bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Condition of the Coronary Arteries in Patients with Ischemic Mitral Insufficiency
Authors: Rudenko S. A. , Potashev S. V. , Rudenko O. V. , Zakharova V. P. , Gogayeva O. K. , Rudenko A. V.
Published: April 2020

Secondary (or functional) mitral regurgitation is the result of myocardial dysfunction due to ischemic injury with relatively normal cusps. In patients with ischemic mitral insufficiency, only surgical coronary artery bypass grafting can affect the reverse remodeling of the left ventricle and reduce the degree of mitral regurgitation. One of the main pathogenetic factors for the development of this type of mitral insufficiency is myocardial ischemia. Studying the state of coronary blood flow in patients with ischemic mitral insufficiency is a primary task in the surgical treatment of this pathology.

The aim. To study the condition of the coronary arteries in patients with ischemic mitral insufficiency.

Material and methods. From January 2015 to December 2019, 194 patients with ischemic mitral insufficiency underwent surgical intervention at the Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery of the NAMS of Ukraine.

Results and Discussion. Coronarography revealed haemodynamically significant coronary artery stenosis in 190 (97.9%) patients. In 4 (2.1%) patients there was no hemodynamically significant coronary arteries stenosis. Analysis of the data of selective angiography showed that the majority of patients with ischemic mitral insufficiency had three-vessel disease (75.2%). Occlusion of the left circumflex coronary artery was observed in 33 (17.4%), and sub-occlusive changes were detected in 3 (1.6%) of patients. A completely different lesion pattern is observed for the branches of the right coronary artery. Thus, in 56 (29.4%) cases, occlusion of a particular branch was found on angiogram. Sub-occlusion of the right coronary artery was observed in 15 (7.9%) cases.

Conclusions. In patients with ischemic mitral insufficiency, hemodynamically significant stenosis was most often observed in the anterior interventricular artery (81.6%). Comparison of the status of the right coronary artery and circumflex artery showed that the right coronary artery lesions occurred more frequently. The section of the right coronary artery between the outflow of the acute marginal branch and the branching to the posterior interventricular and lateral branches was the most vulnerable site of the coronary bed, where the frequency of occurrence of critical stenosis was 28.4%.
Bayesian classifier is the tool of increasing the efficiency of defects recognition in power transformers
Authors: Yahya А. A. , Levin V. M.
Published: April 2020

The article considers the method of forming a statistical Bayesian classifier in relation to the problems of operational diagnostics and rapid evaluation of the technical condition of transformer equipment. It is proposed to use the classifier as a regular means to improve the reliability of defect recognition in power oil-filled transformers based on the analysis of dissolved gases in oil. A stochastic approach to the formation of the classifier in a conditions linearly realized dichotomy of technical status classes is developed. As a distinguishing feature, a nonlinear function of the primary parameters of state is used. This simultaneously achieves both a reduction in the dimension of the feature space and an improvement in the characteristics of the random distribution. The proposed approach allows to form a decisive rule that minimizes the total error of decision-making regardless of the impact on the object of random operational factors. The results of the study of stochastic properties of the distributions of the distinguishing feature for each of the selected classes of states are obtained. The algorithm to perform statistical calculations and procedures for recognizing the current state of the transformer using the generated decision rule is designed. The results of the study illustrate the possibility of practical application of the developed approach in the real exploitation of power transformers.
Data analysis wind monitoring in the Republic of Tatarstan
Authors: Nasyrova E. V. , Timerbayev N. F. , Leukhina O. V. , Mazarov I. Yu.
Published: April 2020

The paper presents the results of wind monitoring carried out in order to confirm the feasibility of building a wind farm in the Republic of Tatarstan. The task of wind monitoring is to determine and study the dynamics of the average annual wind regime and calculate the wind energy potential at promising sites for placing a wind power plant. On the given sites, after the annual cycle of meteorological parameters measurements, the average annual wind speeds, wind power, preferred directions, wind density, vertical profile of the wind flow and other data necessary for a detailed calculation of the wind power potential of the sites and the selection of specific models of wind generators and their arrangements for operation will be determined at these sites. An important component of the work performed is the development of methods for calculating wind potential at heights other than the heights of direct measurements.
NEGATIVE ATTITUDES IN SIDNEY SHELDON’S NOVEL THE BEST LAID PLANS
Authors: Dafnari Luna Rezki , Pratiwy Devi
Published: April 2020

This research analyses the negative attitudes of the protagonist in The Best Laid Plans written by an American novelist, Sidney Sheldon. The novel tells the revenge of the selfish and ambitious protagonist Leslie Stewart who has been so obsessed with destroying Oliver's reputation for betraying him. Leslie is the most fascinating figure in the whole course of the story between his selfish and ambitious attitude and his madness. She feels that she has been neglected and cast away and this hardens his heart, until she does not care about the feelings of others. This phenomena is compatible with a theory of selfish in which it is stated that When talking, he does not care about the feelings of others. If there is a division of something he is selfish. He never thought that his actions caused many people to be harmed (Poniman, 2007). This research adopts qualitative method supported by relevant theories, one of which is proposed by Creswell (2009). The result reveals that there are two dominant attitudes emerging from the analysis, those are selfish and ambitious.
DESTINY OF INJUSTICE IN WILLIAM LANDAY’S NOVEL DEFENDING JACOB
Authors: Sudwintari Sudwintari , Wulan Sri
Published: April 2020

