bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) in Texas and New Mexico: An In-Depth Profile of Their Backgrounds, Commitments, and Perspectives
Authors: Preuss Michael , Sosa Eric M. , Rodin Jason C. , Dorsett Christine R.
Published: February 2021

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) educate nearly two-thirds of the Hispanic/Latinx students who attend college. Yet little is known about the student populations they serve. Findings from two NSF-funded surveys completed with students at 14 HSIs in Texas and New Mexico in 2018 and four HSIs in TX in 2019 are presented. The combined sample was 1,293 students. A description of the backgrounds, commitments, experiences, and preferences of students at HSIs and differences found between responses from Hispanic/Latinx and non-Hispanic students are discussed. Primary topic areas are demographics, first-generation student standing, cultural orientation, primary language and fluency in Spanish, family and work commitments, relationship status, family support, living arrangements, means of financing college, course load, STEM identity, annual income of household of origin and of personal household, locus of control orientation, familism, and experience in college. The result is a thorough and up-to-date profile of the HSI student population in TX and NM. Statistical analysis revealed multiple significant differences between Hispanic/Latinx and non-Hispanic students attending the HSIs and the presence of several significant predictors for forms of activity and patterns of commitment. The findings are immediately applicable to process, program, student support, and instructional planning, implementation, and evaluation for over 120 HSIs in the region and, by extension, to hundreds more across the United States.
Preservar os seus dados de investigação
Authors: Baker James
Published: February 2021

Esta lição irá sugerir maneiras pelas quais os historiadores podem documentar e estruturar os seus dados de pesquisa, a fim de garantir que continuem sendo acessíveis no futuro.
El concepto de hegemonía en las relaciones internacionales: una crítica a Andreas Antoniades
Authors: Molina-Campano Eduardo
Published: February 2021

Esta investigación pretende analizar los diferentes enfoques teóricos existentes en la disciplina de las relaciones internacionales con relación al concepto de hegemonía. Para ello se indagará en el origen gramsciano del término y en su evolución posterior hasta llegar al debate que nos concierne. Dentro de esta discusión el autor se centrará en el estudio de la propuesta de Andreas Antoniades definida como -Movimiento de Poder- con el objeto de someterla a una crítica desde la perspectiva de la Economía Política Internacional Crítica. Esta perspectiva que el autor dejará semi planteado implícitamente tiene dos elementos fundamentales que la caracterizan, a saber: toma a la sub disciplina de la economía política internacional como enfoque para el análisis de las relaciones internacionales pero en segundo lugar lo hace desde una posición materialista crítica respecto a las escuelas vigentes en dicha subdisciplina.
Entre la Ra ź on y la Pasión: La Intimidad Sexual en Parejas Heterosexuales ante la Empresa Preventiva del VIH/SIDA
Authors: Reyes Domingo , Madera Sheilla , Carrelo Leida
Published: February 2021

This article establishes heterosexual relationships as spaces out of control and, from Foucault’s view of power, positions them as answer to the discourses generated by society to control sexuality. This qualitative study included 20 Puerto Rican couples (11 seroconcordant and 9 serodiscordant) with the objective of identifying variables related to relationship satisfaction with sexual intimacy among women living with HIV/AIDS. Results evidence how in many instances sexual relations are, in fact, moments where passion precedes reason. By involving in high risk behavior, they ignore the preventive enterprise, distance themselves from reason and imposing passion. We come to conclusions about social sciences, specially psychology, and the contribution it can bring to redefine sexuality, substituting the regulating role for a new constructive one.
Minority Students’ Perspectives on Chemistry in an Alternative High School
Authors: Peterson-Beeton Renee
Published: February 2021

Latinas/os form the largest minority group in the U.S. and they are growing more rapidly than any other ethnic group in this country. However, the number of Latinas/os in chemistry is not proportional to their population; they are noticeably absent from the physical science fields. Little research has explored the circumstances that Latino students encounter in high school chemistry. In this exploratory study, four Mexican American students and one Native American student were interviewed and observed in a physical science class at an alternative school that enrolled predominantly Latino students. Five underlying themes were found: negative perceptions of science, benefits and disadvantages of alternative school science, traditional teaching methods versus student-centered teaching, outreach possibilities, and changes in stereotypes of scientists. A further investigation and more in-depth contextual knowledge is needed in or der to determine more precisely what caused the students to have their opinions on physical science.
Making Use of Bilingual Interview Data: Some Experiences from the Field
Authors: Halai Nelofer
Published: February 2021

This paper describes the challenges faced, and rules devised, while dealing with bilingual interview data as part of a life history study of a female science teacher’s conceptions of the nature of science while teaching in a school in Karachi. The interview data generated was both in Urdu and English, which underwent a number of processes (transcription, translation, and transliteration) to evolve into “interim texts,” to finally become a part of the data analysis process. I have called these translated materials “transmuted texts,” as they reflect the original, but have been recreated. This paper is significant because as globalization connects diverse societies, more research studies have to deal with research data in more than one language.
Using Grounded Theory to Understand Resiliency in Pre-Teen Children of High-Conflict Families
Authors: Pomrenke Marlene
Published: February 2021

