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The Implementation of E-Budgeting Policy in Regional Government (A Case Study in Jakarta Province Province)
Authors: Saputra Ondy Asep , Hakim Abdul , Saleh Choirul , Pratiwi Ratih Nur
Published: December 2019

This research was conducted using the qualitative method so that the researcher can thoroughly and comprehensively elaborate on the phenomenon being studied. The research was focused on the process of e-Budgeting policy implementation in the government of Jakarta Province, as well as the supporting and obstacle factors of the process of e-Budgeting policy implementation in the Government of Jakarta Province. The process of e-Budgeting policy implementation is a part of the process of budget planning in the Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget, therefore, the implementation process follows the APBD budgeting, which is started from the preparation of the General Budget Policies and Provisional Budget Ceiling and Priorities to the stipulation of the APBD. The implementation of the e-Budgeting policy is conducted to facilitate the effective and efficient establishment of APBD. The effectiveness of the e-budgeting policy implementation is influenced by the human resources capacity in the mastery of information and communication technology, budgeting politics, and the opposing interests of the executives and legislatures. The supporting and obstacle factors of the process of e-Budgeting policy implementation are in the factors of commitment and executives’ interests, coordination and communication between the executives and legislatures, competence and commitment of the legislatures, coordination and competence of the OPD, as well as the factor of law. Additionally, the allocation of budget by the executives in the discussion of RAPBD, beside the inadequate planning in the initial preparation, there are also attempts to prioritize interests. Meanwhile, the issues in the SKPD in planning the budget based on working achievements, as mandated in the RKA-SKPD, is actually still related to the competence of the SKPD.
Influence of System Quality, Information Quality, Service Quality on User Acceptance and Satisfaction and Its Impact on Net Benefits (Study of Information System Users Lecturer Performance Load (BKD) in Malang State University)
Authors: Widiastuti Rini , Haryono Bambang Santoso , Said Abdullah
Published: December 2019

This study aims to examine the influence of system quality, information quality, and service quality of the lecturer at Malang State University. This study will also investigate the effect on user satisfaction and its impact on net benefits for users of UM Information System Expenses. This study applies a modification of the information system success model from DeLone & McLean. The model is analyzed by modeling the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based on components or variants (component based) that are popular with Partial Least Square (PLS) using SmartPLS version 3.2.8. The results of this study are expected to be adopted as input and consideration in developing, improving, and improving the performance of the UM BKD information system. The research design used in this study is quantitative research. Respondents in this study were 93 UM PNS lecturers who were actively teaching. The questionnaire was online distributed by accessing the page provided. The results showed that there was a positive but not significant effect between system quality, information quality, and service quality on the use of the BKD system. However, there is a positive and significant influence between system quality, information quality, and service quality on the BKD system user satisfaction, between the uses of the BKD system on net benefits, and between the satisfaction of the BKD system users on net benefits. The implementation of BKD UM information system can be declared successful because there is a positive correlation between variables.
Revision of the Late Bashkirian Cordaitalean Cordaites karvinensis and Allied Dispersed Cuticles from Upper Silesia, the Czech Republic
Authors: Šimůnek Zbyněk
Published: December 2019

The Langsettian species Cordaites karvinensis Šimůnek and C. sustae Šimůnek were found conspecific, with C. karvinensis chosen as a correct name. These species come from the same coal seam of the Upper Suchá Member (Upper Silesian Basin, the Czech Republic). Abaxial cuticle from C. karvinensis was found conspicuously similar to Cordaabaxicutis cf. jaworznoensis from the Lower Suchá Member from the strata near the Namurian/Westphalian boundary, as well as to Cordaabaxicutis jaworznoensis Šimůnek et Florjan described from the Orzesze Beds (Duckmantian) from Poland. The abaxial cuticles of all these species are papillate. It is probable that these species are members of one evolutionary lineage, however without information on the leaf morphology connected to the dispersed cuticles of Cordaabaxicutis, this opinion remains hypothetical.
Bonanzacarpum sprungerorum Sp. Nov. – A Bizarre Fruit from the Eocene Green River Formation in Utah, USA
Authors: Manchester Steven R. , Lott Terry A.
Published: December 2019

