bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Tibiotalocalcaneal nailing for osteoporotic ankle fractures in the frail patient: a narrative review with a clinical score proposal for the decision-making process
Authors: Herrera-Pérez Mario , Martín-Vélez Pablo , González-Martín David , Domínguez-Meléndez Miguel , Galhoum Ahmed E , Valderrabano Victor , Tejero Sergio
Published: May 2022

Osteoporotic ankle fractures result from mechanical forces that would not ordinarily result in fracture, known as ‘low-energy’ trauma, such as those equivalent to a fall from a standing height or less.

Osteoporotic ankle fractures in frail patients are becoming more and more frequent in daily practice and represent a therapeutic challenge for orthopaedic surgeons.

The main problems with frail patients are the poor condition of the soft tissues around the ankle, dependence for activities of daily living and high comorbidity.

The decision to operate on these patients is complex because conservative treatment is poorly tolerated in unstable fractures and conventional open reduction and internal fixation is associated with a high rate of complications.

The authors conducted a narrative review of the literature on primary tibiotalocalcaneal nailing of ankle fractures in frail patients and categorized the different factors to consider when treatment is indicated for this conditon. Difficulty of ambulation, age over 65 years old, deteriorated baseline state and instability of the fracture were the most frequently considered factors.

Finally, the authors propose an easy and quick clinical scoring system to help in the decision-making process, although further comparative studies are required to explore its validity.
Acute spontaneous spinal subdural hematoma presenting with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: a rare case report and literature review
Authors: Xiang Jie , Zhao Weibo , Luo Xiao , Hong Zhenghua , Luo Hua
Published: May 2022

Spontaneous spinal subdural hematoma (SSDH) is a rare and dangerous intraspinal hematoma that usually occurs in the thoracic vertebra. The influence of early cardiovascular changes secondary to spinal cord injury is an important emergent issue.

Herein, we report a case of a middle-aged woman with clinical manifestations of back pain and motion and sensory disturbances below the level of spinal cord compression. During the disease course, she also developed changes indicative of myocardial injury, such as tachycardia, markedly increased concentrations of brain natriuretic peptide and cardiac troponin I, and a decreased left ventricular ejection fraction, which were consistent with the diagnosis of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC). After the administration of supportive therapies, the symptoms of myocardial injury rapidly resolved. With the absorption of SSDH, the symptoms and clinical signs were alleviated. We also reviewed the literature on cases of concomitant SSDH and TTC.

This rare case broadens the symptom spectrum of SSDH and highlights the need for clinicians to be aware of concomitant SSDH and TTC. Initial conservative treatment is a viable option for SSDH with concomitant TTC. However, urgent surgery may be a better option if the SSDH progressively enlarges and causes spinal cord compression.
IMPROVING THE SYSTEM OF INDICATORS FOR ASSESSING THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION AND STRENGTHENING RESTRICTIVE MEASURES IN THE CONDITIONS OF ADAPTIVE QUARANTINE CAUSED BY THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
Authors:   State Institution ", Herasimova Olena ,   Institute for Economics and Forecasting, NAS of Ukraine", Herasimova Olga ,   State Institution "Kundiiev Institute of Occupational Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine"
Published: May 2022

The article deals with the problem of the effectiveness of the state response to challenges to the health care system due to the spread of infection caused by SARS-CoV-2. The authors have carried out an analysis of international economic investigations on its impact on the socio-economic system in general and the health care system in particular. It was found that the vast majority of them examine the impact of various factors on the spread of coronavirus or its effects on individual segments or the economic system as a whole, the response of the decision-making system to the spread of infection, or model different scenarios for health system challenges. However, investigations do not address what criteria should be applied when imposing restrictive measures or what changes need to be done to the threat assessment system to minimize the burden on the health care system. Therefore, the authors analyzed the current national indicators system used to identify regions with a high prevalence of SARS-CoV-2. Based on a retrospective analysis of previous waves of coronavirus spread in Ukraine and the introduction of quarantine restrictions in this regard, it was found that the decision to strengthen quarantine restrictions was delayed. This overloaded the medical system and led to overcrowding, which could have been avoided if quarantine had been introduced early. It is revealed what changes in the assessment methodology need to be made in order to strengthen the quarantine restrictions in time. An assessment of the filling of the hospital stock under the condition of timely introduction of quarantine on the example of the city of Kyiv was carried out and the cost of redundant hospitalizations was estimated. Changes in the current methodology for estimating regions with a high prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 are proposed, which include the introduction of additional indicators and quantitative changes for existing indicators.
THE BENCHMARK FOR VAT AND VAT EXPENDITURES IN UKRAINE: METHODOLOGICAL AND PRAGMATIC ASPECTS
Authors:   State Educational and Scientific Institution ", Sokolovska Alla ,   Academy of Financial Management"
Published: May 2022

