Basic Theoretical Issues Research Articles

How Can We Increase the Nutrition-Related Knowledge in Children Aged 7-12 Years: Results of Focus Groups Interviews with Parents-Junior-Edu-Żywienie (JEŻ) Project.

Nutrition education is a long-term process that should cover various population groups. A special focus should be placed on children, adolescents and their parents. The aim of this research was to find out the opinions of parents of primary school pupils aged 7-12 on their expectations towards school education in the areas of food and nutrition, addressed to both pupils and their parents. The research was conducted among 101 parents of primary school pupils with the use of the Focus Group Interview (FGI) method. It demonstrated that what is most needed are hands-on activities relating to basic theoretical issues. While parents see the need for nutrition education for their children, educating pupils in this area is of interest to only some of the respondents for whom nutrition aspects are quite important. All parents would like formal nutrition education at school, but at the same time, they do not want classes to take up too much of their children's time, due to the already excessive number of school subjects. It seems appropriate to include everyone in regard to nutrition education, regardless of their declared interest in this issue. The need for consistent presentation of educational content addressed to teachers and parents is very important, so that they can, in a uniform way, shape the attitudes towards food and nutrition of children and adolescents.

Review and Prospect of Disaster Education Research in China

Disaster education is an important part of both social education and school education. However, research on disaster education in China only gained attention after the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008, and there have been only a few studies on disaster education in the past decade. This paper reviews the basic consensus reached by scholars on issues related to the basic theory and educational practice of disaster education, including the value of disaster education, the current state of disaster education in China, and the cooperation of multiple subjects in disaster education. In conclusion, there are still deficiencies in Chinas disaster education, such as unclear basic theoretical issues, general research perspectives, scattered research content, and traditional research methods. Future research on disaster education urgently needs to draw on international experience and rely on Chinese cultural traditions to combine multidisciplinary theoretical research with comprehensive practical exploration to explore feasible implementation strategies for disaster education and strive to build a disaster education system and research system with Chinese characteristics to enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of disaster education.

Knowledge Management in Multimedia Communication Using Software Agents

This paper presents the problem of knowledge management related to software agents and agent systems (i.e. systems composed of communicating and cooperating software agents). The author presents basic theoretical issues, but the main focus is on the areas of application of software agents in multimedia communication - both existing and prospective applications. Particular attention has been paid to the applications of software agents for: supporting customer service processes through the Contact Centre system; supporting the distance learning system; creating virtual assistants in the form of conversation bots; searching for information in the Semantic Web, and assisting in setting up a video conference call. Software agents are often referred to as 'intelligent' - due to their intelligent behaviour. At their core, they involve: perception, reasoning, learning, communication and operation in complex environments, using all multimedia techniques and procedures. Software agents and agent systems, as presented in this article, represent a new approach to the analysis, design and implementation of complex (usually decentralised and distributed) computer systems, offering a whole range of concepts, techniques and tools to significantly improve the software development process. The ability of software agents to make autonomous decisions have been a subject of considerations. Among other things, they are based on the example of cognitive sciences, which deal with modelling real processes of information processing in humans and building programmes that imitate these processes. Research on the common understanding of shared knowledge and knowledge management in agent-based systems focuses on ontologies, understood as a description of the relationship between the way knowledge is represented and the concept represented by that knowledge. In contrast, research on knowledge sharing has focused on communication languages and their associated - interaction protocol and message transport protocol.

Cải cách thủ tục hành chính tại Ngân hàng Nhà nước Việt Nam hiện nay

In order to clarify the basic issues of administrative procedure reform at the State Bank of Vietnam in the recent years- the period in which the digital transformation has been strongly carried out, the article will analyze the basic theoretical issues of administrative procedure reform and simultaneously point out the difficulties and challenges in practice of this activity. On that basis, the article proposes some recommendations for the State Bank of Vietnam to reform administrative procedures associated with digital transformation to serve people and businesses in this context.

