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Investigating research in human resource analytics through the lens of systematic literature review
Authors: Chhetri Shanti Devi , Kumar Devesh , Ranabhat Deepesh
Published: April 2023

BACKGROUND: In today’s data-driven society, most organizations use data to streamline their processes and achieve greater efficiencies. Human resource management is also affected by this new management style. Human Resource Analytics (HRA) is a novel and emerging method for enhancing human resource management. Due to the novelty of this field, few studies have been published in HRA. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the primary research area of Human Resources Analytics (HRA) and to identify the research gaps. METHODS: This paper employs a systematic literature review methodology and bibliometric approach to analyze 91 pieces of academic literature published between 2008 and 2022. The exclusion and inclusion criteria of the PRISMA framework were used to select the publications. Descriptive analysis, citation analysis, three field plot analysis, and level of study analysis were some of the analysis techniques used. RESULTS: The findings showed that there has been an increase in interest in HRA recently, with most of the research coming from India. Additionally, it was found that most research are carried out at the organisational level. The main areas of research are awareness and comprehension of HRA, HRA software, HRA applications, and barriers to HRA adoption in companies. The primary study needs were determined to include post-implementation effects, an examination of industry acceptance of HRA, and factors influencing the adoption of HRA successfully. CONCLUSION: This paper makes distinctive contribution to the body of knowledge on human resource analytics while also opening up fresh directions for in-depth investigation into the use of human resource analytics in businesses.
Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Treating Alzheimer’s Disease: Cell Therapy and Chemical Reagent Pretreatment
Authors: Zhang Kexin , Du Xinzhe , Gao Yao , Liu Sha , Xu Yong
Published: April 2023

As the size of the population aged 65 and older continues to grow, the incidence and mortality rates of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are increasing annually. Unfortunately, current treatments only treat symptoms temporarily and do not alter the patients’ life expectancy or course of AD. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have shown a certain therapeutic potential in neurodegenerative diseases including AD due to their neuroinflammatory regulation and neuroprotective effects. However, the low survival and homing rates of MSCs after transplantation seriously affect their therapeutic effectiveness. Therefore, appropriate in vitro preconditioning is necessary to increase the survival and homing rates of MSCs to improve their effectiveness in treating AD. Here we summarize the therapeutic mechanisms of MSCs in AD and the chemical reagents used for the pretreatment of MSCs.
Cardiovascular Risk Management in Persons with Dementia
Authors: Nijskens Charlotte , Henstra Marieke , Rhodius-Meester Hanneke , Yasar Sevil , van Poelgeest Eveline , Peters Mike , Muller Majon
Published: April 2023

The number of people living with dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, is increasing worldwide. Persons with dementia often have a high risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and they are therefore theoretically eligible for treatment of hypertension and hyperlipidemia. However, in this population, beneficial and harmful effects of cardiovascular risk management (CVRM) may be different compared to older persons without cognitive impairment. Current CVRM guidelines are based on trials from which persons with dementia were excluded. In this narrative review, we will discuss how current guidelines can be translated to persons with dementia and which aspects should be taken into account when treating hypertension and hyperlipidemia to prevent major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE). Survival time is significantly shorter in persons with dementia. We therefore suggest that since the main goal of CVRM is prevention of MACE, first of all, the patient’s life expectancy and treatment wishes should be evaluated. Risk assessment tools are to be used with care, as they tend to overestimate the 5- and 10-year risk of MACE and benefit from CVRM in the prevention of MACE in persons with dementia. When the clinician and patient have decided that treatment is initiated or intensified, patients should be closely monitored since they are at high risk for adverse drugs events and overtreatment due to the natural course of blood pressure in persons with dementia. In the event of intolerance or side effects, medication should be switched or withdrawn. For persons with dementia and limited life expectancy, deprescribing should be part of usual care.
The Mammalian Circadian Time-Keeping System
Authors: Patton Andrew P. , Hastings Michael H.
Published: April 2023

Our physiology and behavior follow precise daily programs that adapt us to the alternating opportunities and challenges of day and night. Under experimental isolation, these rhythms persist with a period of approximately one day (circadian), demonstrating their control by an internal autonomous clock. Circadian time is created at the cellular level by a transcriptional/translational feedback loop (TTFL) in which the protein products of the Period and Cryptochrome genes inhibit their own transcription. Because the accumulation of protein is slow and delayed, the system oscillates spontaneously with a period of ∼24 hours. This cell-autonomous TTFL controls cycles of gene expression in all major tissues and these cycles underpin our daily metabolic programs. In turn, our innumerable cellular clocks are coordinated by a central pacemaker, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus. When isolated in slice culture, the SCN TTFL and its dependent cycles of neural activity persist indefinitely, operating as “a clock in a dish”. In vivo, SCN time is synchronized to solar time by direct innervation from specialized retinal photoreceptors. In turn, the precise circadian cycle of action potential firing signals SCN-generated time to hypothalamic and brain stem targets, which co-ordinate downstream autonomic, endocrine, and behavioral (feeding) cues to synchronize and sustain the distributed cellular clock network. Circadian time therefore pervades every level of biological organization, from molecules to society. Understanding its mechanisms offers important opportunities to mitigate the consequences of circadian disruption, so prevalent in modern societies, that arise from shiftwork, aging, and neurodegenerative diseases, not least Huntington’s disease.
The Sequence Effect Worsens Over Time in Parkinson’s Disease and Responds to Open and Closed-Loop Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation
Authors: Kehnemouyi Yasmine M. , Petrucci Matthew N. , Wilkins Kevin B. , Melbourne Jillian A. , Bronte-Stewart Helen M.
Published: April 2023

