bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Psychological Problems during Advance Stage of Pregnancy
Authors: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Nayak  , Rinku Poddar  , Dr. Masroor Jahan
Published: September 2020

Background: Physical changes can be seen throughout the pregnancy along with mood swings and other psychological or emotional reaction. Advance stage of pregnancy mainly during third trimester may affect more the women psychologically.
Purpose: Present study was conducted to expand the limited knowledge base regarding the potential psychological problems faced by women during the third trimester or advance stage of pregnancy.
Method: Psychological problems were investigated in 40 pregnant women 18- to 34 years old through Symptoms Checklist-90-R and General Health Questionnaire-28 during their third trimester. They were compared with 30 normal controls. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS (13.0 ver.).
Result: The result suggest that during advance stage/third trimester of pregnancy women experience psychological problems, namely, somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anger hostility, phobic anxiety, psychotism and disturbance in sleep and appetite and these symptoms may associate to their current age and duration of pregnancy.
Conclusion: Psychological factors during pregnancy and childbirth are important and that there can neglect can cause grave damage resulting in lifelong costs to the infant, parents and society. Women should formulate a treatment plan to manage common psychological problems too during pregnancy.
Role of Resilience on Perceived Stress among Pre University and Under Graduate Students
Authors: Shilpa. S  , Dr. N. L. Srimathi
Published: September 2020

In a day to day life we come across many hassles in our life and these hassles sometimes becomes stressors. Adolescent is a period of transitional stage with physical and psychological development wherein they face many such challenges and stressors. It depends on the individual ability, cognition and frame of life which help him to cope with stressors. Thus it is psychological resilience that is an individual’s ability to adapt to stress and hardship which determines his ability to cope with stress.
The aim of the present study was to examine the difference in perceived stress among Pre University and Under Graduate students, as well studying the relationship between perceived stress and resilience among Pre University and Under Graduate students. In order to examine the same within group and between group designs was adopted and null hypothesis was formulated. Sample size of 50 Pre university students and 50 Under Graduate students were administered with Resilience scale and Perceived Stress Scale. The data was statistically analyzed and results indicated Pre University students had high level of Perceive stress and low level of resilience and Under Graduate students had moderate level of Perceive stress and high level of resilience. ‘t’ score of (t= 4.63, p<0.01) indicated significant difference between Pre University students and Under Graduate students in perceived stress, and r score of (r = -0.70, p<0.05) indicated negative relationship between Perceive stress and resilience. These findings indicated that Perceived stress is high among Pre University students compared to Under Graduate students; as well there existed a high negative relationship between Perceive stress and resilience.
According to literature review it is found that resilience is related to positive emotions and these positive emotions during stressful experience have adaptive benefits in coping with stress (Tugad et al, 2004). Empirical evidence on resilient individual who have good coping strategies concretely elicit positive emotions, like humor, optimism, goal oriented behavior (Bergeman et al 2006)
Thus this result paves the way for academicians, policy makers and educational intuitions to provide resilience training program as a part of their curricular, so that young adults and adolescents will have better stress management abilities.
Concept Development and level of Social Maturity of Visually Handicapped Children in Integrated and Residential Settings
Authors: Dr. Poonam Pandey
Published: September 2020

The present study aimed to investigate the level of social maturity and concept development of visually impaired children in residential and integrated educational settings. For this purpose 40 visually impaired children, 20 from residential educational setting and 20 from integrated educational setting were selected through purposive sampling technique from Uttarakhand, Uttara Prdesh, Hariyana, Gujrat and Delhi. For measuring level of social maturity and concept development, Vineland Social Maturity Scale (Indian adaption by A.J. Malin) and M.N.G. Mani’s concept development test were administered. 2 test, mean and percentage techniques were used to analyze the obtained data. The result reveals that in residential school setting children are more socially mature in comparison to integrated educational setting. The cumulative average performance score from all the 200 concepts reveal that residential education is more effective in comparison to integrated education for visually impaired children.
Well Being and Occupational Stress of Women Teachers of Primary Schools
Authors: Dr. Utpal Kalita
Published: September 2020

The elementary school teachers and especially women teachers are facing new challenges and need to be supported by the educational administrators and the state. In order to strengthen the role of women teachers, there is needed to look at well-being and occupation stress of women teachers‟. The present paper is justified to study the well being and occupational stress of women teachers of primary schools. For this, Well Being Scale and Occupational Stress Scale for are used as tools of data collection. Main findings of this study are: (i) very few women teachers fall in low well being level category while majority of the women teachers fall in the category of high well being, (ii) few women teachers fall in high stress level category while majority of the women teachers fall in the category of average as well as less stress well being category and (iii) there exists significant relationship between well being and occupational stress of women teachers of primary schools.
Perceived Stress and Coping Resources among Male and Female Employees in Diverse Workforces
Authors: Ms. Shivani Datta
Published: September 2020