Using grounded theory, this study identified factors that contributed to children’s ability to utilize their resilient attributes. Children between the ages of 9 and 12 from high-conflict separated or divorced families participated in a study that examined how family and community interactions promote resilient behaviour. Substantive-level theory gained from this study yielded that children from separated or divorced, high- conflict families exhibit resilient characteristics when family cohesion is used to incorporate additional family support systems, particularly step- parents and extended family members. External support systems, particularly peers, augment these resilient characteristics. In order to build resilience in pre-teen children parents need to encourage relationships with external and internal support systems.
Linguistic Alternatives to Quantitative Research Strategies Part One: How Linguistic Mechanisms Advance Research
Authors: Yeager Joseph , Sommer Linda
Published: February 2021

Combining psycholinguistic technologies and systems analysis created advances in motivational profiling and numerous new behavioral engineering applications. These advances leapfrog many mainstream statistical research methods, producing superior research results via cause-effect language mechanisms. Entire industries explore motives ranging from opinion polling to persuasive marketing campaigns, and individual psychotherapy to executive performance coaching. Qualitative research tools such as questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups are now transforming static language data into dynamic linguistic systems measurement technology. Motivational mechanisms, especially linguistic mechanisms, allow specific changes within a motive’s operations. This includes both the choices the intervention creates and its end-goal. Predictable behavior changes are impossible with popular statistical methods. Advanced linguistic research strategies employ motivational change methods with state-of-the -art language and communications modeling.
Mixing Research Methods in Health Professional Degrees: Thoughts for Undergraduate Students and Supervisors
Authors: Anaf Sophie , Sheppard Lorraine
Published: February 2021

This commentary considers some of the challenges of applying mixed methods research in undergraduate research degrees, especially in professions with a clinical health focus. Our experience in physiotherapy academia is used as an example. Mixed methods research is increasingly appreciated in its own right as a “third paradigm,” however the success of educating novice researchers in mixing methods requires reflection on a range of theoretical and practical issues. We explore some of the under- reported features of mixed methods on a theoretical level, including the use of terminology, and the challenge of research “labels,” and on a practical level, the benefits of including mixing methods in clinical research and the issue of appropriate examination.
Sampling Designs in Qualitative Research: Making the Sampling Process More Public
Authors: Onwuegbuzie Anthony , Leech Nancy
Published: February 2021

The purpose of this paper is to provide a typology of sampling designs for qualitative researchers. We introduce the following sampling strategies: (a) parallel sampling designs, which represent a body of sampling strategies that facilitate credible comparisons of two or more different subgroups that are extracted from the same levels of study; (b) nested sampling designs, which are sampling strategies that facilitate credible comparisons of two or more members of the same subgroup, wherein one or more members of the subgroup represent a sub-sample of the full sample; and (c) multilevel sampling designs, which represent sampling strategies that facilitate credible comparisons of two or more subgroups that are extracted from different levels of study.
Action Research as a Qualitative Research Approach in Inter- Professional Education: The QUIPPED Approach
Authors: Paterson Margo , Medves Jennifer , Chapman Christine , Verma Sarita , Broers Teresa , Schroder Cori
Published: February 2021

The Canadian government supports the transformation of education for health care providers based on the recognized need for an inter- professional collaborative approach to care . This first paper in a series of papers demonstrates the credibility of an action research approach for the promotion and understanding of inter- professional education (IPE). Located in the critical paradigm, this action research project is concerned with creating an educational environment that enhances the ability of learners and educators to provide patient-centred care through inter- professional collaboration. The QUIPPED project has invited various stakeholders (faculty an d learners from various disciplines, consumers of health care, university administration and clinicians) to participate in the collaborative transformation of the educational culture and the co- creation of a shared knowledge for IPE.
The Use of Complex Adaptive Systems as a Generative Metaphor in an Action Research Study of an Organisation
Authors: Brown Callum
Published: February 2021

Understanding the dynamic behaviour of organisations is challenging and this study uses a model of complex adaptive systems as a generative metaphor to address this challenge. The research question addressed is: How might a conceptual model of complex adaptive systems be used to assist in understanding the dynamic nature of organisations? Using an action research methodology, 6 Ai r Force internal management consulting teams were exposed to overlapping attributes of complex adaptive systems. The study shows that participants found the attributes valuable in understanding the dynamic nature of organisations; however they did present challenges for understanding. Despite being challenging to understand, using complex adaptive systems to understand organisations, particularly as dynamic systems, is of value.
How to be Happy by Calling for Change: Constructs of Happiness and Meaningfulness Amongst Social Movement Activists
Authors: Mills Alice , Smith Jeremy
Published: February 2021

