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APPROACHES TO STATE STIMULATION OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES
Authors: Stepanenko D. A. , Ermolina A. A.
Published: November 2021

The Russia’s innovative development is the most important indicator of the competitiveness of the national economy. By implementing an innovation policy, the state stimulates the innovative activity of industrial enterprises. The study analyzes the impact of changes in the regulatory framework in the Russian Federation on the level of innovation development and the country’s position in the world ranking of innovative activity. The article reviews the tendencies of foreign government stimulation of business innovation activity on the example of the USA, India and Sweden and draws a conclusion about the significant role of the state and the need for targeted financing of enterprises’ innovative activities.

Comparative analysis and diagnostics of innovation policy problems, analysis of the rating of innovation activity, forecasting the costs of technological innovation, determination of criteria for innovative activity of industrial enterprises were used as research methods.

As a result, the proposed approaches to stimulate the innovative activity of industrial enterprises, taking into account the differentiation of enterprises by the addressee, channels, frequency and method of implementation

of incentives. The introduction of the proposed approaches will increase the innovative activity of industrial enterprises, which will lead to an increase in the competitiveness of the national economy.
Hubungan Antara Kecerdasan Logis-Matematis Dengan Hasil Belajar Dan Kecerdasan Interpersonal Dengan Motivasi Belajar Kimia
Authors: Cahyani Fatikah Giyana
Published: November 2021

Kecerdasan yang seseorang terdiri dari delapan jenis atau kecerdasan majemuk. Kecerdasan logis-matematis dan kecerdasan interpersonal dibutuhkan pada pembelajaran kimia. Hasil belajar kimia berkaitan dengan kecerdasan logis-matematis siswa. Sedangkan motivasi belajar kimia berkaitan dengan motivasi belajar siswa. Oleh karena itu, perlu menentukan hubungan yang terjadi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji hubungan antara kecerdasan logis-matematis terhadap hasil belajar kimia siswa XI MIA di SMA N 1 Banguntapan. Selain itu, untuk mengkaji hubungan antara kecerdasan interpersonal terhadap motivasi belajar kimia siswa XI MIA di SMA N 1 Banguntapan.Penelitian yang dilakukan termasuk jenis penelitian kuantitatif dengan metode korelasional. Partisipan dalam penelitian sebanyak 34 siswa. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah angket untuk memperoleh data kecerdasan interpersonal dan motivasi. Selain itu, tes untuk memperoleh data kecerdasan logis-matematis dan hasil belajar. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah korelasi. Berdasakan hasil penelitian diketahui hubungan antara kecerdasan logis-matematis dengan hasil belajar kimia siswa XI MIA di SMA N 1 Banguntapan linier positif dan signifikan dengan nilai r = 0,864 dalam kategori sangat tinggi. Sedangkan hubungan antara kecerdasan interpersonal dengan motivasi belajar kimia siswa XI MIA di SMA N 1 Banguntapan linier positif dan signifikan dengan nilai r = 0, 392 dalam kategori rendah.
Entrevista com Celso Luiz Caldeira
Authors: Alcalde Murilo Priori , Caldeira Celso Luiz
Published: November 2021

Professor Titular de Endodontia, Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo/SP, Brasil).
Doutor em Odontologia, área de concentração em Endodontia, Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo/SP, Brasil).
E-mail para contato: celcalde@usp.br
Periodontite apical assintomática com rompimento de cortical óssea em paciente sob tratamento contínuo com isotretinoína: relato de caso
Authors: Bernardi Anarela Vassen , Silva Jhenniffer , Ribeiro Patrícia , Almeida Josiane de , Crema Marlowa , Kopper Patricia Maria Poli
Published: November 2021

Introdução: A periodontite apical assintomática (PAA) é caracterizada pela inflamação e destruição dos tecidos periapicais, e sua progressão promove reabsorção óssea, podendo ser agravada pelo uso contínuo de isotretinoína. Objetivo: O objetivo do presente estudo foi relatar a resolução de uma PAA com rompimento de cortical óssea mandibular em um paciente sob tratamento contínuo com isotretinoína (Roacutan®), por meio de procedimentos químicos-mecânicos convencionais e controle com tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico (TCFC). Descrição: Um paciente com 21 anos de idade, ASA I, em tratamento contínuo com isotretinoína, procurou atendimento odontológico com moderada dor na região do elemento dental #38. Após exames clínicos, radiográficos e tomográficos, verificou-se a necessidade de tratamento endodôntico do dente #36. A TCFC mostrou uma imagem apical extensa e hipodensa entre os dentes #36 e #37, compatível com lesão cística óssea, com dimensões de 25,59 mm (largura) x 14,37 mm (altura) x 8,40 mm (profundidade). Também foram observados reabsorção apical da raiz distal, halo hipodenso sob a restauração coronal do #36 e ruptura da cortical externa vestibular e lingual. O tratamento endodôntico foi realizado em três sessões, com auxílio de um microscópio operatório e protocolos químicos-mecânicos, como Easy Clean e terapia fotodinâmica. Resultado: A resolução da PAA foi observada após acompanhamento por três anos. Conclusão: O tratamento endodôntico permitiu o reparo de uma lesão periapical extensa, evitando a cirurgia parendodôntica imediata, e o uso contínuo de isotretinoína não afetou a resolução da PAA.
Selamento de perfuração radicular associado a enxerto de tecido conjuntivo em área estética: relato de caso
Authors: Souza Paulo Otávio Carmo , Machado Marina César , Barbosa Mateus Gehrke , Miguel Juliano Gonçalves , Sousa Vinícius Caixeta , Decurcio Daniel de Almeida , Estrela Carlos
Published: November 2021