Despite the preparation by the State Tax Service of Ukraine of Reports on tax reliefs that are a loss of budget revenues, which indicate certain steps towards the introduction of the concept of tax expenditures in the budget process, the question of their quality remains open due to the uncertainty of the principles of distribution of tax reliefs into those that are losses of budget revenues and other tax reliefs, and due to the algorithm for calculating budget losses from the provision of tax reliefs. In view of the above, the purpose of the article is to determine methodological approaches to the formation of Directories and, accordingly, Reports of the State Tax Service of Ukraine on tax reliefs (on the example of VAT reliefs), that are losses of budget revenues, and on other tax reliefs and justification of the guidelines for improving the quality of such reports. Based on the analysis of concepts of benchmark tax system (tax) and tax expenditure and approaches to determining their main elements, the author formulates requirements for the structure of Directories of tax reliefs and Reports on tax reliefs, in particular, it is established that if the Directory of tax reliefs, which are losses of budget revenues should include only tax expenditures, then in the structure of the Directory of other tax incentives two components can be distinguished – "structural incentives", which are elements of the benchmark tax system, and special incentives that do not lead to the loss of budgetary revenues. In order to facilitate the identification and analysis, the main components of "structural VAT reliefs" in Ukraine, as well as types (groups) of reliefs that do not cause budget losses are identified, cases of unjustified classification of tax reliefs in the State Tax Service Directories are considered and proposals to change their classification are substantiated. Based on the calculations, it was identified which groups of reliefs predominate in the system of other reliefs, as well as in the reliefs that are losses of budget revenues. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that the amount of "structural reliefs" of VAT in Ukraine is 4.5 times higher than the amount of tax expenditures, which, if necessary, can be considered as a reserve for increasing tax revenues to the state budget of Ukraine. The shortcomings of the systematic accounting of VAT reliefs in the Directories of tax reliefs have been identified and proposals aimed at improving the correctness and completeness of their accounting have been developed.
PECULARITIES OF THE PROCESS OF NON-FINANCIAL REPORTING FORMATION IN UKRAINE
Authors:   National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Dielini Maryna
Published: May 2022

Under the condition of sustainable development, corporate social responsibility (CSR) becomes more important, and can be the key to improving the company's image and competitiveness on the market. Areas and forms of CSR implementation are numerous, one of which is the company's reporting on socially responsible practices. The importance of non-financial reporting is also emphasized by the Concept of state policy in the field of promoting corporate social responsibility in Ukraine until 2030 that highlights the necessity to publish non-financial reporting, which substantiates the topic of this scientific article. The purpose of the article is to determine the features of the introduction and dissemination of the practice of compiling and forms of non-financial reporting in Ukraine as a direction of manifestation of social responsibility of business. Methods of the article include analytical, statistical, comparison, and extrapolation ones etc. Theoretical analysis allows determining the main standards by which non-financial reports can be generated. These include: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), UN Global Compact Report, AA1000 Standard, SA 8000: 2001 Social Responsibility Standard, and ISO 26000 Standard. Among the most common are the GRI Standard and UN Global Compact Report. The practical results of the study reveal that in Ukraine the number of GRI reports has increased compared to 2008, but this development is uneven. A comparison of the number of non-financial reports in Ukraine and Europe according to the Corporate Register found out that the number of reports in European countries has different trends: a decrease in 2017-2018 in some countries (UK, Germany, and France) and a subsequent revival to gradual growth in all countries. Analysis of the Transparency Index, calculated by the Center for the Development of Corporate Social Responsibility that considers the websites of companies based on CSR information for the period 2012-2020 reflects a change of countries that are leaders in this indicator. A positive characteristic is that among the TOP-10 companies there are not only private enterprises, but also state-owned ones. Overall indicators of CSR practices tend to increase and reflect the growing importance of this area of corporate social responsibility.
Natureza da Biologia, ensino por investigação e alfabetização científica: uma revisão sistemática
Authors: Santana Ana Júlia Soares , Araújo Mota Maria Danielle
Published: May 2022

O Ensino de Biologia pode oferecer o ambiente oportuno para levar a compreensão de como são realizados os estudos na Biologia enquanto Ciência, ou seja, pode promover a aprendizagem acerca da Natureza da Biologia, bem como o envolvimento no processo de Alfabetização Científica, mas para que isso ocorra é preciso uma prática pedagógica preocupada com essa finalidade, cujo Ensino por Investigação pode ser uma abordagem de grande relevância. Nessa perspectiva, a presente pesquisa tem o objetivo de analisar as Sequências de Ensino Investigativo de Biologia no Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências (ENPEC), no Encontro Nacional de Ensino de Biologia (ENEBIO) e no Encontro de Ensino por Investigação (ENECI). Para tal, foi realizada uma Revisão Sistemática de Literatura, reunindo trabalhos que, ao serem analisados, revelaram elementos da Natureza da Biologia relacionados às características, aos recursos para o estudo e a experimentação na Biologia, assim como da Alfabetização Científica.
Methodological choices in developing scenarios in vocational education and training – Reflections on three European scenario projects
Authors: Grollmann Philipp , Markowitsch Jörg
Published: May 2022

