bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Employee Satisfaction Factors in the E-Commerce Company: The Mediating Role of Employee Engagement
Authors: Azmy Ahmad
Published: January 2024

Introduction/Main Objectives: This study discusses the factors that have implications for job satisfaction in e-commerce companies. The focus of the study is to analyze the organizational commitment, spiritual leadership, and technological advancement, which are mediated by employee engagement. Background Problems: Some e-commerce companies have problems with their employees’ level of satisfaction. This study provides recommendations for dealing with the satisfaction factors of employees working in e-commerce. Novelty: The novelty of this study is that it offers a different model for measuring job satisfaction. Employee engagement is used as a mediating variable to measure the implications for employee satisfaction in e-commerce companies. One of the variables used is technological advancement. Research Methods: This study uses the PLS-SEM method. The total respondents is 250 employees who work in e-commerce companies. Purposive sampling is used, according to the research needs, with a total of 207 respondents. The object of this study is a business organization that is engaged in e-commerce. Finding/Results: The direct and indirect effects of employee satisfaction are implied by spiritual leadership and organizational commitment. Technological advancement has no direct or indirect effect on employee satisfaction. Employee engagement has a mediating role in both the direct and indirect effects on employee satisfaction. Conclusion: E-commerce organizations should pay more attention to their employees’ development through building their technological capabilities. This research can explain the improvement in a business’s quality through its employees’ satisfaction. This adds value to human resources manage­ment.
Periodismo y violencia en México: perspectiva histórica de una relación traumática
Authors: Lorente Vidal Josué Natanael
Published: January 2024

El presente trabajo analizará la problemática en torno al periodismo mexicano, el cual está expuesto a diferentes formas de violencia: extorsión, asesinatos, desapariciones, torturas, campañas de desprestigio, etc., arropadas por la impunidad que el propio Estado fomenta. La situación del país no sólo limita el trabajo periodístico, sino que ha creado un país “no libre” debido a la autocensura por miedo y el férreo control a través de leyes sobre los medios de información.

Además, en este artículo se hará un breve recorrido sobre la institucionalización del narcotráfico de manera introductoria para comprender la profunda raíz con la que ha penetrado este negocio en los sectores más altos de la sociedad mexicana y, de manera paulatina, la consecuencia de ello en los medios de comunicación, pues la mayoría han quedado subordinados a este “orden” establecido por el narcotráfico y por el miedo infundido desde las altas esferas. La ruta que seguirá este artículo irá dirigida a poner en valor ciertos elementos mencionados como la impunidad de los agresores y el temor que sufren los medios de comunicación; para ello, en estas páginas se irá desarrollando el complejo vínculo entre el narcotráfico y la élite de la sociedad desde el comienzo de la venta ilegal de drogas. También se expondrán las llamativas muertes de algunos periodistas, las cifras de agresiones contra comunicadores y los riesgos psicológicos que estos sufren debido a situaciones traumáticas dentro de su profesión.
Effectiveness of Modes of Radio Broadcasting in Gain and Retention of Knowledge About Child Care Message
Authors: Verma Dr. Jaya
Published: January 2024

Abstract: India is dominantly a country of villages. There is a great necessity for transmitting latest scientific knowledge about agriculture and related fields among the farming communities. Today we have many problems- high rate of illiteracy, accelerating population growth which eats into any gain that educational expansion may bring, increasing pressures on admissions at all stages, explosion in knowledge necessitating change and review of curricula and teaching method, urban – rural imbalance, wastage in education need for raising standards and the criterion of an environment favourable to social change and capable of softening its harsher incidences. The mass media are supremly adapted to adult education. Radio is the transmission and reception of signals by means of electric waves without the use of connection wires. Therefore, this study was undertaken with a view to find out relative effectiveness of three mode of presentation
A Review on Design and Analysis of Foot Over Bridge
Authors: Dongare Tanvi Dilip , Chougale Prof. Jaydeep , Radke Dr. Ajay
Published: January 2024

Abstract: foot over, which is defined as the bridge that is constructed for pedestrian crossing purposes. The detail and preliminary survey were performed before any design began. The majority of mass movement analysis is performed for live load purposes. The load are considered for design is live load, dead load, wind load , seismic load for design. The design of the foot over bridge was done with mostly software from Staad Pro. The methodology accepted mostly for design is modeling, defining and assigning material and sectional properties, putting boundary conditions in place, applying loading, analysis and design, interpretation results, and conclusions. The conclusion that the Staad Pro software is mostly claimed to be easy to use and simpler than other. The wind load has a reduced effect on the bridge by giving a large opening. The cable material is mostly suitable for the foot-over bridge. A detailed analysis is required to know the exact live load calculation. The steel truss bridge is mostly used for foot-over bridges.
Entanglement Purification with Quantum LDPC Codes and Iterative Decoding
Authors: Rengaswamy Narayanan , Raveendran Nithin , Raina Ankur , Vasić Bane
Published: January 2024

