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#UNMASKEDSELFIESINSOLIDARITY: FROM SELF CARE TO COLLECTIVE	CARE—AFFECTIVE ARTIVISM, NETWORKED BELONGING AND MOBILE MEDIA PARTICIPATORY ART.
Authors: Lanson Klare Louise
Published: October 2020

Contemporary mobile media affords new insights into the social, critical, cultural and creative practice methods. With the continual rise of social practice in art which sees the “social” and “experience” as the medium, smartphones have become an increasingly important device for information dissemination, collective dialogue and poetic expression. This paper considers these insights through the lively and multivalent discussion of participatory art project entitled $2 (2020) as case study. It is situated within the community of **** University international students, local students, staff and friends during the recent outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, a global health event that has had significant socio-cultural, economic, and political impacts. It employs one of the most pervasive barometers of popular culture today, the selfie. Moving through related topics such as facial recognition and digital parenting, the $2 team recognise that now more than ever, we need transformative work to engage in collective care. In essence, this project has created an affective listening network to make the unheard heard, to voice personal concerns, and to show empathy for the broader community affected by this global health crisis. $2 openly supports international students caught in the crossfire of strict new travel restrictions imposed by the Government. We critically reflect on how art is a socially transformative process, through its messages of care alongside messages from Chinese students suffering anxiety and isolation, waiting for the travel bans to be lifted, a tempering of the stigma and racism accompanying the coronavirus event here in $2 .
OBJECTIFYING THE PLATFORM SOCIETY: INVESTIGATING USERS’ PERCEPTION OF	SMART SPEAKERS' ALGORITHMIC SUGGESTIONS AND DATA PROCESSING
Authors: Locatelli Elisabetta
Published: October 2020

Smart speakers are one the latest products of platforms and have the capability to quickly connect platforms, algorithms, people, and households together. The frame of $2 was developed to understand the agency of platforms (corporations based on technological infrastructures guided by algorithms) that have influence on the whole society itself. We can argue, thus, that smart speakers can be conceptualized as devices that objectify the logics of platform society into households because they are produced and programmed by a platform that provides also the operating system and the personal assistant installed, becoming an extension of the platform itself. Due to the fast diffusion of smart speakers, there is the need to investigate their adoption process and user’s perception of algorithmic selection and data processing. The research here presented was one of the first about the subject in Italy and studied the diffusion of smart speakers in Italy with a multi-sided methodology. It let to investigate also the role of smart speakers in reproducing the power of algorithms into households. Research results showed that users were taking for granted some algorithmic logic and appreciated it (like for basic information search or for music selection). They indicated also that the mechanisms of voice interaction made clear some limits of the algorithmic customization and led users to start to be more conscious of it (for example about news selection or vocal search for purchases) and to elaborate strategies to reduce its influence.
LIVENESS AND DEADNESS IN SOCIAL MEDIA: ON THE PERCEIVED LACK OF LIFE	OF THE INFINITE STREAM
Authors: Lupinacci Ludmila
Published: October 2020

Social media fuel a sense of constant updating to encourage uninterrupted connectivity and generate quantifiable engagement. This paper is concerned with the habitual character acquired by these platforms, and with how this is paradoxically constructed by prompting a permanent state of anticipation. The aim is to explore, with a phenomenological sensibility, the experiences that emerge in settings of continuous connectedness from the perspective of the people who use these technologies in the context of everyday life – i.e. the ‘users’. Theoretically, the entry point is to revisit the claim of liveness and to position it as a central resource in this process. Empirically, I draw from the thematic analysis of data collected through the diary-interview method with people who live in London and use a range of social media to examine both how this urge of continuous connectedness operates and the ambivalent experiences it generates. I discuss, in particular, the finding that the use of social media is often described as aimless and pointless – which means that, in a research centrally concerned with liveness (with what feels animated, pulsating, injected with life), one of the most commonly observed experiences is that of deadness, lifelessness. This lack of life of social media is described both as a result of the presence of too many potentially interesting things, and as the platforms’ incapacity to deliver anything interesting at all.
HUMAN-MACHINE WRITING AND THE ETHICS OF LANGUAGE MODELS
Authors: McKee Heidi A. , Porter James E.
Published: October 2020

