bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Smiling won’t necessarily make you feel better: Response-focused emotion regulation strategies have little impact on cognitive, behavioural, physiological, and subjective outcomes
Authors: Bahl Nancy , Ouimet Allison
Published: December 2020

Background and Objectives. Response-focused emotion regulation (RF-ER) strategies may alter people’s evoked emotions, influencing intrapersonal outcomes. Researchers have found that participants engaging in expressive suppression (ES; a RF-ER strategy) experience increased sympathetic nervous system arousal, affect, and lowered memory accuracy. It is unclear, however, whether all RF-ER strategies exert maladaptive effects. Expressive dissonance (ED; displaying an expression opposite from how one feels) is a RF-ER strategy, and likely considered “maladaptive”. As outlined by the facial feedback hypothesis, however, smiling may increase positive emotion, suggesting it may be an adaptive strategy. We compared the effects of ED and ES to a control condition on psychophysiology, memory, and affect, to assess whether ED is an adaptive RF-ER strategy, relative to ES, in response to negative stimuli. We recruited women only to account for known gender-based differences in emotion regulation. Methods. We randomly assigned 144 women-identifying participants to engage in ED, ES, or to naturally observe, while viewing negative and arousing images. We recorded electrodermal activity and self-reported affect throughout and participants completed memory tasks after the picture task. Results. We ran a series of repeated measures and one-way ANOVAs and found no differences between groups across outcomes. Limitations. The generalizability of our findings may be limited to young, undergraduate women. Conclusion. Engaging in ES or ED may not differentially impact outcomes among young, undergraduate women, shedding doubt on a conclusion in past literature that specific strategies are categorically adaptive or maladaptive. Future research exploring RF-ER strategies among diverse populations is warranted.
Effects of Covid-19 lockdown on parental functioning in vulnerable families
Authors: Helland Maren Sand , Lyngstad Torkild Hovde , Holt Tonje , Larsen Linda , Røysamb Espen
Published: December 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused major changes to family life followed by a call for knowledge about how these changes have affected parental functioning, particularly in vulnerable families (Prime, Wade & Brooks, 2020). This study uses a natural experiment design to investigate the effect of the Covid-19 lockdown on parental mental health, parenting stress and three dimensions of destructive interparental conflict in a heterogeneous sample characterized by pre-existing relationship problems. Results from mixed model regression analyses showed that despite significantly higher levels of parenting stress in the lockdown group (n = 744 families) compared with the control group (n = 427 families), lockdown did not adversely affect parental mental health or levels of destructive conflicts behaviors. In fact, levels of verbal aggression and child involvement in conflict decreased during lockdown among parents living apart. Pre-existing destructive conflict levels, financial problems and age of youngest child did not moderate any of the associations. Thus, findings indicated that pre-existing family vulnerability did not predispose for reduced parental functioning during lockdown, beyond increased parenting stress. Resilient processes and an increased sense of purpose may be potential mechanisms. Caution should be taken when generalizing the findings due to the welfare context of the sample and as long-term lockdown effects were not investigated. Importantly, children in vulnerable families may have been negatively impacted by increased family time, despite relatively stable parental functioning during lockdown.
Internet Navigation Skills for Financial Management: Associations with Age, Neurocognitive Performance, and Functional Capacity
Authors: Rahman Samina , Kordovski Victoria , Tierney Savanna , Woods Steven Paul
Published: December 2020

Objective: Online banking is becoming increasingly common among older adults, whomay experience difficulties effectively navigating this instrumental technology. Thisstudy examined age effects on a performance-based Internet banking task and itsassociation with neurocognitive ability and functional capacity in older and youngeradults. Method: Thirty-five older adults and 50 younger adults completed anexperimenter-controlled online banking measure in which they independentlyperformed a series of naturalistic financial tasks (e.g., account transfers, bill paying).Participants also completed a standardized battery of neuropsychological tests andmeasures of functional capacity. Results: Older adults were markedly slower and lessaccurate in completing the Internet-based banking task, which was not confounded byother demographic, mood, or computer use factors. Higher scores on measures ofneurocognition and financial functional capacity were both strongly associated withhigher Internet-based banking task accuracy scores and quicker completion times inthe older, but not the younger adults. Conclusions: Findings suggest that older adultsexperience difficultly quickly and accurately navigating online banking platforms, whichmay be partly related to age-related declines in neurocognitive functions and basicfinancial capacity. Future studies might examine whether neurocognitive approaches toremediation and compensation can be used to improve online banking capacity inolder adults.
Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent than Intense Happiness
Authors: Jachimowicz Jon , Mo Ruo , Greenberg Adam Eric , Jeronimus Bertus F. , Whillans Ashley
Published: December 2020