Background:

The sequence effect is the progressive deterioration in speech, limb movement, and gait that leads to an inability to communicate, manipulate objects, or walk without freezing of gait. Many studies have demonstrated a lack of improvement of the sequence effect from dopaminergic medication, however few studies have studied the metric over time or investigated the effect of open-loop deep brain stimulation in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Objective:

To investigate whether the sequence effect worsens over time and/or is improved on clinical (open-loop) deep brain stimulation (DBS).

Methods:

Twenty-one people with PD with bilateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) DBS performed thirty seconds of instrumented repetitive wrist flexion extension and the MDS-UPDRS III off therapy, prior to activation of DBS and every six months for up to three years. A sub-cohort of ten people performed the task during randomized presentations of different intensities of STN DBS.

Results:

The sequence effect was highly correlated with the overall MDS-UPDRS III score and the bradykinesia sub-score and worsened over three years. Increasing intensities of STN open-loop DBS improved the sequence effect and one subject demonstrated improvement on both open-loop and closed-loop DBS.

Conclusion:

Sequence effect in limb bradykinesia worsened over time off therapy due to disease progression but improved on open-loop DBS. These results demonstrate that DBS is a useful treatment of the debilitating effects of the sequence effect in limb bradykinesia and upon further investigation closed-loop DBS may offer added improvement.
Using guided credible history interviews to establish special education eligibility for students with traumatic brain injury
Authors: McCart Melissa , Unruh Deanne , Gomez Doug , Anderson Daniel , Gioia Gerry , Davies Susan C. , Haarbauer-Krupa Juliet , Womack Lindsay S. , Thigpen Sally , Brown Linda , Glang Ann
Published: April 2023

BACKGROUND: In Oregon in 2019, only 261 students were eligible for special education under the traumatic brain injury (TBI) category. Many students with TBIs are not treated by a medical provider, so the requirement for a medical statement could prevent eligible youth from receiving special education services. OBJECTIVE: This study investigated barriers to using a medical statement to establish special education eligibility for TBI, support for using a guided credible history interview (GCHI), and training needs around GCHI. RESULTS: Among participants, 84% reported difficulty obtaining a medical statement for TBI eligibility determination, and 87% favored the GCHI as an alternative, though they reported a need for training in TBI and GCHI. CONCLUSION: The results support the use of GCHI to establish special education eligibility for TBI and informed Oregon’s addition of GCHI to TBI special education eligibility determination.
The study of Safety of Inpatient Health Care needs to include adverse event rates from venous and urinary catheters
Authors: Froom Paul , Shimoni Zvi
Published: April 2023

It is important to study adverse events in hospitalized patients in order to prevent them. The objective of this perspective is to emphasize the importance of including adverse events from the use of venous and urinary catheters that require daily monitoring.
György Márkus 75% Mensch: On the occasion of the Publication of the English version of How is a Critical Economic Theory Possible?
Authors: Grumley John
Published: April 2023

Introducing the world media to the Budapest School in _The Times Literary Supplement _on Feb 15th 1971, Lukács described Márkus as ‘75 % Mensch’. When Lukács first met him, George already had his own philosophical interests which he would bring with him when he became a key figure in “The Budapest School”. 

In this lecture I intend to give an overall interpretation of the development of the Budapest School in Australia as political emigres, who initially worked and wrote in Melbourne and Sydney until the final years when Heller and Feher moved on to New York in the mid 1980s and then back to Budapest in 1993. The translation of _How is Critical Economic Theory Possible? _has allowed us to better grasp the motivations and theoretical innovations of the Budapest School, to appreciate their internal disputes, and to recognise fundamental continuities and difference in these two key thinkers. This book was a gallant retrieval of democratic potentials in Marx. It excavated Marx’s own appreciation of needs produced by and critical of the alienations of the capitalist system. Ultimately, this early work was unable to realise its ambition to educate the diverse progressive movements of the times. I will show later in my lecture that the retrieval of progressive potentials took a more social democratic form in the work of Maria Markus on needs as she encountered them in the Labour Hawke government of Australia from 1983.

