bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of life: A study on an Italian sample
Authors: Wigley Isabella Mariani , Mascheroni Eleonora , Pastore Massimiliano , Bonichini Sabrina , Montirosso Rosario
Published: October 2022

Affective touch is a crucial component of caregiving in the early life and constitutes a key factor with significant impact on infant later-life outcomes. The Parent-Infant Caregiving Touch Scale (PICTS) allows to quantify and qualify maternal touch behaviors in the first months of infant’ life. In the current study, we contributed to PICTS Italian validation and explored weather early maternal touch could be associated with maternal emotional state, maternal history of affective touch experiences throughout the lifespan, infants’ sex and age. We also explored possible associations between PICTS factor scores and COVID-19 related variables. Data analyses were run on a sample of 377 Italian mothers (Mean age = 33.29; SD = 4.79) participating in an on-line survey. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was applied. The three-dimensional structure of PICTS (i.e., Stroking, Affective Communication, Holding) dropping one item out, resulted in the best model in our sample. Maternal emotional state and COVID-19 related variables did not affect PICTS factor scores while maternal comfort and amount of affective touch experienced during adulthood resulted significantly associated with Stroking, Affective Communication, Holding factors. Regarding infants’ dimensions, infants’ sex and age did not affect PICTS factor scores. Findings suggest that PICTS Italian version is a good measurement of maternal affective touch behaviors in the early infancy and that maternal history of touch is associated with her current use of touch. This suggests that maternal history of touch may represent a key factor in the establishment of infants’ life-long socio-emotional wellbeing.
We’re all the Same: Collective Narcissists’s Cross-National Support for Putin and Russian Military Attacks
Authors: Brown Genavee , Marinthe Gaëlle
Published: October 2022

National narcissism is associated with support for nationalist and anti-democratic leaders and decisions in one's own country. We hypothesize that it might also relate to more favorable judgments of outgroup nationalism leaders and actions, even if the latter may pose a threat to the ingroup. Using the context of the Russian attack on Ukraine, we hypothesize that people with a higher level of national narcissism would be more supportive of Russian attacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Russian people. This may be due to a higher perception of belief similarity to Putin and Russians. We also considered the moderating role of the explicit target of the attack (Ukraine vs. ingroup). We tested our hypotheses in two studies (Study 1: N = 339 French; Study 2: N = 400 Americans). In both studies, national narcissism was related to a judgment of the attack (on Ukraine or the ingroup) as less immoral and, in France, to a better opinion of Putin. These effects were mediated by perceived belief similarity. In both studies however, these less negative judgment of the attack and of Putin did not extend to Russians people. Our results highlight that national narcissists are inclined to support a nationalist outgroup leader and his violent actions, although these may ultimately harm the ingroup.
Incidentally Encoded Temporal Associations Produce Priming in Implicit Memory
Authors: Mundorf Abigail Marie Dester , Uitvlugt Mitchell , Healey Karl
Published: October 2022

Remembering one event tends to trigger retrieval of other events previously experienced nearby in time (temporal contiguity effect). The retrieved context framework attributes this effect to automatic encoding and retrieval processes, predicting temporal contiguity even with incidental encoding and implicit retrieval. There is strong evidence of temporal contiguity following incidental encoding, but does the prediction hold for implicit retrieval? In this experiment, we tested the framework’s predictions for recall and repetition priming. Across 30 trials, undergraduates read a series of words aloud. In each trial, two words were repeated (cue and target), initially separated by |lag| = 1, 2, or 5. On their second presentation, the cue was presented first, immediately followed by the target. Temporal contiguity occurred in surprise final free recall, replicating previous work. Repeating a cue enhanced repetition priming for its associated target, and this effect varied with initial lag, demonstrating temporal contiguity in implicit retrieval.
What’s in a name? A large-scale computational study on how competition between names affects naming variation
Authors: Gualdoni Eleonora , Brochhagen Thomas , Mädebach Andreas , Boleda Gemma
Published: October 2022

Speakers often use different names to refer to the same entity (e.g., “woman” vs.“tennis player”). We study how typicality affects variation in naming visually presented objects. We use a novel computational approach to estimate visual typicality from images, and analyze a large dataset containing naming data for realistic images. In contrast to previous work, we take into account the visual properties of both the object and the scene in which it appears; and factor in multiple candidate names. We show that visual typicality mediates competition between candidate names: high competition, induced by the relationship between the visual properties of the object and the visual representations associated to names, predicts higher naming variation. On a methodological level, we demonstrate the potential of using large-scale datasets with realistic images in conjunction with computational methods to shed light on how people name objects.
La mirada situada en el análisis organizacional. El caso del uso de herramientas informáticas en el Registro Provincial de las Personas, Buenos Aires
Authors: Piana Ricardo Sebastian , Lares Melisa
Published: October 2022

