bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Beyond BMI: Personality Traits’ Associations With Adiposity and Metabolic Rate
Authors: Arumäe Kadri , Mõttus René , Vainik Uku
Published: March 2021

Objective: Various personality traits are known to correlate with body mass index (BMI). However, this index of adiposity conflates adiposity with lean body mass and may therefore lead to biased estimates of correlations. Yet, rarely have studies looked beyond BMI to understand how adiposity and other physiological characteristics relate to these psychological traits. Methods: We calculated an improved measure of adiposity (relative fat mass, RFM), as well as basal metabolic rate (BMR); explored their associations with various personality traits; and assessed how personality traits’ associations with RFM differ from their associations with BMI. In a subsample of the Estonian Biobank (N = 3,535), we compared the five domains and 30 facets of NEO Personality Inventory-3 in how they correlated with RFM, BMI, and BMR. Results: Various traits, notably Openness to Experience and its facets, associated with RFM above and beyond BMI. An exception was Assertiveness which correlated more strongly with BMI, and also correlated consistently with BMR. BMI–personality trait correlations appeared to conflate personality traits’ associations with fat mass and lean mass.Conclusions: Because Openness correlates with healthier diet, this trait may link with lower adiposity through eating habits. The correlation between Assertiveness and BMR mirrors associations with conceptually similar traits in non-human animals and is consistent with the idea of personality traits being based in biological pocesses. Although the use of BMI can lead to both attenuated and inflated estimates of personality trait–adiposity associations, more correlations seemed to be underestimated than overestimated when using BMI.
Decoupled Rationalisation: Judicial Anticorruption and Fragmentation of Parliament and the Magistracy
Authors: Pârvulescu Radu Andrei
Published: March 2021

Anticorruption campaigns rely on a promise and ideal of rationalisation: public officials should–and will–behave in an impersonal, rule-governed, and ultimately predictable manner. So why do anticorruption drives often increase political and administrative chaos, instead of decreasing it? In this paper I address this puzzle by analysing the simultaneous effects of judicial anticorruption on both the legislative and judicial spheres. Using the case of Romania from 2005 to 2020, I first demonstrate that the successful drive to jail corruption politicians has increased legislative instability by causing waves of party switching, thereby perforating the political opportunity structure and making space for new, populist political parties. I then show how the new structures of judicial anticorruption have fractured the career lines of judges and prosecutors, while at the same time giving magistrates a reason to weaponise their growing professional heterogeneity as they struggle for control over the new and scarce professional resources brought by the anticorruption drive. This increasing complexity in both legislative and judicial spheres results in ever-growing discursive commitment to rule-following coupled with a decreasing ability to actually follow those rules as the set of veto players becomes increasingly unstable, an outcome that, following institutional theorists in sociology, I term “decoupled rationalisation.”
Most plausible 2005-2040 emissions scenarios project less than 2.5 degrees C of warming by 2100
Authors: Pielke Roger , Burgess Matthew G. , Ritchie Justin
Published: March 2021

Emissions scenarios used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are central to climate change research and policy. Here, we identify subsets of scenarios of the IPCC 5th (AR5) and forthcoming 6th (AR6) Assessment Reports that project 2005-2040 fossil-fuel CO2 emissions growth rates most consistently with observations from 2005-2020 and International Energy Agency (IEA) projections to 2040—71% of these scenarios project between 2 degrees C and 3 degrees C of warming by 2100, with a median of 2.2 degrees C. Though these IPCC scenarios do not represent all possible trajectories of future emissions and warming, and they assume continued mitigation progress, they do suggest the world is presently on a lower emissions trajectory than is often assumed. However, the scenarios also indicate that the world is still off track from limiting 21st-century warming to 1.5 degrees C.
Housing Supply in the Presence of Informality
Authors: Guedes Ricardo , Iachan Felipe , Sant'Anna Marcelo
Published: March 2021

We study housing supply in markets where informal housing is common. Using a combination of census and satellite data, we estimate housing supply for more than 90 metropolitan areas in Brazil. We find that widespread informal housing increases the housing supply elasticity, partially offsetting the downward pressure of geographical constraints. Our empirical approach is guided by a monocentric city model that includes informal housing. Our identification strategy relies on the use of two novel instruments, combining demographic data and public land ownership. We use the supply elasticity estimates to forecast the response of future housing prices to natural population growth.
Effect of dry cord care versus chlorhexidine cord care on cord separation time in healthy newborns: A comparative study
Authors: Basnet Rydam , Manandhar Sunil Raja , Bhatta Anwesh , Shah Rakesh Kumar , Basnet Ritika
Published: March 2021

Background:  Umbilical cord infection (omphalitis) is a major cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in a developing country like Nepal. Detached umbilical stump is an important colonizing site for different types of bacteria and it also provides direct access to bloodstream. Hence, inadequate cord care may lead to omphalitis as well as neonatal sepsis.

