Related Aspects Research Articles

P108: Relational aspects in dementia family caregiving: exploring caregivers ́ self-perceived caring style and its correlates in the caregiving stress and coping process

Most research in dementia family caregiving field has been guided by the stress and coping model, which holds a caregiver-centered perspective look at the family caregiving scenario. This individualistic approach of mainstream caregiving research does not allow to explain the relational aspects and variables related to the interaction between caregivers and the person with dementia (PWD), which have been underexplored until today. However, more systemic and dyad-centered approaches are needed to enrich our understanding of this chronic stress scenario. How caregivers perceive their way of caring for the PWD may exert a central role in the stress and coping model, and it may be potentially related to characteristics of the PWD (problematic behaviors and functional capacity), and caregivers´ distress and coping variables. This study aimed to develop and test a valid and reliable instrument to measure caregivers´ self-perceived caring style and explore these potential associations.This communication will present preliminary evidence from family dementia caregivers who volunteered to participate and were interviewed to assess sociodemographic data, stressors, psychological outcomes (anxiety and depression) and the following interaction-related variables: self-perceived caregiving interaction style, expressed emotion and quality of the relationship in the dyad (past and present). A sample of 100 participants is expected, as the project is currently going on.The Caregivers´ Self-Perceived Caring Style Scale (SPCSS) has been developed to measure 6 potential aspects of caregivers’ way of caring for the PWD: calmness, tenderness/lovingness, acceptance/validation, control/structure, overprotection, hostility, and communication facilitation. Preliminary reliability and validity analyses support good psychometric properties of the scale, as well as significant correlations between the different styles of caring and characteristics of the PWD, caregivers´ gender and kinship with the PWD, depression and anxiety symptoms, quality of the dyad relationship and expressed emotion. Implications for caregiving research and for the development of effective interventions to alleviate caregivers´ distress will be discussed.

Feedback strategies in distance education: a survey of university students

Abstract Screen-mediated teaching at the university level has necessitated a redesign of learning environments across various dimensions, encompassing epistemological, relational, and pragmatic aspects. How can the Digital Learning Ecosystem nurture these dimensions? Does the ecosystem initiate a feedback loop between the teacher and the student, configured not only as an evaluative process but also as a reflective and adaptive one? The feedback loop holds a generative value; it triggers an internal process in the student, enabling them to construct knowledge about their ongoing activities and comprehend through their own evaluative acts. Students stand as the ultimate source of all feedback; they are the ones who ultimately generate it, and it is this process that catalyzes learning. Feedback strategies further promote alignment between the teacher and the student, fostering continuous redesign and co-design. The paper aims to present a survey collecting students’ perceptions on the condition of separation between professors and students during distance learning and activation of the educational relationship and feedback through digital devices.

Patients' Choices for Yoga Therapy: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional, Convenience-Sampling Survey from India.

In conventional healthcare, patients' preferences for their treatment are determined, though this practice has not been reported for yoga therapy. The present convenience sampling exploratory survey attempted to determine whether those seeking yoga therapy would report preferences for the way yoga therapy is implemented, the therapist's knowledge, and related aspects of yoga therapy. Responses from 426 people attending a yoga therapy institution in India were analyzed. Based on the chi-square test (p < 0.05) and Cramer's V (> 0.10), most people wished to receive yoga therapy in a group of others with a similar disease (42.25%), in a yoga institution (83.57%), and as in-person sessions (48.83%). Patients preferred yoga therapists to know about the principles of yoga (40.38%), to be well-informed generally (61.97%), and to be able to give suggestions for emotional well-being. For the majority of participants (59.4%), the reason for selecting yoga therapy was "a belief in yoga as therapy" (rather than as an add-on therapy or as a last resort). Patients' expectations of yoga therapy were positive, namely a cure of disease (79.34%) and improvement after 1 year (95.8%). Most patients (91.6%) wanted their conventional medicine practitioner to know that they were receiving yoga therapy. Although limited by the study design, survey design, and participant details available, overall results suggest that patients (1) reported specific preferences (for the implementation of yoga therapy and for yoga therapists' knowledge), (2) had expectations of yoga therapy, and (3) most often were interested in their conventional care physicians being informed about the yoga therapy they received.

