Secure Place Research Articles

Finding a Secure Place in the Home during the First COVID-19 Lockdown: A Pattern-Oriented Analysis.

In challenging times, home is frequently the primary basis of environmental self-regulation processes, individual and relational coping, and well-being. This study aimed to identify multiple types of security experiences at home during the first lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic. We used data from 757 Hungarian adults who completed the online, modified form of the Emotional Map of the Home Interview method in 2020 after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants imagined their homes, chose the place of security in their homes and rated their personal experiences (i.e., experiences of agency, communion, self-recovery, and distress) related to these places. Latent profile analysis of personal experiences revealed four types of relational-environmental self-regulation in secure places: "security in active self-recovery," "security in detachment," "security in doing and feeling good enough," and "security in stress and compensation." Profile membership was predicted by age, gender, and indices of psychological support and well-being. Results suggest that finding psychological security in the home is a multifaceted phenomenon that may be partly affected by the perception of the broader social-ecological context. Identifying subpopulations vulnerable to the challenges of the pandemic may help researchers and practitioners provide better support in times of local and global crises.

Spectral Library of Maize Leaves under Nitrogen Deficiency Stress

Maize crops occupy an important place in world food security. However, different conditions, such as abiotic stress factors, can affect the productivity of these crops, requiring technologies that facilitate their monitoring. One such technology is spectroscopy, which measures the energy reflected and emitted by a surface along the electromagnetic spectrum. Spectral data can help to identify abiotic factors in plants, since the spectral signature of vegetation has discriminating features associated with the plant’s health condition. This paper introduces a spectral library captured on maize crops under different nitrogen-deficiency stress levels. The datasets will be of potential interest to researchers, ecologists, and agronomists seeking to understand the spectral features of maize under nitrogen-deficiency stress. The library includes three datasets captured at different growth stages of 10 tropical maize genotypes. The spectral signatures collected were in the visible to near-infrared range (450–950 nm). The data were pre-processed to reduce noise and anomalous signatures. This study presents a spectral library of the effects of nitrogen deficiency on ten maize genotypes, highlighting that some genotypes show tolerance to this type of stress at different phenological stages. Most of the evaluated genotypes showed discriminate spectral features 4–6 weeks after sowing. Higher reflectance was obtained at approximately 550 nm for the lowest nitrogen fertilization treatments. Finally, we describe some potential applications of the spectral library of maize leaves under nitrogen-deficiency stress.

Matakan Tabbatar Da Tsaro A Gwamnatance

This paper dwelt on some of the security measures used by government to ensure and maintain security with a particular reference to Nigeria. It revealed that the Federal Government is the sole repository of security in Nigeria. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended, has placed the burden and duty of security, the maintenance of law and order and protection of lives and property within the federation squarely upon the shoulders of the federal government. This means that the Federal Government solely owns and controls the security without sharing it with any of the 36 states and the FCT. Paragraphs 17 and 45 of Part 1, Second Schedule, of the Excusive Legislative List of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) has exclusively given the Federal Government control of the security agencies. Hence, the State Governments do not have direct control and significant roles to play in the maintenance of security, except complimenting the Federal Government via provision of logistics for the security agencies in their respective domains. Furthermore, the chapter explored the place of security in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as identified security agencies having the stake of ensuring security in Nigeria. It also enumerated and discussed some of the security measures being taken to provide, ensure security of lives and property in Nigeria as well as how Zamfara State Government has been making efforts and complementing Federal Government to contain the security threat the state grapples with. However, some of the security measures identified in the chapter are just overt ones with several covert ones not said here. This is because, no nation, world over, does reveal all of its security measures to avoid countering them by criminals, domestic collaborators and hostile nations.

Kazantzakis and America

This article traces Kazantzakis’ attitudes towards America in works from the pre- and post-war periods. In doing so, it reveals his growing interest in visiting the country or even settling there for an extended period. The pretexts for such a journey were diverse and variously described by the writer as a means to ‘renew his vision’, to find a secure place to work, and to launch endeavours intended to ‘save’ Greece from afar. Though Kazantzakis’ antipathy to ‘Americanization’ remained, he was more prepared over time to tolerate these defects, while becoming increasingly sensible to the pull of other demands and attractions.