La implementación inicial de sistemas informáticos de gestión de recursos administrativos y financieros en ámbitos públicos de gran tamaño, suele generar resistencia organizacional. En el presente trabajo pretendemos abordar, a través de una estrategia cualitativa, el proceso de incorporación de tecnologías en un espacio de trabajo público complejo y de gran tamaño, como lo es el Registro Provincial de las Personas (RPP) de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.A pesar de las dificultades iniciales y desafíos que supuso la utilización del sistema de expediente y documentación electrónica de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (GDEBA), las políticas de digitalización y el uso de otras herramientas y tecnologías informáticas (TICs), se han consolidado en las prácticas laborales. Sin embargo, no se han estudiado las modificaciones de las prácticas ni las percepciones de los agentes sobre el funcionamiento organizacional. ¿Han redundado las TICs en los beneficios declamados?, ¿cuáles son los beneficios percibidos por los agentes gubernamentales? ¿cómo han cambiado las prácticas laborales? ¿qué dificultades se identifican?Hemos tomado como caso de estudio, algunos de los trámites que realiza el RPP y que involucran a varias áreas y direcciones (inscripción de nacimiento; rectificaciones administrativas; solicitud de partidas; solicitud de cambio de género; reclamos de partidas solicitadas por plataforma on line). La selección de procesos intra-administrativos, sobre un organismo que tiene 580 delegaciones distribuidas en toda la Provincia y que pasan por distintas áreas del Registro nos previene de efectuar un diagnóstico sobre un microclima laboral; y sin embargo, son áreas que pertenecen a una misma institución pública con un fin claro y compartido, como lo es el de la identidad de las personas.En cuanto a los aspectos metodológicos, si bien el análisis organizacional no reniega de aspectos cualitativos, la antropología organizacional es una mirada muy jóven en la disciplina (y muchas veces no utilizada en los procesos de diseño de las políticas públicas). De allí que el estudio del uso de herramientas informáticas en los espacios públicos, desde la mirada específicamente situada e integral de los agentes, buscará identificar y describir, mediante el registro sistemático, entrevistas en profundidad y observación participante, las prácticas laborales a partir del uso intensivo de TICs y las percepciones sobre esas prácticas.Como resultado podremos advertir que no siempre coinciden prácticas y percepciones: las tecnologías facilitan efectivamente el trabajo pero, muchas veces, son percibidas como herramientas sin sentido; no se advierte que cumplan la función facilitadora esperada. Su imposición top-down ha imposibilitado la apropiación de los beneficios que de ellas se derivan.
A FACADA E A LEI DE COTAS NO BRASIL: QUEM FAZ PARTE DA NAÇÃO E QUEM NÃO FAZ OU A POLÍTICA PÚBLICA COMO PAU-DE-SEBO?
Authors: Custódio Sérgio José
Published: October 2022

In 2022 a movement of assassins of the Law of Quotas wants to kill Brazil. It is the Tara of Pontius Pilate, of Judas. It is the twist of the finger and the pocket like the one that pointed to the enslaved black, indigenous in the port of the slaves, in Valongo. They are the hideous forces in the history of Brazil: they want to judge, condemn to death, kill, drink the pleasure of the blood of death of the Law of Quotas. That's not news. The article analyzes the attempt against the President of Brazil, which took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1897. The 19th century was the time for the construction of National States in Latin America, as in Peru and Brazil. Who is part of the nation and who is left out of full citizenship? How does this relate to notions of civilization and barbarism? Are there legacies of this in the debate on the Law of Quotas for access to university in Brazil in the 21st century? The hypothesis of the article is that yes, because it revolves old beliefs about who is part of the nation and who is not. The continuity of the Quota Law in 2022 (Law 12,711/12), the centenary of Brazil's independence, a law of parliament, depends on the nation welcoming blacks, indigenous peoples, public school students at the university as equal parts of Brazil, aiming at the present of the 21st and the future, not the mirrors of the past. However, in the air of Brazil in the 2020s, a climate of attack appears in the air in which civilization as a ghost tries to rename barbarism. The article presents the argument of the real risk of a stab at the Quota Law in Brazil, the risk of a political crime of neobranqueamento, a crime against democracy, against the integration of the nation, against full citizenship, which cloud the future of children, teenagers, entire families and fuels hatred and epistemicide.
Physical Appearance and Elections: An Inequality Perspective
Authors: Bahamonde Hector , Sarpila Outi
Published: October 2022

There seems to be a consensus that physically attractive candidates win elections more often. Unfortunately, very little is known about how voters evaluate candidates with socioeconomically (dis)advantageous “looks.” To bridge this gap, we study the electoral consequences of looking upper-class, middle-class, or working-class for candidates. Using official electoral data for the 2017 Finnish municipal elections and a novel dataset based on a representative sample of the Finnish population (N=7,920), we find that Finnish citizens systematically vote for candidates that look like they have upper-class occupations. Furthermore, the data strongly suggest that there exists a systematic electoral penalty, particularly for female candidates that look like they have working-class occupations.
Educational field, economic uncertainty, and fertility decline in Finland in 2010–2019
Authors: Hellstrand Julia , Nisén Jessica , Myrskylä Mikko
Published: October 2022