Recent constructions of quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes provide optimal scaling of the number of logical qubits and the minimum distance in terms of the code length, thereby opening the door to fault-tolerant quantum systems with minimal resource overhead. However, the hardware path from nearest-neighbor-connection-based topological codes to long-range-interaction-demanding QLDPC codes is likely a challenging one. Given the practical difficulty in building a monolithic architecture for quantum systems, such as computers, based on optimal QLDPC codes, it is worth considering a distributed implementation of such codes over a network of interconnected medium-sized quantum processors. In such a setting, all syndrome measurements and logical operations must be performed through the use of high-fidelity shared entangled states between the processing nodes. Since probabilistic many-to-1 distillation schemes for purifying entanglement are inefficient, we investigate quantum error correction based entanglement purification in this work. Specifically, we employ QLDPC codes to distill GHZ states, as the resulting high-fidelity logical GHZ states can interact directly with the code used to perform distributed quantum computing (DQC), e.g. for fault-tolerant Steane syndrome extraction. This protocol is applicable beyond the application of DQC since entanglement distribution and purification is a quintessential task of any quantum network. We use the min-sum algorithm (MSA) based iterative decoder with a sequential schedule for distilling 3-qubit GHZ states using a rate 0.118 family of lifted product QLDPC codes and obtain an input fidelity threshold of ≈0.7974 under i.i.d. single-qubit depolarizing noise. This represents the best threshold for a yield of 0.118 for any GHZ purification protocol. Our results apply to larger size GHZ states as well, where we extend our technical result about a measurement property of 3-qubit GHZ states to construct a scalable GHZ purification protocol.
Psiholoģiskās novērtēšanas skrīninga instrumentu komplekta izstrāde bērnu agrīnās attīstības risku atpazīšanai. 1. sējums. Skrīninga konstruktu teorētiskais pamatojums un attīstības veicināšanas intervenču pieejamība.
Authors:   Latvijas Universitāte, Bezborodovs Ņikita , Bite Ieva , Grope Ilze , Helmane Ineta , Kronberga Zane , Laganovska Egija , Nīmante Dita , Raščevska Malgožata , Tomele Gundega , Trinīte Baiba , Umbraško Solvita , Vabale Andra
Published: January 2024

Kolektīvā monogrāfija “Psiholoģiskās novērtēšanas skrīninga instrumentu komplekta izstrāde bērnu agrīnās attīstības risku atpazīšanai. I sējums. Skrīninga konstruktu teorētiskais pamatojums un attīstības veicināšanas intervenču pieejamība” ir paredzēta Latvijā jaunizstrādātā Bērnu agrīnās attīstības skrīninga instrumentu komplekta (BAASIK) lietotājiem – ģimenes ārstiem, pediatriem, psihologiem, audiologopēdiem, logopēdiem, speciālajiem skolotājiem un pirmsskolas skolotājiem, šo nozaru speciālistiem un studentiem, kā arī iekļaujošās izglītības politikas veidotājiem. Tās saturs veltīts trim būtiskiem bērnu psihiskās veselības uzraudzības stiprināšanas un iekļaujošās izglītības pilnveides jautājumiem pirmsskolas posmā. Monogrāfijā 1) zinātniski pamatots jauns, Latvijā oriģināli izstrādāts e-vidē lietojams skrīninga instrumentu komplekts (BAASIK) agrīnās attīstības risku atpazīšanai atbilstoši SSK-11 traucējumu kategoriju sistēmai; 2) analizēta situācija par bērniem (1‒6 gadi) ar attīstības riskiem pieejamām efektīvām atbalsta intervencēm pasaulē un Latvijā; 3) apkopoti psiholoģiskās novērtēšanas instrumenti, kas būtu jāadaptē un jāstandartizē Latvijas bērnu populācijā, lai kvalitatīvi nodrošinātu pirmsskolas vecuma bērnu padziļinātas psiholoģiskās izpētes vajadzības. Īpaša uzmanība veltīta tam, kā atpazīt mācīšanās grūtības lasīšanā, rakstīšanā un matemātikā, kā arī risināmajiem jautājumiem kvalitatīva atbalsta saņemšanai pirmsskolas periodā.
Examination of ESG Investment and Trustee Responsibility
Authors:   Wonkwang University Legal Research Institute has, CUI WENYU
Published: January 2024

近来ESG投资成为全球关注的焦点,Corporate Governance从管理层的利害关系者企业管理转变为董事会主导的外部董事主导型股东利益主导型企业经营,最近提倡机构投资者参与ESG投资的经营判断。 为此有人提出，推进ESG投资是否抵触与机构投资者的受托责任。 亦即，机关投资者与根据自己判断运营自己资产的个人投資者不同,从受益人受托资产运营角度这意味着运营资产的责任。传统的机关投資者的受托人责任只需考虑经济利益最大化，但目前不仅考虑经济利益最大化还要考虑ESG要素的投资，从而产生是否违反信托法的唯一利益原则的问题。为此，有必要澄清受托人责任的适用范围和构成要件。开始英美对ESG投者的信义义务积极进行讨论，不过两国之间存在一定的差异。逐渐日本和中国也对信义义务讨论重视，通过软法和硬法进行不同程度的改进。此外，由于ESG投资和ESG经营的价值观和责任范围不同,是否作为公司代表诉讼的追加要素的问题被理论界和实务界备受关注。
Study on the Legal Justification for Civil Disobedience
Authors:   Wonkwang University Legal Research Institute has, Seo Seogwon
Published: January 2024