Introdução: Perfuração radicular é a comunicação entre as paredes do canal radicular e o espaço periodontal. O tempo, a localização e a dimensão da perfuração são fatores que afetam no prognóstico do dente. Objetivo: Relatar um caso clínico de tratamento de perfuração radicular supraóssea associado a enxertia de tecido conjuntivo em área estética. Relato do caso: Paciente relatou ter sido submetido, há 3 meses, ao tratamento endodôntico do dente #22; porém, esse não foi finalizado. Ao exame clínico, o dente apresentava ausência de dor e presença de fístula na região da gengiva inserida. As imagens radiográficas e tomográficas revelaram imagem sugestiva de perfuração radicular na região vestibular do dente #22, além de área hipodensa/radiolúcida circunscrita ao ápice radicular, conduzindo ao diagnóstico de periodontite apical assintomática associada a perfuração radicular supraóssea. Inicialmente, foi realizado preparo do canal radicular e utilizada medicação intracanal por 21 dias. Posteriormente, foi realizada a obturação do canal radicular e restauração definitiva em resina composta na face palatal. Na mesma sessão, foi realizado o acesso cirúrgico para selamento da perfuração com resina composta, associado a enxertia de tecido conjuntivo no dente #22, para evitar recessão tecidual marginal. Foi observada, após 12 meses, neoformação óssea na região periapical do dente #22, com ausência de dor e preservação da estética na região periodontal. Conclusão: O diagnóstico e o planejamento multidisciplinar são fatores importantes no tratamento de perfurações radiculares, assim como a correta escolha do material selador.
Modern Japan and Multiple Modernities: A Case Study
Authors: Kenichi Mishima
Published: November 2021

Transformation studies should be a key topic for the comparative analysis of civilizations. Their most important task is to deal with the changes to world-views and cultural semantics inherited from axial traditions, changes resulting from the emergence of modern society and its radically innovative normative turn. To put it another way, the question relates to modern discursive reworkings of path-dependent figures of thought. In the context of such processes, discourses on identity intertwine with more or less critically oriented discourses on culture and society. For non-European countries, and very emphatically for Japan, Northwestern Europe is an almost exclusive domain of reference, notwithstanding eventual condemnations of European “decadence” or – as the case may be – capitalist contradictions. But when some critical distance from Europe is achieved, it combines easily with returns to a supposedly primordial native legacy, even with the illusory belief that this legacy can inspire a transformative creation of something new in human history. Such intellectual phenomena occur, with significant variations, across a broad political spectrum. This essay discusses a few exemplary Japanese cases.
Gilles Kepel: Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West
Authors: Černý Karel
Published: November 2021

Book review: Gilles Kepel: Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020, 376 pp.
Nazwy zwierząt w słownictwie dziecięcym. Badania frekwencyjne
Authors: Zagórska Katarzyna
Published: November 2021

Artykuł przedstawia nazwy zwierząt obecne w słownictwie dziecięcym. Autorka charakteryzuje wskazane zagadnienia na podstawie badań z zakresu statystyki językowej (H. Zgółkowa, K. Bułczyńska, Słownictwo dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym, Poznań 1987; H. Zgółkowa Słownictwo dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym w latach 2010-2015, Poznań 2016). Materiał zawarty w słownikach gromadzono w latach 1980-1983 oraz 2010-2015. Analizie poddano listy frekwencyjne i rangowe. Opisane zostały nazwy zwierząt pojawiające się w języku najmłodszych użytkowników polszczyzny (2-7 lat). Tematyka animalna może wspierać kształcenie językowe oraz inne formy edukacji, glottodydaktycznej i przyrodniczej.
The New Inscription from Türkmenkarahöyük and its Historical Context
Authors: Hawkins J. David , Weeden Mark
Published: November 2021

The publication of a hieroglyphic inscription found at Türkmenkarahöyük in the Konya region and the associated survey-work in the area have raised numerous questions about the location of the city of Tarhuntassa, the aftermath of the Hittite Empire and the dating of the Hieroglyphic inscriptions which mention a king called Hartapu. In this paper we review the evidence for the location of Tarhuntassa that we deem relevant for deciding whether it could have been situated at Türkmenkarahöyük, and further reconsider the dating of the Hartapu inscriptions, arriving at the conclusion, already warranted by the evidence before the discovery of the new inscription, that there must have been two kings called Hartapu, who lived in very different epochs.
Duty to Read vs Duty to Disclose Fine Print. Does the Market Structure Matter?
Authors: D’Agostino Elena , De Benedetto Marco Alberto , Sobbrio Giuseppe
Published: November 2021

