bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Studying the spatio-temporal dynamics of wood decay with X-ray CT scanning
Authors: De Ligne Liselotte , De Muynck Amélie , Caes Jordy , Baetens Jan M. , De Baets Bernard , Van Hoorebeke Luc , Van Acker Joris , Van den Bulcke Jan
Published: February 2022

Bio-based building materials are susceptible to degradation by decay fungi when exposed to favourable conditions for fungal growth. The risk of decay depends on both the environmental conditions and material resistance. Although durability data is available for solid wood, standard tests mainly focus on mass loss assessment after a fixed degradation period. In-depth knowledge on time-dependent decay patterns is lacking, yet could prove relevant for optimisations of the structural design of engineered wood products to increase their service life. Here, a novel X-ray CT scanning set-up and analysis pipeline for non-destructive assessment of the influence of material structure on temporal decay patterns under laboratory conditions is presented. Wood specimens that were severely degraded showed a pattern in which the density decreased substantially after 2 weeks, due to wood mass being metabolised into mycelium, carbon dioxide and water. The influence of various anatomical features, such as the vessel orientation and the number of growth rings, on wood degradation patterns was demonstrated. This approach is a starting point for further in-depth research on the influence of material structure on decay. The method is especially interesting to assess the efficacy of structural modification strategies that are expected to inhibit decay or enhance service life.
Structural Chemistry of Titanium Alkoxides Substituted by the Chelating Bidentate Ligands Isoeugenolate or 2-Aminoethanolate
Authors: Fric Helmut , Kogler Franz René , Puchberger Michael , Schubert Ulrich
Published: February 2022

The compounds [Ti(OPr)3(isoeugenolate)]2 and [Ti(OR)3(OCH2CH2NH2)]2(R = iPr, Et), obtained by reaction of titanium alkoxides with isoeugenol (2-methoxy-4-propenylphenol) or 2- aminoethanol, are centrosymmetric dimers with a central Ti2(μ2-OR)2 unit. The isoeugenolate and 2-aminoethanolate ligands are chelating, with the uncharged donor group (OR or NH2, respectively) axial to the Ti2(μ2-OR)2 ring.
#Socialdistancing: Social Media Use and Online Social Support Moderate the Effect of Pandemic-Related Stress on Internalizing Symptoms in Emerging Adults
Authors: Politte-Corn Madison , Nick Elizabeth A. , Dickey Lindsay , Pegg Samantha , Cole David A. , Kujawa Autumn
Published: February 2022

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to major stressors, increases in internalizing symptomatology, and greater reliance on online interactions. We examined associations between social media use, online social support, pandemic-related stress, and internalizing symptoms, and tested the moderating role of social media use on the relation between stress and symptom change across time. Methods: Emerging adults aged 18–25 (N = 200) self-reported pandemic-related stress, internalizing symptoms, social media use, and online social support in May 2020, then repeated measures of internalizing symptoms in August 2020. Results: Greater social media use was cross-sectionally associated with greater stress and anxiety symptoms. High social media use in conjunction with high interpersonal stress was predictive of increases in depression, whereas low online social support and high total stress was predictive of increases in anxiety. Discussion: Findings suggest that general social media usage and online social support are differentially related to internalizing symptom change among emerging adults.
Redundant Attempted Solutions: Operative Diagnoses and Strategic Interventions to Disrupt More of the Same
Authors: Vitry Grégoire , de Scorraille Claude , Portelli Claudette , Hoyt Michael F.
Published: February 2022

Beginning with the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California, a meta-model has been described in which redundant attempted solutions (RASs) are seen to maintain the mental difficulties that they attempt to resolve. Giorgio Nardone and his colleagues at the Centro di Terapia Strategica in Arezzo, Italy, have developed this constructivist approach via a strategic dialogue method that renders an initial diagnostic interview a deliberate and collaborative therapeutic intervention. Using SYPRENE, a systemic practice research network (Vitry et al., 2020), this article presents a reading of persistent psychological problems in terms of the RASs of avoidance and/or control in which they are embedded, and then demonstrates with a clinical vignette how this grid can guide therapeutic prescriptions.
Wypalenie zawodowe wśród pracowników oświaty - metody pomiaru i przegląd badań realizowanych w Polsce
Authors:   Uniwersytet Łódzki, Syper-Jędrzejak Marzena
Published: February 2022

Burnout is traditionally associated with the so-called helping profession, welfare, social, mission. This also includes the teaching profession, which involves great responsibility. Any dysfunctions and reduced efficiency in the work of a teacher may have major, including social, consequences. This study presents the burnout syndrome among educational workers (especially teachers), taking into account factors contributing to individual, interpersonal and organizational burnout. At the same time, efforts were made to indicate the organizational and social specificity of education in Poland. The aim of the study is to indicate how the problem of burnout was studied in Poland in the 2010–2020. The author was aimed to determine the most common subject of research and what measurement tools were used by the researchers. An analysis was conducted of dozens of selected publications presenting the results of empirical research on occupational burnout among employees in the Polish education system (published in 2010–2020). As a result, it was possible to identify the dominant areas and methods of research in this area, indicate their limitations, and present alternatives.
The influence of playing digital game in distance learning towards students’ speaking skill
Authors: Wijanarko Doni , Hadi Samsul , Puspitasari Indah
Published: February 2022