The general view is that civil disobedience cannot be ‘legally justified’ because it is ‘an act that violates the law’, and that the disobedient must be willing to accept the legal consequences of his or her disobedience. However, as long as the value of civil disobedience is needed to resolve the partial breakdown of the system that the representative system cannot properly handle, is it impossible to recognize the legal justification beyond acknowledging moral justification for civil disobedience that fully accepts the entire legal order? This paper starts from this question and seeks to explore the possibility of legal justification of civil disobedience in relation to positive law. This is because acknowledging the role of civil disobedience in supplementing the blind spots of the representative system and seeking ways to legalize it to a certain extent is rather a way to expand the realm of the rule of law.
The concept of legal justification for civil disobedience is being used vaguely, with its specific relationship to positive law unclear. Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to confirm the concept of legal justification of civil disobedience in relation to the Constitution and positive laws. This must begin with distinguishing between direct and indirect civil disobedience. That’s because the legal justification of civil disobedience itself or individual acts of disobedience varies depending on whether the target rule violated by civil disobedience is consistent with or inconsistent with the target law or policy that civil disobedience aims to protest.
Jury nullification in the US jury system is an exceptional system in which a jury acknowledges that the accused is guilty of a crime charged in a criminal trial, but finds him innocent for various reasons. As long as jury nullification, which is an important part of the jury system, is understood as a constitutional issue, the implications of jury nullification on the legal justification of civil disobedience are relevant. The device of jury nullification, which sometimes grants legal immunity to civil disobedience, provides an implication in interpreting the social rule provisions(Article 20) of our criminal law.
As a result of a large-scale protest against the installation of nuclear missiles in Germany in the 1980s, the German Federal Constitutional Court finally discussed civil disobedience. In particular, in the 1986 decision, some Constitutional Court judges put forward a theory referred to as the constitutional influence of civil disobedience. The majority opinion in the 1995 decision, which followed over time, also presented an interpretation that respond implicitly to the theory presented by the dissenting opinion in 1986. Therefore, we will examine this theory, which provides important implications for the interpretation of the social rule.
CONTRIBUIÇÕES DE INTERVENÇÕES FORMATIVAS NA CONSTITUIÇÃO DA CONSCIÊNCIA DA COMUNICAÇÃO NÃO VERBAL EM DISCENTES DE LICENCIATURA
Authors: Silveira Jacqueline Zacarias , Engers Patrícia Becker , Ilha Phillip Vilanova
Published: January 2024

A comunicação não verbal é expressa pela linguagem do corpo que assume o protagonismo na emissão de mensagens (Lunardelli, 2012). Como evento inerente à rotina da sala de aula, se faz imperativo que o corpo gestual, que para Antério (2014) é o corpo comunicativo que incorpora a linguagem produzida pelos gestos e feições, assuma seu lugar nas interações entre professor e aluno. Assim, o presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar o processo das intervenções formativas sobre comunicação não verbal em acadêmicos de licenciatura e as contribuições destas no desenvolvimento da consciência comunicativa. Caracterizada quanto aos objetivos como exploratória e, quanto ao método, como intervenção pedagógica, que na perspectiva de Damiani e colaboradores (2013) busca propor melhorias e avanços na formação e aprendizagem dos sujeitos participantes, a pesquisa contou com a participação de 18 discentes, de dois cursos de licenciatura, Educação Física e Ciências da Natureza, de uma universidade do interior do Rio Grande do Sul. O estudo se alicerçou em três etapas: entrevista inicial, intervenções pedagógicas e entrevista final, respectivamente. Os resultados foram oriundos das duas entrevistas semiestruturadas e das observações e anotações no diário de campo, para a posterior análise de conteúdo. Infere-se que, após as intervenções formativas, as concepções dos discentes, sobre a temática abordada, foram ampliadas quanto à compreensão e a quantidade expressiva de elementos que compõem o corpo expressivo. Por parte dos sujeitos, ficou evidenciado que a formação docente deveria ser contemplada com um componente específico que verse sobre a comunicação não verbal.
Traditional vs Modern Groceries from Islamic Perspective in Indonesia
Authors: Bachmid Sofyan , Hidayat Mokh Ulil , Noval Noval
Published: January 2024

Despite extensive research on the competition between modern and traditional retailers, there is a lack of investigation into specific factors that influence consumer choices and directly impact sales revenue. There is a scarcity of research exploring these issues from the perspective of Islamic business. To address this gap, the study aims to examine consumer preferences in purchasing decision at Traditional and Modern groceries. This study employed a quantitative approach by distributing questionnaire to 100 customers in Palu city, Indonesia. Data analysis involved path analysis and bootstrap biased correlation. The findings highlight the significant impact of product variants, pricing strategies, and promotional efforts by modern retailers on sales revenue in traditional retail stores through purchasing decisions. However, shopping convenience did not exhibit a significant influence, indicating the need for improvement. The competition between traditional and modern retail is primarily driven by shifting consumer behavior and relatively weaker marketing strategies employed by traditional retailers. This study suggests that to maintain their market position, traditional retailers should enhance their marketing strategies by expanding product offerings, setting competitive prices, and executing effective promotional campaigns. Prioritizing the improvement of shopping convenience is crucial to meet customer expectations and preferences.
Multiphase reactions of hydrocarbons into an air quality model with CAMx-UNIPAR: Impacts of humidity and NOx on secondary organic aerosol formation in the Southern USA
Authors: Jo Yujin , Jang Myoseon , Madhu Azad , Choi Jiwon , Park Jin-soo
Published: January 2024

