Peer Review Method Research Articles

Can Bugis-Makassar Local Culture Reduce Compulsive Buying Behavior?

This study aims to determine whether the local wisdom of Bugis culture is able to minimize consumer behavior in purchasing products, considering the negative impact caused by excessive shopping behavior with the use of credit cards that exceed the limit of funds or without the use of credit cards. Research informants amounted to 100 people obtained through snowball sampling. Research data were collected through open and closed questionnaires and interviews, then the research instrument was tested through validity and reliability tests using triangulation and peer review methods. The research method uses a narrative qualitative approach to obtain an explanation of whether the local wisdom of Bugis culture, namely "Siri'", is able to prevent compulsive buying behavior (consumerism). The results of the analysis show that siri' is believed to be able to prevent someone from spending excessively, because (1) there is a sense of shame to Self and Family, (2) There is shame to God Almighty, because God does not like people to do excessive behavior, and (3) there is a sense of shame about social sanctions when unable to pay arrears due to excessive use of credit cards.The implications of the results of this study can be used as reference material in preventing compulsive buying behavior and consumerism

A Protocol of a Guideline to Establish the Evidence Ecosystem of Acupuncture.

This is a protocol for developing a guideline to establish the evidence ecosystem of acupuncture. It describes all steps that will be followed in line with the World Health Organization Handbook for Guideline Development and the Reporting Items for practice Guidelines in Healthcare (RIGHT). The key steps included guideline protocol development, guideline registration, systematic review of acupuncture evidence issues, systematic review of methods for establishing evidence ecosystem, survey of acupuncture stakeholders regarding potential acupuncture evidence issues, development of potential items for guidelines, Delphi method for guideline item development, consensus meeting, drafting guideline, peer review, approval, and publishing. This future guideline will help to establish evidence ecosystem of acupuncture, which will facilitate the application of acupuncture in clinical practice.

أثر تطبيق مراجعة النظير في جودة التدقيق دراسة استطلاعية لعينة من المدققين الخارجيين

As a result of the developments of the modern business environment and the great expansion in the size of companies, the audit profession has become one of the most important professions due to its great role in meeting the needs of all users of financial reports, thus enhancing their confidence in the validity and credibility of the information contained therein. Therefore, the research aims to demonstrate the role of peer review as a control method on audit quality and to test whether the application of this method contributes to improving quality. The research deals with the external audit bureaus in Baghdad as a community to conduct the practical test, while the sample is represented by the auditors working in these bureaus. In order to collect the data, the researchers prepared a questionnaire for this purpose, where (200) forms are distributed, (163) of which are retrieved, (135) forms valid for analysis, and (28) forms excluded as they are not valid. The data is analyzed using the statistical program (SPSS) . The research has reached several conclusions, the most important of which is that the application of the peer review method works to compel audit bureaus to abide by the recognized quality standards of performance issued by professional bodies, which improves the audit process and raises the level of services provided in these bureaus. One of the most important recommendations made by the research is the need to work on obligating audit bureaus to provide all the necessary requirements for the application of the peer review method for its great role in achieving audit quality control.

ОЦІНКА КОНКУРЕНТОСПРОМОЖНОСТІ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА ТА ОПТИМІЗАЦІЯ ЙОГО ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ

