bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
EVALUATION OF CLINICAL EFFICIENCY OF FOUR SCALES OF THE MODIFIED VERSION OF THE NEUROTIC DISORDERS QUESTIONNAIRE
Authors:   Grodno State Medical University, Grodno, Belarus, Tsidik L. I.
Published: March 2021

The neurotic disorders questionnaire was originally created on the basis of the classical test theory and does not meet the requirements of modern psychometrics. Within the framework of our research, this technique has been modified and consists of 13 scales, the psychometric analysis of which included all the technical stages of iterative analysis and scale modeling based on the Rush metric system. This article presents the results of clinical validation of four of them. Purpose of the study. To assess the clinical effectiveness of the scales of coping deficit, anankasticity, the scale of impulsivity and addictive reactions, as well as the scale of general personal disorganization of the modified version of the questionnaire of neurotic disorders. Material and methods. 296 people were examined. Among them, 167 are women and 129 are men. Statistical methods of the study are factor analysis of standardized residuals, ROC analysis, correlation analysis. Results: The studied scales are homogeneous in their structure. Using the ROC-analysis, high and moderate differentiating properties of the scales were revealed, cutoff values were calculated, which were the criteria for interpretation. Correlation analysis of the total indicator revealed statistically significant correlations between the studied scales and the MMPI scores, the QIDS-SR16 questionnaire, and the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HADS). Conclusions: The scales of coping deficit, anankasticity, the scale of impulsivity and addictive reactions, as well as the scale of general personal disorganization of the modified version of the neurotic disorders questionnaire are clinically valid and can be used to solve various practical problems.
Unimolecular, bimolecular and intramolecular hydrolysis mechanisms of 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucopyranoside
Authors: Alhifthi Amani , Williams Spencer
Published: March 2021

1,2-trans-Glycosides hydrolyze through different mechanisms at different pH values, but systematic studies are lacking. Here we report the pH-rate constant profile for the hydrolysis of 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside. An inverse kinetic isotope effect of k(H3O+)/k(D3O+ = 0.65 in the acidic region indicates that the mechanism requires the formation of the conjugate acid of the substrate for the reaction to proceed, with heterolytic cleavage of the glycosidic C-O bond. Reactions in the pH-independent region exhibit general catalysis with a single proton in flight, a normal solvent isotope effect of kH/kD = 1.5, and when extrapolated to zero buffer concentration show a small solvent isotope effect k(H2O)/k(D2O) = 1.1, consistent with water attack through a dissociative mechanism. In the basic region, solvolysis in 18O-labelled water and H2O/MeOH mixtures allowed detection of bimolecular hydrolysis and neighboring group participation, with a minor contribution of nucleophilic aromatic substitution. Under mildly basic conditions, a bimolecular concerted mechanism is implicated through an inverse solvent isotope effect of k(HO–)/k(DO–) = 0.5 and a strongly negative entropy of activation (DS‡ = –13.6 cal mol–1 K–1). Finally, at high pH, an inverse solvent isotope effect of k(HO–)/k(DO–) = 0.6 indicates that the formation of 1,2-anhydrosugar is the rate determining step.
Molecular Structure and Functional Elucidation of IF-3 Protein of Chloroflexus Aurantiacus Involved in Protein Biosynthesis: An In-Silico Approach
Authors: Saikat Abu Saim Mohammad
Published: March 2021

Chloroflexus aurantiacus is a thermophilic bacterium that produces a multitude of proteins within its genome. Bioinformatics strategies can facilitate comprehending this organism through functional and structural interpretation assessments. This study aimed to allocate the structure and function through an in-silico approach required for bacterial protein biosynthesis. This in-silico viewpoint provides copious properties, including the physicochemical properties, subcellular location, three-dimensional structure, protein-protein interactions, and functional elucidation of the protein (WP_012256288.1). The STRING program is utilized for the explication of protein-protein interactions. The in-silico investigation documented the protein's hydrophilic nature with predominantly alpha (α) helices in its secondary structure. The tertiary-structure model of the protein has been shown to exhibit reasonably high consistency based on various quality assessment methods. The functional interpretation suggested that the protein can act as a translation initiation factor, a protein required for translation and protein biosynthesis. Protein-protein interactions also demonstrated high credence that the protein interconnected with 30S ribosomal subunit involved in protein synthesis. This study is bioinformatically examined that the protein (WP_012256288.1) is affiliated in protein biosynthesis as a translation initiation factor IF-3 of C. aurantiacus.
Combining Evolutionary Conservation and Quantum Topological Analyses to Determine QM Subsystems for Biomolecular QM/MM Simulations
Authors: Hix Mark A. , Leddin Emmett M. , Cisneros G. Andres
Published: March 2021