This study discusses Protagonist’s Destiny of Injustice in William Landay’s novel Defending Jacob. This study adopts much of Gulen’s theory about destiny and injustice which is quoted by Haderi. Then, this research is completed by adopting descriptive qualitative method. There are three forms of the protagonist’s destiny of injustice. They are being accused of murder, being dismissed from school, and being isolated. The findings of the analysis are the protagonist has got many things for his injustice. The protagonist really suffers the injustice. The protagonist has passed several trials to be declared not guilty and free. It can be found clearly that the protagonist in this novel meets his destiny of injustice. At last, fortunately the protagonist is free from the accusation because the murderer has been revealed. The ending of the story shows that the protagonist can be free from the accusation because actually the one who kills his classmate is a pedophile.
The Main Tasks of Forensic Research Conducted in Trials on Land Disputes
Authors: Butyrin A. Yu. , Zhukova O. V. , Stativa E. B.
Published: April 2020

The article provides a list and details the content of tasks solved within the forensic land survey and construction examinations assigned during trials on land disputes. Said tasks are classified by the type of conducted research.  The work of a forensic expert in a case begins with the establishment of presence (absence) of the object of examination (the existential task). At first, the presence of title, legal, and other documents for the disputed land and buildings (structures) located on it is established. In the absence of certain documents necessary for the study, the expert takes measures to replace them. When conducting field studies, the expert establishes the existence of civil dispute’s objects on the ground. After that, the expert solves the identification task – establishes the identity of these objects with their documentary display. It also should be identified to which specific class, kind, type the object belongs (addressing classification task) – it allows verifying the category of land and the type of permitted use of the disputed land; recognizing the kind, type, and functional purpose of the construction objects located on it.  The solution of the attributive task aims at identifying the properties of the objects under examination, which relate to its subject, the content of questions raised by the court before the expert. The solution of the situational task helps to establish the relative position of objects. The expert determines whether there is an intersection of the borders of adjacent plots, sets the distance from construction sites to the boundaries of the land. Particular attention is paid to structures that are sources of negative impact on the neighboring property. The position of the property regarding the zones with special conditions of the use is also to be determined. The purpose of addressing the diagnostic task is to ascertain the condition of the land in terms of possibility to use it for its intended purpose taking into account the type of permitted use and to determine the technical condition of construction objects located on the land plot. The cost task solution aims at determining the market, and other value of the land, the number of costs required to restore the land after being exposed to destructive natural and technogenic factors. The main direction of research when solving the transformative task is to ascertain the possibility and develop options for a real division of the land plot and the construction sites located on it between their owners following the conditions set by the court.
Maper: nuevos materiales con plásticos de RSU sin reciclaje
Authors: Wadel Gerardo , Pérez Angueira Luciana , Giacomelli Fernando , Scheffer Andrea , Pascual Macías Germana
Published: April 2020

MAPER es un proyecto de investigación y desarrollo de la Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología y Posgrado de la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, con sede en la Facultad Regional Trenque Lauquen, Argentina. Su objetivo es la determinación de un modelo de gestión para el reciclaje de la fracción de plástico film y otros provenientes de los Residuos Sólidos Urbanos que actualmente no se recuperan, sino que se entierran o incineran en la mayoría de los municipios argentinos. Este modelo de gestión está siendo plasmado en una guía de implantación de la metodología de separación, recogida, tratamiento previo, proceso de reciclaje, obtención del material resultante y utilidades del mismo una vez aplicado, de carácter gratuito y uso libre para los municipios y otras entidades del sector público. Se han cuantificado las cantidades de este residuo, estudiado las tecnologías de reciclaje, seleccionado las más adecuadas, construido máquinas de reciclado a escala demostrativa, realizado pruebas de fabricación del nuevo material y desarrollado algunas posibilidades de aplicación, tanto en equipamiento urbano como en construcción de edificios. Para ello, el equipo de investigación ha contado con la colaboración de la Municipalidad de Trenque Lauquen, la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y las empresas argentina Ewar y españolas Zicla y Solteco, especializadas en la fabricación de materiales nuevos a partir de residuos industriales y domésticos. Los resultados alcanzados y las estimaciones realizadas, en momentos en que la investigación está llegando a su fin, permiten afirmar que es económica y técnicamente viable la reutilización de estos residuos hasta ahora no valorizados y su conversión en un material aplicable a las funciones de solado, separación, mobiliario, protección solar y construcciones abiertas con lugar en espacios abiertos y exteriores de edificios.

