Evaluation Of Certain Aspects Research Articles

State policy of supervision and control regarding compliance with labour discipline of employees and its implementation

Research issue: The study is driven by contemporary global challenges regarding the stability and efficiency of production processes, the necessity to enhance competitiveness, and ensuring workplace safety, which demands a systematic approach to monitoring and supervising adherence to labour discipline. The research is theoretical in nature. The aim/objective of the study is to analyse the specifics of state policy on supervision and control over employees’ adherence to labour discipline, the peculiarities of its practical implementation, and perspectives for improvement. Method: The study employed a logical-semantic method, analytical and documentary methods of analysis, and the method of expert assessment of labour discipline of employees and employers based on their evaluation of certain aspects of labour discipline. The research methodology included a sample size of 30 respondents, and the research instrument was expert evaluation. Data collection was conducted through surveys, and the calculation method was quantitative. Results: The article examines the impact of the main incentives and methods on ensuring labour discipline, determining their essence and forms of manifestation. It also considers the extent of application of each method in enterprise practices. It was found that economic methods are widely used and aimed at increasing employee motivation and maintaining their labour discipline. The analysis revealed that the main manifestations of employee labour discipline and managerial duties are differences in the perception of labour discipline by both parties. It was found that employers underestimate the productivity and abilities of employees, indicating potential systemic deficiencies in human resource management. Conversely, employees note that managers ignore their needs and problems. The results of the expert evaluation showed that employees rated their discipline higher than employers did. These discrepancies in evaluations could affect internal relations within the team and require managerial attention to improve interaction and cooperation. Conclusion: Based on the assessment of labour discipline, systemic deficiencies in human resource management were identified, highlighting the need for appropriate monitoring and employee motivation mechanisms. The study proposes innovative personnel management methods to ensure labour discipline in enterprises, including HR branding, team building, mentoring, and grading. It is proven that these approaches allow for the creation of a fundamentally new management system to ensure compliance with labour discipline and the development of professionalism and employee motivation.

SOSIALISASI PENGENALAN KONSEP DIRI SISWA PADA MASA PRA PUBERTAS

Children's self-concept is related to their ability to adapt and be accepted by their environment. Children who have positive self-confidence will have clear goals and aspirations for the future and have a strong fighting spirit and zest for life. Self-concept is an evaluation of certain aspects of oneself. Children can self-evaluate several aspects of their academic life. A person's perception of how others see them builds their self-concept. Lack of understanding of students' self-concept often hinders learning activities and processes. It is undeniable that students of SDN 01 Karang Indah, Bojongmangu Sub-district, can also experience self-concept problems caused by a lack of understanding about themselves. In connection with this, through community service activities, we seek psychoeducation on self-concept using the socialisation method by conducting this psychoeducation at SDN 01 Karang Indah, Karang Indah Village, Bojong Mangu District, Bekasi Regency. The results of community service show that the psychoeducation programme on knowing oneself towards self-development has the potential to provide understanding and increase knowledge to students of SD Negeri Karang Indah 01 in Karang Indah Village. This is evident from the pre-test and post-test results showing significant improvements in students' understanding of the material presented.

