bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
BETWEEN ROTATING VICIOUS CIRCLES AND MOMENTOUS SOLIDARITY. THE CORONA PANDEMIC AS A PROVOCATION TO (PASTORAL) PSYCHOLOGY
Authors: Kießling Klaus
Published: June 2022

Emotional vulnerability and how to respond to it during the Corona pandemic are the focus of this article from the field of (pastoral) psychology. It outlines strategies for the accompaniment of people in crises and ways in which they deal with crises from monitoring to blunting, from behavioural immune systems to conspiracy theories. Revisiting old patterns of behaviour combined with a narcissistic rejection of one’s own fragility, or closing oneself off in acceptance of the call of a strong leader, as well as influencing social change based on solidarity, three psychological approaches can be identified as a way out of the crisis. It becomes apparent that we are not all in the same boat; on the contrary, the inequality between an inflatable boat and a luxury yacht is becoming more distinct. However, the Christian message of the resurrection of the dead brings hope, with caution and humility. After all, even the Crucified and Resurrected One allowed himself to be identified by his wounds.
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TRANSFORMUOJANČIOS MOKYMOSI APLINKOS IR ANDRAGOGO BENDRŲJŲ KOMPETENCIJŲ POREIKIS: SVEIKATOS PRIEŽIŪROS SPECIALISTŲ POŽIŪRIS
Authors: Tolutienė Gitana
Published: June 2022

With the changing and expanding approach to the creation of a learning environment as one of the essential factors in the quality of the organisation of the learning process, the article reveals the links that underpin the importance of an andragogue’s general competencies for the development of a transformative learning environment. The relevance of the scientific problem is highlighted by the theoretical and empirical search for the general competencies of the andragogue, which creates favourable preconditions for the transformation of the learner’s empowerment personality. The participants in the research were employees of health-care institutions in various regions of Lithuania who have participated in in-service training events at the Centre for Continuing Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Klaipėda University. The analysis of the need for health-care professionals due to the importance of an andragogue’s general competencies in creating a transformative learning environment has highlighted the direct impact of age on different needs. The results of the research show that an andragogue’s general competencies help to create a transformative learning environment, in which the totality of intellectual, emotional and practical dynamics enables the learner’s transformation, focusing on personal qualities, abilities, skills, attitudes and positive attitudes, and the development of a mindset for continuous improvement. Suggestions are provided to andragogues on how to streamline changes in adult learning that focus on personality change by creating a transformative learning environment.
AŠTRIOJI GALIA, KAIP TECHNOLOGINIS FENOMENAS KINIJOS POLITINĖSE PROJEKCIJOSE
Authors: Macikas Mantas
Published: June 2022

This article presents the concept of China’s sharp power, and features of its formation that support it. The article deals with theoretical interpretations of soft power that are inseparable from the properties of sharp power. Soft power has been a very influential concept in recent decades to describe a country’s ability to influence others by cooperating, persuading and promoting a positive attitude in other states to achieve the desired results. Nevertheless, the concept of power has changed dramatically in recent years, due to shifts in the international system, and no longer fits definitions of the relationship between authoritarian and democratic systems. It is necessary to introduce a new concept of power, in order to expose the new world order posed by China as an emerging normative power. Authoritarian methods of influence can no longer, in principle, be described as soft power. There is a need to introduce a new term for power in academic discourse, in order to conceptualise the influence of authoritarian states on democracies. The article highlights the problem that sharp power can restrict freedom of expression and distort the political environment, by taking advantage of asymmetric levels of freedom between democratic and authoritarian systems. Having identified and clarified the terminological framework, the article presents three components of China’s sharp power, which allows for empirical research into its mechanisms for spreading influence, expanding the country’s interests abroad, and damaging democratic systems.
Social assessment of national parks through the example of the Aggtelek National Park
Authors: Kőszegi Margit , Gessert Alena , Nestorová-Dická Janetta , Gruber Péter , Bottlik Zsolt
Published: June 2022

Karst areas, which are less involved in productive activities are often declared protected areas that can have a positive impact on the lives of the local communities. To verify this hypothesis, we examine karst areas, where national parks have been established to preserve mostly geological but also biological values. According to the threefold system of objectives in national parks, not only protection and conservation, but also the presentation of the natural values to the outside world is important. Thus, tourism and related services are essential and often exclusive economic activities in these protected areas. Our questions are how national parks appear in the daily lives of the local communities and how much locals perceive the beneficial effects of national parks. The selected area of our study is the Gömör-Torna / Gemer-Turňa Karst on the Hungarian-Slovak border, where national parks have been established on both side of the border (Aggtelek National Park in Hungary and Slovak Karst National Park in Slovakia) to preserve karst landforms and caves. We conducted structured interviews with leaders of settlements in and around the national park. Interviews reveal the ambivalent system of everyday relationships. Local communities are experiencing multiple conflicts with national parks. The conflicts stem from the contrast that usually occurs within the threefold system of objectives of national parks (the tension between the practice of protection/preservation and presentation). Locals are negatively affected by the presence of national park as an authority, which limits to some extent their economic activities. They perceive national parks as barriers that prevents them from building a more diversified economy, so the existence of the national park is seen by the majority as a disadvantage rather than an advantage. Some people even question the need to protect nature, which can be seen as a legacy of the former socialist regime. Thus, we conclude that there is a need to change the attitudes of local communities more positive towards nature conservation.
Land management on small islands based on settlement distribution patterns: studies on Sulabesi Island, Indonesia
Authors: Lautetu Lisa Meidiyanti , Hasibuan Hayati Sari , Tambunan Rudy Parluhutan
Published: June 2022

