bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Changes in Hypertension Diagnostic Criteria Enhance Early Identification of at Risk College Students
Authors: Wilson Oliver W. A. , Kamara Kadiatu , Papalia Zack , Bopp Melissa , Bopp Christopher M. 
Published: January 2020

ABSTRACT
The revised (ACC/AHA) hypertension diagnostic criteria were intended to facilitate early identification and intervention among those with hypertension to improve patient health and lessen burden on the healthcare system. The purpose of this study was to examine fitness, anthropometric, and blood profile differences between college students who were or were not reclassified as hypertensive using the revised hypertension diagnostic criteria. Students completed an objective fitness assessment between September 2015 and April 2018. A total of 2724 students (71% men; 21 ± 1 yr) who were classified as prehypertensive under the old (JCN7) diagnostic criteria were included in the analyses. Men reclassified as having stage 1 hypertension using the ACC/AHA diagnostic criteria had a significantly higher body mass index (26.48 vs 25.66 kg·m−2, P < 0.001), and body fat percentage (17.30% vs 16.15%, P < 0.001), abdominal girth (33.58 vs 32.81 in. P < 0.001), and lower predicted aerobic fitness (36.20 vs 37.63 mL·kg−1⋅min−1, P < 0.001) compared with those who remained classified as prehypertensive (i.e., elevated). Women reclassified as having stage 1 hypertension using the ACC/AHA diagnostic criteria had a significantly higher body mass index (25.28 vs 24.46 kg·m−2, P = 0.015), and body fat percentage (28.63% vs 27.26%, P = 0.005), abdominal girth (30.10 vs 29.38 in. P = 0.011), and lower predicted aerobic fitness (34.07 vs 35.19 mL·kg−1⋅min−1, P = 0.031) compared with those who remained classified as prehypertensive. Blood profiles did not differ between those who were and those who were not reclassified as hypertensive for either sex. The odds of being reclassified varied from 3% to 7% based on the increase of a unit in each body composition variable and predicted aerobic fitness for both sexes. HDL was only predictive among men, and LDL was only predictive among women. The change in hypertension diagnostic criteria had the intended impact, as an increased number of college students with poorer fitness and less favorable anthropometric profiles were diagnosed as having hypertension.
The President's dilemma: The Portuguese semi-presidential system in times of crisis (2011–16)
Authors: Freire André , Santana-Pereira José 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
Economic crises and foreign interventions cause political actors to face a dilemma between responsiveness towards their electorate and responsibility vis-à-vis international institutions. In this article, we analyse how a seldom studied political actor in international affairs (the Head of State in a semi-presidential regime) dealt with this dilemma. We focus on Aníbal Cavaco Silva's (former president of the Portuguese Republic) discourse, and use of veto and constitutionality examination request powers in the 2011–16 mandate, and on his attitudes regarding the access to power of pro- and anti-austerity political forces in the aftermath of the 2015 legislative elections. We conclude that the Head of State was more concerned with international responsibility than with domestic responsibility and responsiveness, especially at the behavioural level, although he occasionally acted in ways that toned down this feature of his presidential mandate. We therefore suggest that in times of severe crisis the political conditions that usually partly explain variations in the use of the presidential powers in semi-presidential regimes interact with short-term factors related to the crisis that can reduce or even cancel out their effects.
Blood Wedding in (re)translation
Authors: González Bermúdez Patricia 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
This article is a comparative study of four different translations into English of Federico García Lorca's play Bodas de sangre (1933) carried out in the United Kingdom and Ireland throughout the 1990s. Since the publication of Antoine Berman's seminal article on 'retranslation', this theoretical concept has provided a fecund framework for descriptive translation studies, illuminating the variety of solutions translators provide when confronted with the same original text. This article furthers that body of scholarship while simultaneously providing new angles on Lorca's dramatic work. The comparative approach to several English translations of this classic work concentrates on two key scenes of the play and discusses the linguistic, pragmatic and theatrical adequacy of each translation.
Cinema and the political in Kerala: On Mukhamukham and Amma Ariyan
Authors: Joseph Jenson 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
This article contrasts two seminal Malayalam films from the 1980s to understand the fraught relations between the Left politics and cinema in Kerala. The first part of the article argues that Mukhamukham ('Face to face', 1984) is a film in which its auteur director Adoor Gopalakrishnan identifies the Left political discourse and the medium of cinema as two powerful-popular epistemic tools at disposal in the region, but ultimately elevating cinema's resources as superior in taking us closer to truth. In the second part, I look at John Abraham's iconic Amma Ariyan ('Report to mother', 1986), to argue that the film came to be accepted widely and undisputedly as a political film mainly due to its (symbolic) privileging of the energies of collective affect – inalienable to both the Left politics and cinema – over contemplation and endevours of distanced intellectual knowledge production.
Women vs modernity in Rajinikanth's Tamil-language films: The mother, the good woman, the modern virgin and the angry feminist
Authors: Sathiyaseelan Sinduja 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
This article presents criticism on Tamil-language films starring the iconic Indian actor Rajinikanth, focusing on the development of female characters as battlegrounds between tradition and modernity. Within the framework of Rajinikanth films as nationalistic projects in which the gendered portrayals of characters are tied up with notions of patriotism and duty, female characters in Rajinikanth films almost always conform to four stereotypes: the goddess mother, the traditional good woman, the modern virgin, and the angry modern feminist. Using close reading and a broad chronological survey of Rajinikanth's filmography, this article highlights the modern virgin stereotype as a mediating force between tradition and modernity, and argues that the predictable reconstitution of modern virgins into traditional good wives betrays growing fears of modernity and globalization within Tamil culture.
Организационно-правовое обеспечение экономической безопасности России: системно-структурный анализ
Authors: Goncharenko Ludmila , Sybachin Sergey , Zulfugarzade Teymur 
Published: January 2020

