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Mathematical Model of Management of Interactive Services in Information Systems
Authors: Muminov Bahodir 
Published: December 2024

In modern society, information technologies are developing rapidly, which requires new interactive services in various fields, in particular, information systems. Development of mathematical models is important for effective management of such services. In this article, we study the processes of developing mathematical models of interactive service management in information systems and their implementation. Interactive services are services that allow interaction with users. Thanks to these services, users receive information faster, which speeds up their decision-making process. Therefore, it is important to manage services more efficiently and quickly through mathematical models in this area. The article also considers the main difficulties and problems related to the management of interactive services in information systems, the role and importance of mathematical models in solving these problems. Our goal is to offer new approaches and methods for more effective management of interactive services in information systems.
THE ADMISSIBILITY OF CRIMINAL EVIDENCE OF BATTERED WOMAN SYNDROME IN MALAYSIA UNDER THE PENAL CODE AND EVIDENCE ACT 1950
Authors: Mohd Safri Mohammed Na’aim  , Ramalinggam Rajamanickam  , Rohaida Nordin  
Published: December 2024

Battered woman syndrome (BWS) is a syndrome that presents after long-term abuse of domestic violence’s case. The evidence is presented in court to explain why some women remain in abusive relationships. In Malaysia, the evidence on BWS is not a defence by itself, but rather given to support any relevant defence such as provocation under Exception 1 to s. 300 of the Penal Code (Act 574) and private defence under ss. 96 to 106 of the Penal Code. The case of Pheh Boon Kheang v. Peh Boon Wang [2007] 2 MLJ 785 shows that evidence related to BWS can be submitted through expert witness under s. 45 of the Evidence Act 1950 (Act 56). The principle of it was affirmed in Nisalma binti Saat v. Public Prosecutor [2018] MLJU 880 where the High Court accepted expert evidence proffered by a psychiatrist which resembled BWS in support of private defence. This research employed doctrinal research consisting of legal analysis of the Penal Code, the Evidence Act 1950, case law, and other scholarly writings in this area. The research found that although BWS evidence has been accepted in court, it is not free from criticism thus the admissibility of it may be challenged. The research therefore aims to analyse the relevancy of BWS and its evidential weight to be admitted by the criminal court.
КОМУНІКАЦІЇ В ПРОЦЕСІ УПРАВЛІННЯ СОЦІАЛЬНО-ВІДПОВІДАЛЬНОЮ ДІЯЛЬНІСТЮ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА
Authors: БАГАН Надія , СОБЧИШИН Віталій , ТРОЯН Артур , ОЖГИБІСОВ Роман 
Published: December 2024

У статті розглянуто роль комунікацій в процесі управління соціально-відповідальною діяльністю підприємства. Авторами досліджені дві головні складові соціальної відповідальності підприємства: внутрішня та зовнішня та доведено, що обидві складові гармонійно доповнюють одна одну. Внутрішня відповідальність сприяє формуванню міцної та лояльної команди, орієнтованої на досягнення результатів і готової підтримувати соціальні ініціативи. Зовнішня відповідальність підвищує репутацію підприємства, допомагає залучати нових клієнтів і партнерів, а також сприяє налагодженню стійких відносин із громадськістю. Виділено аспекти, на яких базується концепція соціальної відповідальності підприємства серед яких значний вплив має комунікація. Через прозору комунікацію компанія не тільки інформує, а й демонструє свою відданість принципам соціальної відповідальності, що підвищує довіру з боку клієнтів, партнерів та громади. Такий підхід сприяє формуванню позитивної репутації, залученню нових клієнтів та зміцненню відносин із наявними. Доведено, що комунікативна задача є однією з ключових у контексті соціальної відповідальності бізнесу, оскільки ефективні комунікації сприяють налагодженню відкритих і прозорих відносин між компанією та зацікавленими сторонами. Обґрунтовано, що важливим аспектом комунікаційної задачі є врахування інтересів різних стейкголдерів при прийнятті управлінських рішень, що допомагає уникнути конфліктів і забезпечити гармонійний розвиток як бізнесу, так і громади, в якій він функціонує. Ефективні комунікаційні стратегії дозволяють підприємству доносити до громадськості інформацію про свої соціальні ініціативи, екологічні проєкти, етичні стандарти та внесок у розвиток суспільства. Авторами зазначено, що комунікація стає важливим інструментом формування бренду, що підтримує цінності соціальної відповідальності та сприяє довготривалим відносинам між підприємством і суспільством.
Managing the University’s Educational Process Based on Predicting Students’ Academic Performance
Authors: Alikina E. V. , Maltsev D. V. 
Published: December 2024