Objectives: This study aims to compare two different cord care regimens (dry cord care versus chlorhexidine cord care) on their cord separation time and the incidence of omphalitis.

Methodology: This is a comparative observational study conducted at the Neonatal unit of Kathmandu Medical College over a three months period (August 2019 to October 2019).  All newborn babies born between 37 to 42 weeks of gestation were enrolled. Randomization for dry cord care and chlorhexidine cord care group was done via computer generated numbers. Statistical package for social sciences 19 version was used for statistical analysis.

 

Results: Among 514 term babies, 256 babies were included in the dry cord care group while 258 babies were enrolled in the chlorhexidine cord care group. The two groups had similar baseline characteristics. The mean cord separation time in the dry cord care group was 7.70±1.2 days (range 3-15 days), whereas in the chlorhexidine group, it was 7.77±1.4 days (range 4-18 days). 

Conclusion: There was no significant difference between the cord separation times in dry and chlorhexidine cord care regimens. Both dry cord care and chlorhexidine cord care regimens were found to be safe and effective.
Use of indocyanine green fluorescence during hepatobiliary surgery
Authors: Maharjan Dhiresh Kumar , Thapa Prabin Bikram
Published: March 2021

Background: Indocyanine green fluorescence image has been used in hepatobiliary surgery, which was mainly started by Japanese surgeons to visualize hepatobiliary structures probably because it is regarded as a reagent for estimation of hepatic function.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to see the feasibility of use of indocyanine green in our setting during hepatobiliary surgery and its potential applications in the surgical treatment of benign and malignant liver pathology along with its selective use during difficult cholecystectomy to visualize extrahepatic biliary radical. 

Methodology: This is a prospective cross sectional observational study performed including all   consecutive patients who were posted for liver resection, both benign or malignant and selectively used in biliary surgery when biliary anatomy was uncertain. 

 

Results: A total of thirty-nine patients had usage of indocyanine green, with a mean age of 51.6 ± 11.6 years (range, 31-75 years). In all our patients we were able to visualize the biliary system and liver parenchymal lesion.In the selective use of indocyanine green during difficult biliary anatomy during laparoscopic cholecystectomy 15/400 (3.75%), we were able to delineate biliary tree and hence five patients (1.2%) had to be converted to open cholecystectomy further preventing injury to the bile duct.

Conclusion: Indocyanine green fluorescence imaging can be used safely and easily to identify liver tumors, hepatic segments, and extrahepatic bile ducts in real time during open and minimally invasive surgery. This allows surgeons to map the anatomical variations, status of resection margin and prevent surgical complications.
Reduction of blood loss after total knee arthroplasty by tranexamic acid
Authors: Sharma Sashmit , Rijal Kiran Prasad , Prasai Tanup , Poudel Amit
Published: March 2021

Background: Total knee arthroplasty is associated with significant peri-operative blood loss. Various studies have shown that the use of tranexamic acid reduces post-operative blood loss and need for allogeneic blood transfusion in total knee arthroplasty. 

Objectives: To assess the effect of tranexamic acid in the reduction of the postoperative blood loss in total knee arthroplasty.

Methodology: An analytical cross-sectional study was carried out in 14 patients who underwent primary total knee arthroplasty during the study period of 12 months at Kathmandu Medical College. Seven patients were allocated to the case group and received one gram (gm) of tranexamic acid thirty minutes prior to the incision and five hundred milligram (mg) orally three times a day till the drain was removed. Tranexamic acid was not given to the seven patients in control group. The haemoglobin of the patient was recorded on the day of surgery and the total amount of drain output was recorded on postoperative period until the drain was removed.

Results: Out of 14 patients operated, it was found that the average amount of drain in the patients in case group was 628 ± 234 millilitre (ml) which was significantly lower than the control group 1028 ± 183  ml (p<0.05). Though there was a difference in the amount of drain output, there was no significant change in the postoperative haemoglobin level in both the groups (p = 0.381). 

Conclusion: Tranexamic acid, an antifibrinolytic agent, can be effective to reduce blood loss in patients who undergo major surgeries like total knee arthroplasty.
Numerical simulation of fault development along NE-SW Himalayan profiles in Nepal
Authors: Chamlagain D. , Hayashi D.
Published: March 2021

