bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
NEUROTIC INFLUENCER – FEELING RULES AND THE AFFECTIVE PRACTICE OF	ANXIETY IN SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER WORK
Authors: Lehto Mari Tellervo
Published: October 2020

Through in-depth qualitative interviews of four Finnish influencer mothers and online observation of their social media accounts, the presentation asks how influencers negotiate the feeling rules that govern (maternal) femininity on social media and attempt to cope with the emotional weight of precarious social media work. My data do not allow for the possibility of generalization but are rich, nuanced, and offer insight into ambivalent lived experiences and emotional pressures of ‘do what you love and love what you do’ ethic where emotional investment in one’s work encompasses all areas of life. The talk suggests that although anxiety can be considered a negative side effect of stressful social media work, sharing it on social media can also be understood as a tactic that plays a central role in the lifestyle influencer industry. I argue for using the affective practice (Wetherell, 2012, 2014) of anxiety as a theoretical concept to explore the influencers’ routinized emotional behaviour in their attempts to decrease the discrepancy between their emotions and cultural expectations. Drawing on Vik Loveday’s (2018) analysis of the “neurotic academic”, I suggest that the construction of an entrepreneurial influencer self is underpinned by anxiety. This argument is formulated through the figure of the “neurotic influencer” that is the embodiment of the ambivalent nature of gendered influencer work. Anxiety strives the influencers to exceed themselves all the while creating relatable social media subjects.
TEMPORAL FRAMES FOR PLATFORM PUBLICS: THE PLATFORMIZATION OF	BREADTUBE
Authors: Mniestri Aikaterini , Gekker Alex
Published: October 2020

In this paper we suggest the notion of $2 to account for the intermingling of socio-technical processes that make online platforms (in this case: YouTube) resistant to stable definitions. It has been over a decade of YouTube studies and yet, a consensus on what precisely YouTube is seems unlikely. Arguably, Burgess and Green began this ontological quest with the first edition of YouTube (2008) in which they set out ‘to work through some of the often-competing ideas about just what YouTube is.” (iv) Snickars and Vondereau (2009) considered the “ontological ambivalence” (2009, p. 28) of YouTube to be an asset since the platform’s success was rooted in its flexibility as a stage for content. Following work attempted to understand YT as a ‘new screen ecology’ (Cunningham 2016); through its platform logics of monetization and viewership (Postigo 2015, Van Es 2020); as a contested space between creators, content and audience (Berryman and Kavka 2018, Bishop 2018; 2019); and as a database, often implementing scraping and other computational techniques to account for its nature as vast graph network of content (Airoldi et al. 2016) with internal algorithmic dynamic - for instance the preference of “YT-native” content over mainstream actors within its search and recommendations (Rieder et al. 2018). We abandon the ontological stability of YT as singular and instead present it from a post-representational (Thrift 2008) and temporally-orientated (Adam 2008) perspective. Using BreadTube as a case study, we refrain from asking what YT is, but rather $2 YT happens.
A TALE OF TWO TWITTERS? IDENTIFYING BRIDGES BETWEEN LANGUAGE BASED	TWITTERSPHERES
Authors: Münch Felix Victor , Rossi Luca
Published: October 2020

Global political developments – such as Brexit, climate change, or forced migration – are entangled with communication that transcends national publics. Meanwhile, the EU’s integrity suffers, also due to polarised online discourses, which are sometimes actively manipulated. Therefore, an overview of online communication beyond language barriers is essential. However, whether and how online media create a global space that sustains deliberation of national and global interests by citizens, remains understudied. We approach this problem by exploring relations between the Italian and German Twittersphere, while asking: 1) What is the macrostructure of this bilingual network? 2) Are there bridges between these language communities in the form of single accounts and how can they be described? 3) Are there bridges in the form of groups and what are they tweeting about? We build on an innovative network crawling strategy for language-based Twitter follow networks. We developed it further to combine strengths of rank degree, snowball, and forest fire sampling. Thereby, we collect a network sample of the most central accounts in the Italian-German Twittersphere. Preliminary results suggest a bridging quality of soccer and connections between political clusters of both languages by EU politicians. Furthermore, larger network clusters connect mainly with one linguistic domain while smaller communities show a bridging behaviour. The final paper will present results of months of data collection, focusing on the relation between topics discussed within clusters and their connectivity. While it focuses on the German-Italian Twittersphere, our methods open up new avenues of enquiry regarding multi-language public spheres.
DISRUPTIVE HUMOUR: A CITIZEN PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGES FROM	MASS PROTESTS
Authors: Neumayer Christina , Rossi Luca , Jensen Minna S.
Published: October 2020