A word of explanation of my title: Márkus had studied in Moscow where he wrote his dissertation on the topic _History and Consciousness_ and met his Polish wife, Maria. George used to modestly say that he was an expert only on the works of Karl Marx. That was despite that he had taught the history of modern philosophy at Eotvös Loránd University to Hungary’s most promising philosophers for a decade and later to philosophy students at Sydney University for the next twenty years. In the early 1970s, George invited Janos Kis and György Bence to work on his next project that would become the Hungarian version of _Überhaupt _which was to become _How is a Critical Economic Theory Possible?_,_ _The new English translation published by Brill this year opens this important rethinking of the work of Marx to an international readership.
Historical Semiotics
Authors: Khislavski Grigori
Published: April 2023

Forgetting history is a social phenomenon that contradicts the ideal of a living commemorative culture. Historical knowledge is quickly forgotten by many students, yet the younger generations in particular are confronted with numerous discourses on history that are determined by a shift to the right. This essay explores possible synergies for history education in semiotics and attempts to develop an epistemology that would be methodologically meaningful in the theory of education in history.
PISCIS: Plataforma de Búsqueda Interactiva y Ciencia Ciudadana
Authors: Alfaro Germán , Daza Perilla Ingrid Vanessa , Benavides Blanco José , Lares Marcelo , Santucho Victoria , Cabral Juan , O’mill Ana Laura , Rodríguez Facundo , Koraj Mauricio
Published: April 2023

Muchos temas de la Astronomía moderna se caracterizan por la identificación de características en imágenes. Si bien esta es una tarea fácil para un ojo entrenado, es difícil obtener la misma calidad al realizarse mediante modelos o métodos numéricos. Esto ha conducido a la cooperación entre equipos de investigación y la ciudadanía tiene una larga historia en diferentes disciplinas científicas, debido al gran interés que despierta en el público, la presencia de asociaciones de personas aficionadas y la necesidad constante de procesamiento de grandes volúmenes de datos. En este trabajo el objetivo es presentar la experiencia y el desarrollo de una plataforma web de ciencia ciudadana (PISCIS, Platform for Interactive Search and CItizen Science), plataforma que tiene como objetivo la generación de catálogos de valor agregado a partir de datos que comprenden un conjunto de imágenes haciendo uso del interés en la Astronomía del ciudadano, facilitando la recolección y el análisis de datos así como también el conocimiento al público de la metodología y temas de investigación en el área de la Astronomía. Para llevar a cabo se creó una aplicación de fácil uso para el encuestador y el público, esta permite crear encuestas concisas y acompañarlas de imágenes, junto con espacios para agregar información y ejemplos de las encuestas a realizar. Actualmente, la plataforma ya está disponible. Además, se está empleando para clasificar el primer conjunto de datos, éstos consisten en pares de galaxias, el objetivo es catalogarlos según el tipo de interacción y, para esto, se brindan ejemplos de pares que tienen una alta, media o baja interacción. La colaboración de la ciudadanía está siendo importante, tanto para evaluar la plataforma como para inspeccionar visualmente a cientos de pares de galaxias. PISCIS permite vincular a las personas con proyectos de investigación, lo que posibilita a un investigador recolectar una gran cantidad de datos. Para poder realizar las clasificaciones, es necesario un entrenamiento, por lo que, a su vez, quien participa también aprende sobre ciencia y cómo se trabaja en ella.
E-Commerce: The overview of the study for the period 1995 -2020
Authors:   Hoa Sen University, Vietnam, Nguyen Thanh
Published: April 2023

In recent years, with the world entering the era of technology 4.0, the e-commerce market has been growing strongly in Vietnam and worldwide. As of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic is a catalyst that changes consumers’ shopping behavior. Consumers change from traditional direct shopping to online shopping by e-commerce platforms. The paper is to carry out an overview of the previous studies to determine the current trend and challenges of e-commerce. According to the research results, this article suggests the administrative implications to Vietnamese e-commerce businesses. The results of the literature review have shown a common trend of online shopping in the future because of its convenience. Furthermore, online shopping also poses two major challenges for businesses: capital and internet infrastructure. Hopefully, synthesizing the previous research will help enterprises have orientations and strategies for the growth of the e-commerce industry in the future.
The legal and practical issues in the regulations for servicing legal documentation notices to individual in Vietnam civil procedure
Authors:   University of Economics and Law, Viet Nam National University – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Mai Hoàng Phước , Phan Thanh Hưng ,   Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association, Vietnam
Published: April 2023