Fertility declined sharply and unexpectedly in Finland in the 2010s. Using detailed Finnish register data, we calculated total fertility rates (TFRs) and the proportion of women expected to have a first birth (TFRp1) in 2010–2019 for 153 fields of education and estimated how the characteristics of each field predicted its fertility decline. As educational field predicts factors related to economic uncertainty, heterogeneity in fertility decline across fields could shed light on the role of economic uncertainty behind the recent fertility decline. In general, women with the highest initial fertility levels (health, welfare, and education) and women in agriculture experienced weaker fertility declines (around -20% or less), while women with the lowest initial fertility levels (ICT, arts and humanities) experienced stronger fertility declines (around -40% or more). The extent of the fertility decline increased with higher unemployment and lower income levels of the field, and with a lower share employed in the public sector. These uncertainty measures together explained one-fourth of the decline in TFR and two-fifths of the decline in first births. The results imply that groups characterized by stable job prospects escaped very strong fertility declines and that objective economic uncertainty fueled the fertility decline in Finland.
The Bench to Community Initiative : A community-based participatory research model for translating research discoveries into community solutions
Authors: Tapia Jazma , Lopez Abigail , Turner D. Bing , Fairley Tonya , Tomlin-Harris Tiah , Hawkins Maggie , Holbert Rhonda , Treviño Lindsey S. , Teteh Dede
Published: October 2022

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an effective methodology for translating research findings from academia to community interventions. The Bench to Community Initiative (BCI), a CBPR program, builds on community findings and engages stakeholders across multiple disciplines with the goal of disseminating interventions to reduce breast cancer risk associated with exposure to harmful chemicals in personal care products. BCI’s purpose is to understand sociocultural determinants of personal care product use, evaluate the biological impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals, and develop community interventions for Black communities. In doing so, BCI educates the community on breast cancer risk factors and provides resources to make safer beauty choices. Models such as BCI structure sustainability by building and maintaining trust through collaborations with community stakeholders, researchers, and advocates. This paper highlights the 3 pillars of BCI, testimonies from community advisory board members and trainees, as well as BCI’s mission driven approaches to achieving health equity.
TRAVEL CAREER OR CHILDHOOD TRAVEL HABIT? Which Explains Adult Travel Behaviour?
Authors: MacInnes Sarah , Dolnicar Sara
Published: October 2022

This study investigates a popular theory of tourist motivation – the travel career pattern – and contrasts it against an alternative explanation – that childhood travel habits repeat throughout life. The key distinction is that the travel career pattern predicts change, whereas habit predicts repetition. This study tests competing hypotheses using self-reported childhood and adulthood travel experiences, behaviours and motivations. Results point to childhood travel behaviour driving adult travel behaviour, supporting the key role of habit as a driver of travel behaviour. These findings represent a paradigm shift in our theoretical understanding of determinants of travel behaviour, which implies that habits could be used as leverage points for behavioural change in tourism.
Why is violence high and persistent in deprived communities? A formal model
Authors: de Courson Benoît , Frankenhuis Willem , Nettle Daniel , van Gelder Jean-Louis
Published: October 2022

There is massive variation in rates of violence across time and space. These rates are positively associated with economic deprivation and inequality. They also tend to display a degree of local persistence, or ‘enduring neighbourhood effects’. Here, we identify a single mechanism that can produce all three observations. We formalise it in a mathematical model, which specifies how individual-level processes generate the population-level patterns. Our model assumes that agents try to keep their level of resources above a ‘desperation threshold’, to reflect the intuitive notion that one of people's priorities is to always keep their head above water. As shown in previous work, being below the threshold makes risky actions, such as property crime, beneficial. We simulate populations with heterogeneous levels of resources. When deprivation or inequality is high, there are more desperate individuals, hence a higher risk of exploitation. It then becomes advantageous to use violence, to send a “toughness signal” to exploiters. For intermediate levels of poverty, the system is bistable and we observe hysteresis: populations can be violent solely because they were deprived or unequal in the past, even after conditions improve. We discuss implications of our findings for policy and interventions aimed at reducing violence.
Audience Repair as Paradigm Repair: Fixing the ‘Gamer’ in Games Journalism
Authors: Perreault Gregory P , Caberlon Leonardo , Stuart Cameron
Published: October 2022

Gaming journalism began its existence under attack from the rest of the journalistic field and from U.S. culture as a result of the audience to whom they appealed: young, diverse, progressive. This study argues that early gaming magazines (n=150) repaired the gaming paradigm during the development of gaming’s mainstream acceptance from 1991-1995 by challenging stereotypes of gamers: imagining their audience as diverse, social and mature.
Gödel mathematics versus Hilbert mathematics. I The Gödel incompleteness (1931) statement: axiom or theorem?
Authors: Penchev Vasil Dinev
Published: October 2022

