bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Investigating the landing kinetics factors and preparatory knee muscle activation in female handball players with and without dynamic knee valgus while performing single leg landing
Authors: Mansouri Reyhaneh , Bahrami Fariba , Rajabi Reza , Minoonejad Hooman , Kaczmarczyk Katarzyna
Published: May 2021

Study aim: to examine the differences in landing kinetics factors (LKF) to assess the whole body stability and preparatory muscle activation (PMA) in female handball players with and without dynamic knee valgus.

Material and methods: Twenty-four professional female handball players (11 with (DKV) and 13 without (Control) dynamic knee valgus) were asked to perform three trials of a single-leg landing. LKF and surface EMG were recorded. Initial contact knee valgus angle (IC KVA), vertical ground reaction force (vGRF), confidence ellipse area of center of pressure (CEA), time to stability (TTS) and EMG from 100 ms prior to ground contact were used in the data analyses.

Results: Multivariate analyzing of LKF showed significant differences between two groups (p = 0.001) while for PMA the result was not significant (p = 0.361).

Conclusion: Altered landing mechanism considered as a predictor of non-contact knee injuries such as ACL rupture. Therefore according to current study it seems important to focus on reducing valgus angle in designing injury prevention program.
The Emergence of New States in Eastern Europe in 1918—Lessons for All of Europe
Authors: Balcer Adam
Published: May 2021

The year of 1918 was a crucial point in the history of Europe. Its importance does not only stem from the end of World War I, but also from the establishment of new states. Eastern Europe was particularly an arena where many new states emerged after the dissolution of tsarist Russia. The abovementioned process was correlated with the outcome of World War I (the defeat of the Central Powers on the Western Front and their victory on the Eastern Front against the tsarist Russia resulting in imposing their protectorate over Eastern Europe) but simultaneously it was influenced by the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution originating from a structural crisis of Russia.

The legacy of nation-building processes, taking place in the period of 1917–1921 in the European part of the tsarist Russia— even when some of the states did not manage to survive— occupies a key role in the historical memories of those countries. The importance of this legacy originates from the fact that these states often constituted the most progressive nation-building efforts in the world. The wider context of these developments and the important interlinkages existing between them are very often unfamiliar to many Europeans today. Despite that, the state-building attempts, undertaken in Eastern Europe between 1917 and 1921, had a huge impact on the trajectory of European history. Contextualising this particular academic enquiry with the events of 1918 and benefiting from methodological advantages of process tracing, our project represents an attempt to restore (or, if necessary, build from scratch) a communicational system for sending a historical message to a wider Europe. A century after, while celebrating the Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish truly big anniversaries in 2017–2018, Europeans have already forgotten how interconnected and interlinked the 1918-bound events had been and by how much those events had affected the entire European continent as well as the international system.
The Occurrence of Heavy Metals (Cadmium and Lead) in the Liver of Hogs in the Region of Vojvodina
Authors: Horvatović Miroslava Polovinski , Radović Ivan , Jajić Igor , Krstović Saša , Mirkov Mile
Published: May 2021

The purpose of this research is to investigate the occurrence of two heavy metals (namely cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb)) in the liver of hogs bred in different locations in Vojvodina. A total of 30 liver samples were collected from ten pig farms in Vojvodina for experimental purposes in the period from December 2017 to January 2018. The samples collected were analysed for the presence of lead and cadmium. The average concentration of lead in all the samples was 0.39 mg/kg wet weight, whereas the samples from only one farm of the ten considered were found to contain a slightly higher average lead concentration than permitted by the Serbian standard. A lead concentration of 0.86 mg/kg wet weight was detected in one liver sample from this farm. The maximum permitted lead concentration was exceeded in the liver samples obtained from three farms. However, all the liver samples analysed were found to contain the permitted levels of cadmium, with an average cadmium concentration of 0.12 mg/kg wet weight and a maximum cadmium concentration of 0.48 mg/kg wet weight. The occurrence of heavy metals and their origin in the pig’s offals should be examined in greater detail in future research, especially because pig’s offals are used in the meat processing industry.
Improving the Condition of European Hare Through Nutrition
Authors: Ernst Martin , Maděra Petr , Frantík Tomáš , Novák Jan , Vencl Štěpán
Published: May 2021

The objective of the article is to evaluate the effects of a newly designed granulated mixture enriched with Bohemian knotweed (Reynoutria x bohemica) on European hare (Lepus europaeus) kept at closed farms. The positive influence of knotweed on the microbiome in the digestive system and better usage of the fodder were proven based on biochemical and haematological analysis of blood. Lower manifestation of pathogenic organisms is also expected. Finally, the positive influence on higher weight gains in baby hares was proven, which improves their condition. The results can be used in practice at closed farms breeding European hare focused on releasing bred young hares into open hunting grounds where it is possible to obtain a monetary contribution for the releasing of hares from a grant of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic in the field of hunting. Furthermore, the results can be used for feeding hares in open hunting grounds.
Acute heart failure in pregnancy: importance of a timely multidisciplinary approach to recognition and management
Authors: Chacko Sanoj , De Bono Joseph , Marshall Howard , Haseeb Yumna B. , Haseeb Sohaib , Morris Katie , Thorne Sara
Published: May 2021

