bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
App-Based Investment Platform and Investment Decision Making: A Study of Retail Investor Behavior in Indonesia
Authors: Tahir Annisa Nuraini , Danarsari Dwi Nastiti
Published: July 2023

The significant growth of retail investors in Indonesia between 2020 and 2022 is partly attributable to technological advancements that have made it easier to access investments through a variety of applications. Previous studies in developing nations like Indonesia, India, and Pakistan suggested that perception biases have influence on retail investor decision making. However, given the capabilities of current investing applications like the display of historical stock/mutual fund price data, retail investors should ideally be able to make more rational investment decisions. This study employs partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine the role of overconfidence, representativeness, and loss aversion biases that affect rational investment decision making. As an application feature, historical price data serves as the moderating variable of the interaction between them. The result of this study indicates that overconfidence influences rational investment decision making in a positive and significant manner, while representativeness and loss aversion do not have a significant effect. Price historical data as application feature also does not have significant effect in moderating the relationship between them.
Prospecção de Cursos em Saúde Digital no Brasil
Authors: Modesto Luzineide de Jesus Bezerra , Oliveira Cláudia Alfaia Pureza , Gaspar Juliano de Souza , Ferlini Aline , Souza Andréia Cristina de , Matos Robson Willian de Melo , Oliveira Thais Lucena de , Neves Gabriella Nunes , Zinader Juliana Pereira de Souza , Braga Renata Dutra , Santos Silvana de Lima Vieira dos
Published: July 2023

Introdução: Dentre as 7 (sete) prioridades para a implementação da Visão de Saúde Digital, presentes no documento da Estratégia de Saúde Digital para o Brasil 2020-2028, a prioridade 5 contempla a Formação e Capacitação de Recursos Humanos com perfil adequado para executar as ações de Saúde Digital. Objetivo: Identificar ofertas de formação e capacitação em Informática em Saúde, bem como cursos de curta duração e educação permanente e continuada em Saúde Digital por Instituições de Ensino Superior públicas e privadas e institutos técnicos no Brasil. Método: As buscas foram realizadas em bases de artigos científicos, sites governamentais e de Instituições de Ensino Superior. Resultados: As ações ofertadas por Instituições de Ensino Superior relacionados completam ou parcialmente à Saúde Digital foram agrupadas em 25 cursos de curta duração, 12 disciplinas, 5 cursos de graduação, 17 cursos de pós-graduação lato sensu e 10 cursos stricto sensu. Conclusão: Faz-se necessário a padronização e aprimoramento da qualidade dos cursos de Informática em Saúde ofertados no país.
Aborto
Authors: Vitória Juliana Côrte
Published: July 2023

Neste trabalho nos propomos a pensar sobre os efeitos psíquicos do aborto na mulher que teve esta vivência e a importância do modelo mental do analista como facilitador do trabalho de luto e de integração psíquica dessa experiência.
Construção Social da Maternidade
Authors: Penteado Paula Antonelli
Published: July 2023

O artigo aborda a contextualização histórica e cultural da família por meio da visão dos autores Ariès, Badinter, Julien, Passos e Roudinesco trazendo uma perspectiva histórica da formação de família do século XV até a configuração atual na cultura ocidental, atravessando a contemporaneidade e culminando com a construção social da maternidade, objetivando questionar as tradicionais imposições culturais sobre o tema e seus reflexos, assim como as relações maternas.
A Força da Família Frente às Orientações Político-Sociais
Authors: Engelhard Suely
Published: July 2023

Tendo como pano de fundo o documentário russo Anna dos seis aos dezoito, de Nikita Mickhalkov, reflito sobre a conservação do sagrado, da fé, da criatividade, na luta entre a força e coragem da história, lema e resiliência familiar frente às orientações político-sociais impostas pelo poder do estado. Nessa luta de pressão do sistema político sobre as famílias e indivíduos de seu povo se distingue a resiliência de um núcleo familiar. A diferenciação alcançada pela matriarca Natália (a que o filme é dedicado) impulsiona seus descendentes a não deixarem de exercer sua criatividade mesmo frente à censura e perseguição vivida. Preservaram a fé e a sacralidade na ligação atávica ao torrão natal.
Kepemimpinan Gembala: Mewujudkan Spirit Kepemimpinan Yesus dalam Komunitas Religius
Authors: Toron Yosef Masan
Published: July 2023

Leadership is always understood as human capability to influence a person or groups to get certain goals. Stoner defines leadership as a process of directing or influencing groups or organizations to realize visions or goals. Being conscious of this importance of leadership, Ruteng Diocese, in the process of implementing the fifth year of the Third Sinode of Ruteng Diocese, invites all the chirstians, the leaders and congregations to reflect the theme of leadership of shepherds. All leaders in different levels, religious or layman, are invited and motivated to implement the leadership of the shepherd. For religious leaders, the theme chosen indicates not only a reality of misleading leadership in religious life but also guiding and motivating the implementation of the leadership in the spirit of Jesus, the Lord in the religious communities life.
Teknologi Kinerja Pastoral
Authors: Nase Vinsensius
Published: July 2023

The title of this writing is Pastoral PerformanceTechnology. Technology is all hardware and software things of technology. Technology can be used to facilitate human activities without exception. Performance is achievement, in meaning quality and quantity of human as a personal or organization achievement. Pastoral is all apostolic activities of the catholic Church consist of teaching task, proclaiming task, sanctifying task and leading task for the people of the church. The main question of this writing is what is the main contribution of Pastoral Performance Technology to pastoral activities. That is why, the purpose of this writing is to describe and explain pastoral performance technology and its contribution in apostolic activities of the Church.

