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Training of Future Social Workers on the Basis of the Competence Approach During the Study of the Discipline «Fundamentals of Research in Social Work»

Theoretical and applied issues of training future social workers on the basis of the competence approach during the study of the discipline are studied. Analysis and systematization of scientific research in the process of training future social workers allowed determining the main potential of the competence approach to training future social workers during their professionalization. The aim of the article is to describe and substantiate the competency approach during the study of the discipline «Fundamentals of research in social work». It is substantiated that training of social workers on the basis of competence approach during studying of discipline «Fundamentals of scientific researches in social work» allows to apply theoretical knowledge for the decision of practical problems, forms professionally necessary complex of competences, helps to develop students’ independent thinking, combining theory with practice. The benefit of article is that the paper analyzes each lesson (lecture and practical) and proposes a system of work on the formation of future social workers’ professional competencies within the components of readiness for professional activity. In author’s opinion, expanding the content of academic disciplines with theoretical knowledge and practical tasks for the organization and implementation of research in social work and professional development will enrich and modernize the content of future social workers’ training in the competence approach. In addition, the disclosure of ways to implement the training of future social workers in the competence approach will improve the quality of their training in modern conditions. The author of the article has made a conclusion that, on the basis of the analysis of the study of the discipline «Fundamentals of research in social work», the competence of the future social worker is seen as the ability to solve a wide range of tasks in the social field, the ability to quickly and quickly master new special skills, willingness to cope with new professional functions that determine the features of professional assistance to different types of clients. The prospects for further exploration in this area are seen by the author as systematization of innovative technologies of the organization of educational process of HEI, development of the system of forming the future social workers’ competence paradigm.

The Influence of Audit Staff Quality and Client Type on Audit Evidence Collection with Communication Type as Moderation

This study aims to examine the effect of audit staff quality (staff in-charge or auditors who carry out audit tasks) and the client type on the audit evidence collection is moderated by the communication type. The study population was auditors working in the Makassar Public Accounting Firm. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling, while the data collection was done by distributing questionnaires to all auditors who met the sample criteria. The samples are thirty-three auditors from seven public accountant office in Makassar city. The hypothesis test was conducted using Smart PLS 3. This study found that the audit staff quality, client type, and communication type had a positive effect on the collection of audit evidence directly. Furthermore, the moderation test results found that the communication type strengthens the relationship between the client type and the collection of audit evidence. It means that while gathering audit evidence, the higher the audit staff quality, the more evidence they can obtain. The same result also found in the relationship between the client type and the audit evidence collection. When the client type is friendly, the more audit evidence is gathered. Based on these results, it is suggested that junior auditor must build their confidence in dealing with the clients.

The moderating effect of client types on the relationship between green construction practices and health and safety performance

ABSTRACT There has been an ongoing debate about the difference in the health and safety performance of projects that adopt green construction practices on account of the type of clients. This paper aims to explore how the type of client influence the health and safety performance of projects that adopt green construction practices in Nigeria. The moderating effect of client type was tested empirically by data collected through a survey using a structured questionnaire. The responses received were analysed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling technique. The results show that client type has a positive significant effect on the relationship between waste management and health and safety performance, while client type had a negative significant effect on the relationship between energy management practices and health and safety performance indicators such as the safety measures put in place, compliance with safety regulations, and the number of accidents recorded on construction sites. Client type does not moderate the relationship between materials management and health and safety performance. It is concluded that the nature and strength of the relationship between green construction practices and health and safety performance differs depending on the client type. Understanding the varying effects of client types on the relationship between green practices and health and safety performance will be beneficial to contractors in managing construction projects dynamically, depending on the client types to achieve high health and safety performance.

Partner Gender Differences in Prestige of Clients Served at the Largest U.S. Audit Firms

Despite tremendous investment to promote gender equity, U.S. public accounting firms continue to be gendered organizations. Our archival study examines gender equity within the partnership of these large firms for a one-year period. We find female partners are clustered in lower prestige client types including investment funds, benefit plans, and single audits, rather than higher prestige public company clients. Second, we consider whether there is gender bias in prestige of client served by female partners who lead public company audits. In these tests of those individuals who have already achieved the partnership and lead public company audits, we find no evidence of bias. This research contributes to the understanding of gender bias in U.S. public accounting firms and helps inform the societal narrative on where women continue to be marginalized even when they have achieved the highest levels in an organization.