The importance of safety and security in urban space

Purpose of the study: This article presents the main determinants of security and safety in the public space of the city. The main objective is to examine the importance of security in the public area of the city and to discuss how it can be achieved.
 Methodology: In the article was used a literature review mainly on the urban public area as one of the most critical aspects of the city. "Desk research" is the method that was used to analyze.
 Main findings: From the considerations, the urban public space can be a place of excellent security or an area of crime and fear. Key factors affecting safety in urban public regions are visibility and design.
 Application of the study: This rticle refers to the behavior of citizens in urban spaces. As more and more hackers attack both companies and individuals, everyone needs to take the necessary precautions. The use of aids such as cameras and lighting can help to warn residents of possible hazards. Article's content may be helpful for residents to work together to create a safer environment.
 Originality/Novelty of the study: Safety and security must never be compromised in public places in the city. Aspects of public space are an essential part of life and must be secure for safety and well-being. The reasons for applying precautions in urban areas in this article suggest that security should not be neglected, as it can lead to large-scale accidents and tragedies in the absence of adequate safety measures. This article may stimulate further research and study in the field of public security and contribute to other interesting scientific contributions on the subject.

An Innovative Hunter-Prey-Based Optimization for Electrically Based Single-, Double-, and Triple-Diode Models of Solar Photovoltaic Systems

The derivation of PV model parameters is crucial for the optimization, control, and simulation of PV systems. Although many parameter extraction algorithms have been developed to address this issue, they might have some limitations. This work presents an efficient hybrid optimization approach for reliably and effectively extracting PV parameters based on the hunter–prey optimizer (HPO) technique. The proposed HPO technique is a new population-based optimizer inspired by the behavior of prey and predator animals. In the proposed HPO mechanism, the predator attacks the prey that leaves the prey population. Accordingly, the position of a hunter is adjusted toward this distant prey, while the position of the prey is adjusted towards a secure place. The search agent’s position, which represents the best fitness function value, is considered a secure place. The proposed HPO technique worked as suggested when parameters are extracted from several PV models, including single-, double-, and triple-diode models. Moreover, a statistical error analysis was used to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method. The proposed HPO technique outperformed other recently reported techniques in terms of convergence speed, dependability, and accuracy, according to simulation data.

Analyzing social wrongs

Analyzing social wrongs

The circadian preferences in the context of sociodemographic indicators and lifestyle

ABSTRACT Circadian preferences are frequently used as a synonym for chronotype. Both terms are based on different principles and are measured by a variant questionnaire. We focused on circadian preferences, delimited as an individual preference for the timing of various activities, and their relationship to the selected sociodemographic factors. All participants (n = 2068) filled out online questionnaires including MEQ, MCTQ, and sociodemographic information (age, sex, place of residence, marital status, childcare, education, financial security, physical and mental health). Although the concept of chronotype and circadian preference differ, the mutual correlation was high. Our results of the observed variables are similar to other studies. We revealed evening preference is related to a higher probability of living in a big city, having a single life, a higher risk of smoking, worse health status, and worse financial security. We observed a higher social jet lag among them. Our research complies with previous studies, which found that in some areas, people with evening preferences evince worse results. Due to the evening preference, these people are at a disadvantage, and the society’s setting for morning operations can lead to a deepening of these differences. We recommend further research, which would focus on the practical application of results to the everyday life of participants to create preventive programs aimed at reducing the negative impact of evening preferences on life.

Ретроспектива обучения информационной безопасности в отечественных школах

The article substantiates the need for information security training in Russian schools. A review of informatics textbooks from 1985 to the present is given with a view to changing views on teaching safe work with information resources, highlighting the dominant areas that are reflected in educational materials. The place of information security in regulatory documents, in particular, in the federal state educational standards (FSES) of basic and secondary general education, is considered. It is shown what forms of information security training are in the classroom (situational tasks, role-playing and business games, watching educational animated videos) and in the extracurricular (information security olympiads, thematic classroom hours, discussion platforms, extracurricular activities, meetings with IT workers, visiting IT enterprises) activities should prevail. Specific examples of gaming tasks for teaching information security are given, which can be used in the classroom as learning tasks or in extracurricular activities as separate competitions.