FOREST ACCOUNTING AT FAIR VALUE: AN EVALUATION OF STRENGTHS AND POSSIBILITIES TO MINIMISE SHORTCOMINGS

The accounting standards provide options for different accounting methods to be deployed in accounting of certain assets. However, in other cases, only one of the specified methods should be applied. The forest (stands), the main resource of forestry enterprises, is also attributed to this category of assets, which, according to the standard IAS 41 Agriculture, should be accounted for only at fair value. The aim of the paper is to identify the strengths and shortcomings of applying the concept of fair value to forest financial accounting and to evaluate the possibilities to minimise the disadvantages. The study examines the scholarly literature and deploys the theoretical methods of comparative analysis, critical evaluation, systematisation, generalisation. The empirical research involves the document content analysis, expert assessment methods.The paper examines the issues of applying the fair value concept to forestry accounting: forest valuation at fair value in financial statements reflects the forest biological transformation and the impact of market price changes on the value of the forest. However, the main disadvantage of this method is the fact that the forest often does not have an active market with quoted prices. Thus, its fair value is determined using different valuation methods, often based on subjective assumptions resulting in financial information which can be unreliable and difficult to verify. Furthermore, the profit and loss accounts including the recognition of the change in the fair value of the forest to be sold in the forthcoming decades are not only doubtful, but may also lead to false interpretations of the financial indicators and contradict to the prudence principle. Based on the conclusions of expert evaluation of certain aspects of forest accounting at fair value, the research study offers a modified method of forest accounting at fair value which facilitates minimisation of the shortcomings.

Executive functions and memory in patients at risk of vascular brain pathology

AbstractHypertension is a common problem in the elderly population. It is one of the factors determining the pattern of cognitive functioning of the patients, however the nature and severity of neuropsychological deficits are unclear. The main aim of the study was to assess effectiveness of cognitive task performance and the strategies of verbal material organization in patients with varying levels of productivity and control. The outpatients treated for hypertension (n = 46) were tested with the following neuropsychological tests and the experimental task: Ruff Figural Fluency Test (RFFT), California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT), Semantic Verbal Fluency Task (VF). The level of productivity and control in older hypertensive patients appeared to be important variables differentiating the effectiveness of structured task performance involving the memory and learning of verbal material. Patients with weaker productivity and control show less efficiency in formulating and sustaining a learning plan expressed by the compatibility of responses in subsequent attempts. Weaker productivity and control are associated with high risk of memory problems, especially in situations characterized by a high degree of structure. It is advisable to include an evaluation of certain aspects of executive functions at the initial stage of assessment of patients at risk of brain dysfunction.

A non-controlled, single arm, open label, phase II study of intravenous and intratumoral administration of ParvOryx in patients with metastatic, inoperable pancreatic cancer: ParvOryx02 protocol

BackgroundMetastatic pancreatic cancer has a dismal prognosis, with a mean six-month progression-free survival of approximately 50% and a median survival of about 11 months. Despite intensive research, only slight improvements of clinical outcome could be achieved over the last decades. Hence, new and innovative therapeutic strategies are urgently required. ParvOryx is a drug product containing native parvovirus H-1 (H-1PV). Since H-1PV was shown to exert pronounced anti-neoplastic effects in pre-clinical models of pancreatic cancer, the drug appears to be a promising candidate for treatment of this malignancy.MethodsParvOryx02 is a non-controlled, single arm, open label, dose-escalating, single center trial. In total seven patients with pancreatic cancer showing at least one hepatic metastasis are to be treated with escalating doses of ParvOryx according to the following schedule: i) 40% of the total dose infused intravenously in equal fractions on four consecutive days, ii) 60% of the total dose injected on a single occasion directly into the hepatic metastasis at varying intervals after intravenous infusions. The main eligibility criteria are: age ≥ 18 years, disease progression despite first-line chemotherapy, and at least one hepatic metastasis. Since it is the second trial within the drug development program, the study primarily explores safety and tolerability after further dose escalation of ParvOryx. The secondary objectives are related to the evaluation of certain aspects of anti-tumor activity and clinical efficacy of the drug.DiscussionThis trial strongly contributes to the clinical development program of ParvOryx. The individual hazards for patients included in the current study and the environmental risks are addressed and counteracted adequately. Besides information on safety and tolerability of the treatment after further dose escalation, thorough evaluations of pharmacokinetics and intratumoral spread as well as proof-of-concept (PoC) in pancreatic cancer will be gained in the course of the trial.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov-ID: NCT02653313, Registration date: Dec. 4th, 2015.