THE SPECIFICITY OF EMOTIONAL LABOR OF SOCIAL WORKERS HELPING CHILDREN

The article presents the results of the study of the emotional perception of clients conducted among Russian social workers who help children. The research is based on the concept of the role of emotional labor in professional activities. At the same time, we proceed from the understanding that the content and volume of emotional labor depends on the type of clients of social workers: its specificity when working with children will not be the same as when working with adults. The results of the research show that social workers who help children have difficulties in regulating emotions when interacting with clients, and therefore in assessing children's actions and behavior. The results of the study show that the effectiveness of emotional labor of social workers helping children depends on the level of knowledge of the age characteristics of children and the pedagogical mechanisms of communicating with them. We conclude that we should pay more attention to the role of emotional labor in everyday social work with children.

Translators’ work requirements and graduates’ preparedness: multi-perspective data from Australia and Vietnam

ABSTRACT This paper reports on an empirical study of translators’ work requirements in two case studies from Australia and Vietnam. Based on both online survey and follow-up interview data of 147 translators, including professional translators, translation students and trainers working as translators, this study presents their perceptions of how professional translation work is performed, and the competences that university translation programs need to focus on to prepare graduates for the world of work. Applying a translator competence model adapted from models of translator competence towards translator education, translators’ work requirements in this paper refer to requirements (1) specified to translators for a translation task, (2) from different client types (domestic and overseas clients), and (3) for different translators’ work status (freelance and in-house translators). The research findings reveal translators’ beliefs that, within the changing demands of professional translation and translators’ work status, translator training needs to take into account both international and local work requirements to prepare graduates for the globalised market. The collated statistical survey data and expansive follow-up interviews provide insights that have pedagogical implications for translator trainers and program developers.

Stories of strangers: Writing donor acquisition letters in the human services

AbstractThis study explores the choices fundraisers make in crafting letters to acquire new donors for a human services organization, and whether the type of client served affects those choices. We use an experiment to control for organizational differences, and code the resulting letters written for elements identified in theory and practice, then perform an exploratory factor analysis to find patterns of co‐occurring variables. Writers tended to focus either on the quality of the organization or the unmet need in the community, but not both. Two of the factors, Universalism and Security, describe distinct personal value constructs that may reflect the preferences of the writer or the presumed preferences of the reader. Compared to participants writing for an older adult client base, participants writing for clients with mental illness were less likely to use a negative frame, more likely to use statistical evidence, and used lower expectations in describing successful client outcomes. Within letters, clients were described using three patterns: by describing a stranger who is worth helping because of intrinsic attributes; by describing a stranger who is worth helping because of their relationships within the social order; by describing the client group using facts and statistics, rather than an emotionally compelling story narrative.

Use and intensity of electronic invoices in firms: The example of Sweden

Electronic (e−) invoices potentially enhance environmental sustainability in several stages from production of paper to its usage. This study investigates empirically to what extent a set of firm characteristics and external factors associate with the probability to send e-invoices and with the intensity of usage, based on a representative survey of approximately 1500 Swedish firms. An invoice is considered electronic when it is exchanged in an automated system between the buyer and the seller. The analysis includes firms with one employee or larger across all industries except, agriculture, fishery, forestry, public administration and defence. Descriptive statistics show that 42 per cent of the firms in 2016 send e-invoices. By use of a two-part model, estimation results reveal that both internal and external factors are associated with the e-invoice behaviour. The probability of adoption is significantly higher for firms with government sector clients and a large number of invoices. The intensity estimation exhibits a reverse pattern, where the number of e-invoices is most strongly associated with the invoice pattern. Another internal factor of importance for the extent of e-invoices is the level of labour productivity. Construction firms have the highest probability to adopt e-invoices and manufacturing firms scale-up the usage. Besides this, neither industry affiliation nor size-class is crucial. When size-class is estimated separately, it appears that medium-sized and large firms strongly associate their invoice adoption with type of client, while the extent of the activity is solely related to internal factors. For micro enterprises and small firms, kind of client is the most important aspect at all.