We examined the state of stress in and around the Himalayan nappes via 2D finite element method using elastic rheology under plane strain condition. This paper describes how we used advanced numerical modelling technique, the finite element method to compute stress and fault as a function of rock layer properties, convergent displacement and boundary condition in the convergent tectonic environment. Interpretation of the calculated results remains somewhat ambiguous because of the limitation of elastic modelling, however, the results are still comparable with geological and geophysical data. Some interesting features of our models are: (1) compressive state of stress  in Himalaya; (2) effect of geometry of MHT on stress orientation; (3) the diffuse zone of failure elements along the flat-ramp-flat regions of the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT); (4) normal and thrust faults pattern in the vicinity of Main Boundary Thrust (MBT) and Main Frontal Thrust (MFT); (5) initiation of faults at depth and their propagation toward south under increasing convergent dis placement,  which is consistent with the sequence of thrusting in Himalaya; and (6) direct correlation of simulated fault patterns with geological evidences. Thus overall features of the numerical models are able to conclude that the mid-crustal ramp, MBT and MFT are the most active structures in the present day plate kinematics.
Tourmaline chemistry in the Miocene and Paleozoic granites, Central Nepal Himalaya
Authors: Rai Santa Man
Published: March 2021

Tourmalines are found in almost all the formations, from the Lesser Himalaya to the Tibetan-Tethys Himalaya. They are equally found in the Miocene and Paleozoic granites in Central Nepal. Aplite-pegmatite dykes and Miocene granite from the Higher Himalaya, Tibetan-Tethys Himalaya also contain the tourmaline.

The chemical composition of tourmalines from the Miocene granite, Paleozoic granite, and aplite pegmatites is presented in schorlite (Fe)-dravite (Mg)-elbaite (Al) diagram. The tourmalines from the granites are schorlitic (rich in Fe) in composition. No compositional variation between rim and core of the tourmaline in augen gneiss of the Formation III of the Higher Himalaya could correspond to the recrystallization of the tourmaline during the Himalayan metamorphism. The tourmalines from Manaslu and Chhokang granites can be evolved from Mg rich composition in higher temperature towards the Fe rich in lower temperature during the crystallization reflected by the XFe variation. Similarly, the composition of tourmalines is found to evolve from dravite (Mg rich) in the aplite-pegmatite dykes of the Higher Himalaya to schorlite (Fe rich) and elbaite (Al) in the aplite-pegmatite dykes of the Annapurna Formation of the Tibetan-Tethys Himalaya and Manaslu granite.

The aplite-pegmatite dykes intruded into the pelitic rocks contain Mg rich tourmalines while Fe rich tourmalines are found in calcareous host rocks. So, the composition of the tourmalines of aplite-pegmatites can not be controlled by the composition of host rocks, but it is indirectly controlled by the composition of fluid phase of magma.
Source rock potentiality of Ib-Valley Coals, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, Orissa, India
Authors: Guha Sonali , Singh K. N.
Published: March 2021

Rock eval pyrolysis is instrumental in rapid evaluation of maturation and source rock characteristics by providing vital information about the quantity, type and thermal maturity of organic matter. The Ib-Valley coal deposits have been characterized for their source rock potentiality and thus to explore the chances of their involvement in hydrocarbon generation.
Comparison of Totally Extraperitoneal versus Transabdominal Preperitoneal repair of inguinal hernias
Authors: Yadav Rohit Prasad , Gautam Manish , Koirala Ashok , Bhattarai Sameer , Shah Sachhidanand , Giri Pankaj
Published: March 2021

Introduction: Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair is a tension-free mesh repair that is based on pre-peritoneal approach of repair. It provides mechanical advantage to the surgeon, by being able to place a large piece of mesh and by using the natural force of the abdominal wall to disperse the intra-abdominal pressure over a large area to support the mesh. This retrospective study is aimed to study the demography of inguinal hernia and to compare operating time, complications and postoperative pain between patients undergoing Total Extrapritoneal (TEP) or Transabdominal Preperitoneal (TAPP) repair.Methods: A retrospective comparative study was conducted in patients with inguinal hernia who underwent laparoscopic repair by either TEP or TAPP, between April 2019 to July 2020 at Nobel Medical Collage Teaching Hospital, Biratnagar, Morang. Age, sex, type of hernia, duration of operation, post-operative complications, severity of pain and duration hospital stay were analyzed between two groups of patients undergoingsurgery by either TEP or TAPP.Results: One hundred and five patients underwent either TEP or TAPP during study period. There were 96 males and 9 females. There were 50 patients with right, 40 with left and 6 patients with bilateral inguinal hernia. Four patients had left sided irreducible inguinal hernia, 2 patients had bilateral recurrent inguinal hernia, 2 patients had right sided recurrent inguinal hernia and 1 patient had left sided recurrent inguinal hernia.There was significant difference in duration of operation (TEP 64.43min) / (TAPP 84.46min), p<0. 001. Total duration of hospital stay and postoperative pain were not significant between patients operated with TEPor TAPP. Accidental pneumoperitoneum was noticed in 8 cases, 10 cases of subcutaneous emphysema, 5 cases of seroma and 1 case of scrotal hematoma in TEP group. In TAPP group scrotal hematoma occurred in 4 cases and seroma in 5 cases which was not significantly different from TEP group.Conclusion: TAPP had significantly longer operating time as compared to TEP. However, there was no significant difference in post-operative pain and hospital stay in both group.
Surgical Safety Checklist: An essential tool to increase patient safety
Authors: Kattel Pramod
Published: March 2021