An equity‐driven ecological model for internationalizing doctoral student research training

AbstractThe global academic community is increasingly connected, which has implications for the internationalization of doctoral education. In our previous work, we presented a theoretical approach to doctoral student research training using an ecological theory that provided considerations for individual and programmatic practice. Though our proposed model for doctoral research training is still relevant and valuable, we recognize there is missing a layer of criticality in that framework that would allow for more nuance in doctoral research preparation for international contexts. In this chapter, we apply an equity‐driven lens to our model that accounts for a critical global perspective that was absent in our previous writing. We argue that power and privilege are inherent in all relational aspects of ecological theories and must be included in doctoral research preparation. Thus, we offer recommendations for addressing these issues for the individual doctoral student as well as the faculty and programs that train them and guide their research endeavors.Practical Takeaways Inequities are ingrained in all aspects of higher education; thus, we must critically examine how we approach research and scholarship through each system in the ecology of doctoral education. Faculty have a responsibility to prepare students to respond to global challenges, including how racial, colonial, political, and economic hierarchies inform current international research practices. We advocate for the application of an equity‐driven lens to an ecological model for doctoral student international research training. We recommend an equity‐driven, global ecological perspective in approaches to doctoral education broadly, including discipline‐specific courses, mentoring relationships, and graduate assistantships.

Метадані наукових документів як складова системи інформаційних ресурсів «відкритої науки»

Open science is a movement that aims to make research results more accessible, including code, data, and scientific papers. It covers many different but often related aspects affecting the entire research life cycle, including open access to publications, open data of research, open source software, open workflows, public science, open educational resources and alternative methods of the research evaluation, including open peer review, expert reviews, etc. The key to effective application and integration of open science resources is their structured description based on the principles of completeness and necessity of meta-information, ease of use and interoperability. The units of such description are metadata. In fact, the quality of open resources begins with the quality of its metadata. This study does not cover the entire wide spectrum of open science resources. Its purposes are to define the system of characteristics that describe general and specific features of various types of scientific documents as a significant part of scientific knowledge of Open Science. To achieve the goal of the research it is defined a taxonomy of resources of open scientific documents and proposes an integrated system of their metadata. Proposed system of metadata is based on several classifier sets. It includes three major groups: internal characteristics – description of explicit features of the object of open knowledge (for example, the size or the type of the file), administrative characteristics – information about the object (authors, executers, etc.) and descriptive characteristics - information about the object’s content, its special features, links to other objects related to this. The metadata system is built based on the analysis of the existing metadata schemas and standards, search engines and digital libraries, and it takes into account similarity and specificity of each type of open documents.

The Good Life: Agriculture Transformation and the Pursuance of Goals in Two Rural Villages of Northeastern Thailand

Agricultural transformation of the developing world encompasses a broad set of subjects, usually revolving around the change in the mode of production and related aspects of production. However, the extent to which the transformation shapes subjective wellbeing is largely under explored. This paper examines how the constructed life goals of local people are shaped by the process of agricultural transformation and how they strive to attain wellbeing. We are especially interested in the ways rural dynamics are changing as a result. The empirical data is based on a two-village study using qualitative methods. The good life of rural people is classified into five types of life goals, including good health, decent quality of education and future employment opportunity for youth, good family relationships, having enough for living and eating, and self-sufficiency. Good health encompasses both the strength of the physical body and spiritual. The agricultural transformation has emerged new challenges to health, particularly the chemical use in agriculture that deteriorated the quality of the environment. The decent quality of education and future employment are attributed to education qualification and jobs with monthly salary. The high competition and the lack of social and political networks have lowered the expectation of rural people from getting government jobs. The transformation resulted in sprit types of family due to migration, while rural people remain highly valued good family relationships, in which modern technology such as cell phone play a part in maintaining distance interaction and good relations. Having enough for eating and living reflects the high priority that rural people giving on foods and housing. This is associated with the growing indebtedness that is threatening the loss of lands and property that are used for debt collateral. Finally, the self-sufficiency that was initiated by King Bhumipol is seen and adopted as a promising means to achieve a good life, however, self-sufficiency is variously defined.