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) mass in the Southern USA during
winter-spring 2022 were simulated by integrating Comprehensive Air
quality Model with extensions (CAMx) with the UNIfied
Partitioning-Aerosol phase Reaction (UNIPAR) model, which predicts SOA
formation via multiphase reactions of hydrocarbons. UNIPAR streamlines
multiphase partitioning of oxygenated products and their heterogeneous
reactions by using explicitly predicted products originating from 10
aromatics, 3 biogenics, and linear/branched alkanes in different carbon
lengths. UNIPAR simulations were compared with those using the
partitioning-based model (SOAP), which uses simple surrogate products
for each precursor. Both UNIPAR and SOAP showed similar tendencies in
SOA mass but slightly underpredicted against observations at given five
ground sites. However, SOA compositions and its sensitivity to
environmental variables (sunlight, humidity, NOx, and SO2) were
different between two models. In CAMx-UNIPAR, SOA was predominated by
alkane, terpene, and isoprene, and was notably influenced by humidities
showing high SOA concentrations with wet-inorganic salts, which
accelerated aqueous reactions of reactive organic products. NO2 was
positively correlated with biogenic SOA because elevated nitrate
radicals effectively oxidized biogenic hydrocarbons at night and
increased hygroscopic nitrate aerosol promoted SOA growth via organic
heterogeneous chemistry. Anthropogenic SOA, which formed mainly via the
daytime oxidation with OH radicals, was weakly and negatively correlated
with NO2 in cities. In CAMx-UNIPAR, the sensitivity of SOA to aerosol
acidity (neutral vs. acidic aerosol at cation/anion = 0.62) was
dominated by isoprene SOA. The decline of NOx emission benefits the
mitigation of SOA burdens in the Southern USA where biogenic
hydrocarbons are abundant.
Palabras llanas
Authors: Eslava Torres Pedro Juan , Morales Gutiérrez Diana Alejandra , Sánchez Rodríguez Lugo Emilio , Baquero Nariño Alberto , Eslava Mocha Pedro René , Cortés Vargas Héctor León , Gómez Avella Oscar Adrián , Aristizabal Valencia Jorge Hernán , Salazar Pérez Otto Gerardo , Sabogal Mantilla Germán
Published: January 2024

Ambicionamos ser capaces de universalidad desde nuestro llano terruño; escribimos –como todos los hombres– contra el olvido…* Palabras Llanas evoca quizá, en primer lugar, al territorio orinoquense, pero el sentido que pretende es sencillez o llaneza en el lenguaje –su elemental sobriedad– una exigencia tan seductora como inabarcable, más cuando se trata de aprendizajes de un oficio cargado de complejidad como la escritura creativa. El propósito de no remilgar el lenguaje ha sido difícil de lograr. Tal vez, cual cabresteros pioneros se comienza apenas a desbrozar una senda que ojalá sea recorrida y consolidada por otros en los Llanos, labor paciente de ir tejiendo palabras que lleven a trascender lo meramente paisajístico para narrar auténticamente el espíritu o el efecto humano, contar desde la tradición o desde la experimentación audaz las resonancias del alma: realidades, sueños, ficciones y esperanzas. Pensando y practicando un lenguaje eólico, fresco, urdido de voces propias que no rechazan; sin embargo, las palabras foráneas, las somete a la criba del pensamiento inquisitivo, pleno de tigritud, orgulloso de lugares y costumbres, pero, con fehacientes deseos de confraternizar, hospitalario como los buenos llaneros, con todas las culturas humanas. Palabras Llanas es la primera compilación del Taller de Escritores de la Universidad de los Llanos (2016 – 2017). Pretende motivar a los interesados, sobre todo a los jóvenes, a compartir el gusto por la escritura como acto creativo.
Thermal conductivity and microstructure of Bi-Sb alloys
Authors: Manasijevic Dragan , Milosevic Mirjana , Balanovic Ljubisa , Stamenkovic Uros , Markovic Miljan , Markovic Ivana
Published: January 2024

Four Bi-Sb alloys with compositions Bi79.6Sb20.4, Bi56.9Sb43.1, Bi39.8Sb60.2, Bi18.6Sb81.4 have been investigated regarding the microstructures and thermal properties. The microstructure was examined by scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry. The light flash method was applied to determine thermal diffusivity and to obtain thermal conductivity in the temperature range 25 to 150??, while the indirect Archimedean method was used for determination of densities of the investigated Bi-Sb alloys. The obtained results have shown that the density of the studied alloys decreased monotonically with increasing the antimony content. On the other hand, the specific heat capacity of Bi-Sb alloys increased with the increase in the antimony content as well as with increasing the temperature. Thermal diffusivity of the alloys increased slightly with increasing the temperature. Thermal conductivities of the examined Bi-Sb alloys were determined to be in the range of 3.8 to 7 W m-1 K-1, which is lower than thermal conductivities of pure bismuth and antimony. The results obtained in this work represent a contribution to better knowledge of the thermal properties of Bi-Sb alloys, which are of key importance for determining the possibility of their practical application.
Project ECHO for Diabetes Improves Primary Care Providers’ Comfort With and Use of Diabetes Medications and Technology
Authors: Ehrhardt Nicole , C. Thomas Celeste , Zou Tracy , Gabriela Vasconcelos Ana , Bouchonville Matt
Published: January 2024