Pastoral Performance technology gives contribution to facilitate a systematic planning in pastoral activities and systemic results. The Second Concilium of the Vatican advised the church to use technology in apostolic/pastoral activities. Contribution of pastoral performance technology is all pastoral activities must be started of planning, development, using, management and evaluation of pastoral activity. Pastoral pattern in spirit of pastoral performance technology is holistic integrative pastoral.
MENGENAL TEORI KOGNITIF SOSIAL ALBERT BANDURA DAN IMPLIKASINYA DALAM DUNIA PENDIDIKAN
Authors: Haru Emanuel
Published: July 2023

Talking about education never be separated from terminology of education psychology. One of theories in relation with this topic is beaviorism learning theory.The beaviorism concept is elaborated by Albert Bandura in social cognitive theory.For him,most ofhuman learning occurs in social environment. In contacting with others, the man gets the knowledges, rules, skills, strategies, convictions and attitudes. At the same time,the man also sees the models, by those they will learn the advantage, conformity and the results of those behaviours. So, individuals act upon their convictions about their capabilities and the expected results from their acts. In this writing, Emanuel Haru will go further in presenting some constucts of social cognitive theory of Albert Bandura. The way of learning concept, modeling process, its effect on learning and performance, goal and expectation, self eficacy and the application of learning theory in education realm.
Transformação digital do acervo acadêmico: aumento ou redução de custos? O caso de uma instituição de ensino superior brasileira
Authors: De Oliveira Maximo Ricardo , De Sousa Ribeiro Kárem Cristina
Published: July 2023

A transformação digital é tema atual nos diversos órgãos que formam a administração pública direta, indireta, autárquica e fundacional. O governo brasileiro tem incentivado a informatização dos acervos acadêmicos por meio da digitalização dos documentos, e da produção de documentos nato-digitais, como é o caso da expedição do diploma digital e documentação correlata, com a finalidade de promover a desburocratização, gerar inovação e facilitar a inserção do cidadão nos diversos serviços públicos prestados, a partir de um complexo processo de transformação digital. Iniciado a partir do Acordo de Cooperação Técnica n° 02/2013, celebrado entre o extinto Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão, a Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), a Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) e o Governo do Distrito Federal (GDF), o Processo Eletrônico Nacional (PEN), oficializado pelo Decreto nº 8.539 de 8 de outubro de 2015, representou o marco inicial da transformação digital, seguido por robusto arcabouço normativo, culminando na obrigatoriedade da conversão do acervo acadêmico analógico para o meio digital pelas IES. Neste contexto, este trabalho buscou estudar o caso da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), no tocante a transformação digital do acerco acadêmico sob a ótica das finanças públicas, a fim de verificar se o processo representa aumento ou redução de custos para a instituição. Para tal, realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica alinhada a uma pesquisa documental. O resultado deste estudo, com base na análise descritiva, apresentou aumento de custos a curto prazo com possibilidade de redução de custos a médio e longo prazo.
Adaptive boundary layer double integral sliding mode controller design for leukemia therapy
Authors: Sengupta Anirban , Das Dushmanta Kumar
Published: July 2023

Presence of leukocytes in huge amount in the bone marrow and blood causes blood cancer or leukemia. In leukemia, number of white blood corpuscles in blood increases rapidly. Chemotherapy treatment is the most useful treatment of leukemia. Although chemotherapy treatment can reduce the cancer cells effectively, it destroys the healthy cells of the body as well. Therefore, it is essential to develop a proper control structure to use the chemotherapy agent effectively to reduce the cancer cells and to keep the normal cells within specified limit. An adaptive boundary layer double integral sliding mode controller is designed in this article for treatment of acute leukemia using chemotherapy. The objective of the designed controller is to control the chemotherapy agent in such a way that the amount of leukemic cell become zero and at the same time, the number of healthy cells should be retained at a desired level. The stability of the designed controller is verified using a Lyapunov function. The consequences of chemotherapy treatment on both natural cells and cancer cell using the designed controller is observed in both monotonic and non‐monotonic therapy function. A comparative analysis is also carried out between the designed controller and some existing controller to verify the effectiveness of the proposed controller.
The social phenotype associated with Wiedemann‐Steiner syndrome: Autistic traits juxtaposed with high social drive and prosociality
Authors: Ng Rowena , Kalinousky Allison , Fahrner Jill A. , Bjornsson Hans Tomas , Harris Jacqueline
Published: July 2023