To begin with, that the society and the economy are fastly developing precipitates a number of disputes necessary for settlements. Of dispute resolution methods including Mediation, Negotiation, Arbitration, and Court, Court is still a traditional method widely chosen by parties, which is evidenced by the increase in the quantities of cases over the years. However, given that the requirement of the society is the timely settlement, it has placed more pressure on court officers. The issuance, delivery, and announcement of procedural documents are three of the most important factors in the civil procedure. The requirement of this activity encompasses ensuring the time limit of the provisions for the proceedings and fully implementing the procedure, enabling parties to exercise their legal rights and obligations. However, shortcomings in the issuance, delivery, and announcement of procedural documents have not been resolved. In addition, in the context of the booming industrial revolution 4.0, the application of information technology and digitization has been placed on the procedure for issuing, serving and notifying procedural documents to create favorable conditions, saving time and costs for parties and Court. The article aims to analyze the current provisions of the Civil Procedure Code on the provision, delivery, and notification of procedural documents to individuals, thereby proposing certain recommendations to refine Vietnamese law in the given field.
The relationship among shopping motives, orientation and purchase intension: Theorical overview and research model
Authors:   Department of Industry and Trade of Long An, 112 Cach Mang Thang Tam street, Ward 01, Tan An City, Long An province, Vietnam, Nguyen Duy Phong , Huynh Thanh Tu ,   University of Economics and Law, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Published: April 2023

Shopping orientation is defined as a shopping lifestyle, emphasizing an individual way of purchase, and reflects on a consumption perspective as a complex economic, social, and entertainment phenomenon. Thus, it has been considered as the best way to understand the nature of consumers. In spite of being an important construct in marketing literature, nowadays, the classification of shopping orientations has been inconsistent in the scientific community, especially with the rapid growth of the internet, several orientations are emerging. Therefore, this paper aims to review some relevant theories and previous empirical research to determine typical current shopping orientations and propose a research framework exhibiting the relationship among the antecedents (shopping motives) and the consequences (purchase intention) with shopping orientations. The findings indicated three main shopping motives comprising control, intimacy, and self-expression impacting on seven shopping orientations, namely quality, brand, recreation, novelty, price, convenience, and impulse, all of which collectively influence purchase intention. Furthermore, shopping orientation is assumed as a mediating variable to control the impact of shopping motives on purchase intention. This theoretical framework is a significant contribution for literature, from which some management implications are also recommended.
Desemantization of the Old Turkic khan, baj, beg in the modern Kazakh anthroponyms
Authors:   Alkey Margulan Pavlodar Pedagogical University, Temirgazina Zifa , Andryushchenko Olga ,   Alkey Margulan Pavlodar Pedagogical University
Published: April 2023

The lexemes khan, bai, bek of Old Turkic origin are frequent components in modern Kazakh masculine name compounds such as Abilkhan, Adilbek, Kumisbay, etc. During centuries of development with the aforementioned Old Turkic common words denoting a person’s high social, class and material status in Kazakh society, various semantic changes took place. Of particular interest to us are the processes that take place in their semantics when they function as part of the complex masculine name composites. The most important factor that has influenced the dynamics of semantic processes in these words is an extra-linguistic factor: a change in the socio-economic structure of Kazakh society that led to the loss of statuses, titles and ranks. As a result, the old Turkish nouns became historicisms, which lost their referential and thus also part of their denotative meaning. The second, purely linguistic factor was the semantic-grammatical nature of the first component of the compound name, which also significantly determined the processes in the semantics of the Old Turkic elements. Thus, in the complex two-part names with the first component – the name of a person according to a certain parameter – there is an additional desemanticisation of the Old Turkic elements due to the semantic redundancy (the repetition of the sem «person»), for example: Zholdaskhan, Dosbay. In combination with the animal names, these elements actualise the semes ‘man’, ‘baby’, ‘male’, having an identifying rather than a nominative function and therefore becoming a unit of the transitional type affixoid. In combination with the toponyms, numerals and adjectives, the old Turkic elements are desemanticised, undergo the process of affixoidisation and now function as signs for the name of a male person. The desemanticisation of the listed Old Turkic elements contributed to their preservation in the active fundus of the Kazakh language in a new, identifying function as part of complex anthroponyms.
On the genesis of the epos «Alpamys Batyr»
Authors:   L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Korganbekov Bolat , Gabidullina Farida ,   Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University
Published: April 2023

Opinions about the origin and creation of the epos «Alpamys Batyr», as well as about the specifics of its distribution are not clear. Today, the views of A.K. Borovkov, H.T. Zaripov and V.M. Zhirmunsky on this issue are widely known. It is known that V.M. Zhirmunsky’s opinion has prevailed among scholars that the work appeared in the VI-VIII centuries, on the southern slopes of the Altai Mountains, and at the beginning of the XVI century stories about the exploits of Alpamys on the Baisyn land reached by the nomadic Uzbeks of Shaybani Khan, the epos orginated in the south of Uzbekistan, and then spread among Uzbeks, Karakalpaks, and Kazakhs. This concept of the scientist did not develop immediately. In 1943, V.M. Zhirmunsky put forward the opinion that the epos «Alpamys» belongs to the Konyrats. Hence it can be understood that the reason for changing in the position of V.M. Zhirmunsky was the heroic saga «Alyp-Manash», recorded from the mouth of the Altai kaichi N. Ulagashev and published in 1941. If «Alyp-Manash» had appeared in the VI-VIII centuries, as V.M. Zhirmunsky says, it would not have been possible to preserve such a slight similarity between the versions over the next twelve centuries. On the contrary, there are many signs indicating that the Altaic version, sung by N. Ulagashev was based on the version of the Konurats. Taking these and other data into account, we can be sure that both versions of the epos «Alpamys», in the form of a heroic saga and an epos, originated near the Syr Darya river about 1200 years ago.
METABOLIC SYNDROME IN PATIENTS WITH ANDROGENETIC ALOPECIA IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL
Authors: Farooque Mustaqueem , Saxena Kshitij , Koti Venkatrao , Mohanty Swosti
Published: April 2023

