Close Circle Research Articles

Types of Relationships Between the Family of a Gifted Child and the School and Other Environments That Support the Child’s Development

The purpose of this article is to describe and clarify the relationships that are found between families of talented children and schools, institutions, and other organizations engaged in the development of children’s potential. The developmental concepts of talents prevalent in the current discourse emphasize their dynamic and interactive nature, meaning that the development of children’s abilities is processual and proceeds in the course of intricate, time-dependent interactions between internal and external factors. A significant role is played by the influence from close social circles. From this viewpoint, positive relationships between the family and school or other social environments may help children’s capabilities to flourish.
 The article draws on data originating from individual, in-depth interviews conducted with 18 families raising children with special academic, artistic, or athletic talents. The analysis identified three types of relationships between families and schools, institutions, and other organizations supporting the development of gifted children: cooperation, conflict, and natural development of a child’s talent. However, there were evident differences depending on the type of talent shown by the child, the stage in the education system they were in, and the specific profile of the school, educational institution, or organization conducting a given type of education.
 Armed with knowledge on the relationships between family and school and other social environments, it is possible to both understand and mold them in accordance with the expectations of all parties and the needs of the gifted child.

Parosmia and altered taste in patients recovering from Covid 19

Parosmia is a well-documented consequence of smell loss associated with Covid 19. Those who experience this qualitative olfactory disorder during recovery find that the odour of common foods and household items is distorted, and the experience can range from merely altered to profoundly disgusting. This can lead to a greatly altered relationship with food, including the physical symptoms of loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, as well as wider reaching issues such as withdrawal from social situations, emotional distancing from others in their close social circles, and anhedonia. There is at present no known cure or intervention to mitigate the condition. The AbScent Parosmia and Phantosmia support group on Facebook became an important resource for patients with this condition during the early part of the pandemic, and the crowd-sourcing of experiences, tips and peer-to-peer advice became a valuable source of information for the community as well as researchers trying to understand the condition. Using protocols described in earlier literature on the use of social media for qualitative research, this paper provides information on the management of parosmia based on the experiences of over 30k patients in the AbScent Parosmia and Phantosmia group on Facebook and 6k member of the AbScent Network.

Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China

Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China

The Influence of Socio-Cultural Factors on Oocyte Donors' Motivations and Disclosure Decisions

The study focuses on the motivations of Russian oocyte donors and the socio-cultural factors affecting these motivations. We conducted 16 semi-structured interviews with actual or prospective oocyte donors. All of them were patients of two fertility clinics located in the city of Yekaterinburg (Russia) planning to become oocyte donors within the period from 2 weeks to 3 months. We built a profile of a Russian oocyte donor: it is a 26-year-old married woman with at least one child; she has a secondary vocational education and a low income. All the women in our study displayed multiple motivations: apart from the interest in a financial reward and purely altruistic motivations, for many women the decisive factor is their desire to help their friends or relatives struggling with infertility. Interestingly, almost all of our respondents described their decision to donate as an attempt to move past a traumatic situation they once endured and to achieve closure by doing something really important and good. For many women, oocyte donation becomes a way to boost their self-esteem, to feel more significant and to promote their personal autonomy. As for barriers to donation, one of the most important is associated with the donors' unwillingness to make their identity known and to share this information even with their close circle of friends and relatives. For the majority of donors, anonymity is crucial. The disclosure of this information, in their view, will cause controversy in the donor's family and immediate circle of friends at present and will threaten their privacy in the future. The prospective donors are also concerned about the negative public attitudes or lack of understanding.