Целью исследования является определение основных недостатков современного правового обеспечения экономической безопасности в Российской Федерации и внесение предложения по их нивелированию; выработки инновационных организационно-правовых механизмов стратегического управления в сфере обеспечения экономической безопасности.
Достоверность проведенного научного исследования и обоснованность аргументации авторов обеспечиваются применением не только эмпирических, но и теоретических методов познания (описание, анализ, синтез, индукция, дедукция). Помимо общенаучных методов, в работе также использовались специально-юридические методы исследования: формально-юридический, сравнительно-правовой.
На основе анализа нормативных правовых актов, регулирующих основные начала экономбезопасности, проведено исследование таких понятий как экономическая безопасность и ее обеспечение, единство экономического пространства, экономический суверенитет России; проведен сравнительно-правовой анализ понятий национальной и государственной безопасности. Выявлены основные недостатки правового обеспечения в исследуемой сфере отношений и внесены предложения по совершенствованию правового обеспечения вышеперечисленных понятий, учитывающие современные тенденции глобализации и цифровизации современной социально-экономической системы.
В статье впервые вносятся предложения по комплексному правовому регулированию таких базовых дефиниций, как «единство экономического пространства» и «экономический суверенитет Российской Федерации». Внесены предложения по совершенствованию правового обеспечения противодействия неблагоприятным последствиям гибридных войн, кибертеррористических и иных угроз экономбезопасности нашей страны.
Основные положения и выводы статьи могут быть использованы в научной, научно-исследовательской и образовательной деятельности, прежде всего при рассмотрении вопросов правового обеспечения экономической безопасности как составной части безопасности национальной и планетарной.
Клевета: проблемные вопросы правоприменительной практики в Алтайском крае
Authors: Shcherbak Yulia 
Published: January 2020

