Matter Of Course Research Articles

Why should we care about emotional intelligence?

Generally speaking, I don’t read articles about emotional intelligence. As a matter of course, I avoid them. If I see EI, I just keep scrolling. Why? Well, I haven’t really wanted to know if I’m emotionally intelligent or unintelligent.

The importance of social behavior in the tourism - a case study from Karvina, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechia

Today we can hear terms like sustainability in different connotations. It is a trend that manifests itself in all areas, not excluding social behavior. It is a topical issue that became interest of many scientists from different regions of the world. The aim of the research is to map students' attitudes towards social behavior. The material for the research was obtained from a questionnaire survey conducted during 2022 among full-time students of the Silesian University in Opava School of Business Administration in Karvina (SU SBA), Moravian-Silesian region, Czechia. Primary data were analyzed using SPSS software. The research investigation highlighted some alarming aspects of the development of young generation with regard to social behavior such as the importance of education in social behavior especially in higher education programs, lack of knowledge of social protocol and the skills to use it adequately in a given situation, or to be able to evaluate social behavior correctly in a communication partner, should be a matter of course for university students. The results are helpful for academics, the general public, managers, and other staff members who interact with customers in a variety of enterprises, not only those in the tourist sector. Ethics as a set of standards is important in all spheres of business. But if we are talking about services, the compliance must be much stricter.

A Matter of Course: Student Attendance Under New Graduation Requirements of the Texas Foundation High School Program

A Matter of Course: Student Attendance Under New Graduation Requirements of the Texas Foundation High School Program

(258–260) Proposals to eliminate contradiction between Articles 11.7 and 11.8 and to equate non‐fossil with fossil names of dinophytes for purposes of priority

(258–260) Proposals to eliminate contradiction between Articles 11.7 and 11.8 and to equate non‐fossil with fossil names of dinophytes for purposes of priority

Labor retention in the domestic SME sector in Somogy county

Companies face many new challenges as a result of ever-changing HR trends. One of the most significant problems in recent years has been the ever-changing workforce. Employee loyalty is no longer a matter of course, it must be actively pursued. The root of the problems often goes back to recruitment, as many employers try to attract the workforce by “beautifying” the job advertisement, focus on creating a better image of the organization. Many times we encounter that recruitment was not adequately prepared, not enough attention was paid to select the right workforce. However, it is also important to emphasize that it is not enough to get the workforce, you need to be able to keep it as well. In our questionnaire research, we have examined how the recruitment process takes place, what steps have been taken to ensure employees to remain being committed and to stay loyal to their employer. Based on the results, we can conclude that employers know and apply labor retention methods. The most commonly used procedures were longer learning times, involvement in decisions, organization of trainings, or just job rotation.

Why should we care about emotional intelligence?

Generally speaking, I don’t read articles about emotional intelligence. As a matter of course, I avoid them. If I see EI, I just keep scrolling. Why? Well, I haven’t really wanted to know if I’m emotionally intelligent or unintelligent.

A matter of course: Generating optimal manufacturing instructions from a structural layup plan of a wind turbine blade

Design and manufacturing are highly interlinked when it comes to laminated composites, e.g. wind turbine blades. The structural design defined through the layup plan is not necessarily straightforward to realize during manufacturing. The sheer size of a typical blade means that multiple courses, or roll-widths, of glass fiber must be placed in the casting mold. Further, the layup plan is typically coarsely defined and uses idealized fiber angles. This paper deals with the specification of the individual fabric courses based on an overall layup plan. The courses are modeled using a kinematic draping algorithm and a genetic algorithm optimization routine determines their placement under the consideration of drapability (producibility), structural performance, material waste and practical placement concerns. The results highlight the isolated impact of the different criteria using smaller models. Afterwards, a full 30-layer stack of UD plies is optimized to a feasible course specification with a favorable criteria balance.