Security in Turkish Politics: An Analysis of the Political Discourse of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

The goal of this paper is to investigate two presidential terms in Türkiye in order to compare the place of security in the political discourse of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in particular, and in Turkish politics at this time in general. The mixed methodological approach has been taken in the article. The MAXQDA software program has been used to collect and analyse data from more than 850 of President Erdoğan’s speeches. The key research questions are as follows: how important are the security issues in the political rhetoric of the President? Are there any differences in this regard between Erdoğan’s fi rst and second presidency? Did the state of emergency and introduction of the presidential system make any difference in this regard? What are the reasons for the place of security, as identified in the analysis, in Turkish political discourse and politics?

Editorial Introduction

Editorial Introduction

“What Really Happened?”: The Life and Death of Olivia Coombs

“What Really Happened?”: The Life and Death of Olivia Coombs

Multi-stage structure of state security (the case of economic and financial security)

Relevance of the research topic. The globalization threats of modernity determine the extreme urgency of the problem of ensuring the national security of any state. A new large-scale challenge for national security of Ukraine was the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, a large-scale war that began on February 24, 2022. Under conditions of military aggression, the role and significance of the further development of security are enhanced. Formulation of the problem. Given the relevance and need to deepen the theoretical foundations of security, especially in the context of current warfare, as well as the conceptual definition of mechanisms (tools) for ensuring security in various areas, scientific intelligence of individual components, in particular, economic and financial security, their multi-stage and multi-level nature as economic security studies are required. Analysis of recent research and publications. Such scientists as O. I. Baranovskyi [1], T. H. Vasyltsiv [5], О. А. Grishnova [12], D. V. Nikytenko [8], S. V. Onyshchenko [9], Yu. M. Kharazishvili [12], S. M. Shkarlet [11] and others devoted their works to the study of the problems of economic and financial security. The results of our own scientific research on the problem of economic and financial security are given in [2-4]. Highlighting unexplored parts of the general problem. Despite the existing scientific developments in solving these issues, the relevance and the need for their early study and solution, the issues of multi-stage and multi-level security of Ukraine, in particular, economic and financial security, appropriate and full-fledged scientific studies have not been received and considered mostly fragmentary, which actualizes the topic of research and is (should be) the further development of economic security. Statement of the problem, and the purpose of the study. The subject of the paper is the theoretical, methodical, and methodological aspects of Ukraine's multi-stage and multi-level security, particularly economic and financial security. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the essence and substantiate the theoretical foundations of the multi-stage and multi-level security of the state on the example of the economic and financial security of the state. Method and methodology of research. In the process of conducting scientific research, both general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge were used. In particular, scientific research methods were used: dialectical — to substantiate the content of theoretical provisions; abstract-logical — to determine the essence of the security of the state and its main economic and financial components; hypothetical-deductive — to build the main working hypotheses about the multi-stage security of the state; system-structural analysis and synthesis — to identify the multi-level composition of economic and financial security. Scope of the results. It is expedient to use the obtained scientific conclusions and results in scientific activities and further study of the actual problems of economic security, in the educational and scientific process of higher education institutions in the preparation of specialists in the specialty 8.18010014 "Management of financial and economic security", in the field of economic and financial security. Conclusions. The role and place of economic and financial security in the system of national security in globalization threats, in particular, in the conditions of military aggression, are determined and disclosed. The author's definition of the science of economic security as an interdisciplinary science about the essence, regularities, and ways of effective protection of national interests from real and potential, exogenous and endogenous threats is given. The multi-stage and multi-level security of the state is determined by the example of the economic and financial components of the security of Ukraine.

An overview of suicides related to motor vehicles.

Although vehicles may be used in a wide variety of suicides, this has not been a focus in the forensic literature. Thus, an analysis of coronial autopsy reports at Forensic Science SA, Adelaide, South Australia over a 16-year period from January 2005 to December 2020 was undertaken to provide an overview of cases in which it was considered that a vehicle had been integral to the successful completion of a suicide. De-identified details were collected from all cases in which a vehicle had facilitated or been used as a method of suicide. A number of different types of vehicle-related suicide methods were identified, including cases where vehicles had been used as secure places for suicide or where the vehicle had been used to cause significant blunt force trauma or to enter a lethal environment such as water. Specific examples were taken from the following categories: (1) inhalation of gas, (2) drug toxicity, (3) hanging or ligature strangulation, (4) self-immolation, (5) drowning, (6) vehicle collision, (7) driving off a cliff, (8) jumping or lying in front of a vehicle and (9) the use of more than one method (i.e. complex). This report is not intended to provide an epidemiological analysis of car-related suicides. Instead, the details of selected cases have been used to illustrate the spectrum of methods that may be used in vehicle-assisted suicides.