Medical practice without surgery cannot be assumed in the present context. Surgery is the need for individual and safety is his/her right. To increase the safety of the patient by overcoming medical errors, the WHOfirst introduced the Surgical Safety Checklist more than a decade back. It can be modified as per local needs. Its relevance is seen increasing day by day. When we hear about surgical errors, it is usually felt that it couldhave been prevented if the checklist were used properly. Teamwork and commitment is a must along with the proper definition of roles of each individual involved in the team. Surgery cannot be considered complete until the safe discharge of the patient is done. Many surgical errors can be prevented by its consistent use. Its use should come as a reflex rather than considering it to be a burden to the existing workload.
Access the Quality Service of Ganeshman Singh Memorial Hospital and Research Center
Authors: Gurung Milan , Thapa Narayan , Khadka Milan , Karki Tej Bahadur , Neupane Dasarath
Published: March 2021

The aim of this paper is to assess the quality of services in the Ganeshman Singh Memorial Hospital and Research Center, Lalitpur, Nepal, considering that the quality is a key parameter in performance evaluation. Patients are the main actors in evaluating and judging the quality, therefore this study is based on a questionnaire completed by 53 patients and visitors between January and February, 2020. The results show that services by the paramedical staff (OPD nurses) have the highest mean value (mean = 4.17) which is closed to the excellent performance of hospital whereas the lowest mean was 3.57 rated for the cleanliness of the hospital, including the reception area, OPD and surrounding area. Though, in average (mean = 3.77), facilities of Hospital were rated as ‘Good’ in total. Similarly, the cost of medicine was slightly expensive in comparison of other cost like consultation fee, cost of diagnosis and lab test and registration. The patients had rated the cost of hospital in totality as ‘Good’ status, which indicates that the total cost of treatment was affordable for the patient. With the necessary inputs from the patients and the attendants by pointing various drawbacks or deficiencies should always be taken care of by the hospital administration that will turn into a good result of improvement in the hospital services to the satisfaction of the patients.
Domestic Violence against Educated Woman: Registered Cases of Kathmandu District
Authors: Gyawali Sindhu
Published: March 2021

This paper attempts to explore the  severity of domestic violence experienced by educated woman of Kathmandu.The views presented in this paper are based on my research about theregistered cases of domestic violence against educated women. I have taken in-depth interviews with 14 women of Kalimati Woman Cell. Here I argue that domestic violence, the most heinous act is even found in educated woman and social acceptance of domestic violence is the primary cause for its prevalence and increase.  Moreover, I have taken only the registered cases and it is mostly the educated women who go to women cells to register the cases than the uneducated ones.Educated woman tolerate the pain of domestic violence due to prestige and honour of the family. Education provides knowledge and awareness and enlightens the mind of people. But women are still not awakened and have not been able to discard the perpetrators who have abused them. As violence remains within the home, it remains invisible and accepted as ‘normal’. It is the most shocking truth that,no matter what the educational status of women, women from everywhere face different forms of domestic violence.
Conscious and unconscious in the problem space attitude of students to physical education
Authors: Vrzhesnevska A. , Vrzhesnevvskiy I. , Lucashova I. , Rakitina T.
Published: March 2021

The challenges and risks to the human biological basis are related to the minimization of motor activity of the individual and the subsequent consequences of permanent hypodynamic. Regular use of physical exercises and loads in the modern information society is gaining new importance. Students, in theory, are aware of these risks and the positive impact of regular exercise on their body and life aspects in general. But this knowledge not always encourages a person to systemic efforts in the context of physical self-training. According to the authors, theoretical knowledge about physical development and improvement of the person’s motor function who has limited motor experience, enter into the cognitive dissonance with the whole list of contingent factors, such as laziness, phobias, negative emotions, etc. There is an assumption that in the area of physical activity, not only conscious cognitions occur, but also unconscious or partly-conscious, in mentioned above cognitive dissonance. The final choice is made by finding out the attitude to the perspectives of the state of one’s physical body and means of correcting unacceptable deviations of the personality in such a dissonance.

Goal if our research is to reveal existence and correlation of conscious and unconscious in problematic area of shaping of the attitude to the exercising. Proposed goal of the research determines usage of interdisciplinary approach. During the research we used complex of methods, among which are: evaluation of the literature and practical experience, questionnaires, methods of mathematical statistics, explication of personal logical systems. During the research theoretical diagrams and developments were checked in accordance with the results of the questionnaire. 272 freshmen of the National Aviation University took part in this questionnaire. Results determined that 28,6% of students would use conscious cognitions relatively to physical training, and 71,4% would use unconscious. Students in the process of final selecting of attitude to personal physical state, unconscious (not controlled), is one of the main influential factors.
Approaches to the organization of students’ training in athletics
Authors: Yefremenko Andrii , Shutieiev Viacheslav , Krainyk Yaroslav , Shutieieva Tetiana , Lenska Olha
Published: March 2021

