bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Nodular-like glomerular lesion after long-standing chronic renal infection in a patient with medullary sponge kidney and mild hyperglycemia
Authors: Nakashima Saki , Kawada Masahiro , Sekine Akinari , Yamanouchi Masayuki , Ikuma Daisuke , Mizuno Hiroki , Oba Yuki , Hasegawa Eiko , Suwabe Tatsuya , Kono Kei , Kinowaki Keiichi , Ohashi Kenichi , Sawa Naoki , Hoshino Junichi , Ubara Yoshifumi
Published: September 2022

A 63-year-old Japanese woman was admitted to our institute for the evaluation of proteinuria. The patient was diagnosed with medullary sponge kidney, distal type renal tubular acidosis, and renal infection at the age of 37. Thereafter, the patient had repeated renal infections. Urinary proteinuria appeared at around the age of 61 and gradually increased up to 1.0 g daily. In the same period, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) increased to 7.0%. On kidney biopsy, light microscopy showed a nodular glomerular lesion and capsular drop. Linear staining for immunoglobulin G along the glomerular basement membrane was observed by immunofluorescence. Electron microscopy showed thickening of the glomerular basement membrane to a width of 800–900 nm. A class III glomerular lesion was diagnosed according to the Tervaert classification. This case indicates that mild but prolonged hyperglycemia for more than 10 years may also contribute to the formation of nodular lesions, although long-standing repeated chronic renal infection and chronic acidosis may have been a precipitating factor in the formation of diabetic nephropathy, including nodular glomerular lesions. This hypothesis is of interest because nodular lesions specific to diabetes are currently considered to be associated with long-term severe hyperglycemia.

Learning points

Nodular glomerular lesions in diabetes mellitus are thought to be associated with long-term severe hyperglycemia.

This case shows that although mild, long-term hyperglycemia for more than 10 years may also contribute to the formation of nodular lesions and that repeated chronic kidney infections over the years and chronic acidosis may be facilitating factors in the formation of diabetic nephropathy, including nodular glomerular lesions.

This case appears to be idiopathic nodular glomerulosclerosis of the medullary sponge kidney associated with chronic urinary tract infection.
Numerical and Experimental Study of Multi-layer Armors for Personal Protection
Authors: Jassem Ahmed Ehsan , Jawad Akram Jassim , Samarmad Ahmed Oleiwi , Hamzah Ahmed Fadhil
Published: September 2022

Currently, personal armor is considered the basic requirement in combat, especially in the Middle East. The current research attempts to design and manufacture a novel body armor from cheap and available materials. When compared to traditional materials’ body armor, composite ballistic body armor has become a superior alternative for personal protection. In this study, alternative materials were proposed to develop an armor consisting of modified rubber and ebonite, as well as pieces of ceramic from alumina as hexagons shape, Kevlar and Carbon woven, and modern technologies shear thickening fluids. The armor was numerically evaluated using (ANSYS) commercial software using different bullet velocities ranging from (740 to 940) m/s and different numbers of carbon and Kevlar woven soaking shear thickening fluids to reach the best arrangement of layers with the best performance and compare them in the experimental data. The numerical results show the best performance for plate armor consisting of 23-layers, which were then experimentally tested using a weapon type (AK-47) rifle with bullet 7.62*39 mm. The experimental test showed no complete penetration, with a back deformation of 7.5 mm. When the shock of the double bullet into the plate at the same location showed no complete penetration with a back deformation of 11.3 mm, the body armor exhibited superior protective performance and was compatible with standard NIJ Standard-0101.03.
Effect of short-term heat treatment in the hydrogen on magnetic properties of ZnO:Mn nanocrystals
Authors: Kovalenko O.V. , Vorovsky V.Yu. , Khmelenko O.V. , Kushnerov O.I.
Published: September 2022

The magnetic properties of ZnO:Mn(2at%) nanocrystals synthesized by ultrasonic aerosol pyrolysis were studied. It has been established that short-term thermal treatment in hydrogen does not affect the magnetization of the synthesized sample, which had ferromagnetic and paramagnetic components. The sample, which underwent heat treatment in air at T = 850°C and acquired paramagnetic properties, after heat treatment in hydrogen again became ferromagnetic without a paramagnetic phase. It has been established by the EPR method that the structure of defects in the synthesized ZnO:Mn(2%) NCs is inhomogeneous. It changes after heat treatment in hydrogen. It is shown that the controlled thermal treatment of the samples, first in air and then in hydrogen, makes it possible to predictably change their magnetic properties. The results obtained are explained using the model of coupled magnetic polarons. During thermal treatment in hydrogen, the ratio of the number of oxygen vacancies Vo and interstitial Mn2+ ions changes in the samples.
Evaluation of the bending properties of modified fast-growing poplar glulam based on composite mechanics
Authors: Han Zhenhua , Zhang Ray , Song Boqi
Published: September 2022