The concept of competitiveness is multifaceted and multidimensional. There are many different definitions of competitiveness, but there is no acceptable single precise definition. The article analyzes and summarizes the results of a study of publications, which allow us to conclude that the issues of assessing the competitiveness of enterprises require further study. The list of tasks for the formation of the competitive advantages of the enterprise is not fully developed and needs to be clarified. It has been established that the need to overcome the crisis in Ukraine has led to the development of competitive relations and a competitive economy in general, but not all domestic enterprises are ready for competition and can withstand it. The approaches of scientists to the definition of the economic essence of such concepts as "competition", "competitiveness" and "competitive advantages" are considered. The experience of domestic and foreign scientists in the study of existing and the formation of new competitive advantages of economic entities is analyzed. The most significant in this area were the scientific research of M. Porter, who developed the theory of competitive advantages. It was revealed that competitiveness can be assessed only within groups of enterprises producing the same goods. There are many methods for researching competitiveness, for example: the Boston Advisory Group model; M. Porter's model; GAP analysis method; McKinsey method; LOTS method; a method for studying the profile of an object; situational analysis (SWOT analysis); PEST analysis, peer review method; financial and economic way. The listed methods for assessing the competitiveness of an enterprise are characterized by certain advantages and disadvantages that determine the possibility and feasibility of their use by domestic enterprises. The most complete information about the competitive advantages of an enterprise in the market can be provided by several methods at the same time. Finding new competitive advantages or creating them will allow each company to improve its competitive opportunities.

Peer review declaration

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing. • Type of peer review: Single-blind The single-blind peer-review method was used for the peer-review process. • Conference submission management system: The papers are emailed to the Secretariat and managed internally. • Number of submissions received: 21 • Number of submissions sent for review: 21 • Number of submissions accepted: 17 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted/Number of Submissions Received × 100): 81% • Average number of reviews per paper: 2 • Total number of reviewers involved: 26 • Any additional info on review process: List of Secretariat stage, Scientific Committee stage, Adjudicator are available in this pdf.

Learning methods to improve communication skills in health professional student: a literature review

Background: Effective communication is one of patient safety's foundations that health workers must consider. Poor communication will impact both patients and health professionals. Health profession students have to comprehend communication skills to improve patient safety when providing care for the patient. They have learned effective communication from the education stage through various learning strategies. This study aims to identify multiple learning methods to improve effective communication learning in health professional students.Methods: This study is a literature review by looking for the main article according to the inclusion criteria of effective learning and communication methods for health professional students. The search was conducted on several databases with ScienceDirect 32,322, Ebsco 1,644, ProQuest 48,449, and SpringerNature 4,994 articles. The result was that nine articles were screened with the PRISMA chart guide.Results: The results showed that several learning methods such as simulation with a standardized patient, role play with standardized family, experiential learning, cooperative learning, simulation with virtual reality, peer review method, video recording and standardized patient feedback, and specific feedback used to improved communication skills in the health professional students.Conclusion: These methods can improve the communication skills of health professional students, which is the key to supporting patient safety, and there are many challenges and facilities during communication learning proses.

Comparative retrieval analysis of antioxidant polyethylene: bonding of vitamin-E does not reduce in-vivo surface damage

BackgroundWith the Persona® knee system a new polyethylene formulation incorporating vitamin-E which aims to reduce oxidation and maintain wear resistance was introduced. Although in-vitro studies have demonstrated positive effects of the vitamin-E antioxidants on UHMWPE, no retrieval study has looked at polyethylene damage of this system yet. It was the aim to investigate the in-vivo performance of this new design, by comparing it with its predecessor in retrieval analysis.Methods15 NexGen® and 8 Persona® fixed-bearing implants from the same manufacturer (Zimmer Biomet) were retrieved from two knee revision centres. For retrieval analysis, a macroscopic analysis of polyethylene using a peer-reviewed damage grading method was used (Hood-score). The roughness of all articulating metal components was measured using a contact profilometer. The reason(s) for TKA revision were recorded. Statistical analyses (t-test) were performed to investigate differences between the two designs.ResultsThe mean Hood score for Persona® inserts was 109.3 and for NexGen® 115.1 without significant differences between the two designs. Results from the profilometer revealed that Persona® and NexGen® femoral implants showed an identical mean surface roughness of 0.14 μm. The Persona® tibial tray showed a significantly smoother surface (0.06 μm) compared to the NexGen® (0.2 μm; p < 0.001). Both Hood score and surface roughness were influenced by the reasons for revision (p < 0.01).ConclusionsThe bonding of the antioxidant vitamin-E to the PE chain used in the novel Persona® knee system does not reduce in-vivo surface damage compared to highly crosslinked PE without supplemented vitamin-E used in its predecessor knee system NexGen®. However, the Persona® titanium alloy tibial tray showed a significantly smoother surface in comparison to the NexGen® titanium alloy tibial tray. This study provides first retrieval findings of a novel TKA design and may help to understand how the new Persona® anatomic knee system performs in vivo.