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes are leading causes of death in the United States; yet, less than one-third of American adults living with diabetes reach glycemic, blood pressure, and cholesterol targets for preventing or delaying diabetes complications. The need for improved patient care is urgent because people with diabetes are two to four times more likely to die as a result of CVD compared to those without diabetes. A recent study found that only 26% of American adults reached the combined goals for preventing or delaying diabetes complications, which include the management of A1C, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels and smoking cessation (1). Despite the progress made in reducing death rates from heart disease and stroke, the impact of cardiometabolic disease is significant. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Every 29 seconds, someone will suffer a coronary event in the United States, every 60 seconds someone will die from such an event, and every 45 seconds, someone will suffer a new or recurrent stroke” (2). Heart disease affects all racial and ethnic groups,
Formulation and Characterization of a New Gastrointestinal Drug Delivery System of Cinnarizine Hydrochloride
Authors: Mir P Ahad
Published: January 2024

The goal of this study was to create and test an in vitro floating drug delivery system employing polymers such as sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC Sodium), Xanthan gum (XG), and sodium alginate (SA), using cinnarizine hydrochloride (CNZ) as the model drug. The efficacy of the model drug was proven during the pre-formulation research. 18 distinct formulations were developed using a direct compression (effervescent) technique (F1-F18). As a gas generator, sodium bicarbonate was employed. Physical properties such as weight variation, hardness, friability, floating lag time, and total floating duration were assessed in all of the formulations. Four mathematical models were used to predict the drug release Kinetics: zero order, first order, Higuchi, and Korsmeyer Peppas. F1, F2, F3, F6, and F7 were known to be the optimum formulations. They all include the same amount of sodium bicarbonate (40 mg) and ethyl cellulose (40 mg), but different quantities of CMC Sodium, XG, and SA (150mg, 120mg, 90mg, 150mg and 120mg of CMC Sodium:30mg, 60mg, 90mg, 0mg, 0mg of XA & 0mg, 0mg, 0mg, 30mg and 60mg of SA respectively). In 0.1N HCl, all of the optimized batches had a release rate of 92 % to 99.8% in 12 hours and showed adequate swelling for up to 10 hours. Polymers such as CMC sodium, XG, and SA, in conjunction with sodium bicarbonate as a gas producing agent, may be employed to formulate sustained release floating tablets containing CNZ, according to the findings.
Isolation Evaluation and Estimation of Calcium Citrate from Herbal Source
Authors: AN Daf
Published: January 2024

In the modern organic chemistry, various methods are now a day widely utilized for isolation of different organic compounds. From the ancient era to the present the various methods of extraction like Maceration, Percolation, Decoction and Soxhlet extraction are widely utilized. Calcium citrate also known as calcium salt of citric acid which is a member of tricarboxylic acid derivatives used occasionally as food ingredients and preservatives but it is well known source of calcium and utilized as calcium supplement. Thus the present study was initiated with aim to isolate, evaluate and estimate the calcium citrate from lemon juice by using decoction method. Calcium chloride was used for the crystallization of calcium isolated from lemon juice. Theoretical and practical yield of calcium citrate after isolation were determined. For further evaluation of isolated calcium citrate basic identification tests like solubility, melting point (MP), loss on drying (LOD) and assay of calcium citrate were done. The present study further proceeded to confirmatory evaluation by UV-Vis spectroscopy and thin layer chromatography (TLC). The basic identification tests found the presence of calcium citrate with M.P in the range of 119°C-121°C with percentage practical yield of 24.02%w/w and LOD was 9.40%. The UV-Vis absorbance shown at λ-Max 0.036 and TLC reported Rf value 0.68 and 0.53 using various polar, semipolar and non polar solvents. As ample amount of calcium citrate was isolated from herbal source i.e. lemon juice, the study reached to the conclusion that instead of synthetic sources, the herbal source can be very useful and economical approach for the isolation of calcium citrate from lemon juice.
Antibiogram of Catheter Associated Bacterial Pathogens in Urinary Tract Infection among Pediatrics Patients in Pakistan
Authors: MW Mazhar
Published: January 2024