Currently, the bending properties of glulam made from fast-growing poplar barely meet the requirements for application. In this study, the bending properties of glulam made from preservative alkaline copper quaternary (ACQ)-treated and phenol-formaldehyde resin reinforced poplar in different laminate configurations were full-scale tested via a four-point bending method. Theoretical models including stiffness model and rigidity model under different loading modes were founded based on the mechanical analysis of composite materials to predict the Young’s modulus of bending and bending strength. The Young’s modulus and bending strength of modified fast-growing poplar glulam was greatly enhanced compared with untreated ones, which can meet the standard requirements for symmetrical mixed-grade composition glulam grade E85-F255. The Young’s modulus was predicted with the rigidity model with high accuracy. The relative error was below 12%. The modified stiffness model with correction factors for normal stress and interlayer tension shearing stress can also accurately predict the failure mode and bending strength.
Effects of wood rays on the shrinkage of wood during the drying process
Authors: Xue Qianwen , Sun Weisheng , Fagerstedt Kurt , Guo Xi , Dong Mingrui , Wang Wenbin , Cao Huimin
Published: September 2022

To elucidate the origin of shrinkage anisotropy of wood during the drying process, wood from three tree species, Quercus sp., Juglans nigra, and Pometia pinnata, was analyzed using thin cryomicrotome sections and sequential drying on a micro-scale. The data on shrinkage, based on the transverse direction, were calculated using Image Pro Plus software to measure the thickness of the cell wall of fibers. The results showed that: (1) In the tangential direction, the shrinkage of wood fibers were all in the “smallest-bigger-smaller (-bigger-smaller)” pattern from A to C (A: The cells closest to the wood rays; C: The cells in the middle between the wood rays) and fibers next to the rays always have the minimum shrinkage at different moisture contents; (2) the width of the rays has no negative correlation with the shrinkage of wood fibers; and (3) the rays have the same effect on the shrinkage of wood fiber cells in both latewood and earlywood. In addition, the shrinkage of latewood is more severe than that of earlywood, which leads to tangential shrinkage.
The Legal Environment of Advertising in Ukraine
Authors: Bulat Nataliia
Published: September 2022

The legal environment of advertising in Ukraine is addressed in the article. The research results are based on the study of legal regulation of relations in the field of advertising and the examination of the legal relations in this field with regard to classical consideration of three elements of legal relations – subjects, objects and content. The author clarifies a classification of legal acts regulating relations in the field of advertising, determines subjects of relations in this field and gives their classification, proposes criteria for a classification of advertising and provides this classification, and describes the content of relations in the field of advertising.
Spatial Property: World Approaches and the National Law of Ukraine
Authors: Mytsa Yurii
Published: September 2022

The article considers the analysis of construction of spatial (floor) property, which assumes the existence of real property rights to individual premises in buildings in relation to such rights with the right to the building as a whole.
On the Doctrinal Principles of Property Restitution
Authors: Spasybo Illarion
Published: September 2022

This article aims to establish the reasons and demonstrate the necessity for restitution and its basic beginnings in Ukraine. The article emphasizes that process of restitution, which is undoubtedly needed in Ukraine, should be conducted in accordance to the principle of fairness in order to prevent a violation of private property rights.
Data as a Tradeable Commodity: Propertization vs. the Concept of Exclusive Rights
Authors: Filatova-Bilous Nataliia
Published: September 2022

This article purports to determine the legal nature of data (personal data and nonpersonal data) and to find out which approach (propertization or exclusive rights theory) may be used to arrange the trade of data. It begins with the analysis of the notion of data and their various types and goes on to analyze modern concepts and theory explaining who the data may be attributed to and on which grounds data may be transmitted and acquired. In this context two theories are considered: a so-called theory of propertization of data and the theory of exclusive rights. Based on this analysis the approach to the legal determination of the legal nature of data and rights to them is introduced.
The Impact of Violent Religious Extremism on Various Cultural Components of Pakistani Society
Authors: Shah Syed Sibtain Hussain
Published: September 2022

Aim. The aim of this research paper is to investigate threats of religious extremism to the various cultural components of Pakistani society. Religious extremism has rapidly increased in Pakistan since the 1970s, but this study is particularly focused on its impact on cultural elements of the country in the post 9/11 and post-Arab Spring eras.
Methods. The author applied the process tracing method of qualitative approach for examining chains of the events related to the question of the impact of religious extremism on the various cultural components of Pakistani society. The situational analysis also explored the various situations connected with threats of extremism to Pakistani culture.
Results. The study identified the threats of religious extremism to a number of cultural aspects of Pakistani society, such as schooling (education), traditional literature (Sufi poetry), customary art and folk music, social cultural networking, and sports in the tribal areas and other regions in the country.
Conclusion. The cultural life of a state encompasses various traits of the cultural aspect of national security. In the case of Pakistan, initially two important developments; Islamization of the country and Afghan Jihad in the 1970s both severely affected the society. Then, the eras of post 9/11 and post Arab Spring further witnessed the fast emergence of threats by religious extremists to the cultural elements in various parts of the country, including its tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, and these trends also impacted other regions of the country.
Mediation Principles in the Civil Society and Features of Their Application in the Educational Environment of Ukraine
Authors: Sheremet Anzhelika , Blaschuk Tetiana , Ishchuk Serhii
Published: September 2022