Increased cardiovascular demands of pregnancy may unmask occult diseases, such as dilated cardiomyopathy or valvular stenosis, or precipitate peripartum cardiomyopathy. We report a case of the emergency management and delivery of a young pregnant woman who presented with acute decompensated heart failure that was not immediately recognized. An emergency transfer to a tertiary care institution was arranged. Once diagnosed, the patient received multidisciplinary care shared between cardiologists, obstetricians, cardiac anesthetists, a neonatologist, and a midwife, resulting in good maternal and fetal outcomes.
The Impact of Legal Systems on Dividend Payments
Authors: Alikaj Albi , Limaye Aditya
Published: May 2021

This paper focuses on the amount of dividends paid to shareholders by companies in different countries and examines whether being in a country where the legal system offers weak shareholder protection affects dividend payments distributed to shareholders. The sample used for this study comprises 8,045 companies from 46 countries. Seven individual factors affecting shareholder protection were examined. Out of the seven factors, only two of them provide a significant relationship with dividend payments, and more specifically, the mechanisms put in place by companies to protect oppressed minority shareholders as well as minimum percentage share of capital in order for the shareholders to be eligible to call an extraordinary shareholder meeting.
Online Marketing Research - Roles in Generating Customer Insights
Authors: Pratap Chandra Mandal
Published: May 2021

Companies cannot take decisions without the availability of proper information. So, marketers need to have the latest information about the target market. Marketers achieve this by collecting information based on traditional data collection methods and online marketing research. The study discusses the various aspects of conducting online marketing research, role of the internet in online marketing research, strategies followed by companies for online marketing research, the ways in which companies communicate and act on the information generated from the research, and the advantages and the disadvantages of conducting online marketing research. The study suggests that companies should conduct online marketing research not only to collect information about customers but also to utilize the insights generated to formulate better strategies and to develop better relationships with customers.
Linguistically Sensitive Teaching in a Multilingual Context: Perceptions of Pre-Service Teachers of the Basque Autonomous Community
Authors: Aguirre Leire Ituiño , van der Worp Karin , Saragueta Eider , Galdos Oihane , Gaspar Artzai
Published: May 2021

Multilingual environments and migration have led to an increasing number of multilingual students, and consequently, to a need to take the varying linguistic repertoire of students into account in education. The aim of the present study is to explore Linguistically Sensitive Teaching (LST) as a possible linguistically inclusive approach and to examine how LST is perceived by pre-service primary teachers in the multilingual context of the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC), where the majority language, Spanish; the minority language, Basque; and the foreign language, English are included in the curriculum, all while some students might have other additional home languages that are not part of the curriculum. The methodological approach is a qualitative research study, in which data have been collected among a group of pre-service primary teachers from the BAC through written reflections, focus groups and observations. The results show the perceptions of the pre-service teachers on education policies in relation to linguistically sensitive teaching practices, good practices identified during their school placements, possibilities to promote Linguistically Sensitive Teaching in the classroom, the role of the minority language Basque in LST, and the threats, challenges and opportunities perceived in LST. It is concluded that despite some basic notions of LST, the lack of in-depth knowledge of pre-service teachers is visible, advocating for the need to include formation on LST in Initial Teacher Training.
“This is Not My World”. Essential Support Strategies for Newly Arrived Adult Immigrants Learning Swedish
Authors: John Oliver St , Liubinienė Vilmantė
Published: May 2021

In Sweden, the state-sponsored language education, Swedish for immigrants (Sfi), provides language and cultural knowledge for the integration of newly arrived adult migrants in Swedish society. Sfi’s educational quality has sustained severe criticism. Through qualitative investigation of Sfi teacher work, this study aims to find out what pedagogical priorities guide the teachers’ classroom practices with linguistically and culturally diverse students. Furthermore, it aims to compare the contributions to Sfi learning environments of ethnically diverse teachers whose language experiences are different. Research into second language acquisition and native and non-native second language teachers contextualize the research aims. Bakhtin’s (1986) conception of human understanding as the meeting of two consciousnesses and García’s ideas about translanguaging in language education for adult migrants provide theoretical perspectives. Classroom observation alongside teacher focus groups generated data. Content analysis condensed the data into five essential support strategies that foreground students’ existential needs, their home languages as a learning resource, integration, learning challenge and instructional partnership between ethnically diverse teachers. Findings do not support the view that non-native language teachers are better equipped to teach second language students than their native counterparts but illuminate the unequivocal advantage of harnessing the pedagogical strengths of both teacher groups cooperatively.
Flipped Learning in Education: A Content Analysis
Authors: Haidov Rustam , Bensen Hanife
Published: May 2021