Increasingly, online information is produced by AI-based writing systems such as the Washington Post newswriting bot, Heliograf; Narrative Science's report writing app, Quill; Persado’s marketing copy app, and chat and twitterbots too numerous to name. What are the implications—for us, for our society—as we enter the age of AI writing systems, an era moving rapidly toward a world in which writing is produced mostly by machines rather than humans? What are the ethical implications of these developments? Our research on AI-based writing systems is based on (1) critical analysis of the systems themselves and on (2) interviews with the designers and users of these systems. Our analysis draws from the field of machine ethics, as well as communication/language theory. In our presentation we will discuss several AI-writing systems (e.g., GPT-2, Persado, Quill, Google Compose), focusing especially on the language model or "informational framework" (Russo, 2018) that supports their operation. What our research reveals, so far, is that, not surprisingly, these systems are more effective (and ethical) handling well-defined tasks in bounded spaces, with well-established genre conventions, clearly identified audience needs and expectations, and predictable interaction scripts. What we also see is that too often the language models employed are based on a reductive, formalist model of text generation. AI-writing system designers need to move beyond formalist, linear input/output models to more complex social models that account for the broader contexts, including the ethical codes, in which communications arise and circulate.
WHAT DOES #FREEDOM LOOK LIKE? INSTAGRAM AND THE VISUAL IMAGINATION OF	VALUES
Authors: Scharlach Rebecca , Trillo Tommaso , Mizoroki Saki , Kim Bumsoo , Hallinan Blake , Frosh Paul , Shifman Limor
Published: October 2020

Instagram is the place for the visualization of everything, from travel and food to abstract concepts such as compassion or freedom. While visualizing the abstract is not new, the platform has introduced a bottom-up process where users co-produce image repertoires that shape the boundaries of the imaginable. In this paper, we address an unexplored question about this process: which visual repertoires are associated with value-related terms on Instagram? We studied twenty widely used value hashtags, sampling the top 100 posts for each of them (N=2000). A combined qualitative-quantitative content analysis revealed that 19 of the 20 hashtags possessed a distinct visual footprint. These watermarks shared an orientation towards the self and an emphasis on consumption. We conclude by discussing three implications of our findings: the power of images to narrow the imagination of values, the distinction between “internalized” and “externalized” value depictions, and the meta-value of “aestheticized consumption” on Instagram.
"TASTE THIS VIDEO!": FACEBOOK VIDEOS AS EMBODIED EXPERIENCES.
Authors: Schlussel Hadas , Frosh Paul
Published: October 2020

Videos are among the most widely used media formats on Facebook. Yet little research has been done on their aesthetic and formal attributes, and especially on how they operate within the frameworks of attention, interruption and embodied interaction specific to social media interfaces. This paper examines recipe videos published on Tasty, one of the most popular Facebook pages in the world. We analyze these videos through a novel three-dimensional model that integrates their semiotic characteristics (visual, auditory and textual), their interactive and haptic qualities, and their invitation to perceptual engagement and sensorimotor response. We conclude that Facebook recipe videos are exemplary of a broader category of social media videos which we call $2 : these create heightened multisensory experiences that take precedent over informational use or narrative involvement, revealing the deeply physical character of our connections to social media and a yearning for embodied presence in what we might call our online-life.
FEMME LIFE ON THE SCREEN: ONLINE METHODS FOR SUBCULTURAL RESEARCH AND	SURVIVAL
Authors: Schwartz Andi
Published: October 2020

In this presentation, I will share key findings from my dissertation research on femme internet culture. Following the conference theme, this presentation will focus on the use of online methods for documenting subcultural life, and online subculture’s ability to make life more liveable for marginalized subjects. In this project, I define “femme” as a queer identity that is marked by a critical and political engagement with femininity that manifests through one’s style and values. I used Ulrika Dahl’s (2011) femme-inist ethnography methodology to conceptualize a study of “one’s own community.” In this presentation, I will focus on key findings about femme memes and online femme networks. My research demonstrates that through a study of a subculture’s memes, we can come to learn much about the group’s values, norms, and boundaries. Memes allow individuals to see one’s self, identity, or experiences reflected, or be “in on the joke.” Femmes recognize the experiences specific to femme subjectivity (ie. femme invisibility) communicated through memes and feel a sense of connection with one another. In addition, my research offers further evidence of the value of online communities for marginalized subjects. The femmes in my study used online connections to combat geographical isolation, create intergenerational bonds, and even find a reason to stay alive. My research shows that the technological affordances of Instagram continue to make online communities valuable. In addition, online methods are valuable tools to develop deeper insight into existing subcultures, especially those that are marginalized in more mainstream and/or public arenas.
MONETIZING RELATIONSHIPS: STREAMING ALONE WITH ALL OF YOUR	FRIENDS
Authors: Skardzius Karen
Published: October 2020

