czy weganizm rodzajem diety. Wegetarianizm i weganizm nie jest więc jedynie związany z jedzeniem, można mówić tu już o pewnym stylu życia rozumianym przede wszystkim jako „rozmiary i forma konsumpcji”. W swoim wystąpieniu chcę prześledzić pobudki, jakie stoją za wyborem tego rodzaju diety – zdrowie stanowi jedną z nich – a także poddać refleksji nie tylko zdrowotne, ale także kulturowe aspekty weg*anizmu. Na rynku obecnych jest coraz więcej produktów wegetariańskich i wegańskich, z dużą częstotliwością powstają też nowe restauracje, a nawet lodziarnie czy fast foody, o ile nie całkowicie wege lub wega, o tyle włączające do swojego menu potrawy bezmięsne czy po prostu warzywne. Mnożą się wege fora i społeczności internetowe, kanały na YouTube oraz blogi z przepisami kuchni roślinnej. Wszystko to pozwala zastanawiać się, czy dieta wege/wega stała się czymś w rodzaju mody, która w niedługim czasie przeminie czy też przemawiają za tym także inne względy, a jeśli tak, to jakie.
Sztuka mięs(n)a
Authors: Sitko Agata
Published: November 2020

Sue Coe, angielska artystka, stwierdziła, że rzeź zwierząt uległa normalizacji, ponieważ została ukryta. Wystawione na półkach supermarketów zafoliowane kawałki mięsa nie przywodzą na myśl żywych istot. Mięso przeznaczone do masowej konsumpcji zostało odrealnione, natomiast w sztuce współczesnej znajdziemy przykłady procesu odwrotnego. Sztuka mięs(n)a stawia widzów w niewygodnej sytuacji, ponieważ to, co skrzętnie skrywa przemysł spożywczy (zabijanie zwierząt, krew, wnętrzności) dane jest im doświadczyć bezpośrednio. Wydaje się, że mięso w sztuce współczesnej umożliwia symboliczne odniesienie się do wielu kwestii. W swoim tekście chciałabym pokazać przykłady wykorzystania zwierząt/mięsa przez artystów, aby szokować i zderzać odbiorców z Realnym, a także zadawać im pytania natury etycznej.
Kraina mięsa
Authors: Coetzee John Maxwell
Published: November 2020

Artykuł "Kraina Mięsa" jest pierwszym polskim tłumaczeniem eseju Johna Maxwella Coetzee'go "Meat Country" opublikowanego w 1995 roku przez czasopisma Granta.
David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach (red), Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity
Authors: Wylężek Ewa
Published: November 2020

Nota krytyczna poświęcona książce: Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity pod redakcją Davida Bradshawa, Laury Marcus i Rebekki Roach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2916.
Lech Witkowski, Humanistyka stosowana. Wirtuozeria, pasje, inicjacje. Profesje społeczne versus ekologia kultury (Nota o książce)
Authors: Jędrzejko Paweł
Published: November 2020

A critical note on Lech Witkowski's book Humanistyka stosowana. Wirtuozeria, pasje, inicjacje. Profesje społeczne versus ekologia kultury. Wydawnictwo Impuls i Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu w Dąbrowie Górniczej, Kraków 2018. Hard cover, 790 pages.
ER(R)GO nr 38 (1/2019) - dyskursy weg(etari)anizmu
Authors: Er(r)go Redakcja w
Published: November 2020

Pełny numer ER(R)GO nr 38 (1/2019) - dyskursy weg(etari)anizmu.
Strona tytułowa i spis treści
Authors: Er(r)go Redakcja
Published: November 2020

Strona tytułowa i spis treści numeru
Krytyczne retro a kształtowanie pamięci zbiorowej w kinie amerykańskim XXI wieku
Authors: Włodek Patrycja Ewa
Published: November 2020

Jednym z aspektów retromanii jest przywracanie/konstruowanie pamięci o minionych epokach we współczesnej popkulturze. W tekście dominuje spojrzenie na krytyczne retro w kinie amerykańskim XXI wieku jako na sposób, w jaki filmowe środki wyrazu są wykorzystywane do budowania określonego wyobrażenia o relatywnie nieodległej przeszłości i konstruowania obejmującej ją pamięci zbiorowej. Znaczenie ma to, w jaki sposób pamięć zbiorowa jest wytwarzana i przechowywana w wytworach kultury, także w kinie, twórcy krytycznego retro posługują się bowiem zestawem wyrazistych, rozpoznawalnych strategii, takich jak – między innymi – samoświadomość wizualna, cytaty intertekstualne, stosowanie oswojonych konwencji do wypełniania luk w narracjach (i w pamięci). Co istotne, robią to z wyraźną intencją budowania/ odzyskiwania pamięci i historii grup społecznych wykluczanych z tych obszarów we wcześniejszej kulturze dominującej.
Niepamięć operacyjna. Dyskursy pamięci, zapomnienia i post-pamięci w rozrywce interaktywnej
Authors: Gnat Tomasz
Published: November 2020

W niniejszej pracy podejmuję się analizy narzędzi, które wykorzystywane są, by usprawnić procesy pamięci w grach wideo. Dyskusję otworzy przyjrzenie się metodom stosowanym przez twórców gier, by pogodzić antytetyczne nurty dyskursu – strukturalną narrację i interaktywną naturę medium. Analizie poddane zostaną zarówno klisze narracyjne w postaci trop amnezji, jak i nowatorskie techniki, które wykorzystują narzędzia charakterystyczne dla rozrywki interaktywnej.
W drugiej części przedstawione zostaną perspektywy na specyficzną rolę pamięci nie tylko w kwestiach narracyjnych, ale również w aspektach gier jako medium. Tutaj przede wszystkim analizowane będzie wyjście poza tradycyjne postrzeganie pamięci, przejście od bazy danych do interaktywnego procesu, prowadzące do konstrukcji nowych form i mechanizmów narracyjnych. Badane będą takie zjawiska jak tworzenie się pamięci zbiorowej i pamięci transaktywnej w subkulturach rozrywki interaktywnej.
Jednym z podstawowych założeń tej analizy będzie teza, że w porównaniu do narracji tradycyjnych, w grach wideo znacznie ważniejszą rolę odgrywają procesy niepamięci, zapomnienia i post-pamięci, rozumianej jako wypadkowa poprzednich pojęć. Taki sposób reinterpretacji wspomnień będzie w dużym stopniu kształtował naszą percepcję pojęcia temporalności w rozrywce interaktywnej. Będzie wymagał odejścia od tradycyjnej perspektywy czasu i przejście do interpretacji czasu z perspektywy Bergsona i Deleuze.