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Mental toughness and empathy as match performance predictors of high-level female basketball players
Authors: Milošević Miloš , Zarić Ivan , Dopsaj Milivoj , Ristić Irena , Sheard Michael 
Published: March 2024

Abstract

Study aim: The aim of this study was to explore empathy and mental toughness as predictors of match performance of young basketball players.

Material and methods: The correlation design was used in order to meet the research goals. The research was conducted on a sample of 40 female basketball players, with average age of 16.15 ± 1.02 years, members of the four best teams of the National First Women’s Cadet League. Half of the players in the sample were also national team members. The independent variables empathy and mental toughness were assessed with the Interpersonal Reactivity Index and Sports Mental Toughness Questionnaire. The dependent variable match performance was assessed through match performance analysis based on indicators from official league statistics by calculating the performance index rating (PIR).

Results: The results of the hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that by adding empathy to the model of mental toughness, the percentage of PIR variance explained increased from 21% to 46%.

Conclusion: Adding empathy to the model of mental toughness increased its predictive value. The model of mental toughness and empathy, as predictors of match performance of young basketball players, was found to be very effective. The results are not unambiguous and indicate the need for further research in this area, as it could have a positive impact on the selection system in sport. Also, the research represents a step towards greater integration of sports and collective creativity studies.
When Language is Played: Looking into Linguistic Creativity through Language Play
Authors: Heidari-Shahreza Mohammad Ali 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This article opens a window on linguistic creativity through an in-depth discussion of language play. To this aim, language play is initially conceptualized from a socio-cognitive perspective. ‘Language play for fun’ and ‘language play for practice’ as two dominant approaches in the relevant literature are, then, touched upon. Afterward, the paper elucidates how language play, in its various manifestations, can inform and influence linguistic creativity. In this respect, a theoretical (linguistic) and a socio-pragmatic perspective are presented. In particular, the paper addresses the possibility of playing to ‘language’ outside the box (i.e., to go beyond the conventional systemic constraints of language). Highlighting the ubiquity of language play, it also considers Wittgenstein’s notion of ‘language games’ (or Sprachspiele). Furthermore, the performative power of playful creativity to make and ‘unmake’ language in society is elaborated on. The article contends that language play may offer valuable insights to extend the borders of linguistic creativity. This argument is further developed under the purview of ‘complexity theory,’ ‘soft computing,’ and ‘computational linguistic creativity.’ Finally, the paper advocates an ‘integrated science’ approach to advance play-based research on linguistic creativity.
Assessment of Hip Joint Function and Limb Load in Patients after Cementless Hip Arthroplasty During 14-day Rehabilitation
Authors: Krawczyk-Suszek Marlena , Martowska Blanka , Wrotny Adam , Płocki Jędrzej 
Published: March 2024

Abstract

Background
Arthoplasty is a surgical procedure consisting in replacing a natural joint altered by the disease process with an artificial joint. This surgery allows you to restore the lost function of the hip joint. Comprehensive rehabilitation plays an essential role after surgery.

Objectives
The aim of the study was to assess the impact of rehabilitation on patients on the 1st and 14th day of rehabilitation after cementless hip arthroplasty on the load on the operated limb and to assess the function of the hip joint.

Material and methods
The studies were performed on a group of 44 patients with post-surgery rehabilitation.The studies were performed twice: on the 1st and 14th day of rehabilitation. The standardized questionnaires was used: Harris Hip Score and WOMAC. The reaction of ground forces was assessed using the Alpha stabilometric platform.

Results
The average point value indicated on the Harris Scale significantly increased in the measurement on the 14th day of rehabilitation by 8.57 ± 6.56 points (p < 0.001). On the other hand, the WOMAC Scale showed a decrease in point values in the second measurement by 9.67 ± 6.76 points (p < 0.001). A significant increase in the average load on the operated lower limb by 3.68 ± 3.18% was indicated as measured on the 14th day of rehabilitation (p < 0.001). The difference between the average load of the right and left limbs in the measurement on the first day of rehabilitation was an average of 9.77%, while on the fourteenth day of rehabilitation the difference between the average load of the right and left limbs decreased to an average of 3.5%.