This paper is derived from a larger project that examines the experiences of women who live-stream video games on the Twitch.tv platform. To date, much of the research that has been done in the area of streaming is concerned with streamers who have a large following and/or derive their main source of income from streaming. Rather than directing more attention to those streamers who have attained ‘success’ as Twitch would frame it, this study is centered around a group of streamers unique from those who are typically the focus. First, I discuss the ways monetization influences community building. Second, I discuss some of the implications of paying for attention. Third, I discuss the pressure streamers feel to perform a particular kind of authenticity around monetization. Finally, I will discuss how monetization creates friction and competition between streamers. This work contributes the perspectives of 5 women whose experiences have been largely overlooked by existing research about streaming, as well as the analysis of another 50 Twitch channels run by women from diverse backgrounds and streaming interests. These findings demonstrate that the monetization features available to streamers and the everyday practices that have emerged through Twitch centered around monetization have a lot of influence over how people relate to each other, even for those streamers who are not trying to monetize their channels.
UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE: USERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE PRIVACY AND	SURVEILLANCE
Authors: Standlee Alecea Irene
Published: October 2020

This project seeks to contribute to the question, “How do internet users navigate data privacy in a digitally surveilled online world?” I augment this ongoing discussion by examining the perceptions and practices concerning privacy and self-representation in digital spaces among young adults, 18-22. This qualitative work utilizes in-depth interviews of college students in the United States to collect both behavioral and attitudinal patterns. Specifically, I consider the impact of the strategic interventions of corporate and governmental platforms to collect, distribute, and utilize individual level data on research participants’ information consumption, individual identity representation, and group affiliation. A preliminary analysis of the data finds participants engage in narrative rationalizations to help them navigate the cultural expectations of online engagement within a surveilled environment. Patterns of strategic self-representation are shaped by such rationalizations and justifications, including a fundamental shift in what the concept "privacy" means in an online world.
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES OF WORK-RELATED IMPACTS TO DIGITAL WELL-BEING BY	SOCIAL MEDIA PROFESSIONALS - A PILOT STUDY
Authors: Sutherland Karen Elizabeth
Published: October 2020

The pervasiveness of social media has resulted in the establishment of a new career sector to manage the digital marketing, communications, public relations and advertising activities for businesses, nonprofits and high-profile individuals (McCosker, 2017). Consequently, the lines between work and personal lives have blurred, when constant connection and working across time-zones can be job requirements for workers providing social media support. Studies investigating digital labour, boundary management and Post-Fordism have explored technology’s impact on working conditions, but few have specifically examined the perspectives of social media professionals within the context of 'digital well-being', defined as "...the ability to look after personal health, safety, relationships and work-life balance in digital settings". This pilot study provides an insight into the perceptions of 15 social media professionals from six continents, to examine if current working conditions have impacted their health and well-being. Results indicated that most participants perceived the responsibility for digital well-being to be equally shared between employer and employee. However, the majority of the sample reported experiencing the inability to disconnect from work during their personal time, feelings of stress when managing live events/campaigns, including live-streaming, and being exposed to negative comments and messages when managing online communities. Only three out of the 15 social media professionals interviewed identified measures implemented at their workplaces to promote digital well-being, suggesting employers may perceive their duty-of-care ends when social media professionals leave work for the day even though their responsibilities can follow them home.
DISSOLVED CLOUDS: ERICSSON'S VAUDREUIL DATA CENTRE AND INFRASTRUCTURAL	ABANDONMENT
Authors: Velkova Julia , Brodie Patrick
Published: October 2020

The past decade has seen the accelerated growth and expansion of large-scale data centre operations across the world to support emerging consumer and business data and computation needs. These buildings, as infrastructures responsive to changing global economic and technological terrain, are increasingly modular, and must be built out rapidly. However, these conditions also mean that their paths to obsolescence are shortened, their lifespans dependent on shifting corporate strategies and advances in consumer technology. This paper theorises and empirically explores material, infrastructural abandonment that emerges in this process of data centre construction across different geographical contexts. To do so, we analyse the socio-material construction of an international network of large-scale data centres by global telecom giant Ericsson, and the abrupt abandonment and suspension of one of its nodes in Vaudreuil, Québec in 2017 after only nine months of operation. Employing autoethnography, site visits, and qualitative interviews with data centre architects and staff in Sweden and Canada, we argue that the ruins of abandoned 'cloud' infrastructure represent the disjunction between the 'promise' of digital infrastructure for local communities and the market interests of digital companies. With its focus, the paper takes ruination and discard as perspectives through which to understand the complexity of emergent datafied futures and the socio-technical reshaping of internet infrastructures.
EVOLVING IDENTITY ECONOMIES IN SOCIAL VIRTUAL WORLDS
Authors: Won Andrea Stevenson , Davis Donna Zimmerman
Published: October 2020