The present first part about the eventual completeness of mathematics (called “Hilbert mathematics”) is concentrated on the Gödel incompleteness (1931) statement: if it is an axiom rather than a theorem inferable from the axioms of (Peano) arithmetic, (ZFC) set theory, and propositional logic, this would pioneer the pathway to Hilbert mathematics. One of the main arguments that it is an axiom consists in the direct contradiction of the axiom of induction in arithmetic and the axiom of infinity in set theory. Thus, the pair of arithmetic and set are to be similar to Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries distinguishably only by the Fifth postulate now, i.e., after replacing it and its negation correspondingly by the axiom of finiteness (induction) versus that of finiteness being idempotent negations to each other. Indeed, the axiom of choice, as far as it is equivalent to the well-ordering “theorem”, transforms any set in a well-ordering either necessarily finite according to the axiom of induction or also optionally infinite according to the axiom of infinity. So, the Gödel incompleteness statement relies on the logical contradiction of the axiom of induction and the axiom of infinity in the final analysis. Nonetheless, both can be considered as two idempotent versions of the same axiom (analogically to the Fifth postulate) and then unified after logicism and its inherent intensionality since the opposition of finiteness and infinity can be only extensional (i.e., relevant to the elements of any set rather than to the set by itself or its characteristic property being a proposition). So, the pathway for interpreting the Gödel incompleteness statement as an axiom and the originating from that assumption for “Hilbert mathematics” accepting its negation is pioneered. A much wider context relevant to realizing the Gödel incompleteness statement as a metamathematical axiom is consistently built step by step. The horizon of Hilbert mathematics is the proper subject in the third part of the paper, and a reinterpretation of Gödel’s papers (1930; 1931) as an apology of logicism as the only consistent foundations of mathematics is the topic of the next second part.
The effectiveness of vortioxetine in patients with depression in real clinical practice
Authors: Petrova N. N.
Published: October 2022

The opinion article is devoted to the analysis of a large-scale 24-week multinational observational prospective cohort study «The effectiveness of vortioxetine in depression in real clinical practice» (BELIEVE). The study demonstrated the achievement of functional recovery of patients with depressive disorder when using vortioxetine, good efficacy and tolerability of the drug for the treatment of depression in a large and heterogeneous patient population representative of everyday psychiatric practice. A significant improvement in depressive and cognitive symptoms, productivity and quality of life of patients was achieved, while the greatest effect was observed when using vortioxetine as the first line of therapy. The results of the study confirmed the data of numerous RCTs devoted to the use of vortioxetine in the treatment of depressive disorder, and they can be used when choosing tactics of antidepressant therapy in conditions of routine psychiatric.
Psychic trauma and mental characteristics of patients with multiple sclerosis as predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder and targets for psychotherapy
Authors: Andreeva M. T. , Karavaeva T. A. , Kalinin I. V.
Published: October 2022

The article describes the psychological characteristics of the personality of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), which can be identified as the main targets of psychotherapy for comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A total of 127 patients with MS were examined, of which 61 patients had symptoms of PTSD that developed in connection with the underlying disease. The control group included 67 MS patients resistant to stress. To assess the structure of personality and psyche, Ammon’s I-structural test was used (G. Ammon, 1976, adaptation by Yu. Ya. Tupitsin, V. V. Bocharov, T. V. Alkhazova, E. V. Brodskaya, 1998). To determine the level of resilience, which is defined as the patient’s ability to navigate in a crisis situation and get out of stress with minimal damage to mental and physical health, D.A. Leontiev (D.A. Leontiev, E.I. Rasskazova, 2006).

As a result of the study, it was revealed that patients of the main group have significantly lower scores on all scales of the resilience questionnaire («involvement», «control», «risk acceptance»). At the same time, patients with PTSD are characterized by a higher level of destructive and deficient manifestations of selffunctions on the Ammon scale, in contrast to patients in the control group. Decreased characteristics of hardiness, the predominance of deficient and destructive personality structures are predictors of the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder in patients with MS. The revealed psychological phenomena should be the targets of psychoprophylactic and psychotherapeutic influence in complex programs for the treatment and rehabilitation of these patients.
Clinical features of diverse variants of eating disorders in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Authors: Vasilenko L. M. , Gorobets L. N. , Litvinov A. V. , Bulanov V. S.
Published: October 2022

The aim of the study was to study the clinical and typological features of eating disorders in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

Materials and methods. We studied 136 patients (84 women and 52 men) with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, aged 19 to 58 years, mean age 37.6±9.8 years; the average duration of the disease was 8.6+7.6 years. Criteria for inclusion in the study: age from 18 to 60 years, the presence of disorders of the schizophrenia spectrum, in accordance with the criteria for ICD-10 (F. 20; F. 25), informed consent for participation in the study. Exclusion criteria: organic diseases of the central nervous system, endocrine pathology, severe somatic and gynecological diseases, pregnancy and lactation. The design of the study was open, comparative, non-randomized. The study of patients was carried out once before the start of therapy. Research methods: anamnestic, clinical-psychopathological, psychometric, anthropometric and clinical-statistical.

