bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
How winds and river discharge affect circulation in a mesotidal estuary, San Francisco Bay, USA
Authors: Liu Qianqian , Xue Huijie , Chai Fei , Wang Zhengui , Chao Yi , Rao Shivanesh , Zhang Hongchun , Zhang Yinglong
Published: January 2022

Previous studies suggest importance of wind forcing on salt intrusion length and salt flux in river-dominated microtidal estuaries (with tidal range < 2 m). In this study, we investigate the role of wind forcing on salt intrusion in a mesotidal estuary, San Francisco Bay (SFB), with tidal ranges between 2 m and 4 m, through an open-source model of high transferability, the Semi-implicit Cross-scale Hydroscience Integrated System Model (SCHISM). Meanwhile, we investigate circulation and salinity variation of San Francisco Bay. The model’s performance in hydrodynamics at tidal, spring/neap and seasonal time scales is validated through model-observation comparisons. Through realistically forced and process-oriented experiments, we demonstrate that spring/neap tides can cause fortnightly variations in salinity and currents by modulating vertical mixing and stratification; and seasonal variability of circulation in North Bay is determined by change of river discharge and modified by winds, while in South Bay it is dominated by wind-driven flows. Furthermore, we revealed the role of wind on X2 (the distance from the Golden Gate Bridge to the 2-PSU isohaline at the bottom). The model results show that X2 is primarily influenced by river flow and proportional to river flow to the ¼ power. Meanwhile, wind plays a secondary role in modifying X2 by increasing X2 from 0 to 5 km during low discharge period, while spring/neap tide modulation on X2 is negligible but important for salt balance in sub-regions downstream of X2.
Dose-response relationship of reported lifetime meditation practice with mental-health and wellbeing: A cross-sectional study
Authors: Bowles Nicholas Ian , Davies Jonathan Nicholas , Van Dam Nicholas T
Published: January 2022

Objectives: Meta-analyses of meditation studies have revealed mixed modest evidence of benefits across a range of outcomes. However, because this evidence-base is predominantly from brief interventions, it is unclear whether it accurately reflects how contemporary meditators practice or the dose-response relationship between amount of practice and outcome. This study sought to characterize how contemporary meditators practice, examine any possible dose-response relationships between historical practice and measures of psychological wellbeing, and explore which characteristics of practice most strongly predict favorable psychological outcomes.Methods: One thousand six hundred and sixty-eight meditators (M=1,095 hours practice, SD=2,365) responded to advertisements in meditation practice communities and social media. We explored associations between demographics, meditation practice characteristics, and outcomes including positive and negative affect, psychological distress, and life satisfaction in a cross-sectional study design. Results: Historical meditation practice (accumulated lifetime hours) was significantly associated with favorable psychological outcomes (|r| ranging from .18 - .28). Model fit was optimized with a generalized additive model (average increase in R2=2.22), indicating non-linear effects. The strength of association between practice time and outcomes was generally strongest for approximately the first 500 hours, before plateauing. Several practice types, including Vipassana (as taught by S.N. Goenka) and cultivating practices (e.g., compassion, lovingkindness) were more strongly predictive of favorable psychological outcomes.Conclusions: Benefits of meditation accrue over time in a non-linear manner, and show variation based on practice context. These results highlight the importance of understanding how the benefits of meditation accrue over longer time durations than typical standardized programs.
The Order & Complexity Toolbox for Aesthetics (OCTA): A systematic approach to study the relations between order, complexity, and aesthetic appreciation
Authors: Van Geert Eline , Bossens Christophe , Wagemans Johan
Published: January 2022

Do individuals prefer stimuli that are ordered or disordered, simple or complex, or that strike the right balance of order and complexity? Earlier researchmainly focused on the separate influence of order and complexity on aesthetic appreciation. When order and complexity were studied in combination, stimulus manipulations were often not parametrically controlled, only rather specific types of order (i.e., balance or symmetry) were usually studied, and/or the multidimensionality of order and complexity was largely ignored. Progress has also been limited by the lack of an easy way to create reproducible and expandible stimulus sets, including both order and complexity manipulations. The Order & Complexity Toolbox for Aesthetics (OCTA), a Python toolbox that is also available as a point-and-click Shiny application, aims to fill this gap. OCTA provides researchers with a free and easy way to create multi-element displays varying qualitatively (i.e., different types) and quantitatively (i.e., different levels) in order and complexity, based on regularity and variety along multiple element features (e.g., shape, size, color, orientation). The standard vector-based output is ideal for experiments on the web and the creation of dynamic interfaces and stimuli. OCTA will not only facilitate reproducible stimulus construction and experimental design in research on order, complexity, and aesthetics. In addition, OCTA can be a very useful tool in any type of research using visual stimuli, or even to create digital art. To illustrate OCTA’s potential, we propose several possible applications and diverse questions that can be addressed using OCTA.
CLASSIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF BLOOD PRESSURE CHARACTERISTICS USING FUZZY LOGIC APPROACH
Authors: OLUOKUN EMMANUEL
Published: January 2022