Firms use standard contracts and possibly include unfavorable fine print which consumers may read at some positive cost. We propose a comparison between a monopoly and a perfect competition market under (1) an unregulated legal regime (duty to read) and (2) a regulation that mandates clause disclosure (duty to disclose). If consumers bear the duty to read contract terms, regardless of market structure, sellers disclose in equilibrium only if it is cheaper than reading for consumers. Conversely, if sellers bear the duty to disclose contract terms, then such regulation is never welfare improving in either market; it may turn out to be consumer protective only if there are several sellers, whereas it is uneffective on this regard in a monopoly.
The Transgender Imagination in Folk Narratives: The Case of ATU 514, “The Shift of Sex”
Authors: Ready Psyche Z.
Published: November 2021

“The Shift of Sex” is a folktale type that begins with a young woman dressing in men’s clothes to have an adventure, and ends when the protagonist is magically transformed into a man, marries a woman, and lives happily ever after. My goal in this project is to analyze the 26 variants as a group in order to illuminate what they communicate about gender and transgender. ATU 514 has been treated as an aberration or anomaly, a tale that defies categorization. Several feminist scholars have argued that the climactic change of gender reinforces heteronormativity and sexist, patriarchal gender roles. More recent scholarship notes the tale’s transgender possibility, scholarship I build on in this project. My analysis identified two significant patterns in the tales: first, every variant has a happy ending for the protagonist, representing a narrative reward for a character who could variously be read as transgender or gender transgressive. Second, the tales are encoded with details, characters, and events that tell a “secondary narrative” that describes the threat of the patriarchy. I argue that the protagonist of ATU 514 is a transgressive character with transgender capacity and that the tale approves and rewards these transgressions through the concluding happily-ever-after.
Establishing a Sprachbund in the Western Lingnan region: conceptual and methodological issues
Authors: Szeto Pui Yiu , Yurayong Chingduang
Published: November 2021

It is well-known that Tai-Kadai languages have affected the typological profiles of Southern Sinitic varieties. For example, compared with their northern sisters, Southern Sinitic varieties display a stronger tendency towards head-initial structures, as in theN–Ncompounds for expressing the sex of animals and in post-verbal temporal adverbs. Given that the Tai-Kadai languages in China have been in contact with Sinitic for over two millennia, it is quite natural to find signs of Sinitic influence therein. Most remarkably, pre-verbal adjunct phrases and pre-nominal relative clauses, which are extremely atypical ofVOlanguages but distinctive of Sinitic, are attested in some Tai-Kadai languages in Southern China. The prevalence of such typologically unusual traits among different linguistic groups in the Lingnan region of Southern China provides strong support for its status as a linguistic area. Devising and adopting a ‘mutualist’ approach, we analyse the typological data of over 280 language varieties, which we believe illustrates and strongly supports the idea that Western Lingnan qualifies as a linguistic area in its own right according to criteria widely recognized by areal linguists. The approach proposed in this study can be applied to other putative linguistic areas around the world to study the mechanisms and outcomes of contact-induced change under a specific set of ecological conditions.
Valuation of the American put option as a free boundary problem through a high-order difference scheme
Authors: Sari Murat , Gulen Seda
Published: November 2021

Valuation of the American options encountered commonly in finance is quite difficult due to the possibility of early exercise alternatives. Since an exact solution for the American options does not exist, effective numerical methods are needed to understand the behavior of option pricing models. Therefore, in this paper, a new approach based on a high-order difference scheme is proposed to discuss the valuation of an American put option as a free boundary problem. Using a front-fixing approach that transforms the unknown free boundary (optimal stopping) into a fixed one, a sixth-order finite difference scheme (FD6) in space and a third-order strong-stability preserving Runge–Kutta (SSPRK3) in time are applied to the model converted to a nonlinear partial differential equation. The computed results revealed that the combined method is seen to attempt to pull up the capacity of the algorithm to achieve higher accuracy. It is seen that the quantitative and qualitative results produced by the method proposed with minimal computational effort are sufficiently accurate and meaningful. Therefore, this article provides some new insights about the physical characteristics of financial problems and such realistic phenomena.
Gruppenarbeit in Zeiten der sozialen Isolation: Zur Nutzung und Wahrnehmung von Breakout-Räumen
Authors: Feick Diana , Alm Antonie
Published: November 2021

Dieser Beitrag erörtert die Funktion von Breakout-Räumen (BOR) beim Online-Unterricht während der Pandemie 2020. Basierend auf Fragebogen- und Interviewdaten von Lehrenden und Lernenden aus 22 Ländern explorierte die Studie wahrgenommene Chancen und Herausforderungen der virtuellen Gruppenarbeit. Fokussierend auf Gruppenmanagement, Kommunikation, Partizipation und Gruppendynamik wurde ermittelt, dass BOR soziale Räume für voneinander isolierte Lernende darstellen und kollaboratives DaF-Lernen fördern.
Roosting ecology of insectivorous bats in a tropical agricultural landscape
Authors: Kusuminda Tharaka , Mannakkara Amani , Gamage Rajika , Patterson Bruce D. , Yapa Wipula B.
Published: November 2021

