bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A snapshot sample on how COVID-19 impacted and holds up a mirror to European water education
Authors: Fischer Benjamin M. C. , Tatomir Alexandru
Published: February 2022

Abstract. COVID-19 caused in many ways a disruption, not only in society but also in education/ teaching hydrology and water related sciences. Taking part in an academic teaching training course at Uppsala University during COVID-19 we got curious about how COVID-19 might impact European water education. The aim of this paper is to communicate the results and reflect on how teaching of hydrology and water related sciences changed due to COVID-19. We observed that overall water education changed throughout Europe due to COVID-19. A literature review of the common teaching techniques in the field and our survey indicate that hydrology educators use preponderantly conservative teaching styles, i.e., classical lectures and therefore these were rather easily moved online during the pandemic. Overall, the COVID-19 crisis impacted student learning negatively (reported by 67 % of the respondents) while only 16.7 % responded that the impact was positive. The online interaction made it more difficult for the teachers to assess the achievement of the learning outcomes. As most of the respondents (i.e., > 40 %) reported that they do not use classroom assessment techniques, the students’ performances and whether students reached their learning outcomes during distance teaching was largely unknown. Most affected learning activities were the ones that could not be moved to online teaching, such as laboratory and field work. Hence, the important knowledge of process understanding in hydrology will be missing for generations of hydrologists. In this way COVID-19 caused a secondary effect on society which needs skills to solve the future challenges e.g., water management in a changing climate. Next to all negative aspects, also a spirit of optimism, time of change and community initiatives could be noticed. COVID-19 made it possible to explore, improvise and using novel teaching methods which could be used to modernize education and make practical and “exotic” teaching formats accessible for all hydrology and water students.
An improved regional coupled modeling system for Arctic sea ice simulation and prediction: a case study for 2018
Authors: Yang Chao-Yuan , Liu Jiping , Chen Dake
Published: February 2022

Abstract. The improved and updated Coupled Arctic Prediction System (CAPS) is evaluated
using a set of Pan-Arctic prediction experiments for the year 2018. CAPS is
built on the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF), the Regional Ocean
Modeling System (ROMS), the Community Ice CodE (CICE), and a data
assimilation based on the local error subspace transform Kalman filter. We
analyze physical processes linking improved and changed physical
parameterizations in WRF, ROMS, and CICE to changes in the simulated Arctic
sea ice state. Our results show that the improved convection and boundary
layer schemes in WRF result in an improved simulation of downward radiative
fluxes and near-surface air temperature, which influences the predicted ice
thickness. The changed tracer advection and vertical mixing schemes in ROMS
reduce the bias in sea surface temperature and change ocean temperature and
salinity structure in the surface layer, leading to improved evolution of
the predicted ice extent (particularly correcting the late ice recovery
issue in the previous CAPS). The improved sea ice thermodynamics in CICE
have noticeable influences on the predicted ice thickness. The updated CAPS
can better predict the evolution of Arctic sea ice during the melting season
compared with its predecessor, though the prediction still has some biases
at the regional scale. We further show that the updated CAPS can remain
skillful beyond the melting season, which may have a potential value for
stakeholders to make decisions for socioeconomic activities in the Arctic.
Decision -Making Quality as a Mediating Variable between Knowledge Management Operations and Creative Behavior: An Applied Study on Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Palestine
Authors:   Department of business administration, Al Aqsa University, Palestine, Alsayed Alaedin K. , Aqel Sahar A. ,   Al-Shifa Medical Complex
Published: February 2022

The goal of the research was to determine the function of decision-making quality as a mediating variable in the relationship between knowledge management operations and creative behavior among employees at Palestine’s Al-Shifa Medical Complex. The study employed a descriptive analytical technique, in which a questionnaire was issued to a random sample of (250) Al-Shifa Medical Complex employees, with (239) questionnaires being suitable for analysis. The study discovered that knowledge management activities have a statistically significant impact on both creative behavior (as a dependent variable) and decision-making quality (as a mediating variable). The quality of decision-making also had a statistically significant impact on innovative behavior. According to the findings, the quality of decision-making plays a partial intervening mediating role in the relationship between knowledge management operations and creative behavior.
The Termination of Indefinite Labor Contract by The Employer According to The Palestinian Labor Law
Authors:   College of Law, Arab American University - Palestine, Wahab Abu Zeineh Ahmad Abdel
Published: February 2022