Development of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (Utaut) Model in the Acceptance of Electronic Medical Records Systems at Colonel Abundjani Bangko Hospital

The implementation of Electronic Medical Records at the Colonel Abundjani Bangko Hospital has not run optimally because human resource behavior is still low. This research aims to analyze the development of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) Model in the acceptance of the Electronic Medical Record system at the Colonel Abundjani Bangko Hospital. This type of research is quantitative with an analytical observational approach with a cross sectional design. This research was conducted at the Colonel Abundjani Bangko Hospital from September to October 2023. The population in this study were all health workers associated with the implementation of medical records consisting of doctors, nurses, medical records officers and pharmacists at the Colonel Abundjani Bangko Hospital. 152 people (Total population). Data analysis was carried out univariate, bivariate (Chi Square), and multivariate (logistic regression). The results of the research show that there is an influence of the perception aspect of usability on the acceptance of the Electronic Medical Record system (p&lt; 0,05). There is an influence of job suitability aspects on the acceptance of the Electronic Medical Record system (p&lt; 0,05). There is an influence of the relative profit aspect on the acceptance of the Electronic Medical Record system (p&lt; 0,05). There is an influence of social influence aspects on the acceptance of the Electronic Medical Record system (p&lt; 0,05). There is an influence of the facility aspect on the acceptance of the Electronic Medical Record system (p&lt; 0,05). The dominant variable influencing the acceptance of the Electronic Medical Record system at Colonel Abundjani Bangko Hospital is the social aspect variable. The conclusion in this research is that there is an influence of the development of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) Model in the acceptance of the Electronic Medical Record system at the Colonel Abundjani Bangko Hospital, so it is recommended that the results of this research become input material for conducting a review of the implementation of the system electronic medical record.

US-Brunei cooperation in the 2000s: an analysis

The article analyzes the main aspects of relations between the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam, which is located in Southeast Asia, and the United States. The relevance of the study is related to the strengthening of diplomatic ties between different states and the need for a comprehensive analysis of their various aspects. The reason for the study was to explore a relatively new area of diplomatic relations between the United States and Brunei. The scientific value and novelty lie in the complex analysis of relations between the mentioned states during the given historical period. General scientific methods of research were used, and due to the fact that the studied issue is at the junction of several sciences, methods of historical, political science and the study of diplomatic relations were used. The study found that the diplomatic relations of the United States and Brunei are influenced by the geopolitical competition between the United States and China in Southeast Asia, revealing Washington's desire to subordinate the countries of the region to its influence and establish hegemony in opposition to China. For this purpose, the US is trying to find geopolitical allies among the countries of the region, with Brunei being one of them.

Will artificial intelligence undermine the effects of guanxi on relationship performance? Evidence from China's banking industry

While the critical role of guanxi in relationally governed Chinese B2B relationships is well recognised, Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted smart loan services are introduced to reduce the possible relational bias of humans from a highly interactive, heterogenous, and dyadic relationship. This research is, thus, motivated to investigate how AI influences the relationship between guanxi and relationship performance and the mediating role of engagement. From employing dyadic samples of 283 bankers and 468 SME clients, results show that guanxi increases the relational aspect of relationship performance. We further demonstrate the significant negative moderating effects of perceived ease of use and usefulness. Chinese bankers hold different views from their clients as they believe the functionality and benefits of AI technology (e.g., ease of use and usefulness) do not interfere with their interpersonal guanxi with clients. The differences in perceptions offer fruitful insights contributing to B2B and guanxi literature, and generating managerial recommendations for practitioners.