The authors of the article present a comprehensive analysis of the accounting of students’ academic performance in the management of the educational process of the university. The information about students that affects their academic performance and satisfaction with the educational organization is analyzed and classified. The focus of the study is on the application of predictive models in the management of the educational process in order to adapt the content of disciplines to the current contingent of students. The study used data only on first-year students (2023/24 academic year) of bachelor’s and specialist’s degree levels (n=1549). The information is depersonalized and contains the following data: demographic (age, gender, citizenship), social (socio-cultural environment, place of residence, place of residence during study), academic (previous education, results of entrance tests, current academic performance, faculty, qualification level), economic (scholarship, type of competition – budget/contract). Methods of mathematical statistics were used to analyze the data: determining the type of data distribution using the Shapiro-Wilk test, establishing the presence of multicollinearity in the construction of multiple regression by the Pearson criterion, establishing correlation dependencies by Spearman’s rank correlation method. Machine learning methods are implemented in the Python programming language (v. 3.8) using the freely distributed Keras library. The main results. The classification of factors affecting the academic performance and satisfaction of students is presented. Using the methods of mathematical statistics, the importance of each factor for predicting academic performance has been established. An educational process management model based on Agile Learning Design has been developed and presented, which allows adapting a specific discipline to the current contingent of students.
Funding for China’s Top Universities: Does Size Matter?
Authors: Donetskaya S. S. , Bin Liang 
Published: December 2024

Over the past thirty years, thanks to government initiatives for the “construction” of world-class universities, a cohort of elite (leading) universities has been created in China, covering about 5 % of universities, which have tangible advantages over other universities in student recruitment, teaching, research, funding, and support from local authorities. Despite the similar possibilities gained by universities when they transition to the status of elite institutions, each of them has a different budget structure and distinct operational results, which are primarily associated with the positions of universities in international rankings. Therefore, the aim of the article is to show whether increased investment in development really allows Chinese universities to be successful in the ranking race. The article describes the sources of funding for Chinese universities, shows the funding structure of some leading institutions, and presents a model of funding for state universities. Special attention is paid to factors affecting the level of funding for Chinese universities, such as belonging to the elite group of universities, geographical location, and the range of educational programs implemented. Based on a sample of 29 leading universities, it is shown that the diversity of funding sources is an indicator of success: as a rule, the best universities have a higher share of income from entrepreneurial activities. At the same time, the volume of the university budget only 50 % determines advancement in rankings. The second reason for success is the “symbolic capital” obtained by universities from participation in the 211 / 985 / “Double First Class” projects, which allows them to achieve significant competitive advantages. Sources of information for analysis included: data from the Ministry of Education of China, web-sites of leading Chinese universities, publications available in the open access network of the Chinese internet, as well as scientific articles published in Russian and leading world publications.
Unravelling the Tangle of Bureaucracy at Russian Universities: Administrative Profiles
Authors: Akuneeva T. A. , Platonova D. P. 
Published: December 2024

Drawing on the analysis of staff restructuring in universities around the world, the article stresses the growing share of non-academic staff, in particular highly qualified middle and senior administrative staff. The purpose of the article is to analyze how a combination of different categories of administrative staff is represented in universities according to their functions. Based on the cluster analysis of the Monitoring of education markets and organizations (N = 92), three groups of universities were identified according to administrative profiles: enterprising, educational and infrastructural. The first cluster is characterized by a high proportion of administrative staff engaged in general management, research, financial issues and information and communication technologies. The second cluster has a high proportion of staff engaged in providing educational activities. The third cluster is characterized by a high proportion of personnel engaged in the maintenance and operation of infrastructure and buildings. Universities with an infrastructural administrative profile are characterized by the presence of a larger area of educational and laboratory facilities per student, however, universities in the sample do not differ in terms of scientific, educational and financial activities.
Modifiable risk factors predict injuries in firefighters during	training academies
Authors: Butler Robert J. , Contreras Michael , Burton Lee C. , Plisky Phillip J. , Goode Adam , Kiesel Kyle 
Published: December 2024

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether measures of physiologic function and fundamental movement are predictive of injury in firefighters during a training academy. PARTICIPANTS: 108 firefighter trainees enrolled in the training academy. METHODS: Baseline measures of physical performance and fundamental movement patterns were obtained in firefighters entering a training academy to determine predictors of injury. The physical performance measures were standardized tests of individual maximum performance on a set of four different total body tests and one firefighter specific performance test, the tower test. Measurements of fundamental movement patterns consisted of the seven tests of the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) along with the composite score.Performance on each of the individual tests was examinedto determine if any of the variables were predictive of injury. RESULTS: ROC curve analysis established that a FMS cut score of ⩽ 14 was able to discriminate between those at a greater risk for injury. In addition, the deep squat and push up component of the FMS were statistically significant predictors of injury status along with the sit and reach test. CONCLUSIONS: Injury in firefighters during academy can be predicted by baseline measures of musculoskeletal movement and physiology.
Measuring glare induced visual fatigue by fixation disparity variation
Authors: Glimne, S. , Seimyr G. Öqvist , Ygge J. , Nylén P. , Brautaset R.L. 
Published: December 2024