Abstracts: ALA 2022-Chicago

AbstractsALA 2022-Chicago Adam Fales Melville's Authorship Throughout his career, Herman Melville offered diverse characterizations of authorial personae. For Melville, authorship is a "ditcher's work," whereby the author "dig[s] in [his] soul for the fine gold of genius." It's also a practice of architecture that leaves "the crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower." Literature can be a kind of weapon that the author aims at a reading public, "every canto a twenty-four-pound shot." The list goes on, but as generations of feminist scholars have shown, Melville's authorial labor was also deeply unequal, relying on the uncompensated and unrecognized work of the women in his life. Over the past two centuries, the author has been differently characterized as a tormented genius, a commercial failure, a grieving father, an abusive husband, a poet who wrote novels, a novelist who wrote poems, and in the words of one contemporary reviewer: "HERMAN MELVILLE CRAZY." Considering all this, it's unclear whether Melville's authorship should be understood as one thing—or even as the work of one person. This panel provided new approaches to studying Melville and the question of authorship, focusing on two aspects of his authorial representations. Two of our panelists turned to Melville's Spanish-language intertexts, with Maria H. Barrera-Agarwal uncovering a previously overlooked and unpublished Spanish translation of Typee. Leah Leone Anderson turns to a later interlocutor of Melville, studying the shifts in meaning that take place in Jorge Luis Borges's own translation of "Bartleby, the Scrivener." The other half of our panel took up one of Melville's novels most preoccupied by the presentation of [End Page 147] the author: Pierre; or, the Ambiguities. Timothy Morris traces Melville's complex play of identification and representation across his depictions of authorship. Samantha O'Connor turns not to the character of Pierre but to the character of Isabel as Melville's authorial figure in the novel, tracing her depiction as a "poisonous muse," which she historicizes alongside criminal cases of the period. Across these various papers, Melville's authorial figurations are multilingual, multigendered, and never straightforward. _______ Imaginary Authorship: The Unknown First Translator of Typee into Spanish Maria H. Barrera-Agarwal Independent Scholar The process of translating Herman Melville's works into Spanish was arduous and belated. The first publication of one of his works—unsurprisingly, Moby-Dick—occurred only in 1940, almost ninety years after the book had appeared in English. Typee would be rendered two years later, in 1942, and Benito Cereno in 1943. The reasons for these late editions run parallel to Melville's authorial fame in the English-speaking world: without wide prominence and critical approval, it was rare for a nineteenth-century author to be translated into Spanish. In Melville's case, even when posthumous celebrity finally arrived, the difficulties created by the specialized language he used in his fiction added to the delay, as well to the contrasting readability of the versions published. This paper unveils for the first time the existence of the earliest translator of Melville into Spanish. A Spaniard and a contemporary of Melville, the translator was a man eminently suited to the task: he was a polyglot, knew English exceedingly well, and had full command of nautical nomenclature, having worked as a seaman and become an erudite in sea-related subjects. He chose Typee as the book to render into Spanish, and he likely achieved the task within the three decades subsequent to the original publication of the book. Despite these facts, his translation was never published, and his close circle of friends believed that he used the name of Herman Melville as a pseudonym, a façade for the creation of a book they fully ascribed to his imagination. _______ Borges Translates "Bartleby": From Moral Allegory to Fantastic Narrative Leah Leone Anderson John Jay University As one of the twentieth century's major innovators of unreliable narration in fiction, and a champion for irreverent translation practices that privilege translators' own artistic sensibilities, Jorge Luis Borges is the last author one would expect to make a narrator more reliable. Yet in his translation [End Page 148...

Traditional and complementary medicine use for knee osteoarthritis

Objectives: This study aims to determine the traditional and complementary medicine (TCM) use in patients with knee osteoarthritis, by whom these methods are recommended, which methods provide the patients with the best outcome, and to contribute to the awareness of physicians about TCM methods. Methods: One hundred four patients over the age of 40 who were diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis and had complaints for at least 6 months were included in the study. The TCM applications in the previous treatments of the patients, and whether they used additional medications or not, and finally, the TCM method they benefited from the most, and who recommended and applied these methods were questioned and recorded. Results: In our study, we found that the most commonly used treatments were phytotherapy products and supportive drugs, in line with the literature. We did not find the use of hypnosis, hirudotherapy, reflexology, homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, maggot applications, apitherapy, or music therapy methods. TCM methods of patients, we determined that they learned from their families and close circles rather than the doctors they applied to. Conclusions: Patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis commonly use TCM methods, phytotherapy being in the first place.