The aim of this article is to explore methodological issues related to scenarios on vocational education and training (VET). In particular, we examine the extent to which VET scenarios depend or build on generalizable future expectations (“myths of the future”) or archetypes of the future. The analysis builds on a review of recent methodological literature on scenario building applied to three international scenario studies on VET carried out by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), in which the authors were partly involved.

We argue that neither scenarios on a particular issue (“issue-based”) nor on the future of a particular society (“area-based”) do justice to diverse VET systems but that scenarios in VET need to be “institution-based”. Hence, both the relative independence of VET systems and their path dependency – especially in transnational projects – need to be taken into account. In conclusion, we propose that the regular application of the scenario approach could be a useful complement to various other prospective approaches used to guide European employment and vocational training policies.
Conflicting roles of vocational education: Civic, Industrial, Market and Project Conventions to address VET scenarios
Authors: Marhuenda-Fluixá Fernando
Published: May 2022

Vocational education and training is more complex than academic education. It is also subject to important differences among countries due to at least two factors: a) the particular fabric of the productive system of the country and b) the involvement of social actors (employers and unions) as well as the labor market relations and the balance between capital and work.

Historical and comparative vocational education and training has deployed a series of analytical tools which have contributed to identify different patterns of existing vocational education systems. Some institutions have also worked in order to help vocational education advance in the past decades: among these, the European Center for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) has twice devised future scenarios in Vocational education, at the turn of the 20th century and right before the Covid-19 pandemics.

The combination of current VET systems and suggested scenarios indicate that transformations are subject to negotiation among actors within countries (administration, employers, unions, teachers) and across countries; as well as subject to legitimation of decisions before the wider society. The sociology of conventions is a useful approach to analyse processes of negotiation and legitimation behind historical developments in VET systems; we suggest applying it to tackle current VET scenarios.
„Biblia Paulińska” (2008) wobec tradycji polskich (katolickich) przekładów Pisma świętego
Authors:   Uniwersytet Gdański, Polska, Matuszczyk-Podgórska Bożena
Published: May 2022

The aim of the paper is to illustrate translators’ strategies adopted for rendering in Polish the so-called Pauline Bible, the latest (2008) Catholic version of the original Script. This translation is a response to the challenges posed by contemporary culture; it is meant to convey Biblical ideas in language appealing to the cntemporary recipient. At the same time, the translators and editors engaged in this task had to take into account the deeply rooted in the Polish culture traditions of translating the Bible and rendering its message: 1) the tradition of faithful philological translation, 2) the tradition of the Polish Biblical translation style (established by the Rev. Jakub Wujek), 3) the tradition of the Millennium Bible (1965). The author uses selected samples to illustrate how the Pauline Bible, departing from the method of literal translation, manifested in, e.g., reflecting Semitisms, does not abandon the principle of fidelity and remains consitent with the idiosyncrasies of the Polish Biblical style. This is in accordance with the overall intention to reconcile fidelity with comprehensibility. The paper is an introduction to further research into issues involved in the said translation.
Pogranicze językowe i kulturowe w nieoficjalnym nazewnictwie powiatu jarosławskiego w województwie podkarpackim
Authors:   Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Polska, Oronowicz-Kida Ewa
Published: May 2022

The purpose of the article is to present the linguistic and cultural borderland in unofficial anthroponyms and microtoponyms from the district of Jarosław, whose eastern border largely coincides with the border of Poland and Ukraine. Borderland means the sphere of contact and coexistence of various phenomena on the border of geographical neighborhood, but also on the level of language and cultural properties as well as the linguistic and civilizational awareness of the inhabitants of a given area. The analyzed names are characterized by East Slavic and South-East borderlands’ influences, visible mainly in the field of phonetics and word formation, making these names broadly understood linguistic hybrids, i.e. linguistic forms combining phonetic and morphological elements of different languages. The best persistent East Slavic linguistic features in both unofficial anthroponyms and microtoponyms are phonetic properties in the form of g and h pleophony and substitutions, and hybrid derivatives. The constant presence of Ukrainian and South-East borderlands’ lexis and words semantically related to East Slavic cultural and religious realities also deserves attention. All this testifies to the ethnic, social and cultural roots of people living in this borderland.
Kilka uwag o języku liturgii
Authors:   Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Polska, Ożóg Kazimierz
Published: May 2022