The educational process of future coaches in sports requires the use of effective approaches to the organization of practical classes. Purpose. Finding ways to optimize the learning process of students in athletics. Methods: analysis of scientific and methodological sources; generalization; concretization. Results. Contradictions in the process of teaching athletics to higher education students engaged in various sports are identified, and ways to level them are presented. Conceptual approaches to teaching athletics were considered on the example of higher education students who are involved in various sports. Conclusions. Adaptation of educational concepts for players involves taking into account both the characteristics of physical fitness in relation to specialization, and the current level of physical fitness in relation to motor physical activity being studied. This will create an opportunity to harmonize these levels and allow for the formation of effective curricula. We believe that the previously acquired skills and features of sports specialization give players the opportunity to learn quality athletics sprint. Further research will be aimed at the applied application of the presented ways to optimize the educational process of higher education students in athletics. The organization of the educational process of higher education seekers should ensure the formation of a single educational space. The inclusion of the student in the process of forming this space takes place in practical classes and in the organization of independent work. Instead, the differentiation of the educational process should take into account the individual and group characteristics of higher education. The presented approaches allow to involve students in the educational process to a greater extent.
Corrective influence on the state of psychophysiological functions of students in physical education by by technologies of distance learning
Authors: Korzan T. , Smirnova L. , Pavlos A. , Zelikova T.
Published: March 2021

The article substantiates the organizational and methodological support of physical education classes for students of higher education institutions by means of distance technologies aimed at the development of their physical activity in the school day. The article determines the didactic potential of such technologies in creating an experimental program of physical education of students. The purpose of the study is to analyze the state of psychophysiological functions of attention of students of the main medical groups under the influence of the experimental program of physical education by means of remote technologies. Research methods: general scientific methods of theoretical level: analysis and synthesis, and methods of obtaining empirical data: pedagogical experiment, pedagogical testing, methods of mathematical statistics. The state of psychophysiological functions of attention of students of the basic medical groups in the course of practical introduction of the experimental program is empirically analyzed. Distinctive features of such a program are the gradual development of motor activity and differentiation on each means, methods of teaching; direction of physical activity; dosing of loads for each lesson; types and content of control, self-control. The program provided for the introduction of traditional and non-traditional forms of physical education and innovative modern means of physical activity. The use of the developed experimental program of physical education of students by means of remote technologies provided significantly (p from <0.05 to <0.001) higher result than obtained after using the traditional approach to the organization of physical education. Experimental verification showed the high efficiency of the proposed program for its implementation. at the end of the experimental verification of the proposed innovations, the students of the experimental group achieve significantly higher values in all studied indicators, compared with the students of the control group. Thus, the dynamics of mental capacity and cognitive functions during the course of classes in general demonstrated the advantage of students of the experimental group over the control in the development of psychophysiological functions. It is proved that rationally organized classes according to the experimental program of physical education in the conditions of distance learning allow to realize the educational process without negative consequences for the state of psychophysiological functions of students, but also contribute to the improvement of their condition.
Ensuring the priority of health care in the activities of the state
Authors: Maksymchuk B. , Lysyuk S. , Vyshnivska N. , Shaparenko I. , Myronenko S. , Lysogor L. , Sergeeva V.
Published: March 2021

The legal provision of valeological education of the future teacher is regulated by several national and international documents according to the hierarchical principle. Ukraine acquires rights, duties, and, most importantly, opportunities in the development of the authentic valeological space at all levels of political and social activity, gradually entering the world social, medical, psychological, and valeological community. In the state documents on education, considerable attention is paid to the implementation of a social request, a social order related to the search for new forms of training of a specialist in the educational and recreational field, who should perfectly possess the main and related professions, can solve the tasks of training specialists in conditions of competitiveness, integrativity, and intensity of activity. Now in our state, several laws stimulate the introduction of valeological education for the general masses of the population. Although in the Ukrainian legal field valeological issues are solved dualistically (as medical and extra medical, therapeutic and preventive, special and general), now there is every opportunity to make valeological culture a publicly available component of universal humanity. Naturally, the subject of reflection of various forms of social consciousness at different times was a person, his spiritual and/or physical perfection. So, within the framework of philosophy, as a joint foremother of the humanities and, to a large extent, the natural sciences, psychological, pedagogical, and medical theories of human health and existence developed.
The development of future teachers’ foreign language education in the context of the European Council strategic documents
Authors: Onishchuk Iryna , Petrova Anastasiia , Tonkonoh Nataliia , Partyko Neonila , Kochmar Diana , Vanivska Oleksandra
Published: March 2021