In this research we ask which role humorous social media images play for the representation of political protest in social media. To do so, we collected tweets (n=678946) based on protest hashtags from the G20 protests in Hamburg July 6-8 2017. With a social network analysis we find that while we can see clusters around user accounts of activist collectives, media institutions, and authorities (such as the Hamburg police), we cannot observe a network centred around user accounts of residents of Hamburg. As seemingly neutral humorous perspectives which do neither take the side of the activists or the authorities, these images seem to be shared across various clusters in the network. Yet, these are among the most frequently shared tweets based on number of retweets and mentions. Through a narrative analysis of the most frequently shared tweets with a particular focus on such humorous juxtapositions of the protests and the everyday life of residents, we find that these seemingly apolitical images and videos shared across communities, still play a disruptive role in the narrative about political protest. We argue that the privileging of humorous content that users are perhaps more inclined to share in social media than political messages, activists’ grievances or violent imagery, might (while not actively taking sides) push activists’ grievances in the background and make their actions appear as disruptive. With these findings, this research contributes to furthering our understanding of how the logics of social media might influence narratives of contemporary protests.
THE ‘SEARCH-FOR METHOD’: EXAMINING INSTANCES OF SUPPORT IN FACEBOOK	GROUPS FOR DONOR-CONCEIVED PEOPLE
Authors: Newton Giselle
Published: October 2020

Facebook groups represent an important resource for donor-conceived people to access information, seek advice and share their experiences with their peers. Limited research has considered how donor-conceived people create supportive relationships with peers through social media or how this form of social support contributes to donor-conceived people’s health and wellbeing. This work in progress outlines the ‘search-for method’, a practical user-led tool for discussing instances of participation in Facebook groups. The ‘search-for method’ involves inviting participants to search for their name in the search bar of a Facebook group, thereby retrieving data of all instances they have posted in the group. This paper reports on initial findings from applying the ‘search-for method’ to semi-structured interviews with administrators and members (N=30) of Facebook groups for donor-conceived people from across Australia. The ‘search-for method’ enabled the participant and researcher, as co-analysts, to track and examine specific instances of participation and interaction in the group. By scrolling through content on their own device, participants could decide how to frame their stories of support and whether to disclose sensitive information or omit experiences they did not wish to discuss. Broadly, this approach illuminated how individual and collective donor-conceived identities emerged and evolved with and through online group platforms. In doing so, it provided a framework for understanding sociality between donor-conceived peers longitudinally. This paper contributes to understandings of how digital affinities and peer intimacies develop in Facebook groups over time.
INVASIVE YET INEVITABLE? PRIVACY NORMALIZATION TRENDS IN EMERGING	TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Paik Sejin , Mays Kate K. , Giovannetti Rebecca F. , Katz James E.
Published: October 2020

In the last few years, smart security and physical identification technologies have grown exponentially; people are increasingly installing smart video devices to monitor their homes and buying DNA kits to collect and analyze their genetics. As the number of users and profits of these businesses increase, so too does the potential for privacy violations and exploitation. To explore these dynamics of privacy in emerging technology, we conducted a U.S. nationally representative survey (N=1,587) and asked respondents for their perceptions of a number of emerging technologies such as facial recognition, DNA collection and biometrics monitoring. We also measured individual-level traits that have been found to influence technology acceptance. The results show that the actor wielding the technology matters for people’s acceptance. Respondents were overall more comfortable with public officials and airlines using more invasive technologies to guarantee people’s safety, as compared to private companies or non-profits using data for research. When keeping the actor constant across privacy technologies, there was an overwhelming preference for less invasive means of privacy data sharing. These findings indicate how the concept of normalization, social context and agents of control play a critical role in the way people accept emerging technology into their lives.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALTERNATIVE FACTS: DARK PARTICIPATION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE QANON CONSPIRACY
Authors: Partin William Clyde , Marwick Alice Emily
Published: October 2020

QAnon is a right-wing conspiracy theory based on a series of posts (“Drops”) made to the imageboard 8chan by “Q”, an anonymous poster who claims to be a Trump administration insider and encourages their followers (“Bakers”) to conduct research to interpret and find hidden truths (“Bread”) behind current events. In this paper, we argue that QAnon Bakers adopt a “scientistic self” by producing and maintaining specific facts and theories that enable the conspiracy’s social and political cohesion over time. Rather than dismissing Q researchers’ conclusions out of hand, we adopt science studies’ symmetry principle to consider the tools and techniques of Baking. We argue that the institutional character of Baking distinguishes QAnon from other online conspiracy communities, which primarily rely on anecdotal evidence or sow doubt in scientific consensuses. Q, by contrast, research is intended to produce certainty through the systematic construction of alternative facts. In making this argument, we share and build upon other scholars’ critiques of participatory media. Indeed, we conclude that it is precisely the participatory affordances of the social web that have made QAnon so potent.
PLATFORM LOGIC AND THE INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER OF TECH GIANTS
Authors: Plantin Jean-Christophe
Published: October 2020