Results: Clinical and endocrine features of the majority of the studied patients were: appetite deviations, varied in nature, intensity and frequency; an increase in body weight of varying degrees, the predominance of the external type of eating disorders, including as part of a mixed type (more than 60% of cases); a high degree of expressiveness of the emotional and restrictive types; a combination of a significant severity of the emotional type with the apathetic nature of affective disorders occurring within the framework of the underlying disease; single-phase variant of the flow of restrictive type. Clinical features in the studied patients with obesity were the stability of disorders and the combination of increased appetite and daily volume of high-calorie nutrition, incorrect family culinary traditions, the prevalence of mixed or external type.

Conclusion. The management of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders with eating disorders should be comprehensive, together with endocrinologists, therapists, nutritionists. An integrated approach should include: observation and counseling by narrow specialists, recommendations for the normalization of lifestyle, diet, the formation of a low-calorie diet and nutrition stereotype in the patient’s family.
Premorbid factors of early post-stroke cognitive impairment
Authors: Grishina A. А. , Tynterova A. M. , Skalin Y. E.
Published: October 2022

The aim of this study is to identify and substantiate early cognitive dysfunction in patients with brain damage in the acute period of ischemic stroke.

Materials and research methods. The study included 140 elderly patients. The main group included 70 patients of Vascular Surgery Center with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke in the carotid pool, the control group consisted of 70 outpatients. Cognitive function and psycho-emotional background were assessed using the Montreal Cognitive Function Scale, tests for kinetic, constructive and ideation praxis, the Stroop test, the Boston Naming Test, the apathy rating scale, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and the MFI-20 asthenia scale. Assessment of neuroimaging parameters was carried out usingcomputed tomography. Assessment of long-latency acoustic endogenous evoked potential P300 using the «oddball active» paradigm technique was used for neurophysiological examination.

Research results. Ischemic stroke was more often detected in the parietal, frontal lobes and basal ganglia. Moderate cognitive impairment was detected in 57.5% of patients with stroke and 27.5% of the control group. Dementia was diagnosed in 30% of patients in the main group and 5% of the control group. In patients with IS indicators characterizing the executive function, praxis, speech, attention, memory, depression, and apathy were statistically significantly lower comparing with the control group. The analysis of neurophysiological data revealed a statistically significant prolongation of the latency of the P300 wave in all leads and a decrease in the amplitude of the P300 peak in leads Cz and C3 in patients of the main group. Conclusion. Within the framework of this study, significant factors in the development of early post-stroke cognitive impairment were established. Dysfunction in attention, executive function, episodic memory, and speech is the result of a combination of causes directly related to cerebrovascular disease and pre-stroke factors. The evoked potential method reflects the degree of cognitive decline and can be used as a method for assessing the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation in stroke patients.
The role of pharmacogenic factor in the modulation of compliance to treatment
Authors: Kozlovskii V. L. , Lepik O. V. , Popov M. Yu. , Kosterin D. N.
Published: October 2022

In the article the problem of compliance to treatment is discussed considering pharmacodynamics of different classes of psychotropic drugs. Use of antipsychotics is associated with a high risk of non-compliance. Antipsychotics can inhibit the endogenous reward system and decreasing its tone reduce adherence to treatment. Both antidepressants and anxiolytics increase the tone of the reward system. But if for antidepressants an increase in adherence is associated with the activation of the reward system limited by related clinical effects, for anxiolytics high adherence to treatment is associated to the rapid development of specific effect and an indirect increase in the tone of the reward system with an increase general subjective satisfaction with treatment. The tolerance associated with the chronic use of benzodiazepine anxiolytics secondarily worsens the situation leading to the development of pathological addiction.
longitudinal study of the brain in healthy volunteers under stress caused by the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection COVID-19
Authors: Safonova N. Yu. , Ananyeva N. I. , Lukina L. V.
Published: October 2022

Relevance: The COVID-19 pandemic is a global process that has an extremely negative impact on the psychological state of people, which increases the level of anxiety, distress, and other reactive states. The impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the human nervous system and psyche is being actively studied. This study aimed to compare neuroimaging data in healthy individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic during 6 months of follow-up.

Materials and methods: The initial model for comparing morphometric parameters was the «Central Nervous System Norm Bank», which includes MRI data of the brain of 131 healthy volunteers aged 20 to 70 years (including 72 women and 59 men), collected before the start of the pandemic COVID-19 and brain re-examination data six months later.

Results: The voxel-based morphometry data we obtained do not match the morphometry data for PTSD and anxiety disorder. This probably reflects the more widespread nature of changes in the brain associated with COVID-19 and caused by the duration of the pandemic, changes in people’s lifestyle and thinking, and a state of uncertainty. Thus, the morphometric data show the neuroplasticity of the brain of adult healthy volunteers. These changes underline the need to reduce stress levels in healthy people during the pandemic, which can be implemented through the provision of convincing and reliable information about this disease.

Conclusions: It would be additionally relevant to create opportunities for psycho prophylaxis, stress relief, which certainly increases the load on the psychotherapeutic service in a pandemic.
Type of attitude to the disease in patients with epilepsy and suicidal ideation
Authors: Shova N. I. , Mikhailov V. A. , Granovskaya E. A. , Bocharov V. V.
Published: October 2022

Suicidal behavior is characterized by the response of the individual to the conditions of the crisis situation experienced. The unrelenting interest of researchers around the world is aimed at studying the factors that determine the risk of suicidal intentions in patients with epilepsy.