Bats spend more than half of their life in roosts, where key life events transpire. Therefore the availability and selection of roosts are important to bats everywhere, and may limit their ability to exploit every habitat, including agricultural landscapes such as paddy fields, orchards and tea plantations. This study aimed to investigate the day roosts used by insectivorous bat species in tea plantations of Sri Lanka. We surveyed 18 tea plantations where we recorded a total of 44 roosts involving five families and nine species of bats (Hipposideros galeritus, Hipposideros lankadiva, Hipposideros speoris, Rhinolophus beddomei, Rhinolophus rouxii, Megaderma spasma, Pipistrellus ceylonicus, Pipistrellus coromandra and Miniopterus cf. fuliginosus). Most (26) of the recorded roosts were geomorphic, (11) were anthropogenic, and (7) were in vegetation. H. lankadiva and M. cf. fuliginosus are the only species known to roost exclusively in geomorphic roosts; all others were opportunistic. Although protecting bat roosts is crucial for their conservation, it is challenging in view of existing tea management practices. Therefore, natural roosts should be maintained and protected. The introduction of artificial roosts might increase the number of bats able to forage over tea plantations and maximize their consumption of agricultural pests, thereby increasing tea production.
Tunable Faraday rotation of ferromagnet thin film in whole visible region coupled with aluminum plasmonic arrays
Authors: Zhang Feifei , Atsumi Taisuke , Xu Xiaolun , Murai Shunsuke , Tanaka Katsuhisa
Published: November 2021

To date, the plasmonic nanostructure utilized for magneto-optical (MO) enhancement has been limited to noble metals with resulted enhancement in the green-red part of visible spectrum. In this study, we fabricated a diffractive hexagonal array composed of Al nanoparticles (NPs) with a thin 7.5 nm ferromagnetic film and pushed the enhanced Faraday rotation (FR) into the blue to green range of the visible light. The freedom and ability to control the working spectral region in the whole visible range from 400 to 800 nm were also demonstrated by changing the lattice constant and the dielectric environment of plasmonic nanostructures. Particularly, in the blue range we obtained the maximum FR 0.57° at 410 nm with a broad boosting region around 0.5° from 400 to 500 nm. Moreover, the largest FR 1.66° was shown at 638 nm by tuning the dielectric environment into a higher refractive index medium. The results of our investigation demonstrate the potential of Al-based magnetoplasmonic effect and offer opportunities to push the MO spectral response out of visible range into the ultraviolet-blue range.
Investigating Disinformation in Middle East Mainstream News – Operationalization, Detection, and Implication
Authors: Barkho Leon
Published: November 2021

This paper develops some discursive resources and models to analyze how and why disinformation permeates mainstream media. It draws on certain linguistic strategies and propaganda models helpful to unravel disinformation in mainstream media coverage, with focus placed on two main Arabic speaking 24/7 news channels in the Middle East. These strategies and models are used to conduct exploratory critical analyses of data drawn from the online news websites of the two news outlets. The paper presents the trends characterizing disinformation in the Middle East, but more importantly the discursive and social patterns and practices the media employ when publishing news intended to discredit and harm rather than inform. The study’s contribution is twofold: First, it provides a discursive framework for the analysis of disinformation in traditional news outlets. Second, it provides an analytical framework to investigate how disinformation pervades mainstream media. The study’s data and analysis support the lines of research on how patriotic ethics guide coverage and how the selection of discursive patterns responds to interests of hegemonic powers with a say in media organizations’ affairs.
Synthesis of “(aminomethyl)phosphonic acid-functionalized graphene oxide”, and comparison of its adsorption properties for thorium(IV) ion, with plain graphene oxide
Authors: Doram Amir , Outokesh Mohammad , Ahmadi Seyed Javad , Zahakifar Fazel
Published: November 2021

The current study presents a simple and scalable method for the synthesis of (aminomethyl)phosphonic acid-functionalized graphene oxide (AMPA-GO) adsorbent. The chemical structure of the new material was disclosed by different instrumental analyses (e.g. FTIR, Raman, XPS, AFM, TEM, XRD, CHN, and UV), and two pertinent mechanisms namely nucleophilic substitution and condensation were suggested for its formation. Adsorption experiments revealed that both AMPA-GO and plain GO have a high affinity toward Th(IV) ions, but the AMPA-GO is superior in terms of adsorption capacity, rate of adsorption, selectivity, pH effect, etc. Indeed, the AMPA-GO can uptake Th(IV) nearly instantaneously, and coexisting Na+ ions have no effect on its adsorption. Thanks to Langmuir isotherm, the maximum adsorption capacities of the GO and AMPA-GO were obtained 151.06 and 178.67 mg g−1, respectively. Interestingly, GO and AMPA-GO both showed a higher preference for thorium over uranium so that the average “K

d
(Th)/K

d
(U)” for them was 52 and 44, respectively. This data suggests that chromatographic separation of thorium and uranium is feasible by these adsorbents.
The evaluation of PIK3CA gene variation and serum PI3K level in breast cancer risk and prognosis in Turkish population
Authors: Ulu Elif , Yaylım İlhan , Arıkan Soykan , Cacına Canan
Published: November 2021

Objectives

The PI3K (Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase) is the member of lipid kinase family that plays important roles in tumorigenesis, cancer development and cell proliferation. In our study, we aimed to investigate the relationships between breast cancer risk and prognosis with PIK3CA rs6443624 (C>A) intron region gene polymorphism and serum PI3K levels.