While Alphabet, Facebook, and Microsoft are mostly associated with online services and mobile applications, they now constitute important actors of the global communication infrastructure, as witnessed by their important investments in data centers, subsea cables, telecommunication networks, and non-terrestrial connectivity (such as drones, balloons, or satellites). Beyond these spectacular (and sometimes hypothetical) projects, this paper details how these tech companies are already changing the ways communication networks are managed. It shows that they become a dominant force shaping global connectivity by leveraging the platform logic that granted them their initial success in the web economy, and adapting it to communication infrastructures. Based on interviews with industry experts and network engineers, document analysis, and site visits, this paper offers a model to analyse this platformization of communication infrastructures: it consists of disaggregating existing networks components, inserting a platform which acts as new integrator, and making networks modular and programmable. This model extends scholarship on the platformization of social and economic life and shows how the same platform logic is at the center of the infrastructural expansion of tech giants and at the source of the power they gain over global connectivity.
REAL TIME TEMPORALITIES AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN ECOLOGIES OF DETROIT’S	PROJECT GREEN LIGHT
Authors: Rim Megan
Published: October 2020

On January 1st 2016, 8 gas stations in the Detroit metro area began streaming from surveillance cameras to the Detroit Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center—the auspicious start of Detroit’s Project Green Light (PGL). Presently, cameras are located in over 680 sites around the city. The surveillance initiative’s rapid expansion has been met with significant pushback from the community regarding its quiet incorporation of automated face recognition technologies. As activists have argued, the use of a technology with a significantly higher error rate for people of color to surveil a population that is over 80% nonwhite risks reproducing and exacerbating existing racial biases within the criminal justice system (Detroit Community Technology Project, 2019). Many of the concerns that community members have raised, including the possibility of algorithmic misidentification and the influence of PGL cameras on residents’ use of public space, speak to the question of what human and nonhuman agencies and relationalities exist in PGL spaces and their impact on the residents and landscape of Detroit. In this paper, I focus on the discursive flexibility of the term real time in PGL to diagram the web of human and nonhuman relations within the space. I trace three narratives of real time mapping the human and nonhuman temporalities they reference. Informed by a theoretical framework of Digital Studies, Critical Race Studies, and Indigenous Studies, I explore the racial justice possibilities of theorizing resistance inclusive of more-than-human perspectives and ethics.
DELETION WILL BE MY EPITAPH: JOURANLISTS DELETION PRACTICES ON	TWITTER
Authors: Ringel Sharon , Davidson Roei
Published: October 2020

This study seeks to understand the practice of the deletion of tweets by journalists while arguing that these uniquely reflect the contemporary fragility of archiving and journalism – two human enterprises central to societies’ ability to reflexively consider the past and present and democratically chart a future course. From the perspective of journalism as a profession, it argues that the study of tweet deletion is a means of examining the constraints under which journalists operate today including the occupational precarity and polarized public sphere with which they contend. From the web archival perspective, this study methodologically informs scholars who are relying on public tweets as a source for their research as well as other social actors – such as NGOs, activists, politicians, cultural producers – who rely on social media as a web archive in their public activities. It proposes to identify some of the voices that will be removed from this public square as it becomes a public archive and highlights the proactive ephemerality of journalistic social media content. Based on interviews conducted in the winter of 2019 with 17 journalists working in New York City, the study examines how journalists perceive the action of deleting their tweets and how they justify it.
TACTICS OF ALGORITHMIC LITERACY: HOW YOUNG PEOPLE UNDERSTAND AND	NEGOTIATE ALGORITHMIC NEWS SELECTION
Authors: Swart Joelle
Published: October 2020

With the growing centrality of the smartphone in everyday life, the news and public information that young people consume is increasingly subject to algorithmic curation. From the apps and websites of legacy news media to news aggregators and social media, more and more spaces through which young people access news are personalized. Yet, while numerous studies explore algorithms’ influence on citizens’ everyday life, few of these have considered how users themselves perceive and deal with news personalization. This paper considers how young news users experience the algorithmic selection of the news they receive via their smartphones, and how and under what circumstances they aim to negotiate these decisions. Combining walk-through methods with in-depth interviews, it explores young people’s perceptions of algorithms affect their practices on personalized news media and how they aim to intervene in news personalization. The paper finds a variety of tactics through which audiences intervene in algorithmic news selection, arguing that these can be seen as expressions of algorithmic literacy. These practices, however, are far from self-evident: overall, even amongst frequent users of personalized media, algorithmic awareness and knowledge are low. Moreover, such literacy varies considerably between platform contexts. This is problematic, as these deficiencies prevent young people from assessing the completeness, accuracy and balance of the news they are exposed to. Thus, the study stresses a need for media educators to pay more attention to how algorithmic curation shapes the news that users encounter, to further empower young people to navigate an increasingly personalized media landscape.
PLATFORM COUNTERPUBLICS: GOSSIP & CONTESTED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ONLINE	LABOR PLATFORMS
Authors: Ticona Julia , Tsapatsaris Ryan
Published: October 2020