Purposal. To determine the main types of attitude to the disease in patients with epilepsy and suicidal thoughts.

Materials and methods. 112 patients with epilepsy were examined and divided into 2 groups depending on the presence of suicidal thoughts at the time of the study: 1st group – with suicidal intentions, 2nd group – without it. The method «Type of attitude to the disease» were used.

Results. Thus, among the clinical factors of suicidal risk in patients with epilepsy, severe course of the underlying disease is the most significant, which is manifested by frequent seizures, serial course, and drug resistance form. It was revealed that patients with epilepsy with suicidal thoughts are characterized by the presence of «mixed» and «diffuse» types of attitude to the disease, with a predominance of maladaptive forms. The analysis of «pure» types of attitude towards the disease in two groups showed that there are fewer respondents with a «pure» type of attitude towards the disease in the group of patients with suicidal thoughts than in the group of patients without it. Along with the ergopathic and sensitive types, in the 2nd group of patients, the anosognosic type of attitude to the disease is also quite pronounced, and in the 1st group, patients with anosognosic, anxious and hypochondriacal types of attitude to the disease were identified.

Conclusion. Consequently, patients with epilepsy are characterized by: vulnerability, vulnerability, concern about possible adverse impressions that they can make on others with information about their illness; the desire, despite the severity of the disease, to continue working; lack of criticality to their own disease, which can lead to destabilization of the underlying disease and the formation of suicidal behavior.
The Ambulatory Assessment in Research and Individual Case Analysis in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Authors: Perrez M. , Schoebi D. , Ababkov V. A.
Published: October 2022

The current article introduces a method of data collection that is of particular importance for research and individual case analysis of the experience and behavior of patients with mental disorders. Numerous questions cannot be adequately answered by conventional methods. In particular, the validity of diagnoses and the testing of hypotheses about the functional relationship of disturbed behavior with antecedent or concomitant internal and external conditions cannot be fully examined with traditional tools. In recent decades, psychology has strongly favored the use of the questionnaire (or interviews) in many domains, which, although economical in time, is considered an inappropriate data collection instrument for many types of questions. This is especially true when the aim is to investigate how people are actually feeling, thinking, and behaving at specific points in time in everyday life. For this purpose, Ambulatory Assessment (AA) was developed.

The article briefly describes the method, its history, and the conditions under which it is particularly useful or necessary in the field of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. It also offers insight into AA research in the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology with regard to different types of research questions. Finally, limitations, challenges and opportunities in using ambulatory assessment are discussed.
A comparison between Kurdish political literature to the beginnings of Kurdish journalism's emergence with the political literature of neighboring nations
Authors: Mhammad Mhammad Dler Ameen , Salih Sarwat Naamat Allah
Published: October 2022

This research is an evaluation, definition and analysis of political literature (poetry and prose) in terms of history with examples. The emergence of this literature in the countries and the national liberation struggle, as well as the history of its emergence as an independent literary genre among the Kurds and how it spread in the works of poets and writers, especially in the pages of newspapers and magazines, and determining the factors that prevented the Kurds from transmitting their political messages outside Kurdistan. Most of these works have remained in Kurdish societies and have encouraged and developed national feelings.  It is clear that the nervousness and selfishness of the occupied peoples and the religious differences led to the dominance of the political literature of the occupiers. In this study, these factors are addressed with examples.
The aesthetics of The Symbolism of The Mohammed Kurdo’s Collection for the Smell of Happiness
Authors: Farhan Mariwan Hussein , Ahmed Amir Taha
Published: October 2022

This research, entitled “Aesthetics of symbolic images in the collection of the Smell of His Excellency Muhammad Kordo” aims to show the excitement and importance of symbols in building the poet’s poetic text in terms of beauty, pleasure and aesthetics, the research tries to show us the symbols revealed to us by the poet inthem, in order to achieve the beauty that he hides in the unknown form, in order to break the symbols that are the source of artistic and aesthetic images of the texts and attract the attention of the reader to resort to symbols, to understand the purpose of the texts. The result of the research shows the symbolic language expressed to us by the poet through symbols (lengend, heritage, religion, public, color, history, world and himself). This research was based on the method of “analyzing description” and data libraries in this field and has researched and compiled texts, the aim of which is the quality and quantity of the use of symbols in giving aesthetics and poetry in the product ”Smell of Happiness” to the poet.
Social interaction and its relationship to Psychological Adjustment among Kindergarten children from the Perspective of Kindergarten teachers
Authors: Zorab Hemin Mohammad , Sabir Niyan Namiq
Published: October 2022

This research aims to Identify  the relationship between social interaction with Psychological adjustment among the children of the kindergarten from the teacher's Perspective and to know the level of social interaction and mental adjustment among children in kindergartens According to these variables (gender ,age, number of children, child sequencing, parent’s education level)