Статья посвящена исследованию правоприменительной практики по ст. 128.1 Уголовного Кодекса Российской Федерации («Клевета»), а также анализу проблемных вопросов, возникающих при применении норм данной статьи. Материал исследования – судебные решения по ст. 128.1 УК РФ, вынесенные мировыми судьями Алтайского края за период с 2015 по 2019 гг. Анализ судебных решений и изучение сведений, полученных в Информационном центре ГУ МВД России по Алтайскому краю, показал следующее: при значительном росте зарегистрированных преступлений по ст. 128.1 УК РФ отмечается тенденция вынесения судом преимущественно оправдательных приговоров. В данной статье проанализированы возможные причины появления такой тенденции, а также предложены рекомендации, направленные на обеспечение максимальной результативности работы правоприменителей.
The Effect of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis on the Efficiency of Large U.S. Commercial Banks
Authors: Mehdian Seyed , Rezvanian Rasoul , Stoica Ovidiu 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
The 2008 financial crisis, originated by securitization of sub-prime mortgage loans, had a huge impact on U.S. financial institutions and markets. We hypothesize that due to this crisis, the commercial banking industry has changed their portfolio structures and risk-taking behavior. To shed light on the response of U.S. banks to the 2008 financial crisis, we use the non-parametric approach to measure and compare the overall efficiency of large U.S. banks pre- and post-2008 financial crisis. We then decompose the overall measure of efficiency into allocative, overall technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency measures to better understand the sources of banking inefficiencies. The results indicate that large U.S. banks indeed changed their portfolios structure, and the efficiency of large commercial banks in the United States declined substantially during the financial crisis. Although it has been recovering since then, it still has not reached to the pre-crisis efficiency level.
The Analysis of the Economic Impact of VAT on the Economic Growth in Southern Europe
Authors: Chiricu Cosmina-Ștefania 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
The Southern Region of Europe is economically well-developed with highly industrialized urban areas and with great agricultural potential. The empirical analysis is based on an econometric assessment that measures the impact of the VAT on the rate of economic growth for years between 1996 and 2017. The empirical evidence highlighted a significant positive impact of VAT on economic growth, but a poor and ineffective use of the tax revenues during the period under review. Moreover, evidence revealed relatively high rates of VAT in the countries analyzed, with negative impact on the aggregate consumption and a diminishing effect of the consumer’s income.
Evaluating the performance of alternative blended learning designs using DEA
Authors: Smirlis Yiannis , Ioakimidis Marilou 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
The extensive demand for blended learning programs imposes the problem of selecting the most appropriate instructional design from amongst a variety of alternatives that may be feasible for a particular program. The decision-making process should consider a number of qualitative factors such as the satisfaction of learning needs, educational efficiency, ease of implementation and total financial cost. In this paper, we propose that Bates’ (1995) e-learning instructional design model ACTIONS, which describes seven qualitative dimensions pertinent to selecting a design, can be used in conjunction with Data Envelopment Analysis to provide a distinct decision-making framework to aid administrators in determining which blended learning programs are the most effective. The first stage in the analysis is to explain which ACTIONS dimensions can be regarded as inputs and which can be treated as outputs for the sake of the decision process, with all seven dimensions being measurable by ordinal scores assessing the expected performance of alternative designs. In the second stage of analysis, we use Data Envelopment Analysis with ordinal data to obtain an overall expected performance index that is able to discriminate the designs most efficient and most suitable for implementation. The methodology is illustrated by an example. Discussion and Conclusions follow.
From the Handicap Principle to Brand Strategy – Are Gender Equality Practices And CSR Related?
Authors: Rozental Carmit Moshe 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
There is increasing interest in determining the impact that employment of women in management positions may have on corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Various authors suggest that gender equality practices should be factored into the broader framework of CSR. Public policy could adopt an ethic that strengthens the moral commitment to social involvement of men and women alike, and expresses public responsibility for women’s experiences in both the public and private spheres. Following this logic, the research question for the present article is: What marketing strategy factors can be utilized by women to influence their attainment of senior managerial positions?
This article deals with the qualitative stage of a mixed method study that will answer the research question. The aim of the qualitative research design is to examine attitudes toward motivational factors and the environment that affect the strategic marketing of women to management positions. The research tool is a semi-structured in-depth interview, followed by a content analysis of data from transcripts. The research population includes ten women of different ages presently employed in managerial positions in Israel’s Ministry of Education. Future research directions and managerial implications are derived from this qualitative study.
Analisis tahap kebimbangan pra-pertandingan atlet lelaki bawah lapan belas tahun pedalaman Sabah
Authors: Nandu Joseph , Noordin Hasnol 
Published: January 2020

Faktor psikologi adalah merupakan antara faktor penyumbang yang mempengaruhi pencapaian seseorang atlet dalam acara sukan. Kajian berbentuk ex post facto bertujuan untuk melihat perbandingan kebimbangan pra-pertandingan berdasarkan acara balapan dan acara padang ke atas enam puluh empat orang atlet lelaki bawah lapan belas tahun Pedalaman Sabah. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam kajian ini adalah The Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2). Dapatan kajian adalah signifikan (t=2.088, df=62, p<.05) iaitu terdapat perbezaan antara atlet kedua-dua acara balapan dan padang dari segi kebimbangan pra-pertandingan. Dapatan bagi subskala kebimbangan kognitif dan somatik juga adalah signifikan iaitu(t=2.140, df=62, p<.05), (t=2.623, df=62, p<.05) sementara dapatan bagi subskala keyakinan diri pula adalah tidak signifikan (t=-.413, df=62, p>.05).
Sapere aude. About the contribution of elderly people to cultural life
Authors: Meynen Daniel 
Published: January 2020

Nicolaus Copernicus is shown as an ideal of senior students. He represents all the intellectual qualities that we connect with the spiritual movement of the Enlightenment. This movement has led to the unfolding of the sciences with all its good and bad consequences, to the appearance of natural rights and religious tolerance. The modern concepts of education, civil rights and the development of a critical general public are not conceivable without the ideas of the Enlightenment. But the idea of Enlightenment has shown more and more clearly two different faces during its development: One is showing the enlightenment of human beings concerning the environment they are part of and the other is showing the enlightenment about themselves. Both will be comment on. Without doubt we are in need of a new Enlightenment. It should teach us to trust our own spiritual capabilities, to look for a critical exchange with other minded people and other cultures, to create communities of free thinking people and to create protected public spaces for critical thinking
In searching for science understanding. Applying the sociology of a science based approach
Authors: Jedlikowska Dorota 
Published: January 2020