As commercial platforms mediate large swaths of online markets for information and services, scholars have shown how users resist, or work around these opaque digital environments. From content producers to Uber drivers, digital laborers are particularly adept at appropriating and gaming platforms like YouTube, and Uber (Chen 2017; Duffy 2017; Rosenblat 2018). Often described as “multi-sided markets,” platforms bring together many different kinds of stakeholders, including consumers, workers, advertisers, and regulators (Gillespie 2010; Lingel 2020). However, investigations of working alongside algorithms have so far focused on workers’ relationship to algorithms, and neglected other stakeholders. Extending counterpublics theories (Warner 2002; Fraser 1990), we examine over 3,000 online reviews of a labor platform, Care.com, finding that both workers and clients use gossip to create a $2 that constructs a counternarrative about platform business practices. While previous studies suggest that different platform stakeholders have conflicting interests, we find that platform counterpublics draw both workers and clients together to draw boundaries demarcating acceptable platform business practices. Second, we point to the implications of platform counterpublics for the investigation of platform labor and algorithms. Consumer reviews of platforms are absent from critical literature on labor platforms. By bringing together scholarship on counterpublics with critical literature on labor platforms, this paper offers a relational approach to platforms.
TUNING OUT HATE SPEECH ON REDDIT: AUTOMATING MODERATION AND DETECTING	TOXICITY IN THE MANOSPHERE
Authors: Trott Verity , Beckett Jennifer , Paech Venessa
Published: October 2020

Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the same time, they have come under fire for failing to mitigate the risks of perceived ‘toxic’ content or behaviour on their platforms. In effort to better cope with content moderation, to combat hate speech, ‘dangerous organisations’ and other bad actors present on platforms, discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools might play. This paper contributes to thinking about the role and suitability of ML for content moderation on community platforms such as Reddit and Facebook. In particular, it looks at how ML tools operate (or fail to operate) effectively at the intersection between online sentiment within communities and social and platform expectations of acceptable discourse. Through an examination of the r/MGTOW subreddit we problematise current understandings of the notion of ‘tox¬icity’ as applied to cultural or social sub-communities online and explain how this interacts with Google’s Perspective tool.
BURYING THE DEAD (USERS): A LIFE OF DATA WITHIN LIMITS
Authors: Welsh Sarah
Published: October 2020

Technological innovation depends on earthly resources. As such, the drive to continuous growth that has propelled technology forward is also in direct competition with a planet that is reaching capacity. This expansion and consumption model has both supported and neglected the data of the dead, which both proliferates and languishes. For example, as researchers across disciplines have noted, the dead may soon outnumber the living on social media. Questions about digital remains should attend not only to social media profiles but also to the life cycles of data. This paper considers environmental and resource-related questions about the traces we leave when we depart. To do this work, a theoretical methodological approach following the Computing within LIMITS model (Nardi et al, 2018) is employed to consider the accumulation of data that remains after users have departed from their earthly (and digital) lives. LIMITS is a sustainability model that asks researchers to (1) question growth, (2) consider models of scarcity, and (3) reduce energy and material consumption. That is, this paper questions the life of digital data that can be maintained and can even grow after a user passes on. In addition to questions about mourning, memorializing, and archiving the dead, the LIMITS model prompts ethical questions about how to bury our dead data responsibly and sustainably in the face of exponential growth.
Aprendizaje colaborativo como estrategia didáctica para promover la práctica oral del inglés en horarios extra-escolar usando Google Hangouts
Authors: Peña López Ronier Eliézer
Published: October 2020

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar la incidencia del aprendizaje colaborativo para promover la practica oral del inglés en horarios extra –escolar en los estudiantes de III año de la carrera de Ingles durante el II semestre 2017: Google Hangouts como aplicación tecnológica. Este estudio se posiciona en el paradigma sociocrítico, de enfoque mixto, es de carácter descriptivo y corte transversal. La muestra fue de 38 informantes, 4 docentes y 34 estudiantes. Se utilizó la encuesta y la entrevista como instrumentos de recolección de información validados a través de un pilotaje y juicio de expertos, respectivamente. Los datos se analizaron mediante el programa SPSS versión 21 en la fase cuantitativa, y en la fase cualitativa, a través de matrices de categorías principales, luego se realizó una triangulación de la información obtenida.

Como principales resultados se encontró que la mayoría de los estudiantes están familiarizados con el uso de Google Hangouts, y motivados a la práctica del inglés a través de esta herramienta, así como de la participación en actividades de aprendizaje colaborativo, lo que contribuyó a mejorar otras sub-habilidades del inglés que fomentan el desarrollo de la competencia oral. Por otro lado, los docentes sí aplican actividades orientadas a la práctica del inglés a través de los recursos TIC, pero estas no están directamente enfocadas en desarrollar la práctica oral del idioma.