On the controversial issues of the use of the term "sect" in legal acts (on the example of the Central Federal District legislation)

The subject of the study is the use of the definition of "sect", which is absent in federal legislation, in relation to religious organizations registered in accordance with the established procedure in the legal acts of the Central Federal District. The object of the research is scientific articles by foreign and domestic scientists on the subject, legal acts of the Central Federal District. The author examines in detail modern scientific and theoretical research in the field of destructive religiosity and a vast array of legal acts in which the term "sect" is used. Particular attention is paid to hypothetical problems that can lead to broad discretion of subjects endowed with public powers when trying to introduce rather religious, sociological (and often just everyday) term "sect" into legal discourse. Methodological basis of the research: analysis, synthesis, formal-logical and comparative-legal methods in their systemic interrelation, as well as the consistent practical experience of the author of the article as a teacher of religious studies, and an employee of one of the executive authorities of Primorsky Krai. The main conclusions of the study are the statement of the unsatisfactory experience of the implementation of the term "sect" in the legal field of the subjects of the Russian Federation included in the Central Federal District; the formulation of recommendations to eliminate these shortcomings of legal regulation. The author's special contribution to the study of the applicable conceptual apparatus is that there are practically no similar studies in the scientific legal literature. Representatives of other humanities disciplines use this term as a matter of course, but their ideas are speculative, very poorly correlated with legal reality. In a state governed by the rule of law, it is hardly justified to arbitrarily label "sect" on various religious organizations, even relatively small ones.

Lessons Learned from Digital-Only Experiences

Abstract Digitisation includes technical systems that communicate with each other but can only communicate the characters for which input and output interfaces are available. That is a fraction of what human communication is all about. The resulting lack of contact bothers us and we find it inadequate. In times of Covid-19 we have learned that the longer the phases of exclusively digitally executed workflows and processes last, the more we realise that we lack activities that do not require digital technology, as it was a matter of course before Corona. This leads us to ask what it means when we become avatars or robots of ourselves. The following demonstrations of an exclusively digitally organised summer festival and a fully digitised library can give us insights into the purely digital perspective.

Project-Based Learning Model with Practicum Module Media in The Accounting Information Systems Course at The Economics Diploma Program, University Of Jambi

This research aims to solve the problem of the lack of teaching materials for courses that require special skills such as the Accounting Information Systems course which is one of the mainstay courses in the Diploma 3 Accounting Study Program at the University of Jambi. This research is an exploratory research with a Project-Based Learning approach by developing a practicum module that can be used as a practical tool for vocational students. The population and sample in this study were Diploma 3 Semester 5 students at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Jambi University. This research is expected to produce learning innovation output products that can be used by accounting lecturers to expedite the teaching and learning process such as CPMK (Course Learning Outcomes-Learning Outcomes), Lecture Syllabus and Contracts, Semester Learning Plans (RPS), Student Project Task Plans ( RTM) or student Project Worksheets (LKM) which are expected to be in the form of practicum module books with ISBNs that are published nationally, Learning Outcomes Assessment Sheets (LPHB) according to the project-based learning model or blueprints of exam questions and assessment rubrics which has been reviewed. The results of the study showed that students were able to complete core activities in groups very well. In the assessment of core activities on average, students excel in the aspect of active listening and are slightly weak in completing document reporting. However, overall it can be said that the average rating of each student is in the "Very Good" category. learning achievement reached 86.7% in the "Very Good" category. This means that the project-based learning process through group work in solving problems in the practicum module has proven to be very effective in the Accounting Information Systems course at the D3-Accounting Study Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Jambi.

Wie hast du’s mit der Exegese in der Predigt?

Exegesis and preaching. For some an imposition, for others a matter of course. Because of the centrality of the biblical text in the sermon, it is in any case a relationship in need of reflection. But what is the current state of these two in theory and practice? This article traces the connection between exegesis and preaching historically and on the basis of current homiletical introductory literature. It asks about its pitfalls as well as its potential and elaborates perspectives of mutual reference.

Sample size calculation in clinical trial using R.

Since the era of evidence-based medicine, it has become a matter of course to use statistics to create objective evidence in clinical research. As an extension of this, it has become essential in clinical research to calculate the correct sample size to demonstrate a clinically significant difference before starting the study. Also, because sample size calculation methods vary from study design to study design, there is no formula for sample size calculation that applies to all designs. It is very important for us to understand this. In this review, each sample size calculation method suitable for various study designs was introduced using the R program (R Foundation for Statistical Computing). In order for clinical researchers to directly utilize it according to future research, we presented practice codes, output results, and interpretation of results for each situation.