Background: Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is a hereditary androgen-dependent disorder, characterized by a progressive decline in hair fibre production by scalp hair follicles and their eventual miniaturization. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of inter-related risk factors that increase the risk of coronary artery disease. Despite the high burden of Androgenetic Alopecia and Metabolic Syndrome in India, specific data on the participants are relatively sparse.

 

Methods: A total of 126 patients of androgenetic alopecia (age range 18-55 years; mean age 30.83±10.37 years; 83.3% males) falling in sampling frame were enrolled in the study and were assessed clinically, anthropometrically and biochemically. Metabolic syndrome was diagnosed using Joint interim statement of International Diabetes Federation, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, American Heart Association, World Health Federation, International Atherosclerosis Society, and International Association of the Study of Obesity criteria.

 

Results: Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) was 29.4% in 126 cases of Androgenetic Alopecia. The P Value was <0.001 for obesity (52.4%), hypertension (35.7%), low HDL cholesterol (21.4%), hypertriglyceridemia (13.5%) and high fasting glucose (12.7%) respectively. Patients with higher severity grade of AGA had significantly higher prevalence of MetS and its components.

 

Conclusions: Metabolic Syndrome showed a positive relation with Androgenetic Alopecia. Early screening for Metabolic Syndrome is beneficial in patients with androgenic alopecia to prevent them from developing coronary artery disease.
Közelítések a reziliencia fogalmához és méréséhez a narrativitás kontextusában
Authors: László Tamás
Published: April 2023

A koronavírus kapcsán kialakult járványhelyzetben világszerte radikálisan és hirtelen alakult át az emberek életmódja. Mindez, attól függően is, hogy a változások mennyiben lesznek tartósak, mélyrehatók, illetve visszatérők, messzemenőkig befolyásolhatják a társas viszonyainkban megvalósuló kommunikációt, a kapcsolatteremtés lehetőségterének alakulását, végső soron pedig a közösségeket és a társadalmakat megtartó szolidaritást. A köznapi és tudományos diskurzusok a megoldást – többek között – a reziliencia, napjainkban divatos kifejezésében keresik. Mint minden népszerű hívószó esetében, természetesen számos értelmezési kísérlet, reflektálatlan előítélet és normatív képzet tapad ehhez a fogalomhoz is. A rezilienciát övező narratíva azonban maga is elemzés tárgyává tehető, és mint ilyen, releváns történetet mesélhet el számunkra arról, hogy milyen keretekbe ágyazott módon meséljük el magunknak a világot, amiben élünk. A tanulmányban ezt a kérdéskört járom körül, egyúttal kitérek néhány, a reziliencia fogalmával és empirikus kutatásával kapcsolatos episztemológiai és módszertani nehézségre, kérdésre is – mindezek alapján pedig javaslatot teszek a reziliencia, a rezilienciaélmény és a rezilienciaszabályozók fogalmi differenciálására.
Clergy Family Systems Training and How It Changes Clergy Leadership Attitudes and Practices
Authors:   ,   Andrews University, Aufderhar Michael
Published: April 2023

Problem. Clergy persons without an awareness of their family system patterns and reactivity often exercise their leadership in unhealthy ways that are damaging to their congregations. This study described changes in leadership attitudes and practices experienced by clergy participants in a Family Systems training program conducted by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Method. This qualitative case study followed a narrative design. I collected data while participating in the program and 3 years later conducted semi-structured person-to-person interviews with all participants who were willing and available. The data also include drawings by each participant depicting their experience before and after the intervention. The constant comparative method was used to code data into emergent themes. Internal validity was enhanced by using triangulation, member checks, clarifying researcher bias, rich/thick description, and including discrepant information. Composite narratives were created as alternative representations to represent the themes from the data while protecting the identity of the participants. Images of the changes experienced in clergy leadership attitudes and practices can be formed by the reader and provide the ability to assess whether the results of this analysis fit a particular situation, thus providing external validity. Results. The clergy persons in this study experienced eight different positive changes in their leadership attitudes and practices through learning and applying Clergy Family Systems Theory. They found the concepts in the training program to be highly relevant to their personal and professional lives and expressed a very high Overall Value of the experience. After the program they found they were more aware of systems issues in real settings and also more aware of their own reactive patterns. These awarenesses contributed to their being Less Reactive, Less Anxious, Less Entangled, Less Taking Things Personally, Less Blaming, More Understanding, More Calm, and More Calming. Conclusions. This study has shown that clergy persons participating in a continuing education program on Family Systems Theory applied to clergy and congregations found dramatic improvements in their leadership attitudes and practices in their congregations. They believe that this training has provided the “most valuable tool” in their “ministry toolboxes.” This study shows that clergy and their families, church leaders at all levels, and those responsible for educating and training clergy should pursue similar programs to strengthen the relational health and mission effectiveness of Christian churches.
An Evaluation of Health Behavior Change During a General Education Health Course
Authors:   ,   Andrews University, Merklin Lynn
Published: April 2023