OBJECTIVE: To introduce fixation disparity variance as an objective measure of visual discomfort. A higher variance in fixation disparity is indicative of more visual fatigue. This observation is based on the results from a study where we investigated how fixation disparity was affected by glare on a VDU. Participants. In total 16 subjects with normal vision participated in this study. METHOD: In a balanced repeated-measurement experiment, all subjects performed equal near-vision tasks. In addition to the condition of no glare three controlled conditions of glare were used: direct light, indirect light, and desk luminary. After each condition, the fixation disparity was measured 15 times using a computerized fixation disparity test. RESULTS: The results showed that the average (mean) disparity was found to increase towards esophoric (crossed) with the adversity of the lighting conditions, but the differences were not significant. However, when analyzing the variation (standard deviation) within the 15 measurements and comparing these between conditions, we found that the direct light condition resulted in significantly higher variation compared to lighting condition of no glare and desk luminary lighting. CONCLUSION: Based on these findings, we argue that fixation disparity variance may be a useful objective measure of visual fatigue.
Exploring the impact of resilience, self-efficacy, optimism and organizational resources on work engagement
Authors: Mache Stefanie , Vitzthum Karin , Wanke Eileen , Groneberg  , Klapp Burghard F. , Danzer Gerhard 
Published: December 2024

BACKGROUND: The German health care system has undergone radical changes in the last decades. These days health care professionals have to face economic demands, high performance pressure as well as high expectations from patients. To ensure high quality medicine and care, highly intrinsic motivated and work engaged health care professionals are strongly needed. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine relations between personal and organizational resources as essential predictors for work engagement of German health care professionals. METHODS: This investigation has a cross-sectional questionnaire study design. Participants were a sample of hospital doctors. Personal strengths, working conditions and work engagement were measured by using the SWOPE-K9, COPE Brief Questionnaire, Perceived Stress Questionnaire, COPSOQ and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. RESULTS: Significant relations between physicians' personal strengths (e.g. resilience, optimism) and work engagement were evaluated. Work related factors showed to have a significant influence on work engagement. Differences in work engagement were also found with regard to socio-demographic variables. CONCLUSION: Results demonstrated important relationships between personal and organizational resources and work engagement. Health care management needs to use this information to maintain or develop work engaging job conditions in hospitals as one key factor to ensure quality health care service.
Working environmental conditions as experienced by women working	despite pain
Authors: Bodil J. Landstad  , Jan Ekholm  , Lisbet Broman  , Kristina Sch\"uldt  
Published: December 2024

{\it Objective:} This study looked at female hospital cleaners and home help personnel who continued working despite problems or pain in their musculoskeletal system and where there was a risk of increase in sickness absence. The aim was to determine whether supportive intervention for these personnel at the workplace had an effect on the way that they experienced the physical and psychosocial aspects of their working environments. {\it Methods:} The design was prospective with non-rando-mised intervention and reference groups. A selection of 55 questions about physical and psychosocial working environment from a national survey were used. Comparisons were made between intervention and reference groups and with data on a selection of the Swedish population of people in these professions. {\it Results:} The results showed that in the hospital cleaners' intervention group the introduction of new cleaning materials and new cleaning methods seemed to contribute to a reduction in workload during the intervention period, which in turn gave them a better chance of taking rest breaks during working time. In the home helps' intervention group the results showed that the group had had a reduction both in workload and in more responsible tasks, and at the same time the psychosomatic stress reactions reduced after the intervention. {\it Conclusions:} The results indicate that effects on the working environmental conditions as experienced could be obtained by a general multi-component support program at the workplace, but the number of variables influenced by the program was very small. The relatively limited effects may be explained by the fact that the impact of a support program depends on how well the remedial measures fulfil the need for such measures either at the workplace, in a work group or among the individual people at the workplace. This emphasises the importance of designing effective analysis tools for judging what remedial measures are needed before the measures themselves are tried out.
Educating back-injured workers: What should we be teaching?
Authors: Rowland G. Hazard  , Sheila Reid  , Antonia A. Clark  
Published: December 2024

{\it Objective:} The purpose of this study was to identify what information people with acute and chronic back pain, health care practitioners, employers and case managers felt should be included in an educational brochure for recently back-injured workers. {\it Study design:} Four focus groups were convened, each comprising several representatives from one of the four constituencies. Participants rated 32 information items regarding their inclusion in an educational brochure. Ratings were tabulated for ranking and for group comparisons. {\it Results:} While consensus was strong for most information items, there were apparent differences between the groups for several items relating to work resumption, medical attention, and legal or compensation consultation. {\it Conclusions:} Perceived educational needs of back-injured workers may differ from those of their health care practitioners and from their employers or insurers. Future efforts to prevent back disability through education should include evaluation of the informational needs of injured workers.
The sense-of-coherence and the capability of performing daily	occupations in persons with chronic pain
Authors: Marie-Louise Schult  , Ingrid S\"oderback  , Karen Jacobs  
Published: December 2024