This research deals with the termination of indefinite labor contract by the employer as per the Palestinian Labor Law No. 7 of the year 2000. The latter law provides the employer certain privileges allowing him to terminate the contract unilaterally. The availability of one of these reasons makes the employment termination decision on the part of the employer admissible and legal.These reasons are mentioned mainly in Articles (40) and (41) of the Palestinian Labor Law. Article (40) permits dismissal of an employee without short notice, if he/she commits any of the violations mentioned in this article, while Article (41) permits dismissal for technical or economic reasons. Additionally, the employer can benefit from two more articles; viz. article (38) and articles (103/2), to fire the employee. However, this law did not explicitly clarify whether these reasons were mentioned as examples or exclusively, which led to conflicting rulings of the Palestinian High Court in this regard. Furthermore, we discuss the possibility of employee dismissal in the internal regulations of firms that have been approved by the Palestinian Ministry of Labor, albeit not being listed in the Palestinian Labor Law.
Training statistics graduate students in ethics, reproducible research, and other best practices
Authors:   University of Iowa College of Public Health, Dawson Jeffrey
Published: February 2022

Graduate students in many fields are required to receive formal training in scholarly integrity. Some institutions offer general courses to address this need, but statistics students may benefit from training more specific to the discipline. We have developed a “Scholarly Integrity in Biostatistics” course, which addresses the competencies mandated by several U.S. funding agencies, while emphasizing the key roles that statisticians have in collaborative research. The course meets one hour per week, and its topics include student/mentor relationships, communication skills, gender bias, conflict resolution, authorship, human and animal subjects’ issues, statistical review of manuscripts, plagiarism, copyright laws, conflicts of interest and commitment, reproducible research, and publication bias. Course credit and grades are based on attendance, class participation, short writing assignments, and a term project. The course has been offered four times, and has been received favorably by the students and by the administration.
Embedding data manipulation in statistics education
Authors:   Maseno University, Musyoka James , Lunalo John ,   African Maths Initiative, Garlick Cathy ,   University of Reading, Ndung’u Steven ,   African Maths Initiative, Stern David ,   University of Reading, Parsons Danny ,   University of Oxford, Stern Roger ,   University of Reading
Published: February 2022

University courses in statistics in many African countries are dominated by data analysis. This is just one component of the subject and students therefore lack knowledge on many important practical laboratory work components. Here we consider how data collection and data entry can be included in training courses. The next important stage of preparing the data, so it is ready for analysis is also considered. These stages, before data analysis, may use a combination of a spreadsheet, a statistics package and special software. Examples of each are considered.
Using internships to engage social science students in the practice and development of data skills
Authors:   University of Manchester, Brown Mark , Carter Jackie ,   University of Manchester
Published: February 2022

There is growing recognition that good (quantitative) data skills are an essential part of a graduates skill set in an increasingly competitive jobs market. This is the context for the UK’s ‘Q- Step’ programme, a strategic response to a widely reported shortage of these skills among social science graduates. This paper describes an initiative at the University of Manchester Q-Step Centre to pilot the use of internships as an integral part of quantitative training in the undergraduate curriculum, enabling students to apply and practice the skills they have learned in the classroom in a workplace setting. The internships involve students being placed on data led research projects with a diverse range of employers for eight weeks over the Summer. Now in the fourth year of the programme our evaluation is highlighting the potential of internships to help motivate and build confidence in the use of quantitative skills, with a number of interns going on to undertake data led dissertations and specialize further at postgraduate level.
Impact of big data on development of the curriculums of training statisticians in Ukrainian university
Authors:   Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Motoryn Ruslan , Motoryna Tetiana ,   Ukraine Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Prykhodko Kateryna ,   Ukraine Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Published: February 2022

In the Soviet era in Ukraine, theoretical subjects dominated in the education curriculum. Since independence, there have been profound changes in the higher education system of Ukraine. The system has adapted to the market model, with an increasing number of applied disciplines such as data mining, software engineering and data visualization. Courses should cover both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. Recently, one of the top requested areas at the information technology market is the processing of large data sets (Big data). Many leading universities of Ukraine, including Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, plan to establish courses of data mining, statistics, and data visualization. For now, however, universities do not have enough teachers. Therefore, under the scope of the Ukrainian Distance Education Project "Prometheus", in 2017 an online course on the Big Data will be launched. This paper will summarize the curriculum developed by the authors, in courses on Business Analytics, Software Engineering, Data Analysis, and Data Visualization.
Teaching a polling and survey seminar
Authors:   Oklahoma State University, Molnar Adam
Published: February 2022

Unlike countries where an honors degree requires additional work after a standard bachelors’ degree, honors degrees in the United States require specialized coursework during the initial degree program. Colleges value honors programs because they attract higher-performing students and donor interest. One way colleges attract students to honors programs is through small seminar-style courses on interesting subjects. Seminar courses are unusual for statistics programs, because seminars are characterized by in-depth readings and verbal discussion, not lecture or laboratory. The author was asked to create a specialized honors seminar course for fall 2016. Since the USA was scheduled for major elections in November 2016, a course was designed to learn about polling, surveys, and political applications of polls. The course had three goals - analyze statistical information about the 2016 US presidential election; plan and conduct a poll of campus students; and introduce a few mathematical tools related to politics and polls. Although all three goals were accomplished, class preparation was not simple. Since the campaign had high levels of discord and nastiness, including newspaper critique of polling organizations, the course had to maintain strict neutrality to prevent statistics from turning into politics. This poster will present verbal and visual highlights of the course, including a summary of recommendations for others considering a similar seminar-based offering.
Using the climatic menu in r-instat
Authors:   Maseno University, Musyoka James , Kogo Steven ,   African Maths Initiative, Parsons Danny ,   Supporting African Maths Initiatives, Clements Lily ,   Statistics for Sustainable Development, Kibet Shadrack ,   African Maths Initiative, Stern David ,   University of Reading, Stern Roger ,   University of Reading
Published: February 2022