The paper discusses the chosen ongoing perspectives related to science understanding based problems. Science is viewed, following Robert Merton, as a functioning institution. Social context plays a significant role in defining the possibilities of developing science. The question arises how a functioning institution can be effectively analyzed and which perspectives can be implemented. Hence this paper’s goal is to reveal some ways of exploring science understanding. Consequently the paper touches the scientific discourses upon science discussing its academic functional ethos and on the other hand tension between bureaucratization and openness in science. More broadly how far science is democratized in an academic interaction.
The proposition of examining the problem of the quality of science as an institution is to grasp two perspectives: first, the formal perspective, related to the legal field and its rationality and second, followed by Adele Clarke known as “situatedness”. The idea of joining formalization with situatedness can be regarded as an embodiment within John Meyer and Brian Rowan’s concept of an institutionalized organization. Hence science understanding is defined as a complex functioning institution escaping from a modern version of science into many postmodern ad-hoc made sciences.
The paper’s intention is to provide problems and proposition of solving them through applying an integrating perspective
THE INTERDEPENDANCE BETWEEN ATTRIBUTIONS AND SECOND LANGUAGE ATTAINMENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Authors: Gosiewska-Turek Bogusława 
Published: January 2020

Affective factors are undoubtedly considered to be vital in second language acquisition. Among these factors attribution theory is of primary significance, as it affects learners’ final achievement. It indicates that people attribute various causes in their lives to their success and failure.
With the employment of attribution theory, this study examines Polish secondary school adolescent students’ attributions for success and failure in second language learning. The main purpose of the study is to investigate, whether Polish secondary school students’ attributions have an impact on their achievements in second language acquisition. In order to conduct the study, the researcher administered attribution questionnaires to the students and an achievement sheet to the teacher to fill in with students’ semester grades in English. Then the data obtained from the questionnaires and the achievement sheet were correlated. The results show that successful students are more likely to attribute their success to internal facets such as ability and effort and unsuccessful learners attribute their lack of success to external factors, among which task difficulty or luck could be enumerated.
Subjective-personal readiness of correctional teachers to education of ASD children
Authors: Ostrovska Kateryna 
Published: January 2020

ASD teachers require skills that go beyond the realm of most educators including professional competences and high moral qualities.
In the work theoretical approaches and experimental research on the problem of subjective personality readiness of correctional teachers in the education of ASD children are carried out. The psychological investigation has been conducted including measurement of psychological indices of 40 teachers of ASD children from the boarding school "Trust" and 40 teachers from mainstream schools of Lviv city aged from 28 to 59 years. The following methods are used: "Questionnaire for the measurement of tolerance" (Magun, Zhamkochyan, Magura, 2000); "Shein’s Career Anchors" method aimed at studying the career orientations of the teachers (Shein, 2010); “Diagnostics of empathy level” (Viktor Boiko, 2001); method of study “Motivation professional activities” by Catelin Zamfir in a modification of Artur Rean (Bordovskaya, & Rean, 2001).
Based on the provided studies a program for development of subject-personality readiness of the correctional teacher to work with ASD children is proposed. The program consists of the following components: motivational component (professional competence, self-development, self-determination, self-control); cognitive component (intellectual personality autonomy, self-identification, stability, challenge, integration of lifestyles); emotionally-volitional component (empathy, positive attitude toward a child, intellectual analysis of emotions, self-regulation).
Empowerment and its implementation in the process of counteracting the phenomenon of youth and adult social exclusion – report on participation in an international project under the 2014-2016 Erasmus + Strategic Partnership project
Authors: Jarczyńska Jolanta , Walczak Bartłomiej 
Published: January 2020

The aim of the article is to describe the empowerment process and its implementation in social work in the context of counteracting social exclusion in youth and adults based on the example of the project carried out in the years 2014-2016, titled: “Development of the empowerment of educators and beneficiaries in the field of youth at risk and social exclusion”, co-financed from European Union funds within the Erasmus + programme, Action 2: Strategic partnership of professional teaching and training, Grant No. 2014-1-FR01-KA2026-008728. The English language concept category of empowerment, which does not have a satisfactory equivalent term in the Polish language, was operationalised in this article. The essence of empowerment in the context of social work was described in the article, pointing to its significance mainly in the scope of counteracting the process of youth and adult social exclusion. Furthermore, the main assumptions of the implemented international project were set out in the ambit of the development of the empowerment of educators as well as of beneficiaries working with persons at risk of social exclusion, and the relationship and reflections of one of the project participants were also shown. An attempt was made in the article on the basis of the experiences gathered within the performance of the international research project to assess the course of the empowerment process and its usefulness in searching for solutions for educational practices in the domain of the social exclusion phenomenon.