Galdós en sus textos. Asedios críticos para una hermenéutica by Francisco Estévez

Reviewed by: Galdós en sus textos. Asedios críticos para una hermenéutica by Francisco Estévez Veronica Mayer Francisco Estévez. Galdós en sus textos. Asedios críticos para una hermenéutica. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae, 2016. 205 pp. Francisco Estévez opens his study of Galdós by reflecting on the lack of great, comprehensive theories in this so-called post-modern era. A perusal of Galdós bibliography from the last, say, seven years confirms this fragmentation of criticism into mini- and micro-theories. The young and prolific University of Málaga researcher resists this contemporary tendency to smallness by proposing a consideration of Galdós's transcendence in the Hispanic literary tradition. Galdós en sus textos. Asedios críticos para una hermenéutica asserts Estévez's intention to show how Galdós's reflections on the literary craft leave permanent marks on his fiction. Yet Estévez ultimately accomplishes more: situating Galdós in the broader panorama of contemporaneous European literature and philosophy, he traces how the author responds both in his aesthetic thought and production to the great political, moral, and social phenomena of his fifty-year career. Estévez explicitly calls his book a response to William H. Shoemaker's concept in the seminal La crítica literaria de Galdós (1979), that an exploration of Galdós's literary ideas could contribute to a more precise and sensitive understanding and evaluation of certain aspects of the author's novels, plays, and other works. Describing the writing of Galdós a "mirror" of nineteenth-century Spain, Estévez traces the salient qualities of Galdós's realism in his introductory section. Working from Ayala's idea that the real is defined by conventional wisdom, he reminds readers that Galdós did not intend to "copy" nature, but to "refine" it with a didactic purpose and from a literary tradition. In Galdós's works, the author's role falls in between absence and dominance: as Estévez quotes from the prologue to El abuelo (1897), "por más que se diga, el artista podrá estar más o menos oculto; pero no desaparece nunca." The three primary sections of Galdós en sus textos, as the title implies, explore the aesthetic priorities of that "artista… más o menos oculto." "Asedios al autor" considers Galdós's authorship: a rare occasion when the author appears as a character inspiring historian-journalist Tito in the final Episodios nacionales, the author's ex libris of a sphinx set in a seal reading "Ars, natura, veritas," the fluctuating interpretations of Galdós as author made by each artistic movement after him, Galdós's as a doubter and a chronicler of the city. "Asedios al pensamiento," a rather more uneven section, pursues an in-depth study of Galdós's constant re-evaluations of his ethics, politics, and aesthetics: the effects of national and personal political developments, the general late-19th-century harmony between literary criticism and production, his historian's work (throughout his novels) of depicting the common past and documenting the shared present, his using the bourgeoisie as necessary protagonists in the present while questioning its values, yet never giving definite judgments. Galdós en sus textos calls for a reconsideration of the common notion that Galdós was at his best in the novelas contemporáneas. As proof, the book's third section, "Asedios a la obra," delves almost exclusively into the literary complexities of Galdós's late novels: Madrid as a character and catalyst in many of his works, the understudied and fragmentary epistolary exchange in Tristana, the evolution of the Spanish bourgeoisie and the moral [End Page 111] ekphrasis of Valentín's photo in the Torquemada tetralogy, the power of the title characters' language in Nazarín and Halma, and the morality-money conflict in Misericordia. Estévez excels in interweaving contemporary philosophical, scientific, and literary texts with his exploration of Galdós's literary criticism and production, and through this global analysis locates Galdós at the heart of the broader intellectual history throughout 19th- and early-20th-century Europe. In one instance of Estévez...

El sistema español de evaluación de impacto ambiental: nuestra posición en el mundo

This paper presents the results of an evaluation of certain aspects of the performance of the Spanish Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) system. For this purpose, parallels between the EIA system in Spain and in other countries have been established. The study is based on a comparative review of the EIA systems currently in force in 55 countries. A set of performance indicators was developed and applied to the assessment of these EIA systems. The results reveal that the Spanish EIA system is in a peculiar situation in the international arena, which is explained by the combination of major shortcomings and some advantages in EIA practice. Spain is one of the World’s largest “producers” of EIAs, and one of the industrialized countries that least legislative ammendments has introduced to remedy deficiencies in EIA practice. Many of these deficiencies still remain.