Every African country has a National Meteorological Service (NMS) which provides short- term forecasts, provides seasonal forecasts, and holds historical climactic data. Historical data are used in many applications, including PICSA (Participatory Integrated Climatic Services for Agriculture). The PICSA project uses historical climatic data to support farmers and intermediaries. Analyses of historical data currently use a statistics package called Instat; this is soon to be replaced by the facilities in the new climatic menu of R-Instat. This poster focusses on the climatic menu of R-Instat, which includes daily climatic data on rainfall, temperatures, and sunshine hours, plus satellite data since 1983. Statistics education across Africa is still usually taught theoretically. Climatic data provides a rich set of opportunities to enhance learning in ways that are interesting to students. The poster mentions some ways to process this data using the climatic menu in R-Instat. We consider “events” such as the start, end and length of the rainy season, together with spell lengths and extreme rainfalls during the season. We also consider wind speed and direction, which can be presented as circular graphs and be related to wind energy.
Institutional Investors in China: Corporate Governance and Policy Channeling in the Market Within the State
Authors: Lin Lin , Puchniak Dan W.
Published: February 2022

The extraordinary rise of China’s economy has made understanding Chinese corporate governance an issue of global importance. A rich literature has developed analyzing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) role as China’s largest controlling shareholder and the impact that this has on Chinese corporate governance. However, the CCP’s role as the architect—and direct and indirect controller—of institutional investors in China has been largely overlooked in the legal literature.
This Article aims to take the first step in filling this gap in the literature by drawing on Chinese sources and fresh hand-collected empirical, interview, and case study evidence to analyze the meteoric rise of institutional investors in China. It provides a taxonomy of institutional investors in China and reveals how the market for institutional investors has grown and has become increasingly “atomized” as different types of institutional investors have proliferated. The Article reveals how the CCP has actively and gradually promoted the growth of domestic institutional investors, in terms of types and size, through the relaxation of policies and law reforms to improve corporate governance and stabilize the stock market, while limiting the influence of foreign institutional investors. It further analyzes all the Activist Campaigns undertaken by institutional investors in China and maps the network of government bodies, regulations, and tactics that the CCP has developed to directly and indirectly control State-Owned Institutional Investors (SOIIs) and Private-Owned Institutional Investors (POIIs) for the purpose of policy channeling.
This Article concludes by taking a step back and briefly considering what this examination of institutional investors tells us about China’s unique form of capitalism and system of corporate governance. It suggests that the rise of institutional investors in China has been strategically developed in a way to reinforce the CCP’s ultimate control over the financial system. However, contrary to what some conceptions of “state capitalism” may suggest, the CCP does not micro-manage institutional investors on a day-to-day basis. Rather, institutional investors normally function according to free-market forces and increasingly perform an important corporate governance role—with the CCP using its policy channeling in a targeted way to stabilize the market in times of crisis, execute important legal and market reforms, and to maintain calm in society during critical political events: what this Article termed as the “market within the state” for institutional investors in China.
Pathogenesis of diabetes and amino acid metabolism in patients with COVID-19
Authors:   Institute of Physiology and Sanocreatology, Republic of Moldova, Mereuta Ion , Strutinschi Tudor ,   Institute of Physiology and Sanocreatology, Republic of Moldova, Garaeva Svetlana ,   Institute of Physiology and Sanocreatology, Republic of Moldova, Leorda Ana ,   Institute of Physiology and Sanocreatology, Republic of Moldova, Postolati Galina ,   Institute of Physiology and Sanocreatology, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Among the pathologies that aggravate the course of coronavirus infection and give the most severe complications, diabetes mellitus is distinguished. Regardless of the pandemic, diabetes mellitus is a serious chronic disease, and the risk of death in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and concomitant type 1 diabetes mellitus is almost three times higher than in patients without diabetes. The article discusses the possible mechanisms of the participation of free amino acids in the pathogenesis of the development of coronavirus against the background of diabetes mellitus. It seems important to monitor the state of protein metabolism, with varying degrees of severity of COVID-19, within six months after the disappearance of its clinical signs.
The influence of low temperature of moderate stressor intensity on some indices of protein metabolism in lives in postnatal ontogenesis
Authors:   Institute of Physiology and Sanocreatology, Republic of Moldova, Balacci Sergiu
Published: February 2022