The aim of this study was to provide a descriptive overview of the social characteristics associated with Wiedemann‐Steiner syndrome (WSS). A total of 24 parents of children/adults with WSS (11F, mean age = 12.94 years, SD = 8.00) completed the Social Responsiveness Scale 2nd Edition (SRS‐2); Colorado Learning Difficulties Questionnaire (CLDQ) and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Almost half our sample reported a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 70% had intellectual disability. On the SDQ, over 90% of participants were rated in borderline/clinical ranges in Peer Problems, yet the majority fell within normal limits in Prosocial Behaviors. Most fell in the moderate/severe difficulties ranges across SRS‐2 Social Cognition, Communication, and Restricted/Repetitive Behaviors scales (all >70%); whereas substantially less participants met these ranges for deficits in Social Awareness (50%) and Social Motivation (33.33%). A pattern of relatively strong prosocial skills and social drive in the context of difficulties with inflexible behaviors, social cognition, and communication was observed, regardless of gender, ASD or intellectual disability diagnosis. The social phenotype associated with WSS is characterized by some autistic features paired with unusually high social motivation and prosocial tendencies.
Predicting Functional Dependency in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: A TBI‐Model Systems and TRACK‐TBI Study
Authors: Snider Samuel B. , Temkin Nancy R. , Barber Jason , Edlow Brian L. , Giacino Joseph T. , Hammond Flora M. , Izzy Saef , Kowalski Robert G. , Markowitz Amy J. , Rovito Craig A. , Shih Shirley L. , Zafonte Ross D. , Manley Geoffrey T. , Bodien Yelena G. ,   the TRACK‐TBI investigators
Published: July 2023

Objective

It is not currently possible to predict long‐term functional dependency in patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Our objective was to fit and externally validate a prediction model for 1‐year dependency in patients with DoC 2 weeks after TBI.

Methods

We included adults with TBI enrolled in TBI Model Systems (TBI‐MS) or Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in TBI (TRACK‐TBI) studies who were not following commands at rehabilitation admission or 2 weeks post‐injury, respectively. We fit a logistic regression model in TBI‐MS and validated it in TRACK‐TBI. The primary outcome was death or dependency at 1 year post‐injury, defined using the Disability Rating Scale.

Results

In the TBI‐MS Discovery Sample, 1,960 participants (mean age 40 [18] years, 76% male, 68% white) met inclusion criteria, and 406 (27%) were dependent 1 year post‐injury. In a TBI‐MS held out cohort, the dependency prediction model's area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.79 (95% CI 0.74–0.85), positive predictive value was 53% and negative predictive value was 86%. In the TRACK‐TBI external validation (n = 124, age 40 [16] years, 77% male, 81% white), the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.66 (0.53, 0.79), equivalent to the standard IMPACTcore + CT score (p = 0.8).

Interpretation

We developed a 1‐year dependency prediction model using the largest existing cohort of patients with DoC after TBI. The sensitivity and negative predictive values were greater than specificity and positive predictive values. Accuracy was diminished in an external sample, but equivalent to the IMPACT model. Further research is needed to improve dependency prediction in patients with DoC after TBI. ANN NEUROL 2023;94:1008–1023
The Impact of Diabetes on Morbidity and Mortality Following Thyroidectomy
Authors: Patel Roshan V. , Randhawa Avneet , Randhawa Karandeep S. , Aftab Owais M. , Khawaja Imran M. , Hegazin Michael , Eloy Jean Anderson , Fang Christina H.
Published: July 2023

Objectives

To explore the association between diabetes and outcomes in thyroidectomy patients.

Methods

This retrospective cohort analysis used the 2015–2017 American College of Surgeons National Surgery Quality Improvement Program database. Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes were used to identify thyroidectomy cases (60210, 60212, 60220, 60225, 60240, 60252, 60254, 60260, 60270, and 60271). Demographics, comorbidities, and complication incidences were compared between diabetic and nondiabetic patients using Pearson's chi‐square test/Fisher's exact test as appropriate. The independent effect of diabetes on outcomes was analyzed using binary logistic regression.

