bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
IMPULSIVITY AND EMOTION REGULATION IN GIFTED ADULTS WITH ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
Authors: Moreau Clothilde , Auclain Mathilde , Rucart Aurélie , Barrault Servane
Published: May 2022

"Empirical evidence pointed out giftedness, as defined by high intellectual abilities (IQ ? 130 according to the WHO), to be a protective or a neutral factor in the development of psychopathologies in children and adolescents (e.g., Martin et al., 2010, Alexopoulou, 2020). Nevertheless, very few studies demonstrated interest regarding addictions and giftedness. The few ones that have attempted to explore this subject focused only on academic giftedness and their relation to substance use. For instance, Williams and Hagger-Johnson (2017) found an increased risk of drinking alcohol regularly and cannabis use during adolescence and early adulthood in academic gifted students at age 11, whereas Peairs et al. (2010) studied the probability to try alcohol in students and found no difference between academic gifted students and their non-gifted peers. Overall, there is a huge lack of data regarding addictions and factors strongly associated with addictive behaviors, like impulsivity (Berg et al., 2015) or emotion regulation (Estevez et al., 2017), in gifted people, and more especially in gifted adults. The purpose of this research is to better understand gifted adults with addictive behaviors by studying impulsivity and emotion regulation in this specific population. The sample consists of adults (? 18 years) divided into 4 groups according to their condition: giftedness or not, with or without addiction. The 4 groups will be compared based on scientifically validated tools in impulsivity (UPPS) and emotion regulation (DERS). The IQ scores is evaluated with a full Wechsler Intelligence Scale. An interview is made systematically to check the addiction criteria of the DSM-V. We voluntary chose to consider every kind of addictions to stay in line with an exploratory goal. The preliminary results (n = 150) will be exposed in this poster. We expect that the gifted adults with addictive behaviors would show better scores in emotion regulation abilities overall than the non-gifted ones, but lower scores regarding the sphere of emotional identification and awareness. This would be consistent with the results of Brasseur (2013) that suggested less emotional intelligence in gifted adolescents regarding identification and understanding of their own emotions. We also believe that they would show lower scores in impulsivity compared to the non-gifted ones because of a positive correlation between emotion regulation overall and low impulsivity."
CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING?
Authors: Orzechowski Jaroslaw , Kaminska Daria , Jemiolo Pawel
Published: May 2022

"The process of creative problem-solving and stimulating innovation in organizations is long, costly, and high-risked. While risk is by definition included in the creative process, ideation can cut down time and costs of fostering innovative solutions. Inventive systems such as TRIZ (?????? ??????? ???????????????? ?????), CPS (Creative Problem-Solving) or DT (Design Thinking), have paved the way in supporting creators, designers, inventors and scientists in innovative solutions seeking. However, only a few of these systems are scientifically proven to be effective. It seems that CPS, initiated by Osborn, is the best evidence-based inventive system, as well as it is still developed both in empirical research, and in real-life practice (Buijs, Smulders & van der Meer, 2009; Isaksen & Treffinger, 2004; Puccio, Murdock & Mance, 2005). The main assumption of CPS is that creating innovative ideas is a phase process, i.e. following a certain universal pattern. Baer and Kaufman (2005) argue that CPS involves various skills, especially domain-specific creativity (i.e. related to expert knowledge), which is embedded in general abilities such as intelligence and motivation. However, the use of CPS requires high-class experts who are not only specialists in a specific field but also trained in creative problem-solving. Regardless of the costs, it is a bottleneck for the application of such inventive techniques on a larger scale. Therefore, new approaches in development of AI-powered creative tools to assist creators and designers seem to be emerging. One of them is @CREATE – an expert inventive system based on CPS and supported by artificial intelligence. The idea of @CREATE will be presented by the authors."
SOME SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL DISORDERS AMONG SARS-COV 2 PATIENTS IN A FIELD HOSPITAL: A PILOT STUDY
Authors: Nguyen Viet Chung , Tran Thu Huong , Nguyen Huu Chien , Nong Thi Ngan Giang
Published: May 2022

"The risk of mental disorders has been recognized in SARS-CoV 2 infected patients. This article presents some results of a cross-sectional research conducted on 54 SARS-CoV 2 infected patients in a field hospital at Dong Thap province, with the aim to understand the prevalence of some mental disorders and their associated factors in SARS-CoV 2 infected patients. A self-report scale was used: Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS). The results of research showed that clinically meaningful psychological symptoms were found in 14.8% of patients for anxiety symptoms; 11.4% for depression symptoms; 5.6% for both anxiety and depression symptoms. The associated factors for anxiety symptoms included the duration of SARS-CoV 2 infectivity and anger while infected. There was a significant difference in the association between the duration of SARS-CoV 2 infectivity and the prevalence of depressive symptoms. So, the prevalence of the mental disorder in SARS-CoV 2 infected patients was higher than community; These mental symptoms could be recovered gradually over time. Further studies are needed to clarify this issue."
INTEGRATIVE RESEARCH REVIEW OF THE IMPACTS OF UNILATERAL HAND CLENCHING ON BEHAVIOR: CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
Authors: Schierenbeck Shannon , Propper Ruth E.
Published: May 2022