This paper focuses on how social movement activists view happiness in relation to their political involvement. Interviewers asked activists questions about their personal histories and feelings. The phenomenological strategy involved focused on interviews with subjects who could speak richly about their commitments and emotions. The data from the 11 subjects revealed that there was no simple relationship between a commitment to social activism and subjects’ experiences of happiness. Several subjects oriented their responses to the relationship between meaningfulness, activism, and happiness. In discussion of the analyzed data, the authors suggest that a relationship is evident between the positions articulated by interviewees and their levels of engagement in and withdrawal from activism.
A Qualitative Study Investigating Gender Differences in Primary Work Stressors and Levels of Job Satisfaction in Greek Junior Hospital Doctors
Authors: Antoniou Alexander-Stamatios , Cooper Cary , Davisdson Marilyn
Published: February 2021

Primary work stressors and job satisfaction/dissatisfaction in Greek Junior Hospital Doctors (JHDs) are investigated to identify similarities and differences in the reports obtained from male and female hospital doctors. Participants in the study included 32 male and 28 female Greek hospital doctors who provided information through semi-structured, in-depth interviews. The findings revealed that a majority of Greek JHDs considered their profession very stressful, and that various differences were identified between male and female JHDs, with regard to perceived stress and satisfaction. The study has implications for the possible introduction of in-house stress management training programmes, both at a generic, and gender specific level. Future research aimed at increasing the individuals’ coping mechanism s, and identifying environmental sources of stress are recommended.
First Love: A Case Study in Quantitative Appropriation of Social Concepts
Authors: Janssen Diederik
Published: February 2021

Peer love is a highly invested autobiographical marker, and its scientific ascent can be studied in terms of its literature’s motives, stated objectives, exclusions, and delimitations. In this article an overview of numeric and selected ethnographic data on the timing of “first love” is presented, to inform an assessment of the ontological underpinnings of milestone research common to quantitative sociology and developmental psychology. Complicating scientific normalization of love’s initiatory connotation, selected ethnographic observations on the timing and notion of early/first love in non-Western societies are presented. These observations facilitate a critique of love as a heterosocial, propaedeutic event, and hence, as scientifically accessible and befitting the routines and metaphors of biomedical “milestone monitoring.”
Extending the Conversation: Qualitative Research as Dialogic Collaborative Process
Authors: Paulus Trena , Woodside Marianne , Ziegler Mary
Published: February 2021

Collaborative research often refers to collaboration among the researcher and the participants. Few studies investigate the collaborative process among researchers themselves. Assumptions about the qualitative research process, particularly ways to establish rigor and transparency, are pervasive. Our experience con ducting three collaborative empirical research studies challenged and transformed our assumptions about qualitative research: (a) research planning taught as concrete and linear rather than as emergent and iterative, (b) data analysis conceptualized as individual discovery rather than collaboratively-constructed meaning, and (c) findings represented as individual product rather than as part of an ongoing conversation. We address each assumption, including how our collaborative research diverged from the assumption and how this divergence has impacted our own practice.
Using an Adversary Hearing to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Military Program
Authors: Miller Richard , Butler Jeanne
Published: February 2021

This study describes the design and implementation of an adversary hearing used to evaluate professional development initiatives in a military environment. The adversary hearing model used in the evaluation was developed to meet the requirements of an environment that differs from other environments in which adversary hearings have been used. The evaluation was conducted to determine whether a professional development program of the U. S. Army, Europe, actually enhanced soldier development and demonstrated consideration by leaders for their followers. Several key issues relate d to program effectiveness were discovered in the process of the adversary hearing that were not evident in a survey evaluation of the program.
“Taking Charge of One’s Life”: A Model for Weight Management Success
Authors: Adams Marlene
Published: February 2021

Obesity is a serious, prevalent, and refractory disorder that increases with age particularly in women who enroll in formal weight loss treatments. This study examined the processes used by obese postmenopausal women as they participated in a formal weight loss program. Using grounded theory, interviews were conducted with 14 women engaged in a formal weight loss study examining success with specific, targeted weight loss treatments based on one’s weight control self-efficacy typology. “Taking Charge of One’s Life” emerged as a model for weight management success, comprised of three phases: engaging, internalizing, and keeping one’s commitment. This study supports the unique, complex, and individualized nature of making a decision to lose weight and then maintaining one’s commitment to weight loss.
Una poética de la sacralidad: La escritura cósmica en “Amaru” de Edgardo Rivera Martínez
Authors: Mudarra Montoya Américo
Published: February 2021

El presente artículo pretende mostrar el valor de este cuento, “Amaru”, dentro de la narrativa de Edgardo Rivera Martínez. Creemos que se trata de un relato capital pues configura una poética. En dicho texto se genera la concepción de una escritura cósmica, vinculada a la naturaleza y al tiempo, que intenta fijar lo inefable. Una escritura que cifra su carácter mediador en una lógica vinculada a lo sagrado, donde el principio de identidad ha quedado abolido, y a un tiempo circular y mítico. Se proyecta una imagen del escritor como un sujeto que se sitúa en un espacio intermedio. La escritura vuelve a concebirse como poiesis, creación, tal como la entendían los griegos, además de permitir el establecer nexos entre universos y temporalidades diferentes.
La lengua pescadora
Authors: Salas García José Antonio
Published: February 2021