The idea of Fuzzy Expert System (FES) used in this research work is proposed to assist the medical experts to make right diagnosis for patients that are suffering from hypertension. The only sure way to monitor high blood pressure is through regular checkups. Majority of the researchers that have worked in this field only focused on using fuzzy expert system for classification of hypertension data, while few of them dealt with data analysis. This research work further checked for the efficacy of medication on the patients and the exact time the effect began to have impact on the patients using secondary data collected from questionnaire. It was gathered from the sampled respondents that the antihypertensive medication (Dieuretic) has been reliable in the treatment of hypertension.
Teachers’ Work Engagement and Burnout Profiles: Associations With a Sense of Efficacy and Interprofessional Collaboration at School
Authors: Holmström Anni , Tuominen Heta , Tuominen Miia , Veermans Marjaana
Published: January 2022

This study provides new insights into the work-related well-being of teachers, defined here as engagement and burnout, by investigating their associations with the teachers’ sense of efficacy and interprofessional collaboration in schools. Using a person-oriented approach and latent profile analysis, a sample of Finnish comprehensive school teachers (N = 355) were classified based on their work engagement and burnout. Three profiles were identified: engaged, engaged-exhausted, and burned-out. Teachers with distinct profiles differed from each other in terms of their sense of efficacy and experiences of interprofessional collaboration, suggesting that both might have an important role in enhancing work engagement and preventing burnout.
Emotion Regulation and Delusion-proneness Relate to Empathetic Tendencies in a Transdiagnostic Sample
Authors: Herms Emma , Bolbecker Amanda , Wisner Krista
Published: January 2022

Empathetic tendencies (i.e., perspective taking and empathic concern) are a key factor in interpersonal relationships, which may be impacted by emotion regulation (i.e., reappraisal and suppression) and mental health symptoms, such as psychotic-like experiences. However, it is unclear if certain psychotic-like experiences, such as delusion proneness, are still associated with reduced empathetic tendencies after accounting for emotion regulation style and dimensions of psychopathology that are often comorbid. In the current study, linear models tested these associations in a transdiagnostic community sample (N=128), using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and the Peter’s Delusion Inventory. Results indicated that perspective taking was positively associated with reappraisal and negatively associated with delusion-proneness, after controlling for age, sex, race, intelligence, and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A significant change in R2 supported the addition of delusion-proneness in this model. Specificity analyses demonstrated perspective taking was also negatively associated with suppression, but this relationship did not remain after accounting for the effects of reappraisal and delusion-proneness. Additional specificity analyses found no association between empathic concern and reappraisal or delusion-proneness but replicated previous findings that empathic concern was negatively associated with suppression. Taken together, delusion-proneness accounts for unique variance in perspective taking, which can inform future experimental research and may have important implications for psychosocial interventions.
Poorer white matter microstructure predicts slower and more variable reaction time performance: evidence for a neural noise hypothesis in a large lifespan cohort
Authors: McCormick Ethan Michael , Kievit Rogier
Published: January 2022

Most prior research in the neural and behavioral sciences has been focused on characterizing averages in cognition, brain characteristics, or behavior, and attempting to predict differences in these averages among individuals. However, this overwhelming focus on mean levels may leave us with an incomplete picture of what drives individual differences in behavioral phenotypes by ignoring the variability of behavior around an individual’s mean. In particular, better white matter (WM) structural microstructure has been hypothesized to support consistent behavioral performance by decreasing gaussian noise in signal transfer. In contrast, lower indices of white matter microstructure have been associated with greater within-subject variance in the ability to deploy performance-related resources, especially in clinical samples. We tested this ‘neural noise’ hypothesis in a large adult lifespan cohort (Cam-CAN) with over 2500 individuals in a (2681 behavioral sessions with 708 scans in adults aged 18–102) using measures of WM tract microstructure to predict mean levels and variability in reaction time performance on a simple behavioral task using a dynamic structural equation model (DSEM). We found broad support for neural noise hypothesis, such that lower WM microstructure predicted individual differences in separable components of behavioral performance estimated using DSEM, including slower mean responses and increased variability. These effects were robust when including age in the model, suggesting consistent effects of WM microstructure across the adult lifespan above and beyond concurrent effects of ageing. Crucially, these results demonstrate the utility of DSEM for modeling and predicting behavioral variability directly, and the promise of studying variability for understanding cognitive processes.
Safety learning in anxiety, Pavlovian conditioned inhibition and Covid concerns
Authors: Thurston Meghan , Cassaday Helen
Published: January 2022