"Manipulations differentially activating the left or right cerebral hemisphere influence behavior in ways congruent with known theories of hemispheric lateralization of function. For example, rightward eye gaze increases positive mood via left hemisphere activity, and left unilateral nostril breathing increases right hemisphere spatial task performance. Determining under what conditions, and to what extent, simple techniques can be used to alter mental and emotional state holds considerable appeal because methods might be used as adjuncts to other tactics to mitigate negative affect in clinical situations, or to improve cognition in neurocognitive impairment. One method demonstrating promise for altering cognition and emotion, and that could be used in home-settings, is sustained unilateral hand clenching. The goal of the present paper was to analyze the literature to examine i. typical methods used for this manipulation; ii. in what manner such movements alter cognition and/or emotion; iii. whether one versus the other hemisphere, is particularly affected by manipulation. A literature search was conducted using relevant search terms, resulting in 24 articles. Across the literature, a wide range of domains was examined, including memory, decision making, creativity, language, emotion, and social perception, with many examining more than one domain. Nine included neurophysiological measures. Overall, 4 studies reported an impact of only unilateral right-hand clenching and 5 of only unilateral left-hand clenching, on behavior. Twelve reported an impact of both hand clenching conditions. Three reported no impact of hand clenching on performance. Future work should examine unilateral hand clenching in clinical populations."
FACTORS OF DISTRESS IN ENDOMETRIOSIS: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN TRAIT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND PAIN
Authors: Barberis Nadia , Cannavò Marco , Cuzzocrea Francesca
Published: May 2022

"Introduction: Endometriosis is a gynecological condition characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside of the uterus. Several studies shown the importance of pain-related symptomatology in endometriosis, which has been linked to high levels of depression, anxiety, and stress. Furthermore, consistent findings revealed that pain symptoms do not always correlate with the severity of endometriosis, showing that other factors such as psychological and emotional factors may influence pain perception. In this regard, Trait Emotional Intelligence (Trait EI) was found to be a relevant antecedent for adjustment to one's medical condition. The current study sought to verify whether the association between Trait Emotional Intelligence and General distress (depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and stress) in people with endometriosis would be mediated by Pain (intensity and interference with enjoyment of life, and general activity). Methods: In a sample of 276 women with endometriosis aged between 18 and 40 years old (M=30.28; SD=6.07) instruments were administered to measure Trait EI, Pain and General Distress. Results: Results of this study showed that Trait EI was negatively related to Pain and General distress, whereas General distress was positively associated to Pain. Furthermore, Pain has shown a mediation role in the relation between Trait EI and General distress. Discussion: Individuals with a low trait EI may have difficulty requesting support from significant others or physicians, as well as engaging in healthy activities while dealing with pain-related symptomatology, which may foster the onset of internalizing symptomatology. Intervention programs for individuals with endometriosis may implement modules aimed at fostering Trait EI to successfully cope with pain and should carefully screen for internalizing symptomatology to improve their clinical efficacy."
ATYPICAL SOCIAL COGNITION IN BULLYING: HOW PRE-ADOLESCENTS MENTALIZE EMOTIONS
Authors: Pedditzi Maria Luisa , Fadda Roberta , Skoler Tricia Striano
Published: May 2022

"Mentalizing is a mental activity that allows perceiving human behavior in terms of mental states like emotions, beliefs, needs, feelings, and goals. A reduced mentalizing ability is a risk factor for a variety of psychological issues in the domain of interpersonal social relationships. Numerous studies indicated deficits in social cognition in bullies and victims and highlighted that, aggressive children are less accurate in identifying emotions compared to control groups. However, only a few studies investigated mentalizing abilities related to anger and happiness in pre-adolescence. Our study tries to fill this gap in the literature, by investigating possible differences in the ability to mentalize anger and happiness in bullies and victims, compared to a control group of peers. To achieve this aim, we interviewed 100 students, aged between 13 to 14 years (M = 13.48; SD=.86), attending Italian lower secondary school, and balanced by gender. We administered the Olweus questionnaires to identify bullies and victims. We also applied a narrative approach to investigate the mental state language referred to anger and happiness. The results indicated a reduced ability to mentalize anger in bullies and victims compared to the control group. The 34.6% of bullies’ responses considered anger as a mere behavioral or physical state, compared to controls (26.3%; ?2= 15.97, ? ? 0.05) who in turn considered anger as a mental state (38.6%). Also, victims were less likely to refer to anger as a mental state (12.5%) compared to the control group (38.6%; ?2= 30.72, ? ? 0.05). These results highlight that both bullies and victims seem to have difficulty in defining anger and happiness as a mental state. The results of our study point to the need to define effective intervention programs to prevent bullying by promoting appropriate mentalization of emotions in pre-adolescents. We also highlight the need to train teachers and parents about the importance of awareness of emotions to be understood as a valuable ""ally"" of the cognitive and social processes involved in school and family education."
PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND SELF-CARE AMIDST COVID-19 PANDEMIC AMONG BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS OF WORLD CITI COLLEGES
Authors: Martinez Hazel , Tiamzon Elenita M.
Published: May 2022