El presente artículo versa sobre nuevos hallazgos con respecto a una entidad idiomática que fue conocida, durante la época colonial, como lengua pescadora. Nuevas noticias acerca de este extinto idioma nos permiten no solamente ampliar el conocimiento que se tenía, sino que nos facultan para reinterpretar asunciones hechas sin suficiente apoyo empírico. El trabajo se beneficia de la publicación de nuevos documentos que, correctamente interpretados, proporcionan luces que iluminan el panorama lingüístico de la costa norperuana. La exposición de los datos, además, está acompañada de mapas que facilitan la comprensión del texto y hacen más agradable su lectura.
Tras una lengua de papel. Garatea Grau, Carlos. El español del Perú. Lima: PUCP, 2010, 200 pp.
Authors: Garatea Grau Carlos
Published: February 2021

Reseña

Tras una lengua de papel. Garatea Grau, Carlos. El español del Perú. Lima: PUCP, 2010, 200 pp.

El castellano del Perú tiene la voz mestiza de tanto haber andado durante siglos por nuestras tierras. Y gran tramo de ese recorrido lo hizo en los Andes: cruz en el pecho, espada a la cintura y montado en textos escritos que traían en sus líneas siglos de tradición y cultivo. Una parte del registro de aquel itinerario, que constituye la historia del castellano andino, “está en textos; la otra se perdió para siempre” (174). Es la voz andina grabada en papel y que nos habla de “un pasado que es, de muchas maneras, también nuestro presente” (Rivarola 1994?: 49). A través de las páginas del libro que ahora comentamos, Carlos Garatea nos llevará Tras una lengua de papel.
Factors affecting Customer Retention in the Restaurant Industry: Moderating Role of Restaurant Location
Authors:   Department of Management Sciences, MNS-UET, Ahmed Ammar
Published: February 2021

This study investigated the main effects of service quality and price fairness on customer retention. The study also investigated the moderating role of restaurant location in service quality, price fairness-customer retention relationships. Data collected from 182 customers visiting selected restaurants located in Multan city of Pakistan. The collected data relates to the chosen variables i.e. service quality, price fairness, restaurant location, and customer retention. The significant positive results of linear regression analysis revealed that service quality, price fairness and restaurant location predicted the customer retention. The results of step-wise multiple regression analysis revealed that restaurant location positively moderated the relationship of service quality and customer retention. It also revealed that restaurant location positively moderated the relationship of price fairness and customer retention. This study may have practical implications for human resource managers regarding recruitment decisions. It may have importance for restaurant managers or owners regarding quality of service and pricing plans which are true reflection of the services provided. Similarly, they may give due consideration to the location factor while launching a food service business. On the basis of the findings of the study, conclusions have been made and recommendations and directions for further research have been offered.
The Effect of Oil Price on China’s Grain Prices: a VAR model
Authors: Li Jingye
Published: February 2021

In recent years, the simultaneous trend of crude oil prices and agricultural prices has gained numerous attention of policy makers and market participants. This paper uses a vector autoregression model to examine the impact of the international crude oil prices on China’s grain prices including wheat, maize, soybean and rice during the period from June 2004 to December 2018. Empirical results indicates that international crude oil prices have a positive and significant impact on China’s grain prices. The response of grain prices would gradually decline to zero after reaching its maximum. Among these grain prices, the response of maize and soybean prices to crude oil prices is stronger than the rice and wheat prices. The error variance decomposition results show that most of the volatility in all price variables can be explained by own shocks, even though the fluctuation of grain prices are all affected by crude oil prices.

JEL classification numbers: O13
Keywords: Oil prices, Grain prices, VAR, Variance decomposition.
Walter Benjamim e a Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (ENFF) do MST:
Authors: Paz Micharlles Lopes , Oliveira David Barbosa
Published: February 2021