The lack of class interaction in distance learning makes students can not practice their speaking skill. In another case, the use of digital game have been familiar among students. This situation forces teacher to serve students with creative teaching-learning in the class. Novelty is on the specific game which was used in this research. The researcher experimented to apply digital games namely “Among Us” then investigated the impact on students’ speaking skill. This research aimed to answer the question, how were digital games become an alternative medium to learn English in the distance learning situation? Inherently, this research was a pre-experimental research method with a design of one shoot case study. The main data source in this research was based on students' assessments scores and students’ questionnaire scores then supported by other questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The averages scores indicate that students were good in speaking skills overall, it could be known by the detailed results of the assessments that were pre-activity 2.64, during-activity 2.50, and post-activity 2.22. Moreover, the results of regression analysis indicated digital games influenced students' achievement and students' motivation. It can be known by the significance of Annova tables results that students’ achievement 0.022 < 0.05 and students motivation 0.000 < 0.05.  The Researcher concluded that students were comfortable and more confident to learn and practice their speaking skill during playing the digital game. Finally, through giving correct treatment, digital game activity was possible to be an alternative way to learn English especially to practice speaking skill.
Increased risk for type 2 diabetes in relation to adiposity in middle-aged Black South African men compared to women
Authors: Kufe Clement N , Micklesfield Lisa K , Masemola Maphoko , Chikowore Tinashe , Kengne Andre P , Karpe Fredrik , Norris Shane A , Crowther Nigel J , Olsson Tommy , Goedecke Julia H
Published: February 2022

Aims

Despite a higher prevalence of overweight/obesity in Black South African women compared to men, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) does not differ. We explored if this could be due to sex differences in insulin sensitivity, clearance and/or beta-cell function and also sex-specific associations with total and regional adiposity.

Methods

This cross-sectional study included 804 Black South African men (n = 388) and women (n = 416). Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry was used to measure total and regional adiposity. Insulin sensitivity (Matsuda index), secretion (C-peptide index) and clearance (C-peptide/insulin ratio) were estimated from an oral glucose tolerance test.

Results

After adjusting for sex differences in the fat mass index, men were less insulin sensitive and had lower beta-cell function than women (P  < 0.001), with the strength of the associations with measures of total and central adiposity being greater in men than women (P  < 0.001 for interactions). Further, the association between total adiposity and T2D risk was also greater in men than women (relative risk ratio (95% CI): 2.05 (1.42–2.96), P  < 0.001 vs 1.38 (1.03–1.85), P = 0.031).

Conclusion

With increasing adiposity, particularly increased centralisation of body fat linked to decreased insulin sensitivity and beta-cell function, Black African men are at greater risk for T2D than their female counterparts.
Increased liver fat associates with severe metabolic perturbations in low birth weight men
Authors: Brøns Charlotte , Thuesen Anne Cathrine Baun , Elingaard-Larsen Line Ohrt , Justesen Louise , Jensen Rasmus Tanderup , Henriksen Nicolai Stevns , Juel Helene Bæk , Størling Joachim , Ried-Larsen Mathias , Sparks Lauren M , van Hall Gerrit , Danielsen Else Rubæk , Hansen Torben , Vaag Allan
Published: February 2022

Objective

Ectopic liver fat deposition, resulting from impaired subcutaneous adipose tissue expandability, may represent an age-dependent key feature linking low birth weight (LBW) with increased risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). We examined whether presumably healthy early middle-aged, non-obese LBW subjects exhibit increased liver fat content, whether increased liver fat in LBW is associated with the severity of dysmetabolic traits and finally whether such associations may be confounded by genetic factors.

Methods

Using 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we measured hepatic fat content in 26 early middle-aged, non-obese LBW and 22 BMI-matched normal birth weight (NBW) males. Endogenous glucose production was measured by stable isotopes, and a range of plasma adipokine and gut hormone analytes were measured by multiplex ELISA. Genetic risk scores were calculated from genome-wide association study (GWAS) data for birth weight, height, T2D, plasma cholesterol and risk genotypes for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Results

The LBW subjects had significantly increased hepatic fat content compared with NBW controls (P= 0.014), and 20% of LBW vs no controls had overt NAFLD. LBW subjects with NAFLD displayed widespread metabolic changes compared with NBW and LBW individuals without NAFLD, including hepatic insulin resistance, plasma adipokine and gut hormone perturbations as well as dyslipidemia. As an exception, plasma adiponectin levels were lower in LBW subjects both with and without NAFLD as compared to NBW controls. Genetic risk for selected differential traits did not differ between groups.