Experimental studies of fear conditioning have identified the effectiveness of safety signals in inhibiting fear and maintaining fear-motivated behaviours. In fear conditioning procedures, the presence of safety signals means that the otherwise expected feared outcome will not now occur. Differences in the inhibitory learning processes needed to learn safety are being identified in various psychological and psychiatric conditions. However, despite early theoretical interest, the role of conditioned inhibitors as safety signals in anxiety has been under-investigated to date, in part because of the stringent test procedures required to confirm the demonstration of conditioned inhibition as such. Nonetheless, the theoretical implications of an inhibitory learning perspective continue to influence clinical practice. Moreover, our understanding of safety signals is of additional importance in the context of the increased health anxiety and safety behaviours generated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Refining the maturity principle of personality development by examining facets, close others, and co-maturation
Authors: Schwaba Ted , Bleidorn Wiebke , Hopwood Christopher James , Manuck Stephen N. , Wright Aidan G.C.
Published: January 2022

Across adulthood, people tend to experience psychologically adaptive personality trait change, a robust finding known as the maturity principle of personality development. We identify three open areas of inquiry regarding personality maturation and address them in a pre-registered study, using a sample of US adults ages 30-70 who completed a battery of personality questionnaires and were rated by two close others twice over an 11-to-16 year period (Nwave1 = 1,785, Nwave2 = 401). First, it is unclear whether the maturity principle applies to narrower facet-level traits, as there has been little research into facet development across adulthood. We examined 47 facet scales and found that most developed adaptively across ages 30-70, but some did not mature, and three healthy facets (Activity, Openness to Feelings, and Social Potency) declined significantly across adulthood, counter to the maturity principle. Second, no longitudinal research has tested whether personality maturation is perceived similarly by close others. We compared self- and other- rated development and found that close others perceived greater maturation than the self in Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and five facets. Finally, few studies have examined whether traits co-mature in adulthood. We found that correlated change between healthy facets was small in magnitude. Additionally, we found tighter co-maturation in other-reported development than self-reported development. We use these results and past research to expand and refine our understanding of personality maturation across adulthood.
A Web-Based Application for Personalized Ecological Momentary Assessment in Psychiatric Care: User-Centered Development of the PETRA Application
Authors: Bos Fionneke Marijke , von Klipstein Lino , Emerencia Ando C. , Veermans Erwin , Verhage Tom , Snippe Evelien , Doornbos Bennard , Hadders-Prins Grietje , Wichers M. , Riese Harriette
Published: January 2022

Background: Smartphone self-monitoring of mood, symptoms, and contextual factors through ecological momentary assessment (EMA) provides insights into the daily lives of people in psychiatric treatment. Thereby, EMA has the potential to improve their care. To integrate EMA in treatment, a clinical tool is needed that helps clients and clinicians with creating personalized EMA diaries and interpreting the gathered data. Objective: To develop a web-based application for personalized EMA in specialized psychiatric care, in close collaboration with all stakeholders (i.e., clients, clinicians, researchers, and software developers). Methods: Participants were 52 clients with mood, anxiety, and/or psychotic disorders and 45 clinicians (psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychiatric nurses). We engaged them in interviews, focus groups, and usability sessions to determine requirements for an EMA web-app and repeatedly obtain feedback on iteratively improved high-fidelity EMA web-app prototypes. We used human-centered design principles to determine important requirements for the web-app and designed high-fidelity prototypes that were continuously reevaluated and adapted. Results: The iterative development process resulted in PETRA (PErsonalized Treatment by Real-time Assessment), which is a scientifically grounded web-app for the integration of personalized EMA in Dutch clinical care. PETRA includes a decision aid to support clients and clinicians with constructing personalized EMA diaries, an EMA diary item repository, a text-message-based diary delivery system, and a feedback module for visualizing the gathered EMA data. PETRA is integrated in electronic health record (EHR) systems to ensure ease-of-use and sustainable integration in clinical care, and adheres to privacy regulations.Conclusions: PETRA was built to fulfill the needs of clients and clinicians for a user-friendly and personalized EMA tool embedded in routine psychiatric care. PETRA is unique in this co-development process, its extensive yet user-friendly personalization options, its integration in EHR systems, its transdiagnostic focus, and its strong scientific foundation in the design of EMA diaries and feedback. The clinical effectiveness of integrating personalized diaries via PETRA into care awaits further research. As such, PETRA paves the way for a systematic investigation into the utility of personalized EMA for routine mental health care.
Impact of Covid-19 on cyber Security
Authors: Akanbi Usman
Published: January 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic is an unforeseen occurrence that took the world by storm. Governments and businesses were unprepared, hence the large-scale impact it continuously has on the planet. It has permanently revolutionised how we live, work and interact with technology. With this new way of living, businesses and governments had to adapt to a new form of survival, and so did cybercriminals; there was a surge in cyber threats due to our newfound dependence on technology. This paper emphasises the common types of cyber threats and the targeted industries. These attacks were more successful because people were uneasy and desperate, which gave the criminals more incentive to attack businesses. To avoid being a cyber target, I have provided recommendations against future threats.
Defaults versus framing: Revisiting Default Effect and Framing Effect with replications and extensions of Johnson and Goldstein (2003) and Johnson, Bellman, and Lohse (2002)
Authors: Chandrashekar Subramanya Prasad , Adelina Nadia , Zeng Shiyuan , Esther CHIU Yan Ying , Leung Grace Yat Sum , Henne Paul , Cheng Boley , Feldman Gilad
Published: January 2022