Results

A total of 47,776 (95.4%) nondiabetic and 2307 (4.6%) diabetic patients undergoing thyroidectomy were identified from 2015 to 2017. Chi‐square analysis demonstrated that diabetic patients had higher incidences of obesity (55.2% vs. 33.2%; p < 0.001), dyspnea (12.7% vs. 4.8%; p < 0.001), poor functional status (1.9% vs. 0.4%; p < 0.001), ventilator dependence (0.6% vs. 0.1%; p < 0.001), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD; 6.8% vs. 2.2%; p < 0.001), congestive heart failure (1.1% vs. 0.3%; p < 0.001), acute renal failure (0.3% vs. 0.0%; p < 0.001), hypertension (79.2% vs. 32.4%; p < 0.001), dialysis (2.0% vs. 0.4%; p < 0.001), open wound (1.1% vs. 0.1%; p < 0.001), steroid use (5.3% vs. 2.3%; p < 0.001), bleeding disorders (3.6% vs. 0.9%; p < 0.001), preoperative blood transfusions (0.2% vs. 0.0%; p = 0.001), and systemic sepsis (1.0% vs. 0.3%; p < 0.001). Demographic characteristics were significantly different between the cohorts including gender (p < 0.001), age (p < 0.001), race (p < 0.001), and Hispanic ethnicity (p = 0.033). After adjusting for these factors, logistic regression analyses showed that diabetes was associated with acute renal failure (OR: 5.836; 95% CI: 1.060–32.134; p = 0.043), wound disruption (OR: 6.194; 95% CI: 1.752–21.900; p = 0.005), prolonged length of stay (OR: 1.430; 95% CI: 1.261–1.622; p < 0.001), unplanned readmission (OR: 1.380; 95% CI: 1.096–1.737; p = 0.006), superficial incisional surgical site infections (OR: 0.240; 95% CI: 0.058–0.995; p = 0.049), urinary tract infection occurrences (OR: 2.173; 95% CI: 1.186–3.980; p = 0.012), organ space surgical site infection occurrences (OR: 3.322; 95% CI: 1.016–10.864; p = 0.047), pneumonia occurrences (OR: 2.091; 95% CI: 1.125–3.884; p = 0.020), any medical complication (OR: 1.697; 95% CI: 1.246–2.313; p = 0.001), and any complication (OR: 1.495; 95% CI: 1.136–1.968; p = 0.004).

Conclusion

Diabetes mellitus is a significant factor associated with increased odds of complications following thyroidectomy.

Level of Evidence

3 Laryngoscope, 133:3628–3632, 2023
Numerical analysis for fractional Bratu type equation with explicit and implicit methods
Authors: Gao Yijin , Xie Bowen
Published: July 2023

Bratu‐type equation has wide applications in physics, finance, and other fields. Also, fractional analysis has been a popular topic recently. It is difficult to find the analytical solution once we add the fractional operator on the left side of the equation. In this work, we apply explicit and implicit finite difference methods to solve the fractional Bratu equation. From the numerical examples, we will see that the explicit solution is not accurate, and the implicit solution based on Newton's method is efficient in some sense. Some theoretical results are mentioned in the paper.
A-foliations of codimension two on compact simply-connected manifolds
Authors: Corro Diego
Published: July 2023

We show that a singular Riemannian foliation of codimension two on a compact simply-connected Riemannian $$(n+2)$$

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-manifold, with regular leaves homeomorphic to the n-torus, is given by a smooth effective n-torus action. This solves in the negative for the codimension 2 case a question about the existence of foliations by exotic tori on simply-connected manifolds.
Think Interview: Epistemic Injustice
Authors: Fricker Miranda , Law Stephen
Published: July 2023

Over the centuries, many philosophers have written about injustice. More recently, attention has turned to a previously little-recognized form of injustice – epistemic injustice. The philosopher Miranda Fricker coined the phrase ‘epistemic injustice’ – an example being when your credibility as a source of knowledge is unjustly downgraded (perhaps because you are ‘just a woman’ of the ‘wrong’ race). This interview with Miranda explores what epistemic injustice is, and why it is important.
An Ethical Dialogue
Authors: Blackburn Simon
Published: July 2023

Since Plato philosophers have struggled to understand the nature of ethics. It seems different from understanding the world around us, which we do by means of our senses and our sciences. Like mathematics ethics seems different. My brief dialogue seeks to unravel its mystery, and may tell you all you need to know about it.
Are Plato's Myths Philosophical?
Authors: Keum Tae-Yeoun
Published: July 2023

Plato is often regarded as a founding figure for Western philosophy, and specifically as the inventor of a way of doing philosophy grounded in critical, argumentative reason. This article asks whether Plato's practice of writing myths in his dialogues comes into tension with his canonical reputation. I suggest that resolving this tension may require us to revise our standing ideas about the nature of philosophy and its relationship to myth. Against interpretations that minimize the significance of Plato's myths to his philosophy, I argue that he may have constructed them deliberately as a form of philosophical discourse in their own right.
Avoiding Pitfalls in Reasoning
Authors: Groothuis Douglas
Published: July 2023

I'd rather not be an idiot and neither would you. One useful tool in avoid idiocy and figuring out what's true is to be aware of logical fallacies. Some errors in thinking are so common that they have been named in infamy. This article is an anti-idiocy vaccine to immunize you to common fallacies such as poisoning the well, begging the question, false dichotomy, and others, in order to give you a better shot at avoiding fallacy and finding out what's true.
Graphing Deep Hypermeter in the Scherzo Movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Authors: Cohn Richard
Published: July 2023

This paper reinterprets my 1992 analysis of the scherzo of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony using more recently introduced modes of representation: ski-hill graphs, ski-path networks, and metric cubes. It provides a tutorial on the three metric modes of representation, while using those modes to reveal different aspects of the scherzo’s metric form. It presents evidence in support of the proposition that slow pulses and deep hypermeter can “exist,” be aesthetically relevant, and have analytical value.
A Life Course Approach to Women’s Reproductive Health
Authors: Magnus Maria C. , Fraser Abigail
Published: July 2023