Al‐Azhar and the Salafis in Egypt: Contestation of two traditions

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From the Editor

From the Editor Sabine R. Huebner This issue was produced in part under the aegis of my predecessor, Professor Andrew Cain, who steered the ship expertly over the past five years, and I cannot thank him enough for his generous and patient introduction to the complex business of being editor-in-chief. I am also delighted to have gathered around me a stellar editorial board that will support this journal in the years ahead. The Journal of Late Antiquity is composed of veteran editors, as well as younger members in our field, whose expertise covers a wide variety of areas, regions, and topics of the discipline. I feel very honored to be following in the footsteps of Ralph W. Mathisen, Noel Lenski, and most recently Andy Cain, and hope to do the journal justice in the years to come. The Journal of Late Antiquity, which has already won several awards in its fifteen-year history, will continue to encourage cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research on all methodological, geographical, and chronological facets of Late Antiquity, defined roughly as the period from ca. 250–800 ad. The entire field of late antique studies will be represented—bridging disciplines and late antique peoples from the late Roman, western European, Byzantine, Sassanid, and early Islamic worlds and their direct exchanges with their respective neighboring peoples and trading partners, without slipping into the arbitrariness of a thematic global setting. This cross-disciplinary cooperation in ancient studies has become a matter of course over the past few decades: from my first days as a student, I myself worked in supra-departmental interdisciplinary research networks that, in addition to the traditional text- and material-based subjects of classical studies—such as ancient history, classical philology, Egyptology, archaeology—had also already included Arabic studies, Jewish studies, art history, ethnology, law, and comparative religious studies. My doctoral studies in the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Jena on "Leitbilder der Spätantike," my postdoctoral work at, amongst other institutions, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), and currently as head of the Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel, have shaped my impression of late antique studies in its widest sense. Although appearing small in scope, late antique studies encompasses the cosmos of the university (universitas), pioneering the possibilities of interdisciplinarity and the challenges and opportunities of true consilience. My goal is to further the Journal of Late Antiquity's heartfelt mission of an all-encompassing, multidisciplinary treatment of Late Antiquity in all its multiregional and multilingual facets, while also affording a wide scope to new trends, particularly, collaborative opportunities with the natural sciences. [End Page 1] The range of disciplines working on Late Antiquity has expanded further since the first edition of the Journal of Late Antiquity in 2008. Without exerting influence, as an editor has no control over the nature of submissions, moving forward I would like to see even broader consideration of the so-called palaeosciences—e.g., palaeoclimatology, palaeogenetics, bioarchaeology—as well as digital technologies. These evidentiary pools are increasingly taking up important space in our transdisciplinary dialogue on late antiquity, and are providing new data and fascinating insights into ancient genomes, migrations of peoples, livestock and crops, the spread of infectious diseases, and ancient climatic variability and change, by which some text-focused reasoning has already been upended. I am thrilled that this issue gives consideration to these new methods, such as David Devore's and Scott Kennedy's contribution to the pestilence during the reign of Emperor Maximinus II Daia—arguably not a pandemic, but a regionally-limited epidemic in Syria and adjacent areas—and a review of Kyle Harper's new book Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. Similarly, I hope for greater consideration of research from countries outside the western-oriented, European-Anglo-American context, as this journal also devotes attention to the history of the Near and Middle East, and North and East Africa. This spring issue of the Journal of Late Antiquity collects eight innovative contributions on multiple regions and aspects of the late antique world. The issue opens with a contribution from Adrastos Omissi on "Hamstrung Horses: Dating Constantine's...