It is only in the past few years that the public has had much access to embodied, immersive, social virtual worlds through consumer virtual reality hardware. While these new experiences are still restricted to those who can access the proper equipment and have sufficient network connectivity, academics and others have rushed to explore and explain them. A rich history of experimental research scaffolds our understanding of what the experience of embodiment in an avatar brings to social experiences in immersive virtual reality. However, properly understanding these phenomena will also require a deep understanding of the history of social virtual worlds. Historically, platform constraints and affordances have influenced how people experience and express the social self in virtual worlds, and this has resulted in different “places” having different cultures, norms, and behaviors. We discuss how these cultures and norms may affect what users expect from an embodied experience, and how these expectations in turn will affect their concerns about privacy and identity. Specifically, different virtual cultures will result in different forms of “identity economies” in which users will either pay or exchange data to achieve embodiment. To illustrate, we discuss two models of embodied virtual reality worlds. We propose that this framing will help us to better understand how virtual worlds have evolved and are experienced now; how they may be studied, and how they may continue to evolve in the future as VR technologies create new experiences, affordances and limitations.
LIVING WITH THE SMARTPHONE: RELIGIOUS MUSLIM FAMILIES IN ISRAEL	PRACTICE MOBILITY AND PIETY
Authors: Younis Muhammad , Ribak Rivka , Abu Baker Khaula
Published: October 2020

We explore practices and meanings involved in the adoption of the smartphone among religious Muslim families in Israel, analyzing interviews conducted with 25 families (91 members) that belong to an ethnic and national minority in the country. Our analysis suggests that the adoption of the smartphone involves a multilayered interpretive work. We focus on the family, asking how its members negotiate a medium that undermines traditional parental and religious authorities, while providing them with intense and renewed ways of practicing their familial ties and religious commitments. As against the backdrop of several mostly quantitative studies of Palestinian Arabs in Israel, we analyze our respondents’ discourse in order to outline the intricate relationships between mothers and fathers; between siblings; between parents and their children, and the children’s imagined peer group; and between the interviewees and their extended family. We complement this analysis with a focus on religion, describing a range of Muslim mobile apps that allow our interviewees to practice their religion, as well as widely used apps – mostly WhatsApp groups – which afford virtual gatherings for promoting charity, pilgrimage and Quran reading. The analysis highlights the particular tensions that are woven into our interviewees’ uses: they are concerned over their participation in social media, the authenticity of the texts they encounter, and their relationships with local and trans-local religious authorities. These questions are implicated in Muslim doctrines and in the predicament of Palestinian Arab families in Israel – and in the affordances of social media and online mobile phones.
Abramos espacios y aproximemos las brechas, en la formación académica de los Docentes, creando comunidades/unidades de aprendizajes en los Departamentos docentes
Authors: Aburto Jarquín Pedro Alberto
Published: October 2020

Las comunidades de aprendizajes en las universidades han surgido espontáneamente, sin ningún ordenamiento que potencialice su importancia en su funcionamiento académico tanto para la institución como, para todos los actores que intervienen en el proceso de aprendizaje: Directivos, Profesorado, estudiantado, trabajadores administrativos y miembros de la comunidad o de la sociedad. Resultan ser un instrumento poderoso para sistematizar la historia académica de la institución y el papel que juega cada unidad y cada protagonista en función del cambio de la calidad educativa en la formación de los profesionales.
A produção periódica científica afiliada ao Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA) na base de dados Scopus (2009-2018)
Authors: Freitas Juliana Lazzarotto , Rosas Fábio Sampaio , Mendes Sérgio Lucena
Published: October 2020

Introdução: Apresenta-se, como objeto de análise, a produção de artigos científicos afiliados ao Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA), nova denominação do Museu de Biologia Professor Mello Leitão (MBML). Objetiva-se reconhecer a visibilidade, o impacto e as relações temáticas e colaborativas estabelecidas pela pesquisa do INMA ao longo de dez anos (2009-2018). Parte-se da seguinte questão: como se configura essa produção científica no que tange a áreas temáticas prioritárias, periódicos, autores, instituições e países mais produtivos e, ainda, qual seu impacto pelas citações recebidas? Método: Adotam-se os estudos métricos da informação como metodologia de coleta e análise, identificando-se um corpus de 73 artigos vinculados ao INMA pela afiliação institucional de seus pesquisadores no período de dez anos. Utiliza-se a base de dados Scopus para identificação dessa produção e, também, a base de dados Scival como instrumento para geração de indicadores. Resultados: Destaca-se que a produção afiliada ao INMA apresenta índices de internacionalização expressivos, visto que está publicada em 72% de periódicos internacionais. Além disso, o corpus recebe uma média de citações elevada (4,22 citações por artigo). As pesquisas com maior número de citações apresentam impacto superior à média de citação dos periódicos em que estão veiculadas. As relações interinstitucionais e entre autores constroem-se alinhadas ao escopo temático e histórico do Instituto, consolidando áreas e tendências de pesquisa nos domínios da zoologia e da botânica. Conclusão: O perfil da produção científica retratada contribui como elemento estratégico para a consolidação da memória de pesquisa do INMA.
Financial Accounting, Analysis and Features of Calculations With Personnel
Authors: Gareeva Gulnara A. , Grigoreva Diana R. , Mahmutov Ilnur I.
Published: October 2020