With limited land availability, the land use and management on the small island must be sustainable. Sulabesi Island, with an area of <2000 km2, makes it one of the small islands in North Maluku and a remote island. This condition makes Sulabesi vulnerable to land loss and faced with adverse threats both environmentally and socio-economically if the allocation of residential places does not manage appropriately. The study aimed to identify the distribution of coastal settlement land with the characteristics of the island landscape, including analyzing its suitability to coastal boundaries and recommending directions for the development of coastal settlements on Sulabesi island. The method of this study used the geographic information system (GIS) to provide a spatial picture with overlaying and buffering techniques. The data analysis used topography, slope, distribution of settlements, and coastlines with collected data sources from government agencies and remote sensing, including field observations. The analysis results showed that the settlements scattered Sulabesi island randomly and separately with linear patterns, clustering, and combinations. The distribution in the island landscape was with a dominant height at 0-200 m and a slope of 0-30% or is a flat-steep plain. Besides that also shows a mismatch of utilization between the residence and the coastal border area, so land use for future settlements can do on the more proportional ground, especially outside the coastal buffer area. The results of this study's analysis can be used for further direction in regional planning and land management on small islands.
Across and within Networks
Authors: Lowe James , García-Sancho Miguel , Leng Rhodri , Wong Mark , Vermeulen Niki , Viry Gil
Published: June 2022

In this essay, we reflect on how the findings of the preceding papers enabled us to thicken the history of genomics. We have expanded the number of dimensions across which our historical work operated beyond extending the dimension of time. Building on this, we argue that the history of genomics became synchronically entangled with a range of communities, target species, and research agendas—among them yeast biochemistry, pig and human immunology, systematics, medical genetics, and agricultural genetics. We make sense of these entanglements with analytic categories to characterize modes of organizing and conducting sequencing, and the relationships between the practices of sequencing and the objectives of those collaborating around it: horizontal and vertical, proximate and distal, directed and undirected, as well as intensive and extensive sequencing. Our categories emerged as we analyzed and qualitatively interpreted datasets and co-authorship networks. Throughout this special issue, we have characterized genomics as a set of tools that open up connections between actors, institutions, experimental organisms, and historically contingent forms of research. We contend that presenting genomics in this way emphasizes the agency of the communities that mobilized the sequence data and offers a fresh perspective for addressing the medical and agricultural translation of that data. We close by proposing how we can develop our mixed-methods approach through the establishment of a domain ontology that would allow information on sequence submissions and publications to be connected to other forms of data, thus expanding the range of evidence available for historical analysis. This essay is part of a special issue entitled The Sequences and the Sequencers: A New Approach to Investigating the Emergence of Yeast, Human, and Pig Genomics, edited by Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe.
Influence of developmental teaching methods on the regulation of nervous functions in children with intellectual disability and interhemispheric asymmetry of the brain
Authors:   Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan, Azatyan Tereza Yurevna
Published: June 2022

Introduction. The degree of asymmetry in humans and the complication of mechanisms of interhemispheric interaction are formed mainly in the process of learning. However, little attention has been paid to the impact of developmental teaching methods on the regulation of nervous functions in children with intellectual disability. The aim of this article is to study the influence of developmental teaching methods on the regulation of nervous functions in children with mental development disorders and interhemispheric asymmetry of the brain. Materials and Methods. The methodological basis of this research investigation was scholarly works by a number of authors devoted to the study of nervous functions in children with mental development disorders and interhemispheric asymmetry of the brain, regulation of these functions, identifying difficulties, and modeling the system of work with these children. (Boguslavskaya, Miroshnichenko, 2019, Maryutina, Yermolaev 2001, Reuter-Lorenz and others, 2000). Results. The results of the research have shown that we have determined the level of mental development in mentally retarded children aged between 8 and 11 years caused by features of interhemispheric brain organization. We have conducted research of interhemispheric functional asymmetry and interhemispheric interaction in students studying different developmental programs, investigated dynamics of regulation of nervous functions in students aged between 8 and 11 years with impaired mental development and interhemispheric asymmetry. On the basis of the conducted research and work experience, the research findings are presented and a number of recommendations are provided. Conclusions. The results of the research emphasize the necessity of systematic assistance to children with impaired mental development and interhemispheric asymmetry of the brain in the regulation of nervous functions in conditions of developmental learning. The findings should be taken into account in organizing work with this category of children.
The effectiveness of distance and traditional teaching natural sciences: A comparative analysis
Authors:   Gorno-Altaisk State University, Chanchaeva Elena Anatolyevna , Kurilenko Tatiana Kalauidenovna ,   Gorno-Altaisk State University, Nedelski Vitali Olegovich ,   Gorno-Altaisk State University, Kruglikova Ekaterina Vasilievna ,   Gorno-Altaisk State University, Grjibovski Andrej Mechislavovich ,   Northern State Medical University
Published: June 2022