People tend to stick with a default option instead of switching to another option. For instance, Johnson and Goldstein (2003) found a default effect in an organ donation scenario: if organ donation is the default option, people are more inclined to consent to it. Johnson et al. (2002) found a similar default effect in a health-survey scenarios: if receiving more information about your health is the default, people are more inclined to consent to it. Much of the highly cited, impactful work on these default effects, however, has not been replicated in well-powered samples. In two well-powered samples (N = 1920), we conducted a close replication of the default effect in Johnson and Goldstein (2003) and in Johnson, Bellman, and Lohse (2002). We successfully replicated Johnson and Goldstein (2003). In an extension of the original findings, we also show that default effects are unaffected by the permanence of these selections. We, however, failed to replicate the findings of Johnson, Bellman, and Lohse’s (2002) study; we did not find evidence for a default effect. We did, however, find a framing effect: participants who read a positively-framed scenario consented to receive health-related information at a higher rate than participants who read a negatively framed scenario. We also conducted a conceptual replication of Johnson et al. (2002) that was based on an organ-donation scenario, but this attempt failed to find a default effect. Our results suggest that default effects depend on framing and context. Materials, data, and code are available on: https://osf.io/8wd2b/.
Moralistic Gods and Social Complexity: A Brief History of the Problem
Authors: Purzycki Benjamin Grant , McKay Ryan
Published: January 2022

A cluster of persistent and contentious questions in the scientific study of religion concern when and why so-called “moralistic traditions” developed and how they have shaped human relationships. Is there an association between moralistic gods and the size and/or complexity of the society that might worship them? How cross-culturally ubiquitous are such traditions? Are people more willing to engage in cooperative behavior when they believe their god cares about morality? This chapter focuses on how these questions have arisen and how generations of researchers have struggled to address them. We first briefly examine the intellectual history of the problem, pointing to some of the troubling aspects of early observations of traditional societies and subsequent anthropological positions. We then address how early observations of small-scale peoples have populated cross-cultural resources that have informed and driven contemporary empirical projects. We finish by pointing to ways in which we might go about ensuring that the conversation continues with clarity and consistency.
EMPIRE, NATION AND THE CONCEPT OF MODERN STATE (REFLECTIONS ON THE BOOK "EMPIRE AND BELONGING IN THE EURASIAN BORDERLANDS")
Authors:   INION RAN, Bolshakova Olga
Published: January 2022

The article, based on the materials of the conference in honor of the American historian-russianist Ronald Suny, examines the key methodological issues of Russian imperial history in the West. The author analyzes such problems as the relationship between empire and nation state, the history of concept of «national minorities», ethnopolitics in the Russian empire and the USSR.
NEW SCIENTIFIC WORKS ON THE MODERN BELARUSIAN AND POLISH HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF THE LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET STATE
Authors:   INION RAN, Babenko Oksana
Published: January 2022

The review presents new publications on the Belarusian and the Polish historiographies of the history of the late Imperial Russia and the Soviet State. Such problems as the number and conditions of detention of foreign prisoners of war in the Belarusian territories of the Russian Empire during the First World War, the influence of the military conflicts of 1914-1921 on the identity of the inhabitants of the Belarusian lands, the initial stage of the formation of academic science in the BSSR, the question of the «invasion» of Poland by the Red Army in September 1939 are highlighted.
THE HISTORY OF STATE BUILDING IN THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN
Authors:   INION RAN, Mints Mikhail
Published: January 2022

This review article deals with a collection of essays published in «Europe-Asia Studies», vol. 71, N 6 (2019), the authors of which are analyzing Stalinism as a specific exemplar of state-building. Their research is based on various concepts of modern social sciences, especially on the theory of the developmental state. The authors show the new opportunities provided by such an approach and suggest the main directions of further study of the political history of the USSR from this point of view.
RECENT APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE TWENTY YEARS OF THE FASCIST ERA IN ITALY IN THE RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Authors:   INION RAN, Eman Irina
Published: January 2022

The paper deals with the problems of the history of Italian fascism which are today in the center of the attention of Russian historians. In particular, historiography of the phenomenon of fascism and the anti-fascist movement in Italy, Italian fascism in the context of Italian identity, the specifics of Church-state relations in fascist Italy.
Class, Culture and Principles: Evaluating the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the Basis of its Aims and Strategies
Authors: Thapa Dharma Bahadur
Published: January 2022