Among the main tasks of higher education defined by the National Doctrine for the Development of Education of Ukraine in the 21st century are the following: to form the necessary intellectual and moral basis necessary for future professional activities in the fields of education, science, culture and to form the qualities necessary for further professional development. Such qualities include global thinking; professional values and morals; cultural competence; functional literacy and professional universality; culture of communication; ability to apply knowledge in professional situations; responsibility, the culture of group interaction, social and professional mobility, ability to study for a lifetime, foreign language and sociocultural competence in a foreign language among students of humanities. Now foreign-language education in Ukraine is being reformed taking into account the achievements of European countries by such documents of the Council of Europe as: “Bilingual education: the main strategic tasks”, “All-European competencies in foreign language proficiency: study, teaching, evaluation”, “European language portfolio”, “Aligning language exams with All-European recommendations on language education”, “Strategic development program for Multilingual Europe 2020”, “Recommendations on pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures”, requirements for Euro-exams, etc. The ideas of the language policy of the Council of Europe are increasingly being implemented in our country: the number of languages is increasing; there is an increasing number of people who speak at least one foreign language; several foreign languages were started in secondary schools; the number of academic hours for learning a foreign language is increasing in universities; in some institutions of higher education, foreign languages are considered the second working language.
Relevance and prospects for the development of fitness boxing in the modern conditions of the functioning of the health-improving fitness system
Authors: Rybachok R.О. , Proczenko A. A. , Sukhanova G. P.
Published: March 2021

The significance and prospects for the development of fitness boxing in the modern conditions of the functioning of the fitness industry are shown. Adverse trends in the deterioration of the health status of the population of Ukraine require finding ways to prevent them. One of the main directions of improving society is the widespread introduction of various means and forms of physical activity recommended by the modern fitness industry. To increase the popularity of fitness classes and meet wide consumer demand, non-traditional sports for this form, such as boxing, are being developed and actively used. It was revealed that fitness boxing has confidently taken its place in the health fitness system as a form of martial arts and its popularity is growing all over the world. It is shown that boxing takes a leading place among various types of martial arts that are cultivated in fitness clubs in Kiev.

It has been determined that a fitness boxing is a popular and interesting type of physical activity that helps to maintain and improve physical fitness to the required level, allows you to master self-defense skills and increase self-confidence, helps to restore health in the treatment of serious illnesses and the formation of an active life position.
Features of using innovative technologies in swimming classes of students of higher education institutions
Authors: Khimich I. , Parakhonko V.
Published: March 2021

The article reveals the peculiarities of the use of innovative technologies in swimming lessons for students of higher education institutions. It is found that the development of a large number of swimming movements simultaneously by all methods of swimming first light, then sports and elements of applied swimming allows at the initial stage to choose the easiest way first and gradually move to complex. This reduces the duration of the entire period of development of swimming techniques. It is established that the use of innovative technologies in teaching swimming to students contributes to the formation of their need for a healthy lifestyle, increase their level of preparedness and functionality of the body.

Analysis of swimming programs used in higher education institutions shows that classes are usually built according to the traditional method with the parallel development of two similar in structure methods of rabbit on the chest and rabbit on the back. At the same time, the peculiarities of sex and age, interests, motives and needs of students, as well as individual features and tendencies to master a certain type of motor activity are not sufficiently taken into account. The organization of swimming lessons with young students in the mode of training, taking into account the above features, can significantly affect the formation of their need for a healthy lifestyle, health and prevent further deterioration.
Methodological approaches to epidemiological and immunological assessment of the state of adaptive immunity in athletes to acute respiratory viral diseases under the condition of the COVID - 19 coronavirus pandemic and high physical activity
Authors: Tsyganenko O.I. , Pershehuba Ya.V. , Sklyarova N.A. , Oksamytna L.F.
Published: March 2021

Insufficient adaptive immunity can significantly negatively affect both the health and sports activities of athletes, especially in the event of epidemics of acute infectious viral diseases and pandemic coronavirus COVID - 19. This is the basis for determining ways to assess the state of adaptive immunity in athletes under conditions of.

Objective of the study: based on the analysis of scientific, scientific and methodological literature and other sources of information to develop methodological approaches to assessing the degree of adaptation of adaptive immunity to acute respiratory viral diseases in the presence of pandemic coronavirus COVID - 19 and high physical activity.

Research methods: methods of theoretical analysis of scientific literature are used: generalizations, abstractions, formalizations.