This paper presents the results of the study of the action of low temperature of a moderate stress intensity on the protein metabolism of calves in early postnatal ontogenesis to determine the parameters that can be used as a way to increase the resistance and adaptive capacity of animals to adverse environmental action. The values obtained from the studied indices of protein metabolism denote of the moderate increase in the immunoresistance and adaptive capacity of animals in the experimental group.
Dynamics of immunoglobulins, immunoactive amino acids, and glutathione in subjects with eco-morphological changes of the thyroid gland in the post-COVID-19 period
Authors:   Institute of Physiology and Sanocreatology, Republic of Moldova, Cebotari Anghela
Published: February 2022

This article describes the changes in the content of immunoactive amino acids, glutathione, and immunoglobulins in subjects with echo-morphological changes of the thyroid gland in the post-COVID-19 period. Immunoglobulins at subjects with echomorphological changes of the thyroid gland in the post-COVID-19 period had progressive dynamics depending on the study stages. Both the indices of immunoactive amino acids studied and glutathione at subjects in the post-COVID-19 period increased significantly at six months and 12 months, compared with the first month.
Book Review: The Infinite Game: Serving Students from an Infinite Mindset
Authors:   Nevada State College, Phillip LaMotte
Published: February 2022

“The Infinite Game,” by Simon Sinek, is a business book that is applicable to student activities. This book review intends to review the content of the book while directly connecting how the information applies to our work as student activities practitioners. As we rebuild our campus communities out of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, an opportunity exists to lead with an Infinite Mindset, and best serve students both today and into the future.
Despre efectul „tunel” și semiologia tranziției
Authors:   ", Anitoi Galina ,   Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu",   Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Tranziția nu se definește doar prin schimbările benefice așteptate de o societate întreagă. Deși considerată factor obiectiv de progres, necesar și iminent, care se înscrie în natura firească a lucrurilor, ea implică și numeroase piedici și dificultăți care afectează viața oamenilor. Prin costurile sociale, de cele mai multe ori inevitabile, pe care le solicită, fenomenul tranziției generează haos, incertitudine și suferințe, dezvoltând o adevărată simptomatologie. În articolul de față sunt puse în discuție așa-numitele „efecte adverse” („simptome” (Piotr Sztompca) ale perioadei de tranziție și impactul lor asupra mentalităților, percepțiilor și comportamentelor umane. De asemenea, sunt analizate, la nivel de personaj, reprezentările literare ale acestor repercusiuni.
Silviu Berejan – lingvist admirabil şi conducător ştiinţific onorabil
Authors:   ", Apetri Dumitru ,   Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu",   Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Academicianul Silviu Berejan, protagonistul articolului, e văzut de autor în câteva ipostaze: lingvist de marcă, conducător ştiinţific iscusit al cercetărilor de ordin filologic şi umanistic, promotor activ al limbii române în R. Moldova, personalitate sensibilă faţă de valorile cu adevărat ştiinţifice şi binevoitoare în relaţii cu creatorii lor.
Vecinătățile sintactice ale verbelor de acțiune (cu sens de creare, modificare, distrugere și deplasare a obiectului)
Authors:   ", Constantinovici Elena ,   Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu",   Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Articolul tratează aspectul sintagmatic al verbelor de acțiune fizică. În funcție de subclasă și de sensurile pe care le are, verbele din această clasă implică 2 actanți de bază – agentul și pacientul – cu rolurile respective. Pe lângă aceasta, printre vecinătățile sintactice ale acestor verbe figurează destinatarul și instrumentul (existent în structura de adâncime), precum și alte circumstanțe, de cele mai multe ori, facultative.
Subiectivitatea enunțării
Authors:   ", Cosmescu Alexandru ,   Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu",   Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Atitudinea față de subiectivitate în disciplinele umaniste contemporane este, paradoxal, una de ezitare sau evitare. Tendința este de a cerceta doar ceea ce apare drept „obiectiv”. Cu toate acestea, o abordare a limbajului care nu ține cont de ancorarea lui în subiectivitate ratează aspecte esențiale. În lucrarea de față, am propus o reevaluare a unui studiu clasic al lui Emile Benveniste și, pornind de la intuițiile lui și ale lui Oswald Ducrot, am oferit un exemplu de analiză a urmelor subiectivității într-un fragment de text, arătând modul în care luarea în calcul a subiectivității enunțiative permite o interpretare complexă și adecvată a enunțului.
Oameni și cărți de dincolo de Prut
Authors:   ", Margarit Iulia ,   Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti",   Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy
Published: February 2022