There is widespread consensus that income and subjective well-being are linked, but when and why they are connected is subject to ongoing debate. We draw on prior research that distinguishes between the frequency and intensity of happiness to suggest that higher income is more consistently linked to how frequently individuals experience happiness than how intensely happy each episode is. This occurs in part because lower-income individuals spend more time engaged in passive leisure activities, reducing the frequency but not the intensity of positive affect. Notably, we demonstrate that only happiness frequency underlies the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Data from an experience sampling study (N = 394 participants, 34,958 daily responses), a pre-registered cross-sectional study (N = 1,553), and a day reconstruction study (N = 13,437) provide empirical evidence for these ideas. Together, this research provides conceptual and empirical clarity into how income is related to happiness.
The effect of gender and parenting daughters on judgments of morally controversial companies
Authors: Niszczota Paweł , Bialek Michal
Published: December 2020

Earlier findings suggest that men with daughters make judgments and decisions somewhat in line with those made by women. In this paper, we attempt to extend those findings, by testing how gender and parenting daughters affect judgments of the appropriateness of investing in and working for morally controversial companies (“sin stocks”). To do so, in Study 1 (N = 634) we investigate whether women judge the prospect of investing in sin stocks more harshly than men do, and test the hypothesis that men with daughters judge such investments less favorably than other men. In Study 2 (N = 782), we investigate the willingness to work in morally controversial companies at a significant wage premium. Results show that – for men – parenting daughters yields harsher evaluations of sin stocks, but no evidence that it lowers the propensity to work in such companies. This contrasts to the effect of gender: women reliably judge both investment and employment in morally controversial companies more harshly than men do. We suggest that an aversion towards morally controversial companies might be a partial determinant of the gender gap in wages.
Introduction
Authors:   INION RAN, Sidorov Alexander
Published: December 2020

The introduction examines the interaction of the EU countries and their approaches to the themes of defence and security in the changed geopolitical realities (Brexit, D. Trump's rise to power in the USA, the mood of the new leadership of the EU institutions, etc.). It highlights both the difficulties in creating an independent defence pole and the opportunities that open up in connection with Brexit and an objective reduction in the potential for blocking initiatives aimed at revitalizing and implementing specific defence projects. The difficulties of creating the EU military doctrine and the implementation of a common strategic culture are revealed in the context of different goal-setting of the main participants in European defence construction, related, inter alia, to the heterogeneous development of the integration in the context of its ongoing expansion, different perception and assessment of threats and the existence of de facto unequal security zones in Europe. The nature of the interaction between the CSDP EU and NATO is shown; the role of this interaction as a catalyst for the processes of greater EU independence in the military sphere is highlighted, taking into account the specifics of the EU global approach to resolving crises of low and medium intensity on the periphery of the EU. An assessment of the feasibility of cooperation plans in the field of defence and security, initiatives at the EU and interstate levels in connection with the pandemic is given. It notes the flexibility, sustainability and multi-formatting of defence cooperation in the EU, the political mood of its main participants to continue and improve cooperation within the framework of the CSDP in order to strengthen the EU’s position as an international political actor.
European Defence: a puzzle with many unknowns
Authors:   INION RAN, Arzamanova Tatyana
Published: December 2020

Under the pressure of the growing turbulence of EuroAtlantic space due to the increasing isolationism of the United States and the fact that Global security is now determined by the confrontation between the two centers of power – the United States and China, as well as the shift of strategic decision-making into the USA-Russia-China triangle, Europe is forced to admit that the period of solidarity of the collective West is over. If earlier differences between the allies were exclusively tactical, now they affect already fundamental foundations. In the current situation, Europe will try to intensify the development of the European defence component and strengthen integration in the field of security policy in order to achieve full strategic sovereignty. This process is complicated by the low level of European defence capacity, the shortage of funds of the European defence budget, weak strategic planning, and the unresolved issue of limits of supranational competences of the command of the European Armed Forces. With the use of comparative, event and content analysis, it is concluded that the key problem is that EU member states have a different scale of assessment of risks and security threats, they find it difficult to reach a common understanding, without which the development of a strategic concept of European defence will be largely decorative. The author cosiders that it is first and foremost necessary to establish a Pan-European consensus on basic points, including a set of definitions. A serious challenge for the European defence project was coronavirus COVID-19. The pandemic revealed a global crisis of leadership, a lack of solidarity, and the world's lack of preparedness for a large-scale biological threat. In the near future, states will consider biological attacks among the priority security threats, and this seems to the author to be a promising field for cooperation within the framework of European defence. It is about the development of a Pan-European system of recognition, warning and opposition to the bacteriological threat using developments in the field of artificial intelligence.
Various approaches to building of «European Defence» in France
Authors:   INION RAN, Chernega Vladimir
Published: December 2020