Methods

A total of 61-patients with breast cancer and 101 controls were included to the study. PIK3CA polymorphism was detected by Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) technique. Serum PI3K levels were measured by Enzyme-Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay (ELISA).

Results

PIK3CA (C>A) gene polymorphism genotype and allele distributions were no significant in cases and controls (p>0.05). The serum PI3K levels of breast cancer patients were found significantly higher than the control groups (p=0.033). There were not significant association between PIK3CA (C>A) gene polymorphism and clinic and prognostic parameters in our study group. We also evaluated serum PI3K levels in the term of tumor progression, but we did not observe any significant data.

Conclusions

We suggest that serum PI3K levels may play role in breast cancer risk and larger patient groups may have clinical value in assessment of the genetic risk and tumor progression of breast cancer.
Effect of Passing Plays on Injury Rates in the National Football League
Authors: Burke Jonathan , Geller Joseph S. , Perez Jose R. , Naik Kunal , Vidal Armando F. , Baraga Michael G. , Kaplan Lee D.
Published: November 2021

Burke, J, Geller, JS, Perez, JR, Naik, K, Vidal, AF, Baraga, MG, and Kaplan, LD. The effect of passing plays on injury rates in the national football league. J Strength Cond Res 35(12S): S1–S4, 2021—The National Football League (NFL) has one of the highest all-cause injury rates in sports, yet our understanding of extrinsic injury risk factors is limited. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of play type on injury incidence in the NFL. We obtained data for every regular season game played during the 2013–2016 seasons from the official NFL game books. There were 2,721 in-game injuries during the 4 seasons examined, with an overall rate of 1.33 injuries per team per game. For statistical analysis, p < 0.05 was considered significant. Passing plays conferred significantly higher odds of injury than running plays (odds ratio [OR] 1.4, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.3–1.5, p < 0.0001). This primarily stems from increased risks in quarterbacks (OR 6.9, 95% CI: 3.6–13.3, p < 0.0001), receivers (OR 5.0, 95% CI: 3.7–6.6, p < 0.0001), and defensive backs (OR 2.3, 95% CI: 1.9–2.7, p < 0.0001). Our study suggests that passing plays confer a greater risk of overall injuries in the NFL when compared with running plays, specifically regarding concussions and core or trunk injuries.
Measuring Innocence
Authors: Zalman Marvin , Norris Robert J.
Published: November 2021

What is the rate of wrongful conviction? This question may be implicit in Blackstone’s ratio: “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” Scholarship designed to provide an empirical answer, however, emerged only with the rise of the “innocence movement” in the United States. This article does not provide another study estimating the rate of wrongful felony conviction either for a specified sample, such as death sentences within a specified time period, or for an entire jurisdiction. Instead, we evaluate the rate question itself and assess its importance to innocence scholarship and action. We first trace the question’s intellectual lineage, and its historical and ideological roots among innocence believers and innocence skeptics. We then describe and evaluate all or most of the published studies attempting to estimate the wrongful conviction rate. Next, we discuss a reoccurring limitation of this published work, namely, its failure to account for or its unsubstantiated assumptions about guilty pleas and misdemeanor convictions among innocent defendants. Finally, we question the continued importance of the rate question in light of the modern innocence movement and its growing accomplishments.
Mass Incarceration, Penal Moderation, and Black Prisoners Serving Very Long Sentences
Authors: du Bois-Pedain Antje
Published: November 2021

The prevalent criminal justice practices in the U.S. have produced levels and patterns of incarceration that fewer and fewer politicians, scholars, and citizens care to support. There seems to be widespread consensus that the system is indicted as unjust by its outcomes no matter how these outcomes came about. But if that is so, how can it be turned back? Who should be eligible for release, and on what grounds? This article addresses the position of black prisoners serving very long sentences. Many of these prisoners are at risk of missing out under current legislative and administrative proposals designed to reduce overall levels of imprisonment. Partly this is due to the fact that the wrong of mass incarceration is often understood as a wrong suffered at the collective level by what has come to be referred to as “overpunished communities.” It is unclear how the existence of that collective wrong affects the permissibility of continued punishment at the individual level. This article develops an argument that, at the individual level, being a black prisoner serving a very long sentence gives rise to a moral entitlement for a review of the need and justification for continued incarceration. The article outlines the basic shape of a clemency scheme devised especially for these prisoners as a moral imperative for a reform process intended to remedy penal injustice.
“We Become Capable of Handling Everything”: Gender and Gulf Migration in Kerala, South India
Authors: Gerry Kathryn
Published: November 2021

Women have a uniquely gendered experience with worker migration from Kerala, South India to the Gulf, a phenomenon which touches virtually every household in this state. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kerala, this article examines the intersections of gender and migration; I argue that migration fuels significant social change in terms of gender expectations and the role of women as economic agents. My fieldwork reveals that women work abroad due to personal circumstances and to conform to local ideas about modernity. Migrants’ wives also experience increased autonomy in their daily lives. These two categories of women, migrant women and the wives of male migrants, are attuned to others’ perceptions of their roles vis-à-vis migration. Despite occasional negative feedback, women report that they are empowered by worker migration. This project builds on scholarship examining the status of women in Kerala (Eapen and Kodoth 2003), the experiences of migrant spouses (Osella 2016), and female Christian nurses’ Gulf migration (Percot 2006). I extend this work by analyzing the personal narratives of individual women who work in the Gulf, head their own households in Kerala, and experience stigmatization because of emigration. Finally, I explored the broader implications of migration for the lifestyles and aspirations of women in Kerala.
The Role of Internationalization Orientation in Mediating the Relationship between Capabilities and Intention to Export: An Empirical Analysis on SMEs
Authors: Yusuf Wibisono Yogi , Sitorus Hotna Marina
Published: November 2021