Sanitary and hygienic assessment of working conditions of civil aviation pilots

Introduction. The analysis of working conditions of pilots of civil aviation aircraft has been carried out according to the data of sanitary and hygienic characteristics (SHC). The non-compliances with hygiene standards for several factors have been established at the same time in all SHC. Materials and methods. The 220 SHC of pilots, who had been examined in the clinic of FSBSI RIOH due to suspicion of occupation disease from 2015 to 2019, conducting flights by plane (49%) and helicopter (51%) were analyzed. The methods of account of acoustic load, hygiene assessment and classification of working conditions, peer review methods, and statistical treatment methods have been used. Results. The working conditions, according to the criteria of the Guide R 2.2.2006-05, are assigned to the following classes: 3.2 - in 26%; 3.3 - in 41%; 3.4 - in 33%. Exceeding the permissible equivalent noise levels was recorded at 92% of workplaces. According to SHC, the exceedances were from 1.2 dB to 34.5 dB (class 3.1-3.4). In assessing the work intensity in 83% of cases from 5 to 11 indicators of class 3.2 were recorded. It has determined class 3.3 of work intensity. The levels of general vibration exceeded hygiene standards in 48% of cases (class 3.1- 3.2), local vibration - in 8% (class 3.1-3.2), microclimate parameters - in 67% (class 3.1-3.2), labour severity - in 22% (class 3.1-3.3), less often there were discrepancies in light (6%) and chemical factor (2%). Conclusion. According to a combination of factors, the overall assessment of working conditions of the pilots of civil aviation aircraft in 74% of cases is assigned to classes 3.3-3.4. However, the disadvantages and errors in filling out the SHC can underestimate the degree of harmfulness of the work. To improve the procedure of establishing the connection between the disease, and the profession it is necessary to amend the legislative framework to obtain objective information about the levels of factors affecting pilots, develop a separate form of SHC of working conditions of pilots, detailed instructions about the rules of filling out SHC.

Methods and Statistical Analyses in Studies of Motivation for E-Cigarette Use Among University Students: An Integrative Review

Background Understanding the motivations for e-cigarette use among college and university students is essential for developing and implementing effective interventions. Evaluating existing literature is necessary to identify methodological gaps and limitations and improve the quality of future research. Objective We aimed to evaluate the quality of the methods and statistical analyses and integrate evidence addressing motivations for e-cigarette use among college and university students. Methods An integrative literature review was conducted by two researchers to identify and evaluate peer-reviewed, quantitative, and mixed methods research exploring motivations for e-cigarette use among college and university students. A systematic analytic method of data reduction was used to identify alignment and divergence of the data, gaps in the literature, and methodological limitations. Results Fifteen quantitative studies and three mixed methods studies published between 2015-2020 were included. Most studies were cross-sectional, used convenience sampling, and lacked psychometric and assumptions testing. Half performed regression analyses, however, very few adhered to research and statistical reporting standards. Conclusions Current literature provides a foundation for developing and implementing interventions aimed to prevent e-cigarette use and encourage cessation. Future research should incorporate stronger sampling methods and research designs, as well as the use of rigorous statistical analyses in conjunction with thorough reporting. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2021.1990332.