Aim. The main purpose of research presented in this article is to analyse mediation principles as an alternative way of dispute resolution and features of their application in the educational environment of Ukraine. For which purpose it was necessary to perform the following tasks: - the concept and role of mediation principles were studied; - certain types of mediation principles were defined; - the essence and significance of the most important mediation principles were revealed; - and the application of mediation principles in Ukraine was clarified. In Ukraine, civil society institutions have been trying on their own to introduce and promote mediation as a way of alternative dispute resolution. However, systemic problems of access to justice require finding other ways to resolve conflict situations. Mediation becomes especially relevant in the context of COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, when access to the court system is limited.
Methods. The study is based on the analysis of enacted regulations and their comparison in different countries, as well as information obtained from the study of literature, including works by authors of both legal and other social sciences where mediation is used as a means of compromise, including psychology, medicine, ecology, along with the use of tools and comments specific to the study of law. To study the prospects and effective application of mediation principles in the educational environment, sociological surveys of various participants of the educational process were conducted.
Results. The results of study showed that certain types of mediation principles are applied in different countries taking into account the peculiarities of national legal systems. Notwithstanding, such principles as the rule of law, the principle of equality (equal rights) of the parties, the principle of voluntariness, confidentiality and mediator behaviour (independence and impartiality, trust and justice) are applied in most of the studied national models of mediation, consequently they can be called fundamental. The survey results have revealed the readiness of the educational environment to introduce mediation as a tool for resolving conflicts in the educational environment.  In Ukraine, the draft law “On Mediation” defines general principles of mediation; however, the problem is insufficiently clear criteria for disputes that cannot be transferred to mediation. In addition, the principle of the rule of law should be defined as one of the fundamental principles of mediation.
Conclusions. The specifics of the implementation of mediation principles in Ukraine and their correlation with the principles of the judicial process require further research.
The Role of Management and School in Organising Primary Students' Free Time
Authors: Karačić Marija
Published: September 2022

Aim. The aim of the research is to determine what role management and schools play in the organisation of students” free time, and what activities it undertakes to educate for leisure time.
Methods. This study used methods of theoretical analysis, survey research methods, and questionnaires, in which 1410 subjects such as principals, teachers, parents and students from 150 primary schools in Bosnia and Herzegowina (B&H) participated.
Results. The results show that principals and teachers have positive attitudes about the rational use of students’ free time in order to prepare them  for continuing self-education with the use of various sources of knowledge.
Conclusion. Conclusions show that for a better understanding of the role of school management it is necessary to do more research about this issue on the territory of B&H, because the proper organisation and implementation of students’ free time can be successful if all participants in education work together.
Research restrictions. Since it is not possible to make comparison with results of the previous research on this topic on the territory of B&H,  the study compares results with results from other countries.
Practical application. The practical goal is to examine the education and to increase the understanding and awareness of the free time of young people.
Originality. This study is original and creative, and it contributes to better understanding of the role of management in leisure activities on students’ emotional, social, cognitive and work competencies.
Experimental Verification of the Reading Comprehension Intervention for the German Language as L3
Authors: Szabó Erzsébet , Stranovská Eva , Ficzere Anikó
Published: September 2022

Aim. The main aim of the research was to verify the reading comprehension intervention program for the German language that builds on complex models of foreign language text comprehension while stimulating the cognitive, affective and social levels of reading.
Methods. The respondents of the research were studying English language in their 3rd year in secondary schools in Slovakia. The data were collected with the didactic reading comprehension test for the German language (Hockicková et al., 2020). The research was conducted through a pre-test before the intervention program and a post-test after the intervention. The basic characteristics of the examined variables were described using descriptive statistics. A paired t-test was used to detect differences in reading comprehension before and after the intervention.
Results. The results of the research confirmed an increase in German texts comprehension in each experimental group. A statistically significant difference in reading comprehension performance was not confirmed in the control groups without completing the intervention program.
Conclusion. The reading comprehension intervention program for the German language at A2 level appears to be effective in the direction of increasing performance in reading comprehension of German texts. The intervention in German text comprehension is manifested in two simultaneous work practices, namely in the development of predictors and in working with different types of texts as well as different reading strategies.
Development of Finance Students’ Professional Culture in Ukrainian Colleges
Authors: Petrenko Larysa , Pilevich Oksana , Zelikovska Olena , Doronina Natalia , Kupriyevych Viktoriya , Bilanych Halyna , Solovey Nina , Isaieva Svitlana , Selezen Hanna
Published: September 2022