Every human action in the dimension of the person and group is surrounded by language. The rule of being in a word also applies to religion and especially to the relationships of man and community with God. The article analyses the fundamental role of language in the liturgy of the Catholic Church. In the author’s view the great communication act defining liturgical events consists of a series of mocro-acts: worship, prayer, thanksgiving, repentance and theological statement. Liturgy is a great character behavior. The shape of liturgical formulas is logical, transparent, representing mainly the high variety of Polish.
Mikrotoponimy Beskidu Niskiego jako symptomy pogranicza
Authors:   Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Polska, Słabczyński Robert
Published: May 2022

This paper describes the microtoponyms of the south-eastern part of the Beskid Niski region, which before World War II was inhabited mainly by Lemkos and Poles. In spite of the fact that the examined area lies on the border of Poland and Slovakia, in this paper it is treated as an internal borderland, mainly between a nation (Poles) and an ethnic community that is not a nation (Lemkos). The microtoponyms collected during the research are interpreted as linguistic signs revealing phenomena and processes connected with the coexistence of groups of people who differ in language, culture and religion. In this paper selected issues concerning microtoponyms as symptoms of ethno-linguistic, religious and socio-cultural borderlands are discussed successively.
Styl religijny we współczesnych tekstach modlitewnych – analizy egzemplaryczne
Authors:   Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, Polska, Wojtak Maria
Published: May 2022

The article presents a characteristics of the religious style as a variety of modern Polish. This style is shown as a polarized and polymorphic category, open to other varieties of the language. In the analytical part the author focuses on description of those features of the religious style that are a continuation of the past. She shows such stylistic properties in the prayer texts as stereotyping, formulaicity, hieraticism and dialogicality, as promoted by the Catholic Church today (in the 21st century). Grammatical and lexical exponents of these features, i.e. forms treated as archaic, bookish and obsolete distance communication thus formed from the colloquial language.
Ocena przydatności narzędzia badawczego na podstawie studium przypadku dziecka bilingwalnego w ujęciu logopedycznym
Authors:   Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Zarządzania w Rzeszowie, Polska, Myśliwiec Iwona
Published: May 2022

The aim of this paper is to introduce, analyze, and discuss the Language Development Test (LDT) as a tool for examining bilingual children. The research was based on a case study of a boy who was at the stage of acquiring Polish as an L2. The obtained test result differs significantly from the opinion of the Polish language teacher and speech therapist who cooperated with the boy from the moment of his arrival in Poland to the time of the final examination. Alex’s score on the Language Development Test (TRJ) corresponds to the third level. In reality, however, the boy mastered the language well enough to begin his education in a Polish school, keeping up with his Polish peers in acquiring knowledge and expanding his linguistic competence. This demonstrates the lack of valid tools for examining bilingual and multilingual children. Standards for these groups should be developed separately.
O zagadkowej nazwie osobowej: Mazalon
Authors:   GSW – Gniezno, Polska, Czaplicka-Jedlikowska Maria
Published: May 2022

The article and its graphic attempts to establish the origin of the personal name Masalon [a German citizen] and a graphic version of Mazalon [a Polish citizen], which for people signing with this surname is still a mystery. The bearers of this surname look for traces of traces of the origin of the root maz- as an appellative basis for the personal name Mazalon in the dictionaries of Polish and other European languages, because they want to establish the linguistic origin of their surname and the place on the map associated with their roots. The article discusses several paths of such searches and deliberations on the recorded forms.
Pachnące cynamonem #keto #ciasteczka polecają się na #Święta :D. Środki perswazji w profilu kulinarnym (@moderncavegirl)
Authors:   Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Polska, Drozd Barbara
Published: May 2022

The purpose of this article is a linguistic analysis of the blog entries under the photos posted on the @moderncavegirl profile, which is related to the ketogenic diet. The author also has a blog: moderncavegirl.pl, where she publishes her recipes. Instagram plays the role of promoting the blog. Due to the fact that the blog entries concern food, it will be important to determine how the author promotes her blog, what linguistic means she uses for this, how she writes about food to encourage people to reach for the recipe and make us of it. The aforementioned linguistic means or constructions can be divided into those that are used to promote a blog directly or indirectly. Direct promotion of a blog applies to those constructions that are explicit incentives to visit it or that inform the recipient that the recipe can already be found on the website. Indirect promotion of the blog is related to persuasive linguistic constructions.
Anny Świrszczyńskiej anegdota o przemijaniu. Konceptualizacja upływu czasu w języku poezji
Authors:   Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach, Polska, Fert-Cichecka Elżbieta
Published: May 2022

