bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ansible for DevOps: Server and Configuration Management for Humans
Authors: asim ansar naseem
Published: March 2023

Ansible for DevOps: Server and Configuration Management for Humans
Revisiting Effects of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Teacher Characteristics on Stress: A Virtual Reality Study
Authors: Bardach Lisa , Huang Yizhen , Richter Eric , Klassen Robert M. , Kleickmann Thilo , Richter Dirk
Published: March 2023

Identifying personal characteristics associated with teachers’ stress is a longstanding research goal with important implications for practice. The present work revisits the effects of cognitive (intelligence) and non-cognitive (neuroticism, classroom management self -efficacy) teacher characteristics on stress using virtual reality (VR). Relying on a sample of 56 German pre-service teachers (Mage = 22.73, SDage = 4.93; 50.9% females), we capitalized on a VR classroom environment that allowed the integration of experimental control and authentic teaching situations, where pre-service teachers responded to the disruptive behaviors of the student avatars. We focused on stress responses in terms of psychological stress (self reported stress) assessed after the VR session, and physiological stress (heart rate) assessed during the VR. Results from linear mixed effects models revealed that neuroticism positively predicted psychological and physiological stress responses in pre-service teachers. Classroom management self-efficacy and intelligence were not significantly related to stress responses. This study underlines the value of VR as a tool for psychological research. Our findings contribute to existing knowledge on teacher characteristics and stress, and support the adoption of a personality psychology perspective to better understand teachers’ stress in challenging situations.
CULTURE AND NORMS IN QATAR
Authors: A Nasrullah
Published: March 2023

Qatar is a small state on the Arabian Peninsula that borders the Gulf (563 km long coastline) and Saudi Arabia in the south (87 km long border). Its location in the center of the Gulf region and near the major petroleum deposits is strategically good. Throughout its history, Qatar was populated by migrants from other regions of the Middle East. Therefore, much of the traditional music, food, dance, and language is shared across the Gulf region. In Qatar, there is a difference between women's and men's clothes. Most of the Men in Qatar, both a native of Qatar and foreign immigrants, will wear long white clothes in their daily lives. In communication, each contries in this word have different habitual or culture including Qatar. Qatari has their own way to communication in formaly or nonformaly condition including when talking about business or other things.
Đánh giá ảnh hưởng của đại dịch COVID-19 tới nhu cầu sử dụng nước sinh hoạt của cộng đồng dân cư Hà Nội
Authors: Mai Trần Ngọc
Published: March 2023

Nghiên cứu này nhằm mục đích tìm hiểu và phân tích những thay đổi trong thói quen sử dụng nước sinh hoạt (NSH) của người dân thủ đô nhằm ngăn ngừa và giảm thiểu lây nhiễm COVID-19 trong trạng thái bình thường mới, vừa chống dịch vừa phát triển kinh tế. Kết quả phân tích 206 mẫu phiếu điều tra được thực hiện trong giai đoạn tháng 4/2022 cho thấy những thay đổi chính trong thói quen sử dụng NSH của người dân Hà Nội tập trung vào các hành vi chính: rửa tay, tắm/vệ sinh cá nhân, vệ sinh nơi ở, súc họng, giặt giũ. Trong thời kỳ đại dịch, 76,7% người dân được hỏi đã có thói quen rửa tay 30 s theo khuyến cáo của Bộ Y tế, số lần rửa tay trong ngày tăng 5-7 lần so với trước khi dịch bệnh bùng phát. Tỉ lệ vệ sinh nhà ở bằng chất tẩy rửa chuyên dụng tăng 33,01% so với trước dịch, bên cạnh đó tần suất lau nhà của người dân cũng tăng lên trung bình 3,5 lần/tuần so với trước khi có dịch bệnh. Khoảng 74,6% số người dân được hỏi đã thay đổi thói quen súc họng bằng nước muối. Tần suất giặt quần áo trung bình cũng có sự thay đổi lớn từ 2,43 lần/tuần lên 4,61 lần/tuần. Tổng ước lượng lượng nước trung bình một người sử dụng tăng 1,41% so với trước dịch. Do đó tính trên tổng số dân toàn thành phố Hà Nội, lượng NSH gia tăng 471,457 m3/ngày đêm so với trước dịch. Kết quả kiểm định ANOVA cho thấy ở hầu hết các thói quen sử dụng nước có sự khác biệt giữa hai nhóm đối tượng người dân ở căn hộ chung cư và nhà đất.
The Model of Ambivalent Choice and Dissonant Commitment: An Integration of Dissonance and Ambivalence Frameworks
Authors: Buttlar Benjamin , Pauer Shiva , van Harreveld Frenk
Published: March 2023

Ambivalence and dissonance research provides insight into the experiences and consequences of cognitive conflict. Despite the conceptual overlap between both conflicts, they are typically discussed and applied separately. Based on the notion that ambivalence reflects pre-decisional and dissonance reflects post-decisional conflict, we propose the Model of Ambivalent Choice and Dissonant Commitment (AC/DC model). The AC/DC model outlines that both conflicts are rooted in attitudes; however, as they succeed each other in decision-making, they entail distinct cognitive and emotional underpinnings, leading to different motivational consequences. Their sequence in decision-making leads to far-reaching interrelations, depending on whether people cope with the conflict-induced discomfort or the conflict's origins. Thereby, the AC/DC model elucidates how conflicts are navigated within decision-making and how they either resolve or manifest over time. This offers various implications concerning topics such as time-sensitive conflicts, conflicts between alternatives, conflicts outside of decision situations, and conflict and behaviour change.
Systematic methods for Moral HRI: Studying human responses to robot norm conflicts
Authors: Phillips Elizabeth , Malle Bertram F , Rosero Andres , Kim Min Ji , Kim Boyoung , Melles Lydia , Chi Vivienne Bihe
Published: March 2023