Conclusions
Postsurgery rehabilitation allows to obtain physiological load ranges of the lower limbs, striving for a 50% share in the load of each of the lower limbs. The effectiveness of the implemented rehabilitation is confirmed on the basis of the analysed limb load parameters and the analysis of patients’ subjective assessments made using standardized questionnaires.
Vaping in the Age of Pandemic – A Narrative Review
Authors: Znyk Małgorzata , Lewicka Małgorzata , Kaleta Dorota 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) are devices that heat a liquid to create an aerosol that is inhaled by the user. The liquid may contains nicotine, flavorings and other chemicals such as propylene glycol, glycerol or diacetyl. Since their entrance to the market in 2003, e-cigarette use has risen rapidly, especially among young people. Recent studies indicate that e-cigarettes are not harmless and safe alternatives to combustible conventional tobacco, especially with regard to their effects on cardiovascular and lung diseases.

Objective
This study aimed to explore scientific research on the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 infection rates/the severity of COVID-19 and vaping.

Methods
A bibliometric analysis of articles indexes in PubMed, Scopus and ClinicalKey, published in English from 2020 to 2022 was undertaken.

Results
Most of the research revealed the fact that because the COVID-19 virus affects the respiratory tract and has ability to increase angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) expression in the lungs, e-cigarette use may rise the risk of infection or severity of outcomes due to COVID-19.

Conclusion
E-cigarette use may have adverse effects and further research is needed to elucidate the impact of e-cigarette consumption on human health in he event of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The significant increase in e-cigarette use in the near future and the impact of COVID-19 may increase the burden of chronic disease.
Pneumonia in Geriatric Patients: Focus on Etiology, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, and Prevention
Authors: Tomys-Składowska Julia , Lamch Magdalena , Jabłońska Monika , Błasik Natalia , Janiszewska Marta , Nieciecka Adrianna , Husejko Jakub , Kędziora-Kornatowska Kornelia 
Published: March 2024

Abstract

Background
Pneumonia remains a frequent respiratory disease that occurs in people of all ages; however, its impact is particularly significant in geriatric population. It leads to severe complications and increased mortality rates. The clinical features in the elderly may be atypical, thus causing difficulties in the diagnostic process and possible treatment delays.

Aim of the study
The study was designed to provide an overview of pneumonia, focusing on differences in the clinical picture, diagnosis, and prevention in the elderly.

Material and Methods
The article is based on 51 articles published between 2008 and 2023, found in electronic databases Google Scholar and PubMed.

Results
Age-related changes in immune and respiratory systems such as impaired cough reflex, reduced lung function, or lower immune cell production lead to increased susceptibility to infections. Comorbidities, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, and heart diseases, increase the risk of pneumonia significantly. Radiographic examinations and laboratory tests are useful tools in differentiating pneumonia from other conditions. Vaccination is proven to perform a crucial role in pneumonia prevention.

Conclusions
This review synthesizes the existing knowledge of pneumonia in the elderly including epidemiology, risk factors, symptoms, and management. By enhancing the understanding of pneumonia in geriatric patients, healthcare professionals are able to improve diagnostic accuracy and tailor treatment strategies to reduce the burden of the disease.
Analysis of Small Traders' Preferences When Deciding to Owe Loans Using Behavioral Planning Theory
Authors: Sungkawaningrum Fatmawati , Sholihin Mahfud , Hanafi Syafiq Mahmadah , Hartono Sri , Irma Irma , Pelupes Fatmah Watty 
Published: March 2024

Objective: The aim of this research is to analyze the factors that influence small traders' decisions in borrowing money from loan sharks.

Method: This research uses Behavioral Planning Theory (TPB) as a quantitative analysis framework.

