bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Process Mechanisms in Behavioral Versus Nondirective Guided Self-help for Parents of Children with Externalizing Behavior
Authors: Treier Anne-Katrin , Hautmann Christopher , Dose Christina , Nordmann Lisa , Katzmann Josepha , Pinior Julia , Scholz Kristin Katharina , Döpfner Manfred 
Published: September 2022

AbstractThe study examined potential mediating effects of therapist behaviors in the per-protocol sample (n = 108) of a randomized controlled trial comparing a behavioral and a nondirective guided self-help intervention for parents of children with externalizing disorders (4–11 years). Additionally, from an exploratory perspective, we analyzed a sequential model with parental adherence as second mediator following therapist behavior. Outcomes were child symptom severity of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder rated by blinded clinicians, and parent-rated child functional impairment. We found a significant indirect effect on the reduction of ADHD and functional impairment through emotion- and relationship-focused therapist behavior in the nondirective intervention. Additionally, we found limited support for an extended sequential mediation effect through therapist behavior and parental adherence in the models for these outcomes. The study proposes potential mediating mechanisms unique to the nondirective intervention and complements previous findings on mediator processes in favor of the behavioral group. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01350986.
How Live Streaming Changes Shopping Decisions in E-commerce: A Study of Live Streaming Commerce
Authors: Wang Ye , Lu Zhicong , Cao Peng , Chu Jingyi , Wang Haonan , Wattenhofer Roger 
Published: September 2022

AbstractLive Streaming Commerce (LSC) is proliferating in China and gaining traction worldwide. LSC is an e-commerce service where sellers communicate with consumers through live streaming while consumers can place orders within the same system. Despite the significant involvement of consumers in LSC, it has not been systematically analyzed how consumers make shopping decisions when engaging with LSC. In this paper, we conduct a mixed-methods study, consisting of surveys (N1 = 240) and follow-up interviews (N2 = 16) with LSC consumers. We focus on two features of LSC, i.e., the communication between merchants and consumers through live streaming and the participation of streamers, and aim to understand how these changes influence consumers’ decision-making process in LSC. We find that LSC enables merchants to exchange information with consumers based on their needs and provide additional customer services. Because of the appropriate information about the products they acquire and the enjoyable shopping atmosphere, consumers are willing to purchase products in LSC. As the intermediaries between merchants and consumers, streamers utilize their independent identity from merchants to enhance consumers’ awareness of shopping and persuade their online shopping decisions. Moreover, we consider the opportunities and challenges of current LSC services and provide implications for LSC services and the research community regarding the development of LSC.
Using Tacit Expert Knowledge to Support Shop-floor Operators Through a Knowledge-based Assistance System
Authors: Hoerner Lorenz , Schamberger Markus , Bodendorf Freimut 
Published: September 2022

AbstractThe increasing complexity of industrial production systems is challenging employees on the shop-floor in their daily work. Specific knowledge about manufacturing processes is often not available in explicit form but mainly as tacit knowledge of experienced shop-floor workers. A systematic approach to knowledge externalization and reuse is required to make this operational knowledge available. This paper proposes a method to systematically capture and structure expert knowledge while incorporating knowledge management and social research methods. The proposed method's application and evaluation occur in a continuous manufacturing scenario, externalizing tacit knowledge about coping with manufacturing anomalies. A digital assistance system is designed and prototypically implemented to manage and reuse the externalized knowledge. The early involvement of shop-floor workers in the development phase of the prototype ensures usability and user acceptance of the assistance system. The assistance system is developed as a collaboration supporting artifact in the shop-floor's common information space. To observe the resulting productivity performance improvements in the manufacturing scenario, a KPI-based evaluation of the assistance system is presented. Finally, a discussion about the major contributions of this paper, namely the development of an approach for knowledge externalization and a human-centered design of an assistance system, takes place. To assess the novelty of these approaches, they are contrasted with the state of the art identified in the literature before a final summary of the results is presented.
A Postphenomenological Perspective On the Changing Nature of Work
Authors: Sergeeva Anastasia V. 
Published: September 2022

AbstractIn this essay, I take a postphenomenological perspective on tracing work transformation during the pandemic, arguing that this perspective helps develop novel sensitivities to the nature of work. Postphenomenology brings into high relief the view on work as reliant on sensory performances and embodied relations, complementing already rich accounts of work being reliant on discursive interactions, social order, and spatiality. The focus of postphenomenology on ‘non-neutrality’ and the multistability of technology provides a useful lens for revealing a multiplicity of changes, encompassing both augmentations and reductions of work experiences and evaluating their consequences for the actors involved. Finally, its attention to the transparency of technology amidst the embodied experiences gives a handle on the role of materiality in the performance of work and may be taken up as informing design efforts. A case study vignette of physiotherapy work during lockdown is offered as an illustration of applying some of the postphenomenological ideas.
Philosophical, Experimental and Synthetic Phenomenology: The Study of Perception for Biological, Artificial Agents and Environments
Authors: Calì Carmelo 
Published: September 2022