Introduction. The article focuses on the problem of the effectiveness of distance learning. The most recent pandemic has led to the widespread use of distance learning as an alternative to the traditional classroom instruction. However, there is no consensus on whether distance education is superior to the traditional teaching in terms of learning outcomes and perception. The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of teaching natural sciences in distance and traditional modes. Materials and Methods. The data were collected via the following general research methods: synthesis and generalization of scholarly literature on the problem, empirical methods including surveys and interviews, and comparative analysis of research findings. A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of distance learning and traditional classroom instruction was conducted relying on the results of teaching natural science disciplines at Gorno-Altaisk State University in the period of 2020-2022, synthesis and analysis of international and Russian studies on the problem. Results. The authors identified the disadvantages and advantages of distance learning with the main focus on natural science disciplines. It has been found that laboratory assignments performed in a distance mode changed the student’s role from being a researcher to the role of an observer. Moreover, there was a decrease in the development of practical skills. Within the framework of traditional learning, the teacher acts as a mentor responsible for enhancing students’ knowledge, for nurturing the culture of behavior while the teacher’s role in distance education is that of a mediator facilitating students’ independent learning. It should also be noted that within distance learning environment teachers cannot perform a range of professional functions beyond educational. As far as final assessment is concerned, it must be emphasized that it can be extremely difficult to conduct objective assessment of students’ knowledge and competencies in a distance learning environment. On the other hand, the advantages of assessment via electronic and online media include flexibility and convenience. Conclusions. The authors conclude that nowadays the effectiveness of teaching natural sciences in the distance learning environment is lower than in the traditional one. In order to increase its efficiency, it is necessary to improve digital technologies and develop new teaching methods suitable for the distance learning environment. The limitations of distance learning include decrease in students’ learning outcomes, objectivity of final assessment, and partial implementation of moral education activities.
Visual Accessibility and Inclusive Wayfinding Design in Hospital Environment in Nigeria
Authors: Ahmed Salawu , Muhammad İsa , Abdulrahman Mukaila , Adebisi Gafari
Published: June 2022

Visual accessibility refers to the legibility and intelligibility of space cues that most contribute to the searching and use of information from the environment for wayfinding in hospitals. Because of building complexity and expansions over time, there is a lack of visual clarity to navigate and access the most desired destinations in the hospital. However, the inaccessibility of space by many unfamiliar users of any age, gender, or disability resulted in disorientation, uncertainty, stress, frustration, getting lost, and missed medical appointments. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact and barriers of visual accessibility on wayfinding in hospital buildings. Mixed-method approach combined quantitative and qualitative measures for the study area with focus on General Outpatients Departments (GOPD). A simple random sampling technique was used to select 98 participants. 24 respondents were selected for interview, while GOPD hospital buildings were observed for data elicitation. The main findings show that some of the circulation spaces were crowded with patients, and that most destinations within the GOPD were not visible from the main entrance. In addition, indistinctive nodes act as barriers, rendering some buildings inaccessible during navigation. It also revealed that signage, unit building entrances, and lighting were legible and properly positioned, enhancing space accessibility during wayfinding. The main limitations of this study are the absence of physically challenged people and the elderly in the research process, as well as cultural and linguistic differences. The implications are that designers should make simplified building layout more legible to the wide group of users such that core sections are visible and interlinked with high traffic flow pathways in the hospital for inclusive wayfinding. This study suggested solutions to the problems of visual accessibility in the hospital could improve all users' inclusive wayfinding, increase satisfaction, confidence, reduce confusion during direction-finding in the hospital.
Cobb-Douglas Hybrid Modelling Approach with Fuzzy-AHP Indexing for Residential Land Value Determining: A Case Study of Konya/Turkey
Authors: Yalpır Şükran , Sisman Suleyman , Akar Ali Utku
Published: June 2022