Shales of the early middle Eocene Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation in Utah, western USA, have yielded a large number of fossil plant remains with abundant Platanaceae, Salicaceae, and Ulmaceae, but many of the constituents of this flora remain indeterminate. Here we present a new fruit type based on distinctive sedimentary molds investigated by reflected light and μCT scanning. The structures are oblate woody fruits, about 18–26 mm wide but only 2–4 mm high, but partially flattened by compression within the sediment. In transverse view they are rounded-polygonal, with 5–6 sides. In lateral view the locule is dome-shaped with 7 to 11 obpyriform grooves radiating from the center of the basal wall. Three-dimensional imaging and both physical and digital sections indicate that the fruits were circumscissile capsules. Although analogous fruits occur in the Lecythidaceae A.Rich., Bonanzacarpum sprungerorum sp. nov. fruits are much smaller and lack the prominent woody pedicel and corresponding basal scar that characterizes that family. Hence, the systematic position of B. sprungerorum remains uncertain.
Diagnosis and Therapy Particularities in Post-Cholecystectomy Cholangitis at Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Authors: Ungur Mariana , Pop Alexandra-Lucia , Maghiar Adrian , Pop Mircea , Feder Bogdan , Babes Aurel Petru
Published: December 2019

Introduction. The objective of the present study is to assess the diagnosis and therapeutic particularities in post-cholecystectomy cholangitis at patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Patients suffering of diabetes frequently present other pathologies existing before cholecystectomy: cardio-vascular, neurological, renal; these conditions can negatively influence the therapeutic approach of the complex post-cholecystectomy pathology.

Material and method. The study was performed on 76 hospitalized patients. The main diagnosis of these patients was post-cholecystectomy cholangitis. 12 patients had type 2 diabetes mellitus as associated condition. A control batch was selected, 12 non-diabetes patients, having approximately the same age, mainly living in urban areas and having the same main hospitalization diagnosis.

Results.The etiology of post-cholecystectomy cholangitis in case of patients suffering of diabetes was represented by chronic pancreatitis (25%), choledochal lithiasis (33.33%), acute pancreatitis (8.33%), cholangiocarcinoma (16.66%), head pancreas tumor (8.33%).

Conclusions. As a particularity in the surgical approach in case of patients suffering of diabetes within the assessed group, a strict monitoring should be applied in regards with the metabolic status, especially in case of disbalanced diabetes mellitus with chronic complications.
Mimickers of Lung Cancer: When Not to Perform a Pulmonary Biopsy - Case Reports
Authors: Cezar-Iulian Beţianu , Giorgiana Ion , Mihaela Goicea
Published: December 2019

Background. Percutaneous lung biopsy is an essential step in the management of equivocal lung lesions. Percutaneous lung biopsy is a minimally-invasive procedure with a diagnostic accuracy of more than 90% and a major complication rate of less than 6%(1). Because it is an easy, rapid and safe procedure, percutaneous lung biopsy has become an attractive diagnostic tool for both radiologists and clinicians. However, before planning a percutaneous lung biopsy, the radiologist must carefully evaluate the lung lesion in order to avoid unnecessary lung biopsies.

Aim. The aim of this paper is to evaluate pulmonary pseudolesions that do not require biopsy and to point out key imaging features that help differentiate these lesions from lung cancer.

Case presentations. The authors are analyzing six cases of pulmonary pseudolesions (round pneumonia, pulmonary infarction, round atelectasis, pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm, pulmonary sequestration and inflammatory pseudotumour) encountered in our hospital that were referred to biopsy as suspicious for malignancy.

Conclusions. There is a wide range of conditions that produce imaging features that mimic lung cancer. However, a careful evaluation of the lesion along with relevant clinical and laboratory findings help make an accurate diagnosis.
Infarction in the Young – A Clinical Case Report
Authors: Moise Cristian , Predeţeanu Denisa , Bălănescu Andra , Bojincă Violeta , Baloșin Grigorie , Ionescu Ruxandra
Published: December 2019

We present the case of a 34-year-old male who suddenly experienced upper right quadrant abdominal pain of medium-high intensity that radiated towards his right lumbar area and right testicle, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. His personal history was significant for having an eye prosthesis implanted when he was three years old, due to structural degradation of undetermined cause in his left eye.

He was first seen by a surgeon who recommended an abdominal CT scan and an urology consultation. In the urology clinic, renal and testicular ultrasounds were normal and he was prescribed symptomatic medication.

Due to the pain escalating, the patient underwent a contrast CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis that revealed two renal infarction lesions in the middle and inferior thirds of the right kidney.

The patient was admitted and anticoagulants and pain medication were started. A full body CT scan did not reveal any other abnormalities. Tumour markers and genetic thrombophilia markers were sent for analysis. He was referred to a nephrology clinic, where he underwent screening for multiple myeloma and vasculitic/autoimmune causes, with negative results. A contrast renal vascular ultrasound of the right kidney identified the obstructions as being in the middle and inferior interlobar veins.