One of the main factors of the effectiveness of the enterprise is the staff. Competent accounting and analysis of calculations with staff for other operations can significantly affect the final financial activities of any organization. The calculations with the staff are not a less important component of the final report of the organization, on the basis of which the profit is formed. All this leads to whether the company conducts effective financial activity or not. The organization's calculations with employees for other operations include payments for merchandise paid by it to merchants, for goods purchased by employees with payment by installments at the expense of the credit received by the organization in the bank, on loans issued to employees. It also involves payments for individual housing construction, the purchase or construction of garden houses, the acquisition of a household. The main aim is to recover material damage caused by an employee of the organization as a result of shortages and theft of monetary and material values and other types of damage. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were solved: the theoretical basis for accounting for loans granted, for material damage compensation was considered, the company was analyzed. In this paper, we consider the main aspects of the management of personnel by other operations, their competent accounting, as well as analysis based on the average statistical data of companies in Russia (Gareeva & Grigoreva, 2019).
Audit Committee Features and CSR Disclosure: Additional Evidence From an Emerging Market
Authors: Qaderi Sumaia Ayesh , Alhmoud Turki Raji , Ghaleb Belal Ali Abdulraheem
Published: October 2020

This study aims to measure the level of corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRDL) in an emerging market, Jordan. It also aims to investigate the effect of audit committee (AC) features on CSRDL. The study’s data, obtained from annual reports, comprises 576 company-year observations from industrial and services companies listed on the Amman stock exchange for the period 2011 to 2016. Content analysis is used to measure CSRDL, and multiple regression techniques to test the proposed relationships. The results show that CSRDL among Jordanian listed companies is low, suggesting that companies have less incentive to disclose CSR practices. Additionally, AC independence and AC ownership positively influence CSRDL. The findings from this research have limited generalisability due to the specific characteristics of the sample, which is from a developing country. However, they have implications and value for policymakers and different stakeholders interested in improving CSR initiatives. The findings are also significant in reducing agency costs and enhancing corporate transparency. Within the limits of the authors’ knowledge, this research is among the first to provide preliminary evidence on the effect of AC features on CSR disclosure in an emerging market context, specifically in Jordan.
Applying the Process Approach in the Financial Service
Authors: Dairukina K. I. , Demyanova O. V.
Published: October 2020

This article represents the utilization of the process approach in the financial service, as explained in the case of the Centralized Accounting Department of the City of Kazan Office of Cultural Affairs municipal public institution. The concept of process approach observes the activities of an organization as a set of interrelated processes. It is notable that evaluating the effectiveness of this approach's implementation is very significant. Only through the analysis of work processes can be stated as it affects the application of the measures described, leading to the subsequent development of the solutions to the problems that arise in the process of applying this approach in your organization, because the failure of one unit may lead to failure throughout the organization. It is important to note that the performance assessment performed within a single Department and described in this paper should be performed across all divisions. Because even by analyzing the processes, you can recognize issues and modify them in time. As such, the process approach is fundamental for such managerial concepts as logistics, production management, project management, quality management, and lean manufacturing philosophy. On the whole, we have attempted to recognize and eliminate losses in the process approach, which is a crucial step towards optimizing the organization's work.
The Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Financial Performance: A Moderating Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty
Authors: Dao Van-Thi , Phung Manh-Trung , Cheng Hongwei
Published: October 2020

Within recent decades, researches on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been receiving more attention over the world. The existing literature on CSR is very diverse, both in evaluating the performance of CSR activities as well as and the relationship between CSR disclosure and firms’ outcome. This paper extends the literature of the latter case, that is, not only it aims to purely examine the relationship between CSR disclosure activities and corporate financial performance (CFP), but also consider this nexus under economic policy uncertainty (EPU) context. Our primary data is collected from more than 500 listed companies in the Vietnamese stock market from 2013 through 2017, while secondary data (CSR and EPU) are self-calculated under serial criteria. Our results support the hypothesis that the more companies intensively disclose CSR, the higher financial performance (both ROA and Tobin’s Q) they could obtain. More interestingly, we find that while EPU seems to weakly moderate the relationship between CSR disclosure and “internal financial performance” (ROA), it will significantly diminish the effect of CSR toward “external financial performance” (Tobin’s Q). The research shed light on an approach to measure CSR disclosure indexes for the emerging market as in Vietnam. Our findings encourage the firm’s managers to pay more attention to CSR disclosure activities due to the positive benefit that their firm could obtain and suggest policymakers to maintain a stable economic background for a sustainable market.
The Relationship Between of Cash Flows (Financing, Investment and Operating) and Stock Prices, Size of the Firms
Authors: Sabri Tamer Bahjat , Sweis Khalid Mohammad Hasan , Ayyash Issam Naim Mahammad , Qalalwi Yasmeen Faheem Asaad , Abdullah Israa Sami Abbas
Published: October 2020