We present an approach that combines protein sequence/structure evolution and electron localization function (ELF) analyses. The combination of these two analysis allows the determination of whether a residue needs to be included in the QM subsystem, or can be represented by the MM environment. We have applied this approach on two systems previously investigated by QM/MM simulations, 4{oxalocrotonate tautomerase (4OT), and ten-eleven translocation-2 (TET2), that provide examples where fragments may or may not need to be included in the QM subsystem. Subsequently, we present the use of this approach to determine the appropriate QM subsystem to calculate the minimum energy path (MEP) for the reaction catalyzed by human DNA polymerase lambda? with a third cation in the active site.
Prospective randomized double blind study for determining the efficacy of Sellick’s maneuver for preventing gastric distension during mask ventilation
Authors: Arun Prasad T  , Yachendra V S G
Published: March 2021

Sellick’s maneuver is a technique in which pressure is applied over the cricoid cartilage to occlude the upper part of esophagus which passes behind it. It is used to prevent regurgitation of gastric and esophageal contents and gastric distension during intubation and mask ventilation. This research is conducted to determine the efficacy of Sellick's maneuver in preventing gastric distension during mask ventilation using ultrasound. Sixty patients posted for elective surgery were selected and randomly allocated to a group receiving Sellick's Maneuver (SM) or No Sellick's Maneuver (NSM). Patients of both groups had their gastric antral cross sectional area (CSA) measured using ultrasound before induction of anesthesia and after intubation and mask ventilation. The SM group was intubated after application of Sellick's maneuver. Gastric volume was then calculated from the gastric antral CSA. Changes in gastric volume among SM and NSM group were assessed to determine whether Sellick's maneuver is effective in preventing gastric distension. Changes in gastric antral CSA and gastric volume before anesthesia induction and post-intubation is lower in the SM group as compared to the NSM group. Sellick's Maneuver is effective in preventing gastric distension.
Acute toxicity studies of an novel natural polymer vigna mungo in swiss albino rats
Authors: Krishnaveni Manubolu  , Sreenivasulu Munna  , Chandrasekhar Kothapalli Bonnoth
Published: March 2021

The aim of the present research is to investigate acute toxicity profiling of isolated Vigna mungo new natural polymer. Safety administration is the primitive criterion for any drug substance. To explore the safety and toxicity profiling of the novel polymer, this study was carried out. Vigna mungo novel polymer was isolated from the pulverised seeds of Vigna mungo which is part and parcel of our diet. This polymer is obtained using a non-solvent extraction method using acetone. Acute toxicity studies were performed according to the OECD guidelines 420. In this, the selected animal model is Swiss albino rats, grouped into control and test containing each three animals. 2000 mg/kg of Vigna mungo polymer was administered to a test group and did not produced any abnormalities and behavioural changes. Furthermore, histopathological studies, body weight, haematological parameters did not presented abnormal values. The observations found 2000mg/kg of a dose of the polymer did not cause lethality and death of any animal till 14 days of a period. It was concluded that Vigna mungo novel polymer is safe to administer up to 2000mg/kg dose. Hence, the novel Vigna mungo polymer is safer for therapeutic use in pharmaceutical formulations.
Archeozoological Characteristics of the Shchapova 2 Paleolithic Site in Irkutsk
Authors:   V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Malikov D. G. ,   Irkutsk State University, Sizova V. V. ,   Institute of the Earth’s Crust SB RAS,   Irkutsk State University, Berdnikova N. E. ,   Irkutsk State University, Berdnikov I. M. ,   Irkutsk State University, Lokhov D. N. ,   Irkutsk State University
Published: March 2021

The paper presents the detailed results of the archaeozoological study of the large mammals from the Shchapova 2 Upper Paleolithic site located in Irkutsk. Excavations in 2019 revealed four conditionally defined horizons with archaeological and faunal material; within the studied area subaerial sediments of deluvial origin were uncovered. Layers 3 and 4 were attributed to the Karginian period (MIS 3), layer 2 to the Early Sartanian period (MIS 2), layer 1 to the Holocene (MIS 1). The largest number of bone remains was obtained from layer 4. Altogether we recognized ten taxa: Spermophilus sp., Panthera spelaea, Mammuthus primigenius, Equus sp., Coelodonta antiquitatis, Cervus elaphus, Megaloceros giganteus, Alces alces, Rangifer tarandus, Bison priscus. The species composition of Shchapova 2 site is characteristic of the Late Pleistocene of region with a predominance of horse and steppe bison, diversity of cervids and presence of woolly mammoth and rhinoceros. Most of the bones have only slightly weathered surfaces. It indicates that the bulk of the bone remains were only exposed for a short time on the surface or in the soil prior to deeper burial. The analysis of the faunal material suggests that the accumulation of bones from layers 3 and 4 took place in the hunter camp. The subsistence strategy was based primarily on two game animals: horse and steppe bison. Horses and steppe bison were killed in the immediate vicinity of the site. Sometimes red deer and moose were hunted from remote areas. Large parts of horse and steppe bison carcasses were transported from a kill and initial butchering site to a residential and consumption site. Most likely the complete and unprocessed reindeer carcasses were brought to the camp. Reindeer skull fragments found in the layer 4 indicate that the Shchapova 2 site most likely was seasonally occupied during late autumn or winter. However, due to the small amount of bones these data are preliminary. The fauna from the Upper Paleolithic site Shchapova 2 is indicative of tundra-steppe. The presence of red deer and moose remains suggests the forest in the vicinity of the site, probably represented by floodplain forests.
Electromechanical transmission of tracked machine energy characteristics study
Authors: Kuznetsova V. N. , Romanenko R. V.
Published: March 2021