Research results and conclusions: methodological approaches to the assessment of the degree of adaptation of adaptive immunity to acute respiratory viral diseases in the conditions of the COVID - 19 coronavirus pandemic and high physical activity have been developed. It is concluded that the developed methodological approaches can be applied in practice.
GOLD PRICE AND THE CHAOTIC GROWTH MODEL
Authors:   University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Nemanjina 6, 11081 Belgrade, Serbia, Jablanovic Vesna
Published: March 2021

The basic aims of this paper are: firstly, to create the simple chaotic gold price growth model that is capable of generating stable equilibria, cycles, or chaos; secondly, to analyze the local stability of gold price in the period 2001-2015; and thirdly, to discover the equilibrium gold price with Elliott wave logic in the observed period. This paper confirms the existence of the stable convergent fluctuations of the gold price in the observed period. Also, the golden ratio can be used to define the equilibrium gold price in the presented chaotic model.
LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF TV COMMERCIALS AND MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR ADDRESSING CONSUMERS
Authors:   ICT College, Zdravka Celara 16, Belgrade, Serbia, Kostić Silva , Slavković Ana ,   ICT College, Zdravka Celara 16, Belgrade, Serbia
Published: March 2021

Advertisements are unavoidable and ubiquitous. We encounter them on television and the radio, in newspapers and magazines, on billboards, in public transport vehicles and mailboxes, on mobile phones or on websites we visit on the Internet. The aim of this paper is to examine linguistic features and marketing strategies used by advertisers to attract and hold consumers’ attention, make them remember advertisements and encourage them to buy advertised products. This paper discusses the way advertisers, using the advertising discourse, manipulate consumers’ opinions, beliefs and behaviour. Starting from previous research of the advertising discourse, this paper shows the results of the analysis of the most important linguistic features as well as marketing strategies for addressing consumers used in TV commercials broadcast on four Serbian TV channels - TV Prva, RTS 1, TV B92 / 02 and TV Pink, from March 2016 to September 2019. The analysis is based on the theoretical principles of Critical Discourse Analysis.
IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS USING LEAN CONCEPT
Authors:   Faculty of Economics, University of Nis, Trg Kralja Aleksandra Ujedinitelja 11, Niš, Serbia, Novićević Čečević Bojana , Daraboš Jelena ,   Faculty of Economics, University of Nis, Trg Kralja Aleksandra Ujedinitelja 11, Niš, Serbia
Published: March 2021

Lean, as relatively new management concept, surpasses the traditional mass production and creating stockpiles of goods which have to be placed on the market, without analyzing the customers’ needs. The focus of lean is on creating the value that customers demand and forming the value streams which contain only processes and activities that generate that value and eliminating all types of wastes and non-value adding activities. Lean concept was founded in Toyota company i.e. in manufacturing system called Toyota production system. Nowadays, this concept has been implemented by many worlds known organizations as the crucial part of their production system, but also other supportive processes in the company. Application of the lean concept can significantly improve process efficiency, lead to drastic cost-reduction, improved quality of the products/services provided, but also can be a main factor of increased employees productivity and resource saving. Profitable and unprofitable health care organizations have determined business strategy and adjusted mission and vision of their path thus, they strive for resource optimization in the process of providing satisfactional level of service. Accordingly, the examination of possibilities in implementing lean concept in Health Care organizations, as well as analyzing executed techniques and performed activities in leading companies is more than justified. Health Care organizations can be characterized as complex systems with numerous participants and the need for strict coordination of activities in order to provide demanded value for the customers. Monitoring and measuring the performances on various levels and areas of accountability is highly valuable for the Health Care organizations. Regarding that, the subject of this paper will be indicating specifics of measuring the performances in Health Care organizations and possibilities of their improvement.
OPTIMIZATION OF INTENSIVE THERAPY IN PATIENTS IN THE ACUTE PERIOD OF COMA
Authors: Volkova Yuliya  , Deineko Maksym
Published: March 2021

When prescribing intensive care to an unconscious patient, it is important to determine the etiological factor of the critical condition. The distribution of patients by neurotropic or vasotropic mechanism of disturbance of consciousness is extremely important for successful treatment and prevention of complications. Determination of autoantibodies to brain tissue is an important diagnostic criterion for the adequacy of intensive care. Administration of substances with succinic acid and D-fructose-1,6-diphosphate sodium salt hydrate is pathogenetically determined in this category of patients.
HUBUNGAN KELUARGA SINGLE PARENT DENGAN KEMANDIRIAN BELAJAR SISWA DI SMA NEGERI 2 PADANGSIDIMPUAN
Authors: Ika Saputri Nor Mita , Huda Rahmad , Pulungan Sri Muliani
Published: March 2021

Permasalahan yang sering dihadapi oleh keluarga single parent adalah masalah anak. Keluarga Single parent selalu terfokus pada masalah yang dihadapinya dan kelemahan dalam kehilangan pasangannya. Pada kondisi seperti ini keluarga single parent harus bisa memenuhi kebutuhan secara psikologis maupun psikis anak agar tidak terjadi kesenjangan anak dalam menghadapi setiap perkembangannya.Penelitian ini bertujuan hubungan keluarga single parent dengan kemandirian belajar siswa di SMA negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif. Populasi penelitian ini yaitu seluruh seluruh siswa SMA Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan yang berjumlah 756 siswa yang terdiri dari tiga tingkatan  kelas. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada hubungan yang signifikan antara keluarga single parent dengan kemandirian belajar siswa di SMA Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. Besar korelasi antara keluarga single parent dengan kemandirian diperoleh sebesar 41,3% sedangkan 58,7% merupakan besar korelasi dari faktor lain yang tidak diteliti dalam penelitian ini
Female Images and Voices in Kanakana Yvonne Ladzani’s Selected Poetry
Authors:   University of Limpopo, Sebola Moffat
Published: March 2021