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All conference organisers/editors are required to declare details about their peer review. Therefore, please provide the following information:• Type of peer review: Double-blind • Conference submission management system: CMT • Number of submissions received: 38 • Number of submissions sent for review: 38 • Number of submissions accepted: 20 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 52% • Average number of reviews per paper: 2 • Total number of reviewers involved: 18 • Any additional info on review process: Each paper was peer-reviewed by 2 reviewers. The conference took double-blind peer review method. Only papers meet the requires below will be considered for accepting. If the paper needs revising, it should be resubmitted for peer review again. Manuscript requirements: 1. Manuscripts must be written in English, in accordance with the standard of template; 2. The topics of paper should be relevant to conference topics; 3. Plagiarism and duplicate submission are prohibited; 4. Innovation and scientific value is a must. • Contact person for queries: Lyn Lee ( lynlee@smehk.org)

Development of best practices in physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling to support clinical pharmacology regulatory decision-making-A workshop summary.

Development of best practices in physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling to support clinical pharmacology regulatory decision-making-A workshop summary.

The Psychological Readiness Model of Military Personnel to Take Risks during a Combat Deployment

The purpose of this article is to present an empirically-derived psychological readiness model of military personnel to take risks during combat deployment. The model was developed using the methods of semantic differential, peer review, and factor analysis. Its theoretical basis is the concept of “hardiness”. The study involved 104 military personnel of the National Guard of Ukraine had combat experience in the War in Eastern Ukraine. The model includes four components: “Ability for volitional efforts (mobilization)”, “Military brotherhood”, “Professional identity”, “Self-control (endurance)”. Their content covers the emotional-volitional, cognitive, motivational, moral, active-practical, existential-being, and interpersonal-social spheres of the individual. The leading role in the model belongs to strong-willed features, combat cohesion, patriotism, and adaptive resources of the individual, which make it possible to maintain the effectiveness of military personnel’s combat activities under conditions of risk. The basis of the psychological readiness of military personnel to actively act and overcome difficulties in conditions of risk (uncertainty, direct threat to health and life) with the absence of reliable guarantees for success is hardiness. It is suggested that the model can be used for psychological selection procedures, professional and psychological training of military personnel, predicting their behavior under conditions of risk, and developing strategies for psychological support in the post-deployment period. This will reduce psychogenic losses during hostilities.

The Importance of Journal Publication in Community and Occupational Medicine in Indonesia

Research in community and occupational medicine field has grown rapidly in the last decade. In European countries such as Netherland, the contribution of authors in occupational health journal has even doubles in the past five years.1 Knowledge of community and occupational health medicine; which includes community, and occupational health and medicine, epidemiology, community nutrition, and health economics, is constantly growing, hence increase the need of journal submissions and reference searches. In this digital era, the role of web has greatly reduced the barriers for publishing and communicating scientific and research works outcome.2 Journals online in open access (OA) platform is one of many strategic methods with high impact and relevancy. With peer-reviewed method prior of publication, this model of publishing can be freely accessed.3&#x0D; In Indonesia, there are still only few of open accessed journal publications in the field of community and occupational medicine. We understand the urge and importance of providing publication platform in this field, therefore The Association of Alumni of Occupational Medicine Magister Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia (ILUNI MKK FKUI) launches The Indonesian Journal of Community and Occupational Medicine (IJCOM) as an open access journal for the expansion of community and occupational medicine-related knowledge and acts as a media for authors to publish their researches.&#x0D; IJCOM is the peer-reviewed, world scale scientific journal of community, occupational clinical, and epidemiology, community nutrition, and health economics. As the official journal of ILUNI MKK FKUI we committed to facilitate authors, academicians, students and health care professionals to share their science work in community and occupational medicine, as well as other related field includes epidemiology, community nutrition, family medicine, health economics and other public health research works. This Journal also act as the platform to provide learnings and recommendations in community and occupational medicine and related data for the development of good health practice for Indonesian community and the world.&#x0D; We do realize that this first issue is a baby step for a greater future. We will definitely put our utmost effort and energy to develop and grow this journal to meet all the requirements of national accredited journal and ultimately a reputable international journal standard.