In this study, for mass real estate appraisal forecasting, the hybrid mathematical model has been developed by combining Cobb-Douglas one of the nonlinear regression models, and linear modeling. The real estate attributes that create the model were grouped under four main-title: local, spatial, physical and legal features. While Cobb-Douglas was used for the value forecast based on the real estate attributes in each part of the model, an integrated model was created with a linear approach. As a different approach, local and spatial features, which are among the real estate attributes, were used as indexes for reasons such as preventing data confusion in the model and using according to the spatial analysis results of distances. Local and spatial index were prepared with the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) method to use within the model. For indexes, in the central districts of Konya, 10 local-specific attributes were used, while 12 spatial-specific attributes. The data set has been prepared using legal and physical attributes with market values collected from 457 parcels in the study area. Local and spatial attributes were added as indexes to the data set used in the hybrid model. In addition, modeling was done with the data set used in the Cobb-Douglas Hybrid Model (C-DHM) according to the Linear Multiple Regression Analysis (Linear MRA) method. The developed C-DHM’s results was integrated with Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The performance values between the hybrid model and market values were examined. Results showed that R2 value for C-DHM and Linear MRA used as indexes was found to be 0,85 and 0,80. When the values obtained from C-DHM and market value are compared, it is seen that model gives successful results.
ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE AND IMPACT OF TNB ON THE WORLD ECONOMY IN THE CONDITIONS OF FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION
Authors: Zelinska O.M.
Published: June 2022

At the present stage of development  of international economic relations and the world economy in general, a key place is occupied by the process of globalization and transnationalization, which has penetrated into all sectors of the world economy, including banking. With the rapid development of globalization processes, the role of transnational banks, which act as intermediaries in international financial markets and take an active part in almost all areas of international economic relations, is growing.

The demand for banking operations and the rapid growth of the international capital market give a significant impetus to the expansion of banks outside their home country, creating an extensive branch system in foreign financial markets, combining their links with the banking capital of different countries.

The research of issues related to the activities of transnational banks in the globalization of the world economy is covered in the scientific works of both domestic and foreign scholars. The value of scientific papers with their theoretical and practical research is quite high, but issues related to the effectiveness of transnational banks and the regulation of TNB in ​​the homecountries and host countries need further consideration.

The study focuses on the world's largest multinational banks. The subject of the study is the activities of the largest multinational banks, which is accompanied by processes of globalization and transnationalization of the world economy. The aim of the article is to analyze the peculiarities of the activities and development of transnational banks, as well as to study their impact on the world economy in the context of globalization and transnationalization.

The main research methods used in the study were general philosophical, dialectical, logical-semantic, synthesis method, system-structural, sociological, and statistical method. The most important is the general philosophical method, because the study of transnational processes has its roots in depth, which should be explored with the help of philosophical reasoning. The use of the dialectical method of cognition is due to the ability to explore the problems of TNB in ​​the unity of economic, social, moral and legal content. The method of synthesis provides an opportunity to add new definitions to the categorical apparatus.

The results of the study were based on a study of the positive and negative impact of TNB on both the home country and the recipient country. The practical significance of scientific research and its results is the study of the consequences of the inflow of foreign capital and identify situations in which to curb the activities of multinational banks, and in which, on the contrary, to encourage the location of branches of multinational banks in the country.
SPACE-АНАЛІЗ ЯК ОСНОВА ВИБОРУ СТРАТЕГІЇ РОЗВИТКУ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА НА РИНКУ МІНЕРАЛЬНИХ ВОД
Authors: Bochko O.Yu. , Kuziak V.V. , Hryniv N.T.
Published: June 2022

Стаття розкриває сучасний стан ринку мінеральних вод. Актуальність дослідження ринку мінеральних вод зумовлене тим, що ринок характеризується дешевизною, доступністю, не потребує високої дохідності споживачів, а це в свою чергу викликає зацікавленість різних державних органів, верств населення, організацій до вивчення даного питання. Метою написання статті є висвітлення результатів SPACE-аналізу, який покладено в основу вибору стратегії розвитку підприємства на ринку мінеральних вод. В процесі написання наукової статті застосовано різні загальнонаукові та спеціальні методи дослідження. Зокрема індуктивний, дедуктивний методи використано для проведення SPACE- аналізу “МЗМВ” “Оскар”. За допомогою економічного аналізу та порівняння здійснено аналізування ринку мінеральної води Львівської області. Графічний метод використано для наочного зображення пелюсткової діаграми SPACE-аналізу ПрАТ «МЗМВ «Оскар». Для теоретичних узагальнень і формування висновків використано абстрактно-логічний метод. У статті обґрунтовано місце ПрАТ “МЗМВ” «Оскар» на ринку мінеральних вод та запропоновано стратегію його розвитку. Здійснено SPACE- аналіз, який дає змогу класифікувати й аналізувати внутрішнє та зовнішнє середовище підприємства. Побудовано пелюсткову діаграму SPACE-аналізу ПрАТ «МЗМВ «Оскар». Обґрунтовано, що конкурентне становище досліджуваного підприємства характеризується використанням наступальної стратегії, яка застосовується, за умови наявних виробничих переваг та загального розвитку підприємства, проте нестабільної ситуації в межах галузі. Доведено, що основні дії підприємства за таких умов спрямовані на пошук фінансових ресурсів і розширення системи збуту. Наукова новизна статті полягає у здійсненні SPACE-аналізу як основа вибору стратегії розвитку підприємства на ринку мінеральних вод та  побудові пелюсткової діаграми SPACE-аналізу ПрАТ «МЗМВ «Оскар». Досліджено чинники: стабільності ситуації (ES), промислового потенціалу (ІS),  конкурентних переваг (СА), фінансового потенціалу (FS), які покладено в основу SPACE-аналізу. Отримана інформація сприятиме більш ґрунтовному розумінню позицій підприємства на ринку мінеральних вод в сучасних умовах.
Oscillation thresholds via the novel MBR method with application to oncolytic virotherapy
Authors: Buonomo Bruno , Della Marca Rossella , Rionero Salvatore
Published: June 2022