The present research work intended to study perceived stress and coping resources in diverse workforces. Diversity in workforce has been operationalized not only at micro level in terms of relative male-female numerical strength of the workforce in the organization but also at a macro level in terms of the relative male-female composition of different occupations that has led to gender typing of these occupations. Most previous gender based studies have sought to understand perceived workplace stress narrowly in terms of impact of gender alone. The present study extends the framework of prior research work by examining stress and coping resources as a function of Gender, Occupational Gender Typing (Gender Atypical/Gender Neutral or Non Atypical) and Proportional (Male-Female) Numerical Strength at workplace (Tokens/Non Tokens), with an examination of different groups of Males and Females in Gender Atypical and Gender Neutral/Non Atypical occupations as numerical Tokens and Non Tokens respectively. Total sample size was 250. Results depict that the complex interaction of Gender, Gender typing of Occupation and Male Female proportional numerical strength impact perceived stress and coping resources.
Psychological Well-Being in Government and Private NGO’s Abled Person
Authors: Ajay Chauhan
Published: September 2020

Main objective of the present study is to examine psychological well-being among Government and Private NGO’s abled person. A sample of 80 male and female Government and Private NGO’s abled person was drawn randomly selected Bhavnagar district area’s NGO’s. The psychological well-being scale: scale development and its correlates. Developed by Bhogle and Prakash was used for data collection. This scale in which five factors major meant. Data was collected by face to face interview method. Mean, SD and ‘t’ test were calculated for the analysis of data. Results indicate that there is no significant difference among Government and Private NGO’s abled person in psychological well-being.
Effect of Diet on Depression in Adolescents
Authors: Suneeta Pant  , Dr. Madhulata Naya
Published: September 2020

The present study investigated the influence of dietary pattern on depression and also gender effects of depression. A sample of 300 adolescent (150 boys and 150 girls) from Kumaun hills of Uttrakhand state were selected who were taking traditional and mixed food comprise of traditional food with processed food. Dietary pattern were assessed by FFQ and symptoms of depression was tested by IPAT Depression Scale of Krug & Laughlin. Analysis of data indicates that the dietary pattern do not affect the depression symptom, though gender difference for depressive symptoms was significant. Dietary pattern comprised of local millets and vegetables where the study conducted was the reason for less depressed adolescents
Perceived Parental Practices and Quality of Life of Children with Learning Disabilities
Authors: R.Moulya  , Priti Sirkeck
Published: September 2020

Children with Learning Disabilities (LD) in comparison to typically developed children report poorer emotional being, lower self-esteem and satisfaction in their relationships with family and friends. This purposive randomized study used the self-determination theory as a framework to extract the relationship between parental practices and quality of life in children with learning disabilities in a sample of 60 children who have been diagnosed with LD including 30 boys and 30 girls in the age range of 9 years to 12 years. Results revealed parental autonomy support was associated with two quality of life domains, family and Self esteem, in addition to the global quality of life. Hence, autonomy support should be practiced by parents in the home environment to promote self-determination and improve the quality of life in children with LD.
A Study of Anxiety among Internet Addicts and Non Addicts
Authors: Pratika C. Sankhesara  , Dr. S. M. Makavana
Published: September 2020

Present research has done to know the effect of Internet Addicts and Non Addicts on Mental Health. For this Total number of sample was 480 in which 240 Internet Addicts from the age group of 13-19, 20-30, and 30- up years. And 240 non Addicts were taken the same age group. For the data collection Comprehensive anxiety test (2006)by Sharma, Bhardwaj and Bhargavwas used for data analysis, 2x2x3 factorial design was used and data were analysis by „F‟ test. Concluded result ANOVA was used. According to the results show that there are significant differences in the Anxiety factor due to age at 0.01 levels. It is seen that the mean of age group-1 (13-19years) is 30.975, age group-2 (20-30years) is 26.656 while the same for age group-3 (31and above) is 24.281. Thus we can say that Anxiety is found to be higher among age group-1 compared to the group-2 and group-3 subjects. In the anxiety it implies that age group-1 effect motivates the individual to cope with day problems better then age group 2 and 3.
Mind Map and Concept Map as Complementary Tools for Teaching
Authors: Nikhilkumar D. Parikh
Published: September 2020