The continuously progressive education system of the 21st century requires the introduction of innovative teaching methodologies incorporating up-to-the-minute technology-oriented styles, which are capable of changing the traditional ways of conducting classes presenting teachers as the ultimate source of knowledge, with a new notion which considers teachers as facilitators and guiders in the world of information. A plethora of research has been conducted with respect to flipped learning, however, the number of research papers presenting content analysis is limited indicating the deficiency and lack of content analysis-based papers on Flipped Classroom in Education. Thus, to fill this gap in the literature, there is a demand for conducting a content analysis. In turn, the aim of this paper was to identify the importance and impact of the distributed documents on a Flipped Learning Model (FLM) in Education which was done by gathering data from the SCOPUS database with keywords ‘Flipped Classroom in Education’, within the range of ten years (2011-2020). All studies published in SCOPUS, were statistically analyzed and examined according to the year of publication, subject area, document type, country/territory, languages, source type, types of research and the research methods. It was found that the publications related to FLM in education had dramatically increased from the year 2011 to 2020. The findings of this study also highlighted the importance of FLM in education, especially in courses that require cognitive skills like social studies, medicine, and computer science.
Digital methods of analysis of subjective quality of life: case of Russian Regions
Authors: SHCHEKOTIN Evgeniy , MYAGKOV Mikhail , GOIKO Viacheslav , KASHPUR Vitaliy
Published: May 2021

The paper presents a method for measuring subjective quality of life in the regions of the Russian Federation on the basis of digital data. Information about online activity of users in the largest social media in Russia - VKontakte was taken as the data source. Quality of Life Index was calculated based on the obtained data. The results show that overall users tend to negatively assess the quality of life in their regions, with the highest estimates of the quality of life observed in the “ethnic” areas of the Russian Federation – republics, autonomous territories, districts and regions, first of all, in North Caucuses, Siberia and the Russian Far East. The lowest quality-of-life assessments of are noted in some regions in West Siberia. The paper analyses how the results of measuring quality of life with digital methods correlate with objective social-and-economic and demographic indicators of regional development. Several regularities for the “ethnic” areas are revealed while in other areas (regions, territories, cities of federal status) no significant correlations were established. The paper also gives a comparative analysis of quality of life assessments obtained through traditional questionnaire methods and digital methods.
Public support and administration barriers towards entrepreneurial intentions of students in Poland
Authors: WACH Krzysztof , BILAN Svitlana
Published: May 2021

The extant literature on entrepreneurial intentions has examined the relationship between human entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurship policy, especially in terms of institutional environment and institutionalism or the role of supporting policies. The aim of this article is to empirically verify the impact of perceived public support and institutional barriers on students' entrepreneurial intentions. The article uses the quantitative approach typical for social sciences. Based on a literature review, two hypotheses were retrieved, and then empirically verified. The primary tool was a survey conducted on a relatively large sample of 719 students of seven different universities from Krakow (Poland). The multiple regression was applied as a leading tool for hypotheses verification. The results confirmed that positively perceived public support in favour of entrepreneurship strengthens the young generation's entrepreneurial intentions to start their own business, while negatively perceived administration barriers against entrepreneurship blunts the young generation's entrepreneurial intentions to start their own business. Therefore, this article's contribution to extant literature is the replication of research from well-advanced economies in the discussed scope and its transfer to the realities in Poland. Furthermore, the contribution of this article is a verification of the postulated negative perception of institutional barriers, and not just obstacles related to obtaining financial support, as it is the case in various articles.
Disagreement between assessment of ASD utilizing the ADOS-2 and DSM-5 – A preliminary study
Authors: Freudenstein Ornit , Shimoni Hagit , Gindi Shahar , Leitner Yael
Published: May 2021

Presented study addressed different assessment of ASD obtained with the use of the ADOS-2 and compared with the DSM-5 with children between 8 and 10 years old. Case series data were used on four children who were referred with suspected autism, and as a result a discre- pancy was found between the ADOS-2 assessment and the overall diagnosis.

Initial findings indicated that age, additional diagnoses, and over-reliance on observa- tion may bias the ADOS-2 classification. In particular, children who were diagnosed with other disorders that share symptoms with ASD exhibit behaviors that may bias the ADOS-2 classification as it relies on observed behavior without considering the underlying cause. This discrepancy points to the importance of utilizing and integrating multiple sources of information in the process of establishing an ASD diagnosis, and suggests a need for specialized clinical training in diagnosing autism and other related co-morbid conditions in children aged 8–10.