Green Banking Development: A Case Study of Vietnam

Purpose: The objectives determine factors affecting green banking development in Vietnam. The authors proposed policy implications that contributed to the green banking development in Vietnam. Theoretical framework: For long-term sustainable economic development, many countries worldwide have chosen to develop a green economy, including the theory of green banking. Design/methodology/approach: The research method of the paper is a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Qualitative research was conducted with a group discussion technique, checked the scales used, and consulted with banking managers on the research issue, thereby building the scales included in the research model and setting up and completing the questionnaire. Quantitative research was carried out from January to February 2023. Processing data by statistical methods, analyzing EFA and CFA, using linear structural model analysis (SEM) to test the fit of models and hypotheses with SPSS 20.0 software and Amos. Findings: The article showed that banking technology substantially impacts green banking development among eight factors. Research, Practical & Social implications: The study has inherited and supplemented the scale in the model and a new set of scales used to evaluate the development of green banks, systematized, increased, and developed more basic theoretical issues about banking green. Originality/value: The paper's originality and value help researchers, managers, and policymakers for Vietnamese commercial banks, in particular, and the banking industry, in general, to apply to contribute to the development of green banking and the green economy in the future.

Construction of feature analysis model for demeanor evidence investigation based on data mining algorithm

Demeanor evidence refers to the authoritative opinions of experts using analytical instruments to collect and interpret the formation of external physiological symptoms of the entire human body. With the development of modern technology, the observation of demeanor has entered a new stage of multimodal quantification. The quantifiable results of demeanor observation with the help of scientific and technological instruments play an important role in judicial work such as search, interrogation, and evidence review. The use of man-made reasoning in the field of legal settling has become increasingly broad. Specialists are giving increasingly more consideration to the securing of modular proof. This paper proposes the development of a component examination model for modular proof examination applications. The technique for this paper is to apply the guileless Bayes strategy, propose a superior information mining calculation, and lay out a model for proof observation and examination. The function of these methods is to systematically explore the basic theoretical issues of demeanor evidence based on the status quo of judicial application of demeanor evidence. Through the prediction of individual demeanor based on data mining algorithm, the evidence analysis model is designed, the neurobiological experiment is carried out, and the demeanor evidence animal stress model is constructed to verify the scientific basis of multidemeanor evidence observation. The experimental results showed that after repeated stimulation of SD rats, the maximum changes in the expression of HSP70 gene and SAA gene were 10.77 and 14.1 respectively, reflecting the high reliability of demeanor evidence biological experiments. The model can improve the accuracy of evidence use, and the correct use of demeanor evidence can realize the true litigation value of intelligent justice and the concept of human rights protection, and promote the construction of intelligent justice.

Mobile Raman spectrometry on Scorpio 7 rover

This article describes the design of the mobile Raman spectrometer of the Scorpio 7 rover. It was constructed to study the organic content of soil samples taken during the Rover Challenge series of Mars rover competitions. The basic theoretical issues that are used in Raman spectroscopy are described. Design assumptions and requirements for the construction and control software of the spectrometer during its use on board the Scorpio 7 Mars rover, constructed by the OFF-ROAD Scientific Association at the Wroclaw University of Technology, are discussed. Measurements of Raman spectra carried out by the Raman spectrometer installed in the research module of the Scorpio 7 rover are presented.

Environmental crimes: concept and characteristics

The article analyses the theoretical provisions of the system of environmental crimes in the Russian Federation. The positions of modern authors concerning the main characteristics of the crimes studied are studied. The main objective of this work is to develop a comprehensive definition of the concept of "environmental crimes", highlighting their characteristics and its relationship with related categories. The relevance of the present study is first determined by the steady growth of quantitative and qualitative indicators of national crime, which indicates the inefficiency of existing mechanisms of criminal law counteraction to environmental crimes. The author believes that the resolution of applied problems directly related to the practical activities of law enforcement agencies is possible only with the resolution of basic theoretical issues, among which a special place is given to theoretical and conceptual aspects of environmental crimes. Thus, the problematic of the concept and characteristics of environmental crimes is of particular importance, especially in the light of the lack of a legislative approach to the definition of the category in question.