From `the Thought is the Thinker' to `the Voice is the Speaker'

In 1890, William James provided a rich account of self in his Principles of Psychology. Over a hundred years later, Hermans and his colleagues have provided an equally rich account of self, most particularly in Hermans and Kempen's The Dialogical Self (1993). One of the key distinctions in the former work is that between the `I' and `Me', a distinction that Hermans builds on in his concept of the dialogical self. Nevertheless, there are differences between the two theories of self that are developed out of this distinction. In the present article I look closely at some of the differences between the two theories, and also look closely at Bakhtin's contribution to the development of the dialogical self. Through a careful comparison of the works of James, Bakhtin and Hermans, I try to indicate how our understanding of the self has changed over the past hundred years or so. At the same time, the comparison of some of the central ideas of these three authors provides a basis for a critical evaluation of certain aspects of Hermans' theory of the dialogical self.

EVALUATING THE DEPLOYMENT OF FIPA STANDARDS WHEN DEVELOPING APPLICATION SERVICES

We draw upon various practical experiences of designing and implementing complex systems through a multiagent approach which supports engineering of dynamic open distributed services. The general scope of multiagent system software engineering is reviewed with focus on the analysis and evaluation of certain aspects of the current specification standards provided by FIPA (Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents). The benefits and drawbacks of a multiagent approach, using the FIPA standards as a benchmark, are evaluated and further illustrated through the deployment of an audio–video entertainment broadcasting (AVEB) system. The development and testing of the AVEB application was part of an EU project called FACTS (acts AC317). A main result of using agent engineering paradigm for complex distributed development, especially apparent in FIPA standards, has been the identification of the usefulness and power of its protocols. The reason for the importance of the protocols in developing multiagent systems (MAS) is it provides a degree of expressing cooperation within MAS architecture. As the protocols stand currently they are not sufficient to capture a complete explicit model of the cooperative requirements in multiagent systems. However, they provide a basis from which to start. We examine this feature of FIPA further in order to evaluate its role as a bridge between the mental agency and social agency requirements in the development of cooperation in multiagent systems.

Including the person with dementia in designing and delivering care Elizabeth Barnett Including the person with dementia in designing and delivering care Jessica Kingsley Publishers 223pp £14.95 1-85302-740-5 1853027405 [Formula: see text

Essentially a case study, this book is divided into eight chapters and written in a very easy and accessible way, perhaps at the expense of adequate referencing. As the reader goes through the book a well-told story unfolds of the way the author attempted a detailed evaluation of certain aspects of care in one service for older people with dementia.

Observations and modeling of the reactive nitrogen photochemistry at a rural site

Ambient concentrations of key trace gases were measured concurrently at a rural site in the eastern United States during the summer of 1986. The extensive data set allows the evaluation of certain aspects of photochemical oxidant models. A 4‐day high‐pressure period is chosen for a comparison of the model predictions with observations. The emphasis of this analysis is on the discussion of the photochemistry of the reactive nitrogen species and their role in shaping the ozone budget. Observations of the NO2/NO ratio provide an estimate of the peroxy radical concentration at the site. The peroxy radical concentration so derived indicates a significant in‐situ O3 formation which is in accordance with the observed diurnal variation of O3. Isoprene, a natural hydrocarbon, is shown to be much more important than the anthropogenic hydrocarbons in this O3 formation. At this rural site NO, NO2, HNO3, and peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) account for 85% or more of NOy, (the sum of the reactive nitrogen species). The diurnal cycle of the reactive nitrogen species and their partitioning is determined by transport and photochemical conversion. At night in the boundary layer defined by a low‐level inversion, NOx is the major NOy, species at this site. Nitric acid and PAN are suppressed by dry deposition and, in the case of PAN, thermal decomposition. During the daytime the NOx contribution to NOy decreases first as higher concentrations of HNO3 and PAN are mixed downward upon the breakup of the nocturnal inversion followed by NOx conversion to other NOy species in photochemical reactions.