În comunicarea de față este evocat „un om de carte” din spațiul basarabean, filologul Galaction Verebceanu. Cercetător cu o excelentă pregătire lingvistică, interesat profund de vechiul scris românesc, a realizat studii de fonetică, morfologie, sintaxă, lexic pentru limba „veche și-nțeleaptă” din „Alexandria”. Parcurgerea cărţii i-a reţinut atenţia sub toate aspectele limbii pe care le-a cercetat îndeaproape. Dintre acestea, baza de referinţă a constituit-o compartimentul vocabularului, cel mai susceptibil de comentarii din punctul de vedere al frecvenţei şi răspândirii, dat fiind caracterul său arhaic. GV a întocmit un excelent repertoriu incluzând unităţile lexicale învechite, în prezent, mai ales ca semantism, conservate, sporadic, la nivel dialectal ori ieşite din uz.
Academic confrontations at the end of high modernity
Authors:   Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, Nicolau Felix
Published: February 2022

Academic novel is by definition a cultural enterprise, but it can properly surprise the hostility of an extremely hierarchical environment. Concepts, ideas and archetypes are preserved and melted in the literary substance even with the help of irony and pastiche. Or, better said, irony and pastiche are means of avoiding the hostility of a milieu blocked in stereotypes and snobbery. Kingsley Amis’s novel ”Lucky Jim” absorbs modernist cultural ingredients in order to demythologize them in a postmodern fashion. Anyway, it seems that the process of demythization implies the subsequent process of re-mythization. The cultural heritage is unavoidable in the last phase of postmodernism. In 1975 we can hardly speak about cultural aphasia. The individual with a postmodernist Weltanschauung plays the satirical role of the knight errant in search of falsified (dragonized) modernist mentalities and cultural options. This paper will analyse the risks and methods of demythization and the reverse process in an attempt to understand the cultural logic of antimodernist approaches.
Revoluția culturală din Occident: manifestări și tendințe
Authors:   ", Plamadeala Ion ,   Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu",   Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Comunicarea descrie sintetic originile, manifestările simptomatice și trăsăturile relevante ale revoluției culturale woke care a cuprins în ultimii ani democrațiile occidentale provocându-le nenumărate mutații și involuții către forme de iliberalism și totalitarism soft de sorginte neomarxistă. Sunt descriși principalii factori de radicalizare și accelerare ai transformărilor revoluționare, degradarea acestora în tendințe nihiliste de indeterminare și negativitate pură contra oricărei idei de organizare socială ierarhică, este evaluat rolul elitelor cognitive și conducătoare care sacrifică adevărul și libertățile în numele unei dreptăți rasiale și sociale utopice.
Tudor Palladi la 75 ani – portret enciclopedic
Authors:   ", Verejanu Dan ,   Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu",   Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Poet, traducător, eseist, critic și istoric literar, editor, Tudor Palladi, pe parcursul anilor de maturitate profesionistă, trece la o poezie metafizică umanistă, concentrat asupra puterii transformatoare a imaginației, preocupările sale imaginare fiind dintotdeauna luminoase şi reflexive. Iubirea eternă e evadarea metafizică a poetului Tudor Palladi. Prin poezie autorul își recuperează destinul. Registrul meditației sale are mari profunzimi sufletești, deține puterea de a conecta misterul sufletesc cu misterul cosmosului, a universului infinit, cu Puterea Divină.
Learning Anxiety of Undergraduate Students during COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Phanchamlong Kittiphong , Manee Kullasatree , Watwiset Nuttapong , Nuangchalerm Prasart , Prachagool Veena
Published: February 2022

As we known the pandemic situation leads our social activity and learning practices changes, Online learning is the alternative choice for engaging students to classroom, but it is necessary may be students and teachers are unfamiliar with uncommon situation. The purpose of this research was to study learning anxiety of undergraduate science students during COVID-19 pandemic. The informants are 107 undergraduate science students enrolled course in the first semester, academic year 2021. The research instrument is developed as learning anxiety questionnaire which consisted aspect of time, instruction, and online communication. Descriptive statistics are employed for data analysis, data is interpreted by mean and standard deviation to explain level of learning anxiety. Finding showed that science students had leaning anxiety in aspect of time, instruction and online communication are at the high level. It indicated students are unfamiliar with virtual or online classroom, but they need to adapt themselves to learn and survive with this period of uncommon learning. This situation needs instructional practices through flexible learning and suitable effective ways for helping students achieve in their potential learning.
Revisión de los principales manejos ortodónticos interceptivos y correctivos no quirúrgicos de la maloclusión clase III
Authors: Caro María , Awuapara Shereen
Published: February 2022

La maloclusión clase III se considera un reto en la práctica de todo ortodoncista. Una de las principales dudas al respecto reside en ¿cuándo es el mejor momento para intervenir? Existen dos enfoques en el manejo ortodóntico del paciente: 1) la ortodoncia interceptiva; y 2) la ortodoncia correctiva. La ortodoncia interceptiva busca la prevención del establecimiento de la malolcusión. En este grupo, se encuentra el uso de máscara facial con disyunción maxilar y el de aparatología fija (2x4 o 2x6). Por otro lado, la intervención correctiva hace referencia al camuflaje de las características que trae consigo la maloclusión clase III ya establecida; dentro de este enfoque se encuentran las extracciones de piezas, el uso de minitornillos extraalveolares y la filosofía MEAW. Se puede concluir que el adecuado manejo de la maloclusión clase III radica en el oportuno y correcto diagnóstico, que debe realizarse a través de la minuciosa inspección de las características y hallazgos intra y extraorales de los pacientes.