The Educational Technology of Monological Speaking Skills Formation of Future Lawyers

In modern higher education, there was a change in the educational paradigm, when the emphasis shifted to the formation of competencies. The goal of the competence approach is to improve the quality of education, which is impossible without the use of educational technologies that guarantee a steady effective result. The priority of teaching foreign languages to future lawyers is the foreign speaking skills formation in general and the monological ones in particular. The introduction of educational technology in the process of monological speaking skills formation, including a set of methods and techniques such as peer review, discussion, working with the text, etc., took place over the course of the pedagogical experiment. Qualitative and quantitative data analysis allowed us to determine the difference in the level of the monological speaking skills formation in experimental and control groups at all stages of the experiment conducted. The effectiveness of the developed technology is determined by the significance of the adaptation stage, the use of the peer review method, which implements the potential of students’ metacognitive skills, and the possibility to change the role while evaluating students’ answers.

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All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing.• Type of peer review: Double-blind• Conference submission management system: CMT• Number of submissions received: 40• Number of submissions sent for review: 39• Number of submissions accepted: 21• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 54%• Average number of reviews per paper: 2• Total number of reviewers involved: 20• Any additional info on review process: Each paper was peer-reviewed by 2 reviewers. The conference took double-blind peer review method. Only papers meet the requires below will be considered for accepting. If the paper needs revising, it should be resubmitted for peer review again.Manuscript requirements:1. Manuscripts must be written in English, in accordance with the standard of template;2. The topics of paper should be relevant to conference topics;3. Plagiarism and duplicate submission are prohibited;4. Innovation and scientific value is a must. Contact person for queries: Yury Yu, Asia Pacific Institute of Science and Engineering (APISE), yury@apise.org

Peer review declaration

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing.• Type of peer review: Double-blind • Conference submission management system: CMT (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IC3E2021)• Number of submissions received: 64• Number of submissions sent for review: 59• Number of submissions accepted: 37• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 62%• Average number of reviews per paper: 2• Total number of reviewers involved: 20• Any additional info on review process: Each paper was peer-reviewed by 2 reviewers. The conference took double-blind peer review method. Only papers meet the requires below will be considered for accepting. If the paper needs revising, it should be resubmitted for peer revie again.Manuscript requirements:1. Manuscripts must be written in English, in accordance with the standard of template;2. The topics of paper should be relevant to conference topics;3. Plagiarism and duplicate submission are prohibited;4. Innovation and scientific value is a must.• Contact person for queries: Yury YuAsia Pacific Institute of Science and Engineering (APISE)yury@apise.org

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All papers published in this volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing.• Type of peer review: Double-blind • Conference submission management system: CMT • Number of submissions received: 105 • Number of submissions sent for review: 85• Number of submissions accepted: 46 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 54% • Average number of reviews per paper: 2 • Total number of reviewers involved: 24 • Any additional info on review process: Each paper was peer-reviewed by 2 reviewers. The conference took double-blind peer review method. Only papers meet the requires below will be considered for accepting. If the paper needs revising, it should be resubmitted for peer review again. Manuscript requirements: 1. Manuscripts must be written in English, in accordance with the standard of template 2. The topics of paper should be relevant to conference topics 3. Plagiarism and duplicate submission are prohibited 4. Innovation and scientific value is a must. • Contact person for queries: Yury Yu (yury@apise.org)

An incentive mechanism-based framework to assure the quality of self-organizing peer review in preprint