Oncolytic virotherapy is a therapy for the treatment of malignant tumours. In some undesirable cases, the injection of viral particles can lead to stationary oscillations, thus preventing the full destruction of the tumour mass. We investigate the oscillation thresholds in a model for the dynamics of a tumour under treatment with an oncolytic virus. To this aim, we employ the minimum bifurcation roots (MBR) method, which is a novel approach to determine the existence and location of Hopf bifurcations. The application to oncolytic virotherapy confirms how this approach may be more manageable than classical methods based on the Routh–Hurwitz criterion. In particular, the MBR method allows to explicitly identify a range of values in which the oscillation thresholds fall.
On a new variant of F-contractive mappings with application to fractional differential equations
Authors: Patlea Pradip Ramesh , Gabeleh Moosa
Published: June 2022

The present article intends to prove the existence of best proximity points (pairs) using the notion of measure of noncompactness. We introduce generalized classes of cyclic (noncyclic) F-contractive operators, and then derive best proximity point (pair) results in Banach (strictly convex Banach) spaces. This work includes some of the recent results as corollaries. We apply these conclusions to prove the existence of optimum solutions for a system of Hilfer fractionaldifferential equations.
Preparing for 2023: Selecting the Level of Risk Associated With Patient Management
Authors:   American Academy of Pediatrics
Published: June 2022

This article continues discussion of the elements of MDM. Either the level of MDM or the total time spent by the physician or other qualified health care professional (QHP) directed to care of the individual patient may be used in office E/M code selection (unlike other E/M codes selected based on key components or face-to-face time).
Coding Hotline
Authors:   American Academy of Pediatrics
Published: June 2022

This month’s Coding Hotline addresses coding for administration of COVID-19 vaccines as well as guidance for reporting immunizations administered to patients 18 years and younger.
Valores aspectuales de meter como verbo auxiliar: transformaciones históricas y contrastes dialectales
Authors: Garrido Sepúlveda Claudio Edgardo
Published: June 2022

In the following paper, the historical development of the verb (meter), particularly its auxiliary uses as an inchoative and causative construction is analyzed. The objective is to formulate a contrast between the American and Peninsular varieties; the latter represented by Comer’s research (2018). For the contrast of dialect varieties, four analysis criteria were selected: syntactic fixation, syntactic incorporation, the animacy of the subject, and the dynamicity of the infinitive. In this sense, the study is based on the grammaticalization theory and on construction grammar. The data analyzed have been extracted from historical corpus such as CORDE and CORDIAM. In conclusion, it is described that the American use of the verb (meter) shows a higher degree of grammaticalization in terms of the degree of formal fixation and syntactic incorporation, while the peninsular use is more grammaticalized in relation to the animacy of the subject and the dynamism of the infinitive. Moreover, evidence in favor of a greater syntactic conservatism of American Spanish is provided.
Los escenarios pedagógicos de la dramaturgia de Deyanira Urzúa de Calvo
Authors: Amaya González Juan Pablo
Published: June 2022

This article revises the drama production of Deyanira Urzúa de Calvo, a Chilean writer from the early twentieth century. Her avoided figure is fundamental to comprehend the development of the dramatist profession, as well as the thematic and formal lines that characterized the years when Chilean drama was founded, and that continued to be followed beyond the creation of university drama. Part of her large work in historical drama, comedy and plays for children is analyzed. Her work helps to comprehend the development of Chilean drama written by women, and evinces transformation processes, more than Romantic rupture.
Interpretação de atos de fala
Authors: Alonso Bernardo , Camillo José Carlos
Published: June 2022

Neste artigo apresentamos de forma breve uma teoria searliana de interpretação dos atos de fala. Mostramos através do exemplo das metáforas que, conforme proposta por Searle, a interpretação de atos de fala consistiria em reconhecer a intenção do falante. Esse processo se daria por meio do uso de regras convencionais da linguagem tanto pelo falante quanto pelo ouvinte. Contudo, as metáforas são um exemplo de que essa proposta de interpretação não é suficiente para descrever o processo pelo qual os agentes interpretam atos de fala. Argumentamos que se deve acrescentar a esse processo a noção de regras estratégicas. Seguindo Peirce, duas regras estratégicas são oferecidas: o princípio da coerência e o princípio da economia. Parece também satisfatório acrescentar o princípio da não-contradição. Embora estudos empíricos não sejam definitivos sobre o tema da interpretação, em especial sobre metáforas, os resultados apontam para a aplicação de regras estratégicas na interpretação. Finalmente, é sugerido que se Searle está certo ao dizer que interpretação é o reconhecimento da intenção do falante, então a interpretação depende do uso de regras convencionais e do uso de regras estratégicas.
Wie ist es mit internationalen Partnern an Projekten zusammenzuarbeiten?
Authors: Tosic Luka
Published: June 2022