Aim. The purpose of the research is to develop and substantiate a theoretical model for the formation of a professional culture of finance students.
Methods. The authors used a set of interrelated methods: comparative analysis, comparison and synthesis, appropriate for modelling professional culture as a pedagogical phenomenon, and functional-structural analysis for systematisation of the stages of building the professional culture. A theoretical model of professional culture has been designed and validated. This model consolidates research from studies of motivation, cognitive sciences, organisational behaviour, and values in educational and financial institutions and lays the foundations of finance students’ professional culture formation methodology.
Results. The obtained results showed  positive dynamics in the formation components (motivational, creative, organisational and axiological) of the theoretical model of professional culture development. Our findings confirmed that the cultural and educational environment encourages students’ engagement in learning, boosts the development of their motivational and semantic sphere, ensuring the implementation of individual learning trajectories.
Conclusion. The complex of methods implemented evidences the educational, cultural, and innovative potential of the college for training and students’ personal and professional development. The structure of the professional culture development model for finance students has driven a reconsideration of the content of their professional training, generation and dissemination of novel methods and technologies.
Practical implementation. The research has resulted in changes to the vocational training programmes for college finance students, the introduction of  teaching methods for professional disciplines that proved their efficiency, and development of cooperation with banking institutions, financial and insurance companies.
Hausväterliteratur in the Educationand Spirituality of a Noblemanin the Early Modern Era
Authors: Rychnová Lucie , Akimjaková Beáta , Judák Viliam , Hlad Ľubomír , Ďatelinka Anton
Published: September 2022

Aim. The aim of this study is to discuss how important the so-called Hausväterliteratur genre was in the education and spirituality of (not only) aristocrats in the Early Modern Era.
Concept. This article will introduce the Hausväterliteratur as a literary genre that strongly influenced the spirituality and morality of its readers –householders, administrators of property, and their wives.
Methods. The method applied was text analysis. The social history method based on research of the primary sources was also employed..
Results. The study confirms that the treatises of the so-called Hausväterliteratur genre, kept in high numbers in European libraries in the Early Modern Age, carry a certain type of spirituality which calls for “true Christian life” following what was often a Protestant pattern (exhortation for frequent reading of the Bible).
Conclusion. Most of these books outline an ideal of the Christian life, characterised by the establishment of an order within the “household”, or “house”, i.e., the family in the broader sense, including both the manor owner and those closest to him as well as all his subjects and servants.
The Relationship between Humans and Animals in the Aboriginal Mythology through the Prism of Animal Studies
Authors: Siewierski Radosław
Published: September 2022

Aim. The aim of this article is to analyse Aboriginal myths and discover the relationship between animals and humans in the beliefs of the indigenous Australians. The article attempts to explain how animals are described when compared to people and vice. Furthermore, the author endeavours to establish what the relationship looks like and how it is presented.  
Methods. As Aboriginal myths and mythologies have been evolving for hundreds and thousands of years, it is not possible to analyse every single myth. Hence, in order to narrow them down, only the myths presented by Alexander Wyclif Reed will be analysed. The analysis will be conducted from the perspective of Animals Studies, with a particular focus on the contemporary ecological views presented by a contemporary representative of an ecological turn and animal rights scholar, Peter Wohlleben. The analysis will focus on three main aspects: parenting/motherly love, instincts, feelings and emotions.  
Results. The analysis shows that animals were of the utmost importance in the Aboriginal everyday life and most of the time were treated on a par with humans. Just like the Aboriginal point of view, contemporary attitude to Animal Studies attempts to alter the view according to which animals are devoid of feelings and intelligence.  
Conclusions. Animals seem to have a crucial role in every aspect of Aboriginal everyday life, including religious and social. They were not perceived as lesser or worse; conversely, Aboriginals considered them to be as intelligent and significant as the Aboriginal people themselves.
Policy of the Russian Empire Regarding the Polish Population of Right-Bank Ukraine in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Authors: Aloshyna Oksana
Published: September 2022

Aim. The purpose of the scientific article is to reveal the specifics of the policy of the Russian Empire towards the Polish population on the territory of the Right-Bank of Ukraine.
Methods. The research methodology is based on the principles of scientificity, historicism, systematics. During the research work, both general scientific (analysis and synthesis, systematisation and generalisation) and special scientific methods were used: problem-thematic, as well as system-structural.
Results. The politics of the Russian government towards the poles had an important place in the socio-political life of Right-bank Ukraine. Using legislative documents and ordinances, the Russian government introduced a number of restrictive measures that were supposed to control and weaken the influence of Poles on the socio-economic life of the region.
Conclusions. The Russian authorities tried to neutralise the influence of the Polish population and the Roman Catholic Church. Determining the presence of Poles and regulating their number depended on the strict control of the Russian government. The Poles were seen as a “dangerous element” threatening the policy of tsarist autocracy. That is why the authorities decided to undermine their socio-economic position by depriving them of a significant number of privileges.
Higher Education System in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals (on the Example of Georgia)
Authors: Darchashvili Manana
Published: September 2022