 
Tecnologías del hábitat urbano e infraestructura en la política de gestión de riesgos de Paraguay
Authors: Flores López Moreira Ana Raquel
Published: April 2020

La creciente concentración de población en las ciudades, en el marco de una débil planificación y procesos de urbanización rápida, incrementan la exposición de las poblaciones y sus bienes a diversas amenazas antrópicas o naturales1 , al igual que, la vulnerabilidad ante estas, tal como se ha visto en diversos estudios y también en la investigación “FADA UNA, actor facilitador de la gestión urbana interinstitucional, para la llegada articulada de las Políticas Sociales a los Asentamientos Precarios Urbanos en situación de Riesgo”2 . Siendo la cuestión de los Riesgos Urbanos y su gestión, un tema de desarrollo relativamente reciente, por imperio de los acontecimientos, su tratamiento se ha vuelto prioritario para los países, al influjo del liderazgo de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas- ONU y otros organismos internacionales, que se ocupan de la misma, aportando conocimiento y orientaciones para su aplicación en las Políticas Públicas relacionadas al Hábitat construido. Entre las más recientes, el Marco de Hyogo y Sendai para la reducción del Riesgo de desastres, la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible o la Nueva Agenda Urbana H III, resultantes del análisis de la situación global, orientan las acciones y generan compromisos de los países signatarios de las resoluciones tomadas en sendas reuniones de estadistas. En este contexto, y en la línea de investigación de la autora, la temática propuesta para el X CRETA constituye una oportunidad para revisar la Política de Gestión de Riesgos en Paraguay, cotejándola con las disposiciones de los instrumentos antes mencionados, a efectos de evidenciar los aspectos ausentes o de débil tratamiento en la misma, respecto de las Tecnologías del Hábitat e infraestructura. Tecnologías de Gestión, aportando dicha evidencia a sus lineamientos correspondientes.

 
RECUPERACIÓN DE LAS GRÚAS DEL PUERTO DE ASUNCIÓN, ICONO DE LA ZONA PORTUARIA, SISTEMA GRUA PORTICO RIELES Y SU TECNOLOGIA
Authors: Blanes María Luisa , Falcón Gagliardi Hugo , Falcón Araujo Hugo A.
Published: April 2020

Se expone el resultado de una investigación en base a la descripción de elementos destacados y significativos del Puerto de Asunción Paraguay para la conservación de SISTEMA GRUA PORTICO – RIELES a ser preservado y revalorizado en su aspecto físico, formal, espacial y estético de valor patrimonial, con énfasis en los aspectos tecnológicos y constructivos como medio de recuperación de la Grúas del Puerto, que permita apreciar los beneficios que representa para la Ciudad de Asunción la visualización de los Bienes Muebles de Valor Patrimonial, parte del espacio público relevante. Se realizo una investigación histórica desde los orígenes de las propias grúas, recurriendo a las patentes de fabricación y lugar de origen, para demostrar como llegaron hasta el Puerto de Asunción, así como los sistemas de fabricación, el manejo de la materia prima, y la relación entre la actividad portuaria y el sistema de ferrocarriles. Finalmente se realizó el trabajo, no solo de recuperación de grúas y rieles, también se propuso un sistema de iluminación para el Bien Mueble, en favor de la Puesta en Valor del Bien Patrimonial, como una mirada integradora del conjunto urbano y como aporte a la memoria colectiva de la Ciudad
LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA DISIDENCIA EN LA CULTURA POP. CANON, FANDOM Y QUEERBAITING
Authors: Ramírez María Florencia
Published: April 2020

¿Qué sucede actualmente con la representación de identidades disidentes dentro del ámbito de la cultura pop? ¿Reciben el mismo tratamiento que identidades hegemónicas? Consideramos que el estudio respecto del fenómeno conocido como queerbaiting nos puede brindar algunas claves para poder considerar las implicancias de este problema. El queerbaiting pone de relieve complejidades que se encuentran al interior del modo en que se representa la diversidad dentro de la cultura pop, en especial, qué es lo que sucede con las relaciones que los espectadores, oyentes o lectores desarrollan con ella. Tratar el problema de la representación de identidades no hegemónicas o disidentes en el contexto de la cultura pop nos lleva inmediatamente a considerar algunos de los elementos que se encuentran en la base de las discusiones que se dan actualmente en el terreno de los estudios de género, estudios culturales y teoría queer.
Studying the Over-Time Construction of Knowledge in Educational Settings: A Microethnographic Discourse Analysis Approach
Authors: Green Judith L. , Baker W. Douglas , Chian Monaliza Maximo , Vanderhoof Carmen , Hooper LeeAnna , Kelly Gregory J. , Skukauskaite Audra , Kalainoff Melinda Z.
Published: April 2020