Afterwards, the genetic tests revealed three thrombophilic mutations – factor V Leiden positive homozygote, MTHFR C677T and A1298C both positive heterozygote. This might have also been the cause of the childhood ocular surgery. The patient continued anticoagulation with apixaban, with no further significant medical events to this day.
The Tumoral Etiology of the Superior Cava Vein Syndrome Presenting as Exsudative Pericarditis in a Young Patient
Authors: Moisi Mădălina Ioana , Vesa Cosmin , Roşan Larisa , Liliana Vâtcă , Katalin Babeş , Popescu Mircea Ioachim
Published: December 2019

We present the case of a 36-year-old patient admitted with dyspnea, subjective sensation of edema of the cervical region, and precordial pain with sudden onset. Pathological antecedents revealed a respiratory intercourse three weeks ago. Laboratory findings indicated an inflammatory syndrome accompanied by hypoproteinemia. We performed an echocardiographic examination which revealed important pericardial effusion and swinging heart aspect with diastolic collapse of the right atrium and ventricle. According to the existing guidelines pericardiocentesis was immediately required. The hemorrhagic pericardial effusion had an intense positive Rivalta reaction with frequent macrophages and malignant atypical cells. The next step was a full-body computer tomography scan, which revealed an expansive mediastinal mass, invading the upper cava vein and pericardium, with mediastinal adenopathy. A biopsy was performed and the pathology examination concluded there was a classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma nodular sclerosis type. Finally the patient was directed to oncology department.
Ethnographic Research in Soviet Latvia – The Source of a Stronger National Identity
Authors: Karlsone Anete
Published: December 2019

This article* provides an insight into ethnographic research during the Soviet occupation of Latvia, viewed in the context of national self-consciousness. Ethnographic research in Soviet Latvia was conducted by the ethnographic sector at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR). By successfully using phrases appropriate to the political situation as well as the right quotations from Soviet ideological works, it was possible to maintain ideas and attitudes developed in interwar independent Latvia, for example, regarding Latvian national costume – in the works of Mirdza Slava. In turn, Aina Alsupe managed to carry out substantial new studies of the history and development of weaving in Latvia, and collect materials on the development of applied art in Soviet Latvia. The studies conducted by both Alsupe and Slava allowed researchers to keep applied folk arts and the folk costume topical, and in doing so to help maintain Latvian cultural identity.
Oromo Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions in the Customary Judicial System in Ethiopia
Authors: Tolasa Megersa Regassa , Chala Dejene Gemechu
Published: December 2019

This paper discusses the role of Oromo proverbs in conflict resolution and/or management as a peace-making verbal communication principle in the cultural context. The lesson from proverbs, which contain traditional morsels of wisdom, consists of cultural value and rhetorical effectiveness helping to enforce reality in the context in which they are used. Data for this paper is generated from primary sources. In data gathering, we used interview and focus group discussion. The analysis shows that proverbs have persuasive power to advise, guide and influence conflicting parties to settle their case peacefully. The proverbs tell their truths about conflict situations and devise a resolution and management approach through metaphorical and symbolic representations. Proverbs are also an integral part of Oromo culture, handing down and imparting norms, values, rules and the worldview of the community to guide people to live in customary ways.
The Role of Students in the Governance of Public Higher Education: a Case Study of Malta
Authors: Borg Colin
Published: December 2019

Objective: The aim of this paper is to analyse the extent of student involvement in higher education governance by considering Malta as a case study. When analysing participation within institutions, two main players are involved: students and staff.

Methodology: The author uses a hybrid of methodological tools to analyse the subject matter. A review of the existing literature is compounded with document analysis and the collection of unpublished institutional data.

Findings: Student participation in the governance of higher education institutions (HEIs) is becoming a pressing reality. Students, who are the institutional clients, are a crucial key player in the manner in which HEIs are governed and managed. Therefore, HEIs have an interest in ensuring effective student participation. Various mechanisms are available and student participation is not always at an optimum level.

Value Added: This paper analyse in detail two main mechanisms of student participation: elections and academic feedback. A qualitative analysis is provided in order to measure the extent of participation. Elections are an important tool to elect student representatives while study-unit and course feedback provide valuable information to improve teaching and learning.

Recommendations: Further research is required in order to determine the quality of student participation in academic boards and committees. Therefore, the quantitative analysis is to be embraced with qualitative data. Furthermore, HEIs are to study ways in which they can create more participatory tools within their complex governing arrangements. The issue of involving more established student societies, which are not intrinsically part of the governing structures, is also essential.
English asLingua Francaand First Language Comfort Zones at an Internationalized University in Warsaw
Authors: Aleksandrowicz-Pędich Lucyna
Published: December 2019

Objective:The aim of this study has been to analyse the use of English as lingua franca at an internationalised university in a non-English speaking country, the challenges caused by the need to use English for academic and social purposes as well as the use of other languages by a multicultural student community.