Aim. The purpose of the article is to study, analyse and present the readiness of Georgia in the modern period to meet international problems – it is the main goal of sustainable development, including higher education. The government of Georgia, since ancient times correctly understood the role of education for future prosperity, currently the government is doing its best to meet the international challenges in the fourth goal of sustainable development - education, including higher education.
Methods. The paper is presented based on official documents, scientific research papers, analysis, and the historical-comparative method.
Results. The article presents important challenges for the integration of the Georgian state into the European space at the present stage, which is enshrined in the Constitution (Parliament of Georgia, 2018) and several important documents. In this context, promoting access to education is an important international agreement for the country to overcome modern global challenges - one of the most important goals of sustainable development - an important precondition for strengthening the socio-political and cultural development of society.
Conclusion. The paper is based on the study/processing of international and local official materials, as well as expert research has the opportunity to assess the readiness of the higher education system to follow the goals of sustainable development. The country’s relevant structures are actively creating all the conditions for the convergence/engagement of the Georgian educational space under modern international standards which has been demonstrated in practice by the capabilities of higher education institutions.
Algorithm for Solving the Problem of Optimal Control of a Chemical-Technological Process with Terminal Constraints
Authors: Antipina Evgeniya V. , Mustafina Svetlana A. , Antipin Andrey F. , Morozkin Nikolay D.
Published: September 2022

Introduction. The problem of determining the optimal mode parameters during the mathematical modeling of chemical and technological processes is the most important. Numerical methods and algorithms for the solution provide the basis for developing software packages to calculate processes and their digital twins. The mathematical model of the chemical-technological process can be described by a system of differential equations, highlighting the phase variables that determine the state of the process, and the control parameters, which can be changed and thereby affect the course of the process. The aim of the work is to develop a numerical algorithm for solving the problem of optimal control of a chemical-technological process in the presence of terminal constraints and the constraints on the control parameter.
Materials and Methods. There was formulated the problem of optimal control in general terms. To solve it, the penalty method and method of artificial immune systems were applied. There was described a method for including constraints in the penalty function and for choosing a sequence of coefficients with which the penalty is taken. To overcome local extrema, a random choice of initial values of control parameters was used.
Results. The article presents a step-by-step numerical algorithm for solving the problem of optimal control of a chemical-technological process with terminal constraints. A computational experiment was carried out for a model example, as a result of which the structure of the optimal process control and the corresponding optimal trajectories of phase variables are determined. It is shown that the calculated solution of the optimal control problem consists with the solution obtained by the needle linearization method.
Discussion and Conclusion. The developed algorithm allows finding a numerical solution to the problem of optimal control of a chemical-technological process with terminal constraints. The solution does not depend on the choice of the initial approximation.
Zeller, Benjamin E., ed. 2001. Handbook of UFO Religions
Authors: Lutkajtis Anna
Published: September 2022

Zeller, Benjamin E., ed. 2001. Handbook of UFO Religions. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill. xvii + 542 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-43437-0 (hbk). €199.00.
Fourteen-fold Intelligences and the Principles of Mulla Sadra’s Theology
Authors: Tabatabaei Sayed Mehran , Emami Jomeh Seyed Mahdi
Published: September 2022

The principles of Mulla Sadra’s theology as they relate to multiple intelligences have not been considered. Inferring multiple intelligences from Sadraean philosophy opens a new window for education focusing on transcendence-centered learning. The present essay discusses the powers of human souls as they relate to the formation of fourteen intelligences, and which are classified under five broad categories. Paying attention to the process of learning based on distinct types of intelligences sets the stage for designing a consistent educational program ensuring both worldly and other worldly happiness.
Søren Kierkegaard: Theologian of the Gospel, edited by Todd Speidell, Greg Marcar and Andrew Torrance
Authors: Duke Charles
Published: September 2022

Søren Kierkegaard: Theologian of the Gospel, edited by Todd Speidell, Greg Marcar and Andrew Torrance. Wipf & Stock, 2021. 268 pp. $47.00, ISBN-13: 9781666709117.
Land of Stark Contrasts. Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the United States, edited by Manuel Mejido Costoya
Authors: Luna Morales Xochiquetzal
Published: September 2022

Land of Stark Contrasts. Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the United States, edited by Manuel Mejido Costoya. Fordham University Press, 2021. 384pp., 7 b/w illustrations. Pb. US$35.00. ISBN-13: 9780823293964.
IFSEMC 2022 SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACT POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Authors: IFSEMC 2022 abstracts
Published: September 2022

Poster presentation abstracts for the IFSEMC 2022
Development and validation of organizational parochialism scale
Authors: Ozpehlivan Murat
Published: September 2022