Robots are increasingly taking on roles in contexts in which ethical decision making is necessary. In this paper, we offer a set of tools to study one central capacity of future moral robots: to have norm competence and, in particular, to make acceptable decisions when moral norms conflict with one another. Our efforts are in line with growing trends in the community to create and share systematic and replicable methods as well as validated testbeds, measures, and open datasets. Specifically, we propose four principal requirements for systematic research on human responses to robots’ choices to resolve norm conflicts and on their sequelae---human moral judgments, potential loss of trust, and robot mitigations to regain that trust. We also share a series of validated testbeds in the form of moral dilemmas. We detail our procedures and results of a human-subjects experiment (N=1,573) to validate these moral dilemmas as demonstrating high levels of norm conflict and thus well suited to study human-robot interaction in light of such norm conflicts. From these efforts we provide for the community an integrated framework of methodological tools for Moral HRI.
Memory Strategies in Older and Autistic Adults
Authors: Torenvliet Carolien , Groenman Annabeth , Van der Burg Erik , Charlton Rebecca Ann , Hamilton Colin Joseph , Geurts Hilde
Published: March 2023

Memory strategies in autistic adults seem to mimic strategies at older age as both younger autistic, and older non-autistic individuals use fewer semantic features in visual memory tasks. Therefore, this study aims to investigate whether early differences in memory strategies lead to altered age-related effects in autism, and particularly whether initial difficulties in strategy use become advantageous at older age (i.e., “protective aging”). A total of 147 participants across four groups (autistic younger/older, non-autistic younger/older) completed an online assessment. This assessment included a recognition version of the Visual Patterns Test (VPT) to evaluate semantic strategy use in visual memory, the Just Noticeable Difference (JND) size task for assessing visual processing, and the Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire to evaluate subjective memory functioning and strategy use (MMQ). Unexpectedly, all groups benefited from semantic features on the VPT, although the older groups performed less accurately and slower than the younger groups. The JND Size task showed no group differences. Autistic adults rated their MMQ memory as worse than non-autistic adults, despite reporting greater strategy use. These results indicate that cognitive strategies might be more similar between younger/older and autistic/non-autistic people than previously expected, although notable discrepancies between objective and subjective measures were present. They also substantiate previously reported parallel (i.e., similar) age-related effects between autistic and non-autistic people.
Cognitive Aging in Autism Subgroups: a Short Report
Authors: Radhoe Tulsi , Torenvliet Carolien , Agelink van Rentergem Joost , Groenman Annabeth , Geurts Hilde
Published: March 2023

Background: Research on cognitive aging in autism yielded inconclusive results, which could be due to the heterogeneity among autistic adults. Possibly, some autistic adults are more vulnerable to accelerated cognitive aging than others. We previously identified two subgroups of autistic adults that differed on behavioral (psychological, demographic and lifestyle) characteristics, with one reporting more difficulties in daily life. This study aims to assess whether these subgroups are associated with different patterns of cognitive aging. Methods: Two autism subgroups (N1=65, N2=78) were compared on eleven separate cognitive outcomes, and on their entire cognitive profile. We assessed age-related effects between the subgroups on five cognitive outcomes, cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Next to these pre-registered analyses, the subgroups were compared to a non-autistic comparison group (N=254). Results: The subgroups did not differ significantly on the cognitive outcomes or entire cognitive profile. Moreover, no differences in age-related effects or decline were observed. Differences with the non-autistic comparison group were similar across subgroups. Conclusions: The current results provide evidence for fairly similar cognitive aging across two autism subgroups. Differences in behavioral characteristics between autism subgroups do not necessarily translate to differences in cognition, at least in those with (above) average intellectual abilities and adulthood diagnoses.
Surprising sounds bias risky decision making
Authors: Feng Gloria , Rutledge Robb
Published: March 2023

Adaptive behavior depends on appropriate responses to environmental uncertainty. Incidental sensory events might simply be distracting and increase errors, but alternatively could lead to stereotyped responses despite their irrelevance. To evaluate these two possibilities, we tested whether task-irrelevant sensory prediction errors influence risky decision making across multiple experiments (n=1200). Rare auditory sequences preceding option presentation systematically increased risk taking and increased switching away from previously chosen options. The two effects were dissociable by manipulating auditory statistics: when rare sequences ended on standard tones, including when rare sequences consisted only of standard tones, participants were more likely to switch options but not more likely to take risks. Computational modelling revealed that these effects could not be explained by increased decision noise but could be explained by value-independent risky bias and perseveration parameters. Our findings suggest that incidental sounds may influence many of the decisions we make in daily life.
Maternal Media Device Use during Breastfeeding and Infants’ Social and Emotional Development
Authors: Lovcevic Irena
Published: March 2023