Women’s reproductive health is an important health domain in its own right. It has also long been recognised as a marker of women’s overall health. This chapter explores women’s reproductive health throughout the lifespan, starting with menarche, moving into the reproductive years characterised by (in)fertility, pregnancy, and its complications (e.g. fetal loss, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and preterm birth), and finishing with the menopausal transition that marks the end of women’s reproductive lifespan. We summarise secular trends in age at menarche, fertility, and the onset of menopause. We, then, address the determinants of various indicators of women’s reproductive health. These include both genetic variations set from conception and environmental exposures accrued across the life course, from fetal life through to childhood and adulthood. We use body mass index and smoking as illustrative examples of the relationships between exposures and female reproductive health throughout the lifespan. Finally, we discuss the well-established relationships between some indicators of women’s reproductive health and chronic disease risk. We briefly touch on breast cancer and bone health and expand on cardiovascular disease, summarising current knowledge about underlying mechanisms and proposing that these associations can be leveraged to improve women’s health.
Depression and Psychological Distress
Authors: Maughan Barbara
Published: July 2023

Depression is a common and often-recurrent disorder that impairs functioning and reduces quality of life; it is currently ranked as the largest contributor to disease-related disability worldwide. It is of particular importance for women’s health because, from early adolescence onwards, women are roughly twice as likely as men to experience depression. Depression is a multifactorial disorder, with evidence of influences from genetic and other predisposing individual characteristics, exposure to adverse perinatal and childhood experiences, and more immediately precipitating stressors. As a result, a number of different developmental pathways may be involved, mediated via impacts on aspects of neurobiological, psychological, and social development. This chapter provides an overview of recent evidence on these themes. It begins by sketching epidemiological findings on changing rates and gender ratios in depressive disorders from childhood to older age. It then examines the main domains of risk for depressive conditions, exploring recent evidence on the extent to which men and women differ in exposure or susceptibility to risks that affect both sexes, and whether some gender-specific risks may be involved. Throughout, it highlights the differing pathways through which individual vulnerabilities, childhood adversities, and later stressors have been argued to combine to contribute to the genesis of depression.
A Life Course Approach to Body Weight
Authors: Hardy Rebecca , Howe Laura D.
Published: July 2023

Overweight and obesity are acknowledged as a major public health challenge worldwide. In this chapter, we review the measurement of body weight across the life course, time trends in body mass index (BMI), the life course development of body weight, the health and social consequences of BMI, and some of the known causes of body weight. We highlight where exposures are unique to women, or where there are sex differences in associations. Given the rising prevalence of obesity, the known health consequences, and the stark social inequalities, there is a pressing need for action. The high prevalence of obesity during childhood suggests a need for early life intervention, but the fact that the majority of adults with obesity were not obese during childhood highlights the need for continued action across the whole life course.
A Life Course Approach to Women’s Health Care
Authors: Stephenson Judith , Hall Jennifer , Wilson Louise F.
Published: July 2023

This chapter examines a life course approach for the organisation and delivery of women’s health care, largely from a high-income-country perspective. It considers the intuitive relevance of a life course approach, the potential for early intervention to reduce disease risk, the outcomes of such interventions, and the attendant implications for the delivery of health care. It then summarises the main evidence for the impact of implementing a life course approach across populations, illustrated by examples from the UK and Australia. It ends with a brief consideration of the effects, positive as well as negative, of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s health care.
Creating
Authors: Barrett Graham
Published: July 2023

This chapter is dedicated to the who, how, when, and where of the documentation. When we look for agents of literacy in early medieval Iberia, we find that primary literacy is nearly invisible amongst both the parties and witnesses to the transactions: in this society of secondary literacy, where making use of the written word by proxy was the norm, scribes become our quarry. If we pursue for whom they wrote, we can identify a broad network of scribes. We can trace their working methods, operating within a framework of standardised language derived from earlier charters, yet showing signs of regionalism, localism, individualism in customising formulaic texts to concrete moments. Scribes interacted with parties and witnesses in a dynamic relationship which unfolds over the preparation and placement of the charter on parchment, its relationship in time to the transaction which it documents, and the context of confirmation, location as well as audience. Charters thereby emerge as far from simple records of transactions, becoming convergences of people and place, context and content, reaching out from text into the realm of speaking and hearing. By seeking a home for the charter, we find a society organised around the written word at one remove.
Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy
Authors: Johnston Melissa
Published: July 2023

Men and women do not experience war, violence, and peace in the same ways. Accordingly, peacebuilding interventions now incorporate “gender mainstreaming” and stand-alone “gender-and-development.” These gender interventions should make peacebuilding more effective and sustainable, facilitating stable societies and efficient economies. But success has been mixed. Timor-Leste offers an instructive case. Interventions on gender-responsive budgeting, domestic violence, and microfinance have uneven results. Whereas women’s participation in national politics in Timor-Leste is high by international standards, deep inequalities remain, inequality between rural and urban areas is growing, and violence against women is endemic across the country. Feminists have found fault with gender interventions, saying they don’t go far enough, and scholars of the local turn have suggested that focusing on gender encourages backlash against interventions. Instead of concentrating on a clash of local and international, Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy uses gender and class to explain the uneven outcomes. The text argues that peacebuilders made concessions to elites and violent men in order to keep the peace, a tendency amplified by local-turn approaches to peacebuilding. This tendency has reinforced the valorization of armed masculinity, associated most strongly with the dominant class, which has in turn justified the unequal distribution of state petroleum resources. As well, gender, class, and domestic violence are connected through brideprice, rendering legal and political reforms ineffective. Lastly, microfinance was supposed to empower women and grow the economy, but its main beneficiaries were elites, repeating patterns of accumulation and rule through debt established during the Indonesian era.
The Political Economy of Domestic Violence
Authors: Johnston Melissa
Published: July 2023