"This study aims to provide an understanding of the psychological well-being and self-care of the Psychology students from World Citi Colleges, primarily during the ongoing COVID 19 Pandemic. The main source of data came primarily from the students of Psychology of the World Citi Colleges from first year to fourth year whose age ranges from 17- 30 years old of the Academic Year 2020-2021. Two sets of instruments were utilized in this study; the validated questionnaire of the Six Factor Model of Psychological Well- Being by Carol Ryff which consist of 18 items with 7 point scale that will measure the level of psychological well- being of respondents in terms of self-acceptance, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life, positive relations and autonomy and the self -made questionnaire derived from Seligman’s theory which was validated by experts to determine how the respondents’ maintain self-care amidst pandemic. This points five factors in leading to self- care are positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishments. Findings of the study revealed that students are considered to be high on psychological well-being in terms of personal growth. On the other five psychological well-being, Self-Acceptance, environmental mastery, purpose in life, positive relations and autonomy, the respondents are considered to be moderate on well-being. In an over-all view, students are moderately practicing self -care on all areas of consideration. However, highest among the self-care considered is on accomplishments, followed by relationships, meaning, positive emotions and engagement. Based on the results, The null hypothesis was rejected, there exists significant negative low correlation between psychological well- being and self-care (r value = -0.440; p-value = 0.01). The overall findings of this study indicated that the self-care has a significant relationship to their psychological well-being. This means that as psychological well- being increases, the self-care of the students decreases."
SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AND EMIGRATION PLANS AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN SLOVAKIA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Authors: Lučanská Frederika , Orosová Oľga
Published: May 2022

"Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between socio-psychological factors such as the perceived economic situation, perceived political situation, well-being, rootedness and emigration plans of university students in Slovakia during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: The data for this study were collected through an online survey of university students during the Covid-19 pandemic between November and December 2021. The research sample consisted of 151 (76.2% female) Slovak university students (M=21.8 years, SD=2.5). In order to identify emigration plans, there was one question with 8 answer options. Based on this, the respondents were divided into two groups; those who do not plan to leave Slovakia (76.8%) and those who plan to leave in the long term (23.2%). There was also one item used to measure the perceived economic situation and political situation. The satisfaction with life scale was used to measure well-being while the Rootedness scale consisting of the Desire for Change and Home/Family subscales was used to measure rootedness. As emigration plans was a categorical variable, binary logistic regression was used. The analysis was controlled for gender. Results: A model containing five independent variables (perceived economic situation, perceived political situation, well-being, rootedness - desire for change and home/family dimensions) explained 41.9% of variance in emigration plans during the Covid-19 pandemic, and correctly classified 84.8% of the cases. Only three of these variables made a unique statistically significant contribution to the model. The strongest predictor of emigration plans during the Covid-19 pandemic was perceived economic situation, recording an OR of 2.27. This indicated that students who perceived the economic situation in Slovakia more pessimistically were over 2 times more likely to report an emigration plan. The OR of 1.32 for rootedness – desire for change, indicated that students with a greater desire for change were over 1.32 times more likely to report emigration plans. On the contrary, the OR of 0.81 for rootedness – home/family was less than 1, indicating that students who were more satisfied with their home and family were 0.81 times less likely to report emigration plans. Conclusion: The strongest predictor of emigration plans during a pandemic is perceived economic situation. The dimensions of rootedness, as confirmed by previous studies, are predictors of emigration plans in the pre-pandemic and pandemic period."
SOURCES OF CHANGES IN LEADERSHIP STYLES IN HEALTHCARE IN BULGARIA DURING COVID 19 CRISIS
Authors: Mitevska Mayiana , Tsvetkova Paulina , Ntountoulaki Elitsa
Published: May 2022

"The aim of the study is to identify the content components of the leadership styles in healthcare during COVID 19 crisis. Another goal of the study is to examine the relationship between value preferences and various demographic indicators, such as gender, age, education, position in the hierarchy, length of service and place of residence. The study was conducted among 376 people between February and March 2021 during the COVID 19 crisis. The methodology of B. Bass and B. Avolio -""Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire"" was applied. The instrument was standardized for Bulgarian conditions by S. Karabelyova (Karabelyova S., 2011) and it described the transforming (charismatic) leadership style, the transactional leadership style, and the avoiding (liberal) leadership style. The data was processed via the software programme SPSS - 21 and for the purpose of the analysis descriptive statistics and dispersion analysis have been made. The study assumes that if the sources of changes in leadership styles are known, activities of an organization could be optimized, and the results of their joint activities could be maximized. The data show that demographic indicators differentiate leadership styles to varying degrees."
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HAZARD PERCEPTION, RISK ASSESSMENT AND DIFFERENT DRIVING STYLES: LITHUANIAN SAMPLE
Authors: Slavinskienė Justina , Endriulaitienė Auksė
Published: May 2022