En conclusión, el estudio arrojó que tuvo un impacto positivo tanto en el aspecto motivacional de los alumnos, así como en sus competencias y habilidades comunicativas del idioma inglés.
Logros y Avances del Programa de Diplomado, Maestría y Doctorado en Investigaciones Biomédicas de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Primera Cohorte período 2017-2019
Authors: Pedroza Pacheco Manuel Enrique
Published: October 2020

Con el objetivo de dar a conocer los logros y avances del Programa de Diplomado, Maestría y Doctorado en Investigaciones Biomédicas de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Primera Cohorte período 2017-2019, se presenta este artículo. Se destacan como hallazgos relevantes: 1) Implementado exitosamente el eje transversal de investigación científica a nivel de posgrado de Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, lo que se expresa en el cumplimiento de los Programas de Diplomado, Maestría y Doctorado en Investigaciones Biomédicas; 2) Fortalecido el Convenio institucional Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de UNAN-Managua-MINSA, con el cumplimiento de los Cursos de Posgrado en Línea, dirigido a los médicos residentes de los hospitales del MINSA; 3) Desarrollada la Plataforma Moodle para apoyar ambos programas el PROMIB y PRODIB, constituyéndose en el soporte técnico para el desarrollo de los procesos de Educación Virtual de Posgrado de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de UNAN-Managua; 4) Incrementada la productividad científica de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de UNAN-Managua, mediante la realización de 16 artículos científicos y 43 ensayos que se han producido en el PROMIB; 5) Evidenciada la innovación curricular de la FCCM de la UNAN-Managua, para mejorar las competencias profesionales y la capacidad emprendedora en la formación académica de los nuevos especialistas médicos de Nicaragua.
Analysis of Impact of Non-financial Information Disclosure on Capitalization of Russian Oil and Gas Sector Companies
Authors: Vetoshkina Elena , Ivanovskaya Anna , Kazykhanova Elvira , Semenikhina Natalia
Published: October 2020

Today, the problems and ways of improving the companies' corporate reporting and confirming their importance are among the most discussed topics in the academic world, both in Russia and globally. The existence of a wide range of research papers, as well as tools for evaluating non-financial information of companies, indicates the significant role of non-financial factors for the global society. However, it is still questioned whether these factors affect the market value of companies. According to the RSPP, the disclosure of non-financial information in the companies' annual reports allows users to identify leaders, helps to strengthen the reputation and investment attractiveness of these companies, and serves to promote the culture of responsible business conduct. In this work, the influence of non-financial factors on the market capitalization of companies in the oil and gas sector was studied using the model of correlation of factors with the calculation of the Pearson and Spearman coefficients. The data about the market capitalization of the three largest Russian companies in this sector, Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, and LUKOIL, were taken from publicly available sources. To find a correlation between the calculated indices and the market capitalization indicator, it was assumed that the company's market capitalization of the current year would be influenced by the indices of non-financial factors calculated according to the data of the previous year. It has been proved that there exists a certain connection between non-financial factors (index of ecological effectiveness; index of economic development; index of social influence) and the company's market value. However, the results of the analysis showed that political factors determine the capitalization of oil and gas companies in Russia to a greater extent at the present stage.
The Effect of International Currency Crises on the Balance of Payments: Evidence From Jordan
Authors: Rawashdeh Tamer , Al-Rdaydeh Mahmoud , Hamouri Basem
Published: October 2020

The effect of the international currency crises on the Jordanian balance of payments (BoP) between Q1-2000 and Q4-2017 was investigated in this paper. The currency crises are represented by the various exchange rates (ER) for the Japanese Yen, United States (US) Dollar, Euro Member Countries, China Renminbi, and the United Kingdom (UK) Pound with the Jordanian Dinar. In approximating the potential short-run and long-run associations among the different ER variations and the BoP, the ARDL bounds testing technique was employed. The empirical findings revealed that variation in the ER rate for EUR/JOD had a positive significant impact on the BOP for the short-run and long-run relation, whereas, opposingly, for the JPY/JOD, it had a negative significant impact on the BoP in the short-run and long-run relations. For other currencies, the results varied. Therefore, to reduce the effect of currency fluctuations and resultant crises on the BoP, over-reliance on the promotion and importation of goods and domestic export products should be avoided. As such, in the context of the Jordanian economy, the country needs to diversify. Accordingly, this can only be achieved if the economy is expanded along with advancing and developing entrepreneurial innovation supported by fiscal disciplines.
The Determinant of Financial Performance of Indian Public Sector Banks- A Panel Data Approach
Authors: Jeet Vikram , Aspal Parvesh Kumar
Published: October 2020