THE RELATIONS BETWEEN FEAR OF COVID-19, ANXIETY OF DEATH, AND MEANING OF LIFE AMONG NURSING STUDENTS

Abstract
 Aim of the study was to determine the effects of socio-demographic factors on fear of COVID-19, death anxiety, and meaning of life among nursing students, and to explain the relations between fear of COVID-19, death anxiety, and meaning of life. The study was conducted with 262 students on 7-27 October 2020 in a descriptive-correlational and cross-sectional design. According to the correlation analysis, a moderate and positive relationship was detected between Fear of COVID-19 Scale (CFS) and Turkish Death Anxiety Scale (TDAS) total score and subscale scores. The mean age of the students who participated in the study was found to be 20.63±2.31, 64.1% were female. It was found that 29% of the students had sleep problems in this period, and 7.6% were diagnosed with COVID-19, and 85.9% of themhad their close friends and relatives diagnosed with COVID-19. The majority of the students (n=16) who were diagnosed with COVID-19 passed this process under quarantine at home without treatment, 59.2% of them stated that someone in their close circle had a positive COVID-19 test, and 31.7% lost a relative due to COVID-19. The model that was created in the multiple linear regression analysis which was made to determine the effects of TDAS and Meaning of Life Questionnaire (MLQ) on CFS was found to be statistically significant (F:54.91, p

Falling and Drowning Detection Framework Using Smartphone Sensors.

Advancements in health monitoring using smartphone sensor technologies have made it possible to quantify the functional performance and deviations in an individual's routine. Falling and drowning are significant unnatural causes of silent accidental deaths, which require an ambient approach to be detected. This paper presents the novel ambient assistive framework Falling and Drowning Detection (FaDD) for falling and drowning detection. FaDD perceives input from smartphone sensors, such as accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and GPS, that provide accurate readings of the movement of an individual's body. FaDD hierarchically recognizes the falling and drowning actions by applying the machine learning model. The approach activates embedding, in a smartphone application, to notify emergency alerts to various stakeholders (i.e., guardian, rescue, and close circle community) about drowning of an individual. FaDD detects falling, drowning, and routine actions with good accuracy of 98%. Furthermore, the FaDD framework enhances coordination to provide more efficient and reliable healthcare services to people.

Psychosocial outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnant women

The aim of this study was to compare the levels of anxiety and social support evaluated in pregnancy before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was designed prospectively and observationally. Participants were asked to fill in two different questionnaire forms for the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Independent t-test and Pearson correlation analysis were used for statistical analysis. The mean age of 386 pregnant was 29.1 ± 4.91 years, and the gestational week was 29.12 ± 4.54. The values of the total social support scale were determined 61.52 ± 5.53–51.15 ± 5.86 before and during the pandemic, while the total state anxiety scale was found 39.81 ± 9.04 and 63.38 ± 10.55, respectively. The total trait anxiety scale was found at 38.23 ± 7.39 and 53.22 ± 8.74 in the same respect. A significant difference was obtained in the data between before and during the pandemic (p < .05). The study showed that pregnant are deprived of social support and their anxiety levels increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. IMPACT STATEMENT What is already known on this subject? During the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of depression and anxiety in pregnant women have been reported as 25.6 and 30.5%, respectively. Social support is an important determinant of physical and psychological well-being, especially during pregnancy when individuals take on new responsibilities and roles. What do the results of this study add? The study showed that pregnant women were deprived of social support and their anxiety levels increased during this pandemic. The results highlight that there is a high need to mitigate mental health risks and adjust interventions under pandemic conditions. What are the implications of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? It is necessary to provide social support from family, friends, and close circles. States and health professionals need to put forward serious programs and studies to reduce the stress and anxiety experienced by the society and especially pregnant women and to provide accurate information about COVID-19.