Problem. There have been no studies as to the effectiveness of the one-credit general education health course at Andrews University, Fit for Life, in promoting the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors. Because behavior change is a process that occurs over time, any measurement of student health behaviors must be sensitive enough to detect the early stages of behavior change as well as the behaviors themselves. Method. The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which students enrolled in Fit for Life adopted the health behaviors promoted in the course, evidenced by progress through the stages of change, as described by the transtheoretical model. This was a descriptive evaluation study utilizing a mixed-methods approach with simultaneous quantitative and qualitative methodology. The Health Risk Intervention survey, modified to meet the needs of undergraduate students, was used in a pretest/posttest design to measure the stages of change for Fit for Life students and controls for nine health behaviors. Face-to-face interviews were conducted at the beginning and end of the course with five Fit for Life students to validate and corroborate the results of the survey. Results. Participation in the Fit for Life course was significantly correlated with higher stages of change for getting optimal sleep (R = .200) and for fruit and vegetable consumption (R = .145) at posttest. Students also reported significantly higher rates of stress management than controls 2(1) = 4.205). Overall, Fit for Life students progressed through the stages of change for significantly more health behaviors (t(167) = 4.420, p < .001), and reported practicing significantly more health behaviors at the end of the course than did controls (t(167) = 2.582, p = .011). Besides the statistically significant changes, half of all students stated that they were exercising more and half said they were eating better as a direct result of the course. Significant differences were seen between males and females, with females less likely to exercise regularly than males (R = -.276). Significant differences were also observed between ethnic groups, with Hispanic students being less likely to exercise regularly (R = -.150), and Asian students being less likely to be practicing depression prevention (R = -.199), less likely to be managing their stress (R = -.214), and more likely to have used or be using alcohol (R = -.209). Conclusion. The Fit for Life course was effective at promoting behavior change among its students. Most students made progress through the stages of behavior change for one or more health behaviors. This progress was corroborated by student comments about changes they had made in their health behaviors, such as getting more exercise, eating better, being more aware of what they ate, getting better sleep, and practicing stress management.
Characteristics of British financial legislation and implications of changes in financial supervision method in Korea
Authors:   United European Research Society, Kim Bongchul
Published: April 2023

Financial regulation and financial policy are actively discussed not only just in Korea but also all over the world. In the United Kingdom, known as a traditional financial powerhouse, combines the financial and the IT sector by applying its own dual supervisory system without using an integrated financial supervisory model commonly referred to as international standards.
In addition, the UK emphasizes future-oriented principles through reflection and evaluation of financial supervision. For example, implements incubator and accelerator development policies to support financial tech companies, and unregulated space policies to produce innovative new financial products in the market. As a result, it has grown into a center of fintech startups, and in 2013, the growth rate of financial technology investment in the UK and Ireland exceeded 600%, showing a steep rise.
Various policies based on the UK's dualized supervisory system as above have many implications for Korean finance. First, the UK's central bank-centered soundness regulation system can be a solution to secure the independence of current Korean regulatory agencies. Second, if work is divided between soundness regulators and corporate behavior regulators, the part of policy responsibility can be improved. Third, unregulated space can be a solution for growth and financial stability in the Korean fintech sector. Finally, innovative financial reforms led by the government can help Korea's rapid and effective financial stability.
Unlike the UK, Korea implements an integrated supervisory system, but by analyzing the above UK cases, it is likely to be an alternative to solve the problems of financial regulations in Korea's current situation.
Usage of agricultural inputs in sugarcane producers of the ejido Jaeros, state of veracruz, México
Authors: López Escudero Roberto de Jesús , Inurreta Aguirre Héctor Daniel , Torres Tadeo Cesar Mauricio , López Romero Gustavo , Lango Reynoso Verónica
Published: April 2023

Objective: in this research, we assessed the level of organic inputs usage in contrast to chemical inputs in sugarcane producers at the ejido Jareros, Veracruz, in the municipality of Ursulo Galvan.

Design/methodology/approach: Through surveys, a descriptive statistical analysis was conducted on the main socioeconomic aspects of the sugarcane producers in the ejido and an analysis of the means significance of the level of usage of agricultural inputs (chemical / organic) divided into five variables: pesticides, fungicides, acaricides, fertilizers and weed control.

Results: The significance value of the five variables analyzed was: pesticides (p=0.1774); fungicides (P = 0.2090); acaricides (0.3625); fertilizers (P = 0.0005) and weed control (P = 1.0000).