Breastfeeding has demonstrable positive effects on infants’ social and emotional development. This might be due to various behaviors occurring during breastfeeding such as maternal sensitivity and responsiveness to infant’s cues, mutual gaze, and mother-infant symphony. However, these intricate behavioral patterns might be hindered by maternal use of media devices during breastfeeding. Here, I review the recent evidence on maternal use of media devices during breastfeeding and its effects on mother-infant interaction, mother-to-infant bonding, and infant’s attachment. The evidence suggests that media device use during breastfeeding increases maternal distraction and lowers the maternal sensitivity and responsiveness towards an infant, behaviors that are foundational blocks of infant’s social and emotional development.
A Critique of Transhumanism
Authors: Diederich Joachim
Published: March 2023

A number of challenges to the transhumanist program are outlined in light of new developments in artificial intelligence. Assuming individuals have freedom of choice in selecting physical or cognitive enhancements, the transhumanist program implies a convergence of abilities for any functioning society. The conditions for such a convergence are explored in detail. Next, psychological theories of self and personality are introduced and the question is asked to what extend transhumanist programs allow the continued existence of the human self and aspects of personality. The importance of the motivational system and the importance of its preservation through cycles of enhancement is outlined. Finally, the psychological implications of an infinite lifespan (“immortality”) are explored, in particular with reference to the challenge to maintain a notion of self and personality.
Can cognitive discovery be incentivized with money?
Authors: Popp Pamela J Osborn , Newell Ben R , Bartels Daniel , Gureckis Todd Matthew
Published: March 2023

The ability to discover patterns or rules from our experiences is critical to science, engineering, and art. In this paper, we examine how much people's discovery of patterns can be incentivized by financial rewards. In particular, we investigate a classic category learning task for which the effect of financial incentives is unknown (Shepard et al., 1961). Across five experiments, we find no effect of incentive on rule discovery performance. However, in a sixth experiment requiring category recognition but not learning, we find a large effect of incentives on response time and small effect on task performance. Participants appear to apply more effort in valuable contexts, but the effort is disproportionate with the performance improvement. Taken together, the results suggest that performance in tasks which require novel inductive insights are relatively immune to financial incentives, while tasks that require rote perseverance of a fixed strategy are more malleable.
How People Justify Online Political Hostility
Authors: Rasmussen Jesper
Published: March 2023

Why are people hostile in political discussions on social media? Existing research suggest that people "trolls" engage in hostility because of their personalities or situational factors. Yet, little is known about how people engaging in hostility justify their behavior. I address this gap by employing a mixed-methods design. First, using 25 in-depth, semi-structured interviews, I show that people justify being hostile in political discussions on social media for political reasons: to vent frustrations, to further deliberation, or to persuade others. Then, using two surveys with demographically representative samples of Danes and Americans (n = 3053), I show that these justifications predict self-reported online political hostility. These findings deepen our understanding of why online political hostility occurs beyond apolitical and situational explanations and underscore the importance of addressing the root causes of online political hostility.
Facial mimicry depends on the emotion we recognize in others’ faces
Authors: Nakamura Anna Kanaki , Tanaka Akihiro
Published: March 2023

Rapid facial reaction (RFR), also known as facial mimicry, plays an important role in the synchronisation of expressions and associated emotions among individuals. RFR was originally understood as a form of pure motion mimicry (matched motor hypothesis), while there is counterevidence suggesting that RFR does not merely involve an imitation of the motion. We investigated the existence of a top-down effect on RFR by measuring the motion in facial muscles with electromyography while perceiving faces with different emotions in their upper and lower half (Experiment 1). In the conditions of upper anger (anger in the upper half of the face) and lower happiness (happiness in the lower half of the face), the participants frowned more when they recognised the ambiguous face as angry, while they smiled more when recognising the face as happy. This result suggests a top-down effect of emotional recognition on RFR. We also measured RFR when seeing upper-only or lower-only facial images (Experiment 2). While the result supported the top-down effect in the occurrence of RFR, it also suggested that the mouth regions, and not the eye regions, are key to inducing RFR. These findings aid in further understanding social interaction at an unconscious and physical level.
PENGARUH KURIKULUM MERDEKA BELAJAR TERHADAP KEMAJUAN PENDIDIKAN DI INDONESIA
Authors: Riyanni
Published: March 2023

Dalam seluruh proses pendidikan, kurikulum mempunyai kedudukan sentral yang berfungsi sebagai landasan yang memberikan arah serta tujuan dalam pendidikan. Di Indonesia, salah satu upaya pemerintah untuk mencapai tujuan pendidikan yang diharapkan adalah melakukan perubahan kurikulum pendidikan. kurikulum ialah suatu perencanaan yang dapat memberikan pedoman atau pegangan pada kegiatan proses belajar mengajar. Perubahan terhadap kurikulum ini bagi pendidikan di indonesia adalah sebagai upaya untuk meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan. Mentri pendidikan kita saat ini, Nadiem Makarim membuat gebrakan besar dengan membuat kebijakan merdeka belajar dengan berbagai pertimbangan matang. Konsep Merdeka Belajar itu sendiri adalah agar terciptanya sebuah suasana belajar yang bahagia tanpa dibebani dengan pencapaian skor atau nilai tertentu. Dengan adanya berbagai perubahan dalam kurikulum tersebut membuat pembelajaran di Indonesia semakin relevan untuk perkembangan zaman. Sekarang yang menjadi fokus utama bukan guru lagi, melainkan siswa lebih aktif dalam proses belajar. Pembelajaran terasa lebih menyenangkan karena disesuaikan dengan tingkat kompetensi peserta didik disetiap fase.
Editorial
Authors: Smyrnova-Trybulska Eugenia
Published: March 2023