The article considers the views existing in France on the prospects of the European Union becoming a «political power» and the appearance in it of its own military instrument. It is noted that, in the opinion of most French politicians, experts and journalists, the EU is still far from being a full-pledged political subject. Although political and military structures are formed in it, as a kind of «embrio» of quasi statehood, and a «neo-imperial» tendency already exists in it, basically the EU is an economic and «civilian» power which must fight for influence on the international arena only with the help of «soft power». The main reason of its weakness is its internal friability, disagreements between Members States over its future. In addition, the United States, which are not interested in a new global rival, are hampering the achievement of the self-sufficiency, especially in the military-political share. NATO, controlled by the USA, can only allow the creation of a «European pillar» under its umbrella. Eastern European countries are against military integration of the EU, because they are oriented not by Brussels, but by Washington in the security field. However, the rise of China and the election of the nationalist Donald Trump as a President of the United States strengthened the trend in the EU advocating its political independence and the creation of its own «European defence». The article analyzes the initiatives and actions of French President Emmanuel Macron who personifies this trend. It is stated that, with the help of Germany, he managed to achieve certain progress both in terms of general integration and in the field of «European defence». This allowed him to speak about the formation of a «European army». But the question of whether he will be able to go further remains open. Besides the obstacles to political and military integration, which did not disappear, the coronavirus pandemic introduces its «corrections». The newly discovered split in the EU into «South» and «North» called into question its already fragile construction.
EXTERNAL FACTORS OF GEOPOLITICAL PROCESSES IN THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONALIZATION
Authors: Dobaev Igor
Published: December 2020

Россия - самая крупная в мире страна, государство-цивилизация, с присущим ей уникальным геополитическим кодом. Чтобы изменить этот код, идентичность нашей страны, заставить ее плестись в фарватере геополитических и внешнеполитических устремлений иных центров силы, на территории РФ и за ее внешними границами осуществляется целый ряд геополитических проектов, основанных на «жесткой силе» (hard power), «мягкой силе» (soft power), а также «умной силе» (smart power). Вместе с тем в силу масштабности территории России, наличия различных по своим характеристикам ее внутренних регионов внешними силами на различных направлениях задействуются разные проекты. В данной статье рассматриваются геополитические проекты основных внешних сил, проецирующих свое влияние на Юг России - территории субъектов Российской Федерации, входящих в состав Южного и Северо-Кавказского федеральных округов. Здесь расположены восемь республик - Адыгея, Дагестан, Ингушетия, Кабардино-Балкария, Калмыкия, Карачаево-Черкесия, Крым, Северная Осетия - Алания и Чечня, два края - Краснодарский и Ставропольский и три области - Астраханская, Волгоградская и Ростовская; всего - 14 субъектов Российской Федерации. Статья предоставлена автором для публикации в бюллетене «Россия и мусульманский мир»
EXTERNAL FACTORS OF GEOPOLITICAL PROCESSES IN THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONALIZATION
Authors: Dobaev Igor
Published: December 2020

Russia is the largest country in the world, a civilization state, with its unique geopolitical code. To change this course, the identity of our country, to force it to wander in the wake of the geopolitical and foreign policy aspirations of other centers of power, a number of geopolitical projects based on “hard power”, “soft power” as well as “soft power” are being implemented in the Russian Federation and beyond its external borders. At the same time, due to the large-scale territory of Russia, the presence of its internal regions that are different in their characteristics, various projects are deployed by external forces in various directions. This article discusses the geopolitical projects of the main external forces projecting their influence on the South of Russia - the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation that are part of the Southern and North Caucasian federal districts. There are eight republics there: Adygea, Daghestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Crimea, North Ossetia-Alania and Chechnya, two territories - Krasnodar and Stavropol and three regions - Astrakhan, Volgograd and Rostov; in total 14 subjects of Russia.
Service Quality Status and Customer Satisfaction in Commercial Banking Sector of Nepal
Authors: Thapa Makshindra
Published: December 2020

The basic intent of this study is to reveal existing level of service quality of some Nepalese commercial banks. The customer perception to measure bank services quality within five dimensions; tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy are considered as to service quality model introduced by Parashuranman et. al. in 1988. This study is a descriptive in nature and uses primary data collected through personally administered questionnaire survey with customers of some selected commercial banks including public and private banks. The questionnaire includes 22 questions in total for five dimensions. The sample size of the study is 82 respondents of the banks selected on convenience basis. The analysis consist descriptive statistics and t-test in order to meet the study objectives.
Editorial Vol.3(1-2)
Authors: Paudel Pitambar
Published: December 2020

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Towards the Development of an Exhaustive Translation Theory
Authors: Neupane Nabaraj
Published: December 2020