Results and Discussion: The results of data processing show that the financial behavior of small traders is influenced by factors such as ease of loans, disbursement without time constraints, social communication, payment flexibility, and other social dimensions. The research results provide insight into the complex dynamics of small traders' financial behavior and provide a basis for finding relevant and sustainable solutions in increasing fairer financial access at the community level.

Research Implications: This research investigates the financial behavior of small traders who interact with moneylenders in the context of communal finance. Amid intense market competition, small traders face financial differentiation, creating complexity in their financial behavior. Limited access to finance and the complex role of moneylenders makes it difficult for small traders to manage debt.

Originality/Value: This research can help design better policies to support the economic sustainability of small traders and overcome the financial challenges they face.
Enhancing Penang Homestay Experience Through Cross-Cultural Benchmarking from Japanese Homestay Hospitality
Authors: Abdullah Azrul , Mat Isa Norshamshina , Azmi Azila , Wahab Mohd Faisal Abdul , Tahir Mohd Subri , Ishak Muhammad Azmir 
Published: March 2024

Objective: This study embarks on a cross-cultural benchmarking investigation aimed at enriching and improvising the homestay experience in Penang, Malaysia.

Theoretical framework: Literature in this study was based on how Japanese hospitality or omotenashi has garnered global recognition for its exceptional service and hospitality guest-centric approach.

Method: The study employs qualitative methodology. It follows a case study approach, through interviews and observation as inductive method for data collection to understand the hospitality of Japanese homestays.

Results and conclusion: Overall, this study found that omotenashi goes beyond mere service. It encompasses the art of anticipating a guest's needs and desires, creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere.

Implications of the research: There is room for improvement in delivering a more personalised and immersive experience for guests to enhance service consistency and structured guest satisfaction efforts.

Originality/value: Implementing Japanese hospitality practices, such as cultural immersion, attention to detail, and customisation, can significantly elevate the quality of homestays to attract travellers seeking authentic and enriching experiences.
Using of Action Learning Approach on Self-Empowerment of the Elderly
Authors: Niyomdecha Annop , Noklang Sumate 
Published: March 2024

Purpose: This research aims to investigate the effects of using the Action Learning Approach on elderly self-empowerment and elderly satisfaction evaluation of the action learning approach on self-empowerment.

Theoretical Framework:This study employs the concepts and theories of self-empowerment and action learning to create the conceptual framework.

Methodology: The research was conducted through the One-Shot Case Study Design in the experimental method. Eight samples were a group of elderly from Udon Thani province, Thailand.

Findings: The findings indicated that after implementing the Action Learning approach, participants’ capacity for self-empowerment displayed notable transformations in four distinct dimensions, finding the real problem, critical thinking reflection, deciding on the right way selection, and maintaining effective practice.

Research Practical and Social Implication: The research also sheds light on satisfaction-related key points, including Creating new experiences, Promoting community learning, Leader activities that can create learning stimulation, Flow of activities step and Approach enjoyable.

Originality/Value: Creating new experiences, Promoting community learning, Leader activities that can create learning stimulation, Flow of activities step and Approach enjoyable.
Orbital Facility Location Problem for Satellite Constellation Servicing Depots
Authors: Shimane Yuri , Gollins Nicholas , Ho Koki 
Published: March 2024