This paper reflects on Kanakana Yvonne Ladzani’s use of poetry to vanguard women’s images and voices. The paper further considers how, apart from articulating the significance of her role as a poet, Ladzani also comments authoritatively on how women are perceived in society. The paper employed the qualitative approach and purposively selected five poems from Ladzani’s three poetry anthologies. Undergirded by the theory of feminism, the analysis appreciated Ladzani’s literary vision of women empowerment. In the analysis of the selected poems, it was argued that Ladzani prefers positive female portraitures over negative ones. It was also argued that Ladzani aims to prod women to move from the margins to the centre of gender discourse through her poetry. In its conclusion, the paper appreciated Ladzani’s poetry as an essential mode of agency through which the Vhavenḓa women may make their voices heard in the contemporary space.
Attic Philosophy Versus Stoicism: The Problem of the Boundaries of a Citizen's Moral Autonomy (to the Question of Relevance of Classical Theory of Ethics)
Authors:   Department of History, Philosophy and Social Communications, Omsk State Technical University, Omsk, Russia, Makuhin Petr
Published: March 2021

Topical at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century the problem of the degree of moral independence - and therefore responsibility! - of an individual from society/state in the article is considered "through the prism" of the ancient heritage. More precisely, through two prisms: classical Athenian philosophy and the teachings of the Stoics; The duality generated by this, the conflict of assessments of the situation is perceived by us positively, and moreover, it is used as an argument in favor of the need for students (including the technical university) to study the classical ethical heritage. After all, any of the teachings included in the latter contains an element of "relative truth", the assimilation of which will help to approach the "absolute truth" in deciding the question of the boundaries of our own moral autonomy.
The Factors of Employee Performance: A Study of SearchNEasy
Authors: Teoh Kok Ban , Cordova Miguel , Hor Sin Ni , Lim Chung Hong , Yeoh Li Khuan , Madhu Amitha , Warrier Uma , Chan Jia Jun , Kee Daisy Mui Hung , Tan Florence E-Vern , Chia Jia Xin , Chuah Yan Jin
Published: March 2021

SearchNEasy is a Malaysia-based Web Development Company providing leading customized web solutions for worldwide business over the past 20 years. People, process, and technology are three elements for successful business transformation. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic affects the workload of employees as the demand for the company's service for web design increases due to the Movement Control Order (MCO), where the Malaysian government commands the closure of all private and government sectors, except those deemed as essential needs. This research intends to understand the factors contributing to employees’ performance. This study was conducted through primary and secondary research with respondents and existing data. Through this study, employees’ performance, job stress, job demand, organizational culture, and organizational rewards were analyzed. It was shown that job stress is one of the factors of employee performance in SearchNEasy due to the increase in workload and lack of employees during the Covid-19 pandemic.
АНАЛІЗ СИЛ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ ВІД’ЄМНОЇ ЧАСТИНИ КРИЛА ЛІТАКА ТРАНСПОРТНОЇ КАТЕГОРІЇ
Authors: Гребеников А. Г. , Жиряков Д. Ю.
Published: March 2021

Each experimental design department has experience in determining design and operational loads for a given type of aircraft. The reliability of the data on the loading of a particular structural element determines the success of the aircraft being created. This is often confidential information. Much work has been investigated to improve the fatigue life of wing structural elements. With the development of integrated design methods, aircraft structure design can be performed in the shortest time, and with high technical excellence. In most cases, the fatigue life of wing elements is determined from the nominal stresses in the element. For a longitudinal structure set, it is customary to perform fatigue calculations directly using normal stresses in the element. For a more detailed specification of the fatigue life, it is necessary to have a general and local stress-strain state of a given structure. A feature of the work is to analyze the spectrum of loads acting on the wing console during a typical flight. The influence of high-lift devises (slats, flaps) on the shear forces and torque moment of the wing was analyzed. It has been shown that with the extensions high-lift devices, there is a significant increase in torque. These articles will make it possible to obtain the stress distribution of the detachable part of the wing under all operating modes. This, in turn, leads to a more thorough prediction of fatigue life. Since some operating loads can significantly change the distribution of the stress-strain state in the design element, and in turn change the fatigue life. The structural elements of the wing, in particular the attachment points for the high-lift devices, operate in a complex-stressed state. This complicates the process of predicting the fatigue life of these elements. To obtain a competitive aircraft, it is necessary to develop new methods of wing design with widespread use of integrated systems. This will contribute to obtaining a more optimal and perfect wing design