An inquiry on organic food confusion in the consumer perception: a qualitative perspective

PurposeThis study aims to reveal consumer perceptions towards organic food, particularly emphasizing the confusion and vagueness in the public eye.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 21 well-educated and relatively high-income consumers were selected as cases of the study. The knowledge about the organic food concept and organic food preferences were analyzed through the grounded theory analysis. In this analysis, ten categories which are shopping from the close circle, the product information attitude, do it yourself (DIY), true and false facts and dilemmas, information sources, the most preferred organic products, perception of organic food indicator, market place trends, organic food orientation reasons, and attitude toward the organic products/producers were detected as the main issues.FindingsThe authors chose the cases from well-educated people who have a relatively high income, and it is seen that the knowledge levels of consumers are low regarding organic foods. This low-level knowledge becomes apparent in confused and erroneous answers and actions. The confusion over the organic food concept and the institutional image appear as two main findings of the study. The authors named this false fact as organic confusion and dilemmas in this analysis. According to the study’s results, there is a considerable amount of confusion over healthy and natural food contexts.Originality/valueThis study aims to bring a comprehensive delineation to the general perception of the organic food concept in society. And it reveals a detailed feedback for the institutions and companies on how to solve organic food problems such as confusion, institutional image problem, and false facts. Although organic product knowledge is shown as a critical factor in many studies in the literature, the number of studies that examine this situation in depth is insufficient.

Perspective of Adolescents Regarding Need of Adolescent Health Services; A Mixed Method Study in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Adolescence is a transitional period of physical and mental development that develops between childhood and adulthood. This change includes biological, social, and psychological changes. The study has tried to establish the need for adolescent health services in Pakistan. The study was designed to determine perspective of adolescents regarding need of Adolescents health services and to advocate students, parents and peers about the needs of adolescents. The study has theoretical and practical significance. A Mixed method study was conducted at the Department of Public Health, Armed Forces Post Graduate Medical Institute, National University Medical Sciences Rawalpindi from March 2022 to May 2022 by combining quantitative and qualitative research method. The data collection and analysis has followed the survey research type protocol and descriptive research methodology. Students of 1st year and 2nd year were the study population. The sample size was 380 and the duration of study was based on 2 months. Simple Random Sampling technique was used in Quantitative research method, while the focus group discussion was done with 8-10 participants. The quantitative data collection was done through closed ended questionnaire and qualitative data collection was done through open ended structured interview guide. The quantitative data was analysed statistically on SPSS and qualitative data was analysed through thematic content analysis. This study has found that regarding the knowledge about puberty and bodily changes, there were mixed opinions of the participants and adolescents have no standardized prior knowledge of bodily changes and personal hygiene to a satisfactory level. It was found that their source of guidance, was internet, friends and their close circles which is ambiguous to some extent. The study found that adolescents do not face severe anxiety or depression and other emotional complexities but they face frustration and hindrance because of lack of background knowledge. It was also found that the participants were inclined to share their experiences with their mothers, friends, relatives and their sisters. It found that the majority of the participants have not smoked or run away from home. The study also found that there is a need of adolescent health services in Pakistan. Keywords: adolescent health services, Rawalpindi