The Editorial Board of International Journal of Research in E-learning (IJREL) is privileged to present a new volume 8(2) 2022. The content of the current issue was divided into three chapters. The first is devoted to Research on Distance, Online and Blended Learning in particular in the COVID-19 time. The second contains articles concerned with Innovative Methods and Technology in Education. The third concerns Theoretical, Methodological and Practical Aspects and Psychological Determinants of ICT and E-Learning in Education.
World Practices of STEM Education Implementation: Current Problems and Results
Authors: Yurchenko Artem , Yurchenko Kateryna , Proshkin Volodymyr , Semenikhina Olena
Published: March 2023

The term “STEM education” has been clarified. It is well-founded that STEM education is a learning process that is based on interdisciplinary and practical orientation and provides the formation of skills to acquire theoretical knowledge, and master scientific methods for their use in solving specific practical tasks (not only in professional activities). A quantitative analysis of the results of the implementation of STEM education, presented in scientific publications, was carried out. A small percentage of publications dedicated to STEM education have been found. It has been established that in countries with developed economies, there are significantly more published scientific results regarding the implementation of STEM education. Practical  cases of the implementation of STEM education in Ukraine and the world are highlighted. Among these are the organization of STEM education through solving problem situations in field conditions; basing classes on solving practical tasks in a certain professional field; examples of organizing and conducting lessons in high school on an interdisciplinary basis; cases for four scenario exercises; cases for solving practice-oriented tasks at home; and cases of inclusive education using STEM projects. A content analysis of modern practices of implementing STEM education on the basis of open educational resources such as Coursera, edX, Udemy, Prometheus, and EdEra was conducted. The analysis of open educational resources shows that there are too few courses that would focus on STEM education and on training teachers to implement STEM-oriented education. The basis for the research was scientific publications in publications indexed by the scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science over the past 10 years, and dissertation research conducted in Ukraine.
“We Need to Think of Future Generations and of Non-human Animals” An Interview with Peter Singer, Australian Philosopher, World-Famous Animal Ethicist
Authors: Kozhevnikova Magdalena , Singer Peter
Published: March 2023

Interview with Peter Singer, Australian philosopher, world-famous animal ethicist
Szczur w badaniach psychologii społecznej i w naukach kognitywnych. Bestia sacer czy istota motywowana moralnie?
Authors: Słuszkiewicz Zbigniew
Published: March 2023

Szczury towarzyszą ludzkim siedliskom od tysiącleci. Ta skomplikowana współegzystencja doprowadziła do wykształcenia w naszym kręgu kulturowym narracji wykluczających współcześnie te stworzenia z kręgu moralnej troski człowieka. Sytuacja egzystencjalna gatunków Rattus nosi znamiona paradoksu. Współcześnie wolno żyjące szczury należą do zwierząt powszechnie pogardzanych i poddawanych najintensywniejszej eksterminacji. Równocześnie, z racji swojej społecznej natury i analogicznej do Homo sapiens struktury neuronalnej, służą za modele badań nad własnościami psychicznymi człowieka. Kumulacja odkryć dotyczących zdolności poznawczych wielu gatunków pozaludzkich ożywiła dyskusje etyczną wokół dobrostanu, a nawet praw „wyższych” zwierząt. Jednakże szczury pozostają poza jej głównym nurtem. Tymczasem z badań nad gryzoniami wyłania się obraz sprzeczny z potocznymi wyobrażeniami o nich. W artykule zaprezentowany zostanie obraz społecznego statusu szczurów, wypływający z badań nad percepcją grup społecznych w wymiarach ciepła/kompetencji według Modelu Treści Stereotypu Susan Fiske. Następnie przedstawiona zostanie koncepcja podmiotu działającego w oparciu o motywację moralną (moral subiect) Marka Rowlandsa. Na tak utworzonym tle zostanie przeprowadzony przegląd najnowszych ustaleń nauk kognitywnych odnośnie własności tego gatunku. Artykuł ma na celu uwydatnienie sprzeczności stereotypowego postrzegania szczura z empirycznymi badaniami oraz wskazanie podstawowych etycznych konsekwencji zaistniałej sytuacji.
A Comparative Study of Profitability Ratio Analysis of JSW Steel and Tata Steel
Authors: Gajjar Urvi
Published: March 2023

The first and foremost objective of any company is to earn profit. It is the major feature for the company’s financial performance and each and every shareholder of a company is interested to know profit of the company. To find out the financial performance of any company Ration Analysis is the main tool for it. Present research paper is on Profitability Analysis of selected steel companies of India.
No time for complacency: The CoVaRR-Net Biobank is an essential element of laboratory preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks
Authors: Saginur Raphael , Robblee James A , Vranjkovic Agatha , Tamblyn Laura , Hsu Amy , Cooper Curtis L , Vinh Donald C , Langlois Marc-André , Crawley Angela M
Published: March 2023