This work proposes an adaptation of the facility location problem for the optimal placement of on-orbit servicing depots for satellite constellations in high-altitude orbit. The high-altitude regime, such as medium Earth orbit, is a unique dynamic environment where low-thrust propulsion systems can provide the necessary thrust to conduct plane-change maneuvers between the various orbital planes of the constellation. As such, on-orbit servicing architectures involving servicer spacecraft that conduct roundtrips between servicing depots and the client satellites of the constellation may be conceived. To this end, a new orbital facility location problem formulation is proposed based on binary linear programming, in which the costs of operating and allocating the facility(ies) to satellites are optimized in terms of the sum of the effective mass to low Earth orbit (EMLEO). The low-thrust transfers between the facilities and the clients are computed using a parallel implementation of a Lyapunov feedback controller. The total launch cost of the depot, along with its servicers, propellant, and payload, is taken into account as the cost to establish a given depot. The proposed approach is applied to designing an on-orbit servicing depot architecture for the Galileo and the GPS constellations.
Paleolithic Nguom Culture of Northern Vietnam
Authors: Kandyba A. V. , Nguyen Khac Su , Chekha A. M. , Nguyen Gia Doi 
Published: March 2024

Purpose. In North Vietnam, the Nguomian culture has been distinguished, which is characterized by the predominance of flake tools in the techno-typological complex. This industry dates back to the second half of the Upper Pleistocene, preceding the previously identified Sonvian and Hoabinhian. The purpose of this study is to determine the technical and typological characteristics of one of the key monuments of the Nguom industry – the Nguom Rockshelter. For this purpose, a technical and typological analysis of the collection of stone products obtained as a result of excavations in 1981–1982 was carried out.Results. In 2023, 4 589 artifacts of the Nguom Rockshelter were processed, of which 2 437 items were medium and small flakes and 1 284 fragments. The primary splitting of archaeological material is dominated by parallel cores (35 specimens), there are variants of unsystematic (12 specimens) and radial (8 specimens) cores, many core-like fragments (121 specimens). The tool set is represented by a large number of side-scrapers made of flakes and pebbles (22 specimens), retouched flakes with ventral undercut (43 specimens), choppers (25 specimens), adze-shaped objects (6 specimens), and fragmented axes (9 specimens), notched tools (5 copies). There are 25 punctures, 9 checks. Notched tools were mentioned earlier, but a group of artifacts (9 specimens) made of medium flakes should be separately distinguished. The number of single side scrapers is 10 pieces. Of interest is the category of rectangular scrapers with retouching on ¾ of the perimeter, numbering six objects. A series of oval scrapers (10 specimens) is close in shape. End and double scrapers have 52 items. The stone industry of the Nguom Rockshelter can be defined as a flake industry with medium and small tools.Conclusion. In the Late Paleolithic in southern China and Vietnam, both pebble and flake industries coexisted. As in Vietnam, flake complexes are sporadic in South China. These sites are characterized by a large number of tools made of small and medium flakes, simple parallel splitting without preliminary preparation, and the predominance of scrapers in the tool set. The manifestation of the Nguom culture can presumably be considered as a result of the mixing of the alien population in the territory of Southern China and Northern Vietnam with the local original culture in the late Pleistocene.
Pre-Turkic Burial in the Northern Altai: Cultural and Chronological Interpretation
Authors: Seregin N. N. , Tishkin A. A. , Matrenin S. S. , Parshikova T. S. 
Published: March 2024

Purpose. One of the problems in the archeology of Altai of the Great Migration period remains the chronology of funerary sites. The article concerns the materials of one of representative burials of the Choburak-I necropolis in the Northern Altai, demonstrating the wide possibilities of research in this direction.Methods and Results. A man of 25–30 years old was buried in the grave of barrow № 38. The key features of the object are a small mound with a crepe, the western orientation of the deceased person, as well as the burial of a horse «at the feet» of the man. The accompanying inventory included numerous weapons, tools, equipment for a man and a horse. The analysis of the finds testifies to the period of the construction of mound № 38 not earlier than the middle of the 4th century AD. The results of radiocarbon dating were obtained, which supplement this information and indicate the upper chronological boundary no later than the beginning of the 5th century AD.Conclusion. The correlation of the available data makes it possible to determine the chronology of mound no. 38 with-in the middle – second half of the 4th century AD. The recorded characteristics of the funeral rite indicate that this object belongs to the Dialyan tradition of ritual practice of the Bulan-Koby culture. The set of items found with the de-ceased man testifies to his high status in the nomadic society during his lifetime.
Financial contagion of German industrial enterprises during the 2021–2023 global energy crisis
Authors: Terekhov A. M. , Ovcharov A. O. 
Published: March 2024