Systematic studies on translation began only after its introduction as a separate discipline in the 1970s. The movements of the mid-twentieth century established translation theories like functional, post-colonial, and systems and proved relevance for translation works. Thus, a brief survey of translation theories that were developed and applied in the Western countries is significant, rational, and timely. In this context, the present paper focuses on the delineations of the translation theories developed in the West. Further, these theories have been included within applied linguistics and English language teaching courses. Since the wholistic expansion of all of them is impossible and unnecessary in such a small-scale study, this article presents a brief survey of only contemporary theories, which have been developed from the 1970s to the present date. A survey of these theories exhibits that none of them is exhaustive enough within itself and therefore, a new theory that is intelligible, practical and relevant is yet to be developed The implication of this study in English language teaching is that the translation and the transtlation theories offer insights into the sensitivities of language and culture for language teachers while teaching.
Pandemic Imaginaries and the Racial Politics of Masking
Authors: Zine Jasmin
Published: December 2020

Masks have become part of the racial identity politics of our pandemic culture. In addition to providing protection from the coronavirus, masks play a symbolic role in pandemic imaginaries by reconstituting pre-existing racial ideologies and formations in new ways that separate good liberal citizens from “folk devils.” While some masked bodies are valorized and heralded as preserving the public good, others are rendered suspect and subject to greater surveillance, regulation, ostracism and exclusion. Rather than serving as a leveling device, the cultural politics of wearing masks exposes the entrenched inequalities that have resurfaced during the pandemic.
What Is Quarantine: Cruise Ships, Lepers and the Temptation of Christ
Authors: Bird Greg
Published: December 2020

This paper uses the three main etymological sources of quarantine (the 14th-century Venetian practice of isolating ships, Moses’s Law Concerning Leprosy, and the Temptation of Christ) as heuristic devices to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the division of life between vital lives and biological labourers. I trace this phenomenon through the first two stages of this pandemic. The first stage took place roughly from early February to mid-March. The central figure during this stage was the cruise ship, including the division between passengers (vital lives) and seafarers (biological labourers). The second stage ran roughly from mid-March until the protests against the division of life erupted in late May. I focus on the broader distinction between essential workers and remote professional workers. I use the biblical references to examine how each group experienced quarantine measures during this second stage.
The Emergence of Emergency
Authors: Matthews Sara
Published: December 2020

This article analyzes discourses of preparedness and public safety in the context of the colonial history of emergency measures in Canada. An argument is made for how current measures of pandemic preparedness produce the social responsibilization of public health.
Rethinking Risk Communication: Lessons From a Pandemic
Authors: Mitchell Scott S.D. , Beanlands Josh
Published: December 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, the field of risk communication must engage in more meaningful research and advocacy to support the systemic changes that are necessary for improving our pandemic response. Risk communication can also learn from cultural studies, using a more critical lens to study underlying inequalities and power structures, and the role of culture and politics in shaping risk perceptions and behaviours. Reputational management and public wellbeing are commonly stated goals. Yet COVID-19 has underscored the fractured identity and purpose of the field, and risk communicators need to be honest about whether they are working to protect the public or protect reputations.
A View of COVID-19 from 30,000 Feet
Authors: Rampure Archana
Published: December 2020

This article considers the disparities in the responses to COVID-19 between Canada and some countries in the Global South. It is an attempt to consider how the impacts of the pandemic—lockdown and quarantines—are experienced differently based on the economic circumstances of the Global South versus the Global North. This short paper underlines how COVID-19 is narratively framed as a pandemic primarily because it has the ability to impact people in the Global North; it highlights the fact that endemic (and easily curable) diseases are common in the Global South but rarely receive such global attention and never have such resources made available to fight them. The author asks readers to consider the cost of the fight against COVID-19 on populations like the urban poor and migrants and refugees who are already vulnerable to mistreatment, hunger, malnutrition and death because of their precariousness within the neo-liberal global order.
Isolation, Loneliness, Solitude: The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Brought Us Too Close Together
Authors: Paul Ricco John
Published: December 2020

The isolation and loneliness that are central conditions experienced by many people in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic are attributed by the author to a politics and law of movement, the ends of which are not simply political-economic or bio-political but also ethical-existential, to the extent that the very space of separation between is destroyed. Through a reading of Hannah Arendt on tyranny and totalitarian governance, the author asserts the importance of solitude as what needs to be reclaimed for there to be any ethical sense of the common and any political sense of solidarity.
The “Communovirus,” (In)Equality, and Justice
Authors: Li Victor
Published: December 2020

A Covid-19 poster’s warning to “Do Your Part/Stay Apart” and a dance sequence from Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 film Bande à Part are the starting points for a reflection on Jean-Luc Nancy’s recent essay, “Communovirus,” in which he argues that the threat of the coronavirus “communizes us” even as it forces us to distance ourselves from each other. This paradoxical sense of shared separation, central to Nancy’s thought, is then explored in relation to the themes of (in)equality and justice in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kemampuan dan Kesulitan Mahasiswa Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia Universitas Bengkulu dalam Menulis Proposal Penelitian Skripsi
Authors: Susetyo Susetyo , Noermanzah Noermanzah
Published: December 2020