Purpose- The aim of this study is to examine the concept of organizational parochialism, which is one of the factors that determine the present and future of organizations, and to apply validity and reliability tests by developing a scale that is thought to measure this concept.
Methodology- Our research was applied to 272 companies operating in the textile sector and the results were analysed in the SPSS.25 program. As a result of detailed statistical analyses, the validity and reliability tests of the developed scale were completed and it was determined that the scale statistically measures the concept of organizational parochialism.
Findings- According to the results of the research, it has been seen that the concept of organizational parochialism is divided into 5 different sub-dimensions with 25 items as namely business management, financial management, competitiveness, employment management and production management.
Conclusion- In today's intensely competitive environment, businesses focus on the present and they may miss the possible risks of the future. In addition to the possible risks, it is also possible for the organizations to make predictions about the future, to catch potential opportunities in a timely manner and to benefit the organization from them. It is possible to say that businesses that cannot evaluate such risks and opportunities are narrow-minded, especially in terms of management manner. In this study, a scale measuring the concept of organizational parochialism and its sub-dimensions, which was determined that have not been researched before in social sciences as a result of the literature review, was developed. In our research, it is possible to indicate that the concept has been confirmed by both the data obtained from the organizational behaviour literature and the statistical data on its measurement.

Keywords: Organizational parochialism, narrow-mindedness, administrative shallowness, parochialism scale, projection determination.
JEL Codes: M16, M11, M12
Effect of consumer ethnocentrism on purchase intention of consumers in Myanmar
Authors: Htet Atar Thaung
Published: September 2022

Purpose- Ethnocentrism in consumers plays an vital role in predicting user behavior when deciding between imported and domestic goods. This research works tries to identify the consumer ethnocentrism of consumers in Myanmar textile market. The specific objectives of this study are to examine the consumer ethnocentrism of consumers in Myanmar textile market and to investigate the effect of consumer ethnocentrism on purchase intention of consumers in Myanmar textile market.
Methodology- The study area was Myanmar market. The selected sample size was 386 consumers who have buying experiences for local textile clothes. The convince sampling method used in this study. The research instrument used as survey questionnaire for collect the data. The structure questionnaire was used for this study. There were three parts in questionnaire- the first one demographic section and the last is consumer ethnocentrism scale. According to the CEESCALE model, consumer ethnocentrism scale was 19 items for all variables. Purchase intention has 5 items. 5 points Likert scale questions types used for measure the consumer ethnocentrism and purchase intention. Descriptive analysis and multiple linear regression method were used in this study in order to analyze the collected data. Moreover, reliability analysis was used for analyze the reliable of collected data under each variable.
Findings- This study found that insecurity, habituation and prosociality have strongly significant effect on purchase intention of consumers in Myanmar textile market. In addition, the mean value of purchase intention 3.8 that above the natural scale and nearly reach to the agree statement.
Conclusion- After analyze the collected data this study determined that consumer ethnocentrism affect consumers' purchase intentions. By measuring the consumer ethnocentric tendencies managers can create a database that will be fruitfully incorporated into marketing strategy development. This study concluded that CEESCALE model is a tool for verify the interesting results in other developing countries. The managerial implications and suggestions of the research are discussed in detail.

Keywords: Consumer ethnocentrism, CEESCALE model, purchase intention
JEL Codes: M40, M41
Gelibolu Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası Kayıtlarına Göre Cumhuriyet Döneminde Yahudi Tüccarlar (1923-1969)
Authors: ATABAY Mithat
Published: September 2022

Gelibolu, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu döneminde önemli bir ticaret merkezi konumundaydı. Ancak Sanayi Devrimi’nden sonra bölgenin peş peşe savaş alanı haline gelmesi ticareti zorlaştırdı. Birinci Dünya Savaşı sonrasındaki işgal dönemi ticareti de olumsuz yönde etkiledi. İşgalden kurtulduktan sonra ise bölgedeki Rum ve Ermenileri Gelibolu’yu terk etmek zorunda kalması ticaretin büyük ölçüde Yahudilerin eline geçmesine sebep oldu.

1925 yılında kabul edilen ve 1926 yılında yürürlüğe giren Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası Kanunu çerçevesinde ticari yaşam yeniden şekillendirilmeye çalışıldı. Bu bağlamda Gelibolu Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası kayıtlarına göre Gelibolu’daki Yahudi tüccarlar tespit edilerek onların meslek alanları ortaya konulmaya çalışıldı.
The Instagram Interview: Talking to People About Travel Experiences Across Online and Offline Spaces
Authors: Hugentobler Larissa
Published: September 2022