Chapter 4, along with Chapter 5. move the discussion away from state power and resource distribution to legislative and governance issues, beginning with the introduction and implementation of the 2010 Law Against Domestic Violence (LADV), the most ambitious and controversial area of gender intervention. Under the LADV, legal aid and evidence gathering have improved, and community awareness of domestic violence as a public crime, rather than a private issue between couples, has grown. On the other hand, funding for the LADV remains precarious, police and lawyers have not implemented its recommendations, few women have access to formal justice, and violence against women (including domestic violence) remains very high. The central argument of this chapter is that the political economy of domestic violence has qualified the results of LADV as a gender intervention. Male leaders and family members are compensated with cash and animals when a woman experiences male partner violence.
Conclusion
Authors: Johnston Melissa
Published: July 2023

The conclusion shows how the study has pushed forward the analysis of gender interventions by using a structural feminist political economy approach. Such a framework reveals that gender relations are a key aspect of broader processes through which the dominant class has secured its position in independent Timor-Leste. The study refers to the political economy of violence against women to explain material (resource and power-related) drivers of high levels of such violence in postconflict Timor-Leste. As a crucial factor in both gender and class structural power relations, kinship is a component of this framework, although it has been neglected by theoretical strands of feminist political economy and structural political economy. The conclusion then provides an overview of empirical findings and some implications for study and further policy work.
Business Group Spillovers
Authors: Naaraayanan S Lakshmi , Wolfenzon Daniel
Published: July 2023

We compare the investment of standalone firms across regions after a positive shock to the investment opportunities generated by a large-scale highway development project. We show that the standalones’ investment sensitivity is lower in regions with a higher density of business groups in the local area. We investigate mechanisms driving our results and find support for a financing mechanism whereby banks allocate capital preferentially to group-affiliated firms in responding to the increase in credit demand. Overall, our study documents that business groups have spillover effects on standalone firms.

Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online
Access to paved roads, gender, and youth unemployment in rural areas: Evidence from sub‐Saharan Africa
Authors: Nga Ndjobo Patrick Marie , Abessolo Yves André
Published: July 2023

The poor development of road infrastructure is one of the main obstacles to economic activity and therefore to employment in rural areas of sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Using cross‐sectional data from 31 SSA countries, this study examines, from a gender perspective, the effect of access to paved roads on youth unemployment in rural areas in the region. The seemingly unrelated bivariate probit framework has been adopted in analysing the data. This approach is used for addressing the possible endogeneity bias that occurs when the dependent variable and regressor are both endogenous and binary. The major finding of this study reveals that access to paved roads in rural areas reduces the probability that young people will face unemployment. The aforementioned is more pronounced for young women than for young men. Moreover, the greater the proximity to the road increases, the greater its reducing effect on the probability of young people being unemployed. It is therefore important that the development of road infrastructure in rural areas be at the centre of public policies to address youth unemployment in SSA countries. This will significantly increase women's empowerment, through their participation in the labour market, and the full economic participation of young people.
Finding your ethical research self: A guidebook for novice qualitative researchers
Authors: Pitt Lesley
Published: July 2023

A review of 'Finding your ethical research self: A guidebook for novice qualitative researchers' by Martin Tolich and Emma Tumilty

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-367-17478-1, pp.208, Paperback, Hardback and ebook $71
Is it time to reconsider professional development and continuing education for social workers twenty years after registration in Aotearoa New Zealand?
Authors: Beddoe Liz , Deb Stanfield
Published: July 2023

Editorial
“Pasifika families aren’t accessing specialist services as much because those services require a really one-eyed view of the child”
Authors: West Delena
Published: July 2023

INTRODUCTION: Accessing disability services in Aotearoa New Zealand is not a simple process. Pasifika families experiencing disability underutilise disability services. This research explores how social workers work successfully with Pasifika families of children with disabilities in Aotearoa New Zealand, a traditionally western-practice-dominated country. It specifically explores how practice is adapted and which frameworks are deemed successful in this field.
METHOD: This qualitative research uses semi-structured interviews with four social workers working with Pasifika families of children with disability. Interviews were thematically analysed.
FINDINGS: Using an anti-oppressive framework for analysis, this study found it is important for social workers to understand the differences when working with Pasifika families of children with disabilities, this includes: knowledge of Pasifika values, Pasifika social work practice frameworks, relationships, cultural humility and meeting families where they are at. This understanding is necessary for successful social work with Pasifika families of children with disability.
IMPLICATIONS: Anti-oppressive practice addressing structural, cultural and personal oppression is crucial for successful social work with Pasifika families of children with disability. Using an anti-oppressive practice approach, which incorporates the intentional inclusion of decolonisation, indigenisation and anti-racist practice provides a conceptual framework for working successfully with Pasifika families of children with disability.
Fieldwork placement reflection from a regional Pacific university during Covid-19
Authors: Ramacake Soro
Published: July 2023