This research used associative method research society is kindergarten children and kindergarten teachers in the center of Halabja Government. The research Sample is 400 kindergarten children, The research tool is the measure of (social interaction and psychological adjustment) of kindergarten children from the teacher’s Perceptive which was created by the researchers, among the most important statistical tools used (person's correlation with Person, Spearman, Alpha Cronbach , T- test is one example and two examples, the statistical equation of discrimination, One away ANOVA, Colmogrov-Sminroo). One of the most important result of the research was that the level of Social interaction and psychological adjustment among kindergarten children does not differ according to the variables (age, number of children, child sequencing, Father's educational level), but it does differ according to the variable (gender , mother's educational level).and it was also found that the social interaction and mental adjustment among children in kindergarten from kindergarten teachers perspective to have a weak positive correlation
МЕТОДИЧНІ ОСНОВИ ТРЕНІНГУ ФОРМУВАННЯ ПРОФЕСІЙНОГО МИСЛЕННЯ У МАЙБУТНІХ МОЛОДШИХ СПЕЦІАЛІСТІВ – ЖІНОК-ВІЙСЬКОВОСЛУЖБОВЦІВ ДЕРЖАВНОЇ ПРИКОРДОННОЇ СЛУЖБИ УКРАЇНИ
Authors: Шемчук Оксана
Published: October 2022

На основі проведеного аналізу класифікацій тренінгів, змісту та механізмів тренінгового впливу, технік і форм його проведення, автором зроблено акцент саме на професійно-психологічному тренінгу, який спрямований на формування, розвиток, корекцію у суб’єкта необхідних професійних якостей, на засвоєння у майбутніх молодших спеціалістів – жінок-військовослужбовців Державної прикордонної служби України специфічних професійних знань, умінь, навичок, на корекцію установок, розвиток особистісних якостей через інтеріоризацію особливостей професійного середовища, об’єктів і особливостей взаємодії з ним професіонала. Доведено, що професійно-психологічний тренінг, як навчально-розвивальна технологія, має на меті сформувати у суб’єкта діяльності професійні знання та вміння, в творчому, спрямованому на вирішення інноваційних проблем процесі, з відсутніми готовими рішеннями. При цьому від учасників такий тренінг вимагає ініціативи, активності, винахідливості, умінь здійснювати продуктивну спільну діяльність. Викладено авторську прoгрaму тренінгу, що  складається зі вступної частини, 4-х блоків, заключної частини, основними завданнями якої визначено розвиток у майбутніх молодших спеціалістів – жінок-військовослужбовців Державної прикордонної служби України: 1) змістових аспектів мисленнєвих процесів: здатності охоплювати різні прояви предмету діяльності, розширення мисленнєвого діапазону, уміння бачити проблему, розширення та поглиблення поглядів на її сутність, здатності аналізувати, узагальнювати, виділяти головне тощо; співвідносити вектор мисленнєвої діяльності з рівнем операціоналізації набутих професійних знань (глибина, дієвість, адекватність, гнучкість, повнота, структурованість) для конкретної ситуації або проблеми; розвиток оригінальності, спонтанної активності, швидкості тощо; 2) мотиваційних основ досягнення професійної успішності, військово-професійної спрямованості та інтересу до прикордонної діяльності тощо; 3) навичок психологічної саморегуляції, нейтралізації афективних переживань, розвиток стресостійкості та адаптивного потенціалу, організаторських умінь та комунікативних навичок; формулювання професійних цілей, проектування значущих умов їх досягнення тощо; 4) ініціативності, почуття особистісної причинності; стимулювання потреби особистісно-професійного саморозвитку, професійної самореалізації; навичок відрефлексування власних можливостей тощо.
Heavy Metal Contamination Assessment of Agricultural Farm Land Around Dimension Stone Areas in South West and North Central, Nigeria
Authors: B. O. Jimoh , T. O. Ogunmodede , E. et. al. Adewole
Published: October 2022

Heavy metals have been discovered to have a variety of negative effects on the food chain, the environment, and humans. Farmers in Nigeria cultivate the land for the production of indigenous food crops for human use. Various farmlands are encircled by a plethora of three-dimensional stones. Supare Akoko in Ondo State and Lokoja in Kogi State were chosen as case studies to look into the possibility of soil pollution as a result of dimension stone mining. Metals; Mn, Fe, As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Ni, Co, and Zn were analyzed in the soil samples collected over three seasons using an Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS). The results obtained were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA). The examination revealed that the range of Mn and Fe readings were 0.94-3.86mg/kg and 631.54-898.06mg/kg, respectively, and were below the allowed limits. As was having values ranging from 0.01-0.08 mg/kg. Cd had a value of 0.01-0.09mg/kg, whereas Cr was below the limit, however acceptable limits vary by nation. Cu, Pb, and Ni concentrations were 1.21-9.15 mg/kg, 0.18-0.74 mg/kg, and 0.28-1.31 mg/kg, respectively, all below the indicated limit. Season one (S1) and season two (S2) samples had Co levels above the limit for Lokoja. Heavy metal concentrations appeared to rise as the year progresses, implying pollution impacts, a drop in agricultural yields. To avoid environmental issues, continuous monitoring and assessment of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) should be implemented.
Dilemma and Resistance of “the Other”: An Analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun
Authors: Xie Qi
Published: October 2022