This preliminary data calls for further research into the area, especially due to the cur- rent over-reliance on the ADOS-2 in clinical practice and research.
The dynamics of using thematic group “Religion” in the works of K. G. Paustovsky
Authors: Sukhanova Irina Yur'evna
Published: May 2021

The subject of this research is the dynamics of using thematic group “Religion” in the literary works of K. G. Paustovsky. The eight-volume collection of the writer's works served as the material for this research. The goal is to characterize the specificity of functionality of the lexicon with the semantics of religion in the works of K. G. Paustovsky. The article employs the following methods: descriptive-analytical, system description, inductive-hypothetical, contextual analysis and qualitative analysis; observation and interpretation techniques. The practical value of this research lies in the possibility to use its results in the university disciplines, such as “Philological Analysis of the Text”, “Modern Russian Language”, “History of the Russian Literary “Language”, and “Stylistics”. The scientific novelty consists in studying the lexicon of the thematic group “Religion” in the works of K. G. Paustovsky in the dynamic aspect (the author offers the methodology of three-stage analysis). It is determined that the linguistic unit pertaining to “Religion” in the works of K. G. Paustovsky indicate a significant dynamics of their application relate to a particular period of his creative path, functions of a literary work,  levels of artistic usage, division of nominations into subgroups and micro-groups. All of the aforementioned characteristics are interrelated. The presented material will be valuable in the Paustovsky’s studies, theory of poetic speech, functional-semantic research.
The journey of Claire in the works of Gaito Gazdanov: the analysis of the female image of Claire in the novels “An Evening with Claire”, “Hannah”, and “The Fate of Salome”
Authors: Zhu Ziwei
Published: May 2021

  This article is dedicated to the analysis of the female image of Claire and its variant in the works of Gaito Gazdanov. This character type in the works of G. Gazdanov often resembles the past in the present, i.e. an important part of the “lost world” for the protagonist. However, deliberate examination allows following the gradual transformation of the authors attitude towards the character of Claire throughout his creative path. In the novel “Ab Evening with Clair”, the author adheres to priority of that past world over the present, while in the novel of his later period “The Fate of Salome”, the narrator tends to release from the shadow of the past. The underlying cause for such change lies in the transition of the writer from the romantic theurgical worldview towards phenomenal. In the later period, Gazdanov reconsidered the real world and justified the earthly existence due to the fact that submerging into the own inner world can entail loneliness and dissolution “Self” in one’s mind. The goal of this research consists in tracing the transformation of the role of Claire in the works of Gaito Gazdanov, as well as in description of different types of relations between the protatonist and the heroine in order to prove the evolution of the writer's reasoning on the problem of “two-worldness”. The relevance of this article consists in explication of the type of Claire in Gazdanov’s artistic system of “two-worldness” as a literary technique, as well as from the new perspective of studying the evolution the writer’s worldview.  
Russian lexicon in the lexical-semantic space of the newspaper “Tercüman”
Authors: Koroglu Lenura Ablyamitovna
Published: May 2021

The subject of this article is the Russian lexicon used in the Turkic-language texts of the newspaper “Tercüman” (Translator) of the late XIX century. The author determines the following thematic groups of the Russian loanwords: military, journalistic, political vocabulary, legal, pedagogical, economic, and literary studies lexicon, as well as the names of food and consumer goods. The examples of sociopolitical borrowed lexicon are most common, as they are the leading feature of the newspaper language. Description is given to the methods of explaining Russian lexicon in the Turkic-language text. In the provided examples, the Russian lexicon is both explicable and explanatory. Semanticization is carried out via explanatory conjunction “yani” (that is). In some examples, Russian equivalents are given in parentheses or comma separated. Use of the Russian lexeme in the text without clarification, indicates its earlier borrowing into the Crimean Tatar language. The scientific novelty of this research consists in determination of the Russian loanwords used in the Crimean Tatar written language of the late XIX century, as well as in broadening knowledge in the field of the history of lexicology of the Crimean Tatar language. The conducted research allows tracing the diachrony of infiltration of the Russian loanwords into the Crimean Tatar language, as well as reveals the international lexicon that came into the Crimean Tatar language through the means of Russian language and retains the Russian phonic sounds. Leaning on the provided examples, the author examines grapho-phonetic peculiarities and spelling of the Russian loanwords in Arabic text in the Crimean Tatar language. This work may be valuable for further research of the history infiltration and peculiarities of the use of Russian loanwords in the Crimean Tatar language.
TPU-design: a range of colors and materials
Authors: Napreenko Lidia  Sergeevna
Published: May 2021

The object of this research is the transport hub in urban environment, while the subject is the engineering capacity of its design. Based on the previously conducted classification, the author determines the key trends in modern engineering practice, illustrated by the examples of Russian and foreign projects. The goal of this research is to explore the peculiarities of design characteristics of a transport hub in urban environment and give them a comprehensive description. Special attention is turned to characteristics as the range of colors and materials. The author examines the coloristic solution of the compositions of transport hub, as well as the impact of color perception upon the stress level of the passengers. The main results of this research consist in the determined coloristic characteristics of TPU-design depending on the spatial structure of the hub and its location in the urban environment. The novelty lies in the analysis of transport hubs from the perspective of design, as well as in outlining the term “TPU-design”, which characterizes the entirety of the elements of spatial composition and artistic-expressive means. The author's special contribution consists in accumulation and systematization of information on the most interesting projects of transport hubs from the perspective of the concept of “TPU-design”.
Green Kampong Management Using a Participatory Community Approach
Authors: Solikhah Nafiah , Fatimah Titin , Kusumawati Mega , Lufthansa Alifia
Published: May 2021