"Scientists agree that not only personality traits and emotions, but also cognitive characteristics have a great influence on developing individual driving style. Usually, the analysis of driving style includes cognitive skills related to memory and attention, unreasonably not taking into account perceptual skills. Cognitive factors as hazard anticipation and risk assessment are crucially important for risky actions while driving and traffic accidents. However, there is a lack of studies on how road hazard perception skills and risk assessment could influence individual driving style, especially for professional and non-professional drivers. So, this study aims to evaluate the relation between different driving styles, road-related hazard perception and risk assessment among professional and non-professional drivers in Lithuania. One hundred twenty-three drivers (mean age 37.04 years) participated in online study. Eighty-nine participants were non-professional, 34 – professional drivers (the main job function is directly related to driving). The mean of driving experience was 16.2 years. Seventy-four percent of all participants drive on daily basis. Different driving styles were measured with Multidimensional Driving Style Inventory (Taubman-Ben-Ari et al., 2004). Forty-four self-reported items evaluated patient - careful, angry - hostile, anxious and reckless-careless driving styles. Hazard perception skills was tested by 12 short video clips in Lithuanian hazard prediction test (Endriulaitiene et al., in press). Risk assessment was measured by self-reported 34 – item scale (Rosenbloom et.al., 2008). Professional drivers reported more risky, specifically angry-hostile and reckless-careless, driving style than non-professional drivers. There was no difference in anxious and careful-patient driving styles. Also, professional and non-professional drivers reported having similar road-related hazard perception skills and quite similar risk assessment. Correlational analysis showed that low risk assessment significantly related to more angry/hostile driving style in non-professional driver group. High risk assessment significantly correlated to more reckless/careless driving style driving style, while better hazard perception skills significantly related to aggressive/hostile driving style in professional drivers’ group."
BEHAVIOURAL SELF-REGULATION AND EMPLOYEES’ HEALTH
Authors: Majstorović Nebojša , Komlenić Ana , Šolak Radojka
Published: May 2022

"The main goal of this study was to examine the relationship between the type of behavioural self-regulation and psychophysical health of employees in the Republic of Serbia. Following the Self-Determination Theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985, 2002), Hodgins and Knee (2002) proposed that human beings possess an inherited organismic core self, which develops in a social context that fosters or precludes the fulfilment of any or all three basic psychological needs: relatedness, competence, and autonomy. The quality of social support during child’s development are theorized to yield three broad types of ego-systems depending on how many needs are fulfilled. These three ego-systems include the integrated self (int-s), the ego-invested self (e-i-s), and the impersonal self (imp-s), differing in the level of autonomy and integration in behavioural self-regulation. Previous studies indicate that level of needs satisfaction and integration of self is related to a better health and health protective behaviour (e.g., Ntoumanis et al., 2021; Ng et al., 2012; Hodgins et al., 1996). The psychophysical health was considered here as the absence of health disorder symptoms within five domains: physical health, depression reactions, fatigue, fear and anxiety, and social functioning. The data were gathered from an at-hand sample of 331 employees, with different work tenure (13 years in average), gender (65% were women), and with the average age of 39. Two questionnaires were applied to gather data on self-regulation of everyday behaviour and data on five dimensions of health. The ego-functioning questionnaire (EFQ; Majstorovi?, 2007, ?(int,e-i,imp) = .75; .75; .88) is a 30-items tool administered to estimate the dominant type of self-regulation, while psychophysical health scale (SPFZ-1; Majstorovi?, 2011; ? = .91) with 23 items asks employees to self-evaluate the frequency of health disorder symptoms. Based on scores greater than mean value on one EFQ subscale and below mean value on the remaining two, the sample size was reduced to 128 participants and three groups with one dominant type of self-regulation were formed. Univariate ANOVA revealed that employees with a dominant impersonal self-regulation, compared to integrated and ego-invested regulation, report significantly more frequent symptoms on all health domains. Work tenure, gender, and age of employees do not moderate this relationship. It was concluded that these results corroborate an organismic hypothesis of self with better health expected within more authentic and more integrated ego-system. Implications of SDT based health interventions in work setting are discussed."
“NO POST-TRAUMA AFTER TRAUMA?” A QUALITATIVE STUDY WITH REFUGEE HELPERS BEING CONFRONTED WITH SEQUENTIAL TRAUMATIZATION
Authors: Rohrer Beate
Published: May 2022