Conclusion

Increased liver fat content including overt NAFLD may be on the critical path linking LBW with increased risk of developing T2D in a non-genetic manner.
Hemodynamic-based Assessment and Management of Cardiogenic Shock
Authors: Hernandez-Montfort Jaime , Miranda Diana , Randhawa Varinder Kaur , Sleiman Jose , de Armas Yelenis Seijo , Lewis Antonio , Taimeh Ziad , Alvarez Paulino , Cremer Paul , Perez-Villa Bernardo , Navas Viviana , Hakemi Emad , Velez Mauricio , Hernandez-Mejia Luis , Sheffield Cedric , Brozzi Nicolas , Cubeddu Robert , Navia Jose , Estep Jerry D
Published: February 2022

Cardiogenic shock (CS) remains a deadly disease entity challenging patients, caregivers, and communities across the globe. CS can rapidly lead to the development of hypoperfusion and end-organ dysfunction, transforming a predictable hemodynamic event into a potential high-resource, intense, hemometabolic clinical catastrophe. Based on the scalable heterogeneity from a cellular level to healthcare systems in the hemodynamic-based management of patients experiencing CS, we present considerations towards systematic hemodynamic-based transitions in which distinct clinical entities share the common path of early identification and rapid transitions through an adaptive longitudinal situational awareness model of care that influences specific management considerations. Future studies are needed to best understand optimal management of drugs and devices along with engagement of health systems of care for patients with CS.
Rosmarinic acid alleviates diabetic osteoporosis by suppressing the activation of NLRP3 inflammasome in rats
Authors: Li Qingsong , Tao Xueshun , Zhang Yubing
Published: February 2022

Background

Diabetic osteoporosis is a common metabolic bone disorder characterized by bone loss in diabetic patients, which causes an enormous social burden due to the unsatisfactory outcome of current therapeutic strategy.

Methods

Based on the importance of inflammasome activation in diabetic osteoporosis, we evaluated the protective effect of an antioxidant, rosmarinic acid (RA) in diabetic osteoporosis. Bone marrow-derived monocytes isolated from rats were treated with receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-Β ligand (RANKL) and macrophage colony stimulating factor to differentiate into mature osteoclasts (OCs). Next OCs were stimulated with RA under high glucose condition to evaluate bone resorption. Next, streptozotocin (STZ)-injected rats were orally treated with 50 mg kg−1 RA to analyze its effect on diabetic osteoporosis.

Results

RA inhibited high glucose-stimulated inflammation and inflammasome activation in OCs. Bone resorption was also reduced after RA treatment as shown by the resorption pits assay. Moreover, RA significantly reduced bone resorption, alleviated bone weight loss and increased bone mineral density by inhibiting the activation of NACHT-LRR-PYD domains–containing protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome in STZ-induced diabetic rats, leading to the improvement of diabetic osteoporosis.

Conclusion

RA effectively ameliorates diabetic osteoporosis in STZ-induced rats by inhibiting the activation of NLRP3 inflammasome in OCs, which suggests that RA might serve as a potential candidate drug for treating diabetic osteoporosis.
Distribution of flow velocity in a shaft intake structure
Authors: Bytčanková Lucia , Rumann Ján , Dušička Peter
Published: February 2022

Recently, the construction of shaft intake structures in Slovakia has increased. The shaft intake structures overcome significant vertical depth over short horizontal distance. The flow of water in these shaft intake structures is therefore very complicated. The velocity field at a shaft intake of a small hydropower plant was investigated on a physical model in a hydraulic laboratory using the particle image velocimetry method. The particle image velocimetry measurements were realized for different shaft depths and the results of this study can increase negative effects of not suitable the design of construction on the flow homogeneity in the turbine intake.
Association between physical activity and sleep quality in Algerian adults during COVID-19 lockdown
Authors: Oudjedi Adda , Derouiche Mohamed , Allali Abdelghani , Malek Redha , Latreche Zoubir
Published: February 2022

Background and Study Aim. There is no doubt that the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and its related containment measures such as lockdown and social distancing, is affecting physical activity and sleep quality  of the general population worldwide. Algeria, one of the most affected countries in Africa, entered the lockdown on March 9, 2020. Numerous studies have explored the interaction between physical activity and sleep quality showing the effect of physical activity levels on sleep, yet previous researches have not investigated the relationship between physical activity and sleep quality during lockdown. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the association between physical activity and sleep quality in quarantined individuals.

Material and Methods.  A national Google online survey was conducted between 16th April and 25th May 2020. 1002 Participants responded to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire and the short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Of the 1002 participants who completed the survey, 358 were students. The final data were collected from the respondents.

Results. The COVID-19 home confinement led to a decrease in physical activity levels. However, the majority of the study population had good sleep quality (61.9%), while only (38.1%) had poor sleep quality. In addition, women are less physically active than men (p < 0.01). Moreover, there was a significant difference in sleep quality between sufficient and insufficient physical activity groups (p < 0.05).