This review presents theoretical underpinnings supporting microethnographic-discourse analytic (ME/DA) approaches to studying educational phenomena. The review is presented in two parts. Part 1 provides an analytic review of two seminal reviews of literature that frame theoretical and methodological developments of microethnography and functions language in classrooms with diverse learners. Part 2 presents two telling case studies that illustrate the logic-of-inquiry of (ME/DA) approaches. These telling case studies make transparent how theoretical considerations of cultural perspectives on education inform decisions regarding research methodology. Telling Case Study 1 makes transparent the logic-of-inquiry undertaken to illustrate how microanalyses of discourse and action among participants in a physics class provided an empirical grounding for identifying how different groups undertook a common task. This case study shows how ethnographically informed discourse analyses formed a foundation to theoretically identify social processes of knowledge construction. Telling Case Study 2 makes transparent multiple levels of analysis undertaken to examine ways that creative processes of interpretation of art were communicated and taken up in an art studio class across multiple cycles of activity. Taken together, these telling case studies provide evidence of how ME/DA provides a theoretically grounded logic-of-inquiry for investigating complex learning processes in different educational contexts.
Honey formation optimization: HFO
Authors: YETGİN Zeki , ŞAMDAN Mustafa
Published: April 2020

In this paper, a new optimization framework, namely Honey Formation Optimization (HFO), is proposed. In contrary to the Artificial Bee Colony Optimization (ABC) variants in literature, the HFO considers food sources consisting of many components and model the honey formation inside bees as a process of mixing the components with their special enzymes during chewing up the food source. We believe that bees analyze the amounts of components inside the food source and attempt more to collect weaker (less amount) components to improve the honey formation process. Thus, each time a worker exploits a food source it selects a component in such a way that weaker components are more frequently selected. The approach requires decomposing the solution into components where each component is evaluated by a component fitness function. The honey formula maps the component fitness to honey amount and considered as the equivalence of the fitness function. The worker bee uses the fitness of the selected component to evaluate the food source and does local search only around the selected component. The HFO and ABC Frameworks are compared on the basis of 9 benchmark functions. The result shows that HFO performs better than the ABC.
Perangkat keras komputer
Authors: mariani salsabila
Published: April 2020

Hardware merupakan salah satu komponen yang sangat mendukung dalam kinerja sistem komputer, buku pintar digital hardware komputer berbasis multimedia dibuat dengan tujuan mempermudah pemakai komputer untuk mengenal dan memahami lebih detail perangkat-perangkat hardware komputer, melalui informasi yang disajikan dalam bentuk teks,gambar,suara,video,dan animasi.
PERANGKAT KERAS KOMPUTER
Authors: Kurniawan Eka
Published: April 2020

Perangkat keras atau biasa dengan sebutan Hardware merupakan komponen dari sebuah komputer yang sifat alatnya bisa dilihat dan diraba secara langsung atau yang berbentuk nyata, yang berfungsi untuk mendukung proses system dalam komputer. Sistem kerja hardware tergantung pada apa jenis hardwere nya dan sesuai pada intruksi yang telah di setel atau disebut instruction set. Secara fisik, komputer terdiri atas beberapa komponen. Apabila saalah satu komponen tidak berfungsi, akan mengakibatkan tidak berfungsinya proses-proses yang ada pada komputer dengan baik. Komponen komputer ini termasuk dalam kategori elemen perangkat keras ( hardware ). Berdasarkan fungsinya, perangkat keras komputer dibagi menjadi : CPU, monitor, keyboard, dan mouse.
Ini Aku Tuhan
Authors: Illu Wilianus
Published: April 2020

Ada perbedaan antara Uzia dan ayahnya Amazia. Amazia masih separuh hati, setengah-setengah, sinkritisme, satu tangan pegang Tuhan, tangan yang satu lagi pegang berhala. Tangan kanan cari berkat, tangan kiri cari cadangan berkat dari berhala lain. Pada akhirnya Amazia meninggal, karena amukan rakyatnya. Sementara Uzia adalah raja yang mencari Tuhan dan mencintai Tuhan dengan sepenuh hatinya. Beberapa bukti dari Alkitab menceritakan tentang keberhasilan Uzia. (1) Membangun kembali Pelabuhan Eloth di laut merah (2 Raj2 14:22). (2) Memerintah dengan benar 2Raj 15:3. (3) Mengalahkan orang filistin 2Taw 26:6,7. (4).Menerima upeti dari bangsa ammon, (5).memperkuat kerajaannya, 6.Memperkuat benteng Yersualem. (7) Mempromosikan pemeliharaan ternak dan pertanian. (8).Pendirian militer. (9) Penguasa yang bijak, aktif dan saleh. Semuan ini bisa dialaminya karena berada dibawah mentor yang takut Tuhan yaitu Zakaria. Namun satu kesalahan fatal yang dilakukan adalah membawa dupa kedalam bait Allah. Yang mestinya bukan tugasnya. Dari sinilah dia disebut sebagai orang yang sombong. Lalu dihampiri dengan penyakit kusta. (2 Raj.15:5; 2 Raj.26:16-21)
Dhul Qarnain (ባለ ሁለት ጋሜ), Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and The People of Ᾱd
Authors: Ali Abdella Yimam
Published: April 2020