In the accelerated development of an economy, the role of a vibrant banking system and financial structure is considered as highly indispensable. The banking sector is recognized as an important element to portrait the financial and economic strength of a country. The economic importance of the banking system may be considered in the form of capital formation, inspiring innovation, monetization, and facilitator of monetary policy. The present research work investigates the association between banks' profitability and the banks’ specific factors of Indian Public Sector Banks. The research work is based on secondary data drawn from annual reports of banks from the period of 2015 to 2019. The panel data regression statistical technique has been employed to vindicate the influence of explanatory variables viz. Capital Adequacy, Human Capital, Liquidity, Management Efficiency, Asset Quality, and Earning Quality, which have been employed as independent variables and Return on Equity, as the dependent variable. Panel data regression model results have reported that the regression coefficients are found statistically significant and the high value of adjusted R- square expresses the overall best fit of the fixed effects model. A significant positive relationship has been found between the financial performance of bank (ROE) and human capital, liquidity, management efficiency, and asset quality. Whereas capital adequacy and earning quality of the banks have an insignificant impact on the profitability of banks. Hence, the financial performance evaluation enables the banks to analyze their financial strength and to follow necessary protective initiatives for its sustainability.
Financial and Economic Features of Technical Re-equipment of the Workshop Machine-Building Enterprise
Authors: Khisamova Elvira Distantovna , Nuryyakhmetova Svetlana Mazgutovna , Kayumova Gulnara Damirovna
Published: October 2020

One of the urgent problems of modern industrial enterprises is the problem of their technical development. The most common direction of technical development is the technical re-equipment of industrial enterprises. This is a very long and costly process, requiring both from the management of the enterprise and from its employees of high qualification, the ability, and skills to make quick decisions and predict the outcomes of these decisions. Currently, the market for technical and technological equipment is represented by many kinds of different industrial machines, aggregates, mechanisms of different manufacturing firms, different levels of complexity, productivity, energy intensity, and, of course, different costs. The analysis of the market, the choice of suppliers of production equipment, the formulation of terms of delivery and payment, installation, assembly, and installation of equipment at the enterprise, commissioning and subsequent technical support are all elements of the process of renewal of fixed assets called technical re-equipment.Technical re-equipment includes raising the technological level of production, which includes the use of additional new equipment (both in the case of physical and moral obsolescence).During this event, either modified tools will be used in the production of old products, or the quality of the products will change, or a completely new product will be produced, or all taken together. In addition, the concept of technical re-equipment can include the re-qualification of personnel during the re-equipment process and bringing technologies in line with environmental norms and standards.
Noodweerexces: in het Belgisch strafrecht aanwezig in alles behalve naam?
Authors: De Herdt J. (Jeroen)
Published: October 2020

Noodweerexces: in het Belgisch strafrecht aanwezig in alles behalve naam?

Het Belgische strafrecht kent de figuur van noodweerexces niet. Deze problematiek wordt via andere instrumenten geregeld, in het bijzonder de onweerstaanbare dwang, de uitlokking en de verzachtende omstandigheden. Op die manier wordt een tweesporenbeleid gevolgd, waarbij de strafrechtelijke reactie afhankelijk is van de emotionele impact van de noodweersituatie op de betrokkene. In het kader van de mogelijke invoering van een nieuw Strafwetboek in België wordt wel voorzien in een bepaling inzake noodweerexces. Het gevoerde tweesporenbeleid blijft daarbij evenwel behouden.
Het pleitbaar standpunt als bijzondere strafuitsluitingsgrond?
Authors: de Bont G.J.M.E. (Guido)
Published: October 2020

Het pleitbaar standpunt als bijzondere strafuitsluitingsgrond?

In 2017 heeft de strafkamer van de Hoge Raad het zogeheten ‘pleitbaar standpunt’ uit het fiscale boeterecht een plaats gegeven in de strafrechtelijke doctrine, door aan te geven op welke wijze een dergelijk verweer in het kader van de vragen ingevolge artikel 348/350 Sv dient te worden aangemerkt. In deze bijdrage wordt de meest recente jurisprudentie omtrent het pleitbaar standpunt binnen het leerstuk van opzet in het strafrecht toegelicht en wordt bezien in hoeverre het pleitbaar standpunt kan worden aangemerkt als een erkende strafuitsluitingsgrond dan wel of er argumenten bestaan om een bijzondere strafuitsluitingsgrond aanwezig te achten.
THE ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL, CONSTITUTIVE FEATURES AND SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES OF POLISH OMBUDSMAN IN PROTECTION OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF INDIVIDUALS
Authors: Hrynkiewicz Radosław
Published: October 2020

The aim of the article is to describe various organizational models of the institution of Ombudsman and the way it functions. The article also refers to the constitutive features of this authority, distinguishing the most typical and universal ones. At the same time, the article indicates the place of Commissioner for Human Rights within the system of protection of human and civil rights and freedoms, and characterizes his activities as an institution which is a crucial and permanent element of this system. Part of the attention has been paid to the applicable laws in this respect both in the systematic structure of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of April 2, 1997 as well as the regulations of the Act on the Commissioner for Human Rights of July 15, 1987. The role of the Ombudsman in today’s world is becoming necessary and indispensable as well as more and more appreciated alongside the activities of other institutions in the field of protection of rights and freedoms
APPLICATION OF REGULATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE FINANCIAL PENALTIES TO INCREASED FEE AND ADDITIONAL FEE GOVERNED BY THE GEOLOGICAL AND MINING LAW
Authors: Radecki Gabriel
Published: October 2020