Conclusions. Our results show that Algerian adults have low levels of physical activity, good sleep quality, and poor sleep quality is associated with insufficient physical activity in adults during lockdown.
Transplantasi Terumbu Karang Acropora spp, Untuk Rehabilitasi Terumbu Karang di Pulau Panjang, Teluk Banten
Authors: Saputra Afandi , Permana D. Dasa , Cahyo F. Dwi , Arif Arif , Wijonarko E. Arif
Published: February 2022

Teluk Banten menyimpan kekayaan sumberdaya terumbu karang. Selama beberapa tahun terakhir telah terjadi perubahan sumber daya terumbu karang yang disebabkan dari perubahan lingkungan. Periode pemulihan untuk terumbu yang rusak sangat bervariasi, pemulihan dengan transplantasi karang untuk membuat terumbu buatan dapat berguna untuk meningkatkan keanekaragaman hayati. Studi rehabilitasi terumbu, koloni karang terutama Acropora spp ditransplantasikan diluasan area sekitar 50 m2 di Perairan Pulau Panjang Teluk Banten dengan rak transplantasi model hybrid dengan kedalaman 1,5-2 m. Pertumbuhan dan mortalitas dipantau selama 8 bulan. Tingkat kelangsungan hidup karang selama kurun waktu 8 bulan setelah transplantasi adalah 95%. Sebagian besar mortalitas transplantasi akibat aksi peningkatan suhu perairan terjadi selama 6 bulan. Tingkat pertumbuhan sangat bervariasi dengan seperempat dari transplantasi menunjukkan pertumbuhan negatif selama setiap periode antar survei. Beberapa jenis spesies yang ditransplantasi seperti Acropora carduus, Acropora cervicurnis, Acropora formosa, Acropora grandis, Acropora intermedia, dan Acropora pulchra memiliki tingkat pertumbuhan yang cukup baik. Dari awal penanaman Acropora spp terjadi penambahan dengan Panjang 6,44 cm dengan laju pertumbuhan sebesar 0,025 cm/hari, atau 0,757 cm/bulan, atau asumsi laju pertumbuhan tahunan sebesar 9,09 cm/tahun. Transplantasi jenis Acropora spp merupakan spesies dengan tingkat pertumbuhan yang tinggi dengan mortalitas yang relatif rendah. Pertumbuhan dan kelangsungan hidup transplantasi dapat disimpulkan: (1) spesies transplantasi harus dipilih dengan hati-hati karena spesies tertentu secara signifikan lebih dapat menerima transplantasi daripada yang lain, (2) pilihan apakah fragmen atau seluruh koloni ditransplantasikan dapat sangat mempengaruhi kelangsungan hidup, (3) kehilangan transplantasi yang cukup besar kemungkinan besar dari lokasi energi yang lebih tinggi apa pun metode pelekatan, (4) transplantasi harus, secara umum, dilakukan hanya jika pemulihan setelah rekrutmen alami tidak mungkin dilakukan.
Covid Tracking Apps, Over Reliance on Technology, Bias and Unfairness
Authors:   Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, UK, Hilcenko Christine ,   Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, UK,   Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cam-bridge, UK, Taubman-Bassirian Tara , Kovacic Zoran ,   School for primary and secondary education with dormitory “Vuk Karadzic”, Sombor, Serbia,   Secondary medical school “Dr Ruzica Rip”, Sombor, Serbia
Published: February 2022

Various contact tracing apps tracking the spread of the pandemic were issued in different countries. Mainly based on two technologies, centralised with more control by the governments or decentralised controlled by the Apple or Google Android mobile phone systems. In this paper, we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different systems, as well as their potential dangers.
Personal Determinants of Mental Reliability of College Students in Learning Activities
Authors:   Lecturer at the Department of Personality Psychology and Special Pedagogy, Russia, Filatov Denis
Published: February 2022

The paper deals with methodological, theoretical and practical foundations of the problem of mental reliability of a person performing an activity. The problem of personal determinants of reliability is considered. It is concluded that in Russian psychology “reliability” is an interdisciplinary and general scientific concept. The author points out that the study and analysis of this characteristic of the personality of college students makes it possible to arrange and manage professional development.
Online Tools for Electrical and Electronics Education
Authors:   Associate Professor, Ing. Dr. Ing.Paed.IGIP, Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Education, Department Technical Education and Information Technology, Czech Republic, Serafin Cestmir
Published: February 2022

The efficiency of the education is variable, which is very difficult to measure, influenced by a variety of input components-students, teachers, school curricula, the school’s internal and external factors. Generally, it is necessary to assess the degree of efficiency of the functioning of the training to carry out a comparison of the rate variables describing the inputs with the same intensity of quantities characterizing the outputs. This article deals with the intermediate results of the research evaluating the scope of the efficiency of the functioning of the educational process in the field of education and training in the context of electrical engineering by on-line education. The research investigated the extent to which online electrical engineering kits have an impact on learning and whether their use has a corresponding impact on learning outcomes. The object of the research was the students and the subject of the research was their knowledge and understanding.
Technological Progress and Physical Activity
Authors:   Ph.D., College of Vocational Studies for Education of Preschool Teachers and Sport Trainers, Serbia, Milić Zoran , Jakovljević Nebojša ,   Msc, College of Vocational Studies for Education of Preschool Teachers and Sport Trainers, Serbia, Hilčenko Slavoljub ,   Ph.D., College of Vocational Studies for Education of Preschool Teachers and Sport Trainers, Serbia
Published: February 2022