O objetivo precípuo do corrente artigo é tecer aproximações entre o pensamento revolucionário-romântico do filósofo Walter Benjamim com a experiência da Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (ENFF) do MST. De que modo este pensador judeu-alemão que viveu as tensões decorrentes da primeira metade do século XX teria relação com esta escola rebelde surgida nos albores do século XXI? Há possibilidade de conexões neurais e coronárias entre ambos? Qual seria o enriquecimento teórico-prático deste achegamento?  Não se trata de encaixar a fórceps a teoria benjaminiana na experiência da ENFF, mas sim de historiar um pouco pontos de intercessão entre seus sonhos e receios, respeitando o lapso temporal que os separa e as singularidades de cada contexto histórico. Trata-se de um bate-bola entre visões de mundo que se abraçam, de idéias e ideais convergentes que alumiam pontos da inteligibilidade histórica de nossos dramas e expectativas atuais. A intenção é, portanto, inventariar possíveis cruzamentos, como por exemplo: se aquele é o mago das iluminações profanas por sua apaixonada aposta na redenção nostálgica que inspira uma utopia, questionadora do presente a partir das lutas pretéritas com vistas para a emergência da Revolução; esta é o espaço dedicado à operacionalização teórico- prática da própria práxis revolucionária, uma vez que salvaguarda e atualiza o verbo de luta da classe trabalhadora, honrando os compromissos ancestrais dos que tombaram nas “rodas das carruagens majestosas do progresso”. O sonho de Benjamim é com o futuro, assim como o da ENFF também o é, com o futuro de uma esperança. Ambos reconhecem a importância fundamental das batalhas pela memória inscrita na tradição dos oprimidos. Tanto a ENFF quanto o pensador são espiritualistas, isto é, concebem que mediante a hostilidade da luta de classes, os oprimidos não devem prescindir do auxílio das forças espirituais, àquela operacionaliza sua alma através da mística, esse a exerce por meio de sua fé nas forças messiânicas e redentoras da humanidade, produtoras de coragem, esperança, tenacidade e amor para a luta no presente.
Avaliação Nacional de Alfabetização:
Authors: Silva Marciete Das Neves , Silva Emanuel Freitas da
Published: February 2021

Esse estudo faz uma abordagem sobre a Avaliação Nacional de Alfabetização (ANA) na Escola Brasil Novo, situada no Município de Macapá, no Estado do Amapá. O objetivo geral é analisar o resultado da Avaliação Nacional de Alfabetização - ANA.  E, como objetivos específicos contribuir para o processo de ensino nas instituições públicas brasileiras, analisar os resultados aferidos na aplicação da avaliação ANA na Escola Estadual Brasil Novo no período de 2014 a 2016, bem como investigar quais as possíveis dificuldades encontradas referentes aos critérios de avaliação da alfabetização. Nesse sentido, o que se pesquisa nessa escola é se de fato e de direito a alfabetização que se ensina nessa escola obtém as respostas satisfatórias atendendo às expectativas exigidas pela Avaliação Nacional de Alfabetização. Essa percepção está voltada para a compreensão de novos paradigmas em contraposição às dificuldades que os docentes enfrentam no cotidiano com esse perfil de aluno. Isso tudo porque a grande maioria desses professores ainda não estão devidamente preparados e/ou capacitados para lidar com cenário de novos conceitos avaliativos. Nesse sentido, justifica-se o referido estudo em se poder contribuir com os atuais gestores de educação. Assume-se, assim, um olhar crítico para contribuir com os mesmos. Dessa maneira, se fez necessária uma avaliação dessa política da educação, como meio de entender o desempenho e o esforço ao educando, de maneira a obter as condições de escolaridade para ser desenvolvido o conhecimento e habilidades na escola pública. Os resultados finais obtidos nessa pesquisa de campo são assim apresentados: que na avaliação nacional de alfabetização (ANA) na idade certa possui elementos que desencadeiam a importância das políticas públicas educacionais desenvolvidas no ensino, como oportunidade de desenvolver, não apenas o aluno que aprende, mas o docente que ensina, e também obtém todo o crescimento no ensino escolar e com reflexo no eixo social.
Leonel Brizola:
Authors: Albuquerque Bruno Marques , Lima Hermano Machado Ferreira
Published: February 2021

Buscam-se elementos relacionados à liderança política exercida por Leonel Brizola, no período compreendido pelo ‘‘Pluripartidarismo Moderado’’. Com efeito, visa-se destacar esse nome para o historicismo nacional, a fim de recolocá-lo nos anais acadêmicos em razão de sua trajetória, ao testemunhar e protagonizar diversos acontecimentos se tratando do sistema político-partidário brasileiro. Atenta-se para os reflexos do autoritarismo institucionalizado no período ditatorial, que influenciou na configuração do sistema eleitoral difundido pelo ‘‘Presidencialismo de Coalização’’, e propagado pelo Estado Democrático de Direito. Analisam-se elementos decorrentes da corrupção; da fragmentação partidária; da criminalização da política; do avanço social conservador; da crise institucional que aflige os três (3) poderes; e do ativismo judicial pela óptica conceitual do ‘‘Lawfare’’. Percebem-se posições referenciais aos princípios constitucionais que norteiam o tema, além do posicionamento de juristas e pesquisadores. Conclui-se sobre a relevância do nome de Leonel Brizola para a atual realidade política brasileira, em associação aos fatos relacionados ao contexto contemporâneo.
Rischio di tasso di interesse del portafoglio bancario (IRRBB): evoluzione normativa ed implicazioni gestionai
Authors:   Università Federico II, Curcio Domenico , Gianfrancesco Igor ,   Arepo BP ed Extrabanca, Meglio Corrado ,   Banco Credito Popolare, Trentini Simone ,   UBI Banca, Preger Alina ,   Prometeia, Pansini Annalisa ,   Prometeia
Published: February 2021