AbstractIn this paper the relationship between phenomenology of perception and synthetic phenomenology is discussed. Synthetic phenomenology is presented on the basis of the issues in A.I. and Robotics that required to address the question of what enables artificial agents to have phenomenal access to the environment. Phenomenology of perception is construed as a theory with autonomous structure and domain, which can be embedded in a philosophical as well as a scientific theory. Two attempts at specifying the phenomenal content of artificial agents are discussed. Concepts and experimental evidence on the independence of perception and the coordination of motion and appearances are set out to submit that phenomenology of perception makes a contribution to synthetic phenomenology.
The Impact of Moisture and Clay Content on the Unconfined Compressive Strength of Lime Treated Highly Reactive Clays
Authors: Muhmed Asma , Mohamed Mostafa , Khan Amir 
Published: September 2022

AbstractThis study aims to provide a thorough evaluation for the changes in the microstructure and evolution of strength of highly reactive clays that were treated with 7% lime over a period of curing time as a function of the mixing moisture content. Three series of testing were carried out on specimens with 100%, 85% and 75% of bentonite content and prepared with different moisture content of 10, 20, 30 and 40% above the corresponding optimum moisture content. Specimens of 100% bentonite were treated with 7% of lime, compacted to achieve a predetermined dry unit weight and cured at temperatures of 20 °C and 40 °C for up to 28 days whereas the specimens with 85% and 75% of bentonite content were prepared by the addition of sand and were cured at 20 °C for up to 7 days. Unconfined Compressive Strength tests and Scanning Electron Microscopy were conducted to observe the strength and the microstructural changes resulting from increasing mixing moisture content. California Bearing Ratio and Resilient Modulus were correspondingly determined based on correlations with the Unconfined Compressive Strength. The failure pattern was also studied to better understand the ultimate behaviour of lime stabilised clays. The results revealed that the strength of treated bentonite increased with the increase in the moisture content up to 30% above the corresponding optimum moisture content and with increasing the curing time and temperature. Nevertheless, substituting bentonite with sand on the specimen resulted in a significant reduction on the attained strength. Furthermore, the results of California Bearing Ratio and Resilient Modulus showed that values for both parameters are significantly enhanced with lime treatment. The microstructural analysis provided visual evidence to the improved strength in which the pozzolanic reaction was found to be significantly affected by the amount of moisture in the mixture. The results suggested that compacting lime treated expansive clays with moisture content moderately higher than the optimum moisture content would result in a significant enhancement to the attained strength over the period of curing.
Oscillation results via comparison theorems for fourth-order delay three-terms difference equations
Authors: Migda Małgorzata , Schmeidel Ewa , Zdanowicz Małgorzata , Migda Janusz 
Published: September 2022

AbstractIn this paper we establish sufficient conditions for the oscillation of all solutions of equation$$\begin{aligned} \varDelta ^4x(n)+p(n)\varDelta x(n+1)+q(n)x(n-\tau )=0 \end{aligned}$$Δ4x(n)+p(n)Δx(n+1)+q(n)x(n-τ)=0via comparison with some first order delay difference equations whose oscillatory characters are known. The presented criterion is easily verifiable. Examples are also given to illustrate the main result.
Floods and maternal healthcare utilisation in Bangladesh
Authors: Orderud Hilde , Härkönen Juho , Hårsaker Cathrine Tranberg , Bogren Malin 
Published: September 2022

AbstractFloods are a common natural hazard in Bangladesh, and climate change is expected to further increase flooding frequency, magnitude and extent. Pregnant women in flood contexts could face challenges in utilisation of maternal healthcare. The aim of this paper is to analyse associations between flood exposure and the use of maternal healthcare (antenatal care visits, birth assisted by skilled birth attendants, and giving birth in a health facility) in Bangladesh for pregnancies/births between 2004 and 2018. Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data from four surveys in the time period 2007–2018 and data on floods from the Emergency Events Database and the Geocoded Disasters Dataset are analysed using multilevel linear probability models. In line with previous results, we find clear bivariate associations between exposure to flooding and maternal healthcare use. These associations are largely confounded by socioeconomic and demographic variables. In general, exposure to flooding — whether measured as exposure to any floods or severe floods — does not affect maternal healthcare use, and we suggest that the lower usage of maternal healthcare in areas exposed to flooding rather relates to the characteristics of the flood-prone areas and their populations, which also relate to lower maternal healthcare use. However, we find negative associations in some supplementary analyses, which suggest that even if there is no effect of floods on average, specific floods may have negative effects on maternal healthcare use.
Metasynthesis: issues of empirical and theoretical context
Authors: Sim Julius , Mengshoel Anne Marit 
Published: September 2022