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the need for rapid, collaborative, and population-centric research to define health impact, develop health care policies and establish reliable diagnostic and surveillance tests. Critical for these objectives were in-depth clinical data collected in standardized fashion and large numbers of various types of human samples prior and post-viral encounter. As the pandemic evolved with the emergence of new variants of concern (VOCs), access to samples and data from infected and vaccinated individuals were needed to monitor immune durability, the possibility of increased transmissibility and virulence, and vaccine protection against new and emerging VOCs. Therefore, essential to the pandemic response is a strong laboratory and data research component, supported by effective biobanking and data sharing. Critically important to the speed of the research response is the rapid access to biobanked samples. To address critical challenges brought to light by the pandemic, the Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network (CoVaRR-Net), funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, was established to coordinate research efforts to provide rapid evidence-based responses to emerging VOCs. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the CoVaRR-Net Biobank and define its contribution to pandemic preparedness.
The effect of athletics and football training characteristics on some respiratory parameters in female athletes
Authors: KAHRAMAN Muhammed Zahit , OKUT Sedat , SARI Cengizhan , BİLİCİ Ömer Faruk , BİLİCİ Fatih
Published: March 2023

The aim of this research is to examine the effect of training characteristics specific to athletics and football branches on some respiratory parameters in female athletes. 15 female long-distance runners (age: 18.86 ± 1.18 years), 15 female football players (age: 20.40 ± 1.24 years), and 15 female sedentary (age: 20.26 ± 2.05 years) participated voluntarily in the study. The respiratory function values of the participants were determined using a spirometer device. A one-way ANOVA test was applied to compare the mean of respiratory parameters between groups. Tukey post-hoc test was used to determine which group caused the difference in cases where there was a significant difference. In the research findings, the forced vital capacity (FVC), the volume of air exhaled in the first second of forced expiration (FEV1), the volume of air exited in the first second/forced vital capacity (FEV1/FVC), peak expiratory flow rate (PEF), forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% of vital capacity (FEF25-75%), vital capacity (VC) and maximal voluntary ventilation (MVV) values of the long-distance runners were statistically significantly higher than the sedentary (p
ŞEFFAFLIK DÜZEYLERİ HALKA AÇIK BANKALARIN KÂRLILIK ORANLARINI ETKİLİYOR MU? KURUMSAL YÖNETİM TEMELLİ BİR ARAŞTIRMA
Authors: TÜMER Tolga , SAYAR Ali Rıza Zafer
Published: March 2023

Kurumsal yönetim alanında öncü olan bankalar, kurumsal yönetimin temel ilkelerinden birisi olan şeffaflık aracılığıyla paydaşlarıyla iletişim sağlamaktadırlar. Kurumsal yönetim teorilerine göre, paydaşlarla ilişkilerin olumlu olmasının finansal performansı ve kârlılığı arttıracağı öngörülmektedir. Bu çalışma, “Gerçekten şeffaflık bankaların kârları üzerinde olumlu etkide bulunuyor mu?” sorusunu istatistiki olarak araştırmak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Çalışma sonuçları, halka açık bankaların şeffaflık düzeyleri ile kârlılık oranları arasında anlamlı ve pozitif bir ilişki bulunduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Araştırmanın bulgularına göre; halka açık bankaların şeffaflık düzeyi, pozitif yönde en çok ROE’yi ve vergi öncesi kârı içeren kârlılık oranlarını etkilemektedir.
ÇEVRESEL SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİRLİK VE AKADEMİK BAŞARI İLİŞKİSİ: UI GREENMETRIC İLE URAP VE THE ÜNİVERSİTE SIRALAMALARININ KARŞILAŞTIRILMALI ANALİZİ
Authors: KALDIRIM Zeliha , ÖZCAN İrem , ERGÜN İlknur
Published: March 2023

Yükseköğretim kurumlarının akademik faaliyetleri, kampüs altyapıları ve müfredatları ile çevresel sürdürülebilirliği teşvik etmedeki rolü oldukça önemlidir. Günümüzde birçok paydaş tarafından üniversitelerin sürdürülebilir kalkınmaya daha fazla destek vermesi talep edilirken, küresel üniversite sıralamalarına sürdürülebilirlik kriterinin eklenmesi yönünde de öneriler yapılmaktadır. Çalışmanın amacı, üniversitelerin akademik performansları ile sürdürülebilirlik performansları arasında doğru yönlü bir ilişki olup olmadığını tespit etmektir. Bu amaçla çalışmada basit doğrusal regresyon analizi yapılmıştır. Analizde, UI GreenMetric tarafından yayımlanan üniversitelerin sürdürülebilirlik sıralaması ile URAP genel akademik başarı sıralaması ve THE muhasebe ve finansman alanı akademik başarı sıralaması arasındaki ilişki ölçülmüştür. Elde edilen sonuçlara göre diğer ülkelerin akademik başarı sıralaması ile sürdürülebilirlik sıralamaları arasında pozitif yönlü doğrusal bir ilişki olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Ülkemizde de genel akademik başarı sıralaması ile sürdürülebilirlik başarısı arasında doğrusal yönlü bir ilişki tespit edilirken, sürdürülebilirlik sıralaması ile muhasebe ve finansman alanı başarı sıralaması arasında anlamlı bir ilişki tespit edilememiştir.
Molecular hydrogen may activate the transcription factor Nrf2 to alleviate oxidative stress through the hydrogen-targeted porphyrin
Authors:   http://www.antpublisher.com/index.php/APT/article/view/566/692, Ohta Shigeo
Published: March 2023