Methodology:The methodology was based on qualitative research and involved open-ended interviews with students of 14 nationalities as well as staff members, both local (Polish) and from English-speaking countries.

Findings:The main findings indicate: a degree of mismatch between the self-perception of English language competence and the actual ability to use it; the key function of language for social bonding; frequent recourse to first language comfort zones rather than the use of the lingua franca.

Value Added:The research focuses on English language issues in a non-English speaking country, an understudied area in higher education. It draws attention to the use of Russian as a secondary lingua franca among students for whom it is their other language of fluent communication.

Recommendations:University level educators should be more aware of the specificity of the problems in the use of English by international students, including such as underestimated listening comprehension issues, tensions connected with the use of polite forms and the mismatch between communication skills in English and the academic needs. The impact of language identity on international students social networking should be taken into account as well.
Higher Education Policies and Employability of University Graduates in the EU-28
Authors: Pelinescu Elena , Simionescu Mihaela
Published: December 2019

Objective: The main purpose of this research is to analyze and reveal if the recent policy measures in higher education carried in European Union member countries have had a significant impact on the labour market integration of university graduates.

Methodology: We selected a set of indicators that were common in the 2015 and 2016 editions of Structural Indicators for Monitoring Education and Training Systems in Europe and could offer an image of intensity of higher education policies in relation with labour market at European level. We further used these measures to test for any significant effects of the policies on the integration of graduates in the labour market.

Findings: We found significant effects of various policy measures in high education in the European countries. We estimate a positive role for factors like monitoring of completion rates, requirements for the staff to have higher education, presence of educational guidelines, and recognition of formal and informal learning for entry in higher education.

Value Added: This is the first study to address the impact of high education policies carried in European countries on the integration of college graduates. The study is distinct through both the design of new measures of higher education policy in Europe as well through testing whether the intensity of policies carried for higher education has affected the employability of young graduates or not.

Recommendations: The results of this empirical research allow us to make some recommendations for improving the insertion of young graduates on European labour market.
Teaching Reading and Writing Skills to Young Learners in English as a Foreign Language Using Blogs: A Case Study
Authors: Spanou Stella , Zafiri Makrina-Nina
Published: December 2019

This study focused on the development of reading and writing skills to a group of B1 level learners of English in a private language institute in Athens, Greece with the aid of blogs (a web tool), since Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) enhances foreign language learning. To this end, two groups of young learners were formed; the control group which was taught through the traditional coursebook and the experimental group which was taught through a differentiated approach to language teaching. The differentiated approach which was applied involved eight teaching sessions in a private language institute. Pre-tests and post-tests were administered to both groups in order to evaluate the use of CALL in the improvement of literacy skills. Pre- and post- semi-structured interviews were also conducted with the students of the experimental group to evaluate their attitudes and feelings before and after the instruction. The aim of using blogs, as a web tool, was to enhance collaborative learning and social interaction. This research attempted to prove that blogs create a social interaction between students, and between the students and the teacher. For the purposes of this research, students were involved in process writing by making drafts and writing their posts and in active reading when they read other posts and texts from other web sites.
Teaching Medical English through Professional Captioning Videos
Authors: Džuganová Božena
Published: December 2019

Since the Barcelona objective released on 16 March 2002, European Union met an ambitious goal: to promote learning of “at least two foreign languages from an early age” (European Commission 2019). Thus, bilingualism, multilingualism, and linguistic diversity became a part of European policy (Pokrivčáková 2013a; Pokrivčáková 2013b; Schunz 2012). Nevertheless, English language is still considered to be the global language, used as lingua franca. English is the language of international dialogue facilitating further educational and professional development, it is the language of international communication, science, academia, and the Internet (Dearden 2014). English is the first foreign language taught in Slovakia, and therefore majority of Slovak medical students chose the course of Medical English during their study. To develop communicative competence and performance in students, it is necessary to offer a very wide range of stimulating activities in English classes. Videos published on the Internet offer enormous potential for foreign or second language (L2) acquisition at every level according to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in almost all learning phases, covering a significant variety of authentic topics (Barnau, Džuganová, Malinovská 2018). Our study is particularly aimed at watching of YouTube professional medical videos with/without captions and their effect on English language skills, especially listening comprehension in medical students at Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (JFM UC).
Current Issues in Pronunciation Teaching to Non-Native Learners of English
Authors: Vančová Hana
Published: December 2019

Pronunciation plays an indisputable role in communication; even more so in communication between native and non-native speakers of English. The goals for pronunciation teaching have shifted from accent-free or native-like pronunciation to comprehensibility and teaching practices aimed at non-native English learners vary and are often based on teachers’ opinions rather than research findings. The paper aims to present the current topics in twenty selected research papers dealing with pronunciation teaching (teaching practices in the English language classrooms, selected segmental and suprasegmental features). The analysed papers indicate that a teacher’s good theoretical background can raise students’ awareness and the overall performance of pronunciation phenomena, whether at the segmental or the suprasegmental level. Students may benefit from different strategies applied to pronunciation learning, but traditional teaching methods are still prevalent in the contemporary English language classroom.