Introduction.The use of an electromechanical transmission in the design of a tracked vehicle allows an increase in the complex indicator of mobility, an increase in the range, fuel efficiency, maximum speed, a decrease in acceleration time, etc. The improvement of these indicators is achieved mainly due to the different performance characteristics of the internal combustion engine and the energy characteristics of electrical machines. The latter fact makes it possible to ensure the operation of the power plant of the tracked vehicle in such a way as to avoid unfavorable operating modes of both the internal combustion engine and the elements of the electromechanical transmission (a generator, a traction electric motor, an energy storage) from the point of view of energy efficiency, and to realize the high efficiency of the entire system.

Research methods. To improve the mobility and implement a rational strategy for electromechanical transmission control, it is necessary to have an idea of the effective modes of operation of the main elements of the power plant. As a way to solve this problem it is proposed to study the energy characteristics of the main elements of an electromechanical transmission using the developed mathematical model for various modes of movement of a tracked vehicle.

Results.Modeling the motion of a tracked vehicle with an electromechanical transmission makes it possible, in addition to determining the transmission parameters, to formulate preliminary requirements for its characteristics.

Discussion and conclusion. To solve these problems, it is necessary to simulate the process of movement of a tracked vehicle, taking into account the initial data that are adequate to real operating conditions.
Geonics (geomimetics) and search for optimal solutions in building materials science
Authors: Lesovik V. S. , Sheremet A. А. , Chulkova I. L. , Zhuravleva A. E.
Published: March 2021

Introduction. Methodological approaches and validation of the emergence of a new transdisciplinary area -geonics, which is considered as the art of applying knowledge of the inorganic world, are presented.

Materials and methods. The concept of technogenic metasomatism as a stage in the evolution of building materials, characterized by the adaptation of the composite to changing conditions is formulated. The Law of affinity of structures, which consists in the selection of raw materials for a composite with similar physical and mechanical characteristics, is described.

Results. The examples of non-traditional raw materials use in the areas of construction materials science (intelligent composites, restoration mixtures) and architecture (the building of the Belarusian Potash Company in Belarus, the 'Reflection of the mineral’ building in Japan, the design concept of the monument to the Kursk magnetic anomaly) are presented.

Discussion and conclusions. It is proved that the development of a transdisciplinary approach to geonics will improve the comfort of human stay in the environment.
Theoretical study of interaction process of cutter for milling working equipment of excavator with soil
Authors: Kuznetsov I. S.
Published: March 2021

Introduction.The pipeline transport of the Russian Federation makes up a significant share in the economy of our country. However, the service life of many pipelines at the moment is several decades. In this regard, the number of emergency situations is increasing. Moreover, the degree of their impact on infrastructure and the environment is increasing from year to year. It is important to solve the problem of timely repair of the pipeline system using modern and effective methods. The use of mechanization means can significantly reduce the time of repair work and their cost.

Materials and methods. As a result of the research, a mathematical model of the interaction of the cutter of the milling working equipment of a hydraulic excavator with the excavated soil has been developed. It takes into account the physical and mechanical properties of the soil and the speed of penetration of the cutter at the point of contact with the soil.

Results.The dependence is obtained, which allows determining the force of penetration of the cutter of the milling working equipment into the soil.

Discussion and conclusions. It is recommended to use the results of the performed theoretical studies for calculating the design and operating parameters in the design and creation of milling working equipment.
Transit ridership survey by analysis validation of electronic pass tickets
Authors: Fadeev A. I. , Alhusseini S.
Published: March 2021

Introduction.The methods used today for determining the demand on public transport come with a big waste of time, resources and a need for great effort. In this regard, a special perspective is to study the transit demand based on the collection, integration and analysis of large and diverse data, which were generated by various sources of human life: Urban computing, Big data, Internet of things.

Materials and methods.This article presents a method for determining (restoring) the correspondence of transit passengers by means of intelligent analysis of validation operations data of electronic travel tickets (smart card, transport card, magnetic card, mobile phone or other electronic devices (electronic gadgets)), which are recorded in the automated transportation management system during validation.