Active Understanding of the Processes of Science An Evaluation of Certain Aspects of the First Two Years of B.S.C.S. Biology Teaching in Israel

(1969). Active Understanding of the Processes of Science An Evaluation of Certain Aspects of the First Two Years of B.S.C.S. Biology Teaching in Israel. Journal of Biological Education: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 45-55.

An Exploratory Evaluation of Certain Aspects of the Listening Program as a Part of the Study Skills Course at the University of Wyoming

In her article on listening, Furness (3) noted that from a historical viewpoint listening was, at one time, the prime medium of communication. The evolution of printing changed the emphasis to reading, and more recent communicative de velopments such as radio, sound motion pictures, and ease of assembly completed the cycle. If lis tening is a part of the learning process, considera tion should be given to classroom implementation. Dow and Irvin (2) contend that reading and lis tening are the basic tools of learning. In 1928, Rankin (8) reported the results of a study which is becoming a classic in the litera ture of listening. Of the time spent by adults in daily communication, forty-two percent was spent in listening, thirty-two percent in speaking, fif teen percent in reading, and eleven percent in writing. At the same time it was shown that eight percent of the classroom emphasis was placed upon listening, ten percent upon speaking, thirty percent upon writing, and fifty-two percent upon reading. According to Rankin, the ability to listen is the most frequently used of the language arts, and the evidence points to a probable need for greater cognizance of oral language in the school situation. Wilt (10) stated in ,1949 that fifty-eight percent of the school day is spent in listening activities. The amount of time spent in listening activities varies, as does the comprehension of materials presented in an oral manner. Comprehension ranges from twenty-five percent to seventy-five percent as reported by Goldstein (4:58-63), Ni chols (7:278), Irvin (5:78), and Lewis (6:2715). | The importance of listening should not be re stricted to an academic situation, according to the Commission on the English Curriculum (1). Informal listening in the social group is a part of daily living, and has a definite impact upon the individual. It is generally agreed by experts in the field that listening, as a communicative skill, can be taught, and some schools have actively partici pated in the augmentation of course work de signed to teach listening. The pioneers in this area include Air University, Maxwell Field, Alabama; Michigan State University; University of Min nesota; Stephens College; and the University of Wyoming.

A myometric evaluation of certain aspects of the perioral musculature in individuals with demonstrable adverse swallowing patterns: By J. Milford Anholm, Loma Linda University, School of Dentistry, Loma Linda, Calif.

Radiotelemetry is an extremely powerful technology for measuring hemodynamic alterations both throughout gestation and serially in experimental animals. The distinct advantage that radiotelemetry holds over other methods is its minimally invasive nature during the recording period; when combined with a completely internalized pressure-sensing catheter, one can obtain accurate, precise data that are highly reproducible.