The time in which we live is called the time of the information revolution and is characterized by a high degree of industrialization, technical progress and automation, which results in a reduction in physical activity, i.e. volume of daily movement activities. Thus, man relies more and more on his intellectual abilities, and less and less on movement. It is for this reason that a person should dedicate himself to daily moderate physical exercise in order to compensate for his daily need for movement. Proper attitude towards physical exercise, as well as the formed habit of exercising in early childhood, are some of the crucial factors that determine whether physical activity in the later stages of life will be an integrated part of life. Only in this way can today’s man avoid the consequences of hypokinetic syndrome.
The Use of a Bee-bot in Pre-primary and Primary Education
Authors:   PaedDr. Mária Vargová, Ph.D., Catholic university in Ružomberok, Slovakia, Vargová Mária , Círus Lukáš ,   Mgr. et Bc. Lukáš Círus, Ph.D., University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí and Labem, Czech republic
Published: February 2022

Modern teaching aids are part of the daily education process. Children, pupils use them to deepen the acquired knowledge. A teacher tries to alternate the teaching methods in an interesting way. The Bee-bot, a didactic toy, has been used in education for several years. The teacher decides at what intervals and in which subject he or she can use the Bee-bot. In this article we present one of a group of micro-outputs. Here we used a heuristic method, a method of discovery and observation. Also, we used the cooperation in the application of a robotic toy.
Comparison of Self-Concept and Self-Perceived School Success of Children with Foster Home or Family Upbringing
Authors:   PaedDr. Ing., Department of preschool and primary education, Faculty of Education, University of J. E. Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem, Czech republic, Tirpák Jan , Uhrinová Miriam ,   PaedDr., Ph.D., Department of preschool and elementary education, Faculty of Education, Catholic university in Ružomberok, Slovakia
Published: February 2022

This study is concerned with comparing the self-concept and self-perceived school success of children aged 10–15 years growing up in foster homes or in family environments. The research was carried out using the standardized Studentʼs Perception of Ability Scale (SPAS) questionnaire (Matějček, Vágnerová, 1992), applied to a sample cohort of 178 selected respondents. The article reflects key aspects relating to this research.
Technical Education and Arts Education in the Opinions of Teachers of Early School Education – Selected Issues
Authors:   Associate Professor, Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Pedagogy, Poland, Piwowarska Ewa
Published: February 2022

Technical education and arts education in younger years of elementary school often contribute to final effects of the activities undertaken by children. This process is connected with the human need to create objects, which apart from being more or less useful should be also beautiful. The study focuses on the difficulties some early school education teachers have to distinguish activities related to tasks carried out within the scope of technical education and those related to arts education. It should be underlined that children’s ability to create objects of practical use is mostly emphasized by the principles and aims of technical education, whereas the purpose of art activities is to help children discover beauty by collecting experience. Despite such assumptions, a significant part of the respondents does not notice any distinctive variations between these educational areas, stating that the distinctions are blurred and indicating that selected art tasks are parts of technical classes.
Environmental impact of the main household cooking systems—A survey
Authors: Cimini Alessio , Moresi Mauro
Published: February 2022

The food cooking energy may represent the primary hotspot in the cradle-to-grave life cycle of several foods and drinks. It is mainly affected by the type of food and its cookery method, cooking appliance and the fuel selected as well as the number of portions to be cooked. The primary aim of this survey was to demonstrate the basic characteristics of the main cooking methods, appliances, and fuels as well as energy required for some key foods. The secondary aim was to assess the environmental impacts of a generic cooking system as a function of few household cookers fueled by different fuels (i.e., firewood, charcoal, coal, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, kerosene and biogas) and electricity in the Italian scenario by using the ReCiPe 2016 and product environmental footprint (PEF) standard methods and Ecoinvent v. 3.7 database. A functional unit equal to per capita useful energy delivered to the pot for cooking (1.41 gigajoule [GJ]) in 27 European Union countries in 2019 was used as the basis of comparison. The use of natural gas resulted in minimum impact in nine of the 18 mid-point impact categories of ReCiPe 2016 method and two damage categories (human health and ecosystem quality) with a minimum overall weighted damage score (OWDSR) of ~5 Pt. Thus, such a cookstove appeared to be more apt to minimize both indoor and outdoor air pollution. Even if the electric cookstove yielded a greater OWDSR (8.6 Pt) because the Italian electricity grid mix was mainly based on fossil sources, it was possible to forecast that new-generation, smart cooktops driven by hydro- and wind-power electricity would minimize OWDSR to as low as 0.9 and 1.4 Pt, respectively, thus not only avoiding the consumption of any fossil energy source but also improving people’s health.
JOINT B2B RECOVERY MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF LOCUS OF FAILURE
Authors:   Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, Bakhsh Naghmeh Nik , Riivits-Arkonsuo Iivi ,   Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Published: February 2022