Background: Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens causing Urinary Tract infection is a serious public health concern in our clinical setting. Methodology: Therefore the current study was designed to investigate AMR profiles and prevalence of bacterial pathogens in catheterized pediatric patients. A total of 200 catheter tips were collected from the different wards (medical, surgical, urology) at the Children’s hospital Faisalabad. Samples were streaked on nutrient agar plates and the positivity of the samples was noted after 24 hours. Positive samples were processed further for the identification of K. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa, S. aureus, and E. coli using culture identification, microscopy, and biochemical profiling on basis of culture characterization, microscopy, and biochemical profiling and antibiotic susceptibility testing. Results: 76 (38%) of the samples showed growth on nutrient agar. In processed samples, the high prevalence was marked for P. aeruginosa (24/200; 12%) followed by E. coli (22/200; 11%) and S. aureus (19/200; 9.5%) while 11 K. pneumoniae isolates (5.5%) were identified in this study. In antibiotic susceptibility profiling of P. aeruginosa highest susceptibility was found for colistin (100%) and imipenem (70.83%) followed by gentamicin (54.17%) while the highest resistance was found for tobramycin (54.17%) followed by meropenem, ceftazidime, and cefotaxime (50%). In antibiotic susceptibility profiling of K. pneumonia highest susceptibility was found for colistin (100%) and imipenem (72.73%) followed by gentamicin and ciprofloxacin (45.45%) while the highest resistance was found for cefotaxime (63.63%) followed by meropenem, tobramycin and amikacin (54.54%). In antibiotic susceptibility profiling of E. coli highest susceptibility was found for colistin (100%) and imipenem (63.64%) followed by ciprofloxacin (54.55%) while the highest resistance was found for gentamicin (54.55%) followed by tobramycin, meropenem, ceftazidime, and amikacin (50%). In antibiotic susceptibility profiling of S. aureus highest susceptibility was found for vancomycin (100%) clindamycin, cefoxitin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (57.89%) while the highest resistance was found for erythromycin and ampicillin (47.37%). Conclusion: Advance studies are needed to investigate the real investigations of bacterial contamination; resistance to treatment options and resistance to antibiotics are needed.
A Retrospective Study on the Efficacy of Homoeopathic Medicines in the Treatment of Acute Rhinitis
Authors: RK Pooja
Published: January 2024

Acute Rhinitis is estimated to affect more than 200 million people worldwide. Approximately 30% of adults and 40% of the children are affected with Rhinitis. The 30 cases diagnosed with Acute rhinitis were taken from the OPD of Sarada Krishna Homoeopathic Medical college and Hospital. Analysis of cases was based on the Acute totality and medicines were selected accordingly. 19 to 40 age groups are mostly affected. Females are most commonly affected. Bryonia alba was the most indicated medicine for Acute rhinitis. The 200th potency was the most prescribed potency. Duration of the treatment was minimum 1 day and maximum of 2 weeks. Most of the cases selected for the study shows significant improvement. Thus, Homoeopathic medicines are very much effective in the treatment of Acute Rhinitis.
A Brief Primer to Ecstatic Naturalism and Deep Pantheism
Authors: RS Corrington
Published: January 2024

This essay focuses on the categerial expression of the metaphysics of ecstatic naturalism and the theology of deep pantheism. Naturalism, the theory that nature is all that there is, becomes the ecstatic form by stressing the continual fissuring between nature naturing and its potencies and nature natured seen as the innumerable orders of the world. Deep pantheism critiques the dualism of supernatural theism as well as the half-way theology of panentheism. Further, deep pantheism is “deep” because it focuses on the churning abyss of the unconscious of nature and it’s archetypal potencies.
Dialogue and the Experience of the Other
Authors: P Mendes-Flohr
Published: January 2024

The article explores the conceptual antinomies of the liberal notion of tolerance as the superficial leveling of differences of faith and ethical commitments to affirm the inalienable human dignity of others. In arguing that cognitive and axiological commitments are existentially grounded and thus intractable, I argue that genuine tolerance is to acknowledge and honor difference. I further question whether we are to “tolerate” what we regard as “intolerable,” politically and otherwise?
The Roots of the Concept of Naturalised Epistemology: Russell and Quine
Authors: H Jales Ribeiro
Published: January 2024

In this article, contrary to the traditional and still very current interpretations, it is shown how Russell’s philosophy, from the 1920s onwards, was on the path to Quine’s concept of naturalised epistemology, and why Russell, if he had been confronted with such a concept, could not have subscribed to it. With this objective, a re-reading of this philosophy, from the abovementioned era, is proposed, which makes evident his involvement with the problems of naturalism and behaviourism and, especially, with the respective limitations.
Why Should Science Take Vagueness Seriously?
Authors: A Syropoulos
Published: January 2024

There are many things, ideas, and entities that we encounter every single day that can be described as vague, that is, one cannot precisely classify them as members of a specific class of objects. Although many hold the opinion that vagueness is either a deficiency of spoken languages or something that exists merely because we do not have all relevant details, a third group of people assume that vagueness is something real. This simply means that objects, including living beings, are vague. But if vagueness is a real thing, why do people ignore it when trying to explain a natural phenomenon, a syndrome, etc.? The reason is that people have a deep respect for pure, abstract objects with exact properties. But this has a negative effect on our understanding of our cosmos. Therefore, we investigate how vagueness really affects exact sciences and how the incorporation of vagueness will improve our understanding of our world.
An Epistemology of Swami Vivekananda: A Comparative Approach
Authors: S Katyayani
Published: January 2024

Indian philosophy being profoundly rich from socio-political, economical, and spiritual perspective has a lot to offer. A lot many philosophies of different Indian thinkers have been probed into for the purpose of character and national building such as that of Kautilya, Gandhi, Nehru, M.N. Roy and likewise. However, there exists a plethora of thinkers whose philosophies have been not studied systematically or have been overlooked. It is owing to this research gap, that the paper is prepared with special attention to the teachings and philosophy of Swami Vivekananda who altogether gives a different perspective about life and its intricacies. This paper tends to explore the various socio-political concepts expounded by Swami Vivekananda which are relevant event today and if taken and deliberated upon seriously have the potential to resolve a lot many crises that are being faced by the Indian society. This is a qualitative study, examining the political philosophy of Swami Vivekananda through his works. The paper analyses the relevance of the philosophy in the then era as well as in the contemporary era with reference to western ideas and philosophy. A comparative approach is adopted in the paper to comprehend the differences as well as the similarities between the philosophy of western thinkers with that of Swami Vivekananda.
Impact of Globalization on African Culture
Authors: VO Adefarasin
Published: January 2024