Palabras clave: Maloclusión de Angle clase III, ortodoncia correctiva, ortodoncia interceptiva.
長照人才的培育－永信社會福利基金會的長照職能分級與培訓制度簡述
Authors: Ruei-Jhen Huang 黃瑞臻
Published: February 2022

本文旨在說明永信社會福利基金會的長照職能分級與培訓制度。本單位的人力資源發展策略是以兩大主軸為主：第一個是對內建立自律以及互信的團隊氛圍，第二是對外持續深耕社區網絡。團隊氛圍的營造主要有五項作法：作業流程、薪酬制度、員工權益與支持系統、培力制度、輪調機制。最後，退場機制也是讓組織發展往前邁進的重要關鍵。

 

This article aims at explaining the long-term care competency and cultivating system of Yungshin Social Welfare Foundation. The human resources strategy of this institution include two items: the first is self-discipline and mutual dependence of inner group, and the second is the deep cultivation of outer social community networks. The building of inner group solidarity includes five items: work procedure, compensation system, employee rights and supporting systems, cultivation system, and job rotation. Finally, withdrawal mechanism is also a key mechanism for institution development.

 
LA CERAMICA A VERNICE NERA DAL TOFET DI MOZIA: ATTESTAZIONI E IMPLICAZIONI SOCIO-ECONOMICHE NEL PERIODO POST-DIONIGIANO
Authors: Melis Ilenia
Published: February 2022

The aim of this study is examining the Black Glazed Potteryof theTophet of Motya dating tothe 4thcentury BC. The analysis of the potteryrepertoire is twofold: it allows to understandthe meaning of the utilization of the Greek importsduring therituals, and it gives theopportunity for a reconsideration of the spread of Attic imports in Western markets and the role ofMotya in these trades during the 4thcentury BC
Examination of the contributions of educational stakeholders in ensuring secondary schools’ safety in Southern Kebbi State, Nigeria
Authors: Sabo YA  , Sanchi ID  , Ndidi E  , Adamu N  , Alhassan YJ
Published: February 2022

The study examined the contributions of educational stakeholders in ensuring secondary schools safety in southern kebbi state, Nigeria. School safety is what makes an individual student feel comfortable, accepted, associated, and integrated freely within the school environment and use all aspects of the school in other to achieve perfect learning. And to achieve this, the school environment must be designed to accomplish this purpose. All educational stakeholders’ action, interest and effort are expected to create desirable school safety. Similarly, their inaction can result in schools been unsafe, in terms of social, academic and the environment which can easily affect learning, teaching, discipline, trust and undermine the manifest goals of the school and its activities. Four research questions and four objectives were used to guide the study which examined the views and roles played by educational stakeholders in ensuring school safety. Three theories were highlighted as follows: the theory of safety, the sociological theory and the theory of trust which was what the researcher based his work on. The study adopted a descriptive survey, the population of the study, for students were 1, 2761, teachers constituted 631 while parents formed 80 respondents and Zonal Education Boards Members were 15. The instrument used for data collection was checklist and interview. The interview was recorded, transcribed and used according to the frame to code the data and link them to different themes. And for the checklist, alpha Cranach was used to determining the reliability index of the instrument, through personal visitation of the researcher. Data were collected and analyzed using frequency distribution count, tables and percentage. The results of the study revealed among others, that educational stakeholders contributed substantially in promoting schools safety in the study area through financial contributions to erect school fence, provision of school facilities and their maintenance, addressing the issue of overcrowded classes, provision of Guidance and Counseling services and first aid boxes etc. It is recommended that School authorities should provide ways in which students can report any unwanted behavioral acts, that may hinder the safety of the school, for example by providing a student suggestion box, for the students to lay complaints and make suggestions, the student needs to be included in the PTA meetings so that they too, can contribute their quota, or here their complaints, also parents and community members should be enlightened on the importance of attending PTA meetings.
Adoption intensity of climate smart agricultural practices in arabica coffee production in Bududa District
Authors: Abdullahi Faisal Salad  , Simon Zziwa  , David Talengera  , Lydia Nabatanzi  , Olivia Makumbi  , Vivian Najjuma  , Marveen Nafula
Published: February 2022