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have a strategic role in the Indonesia's economy; however, they have a low contribution on the national export. Studying on SMEs internationalization becomes important to understand factors that influence them to go international. Using resource-based view perspective, the objective of study is to investigate how the organizational capabilities influence the intention of SMEs to export through internationalization orientation. A model was developed that explained the impact of personnel management, product development, and production capabilities on internationalization orientation, and eventually affect the export intention. Primary data were collected through a field survey by distributing structured questionnaires to SMEs over three months, resulting 86 eligible responses. These empirical data were analyzed to validate proposed model using partial least square - structural equation modeling technique (PLS-SEM). The results indicated that internationalization orientation mediated partially the effect of personnel management and product development capabilities on SMEs intention to export. The other finding displayed the unexpected result that there was insignificant influence of production capabilities on internationalization orientation and export intention. This study suggests that to increase the intention of SEMs to export, the firms must have capabilities in managing their personnel and developing unique and innovative product consistently.
Weaving the Knowledge Capabilities and Supply Chain Management Skills into the Fabric of Supply Chain Decision Makers: Coexist of Coping Capacity
Authors: Khor Lay Kheng , Tan Cheng Ling
Published: November 2021

The recent global outbreak of COVID-19 has created a huge global crisis, breaking down many global supply chains. Decision makers in the supply chain are faced with very challenging situation as the application of supply chain resilience mechanisms are questionable and unreliable during the post pandemic. Hence, leaving them to continue learning new ways to cope, adapt and mitigate the risk to navigate through the uncertainties. This imply that knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies of decision makers have become the centre stage for organizations' survival and sustainability.The purpose of this paper is to identify the key factors that influence decision making competency in the supply chain of the Malaysian manufacturing firms. This is a conceptual paper focusing on developing a theoretical framework through the integration of the behavioural decisional theory and competency model. The theoretical framework with respect to the construct of decision making competency are elaborated. This paper hopes to provide a valuable pragmatic framework and roadmap for managerial decision-making in the context of supply chain. By understanding the supply chain decision-making in operations, this can help to contribute to de-risking of supply chain beyond the usual risk response into the proactive reduction of risks for future supply chain sustainability.
Does Diversification Strategy Play An Eminent Role In The Current Turbulence Of Digital Economy: A Strategic Approach
Authors: Oroh Augustinus Nicolaas Hillebrandes
Published: November 2021

Most industry players are dubious whether current digital technology is strongly affecting the long traditional demand and supply economy while scholars believe that companies need to have valuable and unique resources, excellent and agile capabilities, and the capacity of aligning their core competencies to lead the industry and therefore sustaining its competitive advantage. Companies are fighting with the aggressive movements by their competitors in the changing markets and facing very dynamic full of surprises environmental turbulence. We reveal the Environment Serving Organization concept helps companies to be well prepared in advance and applicable at all turbulence levels when the overall economy is at high uncertainty. By exploring diversification based on Ansoff Growth Matrix and using the regression and mediation models, this is one of the first papers that investigates the Environmental Turbulence level as a probable mediator in the intense relationship between diversification strategy and strong firm performance.
The Impact of Working Capital Management on the performance of Listed Firms: Evidence of an Emerging Economy
Authors: Essel Ronald , Brobbey Joyce
Published: November 2021

The aim/purpose of this scientific inquiry is to empirically examine the impact of working capital management (WCM) [cash conversion cycle (CCC), number of days inventory (INV), number of days account receivable (AR), number of days account payable (AP)] and control variables [sales growth (GROW), size (SIZE), leverage (LEV), current ratio (CR) fixed financial assets to total assets (FFA)] on firm performance (FP) [ROA, Tobin’s Q (TQ)] in the context of an emerging economy, Ghana. The research used a dynamic panel System of Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) to test the hypotheses. Utilizing financial data extracted from final accounts of 36 listed companies, spanning 2010-2019, the study examined WCM-performance-nexuses by following the methodologies of researchers/scholars in extant literature. Findings/Results indicates that, whilst INV, AR, LEV demonstrated negative/inverse/indirect associations with FP; AP, GROW, SIZE, CR, FFA depicted positive/direct associations with FP. CCC however, exhibited a quadratic concave relationship with ROA.
Assuring Academic Integrity of Supervisor Appointment in Post-Graduate Program with Data-Driven Decision Making Strategy: A Proposal
Authors: Abdullah Aziman , A.K Asar
Published: November 2021