The urban kampong ‘kampung kota’ is an essential part of the formation of city structures. One existing urban kampong in Jakarta is kampung Tanjung Gedong, located at RT 05/RW 08, Tomang Sub-district, Grogol Petamburan District in West Jakarta. Its location, which is 500 meters from Untar Campus 1, was one consideration for selecting kampung Tanjung Gedong as a partner. The team has also carried out community service activities (PKM) in this location, and it is expected that the program implemented would be sustainable. In the context of urban life, kampung Tanjung Gedong has physical, spatial, and environmental problems, mainly due to the high level of building density. The purpose of these activities was to provide a solution for urban village management using a participatory community approach. The proposed solution is penataan Kampung Hijau ‘Green Kampong Management’ by involving community members’ active participation from the beginning of the planning to the management through the placemaking method, which involves three approaches: green planning and design, green open space, and green community. This proposed green kampong concept is expected to overcome the problems encountered by the partner in achieving a healthy and comfortable environment for residents. The concept of green kampong is a promising solution in solving the physical environmental and spatial problems of kampung kota Tanjung Gedong. The program has improved the quality of the environment and increased the community's social quality in a form of a healthier lifestyle.
Кристаллическая структура и рентгеноспектральное исследование биядерного тиоцианатного кластерного комплекса ниобия(IV)
Authors: Федоренко А.Д. , Фоменко Я.С. , Гонгола М.И. , Первухина Н.В. , Калинкин А.В. , Николенко А.Д. , Гущин А.Л.
Published: May 2021

Методом РСА изучено строение биядерного тиоцианатного комплекса ниобия(IV) — (Bu4N)4[Nb2(μ2-S2)2(NCS)8]·H2O (1·H2O). Соединение 1·H2O кристаллизуется в ромбической сингонии (пространственная группа Pbca) с параметрами элементарной ячейки a = 23.2139(4) Å, b = 25.2962(4) Å, с = 32.5478(6) Å, V = 19112.8(6) Å3, R = 0.0592. Методами рентгеновской спектроскопии изучена электронная структура комплексов (Bu4N)4[Nb2(μ2-S2)2(NCS)8] и (Bu4N)4[Nb2(μ2-Se2)2(NCS)8], проведено сравнение с полимерными халькогалогенидами Nb2S4Br4 и Nb2Se4Br4. Методом РФЭС показано, что эффективные заряды на атомах ядра {Nb2(μ-Q2)2}4+ (Q = S, Se) не изменяются при переходе от Br– к NCS– лигандам. Методами РЭС и XANES изучена структура HOMO и LUMO для (Bu4N)4[Nb2(μ2-S2)2(NCS)8] и (Bu4N)4[Nb2(μ2-Se2)2(NCS)8]. Установлено, что наибольшие вклады состояний S 3p лигандов NCS– в занятые молекулярные орбитали находятся вблизи верхней границы валентной зоны, тогда как вклады от дихалькогенидных мостиковых лигандов имеют более равномерное распределение. В случае зоны проводимости вклады состояний S 3p лигандов NCS– расположены в более глубокой области, а вклады от дихалькогенидных мостиковых лигандов — вблизи нижней границы зоны проводимости. Взаимодействие состояний Nb 4d и S 3p/Se 4p дихалькогенидных мостиков для HOMO имеет разрыхляющий характер, для всех остальных занятых молекулярных орбиталей — связующий, а для всех свободных молекулярных орбиталей — разрыхляющий.
Mural as Educational Media at Simpay Asih Kindergarten, Cideres, Majalengka, Jawa Barat
Authors: Halim Erwin Ardianto , Sherlywati Sherlywati , Octaviani Tri
Published: May 2021

Murals as educational media are a means of student development and good social life. Simpay Asih Kindergarten needs other learning media in teaching its students so that murals can be an alternative. Murals also provide motivation in learning. Another impact of a mural is to create a beautiful and positive space. Mural painting is painting in stages. Concepts and sketches are the first stage, then proceed to the preparation of the walls as a medium for painting, and the last stage is the final touch. Teachers and students of Simpay Asih Kindergarten welcomed the implementation of this mural, so that a positive response was obtained. With enthusiasm, the mural can have a positive impact on Simpay Asih Kindergarten students.

Keywords: mural; education; kindergarten
Informing Agility in the Context of Organizational Changes
Authors: Skyrius Rimvydas , Krutinis Mindaugas , Nemitko Svetlana , Valentukevičė Justina , Andžej Gulbinovič Norbert , Sanosianaitė Marija
Published: May 2021

Aim/Purpose. This paper, although conceived earlier than the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, addresses the problem of informing agility as part of organizational agility that has become a rather important issue for business survival.