Culture in any society is inherited from the past as a form of tradition. It is an automatic and unconscious process. It is usually taken as supra-class unifying category which binds a community. China during Mao proclaimed that old culture serves the interests of the exploiting class and therefore the proletariat as an emerging class should struggle against it and impose its own culture. On this premise ‘the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’ was launched. Its aim was to ‘prevent the restoration of capitalism’ by revolutionizing people’s thinking to realize the communist goal of classless society. It lasted from 1966 to 1976, however, debates still continue regarding its aims, principles and practices and achievements or the damages it caused. This article attempts to explore what it actually wanted to accomplish and what strategies and measures were employed to materialize these aims. For this purpose it uses the documents published by the Communist Party of China during that period as the primary sources and judges them on the basis of Marxist socialist principles. The paper reaches to the conclusion that the Cultural Revolution adopted principles, policies and methods which accord with Marxism.
रातभरि हुरी चल्यो कथाको समाजशास्त्रीय विश्लेषण [Sociological analysis of the story that took place overnight]
Authors: राजेन्द्र Rajendra गिरी Giri
Published: January 2022

प्रस्तुत लेखमा इन्द्रबहादुर राईको ।।।रातभरि हुरी चल्यो कथालाई हिप्पोली टेनको समाजशास्त्रीय मान्यताका आधारमा विश्लेषण गरिएको छ । यसमा लेखकको विषयपरिचय दिँदै हिप्पोली टेनको जाति (प्रजाति), क्षण (युग) र परिवेश (वातावरण) को सैद्धा(ि न्तक कसीमा आगमनात्मक तथा निगमनात्मक दुवै विधिको प्रयोग गरी निष्कर्षसम्म पुग्ने प्रयास भएको छ । रातभरि हुरी चल्यो कथामा दार्जिलिबको निम्नवर्गीय परिवारलाई आधार बनाएर उनीहरुले भोगिरहेको पीडालाई चित्रण गरिएका छ । कालेकी आमाजस्ता नेपाली मूलबाट बसाईं सरेर आएका नेपाली जातिको अवस्था सफल बन्न नसकेको, न्यूनवर्गीय परिवार जहाँ गए पनि समस्याबाट मुक्ति पाउन नसकेको, गाउँमा बस्ने मानिसले आफ्नो जीविकोपार्जनको निम्ति कृषि पेसा अपना( एको, गरिबीको कारणले चुहिने घरमा बस्नु परेको, सहरका मानिसहरूले बाँच्नका लागि पेसा र नोकरी गरेको, सहर र गाउँका मानिसहरुको भोगाइ, सोचाइ र खुवाइ अन्तर रहेको, दार्जिलिबको तत्कालीन ग्रामीण समाज र सहरी जीवनका विविध पक्षलाइउल्लेख गरिएको छ ।व्यक्तिका पीडा, बाध्यता र आन्तरिक वेदनालाई प्रस्तुत गर्ने सन्दर्भमा प्राकृतिक दूरी र वैचारिक दूरीलाई एकैसाथ प्रस्तुत गरिएका छ । कालेका बाआमाले भोगेको प्राकृतिक विपत्ति र पीडादायी मनोदशालाई हिप्पोली टेनको समाजशास्त्रीय मान्यताका आधारमा विश्लेषण गर्ने प्रयास गरिएको छ ।
Test of Asymmetric Information in the Nepalese Reinsurance Market
Authors: Maharjan Rajendra
Published: January 2022

Background: The imperfect information can cause an imbalance of power which may lead to market failure thus collection of information is very essential in today’s business world therefore, the availability of the correct and accurate information is very crucial for making sound economic decisions. Thus, information asymmetry has been a very pertinent issue where economic transaction takes place insurance market is not far behind. As, reinsurance provides huge indirect capital to the insurance industry, providing correct information’s like premium earned, claim by the insurer to the reinsurer’s for fair pricing of reinsurance premium along ensuring top rated reinsurance company remain in Nepalese insurance industry.
Objectives: This study aims to examine whether there remains asymmetric information in Nepalese insurance market with reinsurer’s perspective in different portfolios such as fire, marine, motor, engineering and miscellaneous as well as combining all portfolio in aggregate.
Methods: The study uses descriptive and causal relation research design. Further, the study uses secondary data of 14 nonlife insurance from 2008/09 to 2018/19 with 168 firm year observations
Result: Results of the study revealed that that only in fire, marine and overall portfolios there exists strong asymmetric information. Rest of the portfolio like motor, engineering and miscellaneous there is no evidence of existence of asymmetric information.
Conclusion: Existence of asymmetric information is mostly an inevitable part as one party always tries to avoid information to others for the sake of benefit. However, the existence of asymmetric information to a large extent may lead to unhealthy relations between the parties and may bring the cold war distortion of relations. Thus, the finding of the studies is beneficial to the Nepalese nonlife insurers as insurers need to provide correct and accurate information to the reinsures
Implication: To cope with asymmetric information in the Nepalese insurance industry, this study provides strong evidence to provide correct and accurate information’s to the reinsurers else top rated reinsurers might withdraw their presence from the Nepalese market which will have adverse effect in the insurance industry.
Promoting Effective Managerial Communication on Banking Sector in Kathmandu Valley: Cross Sectional Analysis
Authors: Paudel Udaya Raj , Tamrakar Legina , Devkota Niranjan , Maga Sashi Rana , Parajuli Seeprata
Published: January 2022