Research supervision is one of the important aspect in academic quality assurance and the sustainbility of the science itself. However, there is lack of attention based on research literature and evidence of good practice on research supervision from the context of academic integrity in higher education. This study aims to develop a data-driven decision making strategy in supervisor selection for post-graduate program based using research projects data. Apart of that, the researchers reviewed the indicator of academic integrity in research supervisory from program standards in masters and doctoral degree by Malaysia Qualification Agency (MQA), international recommendation by UNESCO and Islamic principles according to the roles of the supervisor, administrator and student in the context of research supervisory. This study adopted data analytics and visualization technique using cloud-based collaborative platform as a research method for data acqusition, processing and analyzing the data. The researchers acquired the research projects profile data registered in the institutional database in Universiti Malaysia Pahang from Department of Research and Innovation as a case study. We categorized and mapped the research profile according to Malaysian Research and Development Classification System (MRDCS) code. The combined data was been analyzed and visualized to specific online dashboard to indicate the research experience in fraction of years as a metric. The researchers evaluate the characteristics of the dashboard based on the academic integrity indicators from MQA, UNESCO and Islamic principles as our measures. The result shows that there is a potential usefulness of the proposed strategy in assuring academic integrity for supervisor selection in post-graduate programmes. This novel approach has a potential impact on academic integrity in higher education which can be adopted at larger scale by higher education institution in Malaysia.
Public Service Mall Innovation in Banda Aceh City
Authors: Muazzinah  , Malia Nurvadila , Mahmuddin
Published: November 2021

This research is to find out what innovations exist in the Public Service Mall of Banda Aceh City, Aceh, Indonesia. This type of research uses qualitative research with a descriptive approach, namely by describing the results of research and analyzing so that the results obtained from informants are employees of the Banda Aceh City Public Service Mall, employees of the One-Stop Investment and Integrated Service Office and employees of the Population and Civil Registration Service at the Public Service Mall and the community as supporting informants who provide services at the Banda Aceh City Public Service Mall. The results of this study indicate that the innovation of the Banda Aceh City Public Service Mall can be said to be in accordance with the innovation guidelines criteria set by PERMENPAN-RB No. 30 of 2014 which consists of Quality, Transparency, Accountability, Easy, Fast, Proper, Fair and Participatory. So that the results obtained that the Public Service Innovation of Banda Aceh City has novelty or innovation in service.
HAMBATAN DALAM PROSES PENANAMAN NASIONALISME PADA MAHASISWA DI KAWASAN
Authors: Rahayu Imaniah Kusuma
Published: November 2021

This study aims to determine the obstacles in the process of planting nationalism among students in border areas. This research is a qualitative descriptive study because it explains the inhibiting factors that influence the process of cultivating nationalism among students in border areas. The research subjects were 25 students who took the Writing 1 course. The results showed that the obstacles in the process of planting nationalism were competency barriers, curriculum obstacles, and infrastructure and facilities obstacles. Meanwhile, students do not experience family barriers.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hambatan dalam proses penanaman nasionalisme pada mahasiswa di kawasan perbatasan. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif kualitatif karena bersifat menjelaskan faktor-faktor penghambat yang mempengaruhi dalam proses penanaman nasionalisme pada mahasiswa di kawasan perbatasan. Subjek penelitian adalah 25 orang mahasiswa yang mengambil mata kuliah Menulis 1. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hambatan yang terdapat dalam proses penanaman nasionalisme diantaranya adalah hambatan kompetensi, hambatan kurikulum, dan hambatan sarana dan prasarana. Sedangkan hambatan keluarga tidak dialami oleh mahasiswa.
URGENSI PEMBELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN KEWARGANEGARAAN TERHADAP DISIPLIN BELAJAR SISWA DALAM SITUASI PANDEMI COVID-19
Authors: Aulia Putri , Nugraha Dadi Mulyadi , . Supriyono
Published: November 2021

The research entitled "The Urgency of Citizenship Education Learning Against Student Discipline in the Covid-19 Pandemic Situation" was conducted to determine the learning discipline of high school students in a pandemic situation. The Covid-19 pandemic requires students to learn far away, and of course the learning process at home and at school is very different. This has an effect on student learning discipline, through Citizenship Education Learning is expected to improve student learning discipline in this pandemic. The research was conducted in March 2021 with a descriptive qualitative method through a questionnaire in the form of google form with 43 respondents' responses. The results showed that students' learning activities during the pandemic period were low.

Penelitian yang berjudul â€œUrgensi Pembelajaran Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Terhadap Disiplin Belajar Siswa Dalam Situasi Pandemi Covid-19â€ dilakukan untuk mengukur situasi belajar siswa Sekolah Menenagh Atas (SMA) di pandemi. Pandemi Covid-19 ini menuntut siswa untuk belajar jarak jauh, dan tentunya proses pembelajaran di rumah dan di sekolah sangat berbeda. Hal ini berpengaruh terhadap disiplin belajar siswa, melalui Pembelajaran Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan diharapkan dapat meningkatkan disiplin belajar siswa di masa ini. Penelitian dilaksanakan pada bulan Maret 2021 dengan metode kualitatif deskriptif melalui kuesioner dalam bentuk google dengan 43 tanggapan responden. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa aktivitas belajar siswa di masa pandemi cenderung rendah.
Was können Führungskräfte von Fußballschiedsrichtern lernen?
Authors: Schmidt Johannes , von der Oelsnitz Dietrich , Rose Rene
Published: November 2021