The process of globalization is inevitable because it is part of human nature. Man by nature is a social being with an irresistible urge to associate with his fellow human beings. Man cannot survive without associating with his fellow human beings. Globalization is a manifestation of this natural urge in man to associate with his fellow human beings and it is irresistible. I understand globalization to mean the process by which mankind gets closer together. This process has in recent times been facilitated by modern means of communication and transportation. Tremendous progress was made in this direction in the 20th century by the unprecedented advancement in the means of transportation and communication, e.g. Satellite and E-mail. This has turned the world to “global village”. You could have your dinner in Lagos and your breakfast the following morning in London. Through CNN, you could see and know what is happening in other part of the world. And through improved telecommunication, you could talk with anybody in other parts of the world. Through all these advancements in transportation and telecommunication, mankind is fast coming together, getting to know more about one another, becoming more and more interested and involved in what goes on in other parts of the world. Despite its numerous advantages, globalization has serious effects on African culture. It affects almost if not all aspects of African culture. One of such is the loss of one’s cultural identity and even national identity. The paper discusses meaning and definitions of culture, characteristics of culture, Categories and types of culture, meaning and definition of globalization, features of globalization, advantages of globalization and the impacts of globalization on African culture. The paper therefore concludes that globalization is good, but we must embrace it with caution and guard against the dangers inherent in it so that our cultural heritage is not eroded and sacrificed on the altar of globalization.
The Haitian Revolution: An Insignificant Revolution?
Authors: PC Mocombe
Published: January 2024

This work argues that the usurpation of the Haitian Revolution by the Affranchis, petit-bourgeois black (creole) landowners and mulatto elites, from the Africans on the island seeking total freedom from the mercantilism and liberalism of the capitalist world-system under European hegemony, rendered it (The Haitian Revolution) an insignificant black bourgeois revolution focused on racial vindicationism and equality of opportunity, recognition, and distribution with whites within the denouement of the aforementioned systemicity. The latter move placed the Revolution on par with the American one, which was a counterrevolution to the abolition of slavery and the slave trade under mercantilism and liberalism. The work concludes, had the Revolution remained under either the directorship of the African leadership seeking to implement their (communal) lakou system throughout the island, or the Kojèveian synthesis of Dessalines, it would become a significant revolution offering a counter systemicity to the Protestant/Catholic Ethic and the spirit of capitalism under European and American hegemony.
Exploring the Influence of Education and Health Investments on Youth Employment Prospects in India
Authors: JK Sinha
Published: January 2024

The discourse on labor engagement, underutilization, and unemployment has been a prominent focus in development literature, particularly in developing economies. These issues influence migration patterns and gross domestic output and, in some cases, contribute to youth restiveness. This study delves into the intricate relationship between investments in human capital, represented by spending on education and health, and its repercussions on youth employment outcomes in India. We gathered annual data spanning the years 1990 to 2021 from various Indian states. We employed the bootstrap-based bias correction for panel fixed effects estimation techniques to enhance the analytical accuracy. The findings of our investigation reveal that investments in human capital, encompassing both private and government health expenditures as well as expenditures on primary, secondary, and tertiary education, exert significant but varying impacts on youth employment in India. These results carry important policy implications. To effectively address the persistent challenge of youth unemployment in India, it is imperative to prioritize consistent and disproportionate investments in education over health. This shift in focus could prove instrumental in reversing the trend of youth unemployment and fostering sustainable economic growth.
On the Phenomenological Investigations into the Psychology of Dreaming
Authors: Venukapalli Sudhakar
Published: January 2024

In 1900 the publication of the book, Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud raised very seminal and fascinating questions in the disciplines of psychology and psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud’s intellectual contributions and the discovery of unconscious had given a big jolt to all the classical approaches, shook the disciplinary foundations of psychology and placed ‘psychoanalysis’ as an alternative model for understanding mental world. Psychologists across the world showed keen interest in uncovering the mysteries of dreams and dreaming. But the institutional dominance of Behaviorism and its standards of research didn’t allow them to cross the boundaries of conventional psychology. Behavioristic psychologists raised important questions on the methodology adopted by Sigmund Freud and leveled criticism against his unverifiable explanations. Behaviorism branded his theories as absolute subjectivist and unscientific. Hence, most of the psychologists were silent and systematically marginalized dream research and banished the discourses on dreams in the institutions of higher learning and research. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of the first dream studies, which were primarily concerned with dream phenomenology. Nevertheless, the pace of methodical dream research was held considerably by the emergence of distinct psychological movements at the start of the 20th century: behaviorism, classical psychoanalysis, and gestalt psychology, placed greater stress on the significance and meaning of dreams, as well as what they symbolized in the lives of individuals. Also a few of them questioned the reality of dreams and other similar mental experiences. Consequently, every movement undermined the greater sample sizes and more methodical research on dreams in its own unique manner. While presenting the views of Sigmund Freud, John Watson, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and Fritz Perls this paper makes an attempt to show how classical schools of psychology slowed down the flow of systematic dream studies with large samples.
The Second Person in Dialogue
Authors: A Leclerc
Published: January 2024