The contribution presents partial results of the research project KEGA 001TTU-4/2019.
Prevalence of Secession Style Décor Elements in Interiors of Lithuanian Manor Residences
Authors: Baratinskienė Rimantė
Published: December 2019

This article’s aim is to demonstrate the secession décor’s implementation in manor house interiors throughout Lithuania. Secession style is very different from historicist styles and was popular for a short period of time, which is why it did not gain popularity in all Europe. This organic style is usually closely related to urban culture, but, in the past, the main cultural life in Lithuania developed in manors. Nevertheless, secession style décor and interior design was not as popular in manor houses as in city buildings. Because of that, all details and elements of secession style are very important for Lithuania’s cultural heritage. Several examples from Renavas, Rokiškis, Gelgaudiškis, Paežeriai, Burbiškis, and Šešuolėliai manor residences’ interiors show how secession style was created in Lithuanian countryside. The new style brought changes, such as asymmetric facades, new floor plans and perception of private space, and new interior décor. Iconographic material of secession style décor elements in interiors of Lithuania is rare, but, by combining it with historical, art, and polychromic research, it is possible to describe the details of secession style in the interiors of Lithuanian manor houses.
Audience Participation in Contemporary Lithuanian Theatre: A Conflicted Adaptation of the Western Tradition
Authors: Kalinauskas Justinas
Published: December 2019

This article explores how audience participation practices were introduced into Lithuanian theatre in the last three decades (between the early ‘90s and the late 2010s) and how the audience participation methods of the 1960s Western theatre are/were being implemented into contemporary Lithuanian theatre projects. The key goal of this article is to examine the evolution of audience participation and collective theatre tradition in Lithuanian theatre by analysing the preconditions for participatory practices in the country’s theatre scene and defining the scope and contradictions of participation in the latest examples of contemporary Lithuanian theatre practices. These contradictions are also apparent in contemporary Western performative practices, which have already distanced themselves from the collective theatre movement of the ‘60s and the ‘70s and the political agenda of the performances of that time, selectively retaining only limited participatory aspects of the environmental theatre culture as a new form of entertainment. Similar limited levels of participation in Lithuanian theatre can be based on a different premise—that changes in spectators’ habitude cannot catch up with the newly (re)introduced theatrical ideas after the 1990s, and that theatre creators are still trying to cautiously synchronise conventional observation tactics and modern theatre hierarchies with the interactive ones, thus slowing down changes in staging and spectatorship strategies as well.

The article focuses on academic texts by Lithuanian theatre researchers Ramunė Balevičiūtė, Rasa Vasinauskaitė, Rūta Mažeikienė, Jurgita Staniškytė, Vaidas Jauniškis, Lina Michelkevičė, and others to illustrate the discourse of audience participation analysis and to present different stages of the participatory tradition in the historiography of Lithuanian theatre. For international context, history, and mechanics of audience participation, texts by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Michael Kirby, Richard Schechner, Gareth White, Gay McAuley, Johan Huizinga, and others are used.
Death and Violence in Contemporary Theatre, Drama, and Novel (Oliver Frljić, Anja Hilling, Simona Semenič, and G. W. Sebald)
Authors: Toporišič Tomaž
Published: December 2019

For the purpose of my examination of how literature and art take part in the circulation of significations and representations in the construction of social reality, I concentrate on a specific feature that links and unites the work of four contemporary European authors—the inflation of death and violence, or the “overflow of corpses” in their novels, plays, and performances. My first example will be Bosnian-Croatian theatre director Oliver Frljić, his disturbing, shocking performances in which he uses his own personal, wartime, and political traumas to ask universal questions about the boundaries of artistic and social freedom, individual and collective responsibility, tolerance and stereotypes. As the second and third example I will take plays by two (no longer) dramatic writers, Anja Hilling and Simona Semenič—two outstanding representatives of German and Slovene (no longer) dramatic theatre and drama, exploring in their texts a tension between repetition and representation in which the first mechanism undermines and challenges the second and produces a specific poetic or aesthetic device—an effect of ostranenie or defamiliarisation (Shklovsky). The third example will consist of the novels by Winfried Georg Sebald, in which the German author uses the device of his wanderings between signs, punctuated by black and white photographs, producing a specific emblematic of a mutation of space and time, in which history and geography cross-fertilise, tracing out paths and weaving networks. Besides examining the contestation of subject positions, I concentrate on the dialectics of art and society, where fluid, uncontainable subjects are constantly pushing the contours. Revising the critical consensus that contemporary art primarily engages with the real, the essay describes how theatre and fiction today navigate the complexities of the discourse as well as social realities; how the discussed artists all share the belief that creative expression must also be destruction. Art has to go beyond what we are and what we can identify through understanding. Thus, art negotiates, inflects discursive circulation of stories, idioms, controversies, testimonies, and pieces of (mis)information in the face of global uncertainties.
The use of the TWI Method to Improve Safety at the Work Station
Authors: Furman Joanna
Published: December 2019