Noțiunea de inscripționare în antropologia absenței (I)

This article is the first part of an essay on the notion of marking, belonging to the anthropology of absence. We believe the essay to be the best formal approach to this topic and have therefore tried to support our view by examining various theories on the relevance of subjective knowledge in search of the fundaments of (human) truth. The present attempt proceeds by engaging in a dialogue of ideas with numerous other authors interested in themes such as loss, absence, marking, memory process, oblivion, death anticipation, therapeutic life stories. In so doing, we have tried to let other voices pronounce their expertise on the matter. We insisted on the deep analysis of absence versus loss, and on the scrutiny of the virtually infinite ways in which human mind is marked (hence, the notion of marking used in the title) by the perceived absence of anything that would have been of major importance to the victim of the loss. Making use of a very large quantity of quotations from recent and up to date works of writers, as well as historians, art scholars, scientists or literary critics who have pondered over some related aspects of absence as a main phenomenon in mankind’s representations, this article tries to identify the finest nuances, the only ones that may really matter within such a delicate topic. It is intended as an interrogation, as much as a hermeneutic reflection on the stupendous cultural signature of absence.

Dialogic feedback in online teaching

Effective feedback requires a dynamic two-way process in which both teachers and students engage actively in dialogue. Online teaching has been widely adopted in education since COVID-19 pandemic; yet limited studies have explored the implications for dialogic feedback. This paper presents a study that seeks to identify challenges that teachers face when facilitating dialogic feedback in online teaching and explore how different feedback modes may enhance or hinder dialogic feedback. Based on findings of interviews with 16 in-service and pre-service teachers from the UK and Australia, we suggest that teacher education needs to highlight the development of student feedback literacy, the relational aspect of feedback, and pedagogical strategies to creative use of learning technologies for feedback.

Institutional Operability: Outward Rule-Following, Inward Role-Playing

Abstract Institutional operability refers to the normative conditions governing the exercise of power of office that makes an institution work. Because institutional action occurs by the interrelated actions of the officeholders, a focus on institutional operability requires the analysis and assessment of the officeholders’ conduct in their institutional capacity. This article distinguishes two perspectives on operability: ‘outward’ and ‘inward.’ The outward view emphasizes predefined instructions for efficient execution, focusing on rule-following to achieve institutional purposes. The inward perspective highlights role-playing and reflective engagement among officeholders to uphold an institution’s raison d’être. The inward perspective brings to the fore the relational aspect of institutional life and officeholders’ interrelated responsibility for guiding institutional action.

Evaluating cognitive and behavioral measures of tolerance for wildlife in an invasive species context: a study of Alabama hunters’ tolerance for wild pigs

ABSTRACT Human tolerance for wildlife is a key consideration for managers and has been measured with attitudes, normative beliefs, and behaviors. The study objectives were to determine, in the context of Alabama hunters’ tolerance for non-native, invasive wild pigs, 1) the convergent validity among three cognitive measures of tolerance, and 2) the strength of association between the cognitive measures of tolerance and behavioral measures of tolerance. Results revealed that general attitudes and wildlife acceptance capacity had high convergent validity suggesting that both quantify similar and highly related psychological aspects of tolerance. Conversely, the standard cognitive measures had low predictive associations with most behavioral measures suggesting a lack of interchangeability of behavioral and cognitive measures for purposes of operationalizing tolerance. We highlight how our findings are affected by the complexity of hunter-wild pig interactions and emphasize the importance of assessing tolerance in different contexts to provide greater conceptual clarity.

The Holistic Life-Crafting Model: a systematic literature review of meaning-making behaviors

Pursuing meaningful life experiences is vital for wellbeing and health. Crafting strategies, such as job crafting and work-life balance crafting, have been developed to create meaning in specific life domains. However, these strategies share common underlying behaviors that transcend specific contexts. Building on this understanding, we propose a comprehensive “holistic life-crafting” approach that integrates overlapping behaviors from various crafting strategies. This study aims to clarify the theoretical conceptualization of life-crafting by identifying common strategies and behaviors underlying different meaning-making crafting approaches. Through a systematic literature search of six databases between January and April 2022, we identified 16,479 published records. Using predefined inclusion–exclusion criteria, 51 records (reflecting five crafting approaches, resulting in 223 different crafting behaviors) remained. Through content analysis, we grouped these behaviors into seven broader crafting strategies, forming the “holistic life-crafting” approach. Findings suggest that life-crafting is a holistic, continuous process of proactive meaning-making by intentionally balancing life demands with available resources and altering life’s cognitive, environmental, interest, relational, skill, and task-related aspects to promote personal growth and wellbeing. The holistic approach encompasses cognitive, environmental, interest, relational, resources-demands, skill, and task crafting strategies. This framework provides a comprehensive understanding of how individuals can actively shape their lives to promote more meaningful life experiences across different domains.Systematic review registrationPROSPERO, identifier CRD42022333930.