Section IVa of the act of 14 June 1960 – Code of Administrative Procedure refers to administrative financial penalties, introducing some general rules in that subject. Author considers possibility and scope of application of the rules to that fees governed by the act of 9 June 2011 – Geological and Mining Law, which are administrative sanctions, namely to increased fee and additional fee. The increased fee is applicable to activity carried out without the required concession, whereas the increased fee is charged for activity performed in flagrant violation of the conditions determined in the concession. The author came to the conclusion that an impact of the provisions of section IVa on the legal status of the fees was minimal and unsatisfactory.
GUILT AS A PREMISE FOR IMPOSING ADMINISTRATIVE FINES
Authors: Żurek Jakub
Published: October 2020

This article presents the issue of the nature of administrative responsibility sanctioned by administrative fines and the significance of guilt as a premise for imposing this type of sanction. The author draws attention to the solutions introduced to the Code of Administrative Procedure by the 2017 amendment. The article indicates the impact of the changes made on the construction of administrative fines. It also shows how the legislator regulates the premise of guilt in specific provisions.
ABOUT A BLACK SWANS, E-ADMINISTRATION AND EUROPEAN FUNDS – REALIZATION OF PUBLIC TASKS IN THE PERIOD OF THE EPIDEMIC EMERGENCY
Authors: Kępa Marcin
Published: October 2020

The purpose of the study is to analyze and pre-evaluate e-administration tools in the distribution process and the final reallocation of European funds - especially during the period of the epidemic emergency situation or other various situations related to social isolation. Emphasis will be put on the use of other, co-existing alongside “traditional”, public administration formations, enabling remote control and supervision of Union projects. The dominant research method used in the study will be the legal dogmatic method and the method of observation.
The Empirical Dimension of the Identity of Security Sciences
Authors: Pieczywok Andrzej
Published: October 2020

The effectiveness of any scientific research depends on the correct preparation of the research project. This cannot be done without the practical capability of applying scientific methodology. In the research process, the way of defining certain facts or the operationalization of concepts is of great importance. A key issue is the accuracy and reliability of research, as well as the construction of a theory based on an axiomatically structured layout of empirically verified theorems. The article is an important voice in a broader discussion of identity building in security science. The author is convinced that the empirical dimension of the identity of security sciences will find its application in the research procedure, as well as in the implementation of qualification work in this area.
Security of Personal Data. Part I – The Specificity of Determinants of Personal Identity in the 21st Century
Authors: Rysz Stanisław Józef
Published: October 2020

Changes that are taking place in the surrounding environment have never before been so extensive and so dynamic. In addition, the environment to which these changes relate has also never before been so multifaceted, ambiguous, multidimensional and such full of multimedia. Man put in the face of such changes may more or less consciously compromise his safety. The reason may be insufficient knowledge, lack of proper preparation and resources appropriate to provide the right conditions for safe work, communication and even for safe life from the perspective of an individual as well as a person in a family, group in even a nation. Implementation of regulations contained in the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) of April 27, 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free flow of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46 for everyday use (colloquially referred to as: GDPR) caused special attention focused on security in connection with the processing of personal data. This article is the first in the series. It is entitled “Security of personal data. Part I – Specificity of Determinants of Personal Identity in the 21st Century. „The author presents in it the characteristic properties of personal data broken down into areas functioning in superposition1 to each other: an organic person, the environment and the technical environment around the person. Another article the author will address at a broad spectrum of issues relating to personal identification information.
LEGAL PROTECTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL AGAINST MOBBING
Authors: Paw Barbara
Published: October 2020

The current legal norms - in the field of mobbing - do not guard the protection of the rights of victims of mobbing, nor do they favor the pursuit of statutory guaranteed claims by victims of mobber activities. Keep in mind that anyone can become a victim of mobbing and you never know when this problem will affect the next person. The joint responsibility of the legislature, executive and judicature for good law, which should take into account the protection of the individual against the destructive intensity of mobbing, will take place when victims of mobbing are protected by law,and the mobbers will be responsible for their actions. The inevitability of punishment for a mobber is a signal to society that public authorities are responsibly complying constitutional obligations.
Co-designing Gamified Intelligent Tutoring Systems with Teachers
Authors: Dermeval Diego , Bittencourt Ig Ibert
Published: October 2020