Since the Covid-19 pandemic begun, over 3.5 million people worldwide has been infected, more than 250.000 have died and unemployment rates have drastically increased. The tertiary education sector has been affected by this cruel disease. Placement experience during Covid 19 proved challenging for students and the social work team. It brought a lot of uncertainty, tested processes and systems, and unveiled new consideration. Experiences from Fieldwork Education provides a unique chance to reflect, to highlight lessons learnt, which became opportunities for the future, especially in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is important to note that this reflection is my personal view and not the Regional University’s views.
Exploring the Impact of Medication Regimen Complexity on Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Multimorbidity
Authors: Gebresillassie Begashaw Melaku , Kassaw Abebe Tarekegn
Published: July 2023

Background. Patients with multiple chronic conditions often have complex medication regimes which negatively impact their health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and there is limited evidence on this topic, particularly from the resource limiting set-up. Hence, this study is aimed at assessing the impact of medication regimen complexity on HRQoL in patients with multiple chronic conditions at a university hospital in Ethiopia. Method. A cross-sectional study was conducted on adult patients who had at least two long-term diseases and were already receiving medical therapy for the relevant disorders. The validated 65-item Medication Regimen Complexity Index (MRCI) and the EuroQol-5-Dimensions-5-Levels (EQ-5D-5L) instruments were used to assess MRC and HRQoL, respectively. The Welch test for unequal variance and Fisher’s exact test were used to assess the impact of different variables on HRQoL. Results. The study surveyed 416 participants, with a 98.3% response rate, the majority of whom were female (n = 267, 64.2%) and had two chronic conditions (n = 215, 51.7%). About 46.4% of patients were taking five or more medications, with a significantly higher proportion at the high regimen complexity level (

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). The average MRCI score was 9.73 ± 3.38, indicating a high level of complexity. Patients with high MRCI scores reported more problems in mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression. There was a negative correlation between the MRCI score and HRQoL as measured by the EQ-5D-Index (r = −0.175;

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) and the EuroQol-Visual Analogue Scale score (r = −0.151;

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). In addition, there was a statistically significant difference in the mean EQ-5D-Index (

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) and EQ-VAS scores (

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) across low, medium, and high MRCI levels. Conclusion. Medication regimen complexity was prevalent among patients with multimorbidity and was associated with a decrease in HRQoL. Therefore, interventions addressing medication-related issues should be a priority to improve the well-being of patients with multiple chronic conditions.
Design and analysis of photovoltaic/wind operations at MPPT for hydrogen production using a PEM electrolyzer: Towards innovations in green technology
Authors: Awad Mohamed , Mahmoud Mohamed Metwally , Elbarbary Z. M. S. , Mohamed Ali Loai , Fahmy Shazly Nasser , Omar Ahmed I.
Published: July 2023

In recent times, renewable energy systems (RESs) such as Photovoltaic (PV) and wind turbine (WT) are being employed to produce hydrogen. This paper aims to compare the efficiency and performance of PV and WT as sources of RESs to power polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzer (PEMEL) under different conditions. The study assessed the input/output power of PV and WT, the efficiency of the MPPT controller, the calculation of the green hydrogen production rate, and the efficiency of each system separately. The study analyzed variable irradiance from 600 to 1000 W/m2 for a PV system and a fixed temperature of 25°C, while for the WT system, it considered variable wind speed from 10 to 14 m/s and zero fixed pitch angle. The study demonstrated that the applied controllers were effective, fast, low computational, and highly accurate. The obtained results showed that WT produces twice the PEMEL capacity, while the PV system is designed to be equal to the PEMEL capacity. The study serves as a reference for designing PV or WT to feed an electrolyzer. The MATLAB program validated the proposed configurations with their control schemes.
Monthly Rainfall Prediction Using the Backpropagation Neural Network (BPNN) Algorithm in Maros Regency
Authors: Aslim Muhammad Arief Fitrah Istiyanto , Jasruddin Jasruddin , Palloan Pariabti , Helmi Helmi , Arsyad Muhammad , Triwibowo Hari
Published: July 2023