Results.The algorithm for calculating passenger correspondence is implemented in a computer program using the relational DBMS MS SQL Server. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm was verified by calculating the passenger correspondence of public transport in the city of Krasnoyarsk (Russia).

Discussion and conclusion. The described method for calculating passenger flows, based on analyzing the data of validation operations of electronic tickets and data from the transit dispatch control system, makes possible to determine the route and passengers correspondence and, to carry out an objective assessment of the demand for public transport and the technical and operational indicators of the transit system.
Socio-demographic Determinant of Money Script Pattern of Undergraduates of University of Lagos.
Authors: Atiri Sylvester Ororume , Bello Similoluwa Titilayo
Published: March 2021

The study tried to determine the money script pattern of undergraduate students of the  university of Lagos, with the aim of examining the influence of socio-demographic factors (that is; sex, age, educational level marital status, current socio-economic status and childhood socio-economic status) on their money script pattern. The study involved a cross-sectional survey of 385 undergraduates. One standardized psychological instrument; the Klontz-Money Script Inventory (KMSI), was used to elicit data from the participants. The results show that sex had a significant influence on the money script pattern of two out of the four types of money scripts, that is (Money worship script)  F (1,36) = 7.74, P<.05 and (Money status script) F (1,36) = 6.32, P<.05. While the other two had no significant influence on the money script pattern of participants, that is, (Money Avoidance script) F (1,36) = 1.83, P>.05 and (Money vigilance script) F (1,36) = 0.52, P>.05. The other socio-demographic factors; marital status, age, educational level current socio-economic status and childhood socio-economic status did not significantly influence the money script pattern of the participants. The study concluded that the sex of participants to an extent, influences the money script pattern of undergraduates and educational level, marital status, age, current socio-economic and childhood socio-economic status have no influence on the money script pattern of undergraduates.
Pengaruh Relaxation Music Therapy (RMT) Pada Kecemasan Akademik
Authors: Sutja Akmal , Yaksa Rully Andi
Published: March 2021

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of relaxation music therapy (RMT) to reduce academic anxiety before carrying out the final academic exam. The type of this research is Pre-Experiment with one group pretest-posttest design. The subjects in this study were 51 final year students preparing for their final academic examinations at Universitas Jambi, using purposive sampling. The instrument used was an anxiety scale. Data analysis used nonparametric statistical techniques using the Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test and the Rasch Model. The results show that there is an effect of RMT to reduce academic anxiety of final year students at Universitas Jambi. Furthermore, the ability of students to respond to the pretest was still in anxious condition which resulted in the results of the pretest being still moderate (mean measure = 0.04 logit). In contrast, when RMT has been given treatment, the student's ability to respond to the posttest has become low (mean measure = -0.49 logit). These findings could be used by counselors to reduce academic anxiety of final year students at the University and the implications of guidance and counseling are discussed further.
Feminist conversation analysis
Authors: Tennent Emma , Weatherall Ann
Published: March 2021

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Design and Heat Load Analysis of a 12 MW HTS Wind Power Generator Module Employing a Brushless HTS Exciter
Authors: Sung HJ , Badcock Rodney , Jiang Zhenan , Choi J , Park M , Yu IK
Published: March 2021

Brushless high-temperature superconducting (HTS) flux pump exciters, which enable large currents to be injected into a superconducting circuit without requiring a power supply, slip ring, and current leads, are promising candidates for HTS rotating machine application. This paper outlines the design and heat load analysis of a 12-MW HTS wind power generator module employing a brushless HTS exciter. The 12-MW HTS generator module and the HTS exciter were simulated using the 3-D finite element method. The module design of the generator was focused on reducing the heat load and inductance per rotor pole for application of an HTS exciter. A highly permeable ferromagnetic material was used to increase the magnetic flux density incident on the HTS stator wire of the exciter, even with a large radial gap between the rotor and the stator, and hence increase the injected current. Based on the electromagnetic simulations, the design of the module was confirmed, and the iron loss of the exciter was calculated. Then, the conduction and radiation heat loads were simulated. The induced dc current value and ramping time of the DC current at the HTS stator wire of the exciter were calculated. The detailed results of the module with the HTS exciter were discussed, and the results obtained in this paper are useful in designing large-scale HTS generators.