This paper presents the similarities between Abyssinia (current name Ethiopia) and the people of Ᾱd in the Quran. And Dhul Qarnain to be an Abyssinian king who is sent to the people of Ᾱd or Abyssinia in east Africa, the people of Nuh in around the black sea, and the children of Israel in Jerusalem
Emerging novel Coronavirus: a review of three potential candidates that probably debilitate the proliferation of the virus
Authors: Chakravorty Abir
Published: April 2020

The review paper presents the works carried out by different researchers for identifying the SARS-CoV-2 virus structure, and its background with the present medication being addressed to the COVID-19 patients. The paper discusses three candidates for possible defense and cure of humans against the virus along with the regular medication. The first is the resonant frequency therapy, which has proven its efficacy for treating different types of viral infection and cancer cells as the capsid of Rubella measles virus, Satellite Tobacco necrosis Virus, Cancer cells and many more are neutralized on the application of frequency equal to the resonance frequency of the protein shell of the virus. It is expected that there must be a resonance frequency corresponding to the capsid of the SARS-CoV-2, on the application of which might result in the disintegration of the protein shell. As treating a huge number of people in hospitals is becoming increasingly difficult and large number of population is under quarantine, a resonance audio frequency of this sort embedded in a soothing music can be melodius, and the same if played in public spaces and homes might help a great deal. The frequencies (approximate values) are 171.160 Hz, 174.989 Hz, 1185.131 Hz the complete details regarding administration and calculation of the frequencies are discussed in this manuscript. This treatment along with the presently administered treatment to COVID-19 patients might aid in their quick recovery from illness. Further the audio frequency/ resonance frequency therapy, and the strategy discussed in this manuscript might be useful in future from any kind of Virus attacks/ Biological warfares either intentionally or naturally. Also, the medicinal properties of ethnomedical plants such as Piper nigrum, and Ocimum tenuiflorum L and essential oils such as Eucalyptus oil are discussed. The last one being the antiviral activities of copper in the form of copper oxide nanoparticles in medicine which has proven its efficacy for viral prevention, replication, and RNA degradation are also discussed.
Tonal priming is resistant to changes in pitch height
Authors: Prince Jon , Vuvan Dominique T , Schmuckler Mark A. , Scott-Clark Thomas T.
Published: April 2020

Research on tonal priming has consistently shown that tonally expected events are processed more efficiently and has confirmed that the locus of the effect is cognitive rather than sensory. However, it is also important to investigate the role of pitch height, because models of tonal priming collapse across octaves, yet it is possible that pitch height may modulate the effectiveness of tonal priming. We systematically tested this issue by varying the pitch heights of a related (tonic) or a less-related (subdominant) target chord following a tonal context. Musically untrained participants (N = 30) made speeded consonant/dissonant judgments of the final chord of an eight-chord sequence. The effects of tonal priming emerged in accuracy and reaction time measures for all octaves, except for a ceiling effect on accuracy in the matching (original pitch height) condition. In a second experiment, we increased the shift to two octaves and compressed the chords to eliminate overlap between the target and context chords; again, tonal priming emerged. These findings have implications for the behavioral study of tonal priming and support the assumption of octave equivalence in computational models.
Keeping the beat: A large sample study of bouncing and clapping to music
Authors: Tranchant Pauline , Vuvan Dominique T , Peretz Isabelle
Published: April 2020

The vast majority of humans move in time with a musical beat. This behaviour has been mostly studied through finger-tapping synchronization. Here, we evaluate naturalistic synchronization responses to music – bouncing and clapping - in 100 university students. Their ability to match the period of their bounces and claps to those of a metronome and musical clips varying in beat saliency was assessed. In general, clapping was better synchronized with the beat than bouncing, suggesting that the choice of a specific movement type is an important factor to consider in the study of sensorimotor synchronization processes. Performance improved as a function of beat saliency, indicating that beat abstraction plays a significant role in synchronization. Fourteen percent of the population exhibited marked difficulties with matching the beat. Yet, at a group level, poor synchronizers showed similar sensitivity to movement type and beat saliency as normal synchronizers. These results suggest the presence of quantitative rather than qualitative variations when losing the beat.
Confused Terms in Ordinary Language
Authors: Beebe James R.
Published: April 2020

Confused terms appear to signify more than one entity. Carnap (1957) maintained that any putative name that is associated with more than one object in a relevant universe of discourse fails to be a genuine name. Although many philosophers have agreed with Carnap, they have not always agreed among themselves about the truth-values of atomic sentences containing such terms. Some hold that such atomic sentences are always false, and others claim they are always truth-valueless. Field (1973) maintained that confused terms can still refer, albeit partially, and offered a supervaluational account of their semantic properties on which some atomic sentences with confused terms can be true. After outlining many of the most important theoretical considerations for and against various semantic theories for such terms, we report the results of a study designed to investigate which of these accounts best accords with the truth-value judgments of ordinary language users about sentences containing these terms. We found that naïve participants view confused names as capable of successfully referring to one or more objects. Thus, semantic theories that judge them to involve total reference failure do not comport well with patterns of ordinary usage.
Testing the Attention-Distractibility Trait
Authors: Meier Matt Ethan
Published: April 2020