Avtentičnost v delih avtobiografskega gledališča: pristopi milenijske generacije

Med umetniki iste generacije, t. i. milenijci, ki delujejo predvsem na neodvisni sceni, lahko opazimo določene podobnosti, kot jih kažejo in uporabljajo predvsem v gledaliških formah, temah in odnosu do dramskega besedila. Bolj kot izvirna dramska besedila jih zanimajo avtobiografska besedila. Avtor pri tem ne nastopa kot samostojna oseba, temveč sodeluje cel kolektiv avtorjev. Gre za skupino ustvarjalcev, vključno z igralci oziroma izvajalci, ki izoblikuje dokončno različico besedila. Zdi se, da je izražanje avtentičnosti tako prek besedila kot na odru poglavitni namen takih pristopov k dramatiki. Predmet interpretacije postanejo trivialne in vsakdanje življenjske zadeve. V središče pozornosti postavljajo ljudi kot lastno samopodobo ali pa ljudi kot osebe, ki jih poznajo iz prijateljskih ali družinskih krogov, iz medijev ali iz pripovedovanja drugih. Avtorji se navdihujejo pri samih sebi, pri svojih težavah in odnosu do življenja. Poleg tega ustvarjalci radi pripovedujejo o sebi, analizirajo svoja občutja in zaznave, kot da bi imelo to, da jih lahko definirajo pred gledalci, nanje terapevtski učinek in bi potrjevalo relevantnost njihovega odnosa do življenja. Kaj lahko taka avtentičnost, ki se izraža s samoprojekcijo umetnikov v besedila pa tudi v uprizoritve, nudi občinstvu? Ali pri občinstvu vzbuja globlje zavedanje in razumevanje življenja ali zgolj reciklira tisto, kar že vemo?

An adolescent case with unexplained ecchymosis: Munchausen syndrome

Munchausen syndrome (MS) is a condition in which a patient deliberately mimics signs and symptoms of health problems to gain attention from their close circle and healthcare professionals. Symptoms can be self-induced or fabricated. The paper aimed to discuss MS detected in an adolescent girl who presented with hematological findings and shift the interest to factitious disorders that may be confronted in pediatric practice. A thirteen-year-old girl was admitted to the pediatric hematology outpatient clinic with bruises spread throughout the body, predominantly localized on the arms, persisting for three months and disappearing every two weeks. She had complaints of fatigue and loss of appetite, emerging simultaneously with the occurrence of bruises. Following elaborative examinations, we discovered that the patient was painting bruises on her skin using an eye shadow. MS needs to be considered in differential diagnoses among patients with long-term, inconsistent, and irrational complaints, no underlying causes, and normal laboratory findings. Overall, we presented the case to underline that MS is likely to be confronted in pediatric practice.

The Life of Syrian Asylum-Seeking Children in a Temporary Shelter Centre in Turkey: An Ethnographic Study on Primary School Education

This research aims to describe primary school children’s life and education experiences who escaped from the war environment in Syria and took refuge in Turkey. The study was conducted with an ethnographic research design. The study participants comprised fourth-grade students, teachers, parents, and the close social circle of Syrian nationals who stayed in the temporary shelter in Turkey. Observation, interview, field notes, researcher’s diary, and ethnographic photograph were used to collect the research data. Content analysis was used in the analysis of the research data. As a result of data analysis, the lives of Syrian children and families in the temporary accommodation centre, before and after the asylum, the socio-economic life of the container city, and the daily life routines of the children in the camp are described. The research proposes to conduct more ethnographic research with children under temporary protection, describe their life stories and indigenous perspectives, organise events that will bring together local children and children in the shelter, and increase studies on teaching Turkish to foreigners.