Urinary Excretion of 5-L-Oxoproline (Pyroglutamic Acid) Is Increased in Normal Adults Consuming Vegetarian or Low Protein Diets

A method for measuring 5-L-oxoproline in urine, which involves isolation by short-column chromatography, acid hydrolysis to glutamic acid and enzymic assay of glutamic acid, was used to measure the rate of excretion in normal adults, aged 20 to 45 y. There was no difference in the daily excretion between omnivorous males (217 µmol/d) and females (195 µmol/d). In vegetarian males, urinary 5-L-oxoproline (404 µmol/d) was significantly greater than in vegetarian females (267 µmol/d, P = 0.013). Compared with omnivorous males or females, excretion of 5-L-oxoproline was significantly greater in vegetarian males (P < 0.0001) and females (P = 0.005). When normal adults consumed a diet in which the protein content was controlled at either 4.0 or 6.2 g N/d for 5 d, there was a significant increase in urinary 5-L-oxoproline on d 5, compared with either d 1 or 4. There was a significant inverse linear relationship between the increased urinary 5-L-oxoproline on the fifth dietary day and the nitrogen content of the diet. On the basis of this relationship, when the urinary excretion of 5-L-oxoproline (320 µmol/d) for vegetarians was predicted from an estimate of their dietary intake of nitrogen, the estimate was, on average, close to the measured value (345 µmol/d). As a matter of course, vegetarians excrete more 5-L-oxoproline in urine than do omnivores, and we speculated that this difference might be accounted for by differences in dietary nitrogen and the endogenous capacity for de novo synthesis of glycine.

Using authentic doctor–patient consultations in improving communication skills

The ChallengeThere is an increasing interest in using authentic doctor–patient consultations as teaching materials for courses of languages for medical purposes. However, what is the effect of the instruction? How does the instruction adopt authentic consultations advance students' interpersonal communicative competence in medical settings? This paper aims to answer these questions.

Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction, by Talia Schaffer

Reviewed by: Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Talia Schaffer Adela Pinch (bio) Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction, by Talia Schaffer; pp. xvii + 274. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, $45.00. It is consoling to imagine a historian of the future, looking back at the early 2020s for signs of the ways in which the crises and upheavals of our decade brought not only pain but also hope to all reaches of human thought. I am imagining such a historian reading Talia Schaffer’s Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction and marveling at the ways a scholar of Victorian literature infused her scholarship with such a profound response to her moment. In Communities of Care, Schaffer brings Victorian and early-twenty-first-century discussions of caring for others into conversation with each other in ways that deepen our appreciation of both. Though clearly begun before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the book is mindful of other recent challenges to change the way we care for others in our communities, including the changing conditions of academic labor. Communities of Care is a stunning appeal to make our scholarship and our relations to our own communities mindful investigations of the same ethical values. These values—generosity, inclusiveness, acknowledgement of partialness, and careful, intimate address—are ones that, moreover, Schaffer practices on every page of her book. Schaffer draws her definition of “communities of care” both from the Victorian texts she studies and from the contemporary theories (above all, feminist ethics of care) that inspire her. From the Victorians, she draws the challenges and urgencies of focusing on, and building, middle-ground smallish-scale communities that are neither institutions nor individual relations. In chapter 1, she asks us to think about the particular historical conditions, and transhistorical resources, of the kind of care communities that flourished before disease was the target of professionalized, medical advice. Throughout most of the nineteenth century, bodily suffering was endured as a matter of course and met with a fluid mixture of professional and amateur caregiving, though this was challenged by medical models that began to be professionalized in the middle of the century. In Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1817)—to cite just one of the novels Schaffer discusses in chapter 2— bodies wax and wane, and clusters of family and friends attend to injured bodies with adaptation, vigilance, and sympathy. From the Victorian culture of care, Schaffer also draws her emphasis on care as a practice rather than caring as a feeling. Care is something that needs to be done: a form of labor that often does not feel good, and indeed needs to be done even in instances where it is doomed to fail. These features—the smaller-scale, relatively informal networks of care communities, the emphasis on labor, and the acknowledgement of failure—are the cornerstones of Schaffer’s ethical vision, her readings of the Victorian novels she treats, and her approach to reading. Schaffer’s attunement to a historically-informed understanding of Victorian caring allows her to recalibrate our understanding of novels we thought we knew well. No one who reads her treatment of Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853) in chapter 3 will be able to [End Page 677] forget Schaffer’s reframing of Lucy Snow as a “global migrant caregiver,” a harbinger of an often overlooked laborer who is essential to global capitalism (88). Her focus on the ethics of care in Daniel Deronda (1876) in chapter 4 provides an alternative to debates about sympathy—is George Eliot for or against it?—that have dominated discussions of this novel. Schaffer recognizes throughout Communities of Care that the action of care always contains within it the prospect of failure, that no act of caring is ever complete, and that the difference between caring and failed care is a thin line. She defines sentiment as “the irritating feeling of wanting to act when you cannot,” exemplified in the Victorian reader of Felicia Hemans’s “Casabianca” (1826), who wishes to jump in and save the boy on the burning deck (123). Indeed, it is by tarrying with the incomplete nature of almost all...