This study sought to test the relationship between cash flows from operating activities, investment activities and financial activities and on one hand and stock returns and the volume of assets on the companies listed in Palestine Stock Exchange on the other hand. The study incorporated 24 companies in 2018 and the required data were obtained through the financial statements. To test the hypotheses of the study, the Mann-Whitny U Test was used, a nonparametric test. Also the Kolmogorov-Smirnov was done. The findings demonstrated that the value of the Whitny U Test was (-3.291) Z with a statistical significance at 1%. Based on this, the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative one, stating that there is a statistically significant difference between the operating flows of companies with low assets and those companies with high assets, was accepted. However, the other null hypothesis was accepted. The study recommended that companies and investors should take into consideration cash flows when taking an investment decision in Palestine Stock Exchange.
Formation of Emotional Intelligence of the Financial Company's Employees
Authors: Nikiforova E. G. , Shakirova D. S. , Abrosimova A. D.
Published: October 2020

Today human intelligence plays an important role in management activities. "Soft skills" are the basis for creating effective horizontal and vertical communications; however, for the effective management of employees today stands out another factor – management competencies, including emotional intelligence. Due to the ability to manage emotions, the employee is capable of self-motivation, to the effective management of conflict situations, work stress, and also increases the efficiency of staff. Accordingly, understanding the emotions of employees allows the financial company to analyze their actions and adjust them to create conditions that will satisfy the needs of the staff in exchange for meeting the needs of the organization if it is necessary. When considering the features of the formation of the emotional competence of employees, we found that emotional intelligence must be developed following the developed algorithm, especially leaders. The research also provides models for managing factors, as well as methods for assessing emotional competence and the mechanism for developing emotional intelligence on the example of retail trade (hypermarket with more than 300 employees) in Kazan.
Corporate Governance, Managerial Diversion, and Indonesian State-Owned Enterprises: A Literature Review
Authors: Jahja Junino , Mohammed Nor Farizal , Lokman Norziana , Mohamed Norazida
Published: October 2020

This paper looks at managerial diversion and agency theory and how both arguments may be applied to describe the governance practices and performance of state-owned enterprise companies in Indonesia. Managers are the main focus of the approaches, on the assumption that managers tend to expropriate the firms' and shareholders' value for their own benefit instead of looking for ways to maximize shareholders' value and fulfill their stakeholders' needs. Indonesia is selected because it has the highest number of State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) companies among the ASEAN countries. The government holds more than 51 percent of the shares and has a unique governance structure with two-tier boards to manage and run the companies. Besides, most of Indonesia’s SOE companies have a tight connection with Indonesia’s political party. With these characteristics, the agency problem in Indonesia's SOE companies is more prevalent compared to other listed SOE companies. The managerial diversion, which is linked to corruption, might be the principal critical factor that hinders SOE companies from performing well. Thus, even with the introduction of a good corporate governance score by the Indonesian government, which is imposed on SOE companies, it may not be able to improve the overall financial performance of SOEs as well as governance practice in the companies. This paper's objective is to review and examine prior literature on corporate governance and managerial diversion from the perspective of state-owned enterprise companies in Indonesia.
Composite design
Authors: Clifton G. C.
Published: October 2020

This paper is the result of deliberations of the Society's Study Group for the seismic design of steel structures.
Materials and workmanship
Authors: McKay G. R.
Published: October 2020

This paper is the result of deliberations of the Society's Study Group for the seismic design of steel structures.
Aerosol Hygroscopicity on A Single Particle Level Using Microscopic and Spectroscopic Techniques: A Review
Authors: Wu Li , Ro Chul-Un
Published: October 2020

Studies on the hygroscopic properties of aerosol particles can provide critical insights into important aerosol properties such as (1) alteration of aerodynamic properties; (2) cloud-droplet nucleation efficiency; (3) optical properties; and (4) physicochemical changes through complex heterogeneous chemical reactions with atmospheric gas-phase species. Investigations of the hygroscopic properties have been carried out using various analytical techniques for individual or bulk aerosol particles with deviating chemical compositions. Solid information on the hygroscopic properties, morphology, and chemical composition of airborne particles on a micrometer scale can be achieved by using a single particle approach. In this short review, recent microscopic (such as optical microscope, atomic force microscopy, environmental SEM and TEM, and scanning transmission X-ray microscopy) and spectroscopic (including Raman microspectrometry, FTIR spectroscopy, and their combination with levitation techniques) studies of hygroscopicity of aerosol particles on a single particle level are provided.
Air Quality Variation in Daegu, Korea During the Outbreak of COVID-19 and its Health Risk Assessment
Authors: Ma Chang-Jin , Kang Gong-Unn
Published: October 2020