Oxidative stress is one of the major causes of most age-dependent neurodegenerative disorders. Neurons accumulate oxidative damage over time due to post-mitotic cells. Thus, modulation of oxidative stress is essential to overcome these disorders. Molecular hydrogen (H2) has great potential for treating various diseases and improving quality of life by exerting multiple functions including anti-oxidation, anti-inflammation, and energy metabolism promotion. Among these functions, H2 activates a transcription factor, nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) to enhance the transcription of transcribe a broad range of anti-stress enzymes, including antioxidant enzymes. There was an elusive contradiction between H2 and Nrf2 because Nrf2 is activated in response to oxidative stress, whereas H2 has a reducing potential. The target molecule for H2 has recently been identified as the oxidized form of Fe-porphyrin conjugated with the -OH group (PrP-Fe(III)-OH). As the initial step, the hydroxyl radical (•OH) oxidizes heme (PrP-Fe(II)) to form PrP-Fe(III)-OH. Then, H2 reacts with PrP-Fe(III)-OH to produce PrP-Fe(III)-H and H2O. In turn, Fe(III) with H has the potential to act as an electrophile to oxidize Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 (Keap1), resulting in activating Nrf2. Thus, when the original highly damaging electrophilicity of •OH is buffered by H2 and its target porphyrin, the electrophilicity provided by •OH can indirectly activate Nrf2 to reduce oxidative stress. Even without lowering the dosage, the effect of alleviated potent is considered to be hormesis-like. This “Therapeutic Brief” propose that the alleviated oxidative potent of •OH functions to activate Nrf2 as hormesis-like. Keywords: Hematin, hydroxyl radical, molecular hydrogen, Nrf2, oxidative stress, porphyrin
Editors’ Note
Authors: Haklai Oded , Mendelsohn-Maoz Adia
Published: March 2023

We are gravely concerned about the perils of regime change in Israel. Academic freedom is premised on liberal democratic institutions and values. Absent checks and balances on the power of the executive, civil liberties, including the right to pursue and disseminate knowledge, are in jeopardy. The journal Israel Studies Review is wholly committed to enabling the free exchange of ideas without fear of punitive repercussions. We will continue to encourage diverse perspectives and voices of scholars from all backgrounds.
The Bereaved Daughter
Authors: Guilat Yael
Published: March 2023

This article deals with the intersection between bereavement, gender, and art in the context of the cult of the fallen in Israel, focusing on the life story and artwork of two women artists, Asnat Austerlitz (b. 1969) and Michal Shachnai Yaakobi (b. 1967) who experienced orphanhood in a military context. Adopting the two-track model of bereavement suggested by Simon Rubin in 1981, the article offers an analytical, interdisciplinary examination of their artworks as adult women artists who are aware of the fragility of life and its finite character but also understand the importance and significance of continuing emotional bonds after death. Both have developed in diverse medium gender-based artistic creations related to the cult of the fallen creating models of alternative and counter-hegemonic memory that are manifested through personal languages full of irony, fantasy, and pain.
Précis of Movies on Our Minds
Authors: Cutting James E.
Published: March 2023

Movies on Our Minds (Cutting, 2021) provides structural analyses of popular, English-language cinema and maps them onto biological and psychological bases. It progresses from the details of optics and screen projection; through transitions and shots; on to scenes, montages, and syntagmas; and finally to larger narrative units and the flow of patterns of elements across whole movies. It focuses on changes in all of those patterns across a century, ascribing them to evolution. That evolution, akin to Darwinian evolution, is hallmarked by patterns of reproduction with inheritance, variation, and selection of traits over time. Two forces appear to have guided this evolution: the matching of elements of film form to predilections of the biology of our visual systems, and their matching to predilections of our cognition, particularly as it has been shaped by visual culture.
Replies to Commentators on Movies on Our Minds
Authors: Cutting James E.
Published: March 2023

What a pleasure it is to have colleagues read Movies on Our Minds: The Evolution of Cinematic Engagement, to understand it, and to offer some praise and a panoply of diverse and penetrating criticisms. The perspectives and qualms raised in the four commentaries in the special section of this issue are well-worth considering in detail. My first reply concerns relations between cinematic narration and narrative, the second explores constraints on cinematic complexity and its assessment, the third addresses possible consequences of changing movie structure and our increased cognitive processing speed, and the fourth ramifies concepts I use to account for the historical changes in popular cinema.
Book Reviews
Authors: Cavaletti Federica , Laine Tarja , Schubart Rikke , Willis Holly
Published: March 2023

Adriana Gordejuela. Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis. New York: Routledge, 2021, 190 pp, $128.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780367721336.

Francesco Sticchi. Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2019, 206 pp, $39.20 (softcover), ISBN: 9780367663421.

Peter Turner. Found Footage Horror Films: A Cognitive Approach. New York: Routledge, 2019, 204 pp, $39.16 (softcover), ISBN: 9780367661847.