Forster and Lavie (2014, 2016) found that task-irrelevant distraction correlated positively with a measure of mind-wandering and a report of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptomology. Based primarily on these results, Forster and Lavie claimed to establish an attention-distractibility trait. Here, I sought to replicate the associations among measures of task-irrelevant distraction, mind wandering, and ADHD symptomology, and to test if these associations could be distinguished from associations with working memory capacity and task-relevant distraction. With data collected from two hundred and twenty-six subjects (ns differ among analyses), the results from the current study suggest that the measure of task-irrelevant distraction is not (or only very weakly) associated with measures of mind wandering (measured both with a stand-alone questionnaire and in-task thought probes) and ADHD symptomology. Additionally, the measure of irrelevant-distraction exhibited low internal consistency suggesting that (as measured) it is not capable of being a an individual differences measure. [Preregistration, data, analysis scripts and output are available via the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/bhs24/].
Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Nationwide Lockdown on Trust, Attitudes towards Government, and Wellbeing
Authors: Sibley Chris G , Greaves Lara , Satherley Nicole , Wilson Marc , Overall Nickola , Lee Carol , Milojev Petar , Bulbulia Joseph , Osborne Danny , Milfont Taciano L , Houkamau Carla , Duck Isabelle , Vickers-Jones Raine , Barlow Fiona
Published: April 2020

The contagiousness and deadliness of COVID-19 have necessitated drastic social management to halt transmission. The immediate effects of a nationwide lockdown were investigated by comparing matched samples of New Zealanders assessed before (Npre-lockdown = 1,003) and during the first 18 days of lockdown (Nlockdown = 1,003). Two categories of outcomes were examined: (1) institutional trust and attitudes towards the nation and government, and (2) health and wellbeing. Applying propensity score matching to approximate the conditions of a randomized controlled experiment, the study found that people in the pandemic/lockdown group reported higher trust in science, politicians, and police, higher levels of patriotism, and higher rates of mental distress compared to people in the pre-lockdown pre-pandemic group. Results were confirmed in within-subjects analyses. The study highlights social connectedness, resilience, and vulnerability in the face of adversity, and has applied implications for how countries face this global challenge.
Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and History and Philosophy of Science
Authors: Beebe James R.
Published: April 2020

We report the results of a study that investigated the views of researchers working in sevenscientific disciplines and in history and philosophy of science in regard to four hypothesizeddimensions of scientific realism. Among other things, we found (i) that natural scientiststended to express more strongly realist views than social scientists, (ii) that historyand philosophy of science scholars tended to express more antirealist views than naturalscientists, (iii) that van Fraassen’s characterization of scientific realism failed to clusterwith more standard characterizations, and (iv) that those who endorsed the pessimistic inductionwere no more or less likely to endorse antirealism.
Mapping Mind-Brain Development: Towards a Comprehensive Theory
Authors: Demetriou Andreas
Published: April 2020

The relations between developing mind and developing brain are explored. We outline a theory of intellectual development postulating that the mind comprises four systems of processes (domain-specific, attention and working memory, reasoning, and cognizance) developing in four cycles (episodic, realistic, rule-based, and principle-based representations, emerging at birth, 2, 6, and 11 years, respectively), with two phases in each. Changes in reasoning relate with processing efficiency in the first and working memory in the second phase. Awareness of mental processes recycles with them in each cycle and drives their integration into the representational unit of the next cycle. Brain research shows that each type of processes is served by specialized brain networks. Domain-specific processes are rooted in sensory cortices; working memory processes are mainly rooted in hippocampal, parietal, and prefrontal cortices; abstraction and alignment processes are rooted in parietal, frontal, and prefrontal and medial cortices. Information entering these networks is available to awareness. Brain networks change along the four cycles, in precision, connectivity, and brain rhythms. Principles of mind-brain interaction are discussed.
The Gendered Consequences of Parental Separation for Parents’ and Children’s Time Investments: A Longitudinal Study
Authors: Cano Tomas , Gracia Pablo
Published: April 2020

Parental separation has negative consequences for child development, parental well-being, and gender equality, partially due to changes in time use. However, there is a lack of longitudinal studies on how parental separation affects parents’ and children’s time use. Using unique Australian longitudinal time-diary data across six waves, this study examines how parental separation affects parent-child time and children’s time across activity types. Results show that separation does not alter parent-child total time, but it leads to a massive increase of gender inequality: mother-child time doubles, two-parent time declines by three, and father-child time remains low. After separation, children reduce time in educational activities (e.g., studying, reading) and sharply increase their time in unstructured activities (e.g., TV, videogames, mobile phones). Yet, separation effects on children’s time use are twice as large for boys than for girls, with gender gaps in unstructured time increasing with years since separation. Mother-child time returns to similar pre-separation levels, but only four years after separation. Results are robust to different panel regression modelling strategies.
The Assessment Evaluation Rubric: Promoting learning and learner -centered teaching in higher education
Authors: Tractenberg Rochelle E.
Published: April 2020