Background. While the general issues of business informing, and business intelligence (BI) in particular, have been widely researched, the dynamics of informing, their ability to act in accord with changes in business and preserve the key competencies has not been widely researched. In particular, the research on BI agility is rather scattered, and many issues need to be clarified.

Methodology. A series of in-depth interviews with BI professionals to determine relations between organizational agility and BI agility, and to round up a set of key factors of BI agility.

Contribution. The paper clarifies a candidate set of key factors of BI agility and gives ground for future research in relations with areas like corporate and BI resilience and culture.

Findings. The interview results show the relations between organizational changes, and changes in BI activities. BI has limited potential in recognizing important external changes but can be rather helpful in making decision choices and detecting internal problems. Lack of communication between business and IT people, existence of data silos and shadow BI, and general inadequacy of organizational and BI culture are the key factors impairing BI agility.

Recommendations for Practitioners. There are practical issues around BI agility that need solving, like the reason-able coverage of standards or creation of a dedicated unit to care about BI potential.

Recommendations for Researchers. The research is still in its starting phase, but additional interesting directions start to emerge, like relations between BI agility, resilience and corporate agility, or the role of informing culture and BI culture for BI agility issues.

Impact on Society. Agile business, especially in times of global shocks like COVID-19, loses less value and has more chances to survive.

Future Research. Most likely this will be focused on the relations between BI agility, resilience, and corporate agility, and the role of informing culture and BI culture for BI agility issues.
Some Ostrowski type integral inequalities via generalized harmonic convex functions
Authors:   Department of Mathematics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Pakistan, Tariq Muhammad , Butt Saad Ihsan ,   Department of Mathematics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Pakistan
Published: May 2021

In this paper, we aim to introduce a new notion of convex functions namely the harmonic \(s\)-type convex functions. The refinements of Ostrowski type inequality are investigated which are the generalized and extended variants of the previously known results for harmonic convex functions.
Maintenance Management Research of a Large-span Continuous Rigid Frame Bridge Based on Reliability Assessment by Using Strain Monitored Data
Authors: Li Yinghua , Peng Kesheng , He Junyong , Shuai Qiangjun , Zou Gang
Published: May 2021

When the bridge components needing maintenance are the world problem at present, and the health monitoring system is considered to be a very helpful tool for solving this problem. In this paper, a large number of strain data acquired from the structural health monitoring system (SHMS) installed on a continuous rigid frame bridge are adopted to do reliability assessment. Firstly, a calculation method of punctiform time-dependent reliability is proposed based on the basic reliability theory, and introduced how to calculate reliability of the bridge by using the stress data transformed from the strain data. Secondly, combined with “Three Sigma” principle and the basic pressure safety reserve requirement, the critical load effects distribution function of the bridge is defined, and then the maintenance reliability threshold for controlling the unfavorable load state which appears in the early operation stage of this type bridge is suggested, and then the combination of bridge maintenance management and health monitoring system is realized. Finally, the transformed stress distribution certifies that the load effects of concrete bridges practically have a normal distribution; as for the concrete continuous rigid frame bridge with C50 strength grade concrete, the retrofit reliability threshold should be valued at 6.13. The methodology suggested in this article can help bridge engineers do effective maintenance of bridges, which can effectively extend the service life of the bridge and bring better economic and social benefits.
Der Charakter des genügend guten psychodynamischen Psychotherapeuten für Ältere
Authors: von der Stein Bertram
Published: May 2021

Der Autor nähert sich der Vorstellung eines genügend guten und der Alltagspraxis verpflichteten Alternspsychotherapeuten an, indem er typische Fallstricke und Einseitigkeiten in der Therapie benennt, die durch Lebensphase und Akzentuierung des Therapeuten bedingt sind. Nicht Kollegenpathologisierung, sondern die Notwendigkeit der Selbstreflexion angesichts von Eigenübertragung, Gegenübertragung und Gegenübertragungsagieren des Therapeuten wird unterstrichen. Stichworte: genügend guter Therapeut, ältere Patienten, Selbstreflexion
Regulation of the stress response by social buffering: A review across species
Authors: Avellaneda Matias Alejandro , Kamenetzky Giselle
Published: May 2021

This review presents a critical reading of the literature on social buffering in human and non-human animals. The term social buffering has been coined to refer to an attenuation of stress responses by the presence of conspecifics. Evidence shows that the buffer seems to be specific for each stage of development, being the mother the factor that attenuates the stress responses during early development and conspecifics of the same age, later in life. An animal model of scarcity of resources revealed that when being reared by a stressed mother, the social buffering effect does not occur. The literature reviewed allows us to approach a key factor related to stress and its effects in the different stages of ontogeny.
Before and After the Pandemic: Alcohol Consumption and Related Problems in Argentina
Authors: Conde Karina , Gimenez Paula Victoria , Salomón Tomás , Peltzer Raquel Inés , Laspiur Sebastián , Cremonte Mariana
Published: May 2021