Purpose: This study aims to identify the right combination of network architecture, learning rate, and epoch in making predictions at each rainfall post in Maros Regency. In addition, this study also predicts the monthly rainfall profile in 2021-2025 in Maros Regency.Methods: The method in this study is the backpropagation neural network algorithm to learn and predict the data. BPNN is one of the most commonly used non-linear methods in making predictions recently. The data used in this study is monthly rainfall data from 2000-2020 as training and testing data at four rainfall stations including BPP Batubassi, Staklim Maros, Stamet Hasanuddin, and BPP Tanralili.Result: The results showed that the combination of network architecture, learning rate, and epoch obtained at each rainfall post was different. The highest level of prediction accuracy was obtained on 5 layers rather than 3 or 4 layers of network architecture with prediction accuracy at each rainfall post respectively 76.91%, 72.47%, 75.24%, and 76.53%. The predictions of rainfall from 2021-2025 are following the monsoon rain pattern with the highest rainfall in January 2025 of 964.1 mm, while the largest annual rainfall is obtained in 2023 with a total of 3359.6 mm.Novelty: In this study, various combinations of network architecture parameters consisting of learning rate, epoch, and architecture at each rainfall post obtained different results. Particularly in the Maros Regency, the combination that is most suitable for use in predicting monthly rainfall at the Batubassi BPP post is learning rate 0.7, epoch 50000, and network architecture 11-6-10-7-5, at Staklim Maros post is learning rate 0.5, epoch 50000, and network architecture 11-5-9-10-5, at Stamet Hasanuddin post is learning rate 0.8, epoch 20000, and network architecture 11-5-8-6-5, and at BPP Tanralili post is learning rate 0.5, epoch 10000, and 11-5-9-9-5 network architecture.
Structural investigations of various cotton fibers and cotton celluloses
Authors: Ioelovich Michael , Leykin Alex
Published: July 2023

Macro- and crystalline structure, as well as chemical composition of fibers related to various types and sorts of Israeli cottons, both white and naturally colored, were investigated. The differences in structural parameters and chemical compositions of the cotton fibers were eval-uated. Samples of cotton of the “Pima”-type had long, thin and strong fibers with highly ordered supermolecular structure. Fibers of middle-long and hybrid cottons had some lower-ordered structural organization in comparison to long-length cotton, while fibers of naturally colored cotton were characterized with disordered supermolecular and crystalline structure. Dependence of tensile strength on orientation of nano-fibrils towards the fiber axis was found. Conditions of cellulose isolation from the different cotton fibers were studied. Structural characteristics of isolated cotton celluloses and obtained MCC are discussed.
Association of astrocyte-specific gene expression in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with treatment-resistant schizophrenia
Authors: Mas Sergi , Prohens  , Rodriguez Natalia , Segura Alex , Martinez-Pinteño Albert , Olivares-Berjaga David , Martínez Irene , Mezquida  , Santas-Martín Jon A , Morentin Benito , Meana J. , Callado Luis , Rivero Guadalupe , Gasso Patricia
Published: July 2023

Treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) is defined as the absence of symptomatic response to two different adequately administered antipsychotic drugs other than clozapine, which is the most effective drug in these patients. Gene expression profiling studies could be a valuable tool in identifying the specific genes and pathways involved in the mechanism of action of clozapine, leading to a better understanding of the molecular biology underlying TRS. We analyzed gene co-expression modules (clusters of genes with highly correlated expression) in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of postmortem brains from patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls. We aimed to identify the co-expressed modules that reflect the genetic differences between clozapine-treated and non-clozapine-treated patients with schizophrenia as a proxy of TRS. Gene expression of DLPFC samples from 26 subjects with schizophrenia (13 clozapine treated and 13 non-clozapine treated) were analyzed using Clariom S Human Array. Raw gene expression data from 37 healthy controls was downloaded from the GSE92538 datasets. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) was applied to identify modules of co-expressed genes and to test its association with clozapine treatment using a test for interaction. As a result of our analysis of the gene co-expression architecture in the DLPFC, among the 13 modules identified, one module (green) was significantly associated with clozapine treatment. This module was significantly enriched in astrocyte markers and genes involved in the polygenic architecture of TRS. This finding provides cell type-specific associations that could help in the interpretation of the neurobiological basis of TRS. A better understanding of the specific DLPFC cell types involved in TRS will contribute to the study of potential pathways and ultimately help improve psychiatric classification tools in personalized medicine.
Recombinant acetylcholine receptor immunization induces a robust model of experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis in mice
Authors: Nelke Christopher , Theissen Lukas , Schroeter Christina B. , Huntemann Niklas , Räuber Saskia , Dobelmann Vera , Cengiz Derya , Mourikis Philipp , Polzin Amin , Hartung Hans-Peter , Meuth Sven G. , Ruck Tobias
Published: July 2023

Background
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a prototypical autoimmune disease of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). The study of the underlying pathophysiology has provided novel insights into the interplay of autoantibodies and complement-mediated tissue damage. Experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG) emerged as a valuable animal model, designed to gain further insight and to test novel therapeutic approaches for MG. However, the availability of native acetylcholine receptor (AChR) protein is limited favouring the use of recombinant proteins.
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To provide a simplified platform for the study of MG, we established a model of EAMG using a recombinant protein containing the immunogenic sequence of AChR in mice. This model recapitulates key features of EAMG including fatigable muscle weakness, presence of anti-AChR-antibodies and engagement of the NMJ by complement. Further characterization of this model demonstrated a prominent B cell immunopathology supported by T follicular helper cells.
Conclusions
Taken together, the herein presented EAMG model may be a valuable tool for the study of MG pathophysiology and the pre-clinical testing of therapeutic applications.