Uganda is one of the largest producing and exporting countries of coffee in the world and second in Africa, but it continues to experience significant impacts of climate change, including erratic rainfall variability and environmental degradation. This research investigated the determinants of adoption intensity of Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices in Arabica coffee production in Bududa district. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted to collect data from 117 respondents, where face to face questionnaire were used to collect the quantitative data of the study. Descriptive statistics such as frequency count and percentages were used to characterize coffee farmers. Tobit regression model was used to assess determinants of adoption intensity of CSA practices. Results showed that majority of the farmers (67.3%) hardly obtained any credit and majority of them (64.5%) never had access to extension services. Majority of the respondents highly adopted the use of shades (71.7%), CBI (76%), mulching (61.5), organic fertilizer (89%), contour trenches (58.9), cover crops (84.6), and stumping (55.5). Tobit regression analysis revealed that farmer’s level of education, access to extension services and marital status showed a positive and significant (P≤0.01), (P≤0.01), and (P≤0.05) influence on adoption intensity of CSA practices, respectively. Years of farming, access to credit, farm size, and farmer’s age showed a negative relationship with adoption intensity of CSA practices. In conclusion, the government of Uganda should intensify extension of adoption of CSA practices among coffee farmers.
Empirical Analysis of Ethics Integration and Online Learning in Auditing Course on Ethical Decision Making: Further Evidence from Indonesia
Authors: Suryaningrum Diah Hari , Timur UPN Veteran Jawa , Subroto Bambang , Rahman Aulia Fuad
Published: February 2022

Whether ethics should be taught and how it should be taught has been questioned by accounting professionals, researchers, and teachers. This experimental study attempts to answer the question and gives further evidence of the beneficial impact of teaching ethics. Participants are sixty students of professional accounting program in the first semester. Ethical decision making was measured using multidimensional ethical scale (MES) that has been used to measure attitudes related to justice, relativism, egoism, contractualism, and utility. MES also allows participants to provide explanation for their moral orientation in making decision. We also construct a ratio scale of participants’ confidence to measureethical decision making. The scales are from 10 to 100 percent to answer question whether they believe that decision made was an ethical decision. Using 2x2 factorial experimentaldesign and analysis of variance, this study proved that interaction of ethics integration andlearning method of online technology has positive impact on participants’ moral orientation. On the contrary, participants’ confidence level in making ethical decision is not related to ethics integration, but influenced by ethics integration and learning methods. These resultsindicate that ethics teaching can influence character and ability of participants’ moral orientation, but when making ethical decision, their confidence level in making ethical decision depend on circumstances faced.
Investigating Cloud Computing Adoption Reluctance Among Small Financial, Healthcare, and Leisure Industries in the United States
Authors: Talib Ayman , Shaban Jamal
Published: February 2022

This study aims to explore the factors that hinder small organizations in the United States from adopting cloud computing. The study focused on extending the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to include the external variables that can have an impact on small organizations’ decisions when adopting the cloud technology. This study focused on small organizations from three service sectors, financial, health care and leisure. An Internet based survey was sent out to 131 participants who were conveniently sampled with an attempt to collect information about their concerns of the cloud technology. The findings indicate that small organizations are not adopting the cloud technology due to five main factors: security, compliance, service level agreement, business continuity and contract lock-in.
Macrobenthic Community Structure During Fallow Season in Kole Paddy Fields, Northern Kerala, India
Authors: Vineetha S
Published: February 2022

Despite the recognized contribution of benthic fauna in nutrient enhancement, very little information isavailable from Indian paddy fields. This study analyzed the benthic community structure during fallow seasonin Kole paddy fields, a part of Vembanad Kole wetlands (a Ramsar site), Northern Kerala, India. Study area during fallow season was characterized by isolated water patches amidst of terrestrial vegetation (grass). Themacrobenthic fauna belonged to the phyla Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca and families Tubificidae, Naididae,Chironomidae, Ceratopogonida, Chaoboridae, Ceratopogonidae, Gyrinidae and Bithynidae. These organismspossessed various survival mechanisms that ensured their survival against dry periods. Insects were the majorbenthic organisms; the habitat fragmentation due to isolated distant water patches during fallow season favoredinsect taxa more due to their active/flight mode of dispersal compared to oligochaetes which are benthiccrawlers. Macrobenthic abundance was less (166±60 ind./m2), attributed to reduced habitable area for benthosdue to habitat desiccation. A decline in abundance was apparent from January to June 2010, the beginning toend of fallow season except in April where the onset of rain after a dry spell made the dry area wet, therebymaking the inactive dormant forms of organisms live, resulting in an increased abundance. Diversity analysis of benthic families revealed that highest richness (d) of 1.235 was in March and diversity (H') of 2.603 was inMarch. No significant correlation emerged between benthic abundance and the measured environmentalparameters, implying that the interaction of biota and physico chemical variables was overridden by some other unmeasured factors
Hipotecas Humanas Y LA Renta Permanente
Authors: José Villacís González
Published: February 2022