Reinforcement Learning Theory Reveals the Cognitive Requirements for Solving the Cleaner Fish Market Task.

Learning is an adaptation that allows individuals to respond to environmental stimuli in ways that improve their reproductive outcomes. The degree of sophistication in learning mechanisms potentially explains variation in behavioral responses. Here, we present a model of learning that is inspired by documented intra- and interspecific variation in the performance of a simultaneous two-choice task, the biological market task. The task presents a problem that cleaner fish often face in nature: choosing between two client types, one that is willing to wait for inspection and one that may leave if ignored. The cleaner's choice hence influences the future availability of clients (i.e., it influences food availability). We show that learning the preference that maximizes food intake requires subjects to represent in their memory different combinations of pairs of client types rather than just individual client types. In addition, subjects need to account for future consequences of actions, either by estimating expected long-term reward or by experiencing a client leaving as a penalty (negative reward). Finally, learning is influenced by the absolute and relative abundance of client types. Thus, cognitive mechanisms and ecological conditions jointly explain intra- and interspecific variation in the ability to learn the adaptive response.

A Study on the Career Design Types of Adult Clients in Career Construction Counseling

A Study on the Career Design Types of Adult Clients in Career Construction Counseling

Warehousing process performance improvement: a tailored framework for 3PL

PurposeThird-party logistic providers (3PLs) continuously strive for controlling and improving their performances to gain a competitive advantage. The challenging environment where they operate is affected by high variety in type and number of clients, the inventory mix and the demand profiles they have to meet. Consequently, better understanding the dynamics of warehousing operations and the characteristics of the inventory mix is critical to handle such a complexity.Design/Methodology/approachThis paper proposes a decision-support framework, suited for 3PL warehouse practitioners, that aids to design and implement effective and affordable activities for measuring and improving the warehousing performances. Such goal is pursued by the framework by leading the managers through an initial mapping and diagnosis of the system, then by developing a tailored measurement system to track the performance, paving the way to the identification of the criticalities and the potential improvement scenarios.FindingsThis paper presents a case study on the implementation of the proposed framework at a warehouse of an Italian 3PL provider to introduce a new storage assignment policy and reduce the travelling time for order picking. Furthermore, the paper exemplifies how the framework contributes to enhance the awareness of managers on warehousing operations and the involvement of the personnel throughout the improvement process.Practical implicationThe proposed framework can be implemented by operations managers of 3PL warehouses who want to pursue general performance improvement projects. With respect to the case study, this framework contributes to identify the storage assignment policy that reduces the travelling for order picking in the observed warehouse of 8 percent in a month but is intended to address to even other areas of improvement in 3PL warehousing environments.Originality/valueInstead of focusing on the proper methods and models that optimize a specific task or performance indicator, it provides a general framework that leads the managers through the decisional process, from the preliminary diagnosis of the system, to its benchmarking, towards the implementation of corrective and improving solutions.

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Practice of Supportive Psychotherapy.

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Practice of Supportive Psychotherapy.

Innovations in Management of Banks Deposit Portfolio: Structure of Customer Deposit

The economic and statistical analysis of the bank's deposit portfolio by the structure of deposits has been performed. An algorithm for grouping deposits by type of client, amount, maturity, and interest rate is proposed and tested. A technique is proposed for analyzing the influence of the type of forming factors: the amount, term, and interest rate on the change in the number of dividends on a bank deposit. The influence of each type of deposit on the overall increase in interest payments is determined. The purpose of the article is to improve the methodological approach to the effective management of the bank's deposit portfolio using the economic and statistical analysis of the structure of deposits. A study of the literature shows that insufficient attention is paid to the formation of an optimal deposit portfolio of the bank. The relevance of the article lies in the need to use the mathematical apparatus to optimize the process of managing the borrowed funds of customers. The tendency of changes in the amounts of balances, volumes of inflow, and subsidence of deposits of corporate clients and individuals in the bank is analyses. The methodology for grouping deposits by amounts, interest rates, and investment terms has been improved, which allows structural positioning changes in the total amount of the bank's deposit portfolio. A technique is proposed for studying the influence of factors on the structure of deposits in a bank. The methodology of index factor analysis has been improved to study the structure of deposits in the bank. For the analysis of cash flows, the average storage period, and average deposit balances for a certain period are determined. The index of the average duration of the use of a variable composition deposit is calculated. The economic effect for the bank from increasing the terms of attracting financial resources is calculated. A set of indicators has been proposed for assessing the effectiveness of managing customer funds raised. The study is based on a combination of statistical and economic-mathematical methods of analysis, a system-structural approach (systematization, grouping and ranking, analysis of time series, and scientific abstraction). Presented various marketing tricks that bank depositors may meet. The developed methodological provisions of a statistical study of the structure of deposits can be used in modeling and forecasting the results of financial institutions. Practical recommendations allow us to give an objective assessment of the state of the resource base of the bank in terms of the effective management of funds of individuals and corporate clients. Keywords: analysis, bank, monetary resources, deposit, efficiency, customers, portfolio, interest, amount, term, management.