"This presentation focuses on the stressors of helpers and aid workers who are confronted with trauma of refugees. Based on empirical data, I want to provide a closer look at these specific stressors. About the background: According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are currently nearly 26.4 million refugees, about half of them are under the age of 18. A majority of them have been exposed to multiple traumatic experiences, such as internal displacement, extreme violence, and torture. Meeting the needs of this vulnerable group is a major challenge for host countries and is often covered by professional helpers or volunteers. Since helpers are repeatedly confronted with severe trauma of the primary victims, they often are affected themselves. The effect of secondary trauma stress is already established in scientific literature and documented in the DSM-5. What is still lacking in terms of conceptualization are two main aspects: Firstly, traumatized refugees do not only suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but their traumatization is much more complex. Clinical trauma research often runs the risk to cut the consequences of war and flight too short. According to this, I would like to introduce the concept of sequential traumatization as an alternative approach for understanding traumatization in this context. Originally coming from a study of holocaust survivors, it describes trauma as an ongoing and long-lasting process and thus contrasts with the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder. Among other aspects the formulation of sequential traumatization integrates decreased resilience, cultural as well as socio-economical aspects of trauma. And secondly, refugee helpers are therefore not only confronted with primary victim PTSD, but also the more complex form of sequential trauma. That means, their stressors cannot be separated from a range of socio-political and societal conditions. The Helpers may face secondary sequential traumatic stress (SSTS). Our research question focuses on these specific stressors caused by confrontation with sequential trauma. Eighteen interviews were conducted with supporters in the context of flight and asylum. According to our results helpers have to deal with fears, excessive demands as well as with feelings of guilt, ambiguities of hope and despair and the endurance of uncertainty and injustice. In addition to empathy and direct confrontation with trauma, it is above all social approaches and political decisions that make supporters feel angry, powerless and helpless in the context of war, flight and, asylum."
LEXIAD, THE FIRST DYSLEXIA-SPECIFIC CYRILLIC FONT COMPARED TO THE POPULAR TIMES NEW ROMAN AND ROBOTO FONTS WHEN READ BY ADULTS
Authors: Alexeeva Svetlana , Zubov Vladislav , Nikonova Yana
Published: May 2022

"The LexiaD font was developed for Russian-speaking people with reading disorders (dyslexia) (Alexeeva et al., 2020). LexiaD demonstrated an advantage in letter feature extraction and information integration over other modern Cyrillic fonts (PT Sans and PT Serif) while reading by primary school dyslexic and non-dyslexic children. However, for dyslexic and non-dyslexic adolescents, the familiar Arial font was more effective (Alexeeva, Zubov, 2020). In this study, we tested two possible reasons for the advantages of Arial: familiarity or its structure. LexiaD was compared to Times New Roman (TNR; another familiar font) and Roboto (a font similar to Arial, but less familiar than TNR) when reading texts printed on a paper page. The study involved 42 adults without reading disorders. The previous studies did not show that the font effect interacts with the participant group (with/without dyslexia). The participants read silently three parts of the text about Easter Island and answered comprehension questions. The texts and tasks were borrowed from The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). During the reading, eye movements were recorded using a mobile tracker (PupilCore) with a sampling frequency of 200 Hz. The mean word reading rate (reading speed) and the mean number of fixations per word were analyzed. Mixed-design ANOVA showed a significant difference between the fonts in reading speed (p=0.05) and the number of fixations (p=0.03). LexiaD was inferior to Roboto in both measures. There was no evidence that the control fonts differed from each other or LexiaD differed from TNR. Thus, it could be assumed that the design made Arial a facilitating font in the previous study. A longitudinal study of LexiaD is required to test how it will perform when it becomes more familiar to readers."
SPATIO-TEMPORAL CUBE FOR VISUALIZING CULTURAL COLLECTIONS: EXPLORING A USER-FRIENDLY ROTATIONAL REPRESENTATION WITH DIFFERENT SPATIAL ABILITY
Authors: Oto Hironori , Isoda Kazuo , Hisanaga Ichiro
Published: May 2022

"In this study, we compared two rotational representations of a spatio-temporal cube displaying a cultural collection data to determine which was more useful for information search. While the horizontal data plane of the cube represented a geographical map, the vertical axis showed time as an upward spatial dimension. Users manipulated the cube to find the country and time period in which artworks with the characteristics specified in the questions were most used. In the viewpoint rotation condition, the background flowed in conjunction with a horizontal rotation as if the users moving around the stationary cube. In the cube rotation condition, the cube was rotated in front of the user's eyes, and the background did not change. The users were able to search information more accurately when using the viewpoint rotation than the cube rotation. This was true for both users with high and low spatial abilities. This finding is discussed in terms of how the environmental reference frame supports users' spatial cognition."
FROM STRUCTURALIST TO POSTSTRUCTURALIST PSYCHOANALYSIS
Authors: Cârstea Daniela
Published: May 2022