Veterinary and Medical Acarology

This review concerns ticks and mites of known veterinary or medical importance. Acarina that are normally parasitic upon vertebrates include those of greatest importance to the present subject. Parasitism of vertebrates has arisen among quite unrelated forms of Acarina; hence, with the exception of ticks, the families discussed here form a confusing assemblage rather than a natural group. Furthermore, since the tissues of many parasitic Acarina satisfy basic requirements for a wide variety of pathogenic microorganisms, including certain viruses, rickettsiae, bacteria, spirochetes, protozoa, and helminths, one must deal with a similarly wide variety of problems in microbiology. Finally, various degrees of complexity may characterize the ecologic relationships among an acarine species, its vertebrate host species, and a species of microorganism shared by both. For these reasons the prob­ lems of veterinary and medical acarology, with their breadth of scope, present a stimulating challenge to workers in many fields of basic and applied biology. As an introduction to the great variety of ecologic problems encountered, certain facts are worthy of mention. During at least one stage in their life cycle, all ticks and certain mites are parasitic on or in terrestrial vertebrates. Since some of these parasitic forms attack human beings or domestic animals, they may act as direct causative agents of disease, or they may transmit pathogenic microorganisms. Certain parasitic species, not known to attack man or domestic animals, may play roles in the biological survival mecha­ nisms of important pathogens by transmitting them among suitable wild hosts and by acting as reservoirs of infection. Some mites which are nor­ mally free-living may occasionally cause accidental infestations of man, while other nonparasitic forms may harbor the immature stages of parasitic worms. Examples of these and of more complex kinds of relationship will be con­ sidered in this review. The review itself is selective rather than comprehensive. It aims neither at complete coverage of the literature, nor at a balanced presentation. It is intended to make the reader aware of the breadth of the subject and to pre­ sent the reviewer's evaluation of certain aspects. The critical reader, appre­ ciating the scope and diversity of veterinary and medical acarology, will understand this approach, while the bibliographer will find the review of little use.

Nutritional status following subtotal gastrectomy with jejunal replacement; experimental evaluation.

In recent years (1952) Henley 1 has suggested that the postgastrectomy nutritional disturbances which frequently occur after the Billroth II type of subtotal gastrectomy can be minimized if a jejunal segment is interposed isoperistaltically between the residual stomach and the duodenum. Henley has called this operation gastrectomy with replacement and has reported its performance in 110 patients, with 97% of the patients exhibiting a gain in weight after operation.* Experimental evaluation of certain aspects of the nutritional status following this procedure of subtotal gastrectomy with jejunal replacement was performed. METHOD OF STUDY Eight healthy mongrel dogs were successfully subjected to subtotal gastrectomy with jejunal replacement. The operative procedure is illustrated in Figure 1. Seventy-five to 80% of the stomach was resected in each instance, and the Hofmeister method of removing the lesser curvature portion of the residual gastric pouch was used. A segment o proximal jejunum approximately 8 to 10

An Evaluation of Certain Aspects of The Reading and Study Program at The University of Missouri

RECOGNIZING that the ability to read is fundamental to language growth, which is one aspect of the growth of personality, the University of Missouri Reading and Study Skills Clinic was designed to help stud ents reach a maximum level of reading and study skill consistent with capacity. Reading ability was seen not as an endinitself, butas a means of communication through which the individual is able to achieve success in the areas of personal, home, and civic adjustment. Thus conceived, the reading and study program is a service function which endeavors to increase the effectiveness of general education for each student who par ticipates in it.

The Influence of an In-Service Improvement Program upon Teacher Test Behavior and Classroom Program

One of the most challenging and persistent problems faced by educators is the development of means for the professional im provement of teachers within local school systems. Among these procedures which have been widely used are workshops, child study groups, cooperative curriculum study, and the use of uni versity consultants and resource people in various areas of the school program. This study is concerned with the evaluation of certain aspects of an in-service program which combined these procedures in working at the educational problems of a local school community. The project being investigated is the three-year cooperative staff study program in the La Grange, Illinois, Public Schools in collaboration with the University of Chicago. This program which came to be known as the La Grange Cooperative Study, was in itiated in the spring of 1946 and had run for approximately two years at the conclusion of this investigation. It was composed of a wide variety of experiences, among the most important of which were the activities of child-study groups and multiple activities centering about the social studies in the curriculum. It included university workshop experiences in the summer months, two fall planning conferences, work on textbook selection and an instruc tional materials survey, consultant service work in certain in structional areas, emphasis on unit-planning in the social stud ies, a survey of pupil-accounting procedures, a number of spec ial projects and reports, and various other cooperative activities involving the collaboration of the teaching staff, university con

An evaluation of certain aspects of a program of character education.

An evaluation of certain aspects of a program of character education.