Scale Insect Records from Ornamental Plants Help to Prioritize Plant Health Resource Development

Estimates about which scale insect species are most frequently encountered in U.S. landscapes and commercial production systems are largely anecdotal. This survey of records maintained across about 15 years within the National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN) National Data Repository (NDR) returned information from 10,671 records of 192 scale insect species and 23 suspected species that were associated with ornamental plants. This broad species diversity challenges our ability to effectively train diagnosticians, can confound species identification accuracy, and impedes outreach efforts and resource development. To help focus future efforts in the development of outreach resources and diagnostic training guides, lists were assembled that identified the 60 top-ranked soft, armored, mealybug, and other scale insect taxa most frequently diagnosed within NDR records. Diagnostic service records from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee provided more extensive information regarding sites or client types from which submitted samples originated. Results are being used to develop web-based, image-rich guides to key scale insect taxa in the southeastern United States that will explain life cycles, behaviors, and biology for pest species. These web-based guides can be exploited to optimize pest management actions.

НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ ПРОЕКТНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО БАНКА РЕКОНСТРУКЦИИ И РАЗВИТИЯ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ В 1990–2010 гг. (часть 1)

Employing a full database of 822 projects, for the first time, this article presents an analysis of operations of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the EBRD) in Russia since 1991 until nowadays. In the first part of the article, we consider main principles and general indicators of the EBRD’s activity in the Russian Federation. Using the author’s technique, we study how projects are distributed across different sectors, by size, type of financing and clients’ sponsors. The second part of this article focuses on a detailed analysis of the project activity of the EBRD in 11 economic sectors based on the bank’s classification: agribusiness, natural resources, manufacturing and services, equity funds, information and communication technologies, property and tourism, energy, municipal and environmental infrastructure (utilities), transport, banking and non-banking financial sectors.

НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ ПРОЕКТНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО БАНКА РЕКОНСТРУКЦИИ И РАЗВИТИЯ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ В 1990–2010 гг. (часть 2)

Employing a full database of 822 projects, for the first time, this article presents an analysis of operations of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the EBRD) in Russia since 1991 until nowadays. In the first part of the article, we consider main principles and general indicators of the EBRD’s activity in the Russian Federation. Using the author’s technique, we study how projects are distributed across different sectors, by size, type of financing and clients’ sponsors. The second part of this article focuses on a detailed analysis of the project activity of the EBRD in 11 economic sectors based on the bank’s classification: agribusiness, natural resources, manufacturing and services, equity funds, information and communication technologies, property and tourism, energy, municipal and environmental infrastructure (utilities), transport, banking and non-banking financial sectors.

Dairy veterinarians’ skills in motivational interviewing are linked to client verbal behavior