Wie ist es mit internationalen Partnern an Projekten zusammenzuarbeiten? Auf diese Frage konnte Luka Tosic, Bibliotheks- und Informationsmanagement Student an der Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, im Rahmen seines Studiums eine Antwort erhalten. Zusammen mit sieben Kommiliton*innen durfte er während des obligatorischen Studienprojektes zusammen mit einem internationalen Partner aus China arbeiten und im direkten Austausch ein Projekt von Grund auf aufbauen. Im folgenden Artikel schildert er den Ablauf des Projektes, die Kommunikation nach China und die Herausforderungen, die die internationale Kooperation mit sich brachte.
Porträt: Mein Weg zum Data Librarian am Hans-Bredow-Institut Hamburg
Authors: Hesse Cindy
Published: June 2022

Nach vielen Jahren im Berufsleben eine Weiterbildung zu machen, ist kein einfaches Unterfangen. Vor allem, wenn es sich um einen intensiven Kurs über mehrere Monate mit verschiedenen Inhalten handelt. Der Zertifikatskurs „Data Librarian“ der Technischen Hochschule Köln hat mich vor einige Herausforderungen gestellt. Wie es dazu kam und ob es sich am Ende gelohnt hat, erzähle ich in diesem Praxisbericht.
Ein Gap Year in Paris
Authors: Hoffmann Lisa
Published: June 2022

In diesem Artikel berichtet eine ehemalige Studentin des Studiengangs Bibliotheks- und Informationsmanagement der Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg von ihrem Stipendium in der Bibliothek der Maison Heinrich Heine in Paris. Sie erzählt von den Voraussetzungen und den Tätigkeiten im Stipendium sowie von der Erfahrung, in Paris zu leben und zu arbeiten.
Media Education as a Means of Sexting Prevention
Authors: Bielčiková Kristína , Hollá Katarína
Published: June 2022

Aim. The study aims to identify and compare the sending of own and somebody else’s intimate photos and videos and to point out the importance of media education as a meaningful way of preventing sexting.
Methods. The research tool was an online self-designed questionnaire. 250 respondents aged 15 to 19 participated in the research.
Results. The research has shown that sending their own photos and somebody else’s photos are equally frequent. Differences are only noticeable in average values. The findings offer an overview of sending sexually explicit photos and indicate decreased shyness, and a greater desire to attract attention through their own naked photos or videos. In the case of sending somebody else’s photos, it is a matter of ridiculing the victim without his/her consent.
Conclusions. Primarily, the importance of media education ought to be pointed out, as it provides information about the dangers of publishing such photos and videos, and develops critical thinking and media literacy in children, which is key for the safeguarding of online space. We see the importance and significance of the study especially in the prevention of sexting through media education, which could be the primary means of eliminating it.
Translation students’ peer feedback for learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Findings from a case study in Lithuania
Authors: Burkšaitienė Nijolė
Published: June 2022

Aim. The use of feedback (including peer-generated feedback) for learning has been widely investigated across many fields of study, however, no research into its use in Translation studies has been conducted yet. To fill in this gap, the present small-scale study was carried out at a university in Lithuania. It investigated undergraduate translation students’ feedback on their peers’ ESP oral performance by addressing the main research question: what areas are identified as those that need further work on?

Methods. The present research was conducted with the participation of 42 undergraduate students who were majors in Translation studies. To carry out the research, qualitative methodology was chosen. The data were drawn from the study participants’ feedback sheets and investigated using inductive content analysis.

Results.  The study resulted in the identification and detailed description of four major categories and ten subcategories that reflect the areas that call for further work on, including the study participants’ presentation content, the use of language, presentation delivery mode, and the use of slides.

Conclusion. The findings lead to the conclusion that peer feedback, as used in this study, can be viewed as a tool providing its receivers with an opportunity for learning as it supports and directs them toward further improvement.
How China and Chinese people are visually represented: The case of a series of Liberal Studies textbooks in Hong Kong
Authors: Wu Yuxi , Li Yulong
Published: June 2022

Aim. The aim of the research is to examine how Mainland China and Chinese people are represented in the visual materials of four sets of Liberal Studies (LS) textbooks in Hong Kong.

Methods. Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, viewing language as a social practice and van Dijk’s ideological coding categories are integrated to analyze discursive representations (e.g., the embedded hidden power) in the Hong Kong Today volumes published by four influential commercial publishers: Modern, Ming Pao, Marshall, and Aristo.

Results. The analysis reveals that China and mainland Chinese are negatively portrayed in visual images in four commercial LS textbooks, in which, the representations concerning mainland China and mainlanders are all found ideologically biased to highlight their negative characteristics and alienness.