"In structuralist times, Levi-Strauss forwarded the notion of a structural (obviously) unconscious, functioning according to simple, formal laws of organisation and being akin to what Paul Ricoeur called a “Kantian unconscious”, to a “compartmentalised system without any reference to a thinking subject”. In the wake of structuralism, psychoanalysis seems to fall back, yet again, on the biological input which constituted, for that matter, its primordial inspiration (Freudism has often been indicted for biologizing excesses (Laplanche) or even dismissed as a (crypto)biologism (Sulloway). If the structuralist psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan shoved the unconscious into the abstract tiers of language, enouncing the principle according to which the unconscious is “structured as a language,” poststructuralist representatives of psychoanalysis, such as Didier Anzieu, for example, make a decisive swerve back to corporeality and, implicitly, to Freud. I argue that the instruments provided by the poststructuralist psychoanalysis allow for a more permissive analysis, which no longer remains steeped in the rigid confines of a “system” and does no longer have to pay its dues to structure, considered by structuralists to have been inherent in things."
Easing the Guidance Document Dilemma Agency by Agency: Immigration Law and Not Really Binding Rules
Authors: Family Jill
Published: May 2022

Immigration law relies on rules that bind effectively, but not legally, to adjudicate millions of applications for immigration benefits every year. This Article provides a blueprint for immigration law to improve its use of these practically binding rules, often called guidance documents. The agency that adjudicates immigration benefit applications, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), should develop and adopt its own Good Guidance Practices to govern how it uses guidance documents. This Article recommends a mechanism for reform, the Good Guidance Practices, and tackles many complex issues that USCIS will need to address in creating its practices. The recommended reforms promote increased accessibility, transparency, and fairness for immigration law stakeholders, including unrepresented parties. This Article also contributes to the larger administrative law debate about guidance documents. Guidance documents present a conundrum for administrative law because they have powerful positive and negative features. Because the Administrative Procedure Act does not require agencies to consider public input in the crafting of these rules, agencies may respond more quickly and flexibly than notice and comment rulemaking would allow. On the other hand, an agency policy statement (a type of guidance document that explains an agency’s current thinking on a particular issue) is effectively binding even though it is not legally binding. Applicants are free to argue in an adjudication that a different approach should apply. Yet, stakeholders tend to follow the rule announced in the policy statement as if it were legally binding. Thus, there is a practically binding effect without the opportunity for notice and comment. In developing a prescription for USCIS, this Article concludes that the best approach to reforming agency use of guidance documents is an agency-by-agency approach. It rejects a one-size-fits-all approach in favor of the opportunity for each agency to formalize its own practices. Such tailored reform recognizes that every agency is different, with its own guidance culture and communities of stakeholders. This approach is designed to ease the negative effects of guidance documents while maximizing their positive features.
Retroactivity and Crack Sentencing Reform
Authors: Krent Harold
Published: May 2022

This Article argues that the strong presumption against retroactive application of reduced punishments articulated in the Supreme Court’s recent decision, Dorsey v. United States, is neither historically grounded nor constitutionally compelled. Although not dispositive in Dorsey, the presumption may mislead legislatures in future contexts, whether addressing marijuana decriminalization or lessened punishment for file sharing, and in no way should signal to Congress that future changes should apply prospectively only. Although the Court reached the right result in applying the reduction in punishment for crack offenses to offenders whose sentences had not been finalized, the Court relied excessively on the general Savings Statute enacted in 1871. Congress enacted that statute not to discourage retroactive decriminalization or diminution in punishment, but to avoid the consequence of abating pending prosecutions and penalties that, at common law, followed from alteration of a criminal statute. Congress wished to prevent release of offenders when it recodified a law or increased the punishment for an offense without explicitly specifying that prosecutions could continue under the former enactment. The Savings Statute currently should be understood as a default in the face of congressional silence; once it is clear that Congress considered the temporal scope of its action, the presumption should disappear. The Article next explores whether alternative justifications support a strong presumption for prospective application of any legislative change. It initially turns to the norm against retroactive lawmaking. The conventional reasons for distrusting retroactive measures have little applicability in the context of legislative amelioration of punishment. The Article then considers two separation of powers concerns that might justify a rule against retroactive application of congressional leniency: first, whether Congress’s reduction of sentences would interfere with the President’s pardon authority under Article II, and second, whether Congress lacks the power to undo a final decision of the judiciary. The constitutional arguments raise no serious barrier to retroactive application of congressional leniency. On the other hand, the Article rejects the notion that Congress, in light of equal protection principles, must benefit those who previously committed the offense. To be sure, ignoring the plight of prior offenders may seem grossly unfair, and deterrence is not a justifiable reason to treat similarly situated offenders so disparately. Nonetheless, the Article argues that retribution and institutional rationales can justify the differential punishment scheme and survive equal protection scrutiny. In short, because there are no compelling policy or constitutional grounds to presume that congressional leniency should apply prospectively only, Congress should be accorded the discretion to determine where to draw the line in determining the proper amount of retribution for those who committed offenses before the decriminalization or diminution in punishment.
Protecting Freedom of Testation: A Proposal for Law Reform
Authors: Hosemann Eike
Published: May 2022