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), first reported in Wuhan, China, became pandemic in less than two months, and Korea was no exception. Daegu Metropolitan City, in particular, has become the center of the explosive outbreak in Korea. In this study, we evaluated how the air quality of Daegu Metropolitan City varied when people were fighting the spread of COVID-19. In concretely, we tried to estimate the air quality variation with the trend of COVID-19 in Daegu Metropolitan City based on the measured data at hourly intervals from two air quality monitoring stations (AQMSs) (see Fig. 2). In addition, we quantitatively assessed the positive health effects of improved air quality from fighting against COVID-19. Compared to the concentration in the same period of 2019, the PM2.5 measured at the ambient AQMS decreased by 36.7, 22.5, and 37.6% respectively in January, February, and March. Meanwhile, those at the road side AQMS were 39.9, 23.7, and 40.3% in January, February, and March, respectively. The decreasing trend was not shown in April. Along with the floating population, the concentration of NO2 at the road side AQMS decreased from 49.9 ppb to 32.7 ppb, indicating that the reduction rate was 34.5%. The summed concentration of seven hazardous metals decreased by 27.4% in February 2020 compared to 2019. Among them, lead showed the biggest drop to 43.4% in 2002 compared to 2019. The exposure of PM2.5, Dose
PM2.5 (µg), during 60 days of self-reflection for 10-year-old children has decreased by 29.6% compared to that in the same period of 2019. The results of adult females and males also show 27, 8% and 29.5% decrease, respectively.
A Study of Canopy Urban Heat Island of Baghdad, Iraq
Authors: Tawfeek Yasmin Q. , Jasim Farah Hasseb , Al-Jiboori Monim H.
Published: October 2020

Based on different two sets of data such as Landsat satellite imageries and daily air temperatures at 2 m high, canopy urban heat island (CUHI) phenomenon was investigated over Baghdad city for time span of three years: 2008, 2013 and 2019. The detection of changes in built-up areas was carried out to extract built-up index using ArcGIS 10.4.1 software with an overall accuracy of 94%. The results show that the built-up areas in the surface of the city have been increased from 621.7 km2 in 2008 to 727.3 km2 in 2019. This increase with high population density produced adverse thermal effects on atmospheric environment represented by CUHI. This was verified by analyzing daily, season and annual means of air temperature at the same years above measured at two different places: 1) urban site located at city center (Mustansiriyah University) and 2) rural site at the countryside of the city (International Baghdad Airport). Using the difference in daily temperatures between the two sites, the intensity of CUHI is computed. The results showed that the maximum daily CUHI is found in summer month (July) in 2019 with value 3.4°C, while the annual means are ranged from 1.5 (in both 2008 and 2013) to 2.4°C (in 2019). Finally, CUHI intensity is related with population density and built-up index in nonlinear variation.
THE SOVIETIZATION OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN POLAND 1944-1950
Authors: Lityński Adam
Published: October 2020

The “Big Three’s” (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) Jalta, Crimea (February, 1945) Agreement, gave away Central and Eastern Europe to Stalin. Stalin promised free elections. For appearances’ sake, the law from 1939 was used. However, new standards form USSR were brought. Communists were supposed to implement them in Poland. Slowly, courts were dependent on the governing communist party. This process can be considered as completed in 1950. It was perpetuated in Constitution of the Polish People’s Republic from 1952. The courts’ main goal was to use repression, not to mete out justice. The Author shows it in the article.
THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM BASED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – FROM GALICIA TO THE THIRD POLISH REPUBLIC. SELECTED ISSUES
Authors: Maj Elżbieta A.
Published: October 2020

Social security is not only the key trend of social policy but also a significant domain of internal and national security. This type of security, correlated with social protection, both in the past and nowadays, is based on the public and social grounds. Its dimension harmonizing with the changing political and economic conditions took a subsidiary form, then a paternalistic one, to reach ultimately an auxiliary character, drawing on the best models developed on the grounds of our state’s history.
Contribuições de um Plugin do tipo Report para a Identificação do Risco de Evasão no AVA Moodle com base em Visualização de Dados
Authors: De Souza Brito Maria Tatiane , Alencar de Medeiros Francisco Petrônio , Bezerra Ed Porto , Rodrigues Barbosa Alex Sandro
Published: October 2020