Mahasiswa Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia Universitas Bengkulu mengalami kesulitan dalam penulisan proposal penelitian skripsi. Hal ini terbukti belum banyak mahasiswa yang lulus tepat waktu pada semester VIII. Tujuan penelitian ini mengetahui dan mendeskripsikan: (1) kemampuan mahasiswa dalam menulis  proposal penelitian skripsi dan (2) kesulitan yang dihadapi mahasiswa dalam penulisan proposal penelitian skripsi. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh mahasiswa semester VII Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia tahun akademik 2017/2018. Sampel penelitian ini sebanyak 80 mahasiswa yang menulis proposal penelitian skripsi. Teknik pengambilan data berupa teknik dokumentasi dan wawancara. Analisis data untuk menanaisis data kuantitatif menggunakan rumus persentase, sedangkan untuk data kualitatif dianalisis dengan menggunakan model analisis Miles dan Huberman dengan langkah-langkah analisis reduksi data, display data, verifikasi, dan simpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kemampuan menulis proposal penelitian skripsi mahasiswa semester VII Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia tahun akademik 2017/2018 tergolong dalam kualifikasi cukup. Kemudian, mahasiswa mengalami kesulitan dalam menyusun proposal pada penulisan masalah dan rumusan masalah,   penulisan  landasan teori dan kajian pustaka, penentuan metode penelitian, teknik pengumpulan data dan penyusunan instrumen serta uji coba, rubrik penilaian, dan analisis data penelitian. Mahasiswa semester VII Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia Universitas Bengkulu hendaknya dibantu agar benar-benar memahami cara menyusun proposal penelitian skripsi agar mereka dapat menulis proposal penelitian dengan baik dan pada akhirnya mahasiswa akan dapat menyelesaikan skripsinya cepat dan tepat waktu.
Features of presentation of certain elements in the elplek software product
Authors:   The National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Gai O. , Husiatynskyi D. ,   The National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
Published: December 2020

In order to simplify the modes analysis in power systems software tools for mathematical modeling of processes are used. There are many software products, but most of them are paid. For carrying out a laboratory work and obtain the results in certain sections of the thesis the authors of the article actively use the free software product "Elplek". But in a deeper study of the software product abilities we faced certain the task features of some parameters that are slightly differed from the generally accepted domestic methodology, which led to errors in the calculations in some versions of power schemes. The research aim is to study the peculiarities for setting the various elements parameters in the software product "Elplek" and to verify the adequacy of the existing models. At first the object of study was selected - a segment of the electrical network containing a small number of nodes - and a theoretical calculation of the short-circuit mode required parameters in this electrical network segment was carried out. Next an approach was proposed to set the elements parameters in the software product "Elplek" and based on this approach the simulation was carried out and as a result of which we obtained . Theoretical calculations showed that , i.e. the active part of the calculation results differ by 0.17 %, and reactive differ by 0.022%. This makes it possible to assert about the feasibility of using the proposed approach in the analysis of both normal and emergency modes of complex power supply schemes for consumers of certain power systems segments.
Prognostic Value of Absolute Lymphocyte count, Lymphocyte percentage, Serum albumin, Aberrant Expression of CD7, CD19 and the Tumor Suppressors (PTEN and p53) in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Authors: Sadek Nadia Ali , M Abd-eltawab Suzan , Assem Nagwa Mohamed , Hamdy Hoda A-M , EL- sayed Fatma M. , Ahmad Mohammad Abdel-Rhman , Elhamammy Reem Hassan
Published: December 2020

Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematopoietic neoplasm. Tumor suppressors have a magnificent role in preventing the AML process. The absolute lymphocyte count is a simple yet statistically powerful estimate in patients with acute leukemia besides the lymphocyte’s percentage. Aim: Investigating the prognostic value of absolute lymphocyte count, lymphocyte percentage, serum albumin, the aberrant expression of CD7and CD19 and the tumor suppressor genes (PTEN and p53) in patients with AML. Methods: 35 de novo AML patients were included. They received the standard induction chemotherapy (3+7 protocol) and were followed up for one year after treatment. 15 normal healthy individuals, age and sex matched constituted the controls.Results: The mean overall survival of patients with lymphocyte percentage ≤25 was low compared to those with high lymphocyte percentage (>25%) (χ2 =5.808, P=0.016). AML patients with low levels of ALC showed significantly shorter overall survival than patients with high levels (χ2 =4.587, P= 0.032). AML patients with low serum albumin were of low overall survival compared to those with normal level (χ2 =8.698, P=0.003). Patients with aberrant CD7 expression showed short survival and unresponsiveness to treatment than CD7 negative patients. PTEN gene expression and p53 protein level were significantly lower in AML patients compared to the control group.Conclusion: The decrease in ALC, lymphocyte percentage, albumin concentration and the increase in monocyte percentage indicates bad prognosis in AML patients. The Aberrant CD7 expression, very low expression of PTEN and low level of p53 could estimate the unresponsiveness to standard chemotherapy.
Reviewing the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cancer
Authors: Patil Shankargouda , Moafa Ibtisam Hussain , Mosa Alfaifi Mona , Abdu Abrar Mohammed , Jafer Mohammed Abdurabu , Raju K Lizbeth , Raj A. Thirumal , Sait Sadiq M.
Published: December 2020