This Article addresses a problem ever more pressing in wealthy and aging societies like the United States: interference with freedom of testation by the use of wrongful means such as undue influence or will forgery to acquire benefits through inheritance. A detailed analysis of the remedies against interference with freedom of testation under inheritance law, tort law, and equity reveals that there is currently a significant under-deterrence of this undesirable behavior. Hence, this Article proposes a new remedy in order to protect freedom of testation more effectively: a disinheritance statute barring wrongdoers that have infringed upon someone’s freedom of testation from inheriting from their victims, not unlike the slayer statutes adopted by many state legislators in order to deal with “murdering heirs.” This statutory prohibition against inheritance in cases of interference with freedom of testation would do more than alleviate the identified under-deterrence problem. The proposed legislative reform would also conform with an important principle of American law: the idea that no one should profit from his wrongdoing. In addition, arguments in favour of the suggested proposal can be made by reference to the general trend towards a behavior-based inheritance regime and in view of the availability of similar rules in jurisdictions outside the United States.
Ridding the Law of Outdated Statutory Exemptions to Antitrust Law: A Proposal for Reform
Authors: McGinnis Anne
Published: May 2022

Antitrust law is designed to be an overarching check against anticompetitive conduct that harms the free market system. Almost as soon as the first antitrust laws were enacted in the United States, however, industry groups began lobbying Congress for exemptions from these laws. Most of the statutory exemptions created over the last one hundred years remain in place, despite widespread changes in economic theory, market structures, and overall antitrust law. Today, some exemptions are merely irrelevant, while others actively harm society by transferring wealth to private individuals and hampering beneficial competition. This Note proposes a fourpart legislative solution to rid the law of stale or harmful exemptions while preserving those that respect the bedrock principles of antitrust law.
Wtórne zdrewnienie, czyli jak i dlaczego rośliny zielne ewoluują w drzewa
Authors: Frankiewicz Kamil
Published: May 2022

Zmiana form życiowej ze zdrewniałej na zielną była dominującym trendem w ewolucji roślin okrytonasiennych, a jej skutkiem jest obserwowane współcześnie bogactwo roślin zielnych. Odwrotność tego procesu, czyli ewolucja krzewów i drzew z zielnych przodków, jest zjawiskiem znacznie rzadszym i znanym jako wtórne zdrewnienie. Gatunki wtórnie zdrewniałe występują głównie na wyspach oceanicznych, ale można je spotkać również na zboczach tropikalnych gór i w rejonach o klimacie śródziemnomorskim. Minęło ponad półtora wieku, od kiedy Darwin po raz pierwszy zwrócił uwagę na możliwość ewolucji drzew z roślin zielnych w wyniku konkurencji o dostęp do światła. Później postulowano, że wtórne zdrewnienie może powstawać jako odpowiedź na presję ku produkcji większych kwiatostanów, łagodny klimat umożliwiający dłuższy wzrost wegetatywny lub jako mechanizm ograniczający szkodliwe efekty embolizmu. Hipotezy te nie wykluczają się wzajemnie i część z nich znalazła w toku badań potwierdzenie. Udoskonalono także metody identyfikacji gatunków wtórnie zdrewniałych.
Fire Compromises the Recovery of a Managed Forest in Tapajós National Forest, Eastern Amazon, Brazil
Authors: Carvalho de Andrade Darlison Fernades , R. Ruschel Ademir , Schwartz Gustavo , de Souza Oliveira Alan Filipe , Freitas dos Santos Misael , Lima da Costa Daniele , Pereira de Carvalho João Olegário , Vasconcellos Gama João Ricardo
Published: May 2022

Logged forests are more prone to fire, shifts in species composition, and losses in biodiversity. In this work changes in the horizontal structure and species composition of a managed forest in the Tapajós National Forest, Eastern Amazon, Brazil, along 31 years (1981-2012) was evaluated. The disturbances included logging (1982), thinning of non-commercial species (1993/1994), and fire (1997). Data were obtained in 36 0.25-ha permanent plots split in 12 plots per each one of three harvesting treatments. In 1997, 16 plots were reached by an accidental superficial fire. The changes in species composition and diversity between the last measurement after logging and before fire (1995) and the last measurement (2012) were compared. PERMANOVA, considering the relationship between the NMDS axes and the treatment variable (logging / control + unburnt / burnt) differed in species composition, among treatments before fire (1995) and 15 years after fire (2012). The post-hoc test for PERMANOVA showed great similarity among logged forests before and after fire. The forest pre-disturbance conditions were important drivers in forest recovery, since logged forests under heavy thinning presented more losses in basal area and alterations in species composition. Therefore, stronger and more frequent disturbances can compromise the forest resilience.
Some Combinatorial Properties of Skew Jack Symmetric Functions
Authors: Bravi Paolo , Gandini Jacopo
Published: May 2022