This article has presented the methods for conceptualization of passage of time in the poetry by a Polish poetess – Anna Świrczyńska. The poetess depicts the process of aging from the individual and personal perspective. She highlights the nontraditional ways of how women’s aging is perceived. The analysis of Świrczyńska’s poetic works has been conducted with linguistic methods based on cognitivism (profiling) and structuralism. In Anna Świrczyńska’s poems, time and passing are one of the elements of life. Thus, apart from negative evaluation, they are subject to positive valorization.
Bo jak żyć i nie mówić. Fenomen izolacji społecznej i komunikacyjnej w powieści „Kamień na kamieniu” Wiesława Myśliwskiego
Authors:   Instytut Literaturoznawstwa i Językoznawstwa, Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach, Polska, Kominek Andrzej
Published: May 2022

One of the protagonists of the novel “Stone Upon Stone” by Wiesław Myśliwski is Michał Pietruszka. After the dramatic end of his career, Michał returns to the village where he once lived. He becomes nobody due to a mental illness and the loss of social position. He stops talking and communicating with the outside world. The article aims to show that language helps to merge the human self. Besides language, man is nobody and does not exist.
Krytyk i/a recenzent – znaczenie pojęć w słowniku i w tekście
Authors:   Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Polska, Krauz Maria
Published: May 2022

The subject of the article is to discuss the evolution of the meaning of terms that are part of the critical discourse: critic and reviewer. The author, analyzing the lexicographic definitions from older and contemporary sources, and the use of the discussed lexemes, collected primarily in the resources of the National Corpus of the Polish Language, looks for answers to the questions of whether critic and reviewer are synonymous terms, how their meaning evolves in dictionaries and in the text, in which new contexts: whether the subject of the review changes, what characteristics the person evaluating someone or something has, and what actions are taken by critics and reviewers.
A toy bear in lockdown, child-parent attachment and hegemonic peer-orientation
Authors: Mutch Carol , Romero Noah
Published: May 2022

Towards the end of the first COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020, in Aotearoa New Zealand, the authors conducted a small-scale study to gain insight into children’s responses to the pandemic restrictions. As it was not possible to interview children ourselves, we recruited parents to read a set of digital stories about a toy bear in lockdown to their children and to record the ensuing conversations. The recorded conversations were returned to the authors to be transcribed and analysed. One intriguing finding was the strength of children’s feelings of loss in regard to their friendship groups, despite the fact that the lockdowns enabled them to spend more time with their immediate families. This article examines the phenomenon of the importance of peer-orientation over family-orientation as it appeared in the data. Hegemonic thinking and attachment theory are used to further explore this phenomenon and discuss how the current educational trends towards personal independence over family bonds might have led to some of the feelings of loss and anxiety highlighted in the data.
Optimum percentage of steel fibres of HPFRCC for reduction of transverse reinforcement in beam–column joints
Authors: Behzad Shahram , Hossein Saghafi Mohammad , Golafshar Ali
Published: May 2022

Reinforcement congestion causes problems during construction, including improper concrete pouring and concrete vibration. In this study, the replacement of normal concrete by high-performance fibre-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCC) has been investigated in order to reduce the amount of transverse reinforcement and prevent reinforcement congestion in beam–column joints. Uniaxial compression and tension tests were used to determine the mechanical properties of HPFRCC materials. In order to investigate the effects of HPFRCC on improving and upgrading the joint strength, five half-scale exterior beam–column joint connections were tested under incremental cyclic lateral loading. The tested specimens consisted of two normal concrete control specimens with and without specific seismic details and three specimens of HPFRCC with different percentages of steel fibres. The cracking patterns, hysteresis behavior, bearing capacity, energy absorption and damping percentage of all test specimens were analysed and compared with the response of normal concrete specimens. Results show that the use of HPFRCC materials in the joint area improves seismic behavior and significantly increases load-bearing capacity, energy absorption and ductility. Moreover, it prevents the shear failure of the joint and the formation of the flexural plastic hinge in the beam.
Prediction of scour depth downstream of the flip bucket with machine learning techniques
Authors: Rashki Ghaleh Nou Mohammad , Azhdary Moghaddam Mehdi
Published: May 2022

One of the most common structures used for energy dissipation is the flip bucket. A jet passing through these spillways, after being thrown into the air and hitting the downstream bed, still has high energy, causing scour downstream of the spillway. Therefore, accurate estimation of the scour depth is important in the proper design of the main and related structures. In recent years, the use of computational intelligence has been widely used to estimate the scour depth accurately. In this research, the maximum scour depth was estimated using the three techniques of ‘gradient boosting decision tree’ (GBDT), ‘extra trees’ and ‘random forest’, then compared with previous results. The results indicate that the GBDT method, with an R2 of 0.992, a root mean square error of 0.231 and mean absolute error of 0.180, has the highest accuracy and lowest error.
Fall Reviews 2022
Authors: Blessing Patricia , Kauffman Jordan , Wang Lianming , Steinhardt Nancy
Published: May 2022