AbstractMetasynthesis is an approach to synthesizing primary qualitative research, and may take either an aggregative or an interpretive approach. In either case, the resulting synthesis inevitably occurs at a remove from both the empirical and the theoretical contexts of the original research. We argue that seeking to retain these contexts in the synthesis poses specific challenges. Thus, the empirical context of an original study and the individuality of participants’ first-order accounts will be incompletely and selectively represented in a published study, and will be further out of reach at the level of synthesis. Syntheses should therefore be faithful to, but not seek to reproduce, the empirical context of the primary studies. As regards theoretical context, accommodating the concepts and the broader theoretical frameworks of primary studies may require potentially divergent philosophical assumptions to be reconciled with each other and with the theoretical standpoint of the synthesist. Selecting studies where these assumptions are compatible, at the level of both theory and methodology, may lessen this challenge. Some metasyntheses seek to integrate not just concepts but also theories (metatheorizing), but here the challenges of philosophical and theoretical compatibility are more acute, and the means of achieving such integration appear to be underdeveloped.
A knowledge-first approach to episodic memory
Authors: Hoerl Christoph 
Published: September 2022

AbstractThis paper aims to outline, and argue for, an approach toepisodic memorybroadly in the spirit of knowledge-first epistemology. I discuss a group of influential views of epsiodic memory that I characterize as ‘two-factor accounts’, which have both proved popular historically (e.g., in the work of Hume, 1739-40; Locke 1690; and Russell 1921) and have also seen a resurgence in recent work on the philosophy of memory (see, e.g., Dokic 2014; Michaelian, 2016; Owens, 1996). What is common to them is that they try to give an account of the nature of episodic memory in which the concept of knowledge plays no explanatory role. I highlight some parallels between these two-factor accounts and attempts to give a reductive definition of knowledge itself. I then discuss some problems two-factor accounts of episodic memory face in explaining the distinctive sense in which episodic recollection involves remembering personally experienced past events, before sketching an alternative approach to episodic memory, which takes as basic the idea that episodic memory involves the retention of knowledge. I argue that we can give an exhaustive constitutive account of what episodic memory is, and how it differs from other types of mental states, by considering what particular type of knowledge is retained in episodic memory, and what exactly having that knowledge consists in.
Obtaining Electroheating Elements Based on Products of Carbothermal Reduction of Fe2O3 by Waste Activated Sludge (WAS)
Authors: Vlasova Marina , Márquez Aguilar Pedro Antonio , Hernández Morelos Jorge Luis , Parra Parra Abigail , Guardián Tapia Rene , Reséndiz González Marycruz 
Published: September 2022

AbstractIn this work, the prospects of fabrication of heating elements from heat-treated (sintered) mixtures of waste-activated sludge (WAS) and Fe2O3 under oxygen deficiency conditions are considered. During heat treatment of mixtures in the 800–900 °C temperature interval, Fe2O3 reduces to Fe3O4, Fe0.94O, and Fe. A heat treatment at 1000 °C leads mainly to the formation of amorphous iron doped with carbon, silicon, and aluminum. Based on these compacted mixtures, having different electrical resistivity (from ~ 10–4 up to 10–1 Ω·m), it is possible to fabricate heating elements, whose working temperature ranges from ~ 100 °C up to 600 °C.
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The Separation Behavior of Impurities in the Purification of High-Purity Magnesium via Vacuum Distillation
Authors: Xiong Neng , Friedrich Semiramis , Mohamed Seifeldin R. , Kirillov Ivan , Ye Xiaozhou , Tian Yang , Friedrich Bernd 
Published: September 2022

AbstractMagnesium-based materials with exceptional properties are being widely used in the automotive and aerospace industries, as well as in electronic equipment and Mg-based implants. The development of many advanced engineering structures and precision devices prompts the demand for high-purity Mg with better performance and service. However, the current purification methods meet challenges such as the complex equipment, potential dangers due to the powdery condensed products, and the lack of systematic analysis of the impurity behavior. Here, we report the purification of commercial raw materials into 99.9958% (± 0.0034%) pure magnesium products through one-step vacuum distillation. The process adopts a vertical distillation device, which has the advantages of high recovery efficiency, lumpy condensation products, easy cleaning, and reusability. Experimental results confirm that vacuum evaporation is more effective than vacuum sublimation for the purification of magnesium. Then, the behavior of eight impurities is analyzed theoretically and experimentally. The results significantly verify the difficulty sequence of impurity separation from the Mg base, which is Zn > Ca > Pb > Al > Cu > Ni. The similar equilibrium vapor pressure of Zn and Mg and the separation coefficient close to unity are the reasons that cause zinc to be the most difficult one to be separated.
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The Prevention of Extremism and the Role of Safety: Essay on a Well-Balanced Relationship Between Social Work and Law Enforcement
Authors: Berner Heiko 
Published: September 2022