In this article, Novak’s concept mapping technique is compared to Tony Buzan’s mind mapping technique. The application parameters and the respective advantages and disadvantages for two formats for learning and knowledge sharing are reviewed and discussed. It is argued that the combination of these two visualization types can play to the strength of each one. The article then provides real-life examples from such a use in undergraduate and graduate university teaching. The results provide first indications that the different visualization formats can be used in complementary ways to enhance motivation, attention, understanding and recall. The implications for a complementary use of these visualization formats in class room and teaching contexts are discussed and a future research agenda in this domain is articulated.
Emotional Maturity in Women
Authors: Prof. (Dr.) Jayendra A. Jarsaniya
Published: September 2020

This present a study aim was to find out the effect of Working and Non-Working Women on Dimension of Emotional Maturity of both types of women living and working in Rajkot city. For this Total number of sample was 80 in which 40 working women and 40 non-working women from the age group of 24 to 48 years. Were selected randomly sampling method from various society and working office around of Rajkot city in Gujarat state as per research design. For the data collection of Emotional maturity scale developed by Roma Pal (1988) was used to measured emotional maturity of women. Questionnaires were administered to measure the dimensions of Emotional maturity of both the groups. For data analysis and concluded result „t‟-test was used. The results reveal that„s the working women significantly affect and difference on Emotional maturity score as compared to non working women. Working women have shown better Emotional Maturity compared to non working women. For this dimension indicate that in positive sense there was significant difference between working and non working women.
Validate the Use of College Self Efficacy Inventory for Measuring Psychosocial Factors on Indian Students
Authors: Dr. Rachna Jain  , Ms. Bharti Chaudhary
Published: September 2020

The purpose of this study was to apply the College Self-Efficacy Inventory (CSEI) scale to measure the social and psychological factors on Indian students. The major research question of the study is to answer whether the CSEI scale fit the data. The sample of the study is 141 in BBA and B.Com (H) first year in affiliated college of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi. Path analysis has been used in the study to examine the interrelationship between course-roommate-social self-efficacy. To analyse the data correlation, CFI, RMSEA, Cron bach alpha, regression weights, Durbin – Watson test etc. has been used. The study found affirmative steps in collecting validity evidence for the CSEI scale as well as found significant inter – relationship between course-roommate-social self-efficacy of Indian undergraduate students. It has been also found that CSEI scale can be used to measure college self- efficacy for the broader college experience of Indian students.
Relationship of Attachment Styles and Locus of Control among Third Year Girls of Secondary School
Authors: Maryam Hazrati  , Nasibeh Parvin
Published: September 2020

Background: Attachment is an emotional bonding between child and his mother and quality of this relationship may impact the psychological wellbeing of child in next steps of life. Main purpose of this study was to study the Relation of attachment styles (secure, avoidant, anxious and ambivalent) and locus of control (Internal-External) among third year girls of secondary school in Iran.
Materials and Methods: The Sample of the present research was selected by Random sampling method from 3 educational regions north, center and south of Tehran. The total sample consisted of 305 students. Two questionnaires were used, including revised Adult attachment scale (secure, avoidant and anxious/ambivalent) by Collins and read (1990) and locus of control questionnaire by Julian Rotter (1966-1972). Regarding analysis of Hypothesis, Pearson correlation test and multiple regression were conducted. Results: The result indicated that secure attachment style maintains no relationship with internal locus of control. While, avoidant attachment style maintain a meaningful positive relation with external locus of Control. No meaningful relation was found between attachment style and locus of control adolescents and their parent’s age. A positive meaningful relation was found between adolescents’ attachment style and their parent’s educational levels. Father’s high educational level (MSc, PhD) showed a positive relation with anxious/ambivalent attachment style. Additionally, fathers’ low educational level (diploma and lower degrees), showed a positive relation with secure attachment style. The mother’s high educational level showed positive relation with anxious ambivalent attachment style. No relation was found between adolescent locus of control and parent’s education and parent’s job.
Body Shape Dissatisfaction and Overweight Noesis among Polytechnic College students in Puducherry- A Cross Sectional Study
Authors: Vishnu Prasad R  , Kanimozhy K  , Venkatachalam J  , Madhanraj K  , Zile Singh
Published: September 2020

The prevalence of obesity has doubled since 1980 worldwide. With the changing dietary and life style habits, overweight and obesity have become a threat globally. As on 2011, more than 40 million children worldwide are overweight and more than 30 million of them are living in developing countries. Body image perception of an individual plays a major role in determining the diet and lifestyle modification to alter their body shape.Materials and methods: The study was carried out among 1034 polytechnic college students in Puducherry aged 15-25 years as a cross sectional study. Stunkard’s visual figures scale was used to measure Body Shape Dissatisfaction.Statistical analysis: Chi-square test was used to test the statistical significance in difference between proportions, p value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results:The prevalence of Body Shape Dissatisfaction in our study subjects was found to be 62.2%. More female students wanted a thinner body shape while more male students wanted a bigger body shape than their current body shape. 45.3% of the students with normal BMI were satisfied with their current body shape, 26% of them wanted a bigger shape and 28.7% of the students wanted to have a thinner shape.Conclusions:The prevalence of BSD was considerably high in our study population. Body shape misconception might lead to unnecessary weight reduction measures and students tend to follow unhealthy methods for weight reduction. Proactive preventive measures could be initiated targeting towards weight management and dietary practices of college students.
Influence of Organizational Care and Support on Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Sheltered Street Children
Authors: Sarvani
Published: September 2020