The benefits of the co-creation of failure recovery are well recognized in the literature. So far, however, there has been little discussion about the collaborative process of joint recovery management and the role played by the locus of failure in this process in the Business-toBusiness context. Drawing on service-dominant logic and service logic, this paper attempts to explore the main sources/locus of failure and their roles in the level of supplier and customer collaboration during the failure recovery activities. Through the qualitative interviews with suppliers and customers firms based in Iran, the authors identify the main locus of failure and analyze the level of collaboration in recovery activities between the supplier and customer firms. The result reveals there are four main sources of failure (supplier-induced error, customerinduced error, an environmental factor, and unknown causation of failure) and two recovery management perspectives (reactive vs. proactive) in the B2B context. Our findings indicate that the level of joint recovery changes depending on the source of the failure in the business environment. Particularly, the level of joint recovery can be shown on a spectrum where the minimum level of collaboration is possible when the error is caused by the supplier and the maximum level of joint recovery happens when the root cause of failure is difficult to identify.
ENHANCING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
Authors:   Al- Balqa' Applied University, Jordan, Khashman Ra'ad Mamduh Khaleel
Published: February 2022

The purpose of this research is to determine the impact of utilizing social media to increase customer satisfaction. To address the study's questions and evaluate hypotheses, a quantitative technique was adopted to answer questions and to test hypotheses. About 500 questionnaires were distributed using the Simple Random Sample technique to achieve the research purposes in Jordan using Vitas Company as case study. 392 questionnaires were valid for analysis, based on the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS. V.25) and (AMOS) software. The findings of the research revealed that there is a significantly positive impact of social media usage on customer satisfaction. The research results confirmed the importance of using multichannel of social media to enhance customer satisfaction and increase their loyalty and recommended managers concentrate and maintain the use of social media for providing unique services and responding to customers’ inquiries in a timely manner. Additionally, the research showed the need to expand the usage of Twitter and Instagram for marketing purposes, and seeking services that exceed customer expectations and recruiting and properly training qualified staff in the social media department. Finally, companies should pay attention to customers' opinions through comments on posts and social media chat messages, because it has a positive role in improving the customer feedback process.
Search for the Most Effective Ways to Protect Legal Order During the Civil War in Russia: Formation and Activity of Police Bodies of the Main State Formations
Authors:   Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, Evdokimov Vyacheslav , Stepanov Mikhail ,   Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, Zaloilo Maxim ,   Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation
Published: February 2022

Introduction. The legal order as the ordering of public relations on the basis of law is one of the main elements of the state. The problem of its provision was actualized during the Civil War. The presence of a firm legal order meant the stability of the government, and also directly influenced its support from the population, stability in the rear and success at the front. An important role in ensuring the protection of legal order, along with ordinary and emergency bodies, was played by the police. Methods and materials. With the help of historical-legal, systematic, formal-legal and comparative-legal methods, the analysis of written sources was carried out, among which the main attention was paid to legislation and other official acts of the authorities of state formations during the Civil War, works and memoirs of its participants, as well as scientific works devoted to the study of this period. Results. The article shows that the most radical changes in the organization of the police were carried out by the Soviet government. The flexibility of the leadership in matters of ideology (without affecting the foundations of Marxist doctrine and the construction of socialist statehood in the country) ensured the effectiveness of the activities of the Soviet law enforcement agencies and the significant contribution of the Soviet police to restoring elementary order and countering rampant crime on the territory of the RSFSR.
The Penitentiary Justice of the USSR: Peculiarities of Functioning in 1944–1956
Authors:   Surgut State University, Shkarevsky Denis
Published: February 2022

Introduction. The activities of the penitentiary justice bodies in the USSR remain practically unexplored. Meanwhile, they were an important element of the mechanism of the Soviet state. The purpose of this article is to highlight the stages and determine the model of functioning of the penitentiary justice bodies. Methods and materials. The source base included unpublished documents stored in the funds of the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Supreme Court of the USSR and the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The fund of the Penitentiary Court of Chelyabinsk region, which is stored in the United State Archives of Chelyabinsk region, was also used in the study. When writing the article, the following methods were used: historical-genetic, archivalheuristic, source study, method of classification, method of historical description. Analysis. During 1946–1956 more than 200,000 people have been convicted by the penitentiary courts. The bulk of the cases (60%) were: cases of escape, refusal to work and self-harm, theft of state and public property, banditry, theft of personal property, hooliganism, robbery and plunder, and premeditated murder. The remaining 40% of cases were formed by the socalled “other” crimes. These included cases of counter-revolutionary crimes, crimes of security officers (military crimes), labor crimes, etc. During 1944–1956 among those convicted by penitentiary courts, there was a significant decrease in the proportion of prison staff and a systematic increase in the proportion of prisoners. Until the early 1950s formal performance indicators of penitentiary courts were lower than those of the people’s, regional, line courts and military tribunals. Penitentiary justice was dependent on the leadership of the penitentiary institutions. When considering cases, “simplification” was allowed: cases were considered in batches, in absentia. Results. Three stages of activity of bodies of penitentiary justice are highlighted: 1945–1947; 1948–1950; 1951–1954/1956. The model of activity of the penitentiary justice can be defined as “campanian justice”.
Water Transport Industrial Establishments in the Lower Volga in the Latter Half of the 1930s
Authors:   Volgograd State University, Gomanenko Olesya
Published: February 2022