I first present a conception of the relata involved in the dialogic relation. I and thou are persons endowed with a first-person perspective and concepts through which they can represent themselves as distinct of anyone or anything else. Then I briefly discuss the epistemology and metaphysics of persons as agents. I adopt a realist view against any epistemological projects denying (or feigning to deny) the existence of the second person. Then I expose the complementary view of the secondperson perspective, which close the gap between the first- and third-person perspectives. I expose some historical milestones recognizing the importance of the second-person perspective in dialogue. After an examination of the conditions for the use of mental terms, I propose an analysis of dialogue in sequences of illocutionary acts, stressing the importance of perlocutionary plans. Any dialogue worthy of the name involves mutual understanding. In my reconstruction, I use distinctions proposed by Burge, Dummett and Austin. There are degrees of understanding in dialogue. In the highest degree, we have a real “meeting of minds.” Finally, a genuine dialogue is different from a fictional dialogue. I also suggest, taking side with Descartes, that the interaction man-machine cannot be classified as genuine dialogue.
Life Cycle Investigation of Educational Systems in the Context of Civilizational Development of the Planetary World
Authors: Z Vasyl
Published: January 2024

The article analyzes the dependence of the phenomenon of education on the type of civilization in space of which the life of the world community takes place. It is based on the interaction of social institutions of the market, science and education. It “proceeds” on the surface by the division of social labor, which generates a specific form of social system of education in dependence on the social division of labor in specific socio-economic conditions. To reproduce effectively its structural and functional parameters, the author suggests resorting to the paradigm of the «life cycle of educational systems in the context of a civilizational approach» based on the use of cognitive analysis. Its advantage is only that the concept «grasps» the phenomenon of education as a whole. This means that the phenomenon of civilization education is studied as a social institution and social system of the industrial society. To analyze the dynamics of knowledge change, two methodological conditions must be used: to apply the civilizational approach and the paradigm of the life cycle of social systems, since this phenomenon has a long-lasting dimension in space and time; the meaning of educational content at each stage of industrial civilization life is distinguished: natural knowledge prevailed at the stage of its origin; at the stage of growth - technical knowledge that corresponded to the essence of civilization itself; at the stage of maturity - scientific knowledge turned into ideologues of social development, which led to the emergence of technocratism and “drove” the planetary community into a dead end; at the stage of decline - technological knowledge led to the loss of mainstream guide of social development and began the catastrophic destruction of the social organism of the planet, which entails a change in the type of civilizational development; the solution is seen in the rise of the planetary community into the space of informational civilization, the transition of education to mastering methodological knowledge corresponds to it.
Percutaneous Closure of Sinus of Valsalva Rupture into the Right Ventricule in a Pediatric Patient: A Case Report
Authors: Abdelbaki Mourad , Touati M.
Published: January 2024

This case report details a rare instance of an 8-year-old boy with a large sinus of Valsalva rupture in the right ventricle, who underwent successful percutaneous closure. The rarity of this condition in pediatric patients, coupled with the innovative approach to treatment, makes this a significant contribution to pediatric cardiology. The success of procedure highlights the potential of minimally invasive techniques in the management of complex cardiac abnormalities in children.
Suomea äidinkielenään puhuvien viranomaisten ja maallikoiden käsitykset valheen paljastavista merkeistä
Authors: Väisänen Anne
Published: January 2024

Kansainvälisen stereotyyppisen mielikuvan mukaan valheen voi tunnistaa katseen välttelystä, hermostuneisuudesta ja kehon liikkeistä. Ihmiset uskovat tunnistavansa valheen erityisesti nonverbaaleista merkeistä, vaikka verbaalisten merkkien on todettu olevan luotettavampia valheentunnistuksessa. Viranomaistahoilla on myös todettu olevan stereotyyppisiä uskomuksia valheen merkeistä. Uskomuksissa on kuitenkin havaittu kulttuurisia variaatioita. Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin mistä verbaaleista ja nonverbaaleista merkeistä suomalaiset viranomaiset ja maallikot uskovat tunnistavansa valheen. Lisäksi selvitettiin mistä suomalaiset uskovat jäävänsä itse kiinni valehdellessaan ja miten nämä uskomukset vertautuvat kansainvälisiin tutkimustuloksiin. Verkkokyselylomakkeelle kerättiin vastauksia suomea äidinkielenään puhuvilta poliiseilta, hätäkeskuspäivystäjiltä ja maallikoilta (N = 154).

Suomalaiset uskoivat kansainvälisen stereotypian mukaisesti tunnistavansa valheen katseen välttelystä ja hermostuneisuudesta. Myös puheen ristiriitaisuuksien, korjailujen ja välttelevyyden uskottiin olevan merkkejä valehtelusta. Viranomaiset uskoivat maallikoiden tapaan tunnistavansa valheen katseen välttelystä, ja aiempi tietämys valheentunnistamisesta ei vaikuttanut uskomuksiin. Suomalaisilla viranomaisilla oli samantapaisia ja virheellisiä uskomuksia valheen paljastavista merkeistä kuin maallikoilla. Suomalaisten käsitykset eivät juurikaan poikkea kansainvälisistä stereotypioista.