An incremental singular value decomposition approach for large-scale spatially parallel & distributed but temporally serial data – applied to technical flows

The article presents a strategy and its algorithm to compile a simulation-accompanying, incremental Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for time-evolving, spatially parallel discrete data sets. The framework addresses state-of-the-art PDE solvers for computational science and engineering applications. An important characteristic of such applications is that the spatial size of the data is often time-invariant and significantly exceeds the temporal size due to the large computational grid in 3D applications. Typical examples, which are also considered in this article, relate to results extracted from unsteady flow simulations. Herein, the flow data, which progresses over time, is frequently calculated spatially parallel based on domain decomposition strategies, which allow to parallelize the simulation on distributed memory machines following a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) concept.With a view to the memory-efficient reuse of (compressed) simulation results and their CPU time-saving, sufficiently accurate generation, the paper scrutinizes the efficiency of incremental/parallel SVD approaches for such simulation examples. To improve the computational efficiency, the introduction of a bunch matrix is proposed, which enables the aggregation of multiple time steps and SVD updates, and significantly increases the efficiency. The suggested strategy is verified and validated by simple 2D laminar single-phase flows and subsequently applied to more complex 2D and 3D turbulent two-phase flows. Emphasis is given to (a) the accuracy of SVD-based reconstruction, (b) the physical realizability of the reconstructed quantities, (c) the independence of domain partitioning, (d) an efficient snapshot bunching, and (e) related implementation aspects. In addition, the influence of lower and (adaptive) upper rank thresholds on the effort and accuracy is evaluated. A final application renders the practical benefits of the approach and refers to a merchant ship in head waves at Re = 1.4×107 and Fn = 0.26. The simulation involves 2880 processor cores and the related full-rank snapshot matrix has (108×104) entries. With a numerical overhead of O(10%), this snapshot matrix can be incrementally generated and compressed by O(95%). The compression is accompanied by only small errors in the integral force and local wave elevation of O(10−2%). This qualifies the method for an efficient subsequent data processing.

Rural Art Festivals and Creative Social Entrepreneurship

This article examines how creativity-based social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial networks in the context of small-scale rural art festivals can advance social and regional revitalization goals in peripheral island communities. This qualitative- and action-based research explores the effects of artistic activities on rural revitalization through the analysis of four small-scale rural events: a traditional matsuri (festival), and three contemporary art, music, and film festivals. The adaptability and diversity of the festivals’ entrepreneurial networks are investigated in greater depth by combining the literatures on rural revitalization, social entrepreneurship, bricolage, and resourcefulness with the embedded and relational aspects of creative entrepreneurial networks. The study also analyzes the complex relationship between the individual actions of creative festival entrepreneurs and the socially engaged creative networks that facilitate population retention and resource exchanges in a community, and therefore rural revitalization.

Marginal log‐linear parameters and their collapsibility for categorical data

Collapsibility is a practical and useful technique for dimension reduction in multidimensional contingency tables. In this paper, we consider marginal log‐linear models for studying collapsibility and related aspects in such tables. These models generalize ordinary log‐linear and multivariate logistic models, besides several others. First, we obtain some characteristic properties of marginal log‐linear parameters. Then we define collapsibility and strict collapsibility of these parameters in a general sense. Several necessary and sufficient conditions for collapsibility and strict collapsibility are derived based on simple functions of only the cell probabilities, which are easily verifiable. These include results for an arbitrary set of marginal log‐linear parameters having some common effects. The connections of strict collapsibility to various forms of independence of the variables are explored. We analyze some real‐life datasets to illustrate the above results on collapsibility and strict collapsibility. Finally, we obtain a result relating parameters with the same effect, but different margins for an arbitrary table, and demonstrate smoothness of marginal log‐linear models under collapsibility conditions.