Este trabalho pertence ao campo de pesquisa educacional, conhecido como Learning Analytics, e tem como objetivo analisar a contribuição de indicadores sociais, cognitivos e comportamentais da aprendizagem dos alunos, criados com base em dados do Ava Moodle, para auxiliar professores, tutores e coordenadores de cursos on-line na identificação de alunos em risco de evasão. Os AVAs geram relatórios e logs sobre as atividades dos alunos, todavia eles geralmente são de difícil compreensão para tutores, professores e coordenadores de curso, o que dificulta a identificação de problemas de evasão, entre outros, de forma mais objetiva. Diante disso, acredita-se que a utilização de uma solução que colete dados de indicadores referentes aos acessos, às interações e às notas dos alunos em um AVA, apresentando-os por meio de infográficos, pode ajudar aos agentes acima citados a identificar alunos que possam estar em vias de abandonar um curso a distância. Para tanto, foi concebido e implementado um plugin do tipo report (relatório) para o AVA Moodle, contendo funcionalidades de filtros, envio de notificações e gráficos interativos, gerados pela ferramenta Google Charts. Para avaliar esse plugin, foram feitas análises qualitativas através da aplicação dessa ferramenta com o grupo focal formado desses profissionais de cursos a distância. Concluiu-se, então, que o plugin proporciona uma melhoria na percepção desse grupo em relação aos dados dos alunos que estão em risco de evasão, em comparação com os logs e relatórios nativos do Moodle.
Desenvolvimento da Habilidade de Escrita de Relatórios Técnicos Utilizando Avaliações Colaborativas e Rubricas
Authors: Oliveira Tiago , Stringhini Denise , Santos Craibas José Jailson , Godoy Martins Corrêa Deborah
Published: October 2020

Neste artigo, apresenta-se uma metodologia de ensino baseada em uma combinação das técnicas de avaliação colaborativa e rubrica com o objetivo de permitir que os alunos acompanhem e avaliem os trabalhos de seus pares buscando um ambiente educacional mais favorável ao desenvolvimento de habilidades de comunicação escrita. A metodologia foi aplicada em um curso de graduação, sendo que os trabalhos produzidos pelos alunos foram avaliados por especialista e a qualidade educacional do ensino empregado foi mensurada por meio do instrumento multidimensional de avaliação do ensino mundialmente conhecido como "Students’ Evaluation of Educational Quality"(SEEQ). Os resultados obtidos mostram-se promissores em dois aspectos: ao ter influenciado os alunos na confecção de melhores relatórios técnicos como consequência do aprendizado se comparados a metodologia tradicional (ponto de vista do professor) e; ter produzido uma melhora estatística significativa e mais uniforme na percepção dos alunos sobre a qualidade educacional empregada na disciplina (ponto de vista dos alunos).
Graphical User Interface for educational content programming with social robots activities and how teachers may perceive it
Authors: Tozadore Daniel Carnieto , Romero Roseli Aparecida Francelin
Published: October 2020

Interactive devices have been successfully applied in education in the last decades. The most used devices for such tasks are personal computers and tablets, due to its financial trade-off and popularization. Social robots are less used, mainly because of its cost and the complexity of being programmed. In this paper, a solution to work around the complexity of programming social robots is presented as a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The GUI system controls an interactive robot which plays with the students and adapts its behavior autonomously. During the activity execution, the adaptive algorithm detects student's body signals and verbal responses to adapt the addressed content to harder or easier questions. After creating and running an activity, all sessions' evaluation and information can be accessed for visual analysis, as well as students' preferences throughout the interaction. The proposal was presented to regular teachers from the elementary school that answered a questionnaire about their perception about the proposal. The answers were analyzed and, in general, they seemed to slightly notice the system potential in and how it can support them in after-classes exercises, despite it require some time to fully get used with the interface.
Regras para formação de grupos de colaboração utilizando detecção automática de traços de personalidade
Authors: Ferrreira Tais Borges , Buiar Jose Antonio , Fernandes Marcia Aparecida , Pimentel Andrey Ricardo , Oliveira Luis S
Published: October 2020

A formação de grupos é um aspecto crucial da aprendizagem colaborativa. Devido à falta de interação entre os alunos, essa tarefa torna-se complexa, e ferramentas que ajudam a determinar grupos para o trabalho colaborativo são necessárias. Propostas para detectar traços de personalidade e formar grupos, baseadas no modelo Big Five, foram desenvolvidas. Entretanto, esses trabalhos não apresentam regras para formação de grupos. Assim, este trabalho verifica a viabilidade de detectar automaticamente traços de personalidade através de textos escritos, e demonstra a influência desses traços na formação do grupo, identificando um conjunto de regras para este fim. Além disso, este artigo é um esforço conjunto de dois grupos de pesquisa para identifica algoritmos adequados para detecção de traços de personalidade a partir de textos. As regras de agrupamento foram extraídas a partir de base de dados dos grupos construída, a fim de ajudar na formação de novos grupos. Portanto, as contribuições desta pesquisa foram ferramentas para detecção automática de traços de personalidade a partir de textos, identificação de algoritmos de aprendizagem mais adequados para classificação de traços, base de dados de grupos e um conjunto de regras baseadas em traços e outros parâmetros para formação de grupos.