FORGIVENESS AS A PROSOCIAL PHENOMENON

The present study was finished before the beginning of Russia’s invasion into Ukraine. The obtained results showed the high-level tolerance and peacefulness of participants, that revealed the essentiality of Ukrainian ethnos and corresponded with its mental identity. Regratably, we may predict, that the military offence, made by Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine, will cause the significant changes of human atitudes in forseable future not only among Ukrainians, but worldwide. The most peaceful nations will be forced to reconsider their attitudes towards forgiveness on behaf of their future and justice. Abstract.Our research aimed to clarify the prosocial nature of forgiveness by examining its relationship with other prosocial values, and explore the intercorrelations between an individual’s proneness to forgive and the dispositional factors such as emotional closeness to the target of forgiveness and the interpersonal strategy of behavior. In our study, we considered forgiveness a part of individual’s prosociality as, despite the motives underlying the process of making a decision to forgive, it resulted in prosocial activity and had psychologically positive outcomes for both partners. The participants (N = 70) were 41 females and 29 males in their middle adulthood (the mean age =41.3). To achieve the aim of the present research, we used the questionnaire “Diagnostics of Moral Orientations”, the Tendency to Forgive Scale and the “Diagnostics of interpersonal relationship”(an adapted and modified variant of Leary’s 128-item Interpersonal Check List ) One -way ANOVA confirmed the absence of significant differences between the age subgroups F (1,68) = 1.72 p&gt;.05. Results have shown that people in their middle adulthood have proneness to based decisions about forgiving on their prosocial attitudes. The greatest unanimity was found in relation to the closest targets. The majority of respondents (80%) chose the highest rates of the scale (М = 4.3, SD = 0.87) to demonstrate prosocial tendencies towards relatives and friends. 58.6% of respondents pointed out that “it is very important to express it to this group of people”, Altogether, the results show that readiness to forgive does not depend on the subject’s age-related features, whereas emotional closeness is an important factor, which affects the proneness to forgive. More vivid tendency to forgive is demonstrated in the close social circle. However, people tend to express prosocial attitudes and readiness to forgive even towards their enemies. It was found that the general strategy of dominance did not demonstrate a strong connection with an individual’s proneness to forgive, whereas the general strategy of friendliness seemed to have a significant correlation with all dimensions of people’s tendency to forgive explored in the present research.

Key predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Malaysia: An integrated framework.

BackgroundAs the vaccination drive against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Malaysia progresses rapidly, the main challenge will gradually shift from procuring and distributing vaccines to ensuring the broadest possible acceptance among all population segments. Therefore, this study used the integrated framework of the health belief model (HBM) and the theory of reasoned action (TRA) to investigate the predictors of intention to receive COVID-19 vaccines in Malaysia.MethodologyA market research company in Malaysia was engaged to collect data during June 11–20, 2021 using self-administered questionnaires via its online panel, ensuring a nationwide random sample of 804 respondents. A logistic regression was subsequently estimated to determine the significant predictors of vaccination intention.ResultsThe predictors that significantly affect COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Malaysia are age, susceptibility, religious beliefs, attitude, subjective norms, and trust in the vaccine. In particular, those who are more inclined to get vaccinated are older individuals, have a higher perceived risk of infection and social pressure to get vaccinated, have a positive attitude, and have high levels of trust in the vaccine. Individuals’ who perceive that their religious beliefs are against vaccination are more likely to exhibit uncertainty toward it.ConclusionThis study showed that although a large proportion of respondents indicated that they were willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, there are concerns about religious barriers and trust in the vaccine that the relevant stakeholders should address. Campaigns should also focus on shaping the nation’s attitude toward COVID-19 vaccines, in parallel with encouraging people to use their social influence in helping those in their close circle who are unsure of vaccination to cross the line. These measures will prove to be pertinent as the nation begins to administer booster vaccines to tackle the waning effects of COVID-19 vaccines.

Professional Quality of Life in Intensive Care Unit Professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Prospective Observational Cross-sectional Study.

Background and aimsThe coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has significant positive and negative impacts on the professional life of intensive care unit (ICU) professionals. This study was conducted to evaluate compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout (BO), and secondary traumatic stress (STS) in ICU professionals and to study demographic and occupational variables related to them.MethodsThis prospective observational study was undertaken on ICU professionals involved in direct care of critically ill COVID-19 patients. The online questionnaire consisting of demographic, work-related parameters, and professional quality of life scale version 5 (ProQOL 5) was sent to 1,080 ICU healthcare workers. The subgroups of ProQOL 5, CS, BO, and STS were calculated and compared across study parameters. Linear regression was performed to evaluate variables which were independently associated with ProQOL.ResultsThe response rate in the present study was 39.8%, and after evaluation, 320 responses were found eligible for final analysis. There was predominance of average levels of CS, BO, and STS. Female gender, contractual job, lesser work experience, greater workload, and COVID-19 infection in close acquittance of participants were factors observed to independently associated with increase in negative aspects of ProQOL (BO and STS). Further, increase in duty hours and COVID-19 infection in close social circle were observed to independently decrease positive aspects (CS).ConclusionThis study shows that despite majority of respondents reporting moderate levels BO and STS, CS is maintained during the COVID-19 crisis. The identification of risk factors is vital to support ICU professionals by targeted interventions.How to cite this articleKerai S, Doda P, Saxena KN. Professional Quality of Life in Intensive Care Unit Professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Prospective Observational Cross-sectional Study. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(5):604–612.