Constitutional Amendment Procedures in the World and Suggestions for Vietnam

The Constitution, which has the highest legal effect, stipulates the most important and fundamental principles of the political regime, the organization of state power, human rights and fundamental rights of citizens. Therefore, amending the constitution is not only a serious legal event, which significantly affects the legal system in general, but also affects many aspects of social life. The constitutional amendment procedure shall be difficult and complex to avoid arbitrary change as well as be applicable and feasible to process. Guaranteeing this balance is not easy, and vary in different historical circumstances. This explains why the constitutional amendment procedure is still an important and preferred subject in legal studies though it is not a new issue. This article focuses on studying some basic theoretical issues about the constitutional amendment and constitutional amendment procedures in the world; on this basis, this article makes some recommendations for constitutional amendment procedures in Vietnam.
 Keywords: Amending constitutions, making constitutions, constitutional review.
 

Research on the relationships between discourse leading indicators and citations: perspectives from altmetrics indicators of international multidisciplinary academic journals

PurposeThis paper aims to analyze the relationships between discourse leading indicators and citations from perspectives of integrating altmetrics indicators and tries to provide references for comprehending the quantitative indicators of scientific communication in the era of open science, constructing the evaluation indicator system of the discourse leading for academic journals and then improving the discourse leading of academic journals.Design/methodology/approachBased on the theory of communication and the new pattern of scientific communication, this paper explores the formation process of academic journals' discourse leading. This paper obtains 874,119 citations and 6,378,843 altmetrics indicators data from 65 international multidisciplinary academic journals. The relationships between indicators of discourse leading (altmetrics) and citations are studied by using descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, principal component analysis, negative binomial regression analysis and marginal effects analysis. Meanwhile, the connotation and essential characteristics of the indicators, the strength and influence of the relationships are further analyzed and explored. It is proposed that academic journals' discourse leading is composed of news discourse leading, social media discourse leading, peer review discourse leading, encyclopedic discourse leading, video discourse leading and policy discourse leading.FindingsIt is discovered that the 15 altmetrics indicators data have a low degree of centralization to the center and a high degree of polarization dispersion overall; their distribution patterns do not follow the normal distributions, and their distributions have the characteristics of long-tailed right-peaked curves. Overall, 15 indicators show positive correlations and wide gaps exist in the number of mentions and coverage. The academic journals' discourse leading significantly affects total cites. When altmetrics indicators of international mainstream academic and social media platforms are used to explore the connotation and characteristics of academic journals' discourse leading, the influence or contribution of social media discourse, news discourse, video discourse, policy discourse, peer review discourse and encyclopedia discourse on the citations decreases in turn.Originality/valueThis study is innovative from the academic journal level to analyze the deep relationships between altmetrics indicators and citations from the perspective of correlation. First, this paper explores the formation process of academic journals' discourse leading. Second, this paper integrates altmetrics indicators to study the correlation between discourse leading indicators and citations. This study will help to enrich and improve basic theoretical issues and indicators’ composition, provide theoretical support for the construction of the discourse leading evaluation system for academic journals and provide ideas for the evaluation practice activities.

Stakeholder involvement in the curricula modernisation through a virtual foresight laboratory

Introduction. Involvement of stakeholders into curricula modernisation in modern educational institutions has always been significant due to the existing misbalance between the social requirements and outdated educational materials.Aim. The aim of the research is to analyse the three dimensions of stakeholder involvement into curricula modernisation in education on the basis of Kostanay regional university named after A.Baitursynov (Kostanay, Kazakhstan): maximal involvement, partial involvement, and formal participation.Methodology and research methods. The research is based on the 10 sessions 1.5 h each organised on the platform of the virtual foresight laboratory (VFL) specially designed for the realisation of maximal involvement of the participants. Two in-depth face-to-face interview sessions with the focus groups (FG) participants (1 entry interview and 1 post-sessional interview) were organised and processed.Results. The results of the sessions with 6 stakeholders represented focus group 1 that demonstrated the new maps of the future curriculum and modernised the text of the existing educational curriculum in terms of the goals, content and competencies requirements. The highlights include the following results of the study: the FG1 participants indicated their synergy in foreseeing the future through mapping, trends design and discussions in VFL; there was the increase of the learning gain among FG1 stakeholders in terms of the structure of the curriculum, educational programme, types of competencies, foresight research; the personal growth of stakeholder involvement into curricula modernisation was directly observed, as their gained experience was reflected in further modernisation of educational programmes of other majors.Scientific novelty. The research presents the key theoretical role of virtual foresight laboratory in curricula modernisation, basic theoretical issues on design of the future maps and foresight planning.Practical significance. Practical outcomes in curricula modernisation can be adapted to any educational institutions aimed at perspective planning and foresight applications.