{\it Objectives:} It may be helpful for occupational therapists who promote enabling occupations among persons with chronic pain, to understand the relationship between the persons feelings of meaningfulness, comprehensibility and manageability in life and their capability to perform daily occupations. {\it Aim:} The aim of this study was to describe and investigate how these concepts of person and occupational performance of 27 daily occupations in terms of ``effort'', ``inconvenience'', ``avoidance'', ``give up'', ``frequency'' and ``satisfaction'' were related to each other. {\it Design:} A prospective correlative study was conducted. {\it Method:} A consecutive series of eighty-four patients with chronic pain completed a structured interview and responded to the self-assessment instruments Sense-of-Coherence Scale (SOC-13) and Capability of Performing Daily Occupations (CPDO). {\it Results:} Weak but significant correlation ( $p < 0.05$ ) were found between the SOC-13 sub-scale ``manageability'' and the specific occupations ``physical exercise / training'' ( $r = - 0.24$ ), ``climb stairs'' ( $r = - 0.27$ ) ``social activity'' ( $r= - 0.25$ ) and ``wash the laundry'' ( $r = - 0.30$ ), as well as between the SOC-13 sub-scale ``meaningfulness'' and the CPDO occupations ``grocery shopping'' ( $r = -0.22$ ), ``performing meals'' ( $r = - 0.24$ ), and ``wash the laundry'' ( $r = - 0.31$ ) and the CPDO question ``frequency of performing occupations'' $r = -0.22$ ). The participants' mean value (mean $=$ 58) of SOC-13 was below the other populations represented in a literature review. The mean values for CPDO (3.4--4.3) (optimal score is zero) showed that the participants perceived themselves having activity limitations concerning performance of daily occupations, and the performance area of work productive activities were experienced as more disabling. The degree to which the participants perceived themselves having a strong sense of coherence or being disabled by pain varied greatly both for the results of SOC-13 ( range 32--90 points) and CPDO (range 1.1--7.8 points). {\it Conclusion:} The expected significant relationship between a person's sense of coherence and the performance of daily occupations was partly verified with weak significant correlations. In clinical practice the assessment instruments are suggested to be of value in rehabilitation clinics for occupational therapists who work with people with chronic pain.
The power of outcomes: FOTO Industrial Outcomes Tool -- Initial	assessment
Authors: D.L. Hart  
Published: December 2024

{\it Objective.} To demonstrate how outcomes assessment can assist in describing clients receiving rehabilitation in occupational health rehabilitation clinics and to describe the preliminary assessment of internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the FOTO Industrial Outcomes Tool. {\it Methods.} 266 adults referred for acute work rehabilitation (AWR), work conditioning/hardening (WC/WH) or a Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) comprised the data set. Clients were treated between July 1998 and January 1999 in 15 clinics from 6 states by 46 clinicians participating in the Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes (FOTO) national rehabilitation database beta test. For AWR and WC/WH, clients completed a health status questionnaire on intake and discharge, and health status was assessed prior to the FCE. Comprehensive demographic data were collected describing the clinics, clinicians, clients and work status collected 2 weeks following discharge. {\it Results.} Internal consistency reliability coefficients for the health status scores ranged from 0.57 to 0.89. Construct validity was supported. {\it Conclusion.} Results demonstrate the power of collecting outcomes from a variety of constructs for clients receiving industrial rehabilitation services. Initial reliability and construct validity findings were adequate and support continuing data analyses.
Psychophysical rating of library employees' work tasks
Authors: Lange Tanya M. de , Allen Shelley M. , Maas Frikkie 
Published: December 2024

{\it Objective:} This exploratory research aimed to identify the perceived physical demands of library assistants' and attendants' work tasks. {\it Study design:} A fixed format survey was completed by 36 library assistants and attendants from suburban and university libraries. Surveys were distributed and completed within the participants' workplaces. Descriptive statistics and Pearson's r correlations were calculated using the SPSS data analysis program. {\it Results:} Data analysis revealed a hierarchical distribution of library assistants' and attendants' work tasks according to perceived physical demands. Significant Pearson's r correlations between personal factors and perceived exertion during some work tasks, were also identified. {\it Conclusions:} The hierarchical distribution of tasks revealed by this research can be used as a guide by therapists in designing graded suitable duties programs for library assistants and attendants following work-related injuries. Further task analysis is required to identify the critical physical requirements of those tasks receiving higher ratings of perceived exertion.