The AIFIRM Commission on the interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB) has been established in a period of significant changes in the related prudential supervisory framework, which started in April 2016 with the publication of Basel Committe on Banking Supervision (BCBS)’s new standards. BCBS confirmed the secondpillar classification of IRRBB and introduced changes in its measurement approach. European regulation has already partially adopted these standards; the European Banking Authority (EBA) will issue specific technical standards and update its guidelines by March 2022. The Commission has firstly analyzed the most significant aspects of the recent changes in IRRBB-related regulation, assessing the potential impacts on models, processes and banks’ exposure to IRRBB. Following this analysis, the Commission has developed operational proposals that intend to provide support to individual risk managers and their structures in measuring, controlling and managing IRRBB and in adapting bank processes to the new regulatory requirements.
The Effect of Leadership, Work Environment on Work Spirit Which Impacts on Employee Performance of Palembang City Social Service
Authors: Hendro Omar , Ariestianah Dwi , Zunaidah Zunaidah
Published: February 2021

This study aims to determine the effect of leadership, work environment on morale which has an impact on the performance of the Palembang City Social Service staff. The research approach is quantitative research with associative research type. Based on the calculation of the influence between lines, it is known that the direct influence of leadership on employee performance is 0.183, while the indirect effect of leadership on employee performance is 0.089726. Meanwhile, the direct effect of the employee work environment on employee performance is 0.269, while the indirect effect of the employee work environment on employee performance is 0.09802. Thus it can be concluded that a more effective path is the path between Leadership and Employee Performance through Employee Morale. Leadership through Work Spirit at the Palembang City Social Service Employees has a significant effect on the Employee Performance variable that needs to be improved. The calculated value is low (X1 → Y → Z = (0.238). (0.377) = 0.089726). There needs to be supervision and evaluation from the leadership. The Work Environment through Work Spirit of the Palembang City Social Service Employees has a significant effect on the Employee Performance variable. The results of the estimation can be obtained that the value is 0.09802 so it needs monitoring and evaluation of the Palembang City Social Service Employees. This study concludes that the leadership and work environment of employees have a significant effect on employee morale and their impact on employee performance variables so that the role of leadership and work environment is needed in increasing employee morale which will ultimately have an impact on employee performance.
An empirical study of Women Entrepreneurship motivational factors in Botswana
Authors: Sibanda Khulekani
Published: February 2021

Women entrepreneurship plays a significant role in the economic development of a nation’s economy; thus, this study was set up to study the main motivations of women entrepreneurs in Botswana. The findings revealed that the women entrepreneurs in Botswana are motivated by a range of issues to start business both the pull and push factors. It was thus recommended that the government should provide sufficient infrastructural facilities along with the routine concessions and incentives to women entrepreneurs in the region. For better results, there should be co-ordination among the various agencies involved, without any overlapping of the functions. Flexibility and timely assistance by the financial institutions would help the women entrepreneurs to survive profitably, despite the entry of multinationals into the country and region. The officials of both the government and the banks should take initiative in the matter of financial and promotional assistance to the new and prospective women entrepreneurs.
Application of CISG in Arbitration: A Combined Procedure or Parallel Procedure?
Authors: Alam Md. Habib
Published: February 2021

CISG and arbitration are connected with each other. They may work through a combined or parallel procedure. Globalization of trade desires uniformity in trade. For uniformity of trade, we require uniform law. The arbitration may not work to make it uniform, but choosing any uniform law (i.e. CISG), it may lead to deal a particular arbitration in the international standard. The international standard may be maintained while considering the uniform law. Choosing uniform law (i.e. CISG), it may minimize the risk of wrong interpretation and put the arbitral parties on “equal footing”. Parties may consider CISG as the applicable law in their arbitral agreements. As of 13 February 2021, 94 states signed the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG). The frontline trading states like the USA, Australia, Israel, Canada, China, Germany, France, Russia, and Japan are contracting states of CISG. This research emphasizes providing guidelines as to how parties may apply CISG into their arbitral agreements by maintaining the international standard.
Stenting a persistent ductus arteriosus – an ongoing interventional story
Authors: Sglimbea Anca Ioana , Gozar Liliana , Mezei Tibor , Hadadi László
Published: February 2021

Stenting the patent ductus arteriosus is an old procedure which only lately has shown its advantages at its highest potential. Objective – To apprehend the arterial duct stenting procedure, its history, change over time and present usefulness and technique. Methods and results – We present the fi rst two cases of stent implantation in a persistent ductus arteriosus performed in our institution and a short review of the literature on this subject, connecting our small experience to that of other centers. Conclusions – Stent implantation in the ductus arteriosus is of great help in knowledgeable hands and minds. While it needs a learning curve, careful preparation before introducing it in the daily practice of a cardiovascular center is essential.
Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic: Occupational Therapy on the Front Line
Authors: Robinson Marla R. , Koverman Brenda , Becker Carson , Ciancio Kate E. , Fisher Gail , Saake Serena
Published: February 2021

The pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) highlighted the insufficient public health policies and lack of a national pandemic response strategy. Rehabilitation departments faced barriers to providing care in the traditional manner and needed to consider protection of patients and staff, staffing and personal protective equipment shortages, and uncertainty about best practices to address a novel health condition. This article highlights the strategies implemented by acute care occupational therapy leaders to support their staff; facilitate efficient care provision; and pivot with constantly changing policies, procedures, and research during the COVID-19 crisis. Occupational therapy’s distinct value in caring for this population and role in responding to the pandemic are shared to provide a guidepost for future health care crises.
The Catholic Epistles
Authors: Lockett Darian R.
Published: February 2021

Designed as a reference volume for researchers and graduate students focusing on the Catholic Epistles, this work brings together the best scholarship concentrating upon the Letters of James, Peter, John, and Jude in one convenient volume.

The organization and format of the volume follows the T&T Clark Critical Readings series model, with chapters divided into four sections covering textual history, theological interpretation, methodology and reception history. Each section begins with an introduction from the volume editor and finishes with a list of annotated readings which prompt further study and engagement.
‘You’ and ‘Thou’ in Shakespeare
Authors: Freedman Penelope , Brandreth Benet , Gonsalves Aileen , Bessell Jacquelyn , Irish Tracy , Weston Laura
Published: February 2021

Romeo and Juliet always use ‘thou’ to each other, but they are the only pair of lovers in Shakespeare to do this. Why? All the women in Richard III address Richard as ‘thou’, but no man ever does. Why? When characters address the dead, they use ‘thou’ – except for Hamlet, who addresses Yorick as ‘you’. Why? Shakespeare’s contemporaries would have known the answers to these questions because they understood what ‘thou’ signified, but modern actors and audiences are in the dark. Through performance-oriented analysis of extracts from the plays, this book explores the language of ‘trulls’ and termagants, true loves and unwelcome wooers, male impersonators, smothering mothers, warring spouses and fighting men, as well as investigating lèse-majesté, Freudian slips, crisis moments and rhetorical flourishes. Drawing on work with RSC actors, as well as the author’s experience of playing a range of Shakespearean roles, the book equips the reader with a new tool for tracking emotions, weighing power relations and appreciating dazzling complexity.
The Hidden History of the Smock Frock
Authors: Toplis Alison
Published: February 2021

Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand-crafted and held up as one of the only items of English folk dress to survive into the 20th century, the smock frock is an object of curiosity in many museum collections. Drawing on a wide variety of sources from surviving garments to newspapers and photographs, this book reveals the hidden history of the smock frock to present new social histories.

Discussing the smock frock in its widest contexts, Alison Toplis explores how garments were handmade and manufactured by the ready-made clothing industry, and bought by men of different trades. She traces the smock frock’s usage across England as well as in export markets such as Australia. Following the garment’s decline in the late 19th century, the book investigates how this essentially utilitarian style of workwear came to be held up as an example of disappearing ‘peasant’ craft in an emotional response to urbanisation, and how it was preserved by collectors under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Around the turn of the 20th century, the smock frock was reinvented as both women’s and children’s wear and is now regularly revived in fashion collections by the likes of Molly Goddard. Drawing together extensive visual and material cultures, Alison Toplis unravels a new history of the smock frock.
Philosophy, Literature and Understanding
Authors: Mikkonen Jukka
Published: February 2021

Challenging existing methodological conceptions of the analytic approach to aesthetics, Jukka Mikkonen brings together philosophy, literary studies and cognitive psychology to offer a new theory on the cognitive value of reading fiction.

Philosophy, Literature and Understanding defends the epistemic significance of narratives, arguing that it should be explained in terms of understanding rather than knowledge. Mikkonen formulates understanding as a cognitive process, which he connects to narrative imagining in order to assert that narrative is a central tool for communicating understanding. Demonstrating the effects that literary works have on their readers, he examines academic critical analysis, responses of the reading public and nonfictional writings that include autobiographical testimony to their writer’s influences and attitudes to life. In doing so, he provides empirical evidence of the cognitive benefits of literature and of how readers demonstrate the growth of their understanding.

By drawing on the written testimony of the reader, this book is an important intervention into debates on the value of literature that incorporates understanding in new and imaginative ways
Free Zone Scientology
Authors: Thomas Aled
Published: February 2021

In this novel academic study, Aled Thomas analyses modern issues surrounding boundaries and fluidity in contemporary Scientology. By using the Scientologist practice of ‘auditing’ as a case study, this book explores the ways in which new types of ‘Scientologies’ can emerge. The notion of Free Zone Scientology is characterised by its horizontal structure, in contrast to the vertical-hierarchy of the institutional Church of Scientology. With this in mind, Thomas explores the Free Zone as an example of a developing and fluid religion, directly addressing questions concerning authority, leadership and material objects.