The present study is to find out the influence of organizational care and support on emotional and behavioral problems of sheltered street children. The sample consist 444 respondents. 176 are from government shelters, and 268 are from non¬ government shelters. For this purpose of investigation Revised Youth Self Report (RYSR), which is a revised form of Youth Self Report (YSR) is an English form of age 11-18 years, devised by Achenbach and Rescorla (2001) and Organizational care and support developed by researcher were used. The data obtained were analyzed through t- test to know the mean difference between the government and non government groups. The street children in government shelters have more behavioral problems such as anxiety, withdrawal, somatic problems, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, rule breaking behavior and aggression than non government sheltered street children. Government sheltered street children have more health problems, and less social support than non government sheltered street children.
A Qualitative Assessment of Health Perceptions in Patients of HIV at a Tertiary Level HIV Clinic
Authors: Meha Jain  , Anurag Agrawal  , Pallavi Bhatnagar  , Mamta Yadav
Published: September 2020

It is clearly understood that people address, understand and cope with their health problems with reference to their perception about health and illness. It is in this light that the present study has been taken up to explore the health perception of patients with HIV. The sample consisted of 60 HIV patients- 30 males and 30 females. A major variable was gender. Self designed open-ended questionnaire consisting of 24 items was used. The responses obtained were content analyzed and percentage analysis was done. The results showed that both males and females had poor health awareness. The coping strategies employed by them showed that both males and females feel anxious when they are sick (55%). Sex stereotype seems to be all pervasive, having effect in the present results as well, with more males reporting rest when sick (26.67%) as compared to their female counterparts (6.67%). Poor base of health awareness serves as a stepping stone for creating a preventive intervention package for increasing their health awareness and more positive outlook towards health instead of disease.
The Effectiveness of Group Positive-Therapy (PPT) and Well-Being Therapy (WBT) on Attitude towards Drug Abuse in Patients under Methadone Maintenance Therapy
Authors: Pirnia, B
Published: September 2020

Treatment of substance abuse has been associated with many challenges. The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of group positive therapy (PPT) and well-being therapy (WBT) on attitude towards drug abuse in patients under methadone maintenance therapy. The present study is a quasi-experimental with pre-test and post test analysis and control group. The population was including all substance abusers in the city of Lavasan who were resident in the clinics center of city Lavasan. Participants included thirty-six men who were eligible for the study were chosen by random selection method and randomly allocated in three groups. Two groups received positive psychotherapy (PPT) and well-being therapy (WBT)for 2 months, 14 sessions of 1hours (Two times a week), while the control group received no therapy at all. Data were collected by Questionnaire of attitude to drug which was given to the test subjects before and after completion of the therapy. The collected data was put to one way variance analysis and Scheffe’s test. The study demonstrated that group positive therapy and well-being therapy had positive effects on the attitude towards drug abuse improvement in both groups who received interventions ( P<0.00001, F =16.03) in comparison to the control group. Actually, both methods were effective in boosting attitude towards drug. Both positive therapy and well-being therapy methods were found effective in decrease attitude towards drug abuse in patients under methadone maintenance therapy but have not a significant difference between the effectiveness positive-therapy and well-being therapy
Profile of Learning Independence in Achieving Creative Thinking Ability of Vocational School Students
Authors: Hikmah Zia Nurul , Khairunnisa Rohmatul Aulia , Nuriadin Ishaq
Published: September 2020

This research focuses on the profile of learning independence in achieving the mathematical creative thinking skills of vocational school students. This research was conducted in class X SMK with subjects consisting of 5 students. Data collection techniques using questionnaires, tests, and interviews. Data analysis was carried out through data reduction, data presentation, data interpretation, and conclusion drawing. In this study, data reduction was carried out by grouping students into high, medium, and low levels of learning independence through a learning independence questionnaire. Furthermore, the data is presented with a description of the characteristics of the creativity level of students who have high learning independence in solving math problems. Then draw conclusions. Researchers used triangulation methods to compare data. The results of this study are that students have a high level of learning independence and students have difficulty working on tasks of mathematical creative thinking skills so that it takes a long time to do. Students are required to have activeness, own initiative, be resilient and persistence in learning. Students can involve various resources and activities such as reading alone, group study, and question exercises in order to improve their mathematical creative thinking skills
Stability of Zeolitic-imidazolate Frameworks in Humid Environments: Disentangling the Roles of Confined vs. Surface Water
Authors: Momeni Mohammad R. , Shakib Farnaz A.
Published: September 2020