Among the modern-day advancements in technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have shown to possess a large number of applications in various fields including medicine. In the current era, cancer is one of the most common non-communicable diseases attributing to a large number of global deaths. Attempts to increase the mortality and morbidity of cancer has been ongoing research. The integration of Artificial intelligence into cancer research is being actively carried out and has provided very promising results. Major factors that play a vital role in improving cancer prognosis including early detection and accurate diagnosis employing various imaging and molecular techniques. The use of artificial intelligence as a tool in these areas has shown its potential to detect and diagnose with increased precision, which is just one of the many applications of AI in cancer research. The present review aims as delving into literature and enlisting the applications of artificial intelligence in various commonly occurring cancers.
Species of the genus Pagasa from Central and South America (Heteroptera: Nabidae)
Authors: Kerzhner I.M. , Konstantinov F.V.
Published: December 2020

A key is given to 22 species of Pagasa found in Central and South America. The following new species are described: P. (Lampropagasa) flavipennis (Bolivia), P. (Pagasa) henryi (Panama, Peru, Brazil), P. (P.) doesburgi (Surinam), P. (P.) brunneipes (N Brazil), P. (P.) brailovskyi (Mexico, Panama), P. (P.) prostemmatoides (Mexico, Salvador), and P. (P.) margaritae (Surinam). Redescriptions are given for some previously known species.
A new species of the genus Lipotactes from Malacca (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)
Authors: Gorochov A.V.
Published: December 2020

Lipotactes minutissimus sp. n. is similar to L. siebersi Ingr., L. virescens Ingr., L. hamatus Ingr., and L. maculatus Heb. in the structure of male cerci, and it differs from them in the smaller size and some other characters.
Dynamique de déconstruction de la compétence collective
Authors: Beton Laura , Bertolucci Marius
Published: December 2020

Depuis le début des années 2000, les études portant sur la compétence collective se multiplient afin de comprendre, entre autres, ses facteurs de construction. Pour autant, nous constatons l’absence d’intérêt quant à sa déconstruction. Une enquête longitudinale de quatre ans auprès d’une équipe d’un centre d’accueil pour demandeurs d’asile (CADA) dévoile qu’une compétence collective, a priori forte, peut également se déconstruire. Les auteurs proposent onze facteurs de déconstruction émergents.
Compétences des managers en logistique et SCM
Authors: Chaze-Magnan Ludivine , Hoareau Émilie , Ageron Blandine
Published: December 2020

Les nombreux défis que doit relever lasupply chain(SC) induisent une évolution des métiers, missions et compétences associés. Dans ce contexte, cette recherche prolonge et enrichit la seule étude longitudinale menée en France sur les compétences en logistique et SCM (Bironneau et Le Roy, 2007, 2009 ; Bironneauet al., 2015) par une enquête menée en 2018 auprès de 156supply chain(SC) managers. Les résultats confirment l’importance des compétences humaines, indiquent une évolution par rapport aux précédentes études et soulignent l’existence d’un socle de compétences indispensables à la réalisation des missions liées à la logistique et au SCM.
Russian Girls Construct Freedom and Safety in Pandemic Times
Authors: Zdravomyslova Olga , Onegina Elena
Published: December 2020