Akaki Tsereteli’s Unknown Letters and Case of their Ascription

It is a common knowledge that sometimes writers consciously publish their works with hidden identity. That has several reasons. Writer’s contemporaries and especially their closest circle know about it, but as the time passes, more difficult it gets for scientists to find out who the author is. If we are not be able to understand whole litetary legacy of a writer, we can not study it either. This is why when publishing classics, they pay attention to other&nbsp; works as well which may be written by same author.&nbsp; Those works which do not have a certain author and need extra research are published in different collection of works called „Dubia“. As the time passes if any research will confirm author, in the next academic publication text will move to the main part. If proven oppositely, that kind of text will be removed from „Dubia“ as well.Generally, finding out the author is very difficult process and it needs to be researched in 3 main directions. Most important, surely, is finding documentary source; Also research must reveal lingual-stylish resemblance with author’s real and assumed works.It is important that non of Akaki’s publications have „Dubia“, but there are some texts which may by written by him.Our subject of research are two articles written in 1905-1906: „What Was Exposed?“ (Iveria, 1905, #45) and „Pettiness of Imereti’s Noblemen“ (Paper of Notice, 1906, #3034). We think that author of both articles is Akaki Tsereteli and since this assumption does not have any direct proof, it has to be published in so called „gypothetical“ block. To achieve that, „Dubia“ must be added to Akaki Tsereteli’s whole academic publications on which currently works Technical department of Shota Rustaveli institute of Georgian Literature.

FARKLI ETNİK GRUPLARA MENSUP TÜRK KADIN SEÇMENLERİN OY VERME DAVRANIŞLARINDA EŞ VE YAKIN ÇEVRE ETKİSİ: SİVAS İLİ ÖRNEĞİ

Abstract&#x0D; In this study, the influence of Turkish women voters from their spouses and close circles during the voting process and the changes that this interaction shows between women with different ethnicities were investigated. In this context, a face-to-face questionnaire was applied to 500 female voters, who were determined by stratified sampling among 124,921 female voters registered in Sivas Central electoral rolls and identifying themselves with different ethnic affiliations (Alevi, Circassian, Kurdish, Turkish Sunni, Armenian). Our results show that with an average of 3.6, Kurdish women are predominantly influenced by their spouses and close circles, Circassian women are undecided with an average of 3.0, Sunni Turkish women and Armenian women are not affected by their spouses and close circles with an average of 2.1. Finally, our findings show that Alevi women are the women who are least affected by their spouses and close circles while voting, with an average of 1.6.

Who wants to grow old in Welfare Sweden?

The research presented in this paper focuses on social media usage, specifically Facebook, in times of the Covid-19 crisis when some Swedish citizens lost trust in their official institutions. Once Sweden decided not to comply with WHO recommendations, the great majority of the Swedish population rallied around the flag in support of that move. For those who questioned this approach not much support was available, so they turned to social media. We ran a survey of 371 Facebook users gathered around the “Dr Whistleblower oxygen for all” group. Combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, in this study we analyse the role of social media in situations when people lose trust in public institutions and are left out. The most interesting and surprising result of this study is the discovery of fear for Dr Whistleblower’s future, and fear for participants’ own lives. We argue that in times of grave crisis, when we need reliable information the most, we turn to social media not only due to its immediacy but also due to its ability to connect us with a much wider circle of people than our close circle of friends can do. Then, more than ever, we look for trustworthy information, we express our fears and look for help online, thus seriously disrupting the traditional news landscape.