Most of the chemistry in nanoporous materials with small pore sizes and windows are known to occur on the surface of the material which is in immediate contact with substrate/solvent, rather than inside the pores and channels. Experimentally, it is not straightforward to distinguish the chemistry of confinement from the surface. Comprehensive molecular dynamics simulations coupled with quantum mechanical calculations are employed to decipher stability of zeolitic-imidazolate frameworks in aqueous solutions. Water adsorption properties are compared and contrasted in crystalline bulk vs. nanopoarticles of ZIF-8 as a representative of the ZIF family in order to fully disentangle how water interacts with the surface of the material which contains coordinatively unsaturated metal sites compared to the pristine bulk. Our following detailed mechanistic study reveals the significantly higher propensity of the surface with coordinatively unsaturated Zn$^{2+}$ sites toward water attack and hydrolysis. Our results presented in this work are general and are applicable to other nanoporous materials with small particle sizes, pores and windows and are useful in devising plans for synthesis of more robust water stable materials for applications that involve atmospheric and/or bulk water.
Machine Learning Solvation Environments in Conductive Polymers: Application to ProDOT-2Hex with Solvent Swelling
Authors: Magdau Ioan-Bogdan , Miller Thomas
Published: September 2020

Automated identification and classification of ion solvation sites in diverse chemical systems will improve the understanding and design of polymer electrolytes for battery applications. We introduce a machine learning approach to classify and characterize ion solvation environments based on feature vectors extracted from all-atom simulations. This approach is demonstrated in poly(3,4-propylenedioxythiophene), which is a promising candidate polymer binder for Li-ion batteries. In the dry polymer, fourdistinct Li+ solvation environments are identified close to the backbone of the polymer. Upon swelling of the polymer with propylene carbonate solvent, the nature of Li+ solvation changes dramatically, featuring a rapid diversificationof solvation environments. This application of machine learning can be generalized to other polymer condensed-phase systems to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying ion solvation.
Assessment of various treatment modalities for isolated gingival recession defect- A retrospective study
Authors: Karthikeyan Murthykumar  , Arvina Rajasekar  , Gurumoorthy Kaarthikeyan
Published: September 2020

Esthetic demands among the patients have increased markedly over the past few years. The Gingival recession is one of the prime concerns, and there are various treatment modalities in managing recession defects. Most often, outcomes following root coverage procedures are not assessed. Thus the current article aims to determine the aesthetic outcome following various treatment modalities for root coverage procedures using Recession Score (RES). In the present study, seventeen patients with Miller Class I, II and III recession defects treated with root coverage procedures were evaluated retrospectively. Esthetic outcomes were assessed using the root coverage score (RES) . Among 17 managed recession sites, 6(35%) had complete root coverage. Three of six patients who attained complete root coverage had a perfect score (RES-10). Free Gingival Graft showed better root coverage and recession score (RES); however, there was no significant association between root coverage, RES and various treatment modalities used for recession coverage (p>0.05).
Impact of fast foods on developing cardiovascular diseases in adolescent population
Authors: Santhanam Panneer Selvam  , Karthik Ganesh Mohanraj  , Raghu Sandhya
Published: September 2020

Fast foods are foods which are easily prepared, processed food served in snack bars and restaurants. Industrial foods such as canned foods or snacks may also be considered as fast foods. The aim of the study was to show the impact of fast food consumption and awareness on developing cardiovascular diseases especially in adolescents. Several other researchers had given an overall picture about the impact of fast food; this study focuses only on the adolescent population. To check the awareness level among the adolescents population a questionnaire containing 15 questions was prepared. This survey was carried between the months of June 2019 to March 2020 among the adolescent population living in Chennai. This survey was carried under an online platform where the participants responded to their answers. The result showed almost 88% participants are aware that over consumption of fast food can cause adverse effects in the cardiovascular system like cardiac arrest and remaining 12% participants are not aware about the impact caused by fast food- developing cardiovascular disease. So considering the growing interest in out-of-home meals and high prevalence of fast food consumption, food policies with an emphasis on providing healthy foods, and making nutritional information at fast-food restaurants may help consumers to order more healthful or lower-calorie foods.
Practices and Challenges of Continuous Assessment in Colleges of Teachers Education in West Oromia Region of Ethiopia
Authors: Oli Gemachu , Olkaba Teklu Tafase
Published: September 2020