Conclusions. Via an overview of Hong Kong’s history, economy, educational policies, and controversial political events, the reasons why China and its people are represented negatively in LS textbooks is explained.
Cross-Cultural Supervision Amidst A Generational Shift
Authors: Dymitrow Mirek
Published: June 2022

Aim. This paper sets out to draw on my experience as a Sweden-based academic supervisor who is also active in Poland to reflect on the issue of cross-cultural supervision amidst a presumed generational shift that goes on in Poland. Split between stories of a destructive hierarchy and non-transparency in Polish academia on the one hand, and of an emergent “West-minded” reorientation on the other, this paper looks into the cultural idiosyncrasies that have made supervision in Poland tricky for me, if not outright difficult.
Methods. This paper focuses on the perspectives of ten active PhD supervisors based in Poland. Using questionnaires and interviews the respondents were asked to reflect upon whether a generational shift is underway. This was done by comparing the ideals, attitudes, and behaviours of their past supervisors to those of their own. The results were then analysed through a set of challenges common in cross-cultural supervision and compared to the Swedish context.
Results. The findings point to a possible gap between self-assessment of the respondents as progressive and the regressive practices that seem to linger and impact the students.
Conclusion. A tentative conclusion is that the long-awaited generational shift in Poland has not yet fully taken root. This is further reflected in how markedly different the culture of supervision in Poland still is from the culture practised in Sweden.
Cognitive value. The paper points to the difficulty of breaking free from the routines inherited from one’s past-generation supervisors. It also emphasises the benefits of cross-cultural supervision, given that shifts within cultural practices are difficult to perceive and implement while operating within a single cultural ecosystem.
Language as a Tool Empowering Students to be Independent in Sociocultural Environment
Authors: Mereckaitė Ingrida
Published: June 2022

Thesis. The aim of the research is to confirm the role of language as a tool empowering school students to act independently in educational activities and sociocultural environment. This can be achieved by encouraging students to actively participate in educational activities, to learn a language and other academic subjects without any direct input.
Methods. The article is based on a scientific literature analysis and monitoring at one of the language integrated learning centres. It studies discussed hereof showcase the importance of language integration and a broader understanding of teaching students the basics of language skills.
Results. The analysis shows language skills are a result (synthesis) of abilities and competencies combined by different disciplines and programmes. It is directly related to the methods, measures, situations and environments employed in educational activities. The studies discussed hereof showcase the importance of language integration and a broader understanding of teaching students the basics of language skills.
Conclusion. Based on the research results it is possible to distinguish language as an independent learning tool. This is proven by such student skills as high motivation and inclusion; courage and self-confidence; ability to analyse, reason and summarise information; openness to learning; independence; curiosity; focus and concentration. The comparison of the data and the literature analysis allow concluding that this is one of the most resultative methods to develop the language skills of students in an integrated way.
On the stability of Lotka-Volterra model with a delay
Authors: Khusanov Jumanazar Kh. , Kaxxorov Azizbeck E.
Published: June 2022

The paper examines the stability problem of biological, economic and other processes modeled by the Lotka-Volterra equations with delay. The difference between studied equations and the known ones is that the adaptability functions and the coefficients of the relative change of the interacting subjects or objects are non-linear and take into account variable delay in the action of factors affecting the number of subjects or objects. Moreover, these functions admit the existence of equilibrium positions’ set that is finite in a bounded domain. The stability study of three types of equilibrium positions is carried out using direct analysis of perturbed equations and construction of Lyapunov functionals that satisfy conditions of well-known theorems. Corresponding sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability including global stability are derived, as well as instability and attraction conditions of these positions.
Análisis cualitativo y práctico de residuos químicos como indicador en la preparación y consumo de alimentos en el sur de América Central: aportes desde la arqueología experimental
Authors: Núñez-Cortés Yajaira
Published: June 2022

Experimentos controlados de enriquecimiento aportan a la interpretación del registro arqueológico en la medida en que amplían el conocimiento sobre las huellas químicas dejadas por sustancias específicas. En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de la experimentación practicada con alimentos reportados arqueológicamente en el sur de América Central para enriquecer cerámica moderna, a la cual se le aplican pruebas de fosfatos, carbonatos, potencial de hidrógeno (pH), carbohidratos, residuos proteicos y ácidos grasos. Los grupos experimentales incluyeron: 1) el enriquecimiento por vertido durante cuatro semanas con caldos de pescado, almejas, frijoles, yuca, pejibaye y chicha de maíz; y 2) enriquecimiento diferencial por hervido de pescado, almejas, yuca y frijoles, tueste de maíz y cacao, y fermentación de maíz. Los resultados muestran diferenciaciones entre las sustancias utilizadas y los tipos de experimentos, los cuales se verán posteriormente afectados por procesos posdepocionales.
Índice de Densidad del Estado en los territorios rurales de Costa Rica
Authors: Aguilar Maria C. , Blanco Edgar , Gómez Agustín , Villalobos Alonso
Published: June 2022