In this article we analyse ten structured interviews with girls aged 15 to 19 from Moscow and St. Petersburg. We look at how the girls are dealing with the fundamentally new and dangerous situation created by the coronavirus pandemic and note that they are looking for a social and psychological space for themselves in which they can create and experience stability and safety. They are more concerned about security than ever before, while being, at the same time, very sensitive to restrictions on their freedom and agency. Girls’ clear desire for privacy, fuelled by the pandemic’s increasingly rapid invasion of their digital space, reinforces their urge towards agency and their understanding of freedom as autonomy.
Social Isolation and Disrupted Privacy
Authors: Baird Sarah , Alheiwidi Sarah , Dutton Rebecca , Mitu Khadija , Oakley Erin , Woldehanna Tassew , Jones Nicola
Published: December 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has shattered the everyday lives of young people, limiting peer interactions and disrupting privacy, with potential for long-term detrimental impacts. This study uses rapid virtual quantitative and qualitative surveys undertaken from April to July 2020 with over 4,800 adolescents affected by displacement in Bangladesh and Jordan to explore adolescent girls’ experiences of social isolation and lack of privacy. Our mixed-methods findings suggest that the pandemic and policy response has caused sharp restrictions on privacy and substantially limited interactions with peers, with larger impacts on girls, particularly those with disabilities. For girls, digital exclusion exacerbates these gender differences. Given that privacy and peer interactions are paramount during adolescence, age-, gender-, and disability-responsive programming is essential to ensure future wellbeing.
Girls, Homelessness, and COVID-19
Authors: Schwan Kaitlin , Dej Erin , Versteegh Alicia
Published: December 2020

Equitable access to adequate housing has increasingly been recognized as a matter of life and death during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, there has been limited gendered analysis of how COVID-19 has shaped girls’ access to housing. In this article we analyze how the socio-economic exclusion of girls who are homeless is likely to increase during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. We suggest that three structural inequities will deepen this exclusion: the disproportionate burden of poverty faced by women; the inequitible childcare responsibilities women bear; and the proliferation of violence against women. We argue for the development of a research agenda that can address the structural conditions that foster pathways into homelessness for low-income and marginalized girls in the context of COVID-19 and beyond.
REFLECTIVE MODUL BERBASIS CHILD FRIENDLY SCHOOL UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN LITERASI DAN KARAKTER SISWA
Authors: Permata Santy Dinar , Mustadi Ali
Published: December 2020

Welcoming the Golden Generation 2045 program the Indonesian government envisions the literacy movement in schools as an effort to improve the literacy abilities and character of students. The problem in the field is the lack of types of student reading that are able to develop students 'thinking power and character, therefore this study aims to produce reflective module development products based on child friendly schools that are fit for use by fifth grade elementary school students in school literacy activities as a means of increasing students' literacy abilities and character. The type of research used is Research and Development (RnD) research, referring to the type of research developed by Borg and Gall. The subjects of the study were the fifth grade 73 students at SDN Tegalrejo 3 and SDN Bangirejo 1. Collecting data through interviews, observations, questionnaires and response scales. The analysis technique used is descriptive analysis. The results showed that the child friendly school-based reflective module products met the eligibility criteria by referring to the results of the questionnaire validation by media experts and material experts as well as the scale of responses of teachers and fifth grade elementary school students. AbstrakMenyongsong program Generasi Emas 2045 pemerintah Indonesia mencangangkan adanya gerakan literasi di sekolah sebagai upaya untuk meningkatkan kemampuan dan karakter siswa. Permasalahan dilapangan adalah kurangnya jenis bacaan siswa yang mampu mengembangkan daya pikir dan karakter siswa oleh karena itu penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan produk pengembangan reflective modul berbasis child friendly school yang layak digunakan oleh siswa kelas V SD dalam kegiatan literasi sekolah sebagai sarana meningkatkan kemampuan literasi dan karakter siswa. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian Research and Development (RnD) mengacu pada jenis penelitian yang dikembangkan oleh Borg and Gall. Subjek penelitian adalah 73 siswa kelas V SD di SDN Tegalrejo 3 dan SDN Bangirejo 1. Pengumpulan data melalui wawancara,observasi,angket dan skala respon. Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah analisis deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa produk reflective modul berbasis child friendly school memenuhi kriteria kelayakan dengan mengacu pada hasil validasi angket oleh ahli media dan ahli materi serta skala respon guru dan siswa kelas V SD.
Pedoman Praktis Penyusunan Kamus Kompetensi Teknis Aparatur Sipil Negara
Authors: Wahyuadianto Agus , Saputro Hendra Nugroho
Published: December 2020

Competency dictionary and job standard for Indonesian civil servant has been exposed in The Decree of Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Number 38 Year of 2017. This decree gives ample explanation on managerial and social-cultural competencies, including the exact lists of competency titles and the application toward each job level. On the other hand, the similar treatment does not applied toward technical competency, only general guidance included. Since all ministries and non-ministerial government institutions must develop technical competency dictionary and job standard for their own governmental affairs, thus the need of the guidance is heightened. This study aims for creating practical guidance in developing technical competency dictionary along with the example. Qualitative approach with case study was used in this study. Moreover, data was gathered through literature examination, focus group discussion, and workshop. As the result, there are three steps in developing technical competency dictionary, ie: (1) identifying technical competency title using organization main duties and function cascading technique; (2) deciding technical competency levels using Taxonomy Bloom theory; and (3) writing down compatible behaviour indicators using guidance matrix. In addition, example provided for every step in order to ease the guidance practicality. Hopefully, this practical guidance could help human resource practitioner in developing technical competency dictionary, especially in Indonesian civil servant context. Furthermore, this article will add different perspective toward competency studies.
Pengaruh Partisipasi dan Diskresi terhadap Kualitas Pelayanan Publik pada Dinas Penanaman Modal dan Pelayanan Perizinan Terpadu Satu Pintu Kabupaten Bandung Barat (Studi Pelayanan Izin Lokasi dan Izin Mendirikan Bangunan)
Authors: Subagio Bambang
Published: December 2020