Limitations on study/implications:

Findings/conclusions: Based on the significance values and mean difference of the five assessed variables, it is concluded that the excessive use of nitrogenous fertilizers is the factor with the greatest potential to negatively impact the environmental and edaphic deterioration of arable soils in the Jareros ejido, State of Veracruz, Mexico.
Theoretical Interpretation of the Role and Place of Private Companies in the Processes of System Formation in the Economy
Authors: Vaslavskiy Yan I.
Published: April 2023

The purpose of the presented study is to develop the new theoretical approaches to determining the role and place of private companies in the processes of system formation in the economy. Within the framework of the goal set, on the basis of dialectical logic and the conclusions of system theories, the author made an attempt to dialectically connect the ability of self-sufficient companies to self-structuring their internal organization with the mechanism of downward causation, and to self-development (to endless self-motion) and with the mechanism of upward causation. Based on developments in institutional economic theory, the article examines the possibilities of self-sufficient companies for self-structuring and endless self-promotion through integration into a community of their own kind in modern economic systems. The thesis is substantiated by integration of private companies that makes it possible to understand the dialectic of interaction between the conservative structure-forming element represented by the state and always mobile, rapidly changing labile elementary composition of systems represented by modern self-sufficient companies that participate in relationships, some of which become structural. Particular attention is paid to the theoretical formulation of the issue of changing the role of private business in the context of societal crisis of post-COVID reality. It is shown that the state, as a conservative principle in the processes of system formation in the economy, is in a contradictory unity with private companies as elements of the system, without which there would be no structure, and, consequently, the state. At the same time, without the state, the system would never become integrity, since the structure is engaged in its provision, and without this, private firms would be deprived of the future, since there would be no process of system formation. In this context, it is concluded that the state and private companies represent a typical dialectical pair that predetermines the formation, change and transformation of man-made systems.
Teacher's Perspective towards EFL Students' Speaking Performance in Post Covid-19 Pandemic Era
Authors: Fauziyah Hilda , Gozali Agus , Degeng Putu Dian Danayanti
Published: April 2023

When learning English, speaking is one of the English skills which is important to learn. Learning to speak will make students able to communicate with others and know what happens in the world. In fact, learning to speak is more challenging than learning other skills in English. In order to speak effectively, students need to practice their speaking regularly. However, the appearance of Covid-19 limits students to practice their speaking face-to-face. After teachers and students adapt to online learning for 2 years, suddenly learning process back to offline learning with certain regulations. Due to that problem, this descriptive qualitative study came up intending to explore the perspective of the teacher regarding EFL students’ speaking performance in the pandemic context and the factors affecting it. Using semi-structured interviews as the instrument, an English teacher who teaches English pre, during, and post-pandemic in SMA Widya Gama Malang has been interviewed in this research. The results of this study revealed that reading material has an impact on students’ speaking performance, the difference in students’ self-confidence during and after the pandemic, students’ willingness to speak during and after the pandemic from the teacher’s perspective, ICT is the best multimedia factor for improving speaking performance, and there is no fixed teaching methodology for teaching speaking.
Digital Storytelling as an Alternative Teaching Technique to Develop Vocabulary Knowledge of EFL Learners
Authors: Br Sembiring Desty Laura , Simajuntak Debora Chaterine
Published: April 2023

Developing vocabulary is crucial because it allows a student to be proficient in four areas (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Students will not significantly improve their English language abilities if they lack the necessary vocabulary. The purpose of this study is to determine whether digital storytelling (DST) can replace traditional classroom instruction as a means of enhancing vocabulary knowledge. The study was carried out by utilizing a comparative research design. The participants aged from 13 to 14 years old and took grades 7 A and B of SMP N 3 Parongpong Junior High School. Pre-test, treatments, and post-tests were used to gather study data. From the results of the pre-test, it can be seen the participants' initial abilities were in a bad category with a score of less than 69. According to the initial results, this study aimed to show that the research had a significant impact on students' post-test performance as compared to their pre-test performance. The study's findings indicated that using digital storytelling helps learners in the experimental class grow their vocabulary knowledge and establish it. Throughout the treatment, learners who were taught using DST outperformed those who were not taught using DST. Furthermore, it was observed that the group with DST had a positive opinion on the utilization of digital storytelling in the classroom. The results also show how well digital storytelling involves students in the learning process.
Age of Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis and associated factors
Authors: Stojanovska Irena
Published: April 2023