Studying visitors’ experiences with cultural sites has been complicated by the availability of internet-connected mobile devices. Simply observing visitors on site is no longer sufficient since they can interact with a site offline and online: before, during, and after their visit. Furthermore, cultural sites are as much sites of cultural heritage as they are sites of tourism. To study such complex experiences, new approaches to the study of human interactions with cultural sites must be developed; these methods must account for the fact that the offline and online realms can no longer be considered separate. In this article, I introduce the method of the Instagram interview as applied in an Instagram ethnography, contextualized by my project on visitor experiences of a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC, where I interviewed visitors after their visit. The Instagram interview helps study a dispersed population that engages, through Instagram posts, with one physical location and its narratives, allowing conclusions about visitor experiences of the site and the role of Instagram in this context. When constructing the Instagram interview in a manner that corresponds to platform conventions, it produces personal, in-depth narratives about the interviewee’s experiences. Conceptualizing the experience of a memorial as expanding beyond the space and time of the site visit, the Instagram interview is suitable for holistically studying visitors’ complex experiences: before, during, and after their visits, as it recognizes that offline and online interactions with the site are part of the same experience.
Researching Motherhood in the Age of Short Videos: Stay-at-Home Mothers in China Performing Labor on Douyin
Authors: He Guanqin , Leurs Koen , Li Yongjian
Published: September 2022

Addressing the particular context of China, this article has two aims. First, it offers reflections on the possibilities and limitations of using user-generated short videos (vlogs) as research data both methodologically and ethically. We specifically explore the potential of centering vlogs as a new format for examining motherhood behavior across online and offline spaces. Secondly, it adds to the thematic literature on the (re)production and representations of motherhood. We critically examine the rising phenomenon in China of the stay-at-home mother, by exploring how these mothers use short video platforms. Inductively learning from the thematic analysis of short videos of stay-at-home mothers published on Douyin, the patterns in the data indicate three distinct forms of labor are performed through digital motherhood practices: domestic labor, affective labor, and entrepreneurial labor. Drawing on these patterns, we update the original framework of “motherhood 2.0,” which was coined in the 2010s to address mothering practices in industrialized western societies. We extend this framework and conceptualize “motherhood 3.0” by analyzing a type of Chinese community-based intersectional performance of motherhood, gender, and labor that we see emerging in digital cultural production centered on short videos. Mediated labor within online and offline motherhood practices is informed by social, cultural, and technological factors. Digital technologies and mobile media communication provide new means for stay-at-home mothers to navigate between their roles as devoted mothers and their pursuit of self-actualization.
High-Rises and Urban Specificity: Politics of Vertical Construction in Paris, London, and Vienna
Authors: Glauser Andrea
Published: September 2022

High-rise buildings have been experiencing a significant boom worldwide over the past two decades. This is true not least for European cities, where church steeples, town hall towers, and chimneys were the main vertical accents in city centers for a long time. This article focuses on the construction of high-rise buildings as a “glocal” phenomenon. The vertical building type has spread around the world, but approaches to it are site-specific and inextricably entangled with local problems, modes of action, and discourses. Construction strategies and discussions about tall buildings are quite diverse even in Europe alone. Presenting case studies of Paris, London, and Vienna, this article looks at three metropolises in which vertical building has caused particular unrest in recent years and reveals enlightening contrasts between them. In exploring the question of how distinctions are made in these cities between desirable and quasi-illegitimate buildings, or “possible” and “impossible” locations, I analyze city-specific patterns relating to vertical construction. Special attention is paid to urban planning—the activities of those actors who are responsible for developing strategies and implementing and concretizing legal regulations. The discussion draws on a larger research project and is based on the grounded theory research perspective. The data pool includes a large number of published and unpublished documents as well as interviews with actors from the fields of urban planning, architecture, and historic preservation. From a theoretical point of view, the article draws on reflections on the “specificity of cities” and “glocalization” in urban research.
A Partially Nonergodic Ground-Motion Model for Cascadia Interface Earthquakes
Authors: Sung Chih-Hsuan , Abrahamson Norman
Published: September 2022

The Abrahamson and Gulerce (2020) ground-motion model (GMM), called AG20, is modified to include the nonergodic effects from the suite of 3D numerical simulations of long-period ground motions from M 9 megathrust earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone developed by the M 9 project (Frankel et al., 2018). Three modifications are made to the AG20 model. First, the scaling of the basin effects as a function of the depth to a shear-wave velocity of 2.5 km/s (Z2.5) is modified to be consistent with the Z2.5 scaling from the 3D simulations. Second, the spatial distribution of the nonergodic site terms is estimated using the varying coefficient model for the region covered by the 3D velocity model. The change in the median ground motion due to the nonergodic site terms ranges from factors of 0.25 to 5 at a period of 3 s. Third, a reduction in the aleatory variability for single-station sigma is estimated. On average, including the nonergodic site terms reduces the sigma by 15%–25% compared with an ergodic sigma for Cascadia. In addition, a spatially varying single-station sigma model is developed, showing the highest variability for sites near the basin edges. Application of nonergodic GMMs requires an estimate of the epistemic uncertainty in the nonergodic terms. Without simulation results for different 3D velocity models, we assumed that the epistemic uncertainty due to uncertainty in the 3D velocity model is half of the between-site standard deviation from the simulations. As an example, the seismic hazard for interface events using the nonergodic GMM is compared with the hazard using the original AG20 GMM.
Late Pleistocene Slip Rate and 3D Geometry of the Mid-Channel Blind Thrust, Santa Barbara Channel, California, and Their Implications for Earthquake Hazards
Authors: Don Jessica , Shaw John H. , Nicolae Ana Luiza , Sorlien Christopher C. , Nicholson Craig , Plesch Andreas
Published: September 2022