Reliability Analysis of Sports Training Evaluation Index Based on Random Matrix

This paper presents an in-depth study and analysis of the reliability of indicators for the evaluation of sports training using the algorithm of random matrices. Random matrix theory is used to obtain the degree of randomness of the data and the overall correlation characteristics of the data through statistical analysis of the energy spectrum and eigenstates of complex systems. Using the results of random matrix theory on the eigenvalues of the sample covariance matrix, the energy of each subspace is estimated, and the estimated energy is then used to construct the subspace weighting matrix. The problem of reliable finite-time stability of the model under several types of uncertain time-lagged bounded transfer probability Markov jump parameter compatibility indicators is also explored. The four basic theoretical issues, namely, value orientation, construction basis, construction principles, and conceptual model of the sports training work evaluation index system, are studied. This paper takes the construction of a sports training evaluation index system as the research object and uses the literature method, expert interview method, questionnaire survey method, data analysis method, Delphi method, and hierarchical analysis method as the main research methods to construct a set of sports training evaluation index system as the research task, to enrich the idea of sports training evaluation work, and to provide a reference for the future government to be able to develop a sports training evaluation index system that is in line with the development of the times. The research method was used to collect the opinions of experts. The subjective opinions given by experts were collected using the assignment method, and the weight coefficients of each index were calculated using the AHP hierarchical analysis method. The result is that the index of basic conditions (0.3591) has the largest weight in the whole system. After that, organization and management (0.1911), work effectiveness (0.1376), staffing (0.103), activity development (0.0828), financial and fund management (0.0562), publicity and reporting (0.0382), and material provision (0.032) are in order. The evaluation results of the index system are consistent with the current actual situation of specialization teaching, indicating that the index system for evaluating the effectiveness of high school sports training has good validity.

Decentralizacja – podstawowe zagadnienia teoretyczne

DECENTRALIZATION: BASIC THEORETICAL ISSUES
 The article examines decentralization as a feature of organizational structures. In order to show the complexity of decentralization, the analysis comprises four perspectives. In the subject perspective, the structural characteristic of decentralization is indicated and its specificity in public organizations is pointed out. The object perspective distinguishes components of the concept of decentralization and forms (types) of decentralization of the state and implementation of public tasks. In the teleological perspective, the objectives of decentralization, its advantages and disadvantages as well as limitations are indicated. The last perspective – processual – allows to demonstrate two additional features of decentralization, i.e., its gradualness and dynamics.

Psychological shocks and creative moments in psychotherapy

ABSTRACT Milton H. Erickson’s use of psychological shock is illustrated with five of his case histories with and without the use of hypnosis. The author outlines a number of principles for the safe and successful use of such shock therapy. Erickson’s concept of psychological shock is then integrated with the author’s views on the facilitating of creative moments as the essence of psychotherapy. A basic theoretical issue is discussed: Is hypnotherapy (and psychotherapy in general) to be concerned with the actual synthesis of new psychic structures or does it deal primarily with the creative reutilization of previous learnings?

Research on big data-driven public services in China: a visualized bibliometric analysis