Veterinarians often give advice in a persuasive form, a style that has been shown to evoke resistance to change in clients experiencing psychological ambivalence (i.e. those who see both advantages and disadvantages to changing). With this style of communication, veterinarians run the risk of counteracting their purpose to encourage clients to follow recommendations. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client-centered communication methodology that aims to facilitate clients’ internal motivation to change. In MI, Change Talk represents clients’ own statements expressing consideration of, motivation for or commitment to behavior change and has been shown to be strongly correlated with behavior change. Sustain Talk is corresponding statements related to maintaining the status quo. The aim of this exploratory study was to evaluate the potential of MI to facilitate behavior change in veterinary herd health management (VHHM) by investigating the effect of dairy cattle veterinarians’ MI skills on client Change and Sustain Talk. We recorded VHHM consultancies on 170 Swedish cattle farms performed by 36 veterinarians, randomly distributed into 2 groups: MI veterinarians (n = 18) had received 6-month training in MI and control veterinarians (n = 18) had not received any training. Veterinarians’ MI skills were assessed using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity coding system 4.2.1 and categorized as poor_untrained, poor_trained, near moderate and moderate. Client communication was coded using the Client Language Easy Rating coding system. The effect of MI skills on Change Talk, Sustain Talk and Proportion of Change Talk (Change Talk divided by the sum of Sustain Talk plus Change Talk) was investigated using cross-classified regression models with random intercepts for veterinarian and client (farm). The models also included additional explanatory variables (e.g. type of veterinarian and client’s satisfaction with the consultation). The veterinarian’s MI skills were associated with the client’s Change Talk, but results regarding Sustain Talk or Proportion of Change Talk were inconclusive. Clients of veterinarians reaching the highest (i.e. moderate) MI skills expressed 1.5 times more Change Talk than clients of untrained veterinarians. Clients of general large animal practitioners expressed less Sustain Talk than clients of animal health veterinarians and had higher Proportion of Change Talk. Results indicate that learning to practice MI may be one means to improve adherence to veterinary recommendations and to improve efficiency in VHHM services.

Evaluating the sustainability of differentiated service delivery interventions for stable ART clients in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review protocol

IntroductionIn 2015, WHO recommended immediate treatment for people living with HIV (PLHIV). As a result, the number of PLHIV needing antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) doubled from 12...

A Review on DDOS Attack, TCP Flood Attack in Cloud Environment

Pattern of exploitation distributed computing inside the field of information Technology to influence giving climbable and flexible offices to the buyers according to request is rising as of late. Distributed computing bargains benefits in 3 levels alluded to as framework, stage and bundle to influence the solicitations of type of clients. The direct cloud attributes encase with multi abidance, area and gadget autonomy, versatility, asset pooling and estimated administration. since the utilization of proposals administration will expand the a great deal of there's security worry because of the a ton of assortment of IT abilities gave as an assistance in cloud, the a ton of the shot in security is concern. From the varying assaults which will influence the cloud setting, TCP Flood, DDoS assaults will reason a huge break in security. For adapting to DDOS assaults there territory unit various procedures and ways that region unit upheld related state of genuine which will be extra arranged as impedance, discovery and response that is once impacts. a ton of precisely this leads from maintaining a strategic distance from predominance of DDOS, worthy answers for watch once it happened and right procedure to deal with this disavowal of administration assaults while not acquiring framework administrations unrealizable by client.

Transforming Into Men Who Matter: Increasing Empathy in Domestic Abuse Treatment

ABSTRACT Men referred to domestic abuse treatment are typically involuntary clients, ranging from being legally mandated to being under significant pressure from others to attend. Such treatment programs have mixed results in achieving change in abusive behaviours. Most programs emphasise taking responsibility for abusive behaviour by examining the precursor thinking beliefs and values, with less attention paid to learning new interpersonal skills that replace antisocial behaviours with prosocial alternatives. Empathy provides a measurable moderator of moving beyond simply acknowledging responsibility for past abuse into learning and applying prosocial relationship enhancement skills with their treatment cohort, families, and significant others. This paper describes a program that builds empathy skills through a series of program and mentalisation tasks that include routine client feedback using the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS). Evidence of increased retention and statistically significant changes in empathy using the Social Empathy Index are provided from a previous study examining the same program. The practice and research implications for domestic abuse clients and other involuntary populations are discussed. IMPLICATIONS Involuntary clients continue to have high dropout rates across a range of client populations and are a challenge to engage in the change process. With the application of the client feedback tools and relationship enhancement skills described in this paper professionals can more effectively engage other types of involuntary clients in their change efforts. The focus on empathy and relationship enhancement skills can lead to reduced treatment dropout across involuntary client populations referred for substance use, domestic violence, or other offender behaviours.