Researchers are increasingly interested in Gamified Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) to provide adaptive instruction and to enhance engagement of students. However, although teachers are demanding to be active users of gamified ITS, they have been not considered as first-class citizens in the design of these kinds of systems. In order to contribute to the active and customized use of gamified ITS by teachers, three technical problems should be considered. First, designing ITS is very complex (i.e., considering different theories, components, and stakeholders) and including gamification may significantly increase such complexity and variability. Second, gamified ITS features can be used depending on several elements (e.g., educational level, knowledge domain, gamification and ITS theories, etc). Thus, it is imperative to take advantage of theories and practices from both topics to reduce the design space of these systems. Third, in order to effectively aid teachers to actively use such systems, it is needed to provide a simple and usable solution for them. To target these problems, in this paper, we present a solution for authoring gamified ITS by teachers that makes use of an ontology-based feature model (OntoSPL) to deal with the variability at runtime and takes advantage of an ontology (GaTO) that connects gamified ITS theories and design practices to constrain the variability space for designing these systems. Our main results indicate that teachers have a high acceptance level (i.e., ease of use, usability, and low complexity) in the design of gamified ITS using the authoring solution, customizing their own gamified tutors in less than five minutes. These results indicate a promising way to explore the use of authoring tools, ontologies, and software engineering to take advantage of both artificial intelligence techniques (mainly for aiding adaptation for students) as well as on the human intelligence of teachers to co-design gamified intelligent tutoring systems.
The efforts of Isa Boletini before the opening of the Russian consulate in Kosovska Mitrovica
Authors: Zarković Vesna
Published: October 2020

The role of Isa Boletini in the time of the opening of the Russian consulate in Kosovska Mitrovica was of crucial political importance for the Serbian people living there. It was the time of intense Albanians' oppression, which went unnoticed or ignored by the Turkish authorities. In the beginning, Isa Boletini was the protector of the Serbian population, whose consuls in Priština reported no crimes committed by him. Meanwhile, his actions reversed course. His activities were aimed against the Serbian people and the Turkish authorities, who in turn started losing their standing with the Albanians. With the growing support from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Albanians leaders organized numerous gatherings, which adversely affected the Serbian population. Those gatherings resulted in gradual renunciation of obedience such as avoiding to pay the Ottoman tax to the Sultan. Albanians opposition to the Russian consulate in Mitrovica rose to prominence. Consequently, the Russian representatives urge Constantinople to request for the Isa Boletini be removed from Mitrovica. The Sultan yielded to the Russian request, while Isa Boletini resisted and tried to bargain for himself, but eventually left for Constantinople. He hoped that the support of the local Albanians leaders would assure his swift return. His absence did not improve the position of the Serbian people, who were continually exposed to extortion and taxes.
Relating graph energy with vertex-degree-based energies
Authors: Gutman Ivan
Published: October 2020

Introduction/purpose: The paper presents numerous vertex-degree-based graph invariants considered in the literature. A matrix can be associated to each of these invariants. By means of these matrices, the respective vertex-degree-based graph energies are defined as the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues. Results: The article determines the conditions under which the considered graph energies are greater or smaller than the ordinary graph energy (based on the adjacency matrix). Conclusion: The results of the paper contribute to the theory of graph energies as well as to the theory of vertex-degree-based graph invariants.
Reseña de: Reques Velasco, Pedro y Afonso, Luiekakio (2017). África como reto demográfico. Angola como paradigma. (Africa as a demographic challenge. Angola as a paradigm)
Authors: Barra Martínez José Antonio
Published: October 2020

Reseña de: Reques Velasco, Pedro y Afonso, Luiekakio (2017). África como reto demográfico. Angola como paradigma. (Africa as a demographic challenge. Angola as a paradigm). Madrid: Casa África y Libros de la Catarata, 112 pp. ISBN: 978-84-9097-278-6.
Presentación
Authors: Lázaro Torres María Luisa
Published: October 2020

Presentación número 13 ETF VI 2020
Dramaturgias da solidariedade
Authors: Alice Tania
Published: October 2020

Das dramaturgias clássicas e suas encenações orbitando em volta do texto às dramaturgias contemporâneas, com suas dimensões performativas que abrem espaço para uma escrita coletiva em conjunto com os espectadores, o conceito de dramaturgia foi sofrendo um percurso de abertura proporcional à passagem do tempo. A palavra “dramaturgia” foi perdendo sua primazia textual concedida pelo eurocentrismo para se abrir a manifestações somáticas da ordem do acontecimento. O novo espectador das dramaturgias contemporâneas assume um papel fundamental na composição, que se torna coletiva, podendo, na performance, ir até a alteração do programa performativo inicialmente proposto pela/o artista. O artigo aborda a noção de dramaturgia no campo da performance, e, mais especificamente, no campo da performance relacional e participativa. A partir da reflexão em torno de um projeto europeu participativo de performance do qual participei como artista convidada, gostaria de pensar a existência possível de uma “Dramaturgia da Solidariedade”, que poderia inscrever-se no campo mais amplo de “Poéticas do Cuidado”, abrindo espaço para novas possibilidades do fazer artístico. Para desenvolver esta reflexão, escolhi a forma da carta/diário, registro desta pesquisa cartográfica que busca seus objetivos na medida dos acontecimentos. Opto pelo convite para a viagem. Vamos dançar a escrita juntos?