Fall Reviews 2022
Projective and other locative PPs in Greek
Authors: Ramadanidis Athanasios Michael
Published: May 2022

The distinction between projective and non-projective locative prepositions that has been proposed in the semantic literature (Zwarts & Winter 2000) is reflected in the syntax and morphology of Greek spatial expressions. Projective PPs in Greek are always complex, formed by a spatial “adverb” and the “light” preposition apo marking the ground DP. In non-projective PPs, which can be either simple or complex, the light preposition alternates between se (in locative and goal environments) and apo (in source and route environments). This is attributed to the different syntactic status of the “adverb”, which is shown to be a head in projectives, and an adjunct in non-projectives (cf. Theophanopoulou-Kontou 2000). The Greek data support an extended P projection analysis along the lines of Svenonius (2008; 2010) for projectives, which relates to their vector space ontology (Zwarts & Winter 2000). Non-projective expressions, on the other hand, are syntactically reduced.
Dispositivos de localización del sujeto y sus consecuencias para la educación
Authors: Bedoya-Hernández Mauricio , Martínez-Rodríguez Miguel , Arango -Tobón Mauricio
Published: May 2022

En el presente artículo se hace un diagnóstico del presente alrededor de la configuración ética del sujeto promovida por el neoliberalismo y de sus consecuencias para la educación. Para ello, se parte metodológicamente de las rejillas analíticas foucaultianas: el saber, el poder (concebido como gobierno) y la subjetivación. Concluimos que: (1) Se ha pasado de las sociedades disciplinarias a las sociedades de control a campo abierto que tienen un carácter neopanóptico; (2) en ellas los sujetos son gobernados a través de los dispositivos para la localización del sujeto; (3) el neoliberalismo busca destruir la acontecimentalidad del vivir y gobernarnos a partir de lo-mismo; (4) el modelo empresarial es asumido como êthos contemporáneo; (5) el sujeto es gobernado por la promesa de la libertad total y la ilimitación del deseo y el rendimiento y (6) cómo la colonización neoliberal de la educación coadyuva en la construcción de este neosujeto autogobernado, autorregulado, autoexplotado (productivo), hiperactivo y consumista (deseo, placer).
Nomenclatural corrections to the “Lycaenidae part V” of the “Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region” (Lepidoptera)
Authors: Bálint Zsolt
Published: May 2022

It is remarked that the type species of Bozanonia Bálint, 2022 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), Lycaena astorica Tytler, 1926, is a junior primary homonym and a junior subjective synonym of Lycaena astorica Evans, 1925. Tennentia Bálint, 2022 is a junior homonym of Tennentia Humbert, 1862 (Mollusca), therefore Johntennentia nom. nov. is proposed as a replacement name for it. It is remarked that the author and year of description of the type species of Tennentia Bálint, 2022, Lycaena martini Allard, 1867, was erroneously cited as “Oberthür, 1861” in the original publication.
South Africa's jurisdictional challenge with the under-development of cross-border commercial litigation: Litigation v Arbitration
Authors: Kurasha Primrose E.R.
Published: May 2022

Private international law is a globally established field of law however, its pre-eminence in Africa is insignificant and this has been as a result of its relevance, which according to many scholars is arguable. It follows logically therefore, that it is underdeveloped in Africa, and as this article posits, specifically in South Africa. This article advocates for the development of South African private international law by endorsing South Africa as a viable neutral jurisdiction venue for cross-border commercial disputes, in future. According to this article, this is to be achieved by the recognition of neutral jurisdiction clauses in South African courts. This can only be done by developing an effective and just system of cross-border/trans-national litigation. The proposed sound cross-border jurisdictional rules will supplement the newly established transnational arbitration regime. In order to achieve this, this research reflects an integrated comparative approach by establishing comparative perspectives mainly from the UK, USA, Brazil, Kosovo and South Africa.1 Based on its constitutional values of inalienable human rights and access to courts (justice), South Africa stands to gain immensely from incoming commercial arbitration and commercial litigation as forms of dispute resolution. This will establish the country as the preferred venue for arbitration and litigation on the African continent and beyond.
EFFECTIVE LOCAL GOVERNANCE: LARGE OR SMALL UNITS (THE ARMENIAN CASE)
Authors:   Armenian State University of Economics, Hayrapetyan Ruben , Mnatsakanyan Tigran ,   Matena International School of Leadership and Professional Development
Published: May 2022