The classical piece Half of a Yellow Sun, composed by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie garners critical acclaim. Post-colonial perspectives such as diaspora, identity, and history have gained popularity among scholars; however, more comprehensive research is required. Grounded on post-colonial theory, this article attempts to present the dilemma of the “other” from the perspective of race and ethnicity and examines how the “other” resists and constructs their space for survival within the colonial discourse. Evidence suggests that Adichie, as the black and the Igbo, delineates the dilemma and resistance of the “other” to convey her firm racial, ethnic, and cultural confidence.
Religious Practices and Consumption Behavior: Why and How Christian Consumer’s Needs and Expectations in the West African Context are Crucial
Authors: Nasse Theophile Bindeoue
Published: October 2022

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether religious practices in the African context can explain previously observed consumption behavior variation in the sector of beverages. This exploratory research is focused on the post-positivist epistemological posture. It is a mixed method approach with triangulation of research tools. The results indicate that religious practices and consumption behavior are strongly and sufficiently correlated. It is also found that age has a moderating effect on the relationship between religious practices and consumption behavior. The findings imply the application of a rigorous segmentation, creativity and innovation in the beverage market in order to meet consumers ’core needs and real expectations. There should be specific marketing intra-religious hyper-segmentation considerations by taking into account consumer’s age range and consumer’s religious sensibilities towards consumption. To the best of author’s knowledge, this exploratory research shows the relationship between religious practices and consumption behavior in the West African geography with some different factors that have some effects on consumer’s choices and purchasing decisions.
Conflict and Livelihood Changes in the South West Region of Cameroon: A Social Capital Perspective
Authors: Bate Nelson Ashu , Balgah Roland Azibo , V Emmanuel Yenshu
Published: October 2022

The relevance of acceptable livelihoods for the socioeconomic wellbeing and human survival cannot be overemphasized especially within a socio-political context. This study attempts to understand the livelihood changes that have taken place between 2015 and 2020 for displaced and resident households within the communities in Manyu from a social capital perspective. Despite being replete with conflicts in the past, the recent uptick of socio-political crisis in Cameroon’s two English speaking regions have led to several deaths, displacement of persons and livelihoods are affected. For a long duration of the crisis (6 years), very little attempt has been made to understand how the crisis is changing the livelihood dynamics of different actors in the affected areas of Manyu Division. As an exploratory study, we employ purposive sampling and simple random sampling to respectively select the two divisions and study communities. Quantitative data was collected using a survey questionnaire and interview guide while for qualitative data, an observation guide, participant observation and key informant interviews were considered. The study reveals that the existing social order of communities is replaced by a new form of chaotic dictatorial and coercive structure without respect for human dignity but self-interest. Also, a common meal can pacify tensions during conflicts by building trust, solidarity and netness for conciliation and social harmony. Greater strides be made between contending faction to resolve the conflict so displaced persons and households could return to normal life.
КУЛЬТУРА МИРУ: ДУХОВНИЙ ВИМІР ОСВІТИ МАЙБУТНЬОГО
Authors: Кондрацька Людмила
Published: October 2022

Прилучення сучасного освітоздобувача до крос-культурного діалогу концепцій миру і воздаяння спонукає пробудження в ньому почуття відповідальності на рівні епіґенетичного правила. Отож, метою даної статті є обґрунтування педагогічної моделі реалізації сотеріологічної концепції миротворчої освіти як чинника розбудови культури миру заради осмислення цінності того, що слугує утвердженню богоподібної гідності людини і благу ближнього во славу Творця. Сутність пропонованої моделі становить методологія перформативної дидактики як майстерні душі. Її провідною ідеєю є метафоризація християнської семасіології миру як благочестивого одкровення, а основою постає коннективна теорія інтерпретації особою своєї миротворчої місії як ментального вчинку. У статті представлена епістемна карта самоорганізації перформером-миротворцем сотеріологічних компетенцій, в основу телеології якої закладено алгоритм апперцепції: коли освіта миру стає справою не просто професійного успіху, а особистої совісті. Напрям і конкретний довготривалий план такої перформативної діяльності визначає стратегія креативної кластеризації майбутніх миротворчих сценаріїв як «шляху серця». В онтогенезі традиції перформансу, зорієнтованого на благочестивий сценарій любові до ближнього, міцно укорінилася імпровізаційна природа. Тому регулюючу функцію в імплементації означеної стратегії виконують епіґенетично зумовлені чинники активізації ментальних ресурсів освітоздобувача-перформера: технологія перформативної імпровізації (методи аурального моделювання, сотеріологічного іміджування і смислової метафоризації прогнозованого майбутнього, медіаеленктики, -еристики і -еротематики) і контекстний підхід до перформансу. Багаторічний викладацький досвід на факультеті мистецтв доводить, що ефективність реалізації пропонованої педагогічної моделі забезпечує створення спеціального івент-майданчика в арт-лабораторії.