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the practices and challenges of continuous assessment in colleges of teachers’ education in western Oromia region. For this study, the researchers selected three colleges of teachers education purposely based on the job experience. The researchers selected Nekemte, Dembi Dollo and Shambo colleges teachers education from well, medium, lower experienced respectively. A descriptive survey design involving both qualitative and quantitative approaches was employed. 134 student-teachers and 178 college teachers were selected and participated in the study. The quantitative data was collected through a questionnaire and observation checklist and analyzed using frequency and percentage, whereas, the qualitative data interview and document analysis were analyzed using the narrative form and interpretative way. The finding of the study revealed that the extent of practicing continuous assessment in class is low. The study also showed that teachers have positive perceptions toward continuous assessment and they accepted continuous assessment as important to improve the achievement of learners. The finding disclosed that large class size, shortage of time, teachers workload, the low interest of students, large instructional content, and lack of commitment among teachers as the major factors hindering the practice of continuous assessment in colleges of teachers education. The researchers recommend that educational authorities and stockholders should make effort to students per class to manageable numbers, College administrators should allow teachers to cover the minimum workload than overloading above the standard set for the college of teachers education.
Why People Perceive Messages Differently: The Theory of Cognitive Mapping
Authors: Cohen Eli
Published: September 2020

Aim/Purpose: The paper introduces new concepts including cognitive mapping, cognitive message processing, and message resonance.

Background: This paper draws upon philosophy, psychology, physiology, communications, and introspection to develop the theory of cognitive mapping.

Methodology: Theory development

Contribution: The theory offers new ways to conceptualize the informing process.

Findings: Cognitive mapping has a far-reaching explanatory power on message resonance.

Recommendation for Researchers: The theory of cognitive mapping offers a new conceptualization for those exploring the informing process that is ripe for exploration and theory testing.

Future Research: This paper forms a building block toward the development of a fuller model of the informing process.
COVID-19 Related Challenges and Advice from Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Authors: Parenteau China I. , Bent Stephen , Hossain Bushra , Chen Yingtong , Widjaja Felicia , Breard Michael , Hendren Robert L.
Published: September 2020

With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place, families with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face a unique set of challenges related to a diverse set of issues. A qualitative study was conducted in the form of semi-structured interviews from fifteen parents of children and adolescents from a non-public school for children with ASD. Questions covered the following topic areas: general COVID-19 experiences and concerns, changes in the child’s mood and behavior, changes in parent mood and behavior, and coping/advice. Quotes and descriptions from the participants were reviewed and grouped into thematic areas. Findings showed that parents of children with ASD are facing a wide range of challenges, including explaining COVID-19 and safety precautions to their child in a comprehensible way, assisting with e-learning, and guiding their child back into social situations and the community. As children with ASD have difficulties with transitions, parents stated the importance of creating structure in the home by creating schedules and boundaries, while allowing for flexibility as to not over enforce the rigidity children with autism often face. Advice on coping with the additional stressors were also shared. Parents recommended finding time for themselves to reset, utilizing support systems, and reflecting on daily pleasures as positive coping mechanisms. This study aimed to both develop an initial guide for families, teachers and clinicians caring for children with ASD and to create awareness in the community about the challenges presented by COVID-19 and shelter-in-place.
Лінгвоексплікація внутрішнього стану героя в драматичній поемі Лесі Українки “На полі крові”
Authors: Маленицька Ольга
Published: September 2020

The article highlights the peculiarities of the linguistic presentation of the hero's inner state and considers it as one of the Lesia Ukrainka’s idiosyncrasy. On the material of the dramatic poem In the Field of Blood, the author traces the ways and means of linguistic disclosure of the Bible character Judas' feelings and sufferings after the betrayal. The purpose of the research is to reveal the features of the linguistic objectification of the psychological state of the hero and the stylistic motivation of using them in the individual author's style. It appears a marker of the poetess's innovation in the context of the early twentieth century trends and inquiries. The method of associative-conceptual analysis was applied to measure the semantic capacity and stylistic loading of the fixed lexemes. The dynamics of the mental states are presented in the author's comments and the main character’s speech. The means to convey feelings expression in the author's directions/remarks include extralinguistic means (silence, pauses, laughter, a tempo of speech, voice and intonation), play on words, and description of the dynamic expressiveness. Verbal tools for expressing emotions are presented on lexical, grammatical, and stylistic levels. In Judas' speech, emotionality is conveyed by colloquial words, phraseologisms with negative markers, the size and structure of remarks/replicas, exclamatory statements, objections, and rhetorical figures. Emotional comparisons, colorful and vivid epithets in characterization, much attention to the semantics of lexemes, and their author's connotation testify to the mastery of Lesya Ukrainka in the linguistic development of the psycho-emotional state of the hero. The state of depression, exaltation, affect at the syntactic level is reproduced by remarks, different in size, structure, and complexity, in the form of exclamations, statements, objections, and rhetorical questions.
Домінантні образні засоби в польськомовній інтернет-рекламі
Authors: Моклиця Андрій
Published: September 2020