The purpose of this research was to identify the impact of the size of local government units on the local public services, whether small or large local government units are preferable for the implementation of effective local governance. A whole complex of financial and socio-economic indicators from 465 amalgamated communities in Armenia, as well as the newly formed 52 clusters, were collected and analyzed, by creating a database and polynomial regression models to quantitatively measure the impact of the size of local government units on the provision of public services. The analysis has quantitatively proven that for certain public services it would be more favorable to have larger local government units, however, the small and medium-size consolidated clusters do not provide a significant increase in the provision of public services. Thus, for having substantial outcomes from consolidation the new local government units have to be much larger than they were before. Moreover, effective local governance requires both large and small local government units with its own powers and responsibilities. Disclosure of such relationships can be useful not only for ensuring better reforms in territorial administration and local governance but also for contributing to the theory and practice of public administration and local government.
EVALUATING DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE USING SURVEYS: INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE REVIEW AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE RESEARCH
Authors:   Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Dobrolyubova Elena
Published: May 2022

The use of digital technologies in public administration has become a major trend in both developed and developing countries. Not surprisingly, the research interest to evaluating digital government performance has also increased. Since international indices and national statistics is more focused on evaluating the supply side of government digitalisation, more and more researchers are using survey methods to assess the progress determinants and barriers to digital government success from the demand side. So far, the review of such empirical studies has been quite limited. This paper aims to fill this gap and provides a comprehensive international literature review of using surveys for evaluating digital government performance published in 2011-2021. For the purpose of the study, an analytical framework including four levels of digital government performance (inputs and outputs characterising the government digitalisation process and outcomes and impacts representing public values) as well as cost and risk constructs were proposed and used. The analysis of 216 empirical papers examining digital government performance in over 50 countries from 5 continents demonstrates that survey-based methods are widely used in both developed and developing economies, with varying levels of digital maturity. Several cross-country studies have been identified but most of the papers address digitalisation of public authorities at the national or local level. The core focus of the research is related to the adoption of digital public services and the extent of digital participation among citizens (and, to a much lesser extent, by businesses), while outcomes and societal impacts receive less attention regardless the level of e-government development of the relevant country. Noteworthy, there is growing interest in the issue of digital government risks. It is argued that more efforts should be made to evaluate the outcomes and impacts (public value) of digital government. Prospective research areas also relate to using survey methods to evaluate the performance of digital government in regulatory and enforcement areas, exploring variation of trust in government and trust in technology, measuring perceptions of government digitalisation risks, researching the reasons for avoiding digital interactions with the government on the part of citizens and businesses, and several others.
HOW OPEN IS OPEN? A STUDY OF TWO IRISH OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA WEBSITES
Authors:   Jeddah University, Khayyat Mashael , Aboulola Omar ,   Jeddah University, Khayyat Manal ,   Umm Al-Qura University
Published: May 2022

In discussions of Open Government Data (hereafter referred to as open data or OGD) in the academic literature, the question of what is meant by the word "open"? has to date received only limited attention. The use of Open Government Data (OGD) has spread globally as governments make more of their data available via electronically accessible formats for individuals to use and share. OGD is seen as something that has the potential to play an important role in achieving transparency, and accountability, enabling new forms of civic participation, and stimulates economic growth and development. However, there is a need to examine OGD datasets to determine whether they are truly open. The purpose of this paper is to investigate OGD openness based on a number of existing or proposed open data definitions and principles. The principles proposed by the work of the Open Government Working Group will be analyzed. The methodology that has been used to collect the data includes OGD website content analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interviews using purposeful and snowball sampling techniques. The results in this paper are just part of the overall study. This research has not been funded. The research limitation is it has been done only in the Irish context. It is an original study with primary data. The conclusion of this research mainly demonstrates that OGD in the Irish context is progressing but requires further work to be open based on the principles proposed by the Open Government Working Group works.
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS FOR PUBLIC SERVANTS’S POSITIVE MOOD, SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT – EVIDENCE FROM VIETNAM
Authors:   Vietnam National University, Khuong Mai Ngoc , Mai Tran Phuong ,   Vietnam National University
Published: May 2022

The study aims to examine the correlations among leadership styles, employee job satisfaction, positive moods, and organizational commitment in the public sector in Vietnam. A quantitative approach was implemented using partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The questionnaire was distributed to 457 respondents working in public agencies in seven southern provinces of Vietnam. The findings concluded that three leadership styles (task-oriented, relation-oriented, change-oriented) directly predicted positive moods, but only task-oriented and change-oriented leadership directly affected employee job satisfaction. Further associations were also confirmed, including the positive effects of positive mood and job satisfaction on organizational commitment. Consequently, the indirect influences between the independent variables (leadership styles) were also indicated. Perceiving the significance of organizational commitment as well as job satisfaction and positive moods from the empirical results, public leaders are able to establish their own appropriate strategies and policies to improve organizational performance in the public sector. Moreover, this article would provide a basis for further analyses in public administration, as this paper is one of the very first leading academic studies in Vietnam public sector.
WHEN RADICALISATION MEETS BUREAUCRACY: FLUID RADICALISATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON POLICY ALTERNATIVES IN INDONESIAN DE-RADICALISATION POLICIES
Authors:   University Sriwijaya, Bafadhal Oemar Madri , Santoso Anang Dwi ,   University Sriwijaya, Murti Krisna ,   University Sriwijaya
Published: May 2022