Purpose: Efficient managerial level is crucial to any organization for well function and betterment of the organization. Likewise, managerial communication is essential to build good relationship among managers to their subordinates. Proper communication in banks further helps to assist employees, creating sense of mutual respect and favorable working environment. This study aims to identify strategy for promoting effective managerial communication in banking sector in Kathmandu valley.
Research Design/ Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional research design has been applied for this study where 405 managers (383 branch managers and 22 operating managers) of commercial Banks in Kathmandu Valley were taken as a sample using structured questionnaire survey using KOBO Toolbox. This study develops and uses Managerial communication index to identify the communication skills of managers in banking communication and decision making.
Findings: Managerial Communication Index value shows that managers of banking sector in Kathmandu valley are highly aware of managerial communication in terms of identity factors, negotiation and adaptation, and decision making. Brining clarity while giving speech or talking (69.13%), regularly gathering feedback for improvement (16.54%) and changing behavior and perception when necessary (12.34%) are some of the management strategies identified for promoting effective managerial communication.
Conclusion: Hence, the study concludes that bank managers must properly disseminate the information to its stakeholders which will help to convey message effectively leading clarity in the work and enhancing productivity.
Recommendations: The paper recommends that there should be inclusive climate in the workplace. Further, policies supporting communication should be forwarded.
Originality: This article is original and there is no potential conflict of interest with respect to research and publication of this article.
Current trends in dental implant practice among dentists in Nepal
Authors: Vaidya S , Rajkarnikar J , Rana SB , Bhochhibhoya A , Khapung A
Published: January 2022

Introduction: Implant dentistry is one of the fastest growing specialty in the field in dentistry. Yet there is a paucity of literature regarding the prevalence and the current trends of implant dentistry practice among dentists working in Nepal. Thus, the objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and current trends of dental implants practice among the dentists working in Nepal.
Method: A cross sectional, online study was done among 267 Nepalese dentists from October, 2020 to December, 2020 by convenience sampling method. Data collection was done with the help of a proforma that included socio-demographic details and predesigned questionnaire adopted from a study done in Mumbai, India.13 The questions were developed in google form and shared to the study participants through various social media for the study duration of 3 months.
Results: Out of 267 participants, 142 (53.2%) were BDS, 107 (40.1%) were MDS and remaining had other degrees. Of the total participants, only 83 (31.1%) placed dental implants in their practice. Those who did not place dental implants referred the case mostly to periodontist (51.1%), followed by prosthodontist (34.8%). Only 72 (26.9%) had undergone formal implant training program. All the study participants prescribed radiograph as CBCT alone or in combination with the other radiographs. Most of the participants, who placed dental implant, did both the surgical and the prosthodontic phases. Bone level implants (74.7%), Screw retained (50.6%) and extra oral fixation (50.6%) type prosthetics were used by most of the participants. Most frequently used implant systems were Bredent (46.9%), Nobel Biocare (46.9%) and Straumann (46.9%) followed by Adin (44.5%).
Conclusion: The current study showed that dental implants practice is adopted by less than one third of the dentists in Nepal, that suggests the need for implementation of Continuing Professional Development in dental implants in Nepal to increase the knowledge and skills among dental professionals.
Sometimes conventional removable partial denture is the only remedy!
Authors: Nihel Charfi , Imed Ouni , Lamia Mansour , Mounir Trabelsi
Published: January 2022

Management of partially edentulous patients can still be a prosthodontic challenge especially for extensive maxillary Kennedy Class I. Replacing the missing teeth using conventional fixed and removable partial dentures (FPD/RPDs) associated with extracoronal attachments remains sometimes the only remedy for partial edentulism. The use of osseointegrated dental implants turn the possibilities of prosthetic reconstruction endless, but what about patients with absolute contraindication of surgery. It is therefore the objective of this article to describe the treatment sequence and technique for the use of attachments in therapy combining FPD/RPD.
“Person” in the Law of Religious [Institutes]
Authors: Němec Damián
Published: January 2022

The emphasis on the human person and his dignity was significantly applied in the new regulation of the law of consecrated life, which is dealt with in the new Code of Canon Law of 1983 in integrum compared to the previous Code of Canon Law of 1917. This paper describes only some of the changes in the law of religious institutes in the Latin Church.The first section regards mainly the person who has taken religious vows and focuses on the question of religious vows as the basis of religious life. It also discusses confessors viewed as a necessary tool for the renewal of religious life as well as modifications in the concept of poverty as a very important element of religious life. The second section focuses on the government of religious institutes, discussing the strengthened position of internal superiors over external superiors in religious congregations, the strengthened position of the superior of monasteries of nuns, and the extended powers of superiors on release from a religious institute due to illegitimate absence from a religious house.As this is in some cases a very recent legal regulation, the author does not hesitate to express his critical observations.
Carlo Fantappiè, Ecclesiologia e Canonistica Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2015, 439 pp.
Authors: Gałkowski Tomasz
Published: January 2022