The gradual establishment of systematic, equalized, and standardized basic public services has drawn attention of the academic community to the mismatch between supply-demand, and public dissatisfaction. Big-data-driven public services innovatively attempt to solve these problems, and reflect the theoretical essence of the process by which big data can empower the responsiveness of governments. In this study, we adopted the theoretical frameworks of ‘diversified needs–selective responses’, ‘risk shocks–forward-looking responses’, and ‘forward-looking predictions–creative responses’. We propose that big data-driven public services should respond not only to present needs but also to social risks and future needs. Therefore, it is imperative to review the status, problems, and future directions of big data-driven public service research in China. This study uses bibliometric visualization analysis on data from research projects, monographs, and journal publications. The results reveal that the main research topics are basic theoretical issues, service-oriented government development guided by big data strategies, practical innovation of public services in the context of smart governance, and the effective supply of big data-driven public services. Previous studies suffered from weak theoretical reflection and construction, lacked relevant institutions, had less fine-grained and fragmented technical support, and lacked foresight and guidance. Attention should be paid to normative theories and institutions in big data-driven public services to ensure that these services are more targeted and prospective; creative research should be conducted. The systematic summarization of the current state of research and reflections on prospective and creative research trends will provide new ideas regarding future research directions.

A novel direction relation reasoning model based Environmental Protection GIS

To make the complicated environmental protection work simple, environmental protection GIS is widely used. Direction relation reasoning is an important branch of spatial reasoning, it is also one of the most basic theoretical issues in the Environmental Protection Geographic Information System. This paper proposes a modelling method of combining the cone-shaped direction relation model with the direction relation matrix to determine the fuzzy direction relation between spatial entities on the basis of the cone-shaped direction relation model and direction relation matrix in Environmental Protection Geographic Information System, the advantages of the two models are fully utilized to overcome the disadvantages of them. Firstly, “central-region” is divided into nine equal internal sub-regions on the basis of the Minimum Bounding Rectangle (MBR) model. Then, the central-region of the direction relation matrix is divided again by using the cone-shaped direction relation model, and a fuzzy formal description model is given by taking point entity and area entity as research objects. The application of direction relation reasoning model in Environmental Protection GIS is helpful to improve the efficiency of judging the direction of pollution sources and the level of environmental protection.

Moral Capital and Moral Construction in Contemporary China

To promote more emphasis on real life in ethics, develop economic ethics especially moral capital theory and further promote the moral construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, the high-level forum on frontier issues in ethics, which was jointly organized by the Institute of Ethics of Nanjing Normal University and the School of Marxism of Sanjiang University, was successfully held at Nanjing Normal University on July 11, 2021. The forum collected more than 50 high-quality academic papers and attracted more than 80 scholars from Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Nanjing Normal University and other universities. Focusing on the ethical frontier theme of “moral capital and moral construction in contemporary China”, the participating scholars conducted comprehensive and in-depth exchanges and discussions on moral capital and social development, moral capital and corporate ethics, the centennial development of applied ethics and some basic theoretical issues of ethics.

RÈN LUYỆN KĨ NĂNG QUẢN LÍ THỜI GIAN CHO SINH VIÊN NĂM THỨ NHẤT CÁC TRƯỜNG SƯ PHẠM

On the basis of systematizing basic theoretical issues on practicing time management skills for freshmen in pedagogical universities; surveying and evaluating the situation of practicing time management skills for freshmen in two pedagogical universities and two pedagogical colleges, the authors propose five measures to practice management skills time for first-year students in pedagogical universities, which include: Focusing on organizing refresher activities, raising their awareness about the importance of time management skills; developing time management skills practice activities for them in the University Skill Club; attracting students to participate in Youth Union and Association activities; testing and evaluating the results of practicing freshmen’s time management skills on a regular basis.

The history, basic institutions and theoretical hubs of Hungarian communications market regulation

This study systematises and analyses one of the most important instruments of communications competition management in Hungary, “market regulation”, on the basis of public administration theory. In this context, it discusses in detail the basic theoretical issues of communications market regulation and market competition, the conceptual elements of ex ante asymmetric competition management, including the connections between general competition management and special communications competition management. The study systematises the tools of Hungarian communications market regulation, procedure types and the concept of significant market power in communications management on a scientific basis, and discusses the relevant enforcement practice in detail.

Role of Policies and Laws of the Country in the Activities of Exploiting and Using the East Sea

The paper focuses on research and commentary clarifying some basic theoretical issues about marine policy and law; analyze current situation of policies and laws in the East Sea currently; From there, generalizing matters with methodological significance to identify and confirm the role of national policies and laws on the use and exploitation of the East Sea in the current context.
 Keywords: role, policy, law, South China sea.