El consumo ha mostrado su correlación incuestionable con la renta, y Milton Friedman y Modigliani han mostrado y aumentado dicha correlación con su renta permanente. Aquí damos otra versión de dicha renta permanente mediante dos préstamos gigantescos a sectores de la población: hijos y ancianos, que no generan renta pero que la reciben y realizan gastos de consumo. Nuestra segunda novedad es demostrar que estos préstamos son hipotecarios, en los que la cosa que se deja en garantía para la devolución de la deuda son las mismas personas.
International Health in the Light of National Health act in Nigeria: The Critical Issues
Authors: Ogbonna Brian O  , Uzodinma Samuel U  , Okwuosa Ogechukwu L
Published: February 2022

Treaties and rapid developments in science integrate nations, and advances in technology havereduced the world into a global village. With an estimated seven billion global populationcoupled with high human traffic and movement of goods and services across borders, nationshave been at increased risk of disease outbreak and epidemics across borders which necessitatedfor disease surveillance, prevention, management and control through corporation between nations at the borders. With the introduction of the national health act in Nigeria in 2014, thefederal ministry of health was charged with the responsibility of ensuring and promoting theprovision of Quarantine and Port Health Services. This article assessed the fundamental issues insuccessful port health services.
Leadership and Transformative Change Management Relations in Nigeria: The Problems and Prospects
Authors: Nwele  , James Obasi  , Uruakpa  , Gospel Chiagoziem
Published: February 2022

This study examines the impact of Chief executive officer’s leadership and transformative change management on organization and political societies. Societies and workplace grow more complex and the pace of change continues to accelerate and this lead to opportunities for innovative, confident leaders to make an impact through an organization’s or society’s most resilient resource which is its people or the workforce. It is a known fact that transformative leadership curbs bad attitude towards change. As a transformational development agent, the management of indices is complex. Just as it is no surprise that cynical attitude toward the prospect of change makes change harder to implement. Leaders are encouraged to inspire their employees and make them feel confident in their work as, with this, they have the best chance of limiting the development of such disabling attitude. Chief executive officers who engage in transformational leadership and change management should have a positive effect on organizational performance, or the society. In the hypothesis the author argued on 4 (four) contingencies that are particularly salient, which includes size or scope, status, tenure assessment, and value inclination of the society. That change management is concerned about a leader of change and his or her ability to recognize when change is needed and then get a crystal clear view of what is required to create the change supports the author’s argument on the hypothesis.
File System
Authors: Sahni Priyanka , Sharma Nonika
Published: February 2022

A file is a named collection of related information that is recorded on secondary storage such as magnetic disks, magnetic tapes and optical disks. In general, a file is a sequence of bits, bytes, lines or records whose meaning is defined by the files creator and user. In our research paper we’re going to focus on File Structure, File Type, File Names, Pathnames. File Structure - It is a structure, which is according to a required format that operating system can understand. File types also can be used to indicate the internal structure of the file. File Type – It refers to the ability of the operating system to distinguish different types of file such as text files, source files and the binary files etc .Many Operating system supports many types of files .Operating system like MS-DOS and UNIX have following types of files:
An Approach to Rijndael Algorithm
Authors: Shiral J. V. , Deshmukh R. C. , Zade J. S. , Potnurwar A.
Published: February 2022

Rijndael or Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is the most secure symmetric encryption technique and is available in many different encryption packages. The AES based on the Rijndael Algorithm is an efficient cryptographic technique that includes generation of ciphers for encryption and inverse ciphers for decryption. High security and speed of encryption and decryption is ensured by various operations. It has been standardized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the United States (NIST) and comprises three block ciphers, AES-128, AES-192 and AES-256 and it is adopted from Rijndael algorithm. This paper presents a encryption and decryption process of the rijindael algorithm. The paper also explains the comparative study of various rijindael algorithms with other algorithms based on the various parameters.
Review: Privacy Preserving and Sensitive Data Hiding Methods
Authors: Tomar Sonu , Singh Piyush
Published: February 2022

Privacy preserving data mining deals with hiding an individual’s sensitive identity without sacrificing the usability of data. It has become a very important area of concern but still this branch of research is in its infancy .People today have become well aware of the privacy intrusions of their sensitive data and are very reluctant to share their information. The major area of concern is that non-sensitive data even may deliver sensitive information, including personal information, facts or patterns. Several techniques of privacy preserving data mining have been proposed in literature.
Port Scanning and Its Detection in Physical Network
Authors: Pandey Nitish G. , Thakur Roshan S.
Published: February 2022

The networking infrastructure is growing day by day and becoming more complex. With the increase in the networks, the number of attacks on these networks or some hosts in the network also increases. The main concern now-a-days is to provide network security. The attackers carry out various types of malicious activities in order to harm the system or to get some information. One of the techniques is port scanning. The attackers carry out scanning of various ports in order to gain information of about various types of services that are available. The attackers send messages to various ports and waits for an answer. This message helps to get information about various types of services that are present at all the ports. The network administrators also use port scan in order to check the system vulnerabilities. The port scan detection helps to know the IP address of the hosts that are doing the port scan in a network. The detection of these scanning activities thus becomes very important. The detection helps to take the necessary preventive measures after port scanning of the ports on a system is been detected.