It is common to create courses for the higher education context that accomplishes content-driven teaching goals, and then develop assessments (quizzes, exams) based on the target content. However, content-driven assessment can tend to support teaching- or teacher- centered instruction. Adult learning and educational psychology theories suggest that instead, assessment should be aligned with learning, not teaching, objectives. To support the alignment of assessments with instruction in higher education, the Assessment Evaluation Rubric (AER) was developed. The AER can be utilized to guide the development and evaluation/revision of assessments that are already used. The AER evaluates four features of an assessment: its general alignment with learning goal(s); whether the assessment is intended to/effective as formative or summative; whether some systematic approach to cognitive complexity is reflected; and whether the assessment (instructions as well as results) itself is clearly interpretable. Each dimension (alignment; utility; complexity; clarity) has four questions that can be rated as present/absent (or yes/no), or, using a three-level ordinal scale describing “present-useable”, “possibly present - needs clarification”, and “absent”. Other rating methods can also be conceptualized for the answers to the AER’s 16 questions, depending on the user’s intent. Any instructor can use the AER to evaluate their own assessments and ensure that they -or new assessments in development - will promote learning and learner centered teaching.
COVID-19 and The Hidden Cost of Reduced Civil Liberties
Authors: Williams Andy E
Published: April 2020

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak that emerged from Wuhan, China in 2020 has seen unprecedented restrictions on civilian populations in many countries in the attempt to curtail the spread of the pandemic. A recently developed model of general collective intelligence predicts the properties of group decision-making systems that are required to optimize collective outcomes, along with predicting that authoritarian systems of decision-making might tend to be restricted to non-optimal group outcomes in ways that are somewhat hidden in that they require an understanding of this new and relatively unknown model of general collective intelligence. In light of this model of general collective intelligence, the economic restrictions imposed to combat the pandemic take on a new light, since these restrictions have not only resulted in economic lockdowns for some countries, but in some cases have also effectively imposed martial law. The hidden cost of this reduction in civil liberties is explored from the perspective of the cost of an authoritarian decision-making system resulting in non-optimal group outcomes as theorized by this model of general collective intelligence, using models of government inefficiency to assess the cost of those non-optimal group outcomes, and therefore the hidden cost of reduced civil liberties.
Is ‘God is a Woman’ from Ariana Grande Only a Song?
Authors: Setiawan A. R.
Published: April 2020

‘God is a Woman’, the single from Ariana Grande, is a good excuse to remember that archeologists believe God was considered female for the first 200,000 years of human life on earth. This work examines what it has been and continues to be like for female to be more powerful than male in the world of all time.
رِسَالَةٌ المَحْمَدَة لِمُعَلِّمِيْ نَوْڠ دَارَ المَحْمَدَة مِنْ مُتَعَلِّمِهَا أَدِيْب رِفْقِى ستِيْيَاوَان
Authors: Setiawan A. R.
Published: April 2020

رِسَالَةٌ المَحْمَدَة لِمُعَلِّمِيْ نَوْڠ دَارَ المَحْمَدَة مِنْ مُتَعَلِّمِهَا أَدِيْب رِفْقِى ستِيْيَاوَان
Mechanical and Vibrational Behavior of Twill Woven Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites
Authors: John K. M. , Thirumalai Kumaran S. , Senthil Kumar K. , Suresh Kumar S. , Aslan M. , Alver Ü.
Published: April 2020

Enhancing mechanical properties and suppressing vibration are important requisites in developing composite materials for dynamic structural applications such as automotive and aircraft. In this work, mechanical and vibrational properties of twill woven CFRP composites fabricated by compression molding, are studied by varying tow sizes (3k and 6k). Density, void, tensile, bending, impact strength, hardness, and free vibration tests were conducted as per ASTM standards to study their properties and investigate the impact of tow sizes on composites. In experimental modal analysis, Frequency Response Function (FRF) plots were also recorded. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was used to analyse the fracture behavior of the composites. A comparison between the observed results of 3k and 6k twills are made and discussed in detail. From the experimental investigation, it is found that higher tow size decreases the tensile, flexural and hardness strength but increases the natural frequency and damping coefficient. Interfacial bonding between fiber and matrix was affected by the presence of voids in the composites as evident from SEM micrographs.
Outlining direct marketing features of companies applying this approach when measuring their market orientation
Authors: Mihaylova Mihaela
Published: April 2020