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Multi-unit turns that begin with a resaying of a prior speaker's turn
Authors: Marian K Skogmyr , Malabarba T , Weatherall Ann
Published: March 2021

© 2021 The Authors This study examines the interactional workings of multi-unit turns that have an initial turn-constructional unit that re-says the immediately prior single-unit turn produced by another speaker. Based on cases in English, Portuguese, and French, our analysis shows that resayings do confirming and also 1) index the speaker's rights over the propositional component of the words, and 2) support the extension of the turn. In addition to confirming, resayings thus claim rights to what has been said and demonstrate an entitlement to say more. The resayings thereby have both a retrospective and prospective function, the latter being closely related to turn-taking management. Our findings contribute to the existing literature on other-repeats by considering what these do in a multi-unit turn environment.
Evolving heuristics for Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Time Windows using genetic programming
Authors: Jacobsen-Grocott Josiah , Mei Yi , Chen Gang , Zhang Mengjie
Published: March 2021

Dynamic vehicle routing problem with time windows is an important combinatorial optimisation problem in many real-world applications. The most challenging part of the problem is to make real-time decisions (i.e. whether to accept the newly arrived service requests or not) during the execution of the routes. It is hardly applicable to use the optimisation methods such as mathematical programming and evolutionary algorithms that are competitive for static problems, since they are usually time-consuming, and cannot give real-time responses. In this paper, we consider solving this problem using heuristics. A heuristic gradually builds a solution by adding the requests to the end of the route one by one. This way, it can take advantage of the latest information when making the next decision, and give immediate response. In this paper, we propose a meta-algorithm to generate a solution given any heuristic. The meta-algorithm maintains a set of routes throughout the scheduling horizon. Whenever a new request arrives, it tries to re-generate new routes to include the new request by the heuristic. It accepts the new request if successful, and reject otherwise. Then we manually designed several heuristics, and proposed a genetic programming-based hyper-heuristic to automatically evolve heuristics. The results showed that the heuristics evolved by genetic programming significantly outperformed the manually designed heuristics.

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Design of a 12-MW HTS Wind Power Generator Including a Flux Pump Exciter
Authors: Sung HJ , Badcock Rodney , Go BS , Park M , Yu IK , Jiang Zhenan
Published: March 2021

© 2016 IEEE. A flux pump (FP) exciter injects dc current into the higherature superconducting (HTS) field coils of an HTS rotating machine without a slip ring and current leads. When designing a large-scale HTS generator with integrated FP exciter, the coil inductance, field current, and time constant need to be optimized for better performance of the machine. In this paper, a 12-MW HTS wind power generator with integrated FP exciter was designed. The essential parameters of a 12-MW HTS generator were optimized using the Taguchi method, targeting the minimization of weight and volume of the generator, the length of HTS wire, and the inductance. In particular, the FP exciter was adopted for supplying dc current to the HTS field coils without the power supply and the slip ring. The magnetic field distribution was analyzed using the 3-D finite-element method. The induced dc current and charging and discharging times of the FP exciter were compared with the metal current leads, for confirmation of the effectiveness of the FP exciter. The detailed results of the HTS generator design were discussed in detail.
Emotions in action: Telephone-mediated dispute resolution
Authors: Weatherall Ann , Stubbe M
Published: March 2021

© 2014 The British Psychological Society. The present study investigated emotions as they were made visible and responded to in a particular institutional setting. Following discursive psychology the aim was to provide a rigorous account of emotion as observable in talk-in-interaction. Using conversation analysis a focus was on the temporality of emotion in turns of talk and over the course of an interaction. Data were recordings and transcriptions of calls to a dispute resolution service for consumers' problems with electricity and gas. The analysis identified systematic practices callers' use for describing and doing upset. Call-takers rarely displayed emotion in the body of the calls and typically responded to institutionally relevant aspects of the callers' troubles and not the emotional ones. In the absence of any kind of endorsement of the callers' emotional stance, emotionality could escalate. Emotional affiliation regularly occurred at the end of the calls. The escalation of emotion in the absence of its endorsement and the occurrence of emotional affiliation at call-closing evidences a sequential property of emotion that has been largely overlooked.
Sexism in Language and Talk-in-Interaction
Authors: Weatherall Ann
Published: March 2021

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Feminists have long recognised important relationships between language and a gendered social order that disadvantages women. At the establishment of gender and language as a field of academic inquiry, work documented sexism in language—the ways words were used to ignore, narrowly define, or demean women. Using feminist conversation analysis, this article further develops that early work by considering recorded instances of gender and sexism in talk. A broad notion of “gender trouble” was used to identify 50 relevant cases from everyday interactions. Two sexist language issues that were evident in the collection are presented in this article—the derogation of women and participants’ orientations to gender inclusiveness. The analysis contributes to a better understanding of sexism in language by examining how instances of it unfold over turns of talk. The study is discussed with respect to the methodological tensions inherent in feminist conversation analysis.
Speakers formulating their talk as interruptive
Authors: Weatherall Ann , Edmonds DM
Published: March 2021