LEVEL OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY MEMBERS ON THE SERVICES OF SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM SAN PABLO BRANCH

The objective of this research endeavor is to assess the level of satisfaction that Social Security Services in San Pablo has among its members. This study employed both quantitative and qualitative research designs. To determine the level of satisfaction of SSS members, quantitative inferential research was utilized, which not only permitted responses to pre-formulated queries but also encouraged respondents to candidly recount their personal experiences. The proposed methodology will be executed by administering a questionnaire survey to members of the SSS, utilizing a convenience sampling approach. The first section comprises the demographic profile of the participants. The subsequent section employs a Likert scale to evaluate the respondents’ comprehensive experience with SSS services, including promptness, convenience, reliability, meaningful service, and related aspects. The data result presents the frequency and percentage of SSS members belonging to each age category. In addition, the majority of study participants fall within the age range of 31 to 40 years. Regarding gender, the majority of respondents are female SSS members. Regarding coverage status, the majority of participants are SSS members by employment. The majority of members express contentment with regards to the significance and dependability of the service. However, the least content with regard to convenience and timeliness. Limited research has been conducted on the manner in which SSS members perceive and satisfy their customers. This study acknowledges certain implications that may extend to encompass additional branches and services of SSS. Due to the paucity of research examining the degree of consumer satisfaction among SSS members

Utilization of the Edupreneurship Monitoring Information System (SIMO-Edu) to Improve the Performance of Vocational High School (SMK) Collaborations, Partners and the Community in the Edupreneurship Process

This study aims to apply a monitoring information system model (SIMO-EduPKK in the edupreneurship process to improve the performance of collaboration between vocational high schools (SMK), partners and the community as well as to build partner trust in ordering SMK products. The edupreneuship monitoring information system model is designed to be able to facilitate the operational process of cooperation and monitoring of product manufacturing so that the edupreneuship process can run well and as a vehicle for introducing SMK products to the wider community. Researchers use the system development life cycle (SDLC) approach with the waterfall model method to develop a system to obtain an analysis that is in accordance with user needs in producing an information system and monitoring the edupreneurship process that is effectively used in enhancing cooperative relations between all related parties. The results of the research based on measuring questionnaires to teachers majoring in culinary management partners and the community show that the monitoring information system developed is effectively used in the process edupreneuship based on the response value given by teachers to the assessment category on related aspects through a questionnaire using the scala Likert was 96.15%, and the assessment from partners and the community was 95.31%, both of which were in the very practical category.

The constitutional right to a jury trial and a fast trial: the experience of the United States, international private law, international public law

International private law and international public law are branches of law that regulate various aspects of relations between states and other subjects. Their interaction is a multifaceted process that multifacetedly reflects various aspects of relations between states and directly affects both relations between legal entities and international politics. On the one hand, these two branches of international law hav e common goals and principles, such as ensuring justice, equality and protection of human rights. On the other hand, there are differences that can lead to a conflict between the norms of these branches of law. In such cases, it is necessary to decide which norm should be applied. In the context of interaction, the question of applying the norms of international law to private law relations arises. In some cases, norms of international law can be applied directly to private law relations. In such cases, norms of international law have priority over norms of national law. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a serious violation of international law. In response to this violation, Ukraine and other countries implemented a number of measures aimed at protecting people's rights and security. It is important that the norms of international and public law continue to be applied in Ukraine to protect the rights and safety of people. Armed conflicts are usually accompanied by large-scale human rights violations, such as killings, torture and deportation. In such conditions, it is important that the norms of international and public law continue to be applied to protect the rights and safety of people. However, the application of these norms may be complicated due to the special conditions of an armed conflict. In this work, an attempt is made to outline the main aspects of the interaction between private international law and public international law from the point of view of conflict, norms and their regulation in the context of the historical approach and modern challenges.