Carlo Fantappiè, Ecclesiologia e Canonistica Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2015, 439 pp.
Vive la différence! Írók nemének azonosítása többváltozós szógyakorisági elemzések során
Authors: Rybicki Jan
Published: January 2022

A kutatás első fázisa a szógyakoriságok többváltozós elemzését a szerzők nemének azonosítására használta egy 18. századi és 19. század eleji szentimentális és gótikus regényeket tartalmazó korpuszban. Ennek érdekében kerültek összehasonlításra a különböző nemekre vonatkozó leggyakoribb és a Burrows Zetamódszerével létrehozott közepes gyakoriságú szavak listája. A kutatás második fázisában a már két korszakból származó (18–19. és 19–20. század) kifejezések összehasonlító elemzése szintén arra kereste a választ, hogy mennyire használhatók ezek a szerzők nemének meghatározásakor.
A szepességi lengyel nyelvjárás korpusznyelvészeti elemzése
Authors: Grochola-Szczepanek Helena , Waldenfels Ruprecht von , Górski Rafał L. , Woźniak Michał
Published: January 2022

A tanulmány a lengyel Szepesség nyelvjárásának korpuszát létrehozó projektet ismerteti. A lengyelországi dialektológiai kutatások többségétől eltérően korpuszunk a fiatal és a középgeneráció beszédét is tartalmazza, mivel célja a régió nyelvjárásának, szociolingvisztikai helyzetének dokumentálása is. A felvételeket nem fonetikusan, hanem a sztenderd lengyel ortográfiával írtuk át, ami nemcsak a korpuszban való egyszerű keresést teszi lehetővé, hanem azt is, hogy a meglévő eszközökkel lemmatizáljuk és morfoszintaktikai annotációval egészítsük ki a szövegeket. A fonetika iránt érdeklődő felhasználók a felvételeket mondatonként érhetik el. A cikk ismerteti a korpusz összeállításának lépéseit, és tárgyalja a lehetséges alkalmazásokat. A szerzők amellett kívánnak érvelni, hogy egy nagy korpusz, amely egy kis, homogén területet fed le, sokkal értékesebb forrás a dialektológusok számára, mint egy sor kisebb korpusz, amely egy nagyobb régiót dokumentál.
ASSESSING THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE’S GENERAL COMMENT NO. 37: IS THE INTERPRETATION SUFFICIENT TO PROTECT THE FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY IN TIMES OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY?
Authors: Sonia Widya Febriana
Published: January 2022

Implementing the right of peaceful assembly in the midst of a pandemic seems dangerous, especially when the disease is highly infectious. The United Nations Human Rights Committee then adopted General Comment No. 37 which explains the scope of protection of Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966. This writing is normative research on the interpretation made by the Human Rights Committee and assessing the sufficiency of the said interpretation in protecting the freedom of assembly in the midst of public health emergencies. It is found that the Human Rights Committee has conducted a thorough method in interpreting the protective scope of Article 21 of the ICCPR, whereas the General Comment No. 37 provides a vast protective scope, including a thorough guideline on how to conduct the freedom of assembly in times of public health emergency.
“The accident of the accent”: satiric reflections of contemporary Nigeria in Wole Soyinka’s Alapata Apata
Authors: A. Stanley Osanyemi Taiwo
Published: January 2022

The accident of the accent is the hilarious and artistic device Wole Soyinka employs to portray the societal failings and ways to ameliorate them in Alapata Apata as a writer of national consciousness and global realities. Previous critical studies on this text have focused on the avalanche of satirical elements and their societal manifests in the play with little or no consideration for the accentual mistake (the accident of the accent) and its satirical implications. This is the critical lacuna that this study attempts to fill. The primary text shall be Wole Soyinka’s Alapata Apata which will be subjected to critical textual analysis. Inspirations are drawn from Gerard Genette’s model of Narratology as the theoretical framework to allow for the investigation of the intrinsic visual and auditory images in the text and to undergird the analysis of the findings. It is discovered that there are three prominent strands of accentual representations and their corresponding interpretations of Alapata Apata: Alapata Apata (the butcher on the rock), Alapata Apata (rock spliter) and Alapata Apata (the ruler of the rock domain). This paper concludes that Soyinka’s artistic talent in the play lies largely in the presentation of Yoruba, his mother tongue accent marks to sift out the socio- political faults in his society and by extension in the entire nation of the world.
Sharing Knowledge and Build a Better Mindset di SMK Widya Nusantara
Authors: Prastio Eko , Nugroho Marsiyanto  , Edy Susanto
Published: January 2022