The relevance of the study is justified by the importance of capturing and assessing the financial contagion transmission in crisis for the purposes of identifying risks in the financial market, as well as for the industrial sector management at the micro and macro levels. The article applies such an assessment to the largest industrial enterprises in Germany. The object of study choice is due to the fact that Germany, on the one hand, has a highly developed industrial sector and, on the other hand, was the most severely affected by the global energy crisis caused by political disagreements at the international level. The natural gas market has been chosen as a transmitter of contagion and German industrial companies as a receiver. A brief theoretical review considers the peculiarities of the functioning of the industrial sector of the German economy during the global energy crisis. The dependence of industrial production on natural gas imports has been revealed. The practical section captures financial contagion using the following tests: Forbes-Rigobon, distributional coasymmetry, distributional cocurtosis, and covolatility. A ranking of the industries contagion in Germany has been constructed. It has been found that most of the investigated companies are exposed to contagion from the gas market to a greater or lesser extent. Only three companies showed absolute resistance to contagion: Enbw Energie Baden Wuerttemberg AG, Stemmer Imaging AG, and OHB SE. The light industry, metals and mining were the most affected to the financial contagion, while the construction industry was the least affected.
Role of Promotion Content Hierarchy on the Increase of Students (An Analysis of AISAS on Accounting Students at IBI Kosgoro 1957 Jakarta)
Authors: Pranawukir Iswahyu , Elisabet Maria , Yuliarti  
Published: March 2024

Purpose: The number of students who are enrolled at private campuses such as IBI Kosgoro 1957 is one of the indications of success. The purpose is to measure the role of the digital promotion hierarchy at this IBI Kosgoro 1957 campus. The theories are digital marketing communications, hierarchy effects of human behavior and the AISAS model, supported by theory of consumer behavior and promotional content and narrative of marketing communication contents.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study uses a positivistic paradigm, with quantitative data processing by distributing questionnaires to 100 accounting students at IBI-K57. Data are processed using simple linear regression and average analysis for descriptive data processing.
Findings: The students have reached the Action level (4.05) in the behavioral hierarchical effect of digital promotional content by the IBI-K57 campus. It appears a weak significant effect between digital promotional content and students' interest in registering at IBI-K57 which is equal to 31.9%. The regression equation is Y = 1.981 + 0.458X (Digital Promotion Content).
Implications/Originality/Value: It is clear that creating digital promotional content that is more sensible and relevant to the trend is very important for the campus in order to attract more students of this generation to enroll in this institution
Influence of Company age and Profitability on the Financial Distress of IDX Listed Manufacturing Companies 2020-2022
Authors: Rahmadi Zara Tania , Nurdiana Diah , Wahyudi Muhammad Aria 
Published: March 2024

Purpose: This research was conducted to test whether the age of the company, along with its profitability, impacts its company's financial difficulties. For this reason, the research that was carried out later had the main objectives, namely to find out 1) whether profitability has an impact on financial distress, and 2) whether the age of the company also has an impact on the financial distress of manufacturing companies.
Design/Methodology/Approach: In order to be able to answer various possible answers, this study uses a quantitative methodology by analyzing financial statement data for manufacturing companies listed on the IDX during the 2020-2022 period. There were target companies, namely there were 8 companies that would be analyzed. All data would be analyzed using multiple linear regression tests to prove the effect of the two independent variables.
Findings: The results showed that 1) the profitability of manufacturing companies has a positive effect on the financial distress experienced by the company; and 2) The age of the company has a relationship or influence on financial distress.
Implications/Originality/Value: These results gave us an understanding to carry out management accounting analysis to find out how likely it would be faced in cases of financial difficulties that would be experienced by each company.