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and isolation measures on alcohol consumption remains unknown among Latin-American countries. This paper characterizes differences in alcohol consumption and related problems before and after the pandemic among Argentinians from different genders, age groups, income levels, and behaviors regarding the acquisition of alcoholic beverages. Through an online survey 1446 participants were assessed regarding four alcohol consumption dimensions (frequency, quantity, heavy episodic drinking -HED- and alcohol-related problems) three months prior and after the first cases in the country and subsequent lockdown measures. Overall, participants reported small reductions for usual consumption and moderate ones for HED and related problems. As expected, very high reductions were found for those underage (14 to 18 years), and young adults (19 to 24 years). Those who had an increase in income after the pandemic did not report changes in consumption, while those whose income remained equal or lowered reported reductions. Those who did not report special behaviors to acquire alcohol (e.g. pre-stocking) informed decreases in consumption compared to those who did. This study provides new evidence on the impact of environmental factors in public health, suggesting restricted access to alcohol generates a significant decrease in alcohol consumption and related problems.
Problematika Kebijakan Hukum Terbuka (Open Legal Policy) Masa Jabatan Hakim Konstitusi
Authors: Baihaki Muhammad Reza , Fathudin Fathudin , Kharlie Ahmad Tholabi
Published: May 2021

Discourse about periodization of the term of office of the Constitutional Court judge ended at the Constitutional Court Decision Number 53/PUU-XIV/2016 and Number 73/PUU-XIV/2016 which transferred the authority of regulating the term of the constitutional judge to be fully regulated by the legislators (open legal polic). This article discusses the problem of the term of office of the Constitutional Court judge, if it is regulated as an open legal policy for the quality of the independence of judicial power held by the Constitutional Court. This article was prepared based on the results of normative legal research using the statutory approach. This article provides two conclusions. First, the open legal policy in determining the periodization of the term of constitutional judge has the potential to reduce the degree of independence of the judicial power. Second, a relatively long period of time is an ideal concept for the term of office of constitutional judge. The term of office of constitutional judge should be aligned with the Supreme Court’s tenure.
Refleksi Kedaulatan Negara dalam Penegakan Hukum Sumber Daya Alam Hayati di Zona Ekonomi Eksklusif
Authors: Novitasari Andriani Wahyuningtyas
Published: May 2021

The international law regime on EEZ has been developed by the international community through the United Nations Conference on and state practices. This regime is intended to protect the interests of coastal states from the danger of being depleted of biological natural resources by fishing activities based on the free sea regime. In addition, the EEZ is also intended to protect the interests of the coastal state in the field of marine environment conservation as well as marine scientific research in order to support the use of natural resources in the zone. UNCLOS gives sovereign rights to Indonesia as a coastal state to explore and exploit natural resources in the EEZ as well as jurisdictions relating to the exercise of these sovereign rights. For that reason needs integrated law enforcement an effort to conserve living natural resources in ZEE Indonesia. By using the normative legal writing method, this study describes how the concept of law enforcement of living natural resources in Indonesia's EEZ based on various laws and regulations.
The Importance of Needs in Uses and Gratification Theory
Authors: Kasirye Faiswal
Published: May 2021

Coined
in the early 1940s by Katz and Blumler (1974), the uses and gratifications
theory deals with understanding why people use certain types of media, what
needs do they have to use them, and what gratifications do they get from using
them. Historically, the theory was first introduced to understand why people
chose to consume the various forms of media that were present at the time in
1940s.
Interventions Reducing Affective Polarization Do Not Necessarily Improve Anti-Democratic Attitudes
Authors: Voelkel Jan G. , Chu James , Stagnaro Michael , Mernyk Joseph S. , Redekopp Chrystal , Pink Sophia Lerner , Druckman James , Rand David Gertler , Willer Robb
Published: May 2021

There is widespread concern that rising affective polarization – particularly dislike for outpartisans – exacerbates Americans’ anti-democratic attitudes. Accordingly, scholars and practitioners alike have invested great effort in developing depolarization interventions that reduce affective polarization. Critically, however, it remains unclear whether these interventions reduce anti-democratic attitudes, or only change sentiments toward outpartisans. In this paper, we address this question with experimental tests (total n=8,385) of three previously established depolarization interventions: correcting misperceptions of outpartisans, priming interpartisan friendships, and observing warm cross-partisan interactions between political leaders. While these depolarization interventions reliably reduced affective polarization, we do not find compelling evidence that these interventions reduced support for undemocratic candidates, support for partisan violence, or prioritizing partisan ends over democratic means. Thus, future efforts to strengthen pro-democratic attitudes may do better if they target these outcomes directly. More broadly, these findings call into question the previously assumed causal effect of affective polarization on anti-democratic attitudes.
Retraction of Published Research
Authors: Lab SDAG
Published: May 2021