Relevance of research topic. The need of gathering of information and its analysis plays a crucial role when it is question about satisfying customer better than competitors. Planning and coordinating the company’s activities according to customer’s requirements in order to achieve long-term success are important themes commented and present in the article. Analysis of recent research and publications. The existing literature in the field of the direct marketing was analyzed on issues of Direct Marketing definition, communicating on individual level, a long-term relationship approach, keeping and analyzing the information related to the customer’s reaction. Setting the task, the purpose of the study.Presenting a newly developed methodology of outlining direct marketing features of companies applying this approach, this article aims to offer a tool to distinguish these companies when evaluating their level of market orientation. Method or methodology for conducting research.The data has been collected by an Internet online survey. The market orientation of the companies is measured by the scale MARKOR. Presentation of the main material (results of work). This article represents one of the stages of a study taken in Bulgaria in 2018 aiming to evaluate the level of market orientation of companies applying direct marketing approach related to the interaction between the customer and the company, and aimed to collection, processing, presence, maintaining and storage of actual information. The respondents are companies operating on the Bulgarian market which actively apply direct marketing approach. The process of differentiating the companies passes through two consecutive and interrelated phases. The first phase aims to outline the direct marketing activities by checking if several of them are present and applied by the company. The second phase consists of analyzing the specifics of each activity. The set of questions to the respondents within the both phases is substantiated in the study according to the direct marketing approach. Conclusions according to the article. In Bulgarian companies the direct marketing and its application is guided by the principles of maintaining the information actual for customers; monitoring, recording and analyzing the customer’s response; developing different proposals for different clients based on their value for the company.
Financial and economic results of the country club activities and their place in the system of controlling
Authors: Zhuchinsky Alexander
Published: April 2020

The subject of the research is theoretical and practical aspects of determining the financial and economic results of the activity of cultural and artistic institution. The purpose of the work is to determine the financial and economic results of the activities of cultural and artistic institution and to establish their positive dynamics due to the introduction of controlling tools in the systematic management of its development. The methodological basis of the article was both general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge. The following methods were used: monographic; economic comparisons; statistical and economic, incl. formal and factor analysis; economic and mathematical; balance; graphic. Results of work. In the process of controlling in the system of activity of cultural and artistic institutions in the countryside and managing their development, financial and economic indicators and economic results occupy an important place. This is confirmed by the example of a rural house of culture. On the one hand, high and sustainable financial and economic results of its operation are important consequences of implementation, a kind of indicators of controlling efficiency. On the other hand, they are the financial basis for its further development and improvement. This is especially valuable in the context of decentralization of power, administrative-territorial reform, changing budgeting priorities for rural cultural institutions. The field of application of results. The conclusions and results of the article can be used in the educational process of economic faculties of higher educational establishments. They should be transferred for practical use in the management of socio-cultural enterprises. Conclusions. Factor analysis is important for enhancing the financial and economic performance of a rural club as a cultural and artistic institution. Economic factor analysis refers to the gradual transition from the initial factor system (performance indicator) to the final factor system, the disclosure of a complete set of direct quantitative factors that influence the change in the effective indicator. Their choice for the analysis of a particular indicator is made on the basis of financial and economic analysis of external factors. In this case, they usually proceed from the principle: the larger the set of factors under study, the more accurate the results of the analysis will be. Factor analysis can be done through questionnaires and be an important component of the controlling system.
ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ ОСТРАКІЗМУ В СИСТЕМІ НАУКОВИХ ПОНЯТЬ
Authors: Nazarevich Victoria
Published: April 2020

У статті висвітлено особливості поняття остракізму як різновиду соціальної ізоляції. Встановлено, що група, яка піддається остракізму, стає більш згуртованою, але саме соціальне відчуження є однією з причин актів насилля, антигуманної і насильницької поведінки, спричиняє деструктивне формування суспільних мотивів самовираження. Проаналізовано усвідомлення особою акту неприйняття її іншими, що стає причиною виникнення мотивів: підвищення бажання соціальних зв’язків – соціально-направлені мотиви; гнівні, асоціальні спонукання –  злість, дія відповідно до агресивних намірів; уникнення повторного виключення – відхід від соціальних контактів. Здійснено спробу аналізу індивідуальних і ситуативних чинників, які впливають на особливості реакцій індивіда, а також психологічних характеристик осіб, що переживають ситуацію суспільної неприналежності. Висвітлено особливості рефлексивних реакцій і відповідей індивіда на остракізм, роль соціального статусу, самооцінки особистості, соціальної підтримки в ситуаціях переживання особистістю явища витіснення. Досліджено, що особистість, яка відчуває первинні ознаки явища остракізму, буде володіти низкою психологічних реакцій, таких як: відраза, високе напруження, емоційне виснаження, депресія, зниження задоволеності життям. Зроблено висновки про явище остракізму як акту ігнорування і виключення індивідів, яке відрізняється від соціальної ізоляції тим, що зазвичай вимагає відсутності уваги та відірваності від соціуму, як акту поєднання відчуження зі словесним, фізичним насильством, що має на увазі відсутність або незначну увагу до особистості або групи.