Ensuring work safety in manufacturing enterprises is one of the employer’s basic obligations under legal provisions. Actions taken in this area translate into a reduction in the number of registered accidents at work, occupational diseases or potentially accidental events. Limiting these types of events is possible by implementing preventive solutions to reduce the risk, employers ‘and employees’ cooperation in the field of occupational health and safety. These activities may take the form of technical solutions, but above all organizational. Enterprises use various management concepts that have an impact on improving work safety. One of the solutions eliminating or reducing hazards occurring at workplaces is the TWI (Training Within Industry) program. The TWI program is the foundation of a management culture based on continuous improvement and a continuous learning process. It is considered the starting point to implement the Lean Manufacturing concept. One of the TWI modules is aimed to creating a safe workplace, i.e. TWI-Job Safety (TWI-JS). The publication presents the results of the analysis of operations performed at a selected workstation in the production enterprise in the aspect of identifying and eliminating or limiting possible direct and indirect causes of hazards that may lead to accidents at work. For this purpose, a four-step TWI-JS method was used.
Cloud Computing as a Prospect for the Sector of Small – and Medium-Size Companies in the Polish Market
Authors: Krakowiak Marlena , Bajor Teresa
Published: December 2019

Efficient functioning in the contemporary market is a fundamental need of every organization. In times of globalization and an intensive technological and engineering progress, attaining a proper position and retaining it is a big challenge in almost every branch of industry. This is especially difficult for the SME sector, as it requires financial expenditures on system solutions and the IT base, among other things. This is where “Cloud Computing” comes in. Cloud computing services consist in providing and making available IT resources (efficient, scalable and tailored to the customer’s needs) through the Web. Thanks to wide access to intensively developing mobile systems, the low costs of computer components and the associated increasingly common use of Internet of Things (IoT) in numerous devices connected to the Internet, data processing is being gradually moved onto the Web peripheries. The purpose of the study is to highlight advantages and possible threats associated with the use of Cloud Computing-based solutions for aiding the activity of enterprises at a varying organizational level following the 4th industrial revolution.
Study of Technology for Ultrafine-Grained Materials for Usage as Materials in Nuclear Power
Authors: Naizabekov Abdrakhman , Arbuz Alexandr , Lezhnev Sergey , Panin Evgeniy , Knapinski Marcin
Published: December 2019

Nuclear power is associated with great environmental risks. In many cases, the problem of accidents of nuclear power plants is related to the use of materials that do not fully meet the following requirements: high corrosion resistance; high temperature resistance; creep resistance; fracture toughness; stability of structure and properties under irradiation. Therefore, studies aimed at finding materials that can withstand long-term loads at high temperatures, aggressive environment and gradual structural degradation under the influence of radiation are relevant. One of the structural materials, which has high resistance to radiation, is austenitic stainless steel. And one of the ways to increase the radiation resistance of parts made of this steel grade is to grind its microstructure to ultra-fine-grained state. Such structures provide a combination of a high level of strength characteristics with high plasticity, which distinguishes such materials from their coarse-grained counterparts. Also, numerous grain boundaries serve as runoff surfaces for radiation defects, preserving the structure, which causes their increased radiation resistance. From all methods for producing sub-ultra-finegrained materials the most promising is the severe plastic deformation (SPD), which can be implemented in the metal in various ways, including radial-shear rolling. This paper presents the results of studies of the process of radial-shear rolling on the mill SVP-08 and its effect on the microstructure and properties of austenitic stainless steel. During the study, bars with a diameter of 13 mm from AISI-321 steel with a grain size of 300-600 nm were obtained, while the mechanical properties increased more than 2 times compared to the initial values.
Modern Trends in Occupational Safety Management
Authors: Lis Teresa , Nowacki Krzysztof
Published: December 2019