AbstractThe prevention of extremism experienced two developments in recent years: the securitisation of the discourse and the diversification of the involved actors. Both trends caused a certain divergence because the different stakeholders often follow different logics, methods and goals and the influence of security in many cases does not match the needs and interests of civil actors offering prevention work. Especially social work has its own ethical and methodological understanding that requires an own conceptual approach. Above all, universal or primary prevention plays an important role. The aim of the paper is not to separate social work offers in the field of extremism prevention from security politics, but rather to develop an understanding of security that better matches social work profession. In order to solve the actual divergence, a novel conceptual approach—based on the term safety—is developed and applied on preventive measures driven by social or youth work in the field of extremism prevention. The paper develops the outlines of such a concept and various proper methods. In the same time, it reminds of concepts like social cohesion or resilience that also play a role in the discourse about extremism prevention. The paper describes the safety concept by distinguishing it from these related terms.
Learning Cognitive Skills by Playing Video Games at Home: Testing the Specific Transfer of General Skills Theory
Authors: Flores-Gallegos Rodrigo , Mayer Richard E. 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Can people learn cognitive skills by playing video games at home? In the present study, college students took a pretest consisting of four cognitive tasks and 2 weeks later took a posttest consisting of the same four tasks (i.e., n-back and letter-number tasks tapping executive function skills and mental rotation and multiple object tracking tasks tapping perceptual processing skills). During the 2-week period, students engaged in no game activity, or played designed video games (targeting executive function skills) or an action video game (targeting perceptual processing skills) at home for 6 30-min sessions. The two game groups did not show greater gains than the control group on any of the tasks overall, but the designed game group outperformed the control group on the difficult trials of the n-back task and the action game group outperformed the control group on the difficult trials of the mental rotation tasks. Results provide partial evidence for the specific transfer of general skills theory, and show that the training effects of game playing are focused on skills that are exercised in the game.
The Social Impacts of Circular Strategies in the Apparel Value Chain; a Comparative Study Between Three Countries
Authors: Suarez-Visbal Lis J. , Carreón Jesús Rosales , Corona Blanca , Worrell Ernst 
Published: September 2022

AbstractThe apparel value chain is essential for the livelihood of millions of workers around the globe. However, human rights violations and the lack of a sustained income by apparel workers demonstrate the poor working conditions present in this sector. Circular economy (CE) has been used by incumbent businesses and startups as a framework to achieve sustainability, thus contributing to its economic, environmental and social dimensions. However, there is a lack of knowledge on its social impact. Most of the literature assesses CE’s social impacts by focusing only on the number of jobs created. However, the majority of studies agree on the need to analyse further the quality and inclusivity aspects. This paper explores the social impact of the different circular strategies implemented in three countries. It assesses social impacts related to the quality of jobs, workers’ sustainable livelihood and gender equality and inclusion. Results corroborate that CE social ambition is low, and that current circular strategies follow the same feminisation and precariousness of working conditions found in the linear apparel value chain. Thus, policymakers and businesses alike need to strengthen their CE social ambition; coordinate policy and strategies with different countries stakeholders of the apparel value chain to minimise trade-offs; and safeguard a just circular transition. This research contributes to the body of literature on CE by introducing a social impact assessment framework for circularity called SIAF-CE⚥. Additionally, it provides evidence on the current CE social impact implemented by startups and incumbents in regional and global contexts.
Ethnicity and Social Exclusion
Authors: Bracic Ana 
Published: September 2022

AbstractSocial exclusion is complex, intractable, and devastating. It occurs where individuals or groups cannot fully participate in the typical activities of the societies in which they live, whether they are excluded economically, politically, or live in segregation. In this review, I highlight recent work in the area of social exclusion and ethnicity, focusing on Europe and Eurasia. Scholarship reveals ethnic hierarchies of exclusion in hiring and housing markets, educational approaches that cloak assimilationist practice in the language of inclusion, a plethora of strategies that minorities use to navigate exclusion, and more. While new research brings innovation and insight, it nevertheless remains fragmented along several dimensions. As scholars work to move the field forward, bridging substantive areas of exclusion, studying the complex dynamic of interactions between majorities and minorities, and collaborating across methodological divides would be particularly valuable.