In this installment of Science Corner, we focus on the latter definition of “retraction.” The retraction of a published study occurs when the editors of that journal determine that the published findings are not valid. There are several reasons for retractions, including but not limited to, plagiarism, duplicate publication, significant or undeclared conflicts of interest, fraud, ethical breaches, and error. Some of these reasons are associated with incompetence or lack of experience on the part of the researcher, whereas others are more egregious in nature, particularly when there is evidence of deliberate misrepresentations to either secure publication or to purport a specific conclusion. These issues are different from minor errors (e.g., numerical typos) that do not significantly affect the overall findings and implications of the study. In the case of minor errors, a brief correction statement or erratum is typically published to indicate the error that was made. A retraction, however, is a much more serious situation. It is often the last resort by publishers when the results of a study, after investigation, are deemed unreliable and unable to be corrected. Interestingly, there is no legal requirement for a publisher to retract a paper despite finding serious errors in the research (Enago Academy, 2018).
Everyday parameters for episode-to-episode dynamics in the daily music of infancy
Authors: Mendoza Jennifer K. , Fausey Caitlin M.
Published: May 2021

Experience-dependent change pervades early human development. Though trajectories of developmental change have been well charted in many domains, the episode-to-episode schedules of experiences on which they are hypothesized to depend have not. Here, we took up this issue in a domain known to be governed in part by early experiences: music. Using a corpus of longform audio recordings, we parameterized the daily schedules of music encountered by 35 infants ages 6-12 months. We discovered that everyday music episodes, as well as the interstices between episodes, typically persisted less than a minute, with most daily schedules also including some very extended episodes and interstices. We also discovered that infants encountered music episodes in a bursty rhythm, rather than a periodic or random rhythm, over the day. These findings join a suite of recent discoveries from everyday vision, motor, and language that expand our imaginations beyond artificial learning schedules and enable theorists to model the history-dependence of developmental process in ways that respect everyday sensory histories. Future theories about how infants build knowledge across multiple episodes can now be parameterized using these insights from infants’ everyday lives.
Multi-modal Assessment of Reward Functioning in Adolescent Anhedonia
Authors: Murray Laura , Israel Elana , Pastro Brianna , Lovell-Smith Nathaniel , Lukas Scott E. , Forbes Erika E. , Pizzagalli Diego A. , Webb Christian A.
Published: May 2021

Background: Anhedonia is a core symptom of depression that predicts worse treatment outcomes. Dysfunction in neural reward circuits is thought to contribute to anhedonia. However, it remains unclear whether laboratory-based assessments of anhedonia and reward-related neural function translate to adolescents' subjective affective experiences in real-world contexts. Methods: We recruited a sample of adolescents (ages 12-18; mean=15.83) who varied in anhedonia (N=82) and examined the relationships among clinician-rated and self-reported anhedonia, behaviorally assessed reward learning ability, fMRI-measured neural response to monetary reward and loss, and repeated ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA).Results: Anhedonia was associated with lower mean PA and higher mean NA across the 5-day EMA period. Anhedonia was not associated with impaired behavioral reward learning but was consistently associated with attenuated nucleus accumbens response to reward across categorical, dimensional, and ecological assessments. Greater mean NA and NA variability were associated with increased medial prefrontal response to loss, and mean NA predicted reduced insula activity to reward. Conclusions: Traditional laboratory-based measures of anhedonia were associated with lower subjective PA and higher subjective NA in youths' daily lives. Across multiple assessment modalities, anhedonia was associated with reduced reward-related striatal functioning, whereas greater subjective NA was associated with both reward and loss-related neural response in the broader corticostriatal system. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that diagnostic and self-report measures of anhedonia translate to real-world contexts, and that subjective ratings of PA and NA may be associated with distinct patterns of neural response to reward and loss.
Construct Validity of a Fascism Scale with Comparison to Ethnonationalism
Authors: Siritzky Meghan , Saucier Gerard
Published: May 2021

The current study involves construct validation of a questionnaire developed by Saucier (2013) that measures fascist beliefs as theorized by Robert Paxton (2007), construing them as mobilizing passions. We distinguished fascist beliefs from ethnonationalism, another extreme political attitude associated with campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing. We conducted principal components analysis on both the fascism and ethnonationalism scales to assess dimensionality, finding that individual differences in a theoretically grounded construct of fascism can be coherently measured by a relatively brief set of items. The results of item analysis on the fascism scale generated two even briefer fascism scales to be compared in future studies. We examined item-level zero-order correlations to assess the relation between the constructs and found moderate overlap but not redundancy between the constructs of Paxtonian fascism and ethnonationalism, suggesting that they should be treated as discrete sets of beliefs. The construction of the Paxtonian fascism scale offers a first step towards accounting for the role of fascism in predicting campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing and other forms of political violence.