The public service quality in The Investment and One Stop Service (TIOSS) Office of Bandung Barat Regency was not optimal. The public participation and discretion were the crucial factors to improve the quality of the public service. Hence, this research examined the influence of the public participation and discretion factors to improve the public service quality in TIOSS Office of Bandung Barat Regency. This research used the mixed method. Quantitative method was reflected through survei technique data collection which then was analyzed through Structural Equation Model and Partial Least Square. While qualitative method was reflected through Focus Group Discussion technique. The results were, first, public participation and the discretion had a positive and significant impact to the public service quality. Second, the public participation variable partially had a greater effect than the discretion variable to improve the quality of the public service. The research suggested that TIOSS Office of Bandung Barat Regency should undertake synergic, comprehensive, and continuous of public participation and discretion practices in order to improve public service quality.
La participación de la familia en la escuela: reflexiones para pensar la educación
Authors: Rodriguez Herrera Mauricio
Published: December 2020

El presente texto genera algunas reflexiones acerca de laimportancia de la participación de la familia en la escuela, pues aunque seandos unidades básicas en el proceso educativo, pareciera que estánfragmentadas, ya que los maestros pueden no saber cómo estimular ymantener los esfuerzos de participación; y los padres cuya participación no esinvitada pueden apreciar exclusión o poca consideración por su participación,lo que refleja la falta de estrategias efectivas que logren formar y fortalecer elvínculo familia-escuela para mejorar los programas escolares, el climaescolar, el sentido de comunidad, el sentido de eficacia parental, la crianzapositiva, mejorar el comportamiento del niño, fomentar la adaptación escolar,las habilidades académicas y competencia escolar, en pro de la educación
Method of calculating pneumatic compensators for plunger pumps with submersible drive
Authors: Timashev Eduard
Published: December 2020

One of the most promising ways to improve the efficiency of mechanized oil production is a plunger pump with a submersible drive, which allows obtaining harmonic reciprocating movement of the plunger. In the pumping process of well products by plunger pumps, oscillations in the velocity and pressure of the liquid in the lifting pipes occur, which lead to an increase in cyclic variable loads on the plunger, a decrease in the drive life period and the efficiency of the pumping unit.

To eliminate the pulsation characteristics of the plunger pump and increase the reliability indicators of the pumping unit (in particular, the overhaul period), pneumatic compensators can be used. A method for calculating the optimal technological parameters of a system of deep pneumatic compensators for plunger pumping units with a submersible drive, based on mathematical modeling of hydrodynamic processes in pipes, has been developed.

Calculations of the forming flow velocity and pressure in the lifting pipes of submersible plunger units equipped with pneumatic compensators (PC) have been carried out. Influence of the PC technological parameters on the efficiency of smoothing the oscillations of velocity and pressure in the pipes has been analyzed. Non-linear influence of the charging pressure and PC total volume on the efficiency of their work has been established. Optimal pressure of PC charging, corresponding to the minimum pressure in the tubing during the pumping cycle for the considered section of the tubing, is substantiated.

Two ultimate options of PC system placement along the lifting pipes are considered. In the first option, PC are placed sequentially directly at the outlet of the plunger pump, in the second - evenly along the lift. It is shown that the first option provides the minimum amplitude of pressure oscillations at the lower end of the tubing and, accordingly, variable loads on the pump plunger. Nature of the pressure and flow velocity oscillations in the tubing at the wellhead for both options of PC placement has similar values.
Volver la mirada a los procesos de intervención social en el marco del proceso de restablecimiento de derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes en la modalidad de atención de hogar sustituto
Authors: Otoniel Henao-González  , Neidy Natali Álzate-Velásquez
Published: December 2020

El presente documento es el resultado de la sistematización de la experiencia realizada a partir de la intervención social que realizó uno de los equipos psicosociales en el marco de los Procesos de Restablecimiento de Derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes víctimas de abuso sexual en la modalidad de hogar sustituto en la ciudad de Pasto, rescatando la experiencia de la práctica y propiciando la participación de los profesionales directos de los procesos de intervención, teniendo en cuenta que son ellos los principales promotores del proceso de atención, con el fin de conocer sus experiencias e incentivar su sentido crítico y reflexivo, para que generen conocimientos y propuestas transformadoras en el quehacer de la intervención social.