PurposePreprint has become an important vehicle for academic communications and discussions. However, in preprint, there is a lack of a sufficient quality control mechanism such as peer review, which is a proven quality assurance practice that is used in traditional academic publishing services. To address the problem leveraging on the power of this practice, the authors introduce into preprint a self-organizing peer review method by applying the concept of token economy and the blockchain technology.Design/methodology/approachSpecifically, this paper proposes an idea that applies the token economy concept to the design of the incentive and penalty mechanisms for peer reviewers in preprint to assure the qualities of its publications. Steemit has been studied to demonstrate the characteristics of the mechanisms.FindingsA token economy-enhanced framework for self-organizing peer review in preprint is also proposed. The resulting preprint system is an academic community-oriented, self-organizing and blockchain-based content publishing system that is designed to run on both permissioned and permissionless blockchains.Research limitations/implicationsFirst, since peer review is on a voluntary basis and not profits oriented, the “monetary” incentive and penalty mechanisms borrowed from Steemit may conflict with academic ethics. Second, the authors proposed to deploy the authors’ token economy on blockchain, but the current mainstream decentralized blockchain services are too few to warrant a foreseeable successful future for the authors’ application. In fact, as the flagship of blockchain 2.0, the Ethereum blockchain suffers from the problem of scalability, which leads to its applications' lower performances, longer response times and eventually more negative user experiences as time goes by. Finally, the authors’ proposed version of preprint has not been implemented, and hence, its practical effectiveness and acceptance by academia are yet to be evaluated.Practical implicationsIn this paper, the authors proposed a token economy-based framework for self-organizing peer review in preprint leveraging on blockchain technology. This framework encourages positive interactions between authors and reviewers, which helps to establish a healthy academic ecology that produces more contents with better qualities. Application of a solution based on the authors’ framework should impact the current academic communities by offering a new academic peer reviewing tool that has a built-in mechanism for self-behavior correction and quality assurance.Social implicationsThrough adaption, the framework can be applied to other domains as well. In such domains, a large amount of feedbacks from partakers are needed and there exists a tremendous amount of work to filter noises in feedbacks so as to ensure that as many the quality ones as possible are delivered for a variety of purposes. The authors’ framework essentially impacts almost all domains where there exists a need to collect and filter large amount of feedbacks, and using the authors’ framework-based solution is cost-saving, which can be seen as a major potential contribution of the research.Originality/valueThe incentive and penalty mechanisms encourage positive interactions between authors and reviewers, and it helps to establish a healthy academic ecology that produces high-volume contents with good qualities.

Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) Method: Improving Student Descriptions Writing Skills in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah

Writing descriptions is a skill that has been taught in grade VI elementary schools such as MIN 6 Cilacap. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) method in students' writing learning. To answer the stated objectives, the research method used was pre-experiment using one class as the sample. The number of research samples was 40 students consisting of 21 male students and 19 female students. To see the effectiveness of the method in learning, researchers used the pre-test as a first step to measure students' abilities then post-test after giving the treatment. The results showed a significant effect on the pre-test and post-test scores where the initial score was a mean of 65.3 and the final score was an average of 72.5. There was a good effect on the results of learning to write student descriptions because of any significant development in teaching. Thus, the CPR method is effective in students' writing learning

Pharmacy students’ intrinsic motivation to participate in electronic peer review of journal article critique assignments

Background and purposeJournal article critiques are frequently used to teach literature evaluation to pharmacy students. Peer review is one method to improve students' competency regarding journal article critiques. The objective of this manuscript is to describe implementation of electronic peer review of journal article critique drafts and explore students' intrinsic motivation to participate in the peer-review process. Influence of students' motivation to participate in peer review on their self-competence regarding journal article critiques was also explored. Educational activity and settingSecond-year pharmacy students participated in three in-class, electronic, anonymous peer-review sessions for written journal article critique drafts. Students were invited to complete a 16-item survey instrument based on self-determination theory. Modified Intrinsic Motivation Inventory and Perceived Competence Scales assessed student interest in and perceived value of the peer-review sessions and their self-competence regarding journal article critiques. FindingsThe survey response rate was 99% (146/148). Based on a Likert scale of 1 (not at all true) to 7 (very true), students demonstrated moderate interest in the peer-review sessions (M = 3.86), viewed them as valuable (M = 5.25), and had a moderate level of self-competence regarding journal article critiques (M = 3.74). Additionally, interest and perceived value of the peer-review sessions significantly influenced self-competence in completing journal article critiques. SummaryAn anonymous, electronic peer-review system provides an efficient method for in-class peer review of draft assignments. Implementing strategies to increase student interest in peer review may increase their motivation for participation and ultimately improve self-competence regarding literature evaluation.