Introduction The mean age of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis varies globally and the factors affecting it are inconsistent across populations and studies. Aim Quantitative research was undertaken to investigate the age ASD was diagnosed and some possibly related factors, in a sample from Macedonia. Methods A web-based survey was conducted among 103 parents of 103 individuals with ASD, from December 2021 to May 2022. Socio-demographic characteristics of parents/families and demographic and medical characteristics of individuals with ASD were reported through an anonymous questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and non-parametric inferential statistical tests were used to analyse data. Results The median age of the ASD sample was 10 years and most individuals (47.57%) had moderately severe ASD. In 39.81% ASD was diagnosed by a psychiatrist/neuropsychiatrist, in 37.86% by several professionals, while paediatricians/developmental paediatricians were the source of diagnosis in only 2.91%. Over half of the individuals with ASD (51.46%) received the diagnosis before the age of 4, while around 17% received the diagnosis after the age of 6. The level of education of the parents, family living location, gender, current age and severity of ASD were not found to be associated with the age of diagnosis. Conclusion Nearly 1/5 of the sample was diagnosed comparatively late ‒ at school age. However, characteristics pertaining to parents/families and to individuals with ASD, did not significantly affect the age of diagnosis. Possible influence of other, external factors (e.g., awareness and vigilance among professionals, availability of early screening programs) is acknowledged and will be included in further research.
Educação e as TICs: a aplicação do aplicativo WhatsApp como ferramenta no processo de ensino e aprendizagem
Authors: Gomes Edvan do Nascimento
Published: April 2023

Este artigo apresenta um estudo envolvendo a utilização do WhatsApp como ferramenta de apoio no processo de ensino e aprendizagem nas escolas. Durante o período de isolamento social, provocado pela pandemia da COVID-19, a escola precisou se reinventar adotando métodos que possibilitam a continuação do processo de ensino, que se deu através das TICs. Nesse mesmo período, a EaD ganhou espaço considerável e as aulas remotas, síncronas e assíncronas se tornaram a saída que muitas escolas usaram para se sobressair com a utilização de metodologias ativas, possibilitando que os estudantes se tornassem produtores do próprio conhecimento. Entre as ferramentas tecnológicas e plataformas digitais utilizadas em sala de aula, que se destacaram nesse período, está o WhatsApp. Os resultados da pesquisa, por meio de levantamento bibliográfico realizado em artigos, livros e sites da internet e baseado na experiência vivenciada pelo autor, apontam que o WhatsApp foi o aplicativo mais utilizado pelos professores e alunos na modalidade de ensino remoto.
Crianças com TEA – Transtorno do espectro autista: a importância do psicopedagogo no processo ensino aprendizagem
Authors: Santos Elisângela Maria Pereira
Published: April 2023

O TEA- transtorno do espectro autista é uma condição que compromete a capacidade de comunicação e a linguagem do ser humano om esse quadro. As crianças com esse transtorno têm dificuldade em perceber acontecimentos compartilhados ao seu redor, de expressar o que pensam ou sentem em diversas situações, têm dificuldades também de utilizar as palavras de acordo com o contexto, entre outras características que prejudicam seu desenvolvimento global. A área da Psicopedagogia estuda a relação entre a mente humana e aprendizagem. O profissional trabalha tentando entender dificuldades e melhorar os processos de assimilação de conhecimento e aprendizagem. O acesso à informação ajuda as pessoas que lidam com crianças com TEA, os pais, professores e familiares dessas crianças, auxiliam a conhecer melhor as características do transtorno e como lidar com ele. O trabalho visa a contribuição da mediação do psicopedagogo no ambiente inclusivo escolar. O principal objetivo do trabalho é a busca de informação para desmistificar o preconceito com relação ao tema, e ainda demonstrar que é possível conviver com crianças com TEA de maneira natural, também conhecer o papel do Psicopedagogo educacional e a sua relação prática com os educandos. A escolha do tema foi pensando em formas de contribuição para o ensino, já que atualmente o índice de transtornos tem sido mais frequente em ambientes escolares.
Editorial
Authors: Souza Thais Regina Ravazi de , Santos João Marcelo de Almeida
Published: April 2023

A Revista REBESDE é um repositório acadêmico que proporciona aos pesquisadores compartilharem com a comunidade em geral seus estudos em prol da cientificidade. Por este motivo uma nova edição, o volume um de 2022 é lançado com grande satisfação pelo idealizadores da mesma. Este volume dá continuidade nas publicações de artigos originais ou de revisão, discutindo academicamente sobre diversificados temas relacionados a Educação Física, a Saúde e ao Desempenho Humano. Em especial, nesta edição destacamos as contribuições advindas da Educação Física Escolar, uma vez que a Educação Física faz parte dos componentes curriculares promulgados pela Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), sendo adequados, de forma geral, à área de linguagem juntamente com outros componentes, como por exemplo a Língua Portuguesa. Outro assunto exposto nos estudos desta revista, está relacionado ao SUS – Sistema único de Saúde, espaço este destinado ao atendimento básico da comunidade. Os trabalhos publicados nesta revista são oriundos de pesquisadores de áreas como a Educação Física, a Pedagogia e a Educação. O que a revista REBESDE almeja é ser uma fonte de dados com excelência para pesquisadores e apreciadores de estudos correspondentes às temáticas do periódico. Reafirmamos nosso compromisso com a pesquisa em Educação Física, Saúde e Desempenho, no âmbito da graduação, da pós-graduação ou da intervenção. Boa leitura a todos!