The article analyzes the features of the figurative means functioning in online advertising (primarily metaphors and metonyms). It has been proved that in the structure of the advertisement on the Internet, commonly-used or trite metaphorical models (the world of smth, a key to understanding of smth, a family of smth, the style of smth, the art of smth, and others) predominate. The level of imagery of a language means in this case significantly depends on the context and creative approach of the author. Original imaginary figurative means in online advertising appear much less often, which is due to the increased complexity of their interpretation and the complicated structure of connotations. In online advertising, the distinctive personification metaphors and various metonyms dominate. They form positive connotations, enhance the emotionality and expressiveness of advertising, as well as save language resources by deepening the semantics and imagery of the text. Quite often metaphorical epithets appear in advertising texts, although in general the specifics of advertising are determined by ugly definitions. Comparisons and hyperboles are elements rarely used in advertising. In general, every second message in online advertising contains figurative language means.
«А ці зросли богатирі на київському полі: „Канева”, Сабо і „Базіль”, „Лобан”, Турянський, „Срібло”». (Прізвиська українських футболістів совєтського періоду)
Authors: Процик Ірина
Published: September 2020

The nicknames, which come into being as supplementing the person’s official name, are informal anthroponyms by which the environment individualizes or characterizes a person. Marking people with nicknames is a characteristic feature of the football discourse in the whole world. In Ukrainian linguistics, informal person’s names of football players have not been the object of study yet, that is why their analysis is still topical.

The aim of the article is to analyze informal names of football players who played in the Ukrainian teams in the 20-80s of the ХХth century. It enables scholars to trace the tendencies in creating informal personal names and also can contribute to drawing social-linguistic conclusions about anthroponym usage in sports discourse.The basic method of the study is discursive analysis of the facts taken from printed sources (first of all from the Ukrainian sports media of that time) and their interpretation. Among diverse ways of creating football players’ nicknames in the Soviet period, the most effective were various transformations of players’ surnames, most often by truncating last names. A lot of nicknames were created by cutting football players’ first names or surnames and also by adding to them suffixes with diminutive semantics. Many informal names are the diminutive forms of the players’ names. Among this type of nicknames, there are those created according to the Ukrainian patterns and also in accordance with the Polish, Hungarian, and Russian patterns of creating diminutive forms of names. During that period, the patronymic names were used as nicknames for the first time. There were a lot of informal names which were created metaphorically on the basis of people’s appearance or character features, or both at the same time.

Analysis of the Ukrainian football players’ nicknames in 20-80s shows that the motivational basis for those anthroponyms creation is the player's surname, its diminutive form, and features. The ways of creating those names involve metaphors and parts of surnames. The prospects of the studies are tracing dynamics of creating football players’ nicknames in various periods of the Ukrainian football development.
Лексичні парадигми сатиричної байки доби польського просвітництва
Authors: Вишневська Оксана , Приймачок Оксана
Published: September 2020

This article investigates the language of fables of the 18th-century Polish writer F. D. Kniaźnin. Due to its high capacity of influencing collective consciousness, and its propagandistic character, Polish literature of that period, along with philosophy and education, became the main source for spreading the ideas of Enlightenment. This was true for other parts of Europe at the time, as well. Short rhymed fables written on burning issues played a special role in this process. In modern lexicology, groups of structurally and systemically related words are called semantic fields, lexico-grammatical groups, thematic groups, associative fields, lexical microsystems, paradigmatic rows, groups of concepts. In terms of stylistics of poetry, these acquire different dimensions as they determine the style and the linguistic image of the world of an author, as well as the predominant linguistic taste of the epoch in general. Functional analysis of a writer’s lexicon, particularly with quantitative parameters in question, enables the identification of microsystems of lexemes of the highest frequency, which, in turn, form a grid of dominants of a text. A review into fables of F. D. Kniaźnin  reveals the following paradigms of dominants of their lexical layer: 1) collective names of groups of people (organized as a lexico-semantic group); 2) names of persons according to their place of  residence, social background, occupation or title (lexico-semantic group); 3) concepts of philosophy (lexico-semantic group); 4) types of conscious human activity (lexico-thematic group), 5) abstract notions for positive and negative phenomena of social and human nature (lexico-thematic group); 6) notions from fauna (lexico-semantic group). Such lexical structure fully discloses the subject-matter of fables, facilitates the comprehension of an author’s intent, and corresponds to general tendencies of development of Polish language and literature of the Age of Enlightenment.
Нові напрацювання у сфері вітчизняної лінгвостилістики. Рецензія на монографію Тєлєжкіної О. О. «ЗВУК–СЛОВО–ТЕКСТ: мова української поезії ІІ половини ХХ – початку ХХІ століття
Authors: Литвиненко Ніна
Published: September 2020

CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE

O.O.Tieliezhkina's Monograph “SOUND-WORD-TEXT: the Language of the Ukrainian Poetry of the Second Half of the XX – early XXI Century”. Kharkiv: Maidan, 2020. 370 p.
Метафорична вербалізація концепту “вогонь” у поетичному доробку Євгена Маланюка
Authors: Жалко Тетяна
Published: September 2020

The article focuses on the terminological system of metaphor as a key device in the system of stylistic means of Yevhen Malaniuk. The author argues that verbal power and poetic looseness of the artist are realized via metaphorical constructions, which emerge as the result of the author’s creative work. The poetic language of Yevhen Malaniuk is laconic, and his stylistic devices represent the originality of the author's poetic worldview developed in the process of metaphoric modeling of the individual linguistic picture of the world. E. Malaniuk sought to embody the best qualities of the national language, choosing various linguistic means, consistent with the ideological and thematic content of the poetic works, maximizing their creative potential, preferences, and tastes, representing the richness of metaphorical devices, and accuracy in expression. The poet’s individual style manifests itself in the manner of a poem, a special way of thinking, lexical-semantic and stylistic senses, searching for original means of metaphorical verbalization of the concept fire, semantics and aesthetics of the word individualization. The study has revealed that E. Malaniuk’s metaphors are based on creative rethinking, artistic individual complication, and semantic transformation of the heritage of folk song and classical Ukrainian poetry of the XIX–XX centuries. The concept fire belongs to the basic models, figurative constants of the artist's poetic work. The author substantiates that the metaphorical verbalization of the concept fire in the creative work of E. Malaniuk embodies the biblical symbolic meaning of Godʼs punishment, after which a human is purified of all defilements and rises to a qualitatively higher level of spiritual development, so fire means suffering but at the same time it is liberation from the old, depressing; denoting the inner world of a person. The archetypal image of the fire actualizes the meanings associated with the destructive function of this phenomenon, so even a positive feeling of love is characterized as torment. Thus, the verbalization of the concept fire metaphorically refers primarily to negative experiences and emotions – sadness, hatred, suffering, insulting.
Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma: Case report
Authors: Shtefanov Ivan I. , Akhmedin Darkhan N. , Kukanova Assiya M. , Zhakipova Ainagul A. , Makishev Abai K.
Published: September 2020

Introduction:
Fibrolamellar carcinoma is a rare primary hepatic malignant tumour, which was first described as a pathological variant of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Aim:
The aim of the paper is to discuss the case report of surgical treatment of a multicentric form of presumably fibrolamellar carcinoma significantly exceeding the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer staging system criteria, although tumour size and multi-organ lesions are not a contraindication to resection.

Case study:
This case report is an original one because the surgical intervention was performed on a patient with a multicentric fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma with the initial foci of 16.0 × 12.0 × 9.0 cm and 10.5 × 8.7 × 7.5 cm.

Results and discussion:
The surgical intervention (right hemihepatectomy, lymphatic dissection D2) was performed as an independent treatment without prior chemotherapy.

Conclusions:
The surgical treatment occurred 5 years ago, and at the time of writing there has been no relapse and no sign of progression.
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF SUICIDES / Sociological Perspective of Suicides
Authors: MALOKU Ahmet , MALOKU Elda
Published: September 2020

This paper elaborates the sociological perspective of suicide. Suicide is one of the social phenomens, which is present in every society or culture and is considered as one of the problems and challenges of modern society (post) which belongs to the individual and the family itself as a functional unit of society. The paper analyzes the research data in the study of the sociological approach to suicide and the influence of sociological factors on suicide such as: gender; marriage and family; unemployment; age and education. The aim of this study is evaluation, analyze and the role of these sociological factors that affect suicide. The research results also show that the sociological aspect of suicide viewed from the historical context, has been seen as a single phenomenon from different perspectives of social epochs. Taking into consideration the available data, the sociological point of view has been clarified as one of the most important approaches in the analysis of suicide as a social phenomenon. From the available literature, different views have been seen on the phenomenon of suicide and the difficulties in determining it, namely the determination of the causes and consequences, and effective methods of suicide prevention. This paper contributes to the existing scientific literature, especially in the fields of Sociology, Psychology, Criminology and Victimology. Moreover, this paper is likely to contribute to the work of NGOs, but also to the work of state bodies to prevent suicide, which is and remains a universal challenge.