Katherine Thomson-Jones. Image in the Making: Digital Innovation and the Visual Arts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 152 pp, $74.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780197567616.
Grain boundary strengthening of microstructure phases in SS400 structural steel weld zone
Authors: Vinh Nguyen Ngoc , Quan Duong Hong
Published: March 2023

Grain boundary strengthening is a method of strengthening materials by changing their average crystalize (grain) size, exhibiting the basic relationship between yield stress and the grain size of the materials. This methodology is based on the observation of grain boundaries that are insurmountable borders for dislocationsand the number of dislocations located within a grain. Applying this methodology to the structural steel weld zone, the mechanical properties of each microstructural phase can be evaluated through the values of grain diameter. For structural steel weld zones, there are not many methods to directly determine the mechanicalproperties of microstructural phases. Thus, in this study, a methodology was created to evaluate the values of the yield stress of materials based on the grain boundary strengthening equation. This method was constructedby observing the average grain size and determining the mechanical properties of three microstructural phasesin the weld zone (i.e. based metal, heat-affected zone, and weld metal). The results from this study provide aneasy way for engineers, architects, and scientists to evaluate the values of mechanical properties of based metal, heat-affected zone, and weld metal in the SS400 structural steel weld zone.
Efektivitas "Jogja Smart Service" Terhadap Pelayanan Publik di Kota Yogyakarta
Authors: Novriando Alfi , Purnomo Eko Priyo , Salsabila Lubna
Published: March 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektivitas “Jogja Smart Service” terhadap Pelayanan Publik di Kota Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini didasari dengan kajian efektivitas suatu produk Smart City yaitu mewujudkan Public Smart Service di dalam tatanan perkotaan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif dengan teknik kajian pustaka dan sumber analisis data didapatkan dari dokumen yang ada di dalam aplikasi Jogja Smart Service. Pelayanan publik di kota Yogyakarta telah terintegrasi di dalam satu layanan aplikasi Jogja Smart Service sehingga dapat digunakan oleh masyakarat Kota Yogyakarta dengan efektif dan efesien.
Kinerja KPUD Kota Batu dalam meningkatkan Electoral Activity pada PILGUB Tahun 2018
Authors: Khotimah Khusnul
Published: March 2023

This study tries to explain the steps or efforts undertaken by the Batu City Election Commission in increasing the political participation of the people of Batu City who have held the election of the Governor and Deputy Governor in 2018. Batu City has a high level of community participation in the regional head election especially PILGUB, the low level of participation in Kota Batu is the reason why the party for democracy is hampered.
Typologische Analysen zur statistischen Kontextualisierung von Fallstudien. Vorschlag für sequentielle und simultane Mixed Method-Designs
Authors: Matiaske Wenzel
Published: March 2023

Die im Forschungsfeld der industriellen Beziehungen häufige Methodik der Fallstudie weist neben Vorteilen mit der oft ungeklärten Verortung im großzahligen Bild der Statistik einen gravierenden Nachteil auf. Im Kontext von Mixed Method-Designs wird die Möglichkeit der gezielten Auswahl von Fällen auf der Basis von Clusteranalysen erörtert, um typische Fallstudien zu gewinnen. Wenn sich die sequentielle Vorgehensweise als zu zeitintensiv erweist, können simultane Erhebungen oder auch großzahlige Sekundärdaten und Fallstudien sowie überlappende Informationen zur Verortung von Fällen in typologischen Analysen genutzt werden.
Transferforschung – ein methodisches Konzept für die Analyse der Industriellen Beziehungen
Authors: Virgillito Alfredo , Wannöffel Manfred ,   MarvinSchäfer
Published: March 2023

Im Umgang mit den Herausforderungen der fortschreitenden Digitalisierung von Produkten und Dienstleistungen – insbesondere der Beherrschung von Komplexität und der Handhabung von Unwägbarkeiten – wird das Erfahrungswissen der Beschäftigten als sehr bedeutsame immaterielle Ressource angesehen. Gleichzeitig gelingt es oft nicht, Ergebnisse arbeitsorientierter Forschungsprojekte erfolgversprechend in die betriebliche Praxis zu überführen, da die Forschungsprozesse häufig von der sozialen Praxis der betrieblichen Akteur*innen entkoppelt sind. Diese Problemstellung wird durch das Konzept der Transferforschung adressiert, welches zentrale Kriterien transdisziplinärer Forschung aufgreift und um die Frage erweitert, wie Wissenstransfer als konstitutiver Bestandteil in den Forschungsprozess integriert werden kann. Es werden Gemeinsamkeiten mit wie auch Unterschiede zu bestehenden Konzepten in der Arbeits- und Mitbestimmungsforschung aufgezeigt. Anhand dreier im Zeichen der Transferforschung durchgeführter Forschungsprojekte werden potenzielle Hemmnisse für die erfolgreiche Projektumsetzung veranschaulicht und schließlich mögliche Lösungsansätze vorgestellt.
PAMDI: Privacy aware missing data inference scheme for sparse mobile crowd sensing
Authors: Thakur Tejendrakumar , Marchang Ningrinla
Published: March 2023

The ubiquity of mobile devices has birthed one of the most promising IoT applications called Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) wherein mobile devices carried around by a crowd are used to sense phenomena of interest. Subsequently, sensed data are collected, aggregated and analysed to extract useful information. Sparse Mobile Crowd Sensing (SMCS) aims at reducing the sensing overhead (e.g., battery consumption, incentive cost, etc.) by lowering the number of sensing tasks performed. Sensed data thus collected are used to infer missing values. However, it must be ensured that user’s private information (e.g., user’s home location) cannot be derived from the sensed data shared by a user. We propose a novel approach entitled ‘Privacy Aware Missing Data Inference Scheme for Sparse Mobile Crowd Sensing (PAMDI)’ which employs the concept of perceptual hash for ensuring privacy while trying to maintain performance guarantees. Simulation results with the help of two real-world data-sets point towards the feasibility of the proposed approach for provisioning user privacy. We use regression algorithms for missing data inference in PAMDI and find that linear regression algorithms work best with the proposed privacy approach as compared to non-linear regression algorithms. Moreover, we observe that inference accuracy is more or less maintained even after introducing privacy with the proposed approach. In particular, for the first data-set (Temperature data-set), the mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean squared error (RMSE) values obtained by the linear algorithms using the proposed approach are about 2.65 ∘ C and 2 . 9 ∘ C respectively. On the other hand, the corresponding MAE and RMSE values generated by the linear algorithms when no privacy is introduced are about 2.25 ∘ C and 2.85 ∘ C respectively. For non-linear algorithms, the corresponding error values are higher. We also observe the same trend in the results of the second data-set.
Letter and Category Fluency: Normative Data for Lebanese Older Adults
Authors: El-Hayeck Rita , Wehbé Amine , Baddoura Rafic , Khoury Rita , Bassil Nazem , Abou Khaled Karine , Koussa Salam , Richa Sami , Alameddine Abbas , Sellal François
Published: March 2023