Introduction. The paper deals with the condition of industrial establishments of the Lower Volga water transport before the Second World War. The goal of the work is to establish the technical and economic condition of these Lower Volga steamship line facilities in the second half of the 1930s. All objects were studied in detail. Materials and methods. The study is based on the principles of objectivity, it applies both general scientific and specific historical methods. The paper is based on unpublished archival materials, as well as on scientific publications on river transport. Analysis and results. In 1934 the Upper Volga, Middle Volga and Lower Volga steamship lines were organized. They were big economic entities in the Volga region. At that time industrial facilities of the river transport infrastructure were developed. Those were shipyards, repairing facilities, and workshops. In the latter half of the 1930s, the Lower Volga ship repairing establishments were in the middle positions in terms of their output among the other Volga steamship lines. The Lower Volga steamship line did not have a shipyard. The equipment was mainly run for ship repairing (in winter as well) and for making spare parts. The balance of the Volga transport industrial establishments was changing. The facilities were repeatedly exchanged among the steamship lines and agencies. When the Lower Volga steamship line was just formed it had 10 industrial establishments. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War there were half as many. The facilities were ranked in classes. The biggest establishment during the entire period studied was the Stalingrad ship-repairing works. The production capacity of the ship-repairing facilities made possible to increase workload, but the facilities needed renewal, required renovation, as well as the entire material base of the Lower Volga steamship line. When the war began the condition of the industrial establishments aggravated.
“Oil Factor” in the Planning of the German Army’s Offensive on Stalingrad and the Caucasus (1940–1943)
Authors:   Moscow State Linguistic University, Kostornichenko Vladimir
Published: February 2022

Introduction. Historians of World War II have in one way or another drawn attention to the role of the “oil factor” when planning military operations of the Nazi German command in their research. In the proposed article the author, for the first time, consistently and comprehensively has traced the evolution of Adolf Hitler’s strategy towards the conquest of the oil fields in the Caucasus as part of the Nazi German government’s plan for world domination. The lower chronological border (1940) is defined by the year when the first military plans of Nazi German’s leadership for capture of oil reserves in the Caucasus were developed. The upper chronological border is defined by the end of the military operations in the city of Stalingrad and in the Caucasus, which put an end to the “global ideas” of the Nazi German command. Methods and materials. The methodology of the research is based on the application of both traditional methods of historical and economic sciences (comparative, statistical, problemchronological) and new approaches (factor analysis, elements of behaviorist method, involving analysis of the actions of actors, procedures for making certain decisions depending on their value priorities, character traits). The author of the article utilized an interdisciplinary approach towards their research, given that it helped to achieve the goal of the study. The conclusions are based on the documents of the national archives, memoirs of military leaders, statistical information, etc. In the course of the work the authors collected and analyzed a significant amount of archival material, examined domestic and foreign historiography on the subject. Analysis. Thus, the article has analyzed the indicators of oil balance of Nazi Germany in the certain period and examined peculiarities and changes of the “oil” directives in the military strategic plans of the Nazi German command. Results. Through the analysis of Adolf Hitler’s “oil strategy”, the authors of the article have revealed the influence of the “oil factor” in Nazi Germany’s military and political decisions and general causes of failures of the military operations near Stalingrad and the Caucasus.
The Design Engineer’s M.I. Koshkin Memorandum on the Progress of Work of New Artillery Systems Creation in the Kirov’s Plant Design Bureau (From the Funds of the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documents of Saint Petersburg)
Authors:   European University at St. Petersburg, Riabkov Andrei , Kleitman Alexander ,   Volgograd Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Published: February 2022

Introduction. The publication is devoted to an urgent topic: the history of the creation of artillery weapons systems in the pre-war USSR (1930s). Until recently, in Soviet and Russian historiography, the work of design bureaus of those years was judged by the memoirs of Colonel-General and designer of artillery weapons Vasiliy Grabin and his employees, who on the eve of the war won the fight for the right to transfer new artillery guns to mass production. Grabins main competitor, Ivan Makhanov, was remembered only as “a talented engineer who was unjustly convicted and perished in Stalins dungeons”. Materials. In the process of preparing for the publication of Makhanovs memoirs one of the authors of this article, Andrei Riabkov, identified among the recently declassified documents and prepared for publication a memo from design engineer Mikhail Koshkin, which contains a thorough analysis of the progress of creating new artillery systems at the Kirov plant. This note allows us to critically comprehend the memoirs of both Makhanov and Grabin. Analysis. Ivan Makhanov was prone to technical risk, but due to the lack of managerial experience and the desire to take on “everything”, he rarely managed to bring his ideas to implementation in reliably working structures. Results. By the end of the 30s of the twentieth century, he acquired the necessary knowledge and experience, several tools of his development were put into a series, but the arrest and imprisonment of Makhanov and some of his subordinates in the ITL on charges of “conscious sabotage and espionage” ultimately put an end to these developments. The published document can also be used in a special biographical study to assess the human qualities of Mikhail Koshkin.
Liberalismo: um confronto entre Nietzsche e Schmitt
Authors: Lobo Iann Endo
Published: February 2022