Sustainability in Small and Medium Enterprises, Sustainable Development in the Slovak Republic, and Sustainability and Quality Management in Small and Medium Enterprises

In this paper, we deal with several areas, one of which is the current and important topic of sustainability. We focus on the defined area of sustainability in society and in companies. Sustainability is also a very important requirement for businesses today, including small- and medium-sized enterprises. Based on two hypotheses established by us, we identified, analyzed, and evaluated research carried out in the past in the Slovak Republic and in small- and medium-sized Slovak enterprises in the field of sustainability. The second important area that we deal with in our article is the quality of the products. Product quality is considered a necessity on the market today, a matter of course in today’s global market economy since it is one of the decisive parameters of the product. At the same time, quality management is only a means to an end, and that goal is a quality product for a customer who meets his requirements. Additionally, a quality product must also meet the requirements of other stakeholders, such as legislation. Practical and functional application of quality management in practice, companies, and organizations are implemented according to certain basic proven approaches, principles, standards, principles, and methods. Small- and medium-sized enterprises are a key part of every national economy; they form the national economic “backbone”. Due to their importance, they still need to be paid attention to, so we focus on these types of enterprises on several topics.

Antenatal and histological diagnostics of cystic sacrococcygeal teratoma. Clinical case and literature review

Abstract Objectives The congenital embryonic tumor known as sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) affects 1 in 35.000–40.000 newborns and is more prevalent in female fetuses and neonates. A total of 25–50% of SCTs are diagnosed by an ultrasound (US) examination during the second trimester of pregnancy. Planning the manner of delivery, determining the risk of negative outcomes, and choosing treatment options depend on the results of antenatal differential diagnosis. Case presentation This is a unique case of a 29-year-old second gravida, suspected of having a fetal sacrococcygeal dysplasia differentiable between Type 2 SCT and terminal myelocystocele. An MRI revealed no typical SCT changes, as a matter of course, the diagnosis of myelocystocele could not have been excluded. The results of the genetic examination allowed to exclude the chromosomal pathology. Punctuation of the external component of the formation and a cytological examination were suggested. Nevertheless, the patient and her partner refused further studies and insisted on the termination of pregnancy. Medical abortion was induced and histological findings confirmed fetal morphology to be mature SCT. Conclusions Cystic sacrococcygeal teratoma is an unusual malformation of fetal development. In the antenatal period SCT is diagnosed based upon an ultrasound evaluation, an MRI, and a multidisciplinary assessment of clinical experts. Differential diagnosis based upon clinical imaging during the gestational period is elaborate. The final medical diagnosis needs to be verified by a histological evaluation of pathological tissue. An antenatal medical diagnosis of fetal dysplasia is considerable for the further prognosis of fetal and newborn development.

Establishing metrological traceability for small molecule measurands in laboratory medicine.

For molecules that can be well described metrologically in the sense of the definition of measurands, and which can also be recorded analytically as individual substances, reference measurement service traceability to a metrologically sound foundation is a necessity. The establishment of traceability chains must be initiated by National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) according to applicable standards; they are at the top and leading position in this concept. If NMIs are not in the position to take up this task, alternative approaches must be sought. Traceability initiatives established by in vitro device industry or academia must meet the quality standards of NMIs. Adherence to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) procedure 15193 must be a matter of course for the establishment of reference measurement procedures (RMPs). Certified reference material (CRM) characterization must be thorough, e.g., by the application of quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance measurements and by adherence to ISO 15194. Both for RMPs and CRMs Joint Committee for Traceability in Laboratory Medicine (JCTLM) listing must be the ultimate goal. Results must be shared in a transparent manner to allow other stakeholders including NMIs to reproduce and disseminate the reference measurement procedures.