Problems related to work safety have been accompanying humanity since the dawn of time. In times before the Industrial Revolution, human and animal muscle strength was used to work, and “safe work” solutions were developed and introduced individually by the user or supervising the work. Only a change in the way work was done due to the industrial revolution, the introduction of new energy sources, the transformation of manufactories into factories and the birth of the working class brought about greater, concrete changes. It was at that time that various machines and devices began to be introduced into the workplace, which on the one hand improved work and on the other hand created more and more potentially dangerous situations. Security was started holistically and institutionally. With the transformation and return of capitalism, the subject of real work safety returned. Health and safety was to be not only a fashionable slogan, but a value that was supposed to guarantee profit – in accordance with the principle that accidents reduce productivity. It was also connected with the process of adapting Polish law in the field of health and safety to the law of the European Union (EU), which resulted from Poland’s pursuit of EU membership. Moreover, an important factor initiating these changes was the interest of enterprises in quality management systems compliant with the ISO 9000 series and environmental management systems compliant with the ISO 14000 series, and related attempts to adapt the system management concept to the area of occupational health and safety, resulting in PN-N standards 18000 series. This publication analyzes the new standard PN-ISO 45001:2018 – “Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements with guidance for use” comparing it with the standard PN-N 18001:2004 – “Occupational health and safety management. Requirements”.
Reduced Vibrations and Noise During Grinding
Authors: Nowacki Krzysztof , Łakomy Karolina
Published: December 2019

It is the duty of every employer to provide its employees with safe, hygienic and ergonomic working conditions. Available information suggests that working conditions in Poland improve each year, thanks to the ever-growing security culture prevailing in Polish enterprises. In spite of everything, there is still a problem of hazards in the workplace, and special attention should be paid to acoustic threats - vibrations and audible noise. Although entities operating on the market offering comprehensive services to reduce the exposure of employees to vibroacoustic hazards, there is still a need to develop new methods to protect the health of employees. Excessive exposure to vibrations and noise is associated with negative health effects that are exposed to, among others, employees involved in the mechanical processing of steel structures. Employees also experience the impact of local and general vibrations. Local vibrations can be relatively easily eliminated using anti-vibration gloves, while the reduction of general vibrations is often an unresolved problem for employees and employers. The publication presents the results of research on the development of the method of damping mechanical vibrations generated during grinding steel constructions. The research included several stages, among others: selection and preparation of the research material, design and construction of the test stand, measurements of vibration acceleration and industrial verification of the obtained results.
The Anthracite as Sinter Fuels
Authors: Sikora Michal , Janík Petr , Pustějovská Pavlína , Jursová Simona
Published: December 2019

The chapter deals with the use of traditional carbonaceous fuels in the production of agglomerates. An important part is focused primarily on the use of these carbonaceous fuels in the production of various types of agglomerate. Anthracite together with coke breeze was tested as a fuel to assess the substitution of coke dust by anthracite for technological and qualitative parameters of sintering.
Role and Competence of the Manager of the Example of a Production Enterprise
Authors: Michalik Joanna , Krakowiak Marlena , Wojtyto Dorota
Published: December 2019

The article presents the subject matter in scope of human resources management in an exemplary production enterprise. The company under study is a production enterprise that produces: juice, nectars, drinks and mineral waters. The characteristics, skills and activities that constitute model attitudes of the management were determined, as well as the ways of management that exist in the selected company were identified. The paper also presents the results of a questionnaire survey in which employees’ opinions on specific managerial behaviors and their impact on work efficiency were presented. Additionally, the employees’ expectations regarding managerial behaviors are described. The survey was completed by 40 employees of the company who voluntarily and anonymously agreed to participate in the study. They were people working in various departments of the company.
Management of the Size of the Supply Under the Conditions of Inflation
Authors: Ślaski Paweł
Published: December 2019

The publication describes two ways of shopping, taking into account the CPI (Consumer Price Index) inflation rate. In the first case, changes in the sales price are made in a continuous manner in accordance with the inflation rate, and therefore it is better to make larger purchases. In the second case, it is better to carry out smaller purchases, because it is characterized by one-time adjustment of sales prices to the entire purchased a lot of goods. Both cases were verified based on the Solver tool, using non-linear, integer-based optimization. The final result was to determine the optimal purchase quantities with the minimum inventory costs.
Evaluation of Noise Level at the Position of Water Cutter Operator at Selected Enterprise
Authors: Pałęga Michał , Kwapisz Marcin
Published: December 2019