The Mid-Channel fault is an active blind thrust overlain by a south-vergent anticline in the Santa Barbara channel of southern California. We use high-quality industry seismic reflection data to characterize the 3D geometry of the Mid-Channel fault, and define its lateral extent and interactions with other structures in the region. We use a detailed chronostratigraphic sequence of nine Pleistocene horizons ranging in age from 120 ka to 1.05 Ma to interpret the geometry and deformational history of the Mid-Channel anticline and blind thrust. These precisely dated horizons provide unique insights on the Pleistocene activity of the Mid-Channel fault because of the nearly complete preservation of sediment on the backlimb of the fold. Using a new method of relating structural relief of these horizons to slip on the underlying Mid-Channel fault, we calculate the faults late Pleistocene slip rate. Results indicate that the structure became active between 790 and 710 ka in the eastern part of the Channel and subsequently propagated west along strike. In the east, where the overlying anticline preserves a complete section of syntectonic growth strata, the Mid-Channel fault has a dip-slip rate of 1.8 mm/yr with a range of 1.6–2.1 mm/yr. Based on a map of total displacement, we infer that the maximum dip-slip rate on the Mid-Channel fault along strike is 2.1 ± 0.2 mm/yr, suggesting that it may accommodate about one-third of the observed geodetic contraction across the basin. We explore alternative ways that the fault may extend to depth and interact with surrounding structures, and consider the seismic hazard implications of these scenarios, including estimates of potential earthquake rupture areas, magnitudes, and average recurrence intervals.
Phytophagous insects and their predators in woody plant taxa in urban landscapes in Burdur City center
Authors: PATLAR Gülser , AVCI Mustafa , OĞUZOĞLU Şükran
Published: September 2022

Field studies were carried out during the April-November period of 2018-2019 in order to determine the phytophagous and predatory insect species living on ornamental trees and shrubs in Burdur city center parks. 15 parks located in the city center were chosen as the study area. The parks were visited three-four times throughout the year and specimens of insects and host plants were collected and brought to the laboratory for preparation and diagnosis. A total of 34 plant taxa were examined throughout the study. As a result, totally 55 phytophagous insect species were identified from three orders and 19 families [Pseudococcidae 1, Diaspididae 4, Marchalinidae 1, Tingidae 3, Psyllidae 2, Cicadellidae 3, Miridae 7, Lygaeidae 6, Coreidae 2, Rhapolidae 2, Pentatomidae 4, Cixidae 1 (Hemiptera), Apionidae 3, Chrysomelidae 4, Curculionidae 8, Malachiidae 1, Elateridae 1 (Coleoptera), Tortricidae 1, and Notodontidae 1 (Lepidoptera)]. Among them, the most common and abundant species was Marchalina hellenica (Gennadius, 1883) from the Marchalinidae family. We report Anthocomus equestris (Fabricius, 1781) from the Malachiidae family as a new record from Turkey. Totally 18 predator species were identified from seven families [Nabidae 1, Miridae 1, Anthocoridae 2, Coccinellidae 10, Cantharidae 2, Srypidae 1, and Forficulidae 1]. We identified 83 interactions between phytophagous insects and host plants, and 26 interactions among phytophagous insects, host plants, and predator species.
The ‘Assam’ technique: a simple, reproducible and leak proof technique of pancreaticojejunostomy after Whipple’s procedure
Authors: Sharma Digvijoy , Mallik Saikat , Kalita Hitesh
Published: September 2022

Background: Pancreatico-enteric anastomoses after Whipple’s pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) has truly remained Achilles' heel in this technically challenging and complex surgery. Many techniques have been developed over decades to reduce the rate of postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF), which is still the major cause of morbidity and mortality even in the current era.Methods: A retrospective review of all patients who underwent Whipple’s PD by the same surgical team from August 2019 to February 2022 was performed.Results: A total of 41 patients underwent classical Whipple’s PD with the new technique of PJ during the study period. No patient developed clinically significant PF. Delayed gastric emptying was seen in three patients and surgical site infection occurred in three patients. The rate of overall morbidity was 14.3%.Conclusions: This simple and innovative technique significantly reduces the risk of POPF irrespective of pancreatic texture and duct diameter. It is easily reproducible without adversely affecting the operative time.