Resumo: O presente artigo pretende analisar e comparar a posição de Nietzsche e Schmitt a respeito do liberalismo. Assim, procura esclarecer e contrastar o que cada um compreendeu com esse conceito, como ele se relaciona com o quadro mais amplo da avaliação dos autores acerca da modernidade, qual a postura crítica que tomaram perante ele e quais alternativas vislumbraram. O artigo se concentra, sobretudo, nos escritos da fase madura do pensamento de Nietzsche e nos escritos de Schmitt do período de Weimar. Em conclusão, argumenta-se que, apesar de os autores partirem de caracterizações distintas de sua situação histórica, para ambos o liberalismo é parte de um processo mais amplo, cujo resultado tende a uma forma política fundada em uma concepção de indivíduo e de boa vida que é danosa para a vida política e cultural. Sobressai, de igual modo, em análise última, as discordâncias no que tange ao caminho filosófico de Nietzsche e ao caminho teológico-político de Schmitt.
La jouissance féminine et le maternel en questions
Authors: Choukroun-Schenowitz Jessica
Published: February 2022

L'auteur se propose de confronter les deux champs contigus du féminin et du maternel à partir des considérations freudiennes sur le “continent noir” qu'est la féminité et de la notion de jouissance féminine déployée par Jacques Lacan. A la lumière de la psychopathologie clinique psychanalytique, cet article veut mettre en évidence que si l'Œdipe ne fait pas La femme, le fait du ravage qui en est sa conséquence, envahit aussi bien le féminin que le maternel. En effet, la part de jouissance opaque de la mère, soit le féminin dans la mère, contamine la féminité tout comme la maternité d'une femme, tel qu'en témoigne le rapport de ravage qui peut exister entre une fille et sa mère. Il s'agira ainsi de pointer que, pas plus que le devenir femme, le devenir mère n'est donné d'emblée mais qu'il se construit du rapport au langage, au fantasme, à la jouissance et à l'Autre en la figure de l'amour maternel, pour chaque une.
Las verdades ficticias en la otra escena de Dora
Authors: Orozco-Guzmán Mario , Soria-Escalante Hada , Quiroz-Bautista Jeannet
Published: February 2022

El trabajo consiste en dar cuenta de cuatro posicionamientos de verdad ficticia derivados del drama de Sabina Berman, Feliz Nuevo Siglo doktor Freud, en torno al caso Dora de Sigmund Freud. De esta puesta de escena inherente a la estructura histérica se revelan los fantasmas de prostitución, de la seducción del padre, de la instauración de la feminidad y de la diversidad textual de la (contra) transferencia. El drama lleva la clínica a una dimensión de debate crítico donde el mismo Freud se encuentra dividido entre las formulaciones de su teoría sexual y las cuestiones inéditas que provoca el testimonio de la experiencia singular No sólo se abre el telón de fondo de las condiciones sociales e históricas que enmarcan un ejercicio de clínica de la palabra y la subjetividad sino aquellas que determinan las complejas relaciones entre los sexos y los esquemas imaginarios-ideológicos que inciden en el pensamiento de Freud.
Uma leitura fenomenológica sobre a intersubjetividade no digital/on-line
Authors: Silva Nara Helena Lopes Pereira da , Morujão Carlos Aurélio Ventura
Published: February 2022

Este trabalho busca refletir sobre as vivências on-line e a relação com o mundo da vida, a subjetividade e a intersubjetividade. Foram utilizadas as obras de Husserl (1950a, 1950b, 1952, 1954), visando o retorno à intuição experiente e metodologicamente orientada pelas reduções fenomenológicas. Compreender os aspectos estruturantes através das reduções permite destacar as implicações da vida híbrida, como fragmentação das perspectivas, a dinamicidade e a velocidade de transmissão da informação por imagens bidimensionais em formato de janelas, sem materialidade e espacialidade concreta, que promovem uma reconfiguração perceptiva da consciência. No mundo da vida, há um esmaecimento da hierarquia entre científico e cultural, que modifica a esfera de valores, rompe com lógicas habituais de sucessão temporal e contiguidade e torna a experiência do tempo histórico fugaz. Reflete-se sobre a inserção das tecnologias nos cuidados à saúde mental. Sugere-se o incentivo à literacia digital e a legitimação das experiências sensíveis no mundo.