This book, by maintaining a double-focus on the top-down hierarchy of the Church of Scientology and the horizontal-fluid nature of the Free Zone, breaks away from previous research on new religions, with have tended to focus either on new religions as indices of broad social processes, such as secularization or globalization, or as exemplars of exotic processes, such as charismatic authority and brainwashing. Instead, Thomas adopts auditing as a method of providing an in-depth case study of a new religion in transition and transformation in the 21st century. This opens the study of contemporary and new religions to a series of new questions around hybrid religions (sacred and secular), and acts as a framework for the study of similar movements formed in recent decades.
Jean-Jacques Lebel and French Happenings of the 1960s
Authors: Fredrickson Laurel Jean
Published: February 2021

Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel’s coming-of-age among Surrealists and his rupture with the movement, Laurel Jean Fredrickson focuses on two landmark happenings in this book: the first, “Funeral of the Thing of Tinguely” (1960), and the most scandalous, “120 Minutes dedicated to the Divine Marquis” (1966). This study illustrates the development and significance of French happenings in relation to cultural and political changes of the 1960s.

Research in Lebel’s archives, and others like the Archives nationale d’outre-mer are indispensable in the telling of this extraordinary historical and theoretical narrative. It illuminates sensitive, often veiled dimensions of postwar French society, from torture during the Algerian War, to government censorship, to the sexual politics of nudity in art. This volume shows how Lebel synthesized the lessons of Dada and surrealism and 1960s experimentalism, electrified by political radicalism, to participate in shaping the erotics and forms of revolution in May 1968.
General Principles as a Source of International Law
Authors: Saunders Imogen
Published: February 2021

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of an often neglected, misunderstood and maligned source of international law. Article 38(1)(c) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice sets out that the Court will apply the ‘general principles of law recognized by civilized nations’. This source is variously lauded and criticised: held up as a panacea to all international law woes or denied even normative validity. The contrasting views and treatments of General Principles stem from a lack of a model of the source itself. This book provides that model, offering a new and rigorous understanding of Article 38(1)(c) that will be of immense value to scholars and practitioners of international law alike.

At the heart of the book is a new tetrahedral framework of analysis – looking to function, type, methodology and jurisprudential legitimacy. Adopting an historical approach, the book traces the development of the source from 1875 to 2019, encompassing jurisprudence of the Permanent Court of International Justice and the International Court of Justice as well as cases from international criminal tribunals, the International Criminal Court and the World Trade Organization. The book argues for precision in identifying cases that actually apply General Principles, and builds upon these ‘proper use’ cases to advance a comprehensive model of General Principles, advocating for a global approach to the methodology of the source.

Volume 81 in the series Studies in International Law
Rebecca
Authors: White Patricia
Published: February 2021

The 1940 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic romance Rebecca begins by echoing the novel’s famous opening line, ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’ Patricia White takes the theme of return as her starting point for an exploration of the film’s enduring power. Drawing on archival research, she shows how the production and reception history of Rebecca, the first fruit of the collaboration between Hollywood movie producer David O. Selznick and British director Alfred Hitchcock, is marked by the traces of women’s contributions.

White provides a rich analysis of the film, addressing the gap between perception and reality that is constantly in play in the gothic romance, and highlighting the queer erotics circulating around ‘I’ (the heroine), Mrs Danvers, and the dead but ever-present Rebecca. Her discussion of the film’s afterlives emphasizes the lasting aesthetic impact of this dark masterpiece of memory and desire, while her attention to its remakes and sequels speaks to the ongoing relevance of its vision of gender and power.
Complications of endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach for management of craniopharyngiomas
Authors: Nguyen Thanh Xuan , Kieu Dinh Hung
Published: February 2021

Abstract

Introduction: Craniopharyngiomas have been classically removed by various transcranial approaches (craniotomy). Nowadays with the advance in endoscope transsphenoidal surgery, the extended transsphenoidal approach is the best choice for removal of suprasellar tumors and even intra-ventricular craniopharyngiomas. However, this is still challenging to surgeons in removing the tumors by this approach and the surgical complications could be occurred.

Material and Methods: From 7/2013 – 7/2017, 50 patients (39 adults and 11 children) underwent surgery for craniopharyngioma by nasal transsphenoidal approaches. The complications regarding the surgery was recorded.
Results: The early postoperative mortality was 2/50 (4%) caused by meningitis, intra-ventricular hemorrhage. The epidural hematoma was 1/50 (2%); Meningitis 6/50 (12%); Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage occurred in 3/50 (6%); Hypothalamus damage was 1/50 (2%), Visual deterioration was 3/50 (6%) Conclusion: Almost Craniopharyngioma have been removed successfully by endoscope transsphenoidal surgery. However, still the surgical complication rate was related high such as meningitis, visual deterioration, CFS leakage and postoperative mortality rate recorded.