Se presenta la medición del Índice de Densidad del Estado en territorios rurales de Costa Rica, como una herramienta efectiva para determinar la presencia y efectividad del aparato estatal dentro del proceso del desarrollo rural territorial. La medición del índice evidencia que, el Estado posee mayor presencia y efectividad en los territorios más cercanos a San José, los cuales ostentan los mejores niveles de bienestar, al contrario de los territorios periféricos. Se considera que, comprender esta situación es clave para la ejecución de acciones efectivas para impulsar el desarrollo rural, cuando se pretende logar el cambio social o cultural.
Ruralidad y migración: cambio sociocultural en las comunidades de la subcuenca del río Jabonal, Esparza, Puntarenas
Authors: Madrigal Javier A.
Published: June 2022

El artículo pretende analizar los principales cambios socioculturales de algunos pequeños poblados del norte del cantón de Esparza, provincia de Puntarenas. En la actualidad, estas comunidades mantienen una serie de características asociadas a la ruralidad, en un contexto de crecimiento urbano de la Región Pacífico Central. Ante esto, se realiza un análisis antropológico a partir de la perspectiva de algunos de los pobladores mediante la investigación de acción participante. La información recolectada nos indica transformaciones en la demografía, el paisaje y las actividades productivas. Dentro de los aportes de la investigación se desarrolla una descripción de la conformación de estos poblados en la larga duración, desde su fundación a finales del siglo XIX. Además, se analiza la importancia de la organización comunal en la construcción de infraestructura, así como las características de la economía. Luego de analizar este contexto, se desarrolla la discusión sobre los cambios ocurridos en las últimas décadas, vinculados al concepto de nueva ruralidad.
Los primeros pasos del Presidente Juan Rafael Mora Porras
Authors: De la Cruz de Lemos Vladimir
Published: June 2022

Recibido: 13 de mayo de 2022.Aprobado: 02 de junio de 2022.

Discurso de incorporación en la Academia Morista Costarricense, como Académico de Número, pronunciado el martes 17 de mayo del 2022, en el Club Unión.
Applying ICD-11 criteria of Gaming Disorder to identify problematic video streaming in adolescents: Conceptualization of a new clinical phenomenon
Authors: Paschke Kerstin , Napp Ann-Kathrin , Thomasius Rainer
Published: June 2022

Background and aims

Internet video streaming (VS) has become a popular leisure activity among the majority of adolescents, especially under the COVID-19 pandemic. Research on binge watching patterns in adults suggests an addictive potential of VS. To date, no unified conceptualization on problematic VS and no standardized assessment tools for adolescents exist even though they might be especially vulnerable.

Methods

STREDIS-A is based on the ICD-11 criteria of gaming disorder. It was validated in a representative sample of 959 dyads of 10- to 17-year old adolescents with frequent VS and a respective parent using standardized questionnaires on Internet addiction, depressive and anxiety symptoms, insomnia, loneliness, and academic performance in an online survey. Item structure was investigated by factorial analyses. Cutoffs were estimated and latent profile analysis was performed.

Results

The two-factorial structure of STREDIS-A describes cognitive-behavioral symptoms and negative consequences of VS. Internal consistency and criterion validity were good to excellent. It could excellently discriminate between affected and non-affected adolescents.

Discussion and conclusions

The present study makes a significant contribution to the conceptualization of a new phenomenon. It provides the very first tool to assess streaming disorder in adolescents for clinical and research settings. Clinical validation is highly warranted.
ANALISIS DETERMINASI STRUKTUR MODAL PERUSAHAN SEKTOR CONSUMER GOOD INDUSTRY
Authors: Kamal Aqmari Zhafarina , Azmi Andzar Afdhalul , Widiawati Widiawati
Published: June 2022

Sumber pendanaan merupakan hal yang sangat krusial dalam perusahaan. Dalam proses membiayai aktiva dan meningkatkan modal bisnis perusahaan, stuktur modal menjadi salah satu kunci keputusan keuangan perusahaan. Keputusan penggunaan sumber dana ini dipertimbangkan demi kebaikan internal dan eksternal perusahaan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui  pengaruh profitabilitas dan likuiditas terhadap struktur modal perusahaan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif dengan pendekatan kuantitatif menggunakan data sekunder yang diperoleh dari laporan tahunan yang telah dipublikasikan oleh perusahaan. Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi berganda, uji korelasi, uji koefisien determinasi dan analisis uji hipotesis . Hasil penelitian menunjukkan secara parsial profitabilitas berpengaruh positif terhadap struktur modal. Sedangkan likuiditas secara parsial tidak berpengaruh terhadap struktur modal. Secara simultan, kedua variabel bebas dapat berkontribusi dan mampu mempengaruhi secara signifikan terhadap struktur modal. Implikasi dalam hasil penelitian ini perusahaan perlu memperhatikan kembali komposisi struktur modalnya dengan meningkatkan lagi tingkat profitabilitas dan likuiditas agar dapat mencerminkan kondisi perusahaan dalam keadaan baik dan mendapat tingkat kepercayaan lebih dari investor karena memiliki dana internal tinggi dan mampu membayar kewajiban jatu temponya sehingga total hutang semakin kecil.