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Interruption has predominantly been conceptualised as a violation of normative turn-taking practices and speakership rights. The present study further develops a broader perspective by showing that speakers can orient to matters of sequential organisation, other than turn-taking, when they claim their own talk is interruptive. Drawing from a larger collection of 72 cases where explicit claims to interruption were made, this paper uses conversation analysis to examine a subset of 20 instances where speakers specifically described what they were doing was interruption. Our target phenomenon was expressions such as “I want to interrupt” and “apologise for interrupting”. Speakers can prospectively mark some upcoming talk as interruptive and they can also retrospectively cast what they have just said as an interruption. Either way, the observably relevant disruption was not to turn-taking but to other sequences of action, namely the proper order of activities, the organisation of topics and adjacency pairs. Furthermore, by focusing on cases from institutional settings we propose that by explicitly claiming one's own talk as interruptive participants make relevant membership categories and their associated deontic responsibilities for the progression of activities within institutional settings.
‘I need to get some details first’: Record keeping as a potential barrier to effective complaint-call management
Authors: Weatherall Ann
Published: March 2021

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“I’m Going to Ask You a Very Strange Question”: A Conversation Analytic Case Study of the Miracle Technique in Solution-Based Therapy
Authors: Weatherall Ann , Gibson M
Published: March 2021

© Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article reports on a conversation analytic case study of the miracle technique as it is used in a solution focused therapeutic interview. It shows and describes the interactional structures and practices that are used to deliver the theoretical principles of the approach. An announcement by the therapist that a strange question would be asked marked the launch of the technique. Following the question announcement the therapist used a miracle story to provide the client with requisite background knowledge to answer the question. The question asked the client how she would be able to tell her problem had been miraculously solved. The therapist was able to progress the interview in therapeutically relevant ways by using repeats and modified repeats of the client’s responses to progress the interview. This study contributes to a better understanding of how the miracle technique is actually accomplished providing a sound empirical basis for future research and training using the approach.
Constituting agency in the delivery of telephone-mediated victim support
Authors: Weatherall Ann
Published: March 2021

© 2020, © 2020 Taylor & Francis. In telephone helpline interactions, a practical problem for participants is how to advance a relevant course of action about what can be done within the institution’s remit that may not be what a caller asks for or needs. This study investigates how call-takers progress delivering support for callers ringing a service for victims of crime and trauma. It focuses on how actions are advanced by the call-taker using linguistic formats that can be broadly characterised as directive-commissive speech acts. The research asks how agency is constituted through the linguistic format parties’ use to display what can be done and who decides. Using conversation analysis to examine 80 cases where the delivery of support is progressed, the results show that subtle morpho-syntactic variation in the format of interrogatives (i.e., ‘Did you want to,’ ‘Do you want to’) display orientations to who can do or decide upon a future course of action. Evidence is presented that the ‘did you form’ tilts the agency toward the Self as something she can progress whereas the ‘do you’ format tilts the balance toward the Other to decide. More obviously, the actions can be formulated in terms of the Self committing to an action (e.g., ‘I’ll pop you through’) or as clearly deferring to the Other to decide (e.g., ‘would you like me to’). This study furthers the general intellectual project of discursive psychology by providing an empirical demonstration of the way classic questions about the nature of subjectivity and individual agency can be re-specified as shared practices for accomplishing action in social interaction.
Many-objective genetic programming for job-shop scheduling
Authors: Masood Atiya , Mei Yi , Chen Gang , Zhang Mengjie
Published: March 2021

In Job Shop Scheduling (JSS) problems, there are usually many conflicting objectives to consider, such as the makespan, mean flowtime, maximal tardiness, number of tardy jobs, etc. Most studies considered these objectives separately or aggregated them into a single objective (fitness function) and treat the problem as a single-objective optimization. Very few studies attempted to solve the multi-objective JSS with two or three objectives, not to mention the many-objective JSS with more than three objectives. In this paper, we investigate the many-objective JSS, which takes all the objectives into account. On the other hand, dispatching rules have been widely used in JSS due to its flexibility, scalability and quick response in dynamic environment. In this paper, we focus on evolving a set of trade-off dispatching rules for many-objective JSS, which can generate non-dominated schedules given any unseen instance. To this end, a new hybridized algorithm that combines Genetic Programming (GP) and NSGA-III is proposed. The experimental results demonstrates the efficacy of the newly proposed algorithm on the tested job-shop benchmark instances.

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Pranking in children's helpline calls
Authors: Weatherall Ann , Danby S , Osvaldsson K , Cromdal J , Emmison M
Published: March 2021

© 2016 The Australian Linguistics Society. Pranking can be understood as challenging a normative social order. One environment where pranking occurs is in institutional interaction. The present study examines a sample of pranking calls to telephone helplines for children and young people. Some cases had been posted on YouTube by the person doing the pranking; others were from a subcollection of possible pranks, extracted from a larger corpus of Australian children's counselling helpline calls. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis we aim to understand the inferential and sequential resources involved in pranking within telephone-mediated counselling services for children and youth. Our analysis shows pranksters know the norms of counselling helplines by their practices employed for subverting them. YouTube pranksters exploit next turns of talk to retrospectively cast what the counsellor has just said as a possible challenge to the perception of the call as a normal counselling one. One practice evident in both sources was the setting up of provocative traps to break a linguistic taboo. This detailed study of pranking in interaction provides documentary evidence of its idiosyncratic yet patterned local accomplishment in telephone-mediated counselling services aimed at children and youth.
Responding to Client Laughter as Therapeutic Actions in Practice
Authors: Pomeroy L , Weatherall Ann
Published: March 2021

© Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The widely presumed links between laughter and humour have raised questions about their roles in psychotherapeutic interactions. This study uses conversation analysis to explore client-initiated laughter and different kinds of responses to it. By examining sequences leading up to and following client laughter, we show two distinctive therapeutic actions that are accomplished. When particular lines of therapeutic questioning are being pursued, silence following client laughter functions to prompt further client talk. Client laughter can also build rapport by providing an opportunity for therapists to display that they also find something laughable. Both identified actions support important therapeutic work.
"But whose side are you on?” Doing being independent in telephone‐mediated dispute resolution
Authors: Weatherall Ann
Published: March 2021

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Discursive psychology and feminism
Authors: Weatherall Ann
Published: March 2021

This appraisal highlights the productive engagement between feminism and discursive psychology (DP). It discusses some of the confluence and tensions between DP and feminism. The two share critical perspectives on science and psychology, a concern with prejudice, and have ideas in common about the constructed nature of social categories, such as gender. One difficulty arises from the relativism associated with the post-structural theoretical underpinnings of DP, which can be understood as politically paralyzing. Another problem comes from an endorsement of a conversation analytic mentality, where identity categories such as gender can only be legitimately used in an analysis when participants' orient to their relevance. The high-profile debates and literature in DP shows it has made a notable contribution to social psychology and its influence can also be found in other areas. A particular influence of DP highlighted in the present appraisal is on gender and language research. © 2011 The British Psychological Society.
Experimental human pneumococcal colonization in older adults is feasible and safe, not immunogenic
Authors: Adler H , German EL , Mitsi E , Nikolaou E , Pojar S , Hales Caroline , Robinson R , Connor V , Hill H , Hyder-Wright AD , Lazarova L , Lowe C , Smith EL , Wheeler I , Zaidi SR , Jochems SP , Loukov D , Reiné J , Solórzano-Gonzalez C , de Gorguette d'Argoeuves P , Jones T , Goldblatt D , Chen T , Aston SJ , French N , Collins AM , Gordon SB , Ferreira DM , Rylance J
Published: March 2021

Rationale: Pneumococcal colonization is key to the pathogenesis of invasive disease but is also immunogenic in young adults, protecting against recolonization. Colonization is rarely detected in older adults, despite high rates of pneumococcal disease. Objectives: To establish experimental human pneumococcal colonization in healthy adults aged 50-84 years, to measure the immune response to pneumococcal challenge, and to assess the protective effect of prior colonization against autologous strain rechallenge. Methods: Sixty-four participants were inoculated with Streptococcus pneumoniae (serotype 6B; 80,000 cfu in each nostril). Colonization was determined by bacterial culture of nasal wash, and humoral immune responses were assessed by anticapsular and antiprotein IgG concentrations. Measurements and Main Results: Experimental colonization was established in 39% of participants (25/64) with no adverse events. Colonization occurred in 47% (9/19) of participants aged 50-59 compared with 21% (3/14) in those aged >70 years. Previous pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination did not protect against colonization. Colonization did not confer serotypespecific immune boosting, with a geometric mean titer (95% confidence interval) of 2.7 mg/ml (1.9-3.8) before the challenge versus 3.0 (1.9-4.7) 4 weeks after colonization (P = 0.53). Furthermore, pneumococcal challenge without colonization led to a drop in specific antibody concentrations from 2.8 mg/ml (2.0-3.9) to 2.2 mg/ml (1.6-3.0) after the challenge (P = 0.006). Antiprotein antibody concentrations increased after successful colonization. Rechallenge with the same strain after a median of 8.5 months (interquartile range, 6.7-10.1) led to recolonization in 5/16 (31%). Conclusions: In older adults, experimental pneumococcal colonization is feasible and safe but demonstrates different immunological outcomes compared with younger adults in previous studies.
ARC Extreme research: How prepared aged care facilities are to care for older adults with extreme obesity
Authors: Hales Caroline , Amankwaa Isaac , Gary Lesley , Rook Mary
Published: March 2021

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Teknik Mother Berbantuan Channel Youtube untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Siswa Menulis Konjungsi Kausalitas
Authors: Nyamat Nyamat
Published: March 2021