Background: Verbal fluency tasks are frequently used for neuropsychological assessment in clinical practice and research. It consists of two tasks namely category and letter fluency tests. Objective: To determine normative values in category (animals, vegetables, fruits) and letter fluency [Mim () “M”, Alif () “A”, Baa () “B”] tasks in Arabic language in 60 s. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional national survey and included 859 community-dwelling, cognitively intact Lebanese residents aged ≥55 years. Norms were presented according to age (55–64 years, 65–74 years, ≥75 years), sex and level of education (illiterate, no diploma, primary certificate, baccalaureate or higher). Results: Level of education had the most significant positive effect on verbal fluency tasks performance amongst Lebanese older adults. The negative effect of older age was more prominent in the category fluency task compared to the letter fluency task. Women outperformed men in vegetables and fruits categories. Conclusion: This study provides clinicians with normative scores of category and letter fluency tests, which can be used for neuropsychological assessment of older Lebanese patients being evaluated for cognitive disorders.
Physical activity based on daily step-count in inpatient setting in stroke and traumatic brain injury patients in subacute stage: A cross-sectional observational study
Authors: Mischler Brigitte , Hilfiker Roger , Hund-Georgiadis Margret , Maguire Clare
Published: March 2023

BACKGROUND: Daily step-count is important post-insult in the subacute phase to influence neuroplasticity, functional recovery and as a predictive factor for activity level one-year post event. OBJECTIVE: Measure daily step-count in subacute patients follow-ing brain injury in an inpatient neurorehabilitation setting and compare these to evi-dence-based recommendations. METHODS: 30 participants measured of daily step-count over a seven-day period, throughout the day to assess when and how activity varied. Step-counts were analyzed in sub-groups based on walking ability using the Functional Ambulation Categories (FAC). Correlations between steps-count and FAC level, walking speed, light touch, joint position sense, cognition, and fear of falling were calculated. RESULTS: Median (IQR) daily steps for all patients was 2512 (568.5,4070.5). Not independently walkers took 336 (5–705), the value is below the recommendation. Participants walking with assistance took 700 (31–3080), significantly below recommended value (p = 0.002), independent walkers took 4093 (2327–5868) daily steps, significantly below recommended value (p = < 0.001). Step-count showed moderate to high and statistically-significant correlations: positive for walking speed, joint position sense, negative for fear of falling, and number of medications. CONCLUSIONS: Only 10% of all participants reached the recommended daily steps. Interdisciplinary team-work and strategies to increase daily activity between therapies may be crucial to achieve recommended step-levels in subacute inpatient settings.
The therapeutic effect of transcranial direct current stimulation combined with cognitive training on patients with unilateral neglect after stroke
Authors: Zhao Yue , Li Weibo , Huang Dai , Zhang Weiguo , Zhang Shaohua , Liu Qingqing , Lv Peiyuan , Yin Yu
Published: March 2023

BACKGROUND: Unilateral neglect (UN) is a frequent cognitive disability following a stroke. Additional research is needed to determine the most effective cognitive rehabilitation techniques. OBJECTIVE: Based on the unilateral neglect neural network, we aim to explore the effect of a new model of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with cognitive training on stroke patients with unilateral neglect. METHODS: Thirty stroke patients with UN after stroke were randomly divided into three groups. All patients received cognitive training for UN and transcranial direct current stimulation with an anode placed on the corresponding part of the right hemisphere for 2 weeks. Treatment group A received multi-site tDCS from the inferior parietal lobule, middle temporal gyrus to prefrontal lobe. Group B received single-site tDCS of the inferior parietal lobule. The improvement of UN symptoms was evaluated by the scores of the Deviation index and Behavioral Inattention Test conventional tests. RESULTS: All groups showed improvements in all tests, and the scores of the treatment groups were statistically significant compared with the control group. CONCLUSION: Both single-site tDCS and multi-site tDCS have therapeutic effects on UN after stroke, and the difference in the therapeutic effects of the two modes still needs to be further explored.
Nuclear Level Density in the X(730, 226) System
Authors: Bevelacqua Joseph
Published: March 2023

Level densities for the X(730, 226) system are calculated using a single particle methodology incorporating the Rost interaction and pairing interaction of Blomqvist and Wahlborn. Energy level fluctuations are smoothed utilizing the constant temperature, power law, and equidistant model functional forms. The constant temperature relationship is used to model the density and total number of energy levels. The total number of levels is also compared with the predictions of the power law and equidistant models. Systematics of level densities for existing and potential superheavy nuclei are discussed.