The increasing attention to counter-terrorism practices through counter-terrorism and de-radicalisation policies has not been matched by in-depth and comprehensive studies on terrorism and radicalisation.As a result, there is a misconception of both, leading to discriminatory counter-terrorism and de-radicalisation policies, which allow certain groups and the state to commit violence and take freedom from groups stigmatised as radical.This study seeks to examine terrorism and radicalism by exploring the interpretation of the government as an institution, which has the authority to interpret terrorism and radicalism,resulting in de-radicalization and counter-terrorism policies. A dataset consisted of news items about government activities on terrorism and radicalisation from three ministries/non-ministerial institutions wasused for corpus linguistics (CL) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) assisted by AntConc application. We found that the three agencies developed interpretations of radicalisitonas part of their main duties and functions. Radicalisation has become a very flexible concept, adapting to bureaucratic spaces, not to be solved but to obtain budget spaces. Finally, the government responded to the entry of radicalism as a public issue by fragmenting the whole concept of radicalisation and splitting it into various agencies, where it is suitable to be resolved,rather than unifying it comprehensively inthe National Counter-Terrorism Agency's mission.
CORRUPTION AND SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS IN THE YEMENI PUBLIC SECTOR: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
Authors:   Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Hazaea Saddam A. , Tabash Mosab I. , Tabash Mosab I. ,   Al Ain University, Zhu Jinyu ,   Yunnan university of finance and economics, Khatib Saleh. F. A. ,   University Teknologi Malaysia, Betami Hafedh A. ,   Qinghai University for nationalities
Published: May 2022

This study investigates the roles and contributions of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) in anti-corruption in Yemen, focusing on providing new empirical insights into their practical challenges. The study relies on data collected by the Central Organization for Control and Auditing (COCA), reports, and questionnaires. In total, 100 self-administrated questionnaires were distributed and 83 were collected and analysed at a rate of 83 %.. The results show that SAIs contribute significantly to detecting corruption, but they do not prevent corruption due to weak political stability and lack of application of laws. Moreover, SAIs face many obstacles, such as favoritism, weak internal audit systems, political instability, lack of independence and transparency in the financing process. In addition, the funds allocated to the apparatuses are not enough, which can hinder all the supplies, including modern tools of internal control. This study provides recommendations to improve the performance of SAIs, which, in turn, will reduce opportunities for corruption in the public sector. Moreover, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first empirical study that evaluates the role of SAIs in combating corruption by using reports from the COCA as the institution responsible for detecting corruption and corroborating information received from respondents, as well as transparency of international reports.
Getting started with Micro-Meta App Tutorial v5
Authors: Rigano Alessandro , Hammer Mathias , Ryan Joel , M. Brown Claire , Grunwald David , Strambio De Castillia Caterina
Published: May 2022

For quality, interpretation, reproducibility, and sharing value, microscopy images should be accompanied by detailed descriptions of the conditions that were used to produce them. Micro-Meta App is an intuitive, highly interoperable, open-source software tool that was developed in the context of the 4D Nucleome (4DN) consortium and is designed to facilitate the extraction and collection of relevant microscopy metadata as specified by the recent 4DN-BINA-OME tiered-system of Microscopy Metadata specifications. In addition to substantially lowering the burden of quality assurance, the visual nature of the Micro-Meta App makes it particularly suited for training purposes. In this protocol and in the associated videos (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd2SsBj4SIsh7eE1M7l4v5_EsjUQcsfb0) you will learn how to get started using the Micro-Meta App for documenting your imaging experiments. Want to learn more? Please watch Video 1 of the Tutorial Series and read the publications listed in the References section of this protocol to learn more about the Micro-Meta App and the underlying 4DN-BINA-OME tiered system of Microscopy Metadata specifications.
Single-molecule localisation microscopy iPSC-derived cortical neuron sample preparation v1
Authors: not provided gurvir.virdi , Choi Minee-Liane
Published: May 2022

.This is a method to prepare a sample using iPSC-derived cortical neurons for Single-molecule localisation microscopy (SMLM)
Donor eligibility Criteria for Human Liver for HuBMAP TTD-Columbia/PSU v1
Authors: Rajbhandari Presha , Tian Hua , Remotti Helen , not provided bs
Published: May 2022

This documents outline the criteria for human liver tissue donor eligibility for the Hubmap BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP), Transformative Technology Development (TTD) Center at Columbia University/Pennsylvania State University. Samples include those from liver resections/biopsies/transplantation. Donor eligibility, consent for tissue donation, documentation on donor medical history and sample storage is performed by the Columbia University Biobank.