Fußballschiedsrichter müssen unter großem Druck Entscheidungen treffen. Die Erfolgreichen unter ihnen zeichnen sich durch zielorientiertes Handeln, souveräne Kommunikation sowie die Kontrolle der eigenen Emotionen aus. Diese Kompetenzen werden letztlich auch von Führungskräften erwartet.
Einflüsse der Coronakrise auf Rechnungslegung und Unternehmensbewertung
Authors: Freidank Carl-Christian
Published: November 2021

Die gegenwärtige Coronapandemie wirkt sich vielfach als Unternehmenskrise aus, die bei den Leitungs- und Überwachungsorganen zu Verunsicherung geführt hat, welche betriebswirtschaftlichen Konzepte und Instrumente zur Vermeidung von Fehlsteuerungen einzusetzen sind. Der Beitrag zeigt gesetzliche Regelungen und Maßnahmen auf, die im Rahmen einer Unternehmenskrise bezüglich der Rechnungslegung sowie der Bewertung von Unternehmen eine zentrale Rolle spielen.
Influence of moisture content of solid-state NaOH pretreatment and codigestion on methane production in the semi-dry anaerobic digestion of rose stalk
Authors: Chen Yongsheng , Ke Zhijuan , Liang Yue-gan
Published: November 2021

Large quantities of burned or abandoned rose stalks are leading to serious environmental pollution. In this study, the effect of the moisture content of a solid-state NaOH pretreatment on methane production was first determined by a biochemical methane potential test. Then, the effect of codigestion with pig manure on methane production was investigated under the optimal moisture via thermophilic semi-dry anaerobic digestion by leaching bed reactor. Biogas production kinetic was assessed by the first-order kinetic model and modified Gompertz model. An increase in methane yield and biogas production kinetics was shown in the solid-state NaOH pretreated biomass. There was no significant difference in methane production for the three moisture contents studied during pretreatment (54%, 70%, and 77%). The anaerobic codigestion of rose stalk and pig manure increased 41% to 52% for methane yields and improved biogas production kinetics compared with monodigestion of rose stalk. Anaerobic codigestion did not greatly change the process stability, except for NH4+-N. The optimal process for the anaerobic digestion of rose stalk was as follows. The rose stalk was initially pretreated via solid-state NaOH pretreatment with a moisture content of 70%. Then, the pretreated rose stalk was co-digested with pig manure at a total solids ratio of 1:1.
Trust the literature, but verify – Case study of starch acetate as a barrier material under jungle conditions
Authors: Hart Peter W.
Published: November 2021

A case study is presented in which several articles and patents suggested a specific outcome. When the actual experimental work was performed, the results were found to be several orders of magnitude away from predicted values. Close re-inspection of the literature suggested that most of the authors actually extrapolated the results to conditions that were not applicable to their specific studies, resulting in the reporting errors. It is important to use literature to assist in research, but it is equally important not to blindly follow it either.
Energy efficiency – A particular challenge for the cellulose-based products industries
Authors: Hubbe Martin A.
Published: November 2021

Wood-processing facilities, including pulp, paper, lumber, and engineered wood facilities, use large amounts of energy for such purposes as evaporative drying and the curing of adhesives. Much of that energy is already being supplied by the incineration of biomass, and there is opportunity to increase the proportion of renewable energy that is used. Specific changes can be made within such factories that allow them to come closer to what is thermodynamically possible in terms of avoiding the wastage of exergy, which can be defined as useful energy. Savings in exergy are often obtained by optimization of a network of heat exchangers within an integrated system. No steam should be allowed to leak to the atmosphere; rather the latent heat (due to phase transitions) and sensible heat (due to temperature changes) are recovered during the heating up of incoming air and water, ideally at a similar range of temperatures. Thus, by a combination of process integration and full utilization of cellulosic residues generated from the process, even bio-based industries can be made greener.
Маркетингова комунікація в пострекламну епоху та українська практика
Authors: Demchenko M.
Published: November 2021

Розвиток цифрових технологій та Інтернету, особливо мобільного, вимагає зміни підходу до маркетингової комунікації. Традиційні канали й форми комунікації вже не такі ефективні, як раніше. Вони поступово втрачають авторитет і увагу аудиторії. Це зумовлено не тільки появою альтернативних джерел інформації, але й стрімким розвитком горизонтальних зв’язків і взаємопов’язаності завдяки соціальним мережам, що зруйнувало авторитет брендів на користь кола спілкування кожного споживача. Тепер він більше довіряє друзям, родичам або блогерам. Змінився також характер комунікації, вона більше не одностороння. Новий формат спілкування передбачає співробітництво й обмін, під час якого споживач очікує отримати дружню пораду, рекомендацію чи допомогу у вирішенні проблеми, яка його турбує особисто, або просто розважитися. Він прагне індивідуального ставлення до себе та можливості змінюватися за допомогою бренда. Все це вимагає перегляду підходів до маркетингової комунікації, що полягає не тільки у використанні цифрових технологій і даних, але й у зміні концепції взаємин бренда і споживача. У статті розглянуто новий підхід у сучасній маркетинговій комунікації та його реалізація в українській практиці.