Motivated by Stanley's conjecture on the multiplication of Jack symmetric functions, we prove a couple of identities showing that skew Jack symmetric functions are semi-invariant up to translation and rotation of a $\pi$ angle of the skew diagram. It follows that, in some special cases, the coefficients of the skew Jack symmetric functions with respect to the basis of the monomial symmetric functions are polynomials with nonnegative integer coefficients.
Hadamard Diagonalizable Graphs of Order at Most 36
Authors: Breen Jane , Butler Steve , Fuentes Melissa , Lidický Bernard , Phillips Michael , Riasanovksy Alexander , Song Sung-Yell , Villagrán Ralihe , Wiseman Cedar , Zhang Xiaohong
Published: May 2022

If the Laplacian matrix of a graph has a full set of orthogonal eigenvectors with entries $\pm1$, then the matrix formed by taking the columns as the eigenvectors is a Hadamard matrix and the graph is said to be Hadamard diagonalizable.

In this article, we prove that if $n=8k+4$ the only possible Hadamard diagonalizable graphs are $K_n$, $K_{n/2,n/2}$, $2K_{n/2}$, and $nK_1$, and we develop a computational method for determining all graphs diagonalized by a given Hadamard matrix of any order. Using these two tools, we determine and present all Hadamard diagonalizable graphs up to order 36. Note that it is not even known how many Hadamard matrices there are of order 36.
Articulatory suppression during instruction encoding impedes performance in choice reaction time tasks
Authors: van ’t Wout Félice , Jarrold Christopher
Published: May 2022

Theories of instruction following assume that language contributes to our ability to understand and implement instructions. The two experiments reported here investigated that assumption. Participants (total N = 96) were required to learn a series of novel tasks, with each task consisting of six arbitrary stimulus-response rules. All tasks were preceded by an instruction phase (a visual depiction of the correct stimulus-response rules for each task), during which participants performed a verbal distractor task (articulatory suppression), a non-verbal distractor task (foot tapping) or no distractor task. Additionally, the duration of the instruction phase was varied so that it was either long (60 s) or short (30 s in Experiment 1, or 10 s in Experiment 2). In both experiments participants made more errors when they had performed articulatory suppression during the instruction interval, compared to the foot tapping and no distractor task conditions. Furthermore, Experiment 2 found that this detrimental effect of articulatory suppression was especially pronounced with a very short instruction duration. These findings demonstrate that language plays a crucial role in the encoding of novel task instructions, especially when instructions are encoded under time pressure.
LOW THD GRID-CONNECTED INVERTER FOR TWO PV ARRAY
Authors:   Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India, Vinay A , Agrawal Parag ,   Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India, Kumar Neeraj ,   Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India
Published: May 2022

Grid-connected inverters based on solar PV cells are becoming increasingly common. The PV can sometimes be subjected to a certain environmental situation, such as varying irradiance or temperature. In this case, present developments in grid-connected PV inverters do not have many reliable yields or reliability. In this article, an improved control framework system is intended for two PVs that are mismatched in various ways, resulting in a highly effective grid-connected solar inverter with THD under 1% for both voltage and current. The regulator employs a control scheme comprised of an ANFIS-based control system that works in tandem with the incremental conductance technique of MPPT. The outcomes are simulated and validated using MATLAB Simulink
WOMEN SAFETY TOOL
Authors:   Assistant Professor, CSE, Sreyas institute of engineering and Technology, Telangana, India, Sravan Kumar G , Kavya D ,   CSE, Sreyas institute of engineering and Technology, Telangana, India, Priyanka G ,   CSE, Sreyas institute of engineering and Technology, Telangana, India, Rahul P ,   CSE, Sreyas institute of engineering and Technology, Telangana, India, Nagul Sharif Shaik ,   CSE, Sreyas institute of engineering and Technology, Telangana, India
Published: May 2022

Women’s security is a critical issue in today’s world and it’s very much needed for every individual to be acting over such an issue. This study describes a GPS-based "Women Safety System" that combines a GPS device with other safety features and provides alerts and messages with an emergency button trigger whenever someone is in difficulty. They might not have so much time, all that they have to do is generate a distress emergency signal by pressing the button. Our system offers a practical and cost-effective option for detecting problems. Now days due to recently happened case such as rape by drivers or colleges, burglary etc., Women's security, particularly women's security, has risen to the top of the world's priority list. System uses Global Positioning System(GPS) technology to find out the location of the women .The information of women position provided by the device can be viewed on Google maps using Internet or specified software .The companies are looking forward to the security problem and requires a system that will efficiently evaluate the problem of women security working in night shifts , traveling alone .We focus on the proposed model that can be used to deal with the problem of security issue of women using GPS base tracking system