Knowledge sharing bertujuan untuk menyebarkan ilmu atau informasi. Biasanya hal ini bisa berwujud dalam bentuk kegiatan, diskusi, presentasi, tutor, dan masih banyak lagi lainnya. Dengan implementasi yang tepat knowledge sharing bisa dilakukan dengan baik agar setiap orang tersebut bisa merasakan manfaatnya, saling berkembang dan belajar dari satu sama lain. Knowledge sharing yang bisa dilakukan dalam peningkatan potensi dan kompetensi siswa, bisa menggunakan berbagai cara lain, salah satunya adalah dengan membuat siswa lebih taat dalam hal peraturan disekolah. Memiliki wawasan yang luas itu sangat penting bagi kita semua. Oleh karena itu, untuk generasi milenial ini harus memiliki wawasan yang luas dan berpikir secara lebih baik. Mahasiswa sebagai salah satu komponen dalam hal ini, dituntut untuk menjadi pihak yang menjembatani kesenjangan hal tersebut. Dengan kata lain, wujud nyata yang harus dilakukan oleh mahasiswa adalah membantu siswa-siswi untuk bisa berkembang menjadi lebih baik. Mahasiswa menjadi generasi penggerak perubahan di negeri ini yang akan memegang estafet kepemimpinan di masa yang akan datang, maka dari itu mahasiswa harus berperan aktif menjadi pelopor terbentuknya rasa jiwa kepemimpinan. Untuk itu dibutuhkan pengetahuan dan kemampuan. Selain itu pengembangan kemampuan pada siswa/siswi sangatlah penting agar bisa melahirkan generasi penerus yang baik.
Selected management concepts in supply chains
Authors: Łada Magdalena Alicja , Wieczorek Adam , Łukiewska Katarzyna
Published: January 2022

Supply chain management is considered a complex process that can lead to errors, conflicts, or a breakdown of cooperation. In chain creation, it is important to organize and rationalize the network of interconnections to which the assumptions of concepts, such as lean manufacturing, agile manufacturing, and resilient supply chains, can be applied. For this reason, the aim of the research presented in the study was to attempt to identify how selected management systems in supply chains can influence the improved functioning of enterprises in a vulnerable condition and in the contemporary challenging situation. The starting point for consideration was to define the concept of a supply chain, lean manufacturing, agile manufacturing, and resilient supply chains, and to indicate the benefits of using the selected concepts. For this purpose, foreign and domestic literature was used. The result is a description, analysis, and criticism of the different systems in relation to the supply chain.
Patterns of Human Capital Formation
Authors: Hrydziushka Aliaksandr , Hrybau Andrei , Kulakou Vasili
Published: January 2022

The main goal of the article is to identify the basic patterns of the formation of human capital (HC). An especially valuable and scarce resource of the modern economy is becoming a creative skilled worker capable of generating ideas, as well as creating and implementing new technological solutions and products.
The development of the economy leads to significant transformations in the generation of resource potential, and changes in the role of individual resources. Human capital begins to play a dominant role in the resource hierarchy. It is the HC that sets in motion the production processes and determines the efficiency of using the entire resource potential.
The methods of aspect analysis and of apperception used in this study made it possible to identify modern patterns peculiar to the formation of human capital in the economy, and to emphasize its objective importance and ability to significantly influence the development of society.
During the research, the authors proved that human capital acquires the status of the main resource in the economy, the quantitative characteristics of the workforce capacity give way to the role of qualitative characteristics, and the development of STP requires a new employee formation to dominate the intellectual component.
Vehicle diagnostic technology
Authors:   Kharkiv National Automobile and Road University, Volkov Volodymyr , Kuzhel Volodymyr ,   Vinnytsia National Technical University, Volkova Tetiana ,   Kharkiv National Automobile and Road University, Pliekhova Ganna ,   Kharkiv National Automobile and Road University, Narizhny Vyacheslav ,   Kharkiv National Automobile and Road University
Published: January 2022

In the article, using the example of a mechatronic control system for the engine and transmission of vehicles (automobiles), the features of the technology of their diagnosis are shown. In an electronic transmission control system, the object of regulation is mainly an automatic transmission. Also, the laws of control (programs) of gear shifting in an automatic transmission ensure the optimal transfer of engine energy to the wheels of the vehicle (TC), taking into account the required traction and speed properties and fuel economy. At the same time, the programs for achieving optimal traction-speed properties and minimum fuel consumption differ from each other, since the simultaneous achievement of these goals is not always possible. Therefore, depending on the driving conditions and the desire of the driver, using a special switch, you can select the "economy" program to reduce fuel consumption, the "power" program - to improve traction and speed properties, or the "manual" program to switch gears by the driver. In turn, self-diagnostic capabilities include: system identification and electronic control units (ECU) (ECU); recognition, storage and reading of information about static and single malfunctions; reading current real data, including environmental conditions and specifications; modeling of system functions; programming of system parameters. The individual programs for the test block are stored in the plug-in modules, while the correction and data transfer in the system is carried out via the data interface. Note also that the diagnostic process begins with the initialization of the systems - their detection in the electrical equipment of the vehicle. Upon successful initialization, it is possible to: read the error memory; erase the error memory; view the data of the next detected system or exit to the main menu; change the readings of the selected category; correct the current time; correct the current date and perform a number of additional functions.