Penelitian pembelajaran teknik Mother berbantuan chanel YouTube ini diharapkan mampu meningkatkan keterampilan menulis konjungsi kausalitas pada teks eksplanasi dan teks tanggapan siswa Sekolah Menengah Pertama Negeri 3 Pati, Jawa Tengah. Istilah Mother mengacu pada dua hal, pertama berarti ibu sedang yang kedua dari akronim Model, Observasi, Tulis, Hasilkan, Evaluasi, dan Revisi. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan pembelajaran dengan model ADDIE menurut Dick dan Carey (1996) meliputi Analysis (melakukan analisis kebutuhan siswa pada penulisan konjungsi kausalitas), Design (perancangan materi ajar dengan teknik Mother dan validasi materi ajar). Develop (pengembangan yakni uji coba penggunaan materi ajar), Implement (penerapan teknik Mother), dan Evaluate (merevisi penulisan konjungsi kausalitas teks siswa di kelas yang dijadikan subjek penelitian). Subjek penelitian ini ada dua kelas yakni kelas VIII A yang terdiri atas 32 siswa serta kelas IX J sejumlah 27 siswa, jadi keseluruhan subjek penelitian ini 59 siswa. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan 93% tuntas secara kelompok dan 92% tuntas secara individual.
Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran Permainan Edukatif Cari Kata Berbasis Android untuk Menstimulasi Pembelajaran HOTS
Authors: Gustina Gustina
Published: March 2021

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh penggunaan media pembelajaran permainan edukatif berbasis android masih jarang dijumpai, padahal diketahui pembelajaran abad ke-21 model pembelajaran dan media pembelajaran tidak terbatas, dan dilakukan dengan bantuan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi. Siswa dituntut untuk berpikir kritis dan kreatif dalam menyelesaikan masalah pada situasi baru (HOTS). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan media pembelajaran permainan edukatif Cari Kata berbasis android menstimulasi pembelajaran HOTS pada mata pelajaran IPS.  Jenis Penelitian adalah penelitian pengembangan dengan model 4-D. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Sekolah Dasar Negeri 54 Payakumbuh dengan subjek siswa kelas VI. Hasil yang diperoleh dari penelitian ini adalah permainan edukatif cari kata berbasis android, dapat meningkatkan hasil  belajar peserta didik. Hasil uji validitas media pembelajaran oleh ahli media, ahli materi ,dan  ahli bahasa diperoleh hasil sangat baik. Uji praktikalitas media penilaian oleh 25 siswa , dan penilaian oleh orang tua siswa diperoleh hasil sangat baik. Uji efektivitas media pembelajaran menunjukkan hasil belajar siswa mengalami peningkatan. Berdasarkan hasil tersebut, disimpulkan media pembelajaran permainan edukatif cari kata yang dikembangkan dapat menstimulasi pembelajaran HOTS.
СOMPLEX WATER-RESOURCE SYSTEMS. FEATURES OF OPERATION, RELIABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Authors:   Timirâzevskaâ selʹskohozâjstvennaâ akademiâ, KLEPOV V. I.
Published: March 2021

Water-resource systems have become as much a reality as electric power, transport, communication systems and other large man-made systems. The concept of water resource systems (WRS) refers primarily to a hydraulically connected set of sources and means of managing and delivering water resources to water consumers and water users. The world experience shows that the largest WRS use river runoff as a source of water resources; however, as our research has shown, the future belongs to WRS which are based on the joint management of surface and underground water resources. Despite the significant similarity in the processes of creating and managing large man-made systems, WRS have a number of features that require solving specific problems. First of all, the strategy for the development and management of WRS should take into account the variability of river flow, as well as the fact that these systems are one of the most important elements of the environment. It is these factors that underlie the solution of the problem of the WRS guaranteed output and the reliability of the functioning of these systems on the basis of the calculated availability of their guaranteed to the socio-economic sphere and guaranteed satisfaction of the environmental requirements which is one of the principles of sustainable economic development.
STUDIES OF MUDFLOWS IN THE BEZENGI GORGE (CENTRAL CAUCASUS, KABARDINO-BALKAR REPUBLIC):DYNAMICS, CONSEQUENCES
Authors:   Timirâzevskaâ selʹskohozâjstvennaâ akademiâ, BATCHAEV I. I. , ANAEV M. T.
Published: March 2021

There are presented the results of the study of mudflows in the upper reaches of the Bezengi gorge (the basin of the Cherek Bezengiysky river, above the rural settlement of Bezengi) where villages pose the greatest threat to the lives of people and economic objects. 12 watercourses with the highest frequency of mudslides were identified with a catchment area of which is 202.5 km2. The most dangerous in terms of descending frequency and fl ow power are the Zhyrchy-Suu, Bekkam-Suu and Urel-Suu streams, mudflows from which regularly fill up the dirt road to the Bezengi alpine camp and hayfields. The results of field research data of the mudflows that came in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2017 years on the Zhyrchy-Suu, Urel-Suu and Bekkam-Suu streams and a comparative characteristic with the data of mudflows descending the same streams on July 9, 2020 are given in the work. The tendency of activation of mudflow processes in this area is determined and recommendations are given for anti-mudflow protection of the road leading to the Bezengi alpine camp.