The subject of this publication is to assess the exposure of the waterjet operator to the noise hazard. The publication presents basic information about noise in the work environment. Next, the procedure of noise measurement in the work environment was discussed and the results of tests carried out at the waterjet operator’s station for three basic activities were presented, ie: (1) plotter support, supervision of the cutting process, loading and receiving material, (2) auxiliary, transport and cleaning, (3) computer service, keeping documentation, hygienic and social break. The noise level test included the determination of: the maximum sound level A LA max, the peak sound level C LCpeak, the noise exposure level related to the 8-hour work day LEX,8h. Based on the obtained measurement results, it can be stated that the exposure to noise at the station of the waterjet operator is at an acceptable level.
Challenges in Integrity of Sport: Current Practices and Preventive Approaches of Sport Corruption in Sri Lanka
Authors: Madhushani A. A. L.
Published: December 2019

In many countries, including Sri Lanka, control of sports is connected to political power of the state and therefore, the political patronage decisively influences sports, both in and out of the playground. This study looks at few identified areas relating to the impact of mal-governance and corruption in sports administration, and how general governance structure adversely affects sports integrity in Sri Lanka. The content analysis was performed on articles pertaining to the sport corruption in Sri Lanka. The analysis has shown that the sport corruption is a main and considerable issue in Sri Lanka due to the several reasons. The study recommended that the proper governance policy should be invented to the sport sector to prevent this issue.
Life Skill Development and Transfer beyond Sport
Authors: Agnew Deborah , Jackson Kathryn , Pill Shane , Edwards Christine
Published: December 2019

The aim of this research was to investigate the current life skills education programs offered by the Australian Football League (AFL) for elite footballers in order to determine the retention of life skill knowledge and transfer beyond sport. Life skill education in sport is an increasing phenomenon. Life skills sport programs are capable of delivering positive outcomes when nurtured through a deliberately designed curriculum and purposeful teaching strategies. However, it is not known how life skills are learned and importantly what the impact of life skills education on long term behavioural changes is. It is apparent from the literature that there is a need to identify how knowledge is acquired and importantly retained through life skills education programs. This was a qualitative research project from a life history perspective. Twenty footballers who had been delisted from an elite Australian football club and had subsequently returned to a South Australian state-based football club took part in semi-structured interviews. The data was analysed through an inductive thematic analysis. Two themes emerged from the data: football related development and holistic development. It was clear that football clubs placed importance on the development of life skills that transfer beyond the sport. However, given the footballers in this research have not fully transferred into life after sport, their perception of the broader transferability of their life-skill development beyond sport is limited. This research concludes that the current format of life skill education (delivering content) that the players in this study were exposed to was not effective because the players failed to be able to make connections from the program to life outside of football. Therefore, the programs are unlikely to have any long-term benefit to player health and well-being during their post-elite football life.
Body Image, Physical Activity and Sport Involvement: A Study on Gender Differences
Authors: Leng Ho Keat , Phua Yi Xian Philip , Yang Yifan
Published: December 2019

The aim of this study is to examine whether sport involvement i.e. identification with the domain of sports affect satisfaction with body image in men and women. 158 respondents from a tertiary educational institution provided data on their satisfaction with their body image, level of sport involvement, and level of physical activity. Independent t-tests were conducted to compare differences between and within genders. Female respondents (n=40) who were high in sport involvement reported a significantly lower level of dissatisfaction with their body image (M=.55, SD=.78) when compared to female respondents (n=44) who were low in sport involvement (M=.84, SD=.83; t=1.65, p<.05). There was no significant difference amongst male respondents. There was also no significant difference in satisfaction with body image across groups with varying levels of physical activity. This suggests that being involved in sport can affect body image satisfaction amongst females.
The Excellence as a Habit - The Thyroid Repair
Authors: Mândrea Lucian , Curta Ioan , Chirilă Aurel , Deaconu Dragoș
Published: December 2019

The research shows in the first part that it is possible to maintain a very good state of the human being for a long time, almost continuously. This thing is highlighted using the values of the human being general balance, while the other values are in the optimal range. The measurements were performed by means of a Bio Well device. The tested subject was the first author of this article. Different techniques were used continuously to reach this important goal. Of course, this attitude can only lead to excellence in everyone’s activity domain and also, in general, in everybody’s life. The second part of the research refers to the human being’s possibilities to send energy to the energy cover of the body to improve the human being functioning. This thing is proved by the measurements made with the help of a thermo-vision camera. A short film was made to show the temperature increase at the level of the head skin during five minutes due to the energy arrived at that zone. The third part refers of the possibility of the human beings to repair themselves. The analysis of the thyroid energy level of the measured subject by means of the Bio Well device is presented. Because the thyroid was used a little too much to improve the optimization of the human being functioning, as presented in the first part of this article, the device shows a possible future danger. Immediate measures had to be taken. Due to successive measures, the subject succeeds in bringing his thyroid energy level to a normal one, without the help of medicines. All the three types of the measurements are very original, presented maybe for the first time in the world. The general purpose of the article is to show that we can do more than we believe about our health and our level of performance.