What do thought leaders make us think about journalism? A boundary-work analysis of newspaper commentary articles

As “boundary objects,” thought-leader articles show some characteristics of journalism but are not considered journalism in its pure sense. Yet this peripheral format occupies a critical place in the media canon and thought-leader articles have value for news organization and audience alike. Given an ongoing demand for content and a declining tendency to pay for it, thought-leader articles have a secure place. But even as they help journalism to overcome one (economic) obstacle, they raise another in the form of questions about their content: Who has a voice? Who is held to account? What agendas are pursued? How are events and topics framed? What are the values of the writer? And who benefits from having a voice, pursuing an agendum and setting the frames of the discussion? When asked of regular reporting, these questions have helped define journalism’s boundaries; when asked of thought-leader articles, the answers similarly reveal what sits inside journalism’s field. This article investigates what thought-leader articles indicate about the boundaries of journalism, through their conformity or otherwise to traditional values and roles.

Research on the Performance of Multimode Optical Chaotic Secure Communication System With Multidimensional Keys and a Complex Entropy Source

In this paper, we design an optical chaotic secure communication system with multi-dimensional keys and a complex entropy source, which can allow secure communication working in different modes such as unicast, multicast, and broadcast. In the proposed scheme, amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) with sufficient randomness is used as an entropy source to improve the security of the system. And by using the electro-optic delay feedback loops, the key spaces are introduced and the phase distortion is generated, then the data are masked in both phase and intensity fields. As a frequency-dependent group delay (FDGD) module, Gires-Tournois interferometer (G-T I) in the feedback loop can effectively hide the time delay signature (TDS) and achieve additional 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">36</sup> key spaces. The influence of different key mismatches on decryption function is numerically investigated, and the results indicate that the broadband nature of ASE noise makes the TDS a very sensitive encryption key, which increases the difficulty of illegal third parties stealing information. And with the help of the wavelength converter and wavelength division multiplexer, secure communication in various modes is successfully realized, which greatly improves the communication efficiency and is suitable for various security places.

Еnvironmental safety and the role of law in addressing environmental problems In Russian Federation

The problem of ensuring environmental security is vital for all states of the world. The new environmental threats that have emerged recently in Russia objectively require relevant approaches both in state practice and in the sphere of theoretical developments. The article defines the role and place of environmental security in the national security system of the country, some of the issues of environmental security of the state in the ecological crisis are discussed, and the issues of ecological culture are reflected. The article investigates and analyzes the main environmental problems, the role of law in resolving them. of ecologically disadvantaged areas, contamination of water bodies, poisoning or damage land by harmful products economic or other activities. The analysis of legal regulation the legal responsibility for the production and trafficking, including content, acquisition, storage, transportation, shipment and sale, the most valuable wildlife and of water biological resources, belonging to the species, included in the Red Book of the Russian Federation and (or) protected international treaties of the Russian Federation.

Reading publics and a curriculum in literature

AbstractThe notion of reading publics has a secure place in the sociology of Literature but its place in the educational literature around curriculum studies is relatively sparse. Here I address the question of reading publics in a curriculum context by examining school subject curricula whose very raisons d'etre are the creation of a reading public, viz. the curricula in Literature that usually sit inside high school English/Language Arts. I am interested in the extent to which ‘reading publics’ can themselves be ‘read off’ such Literature curricula and also in the kind of reading publics that are imagined as being created through such curricula. Under examination are two senior years courses from the Australian Curriculum: English which imagine two quite different ‘beneficiary publics’ which I argue as class‐based differences, but which nevertheless both represent what I call a ‘weak’ version of an imagined beneficiary public. I conclude by asking how a curriculum might imagine a more socially oriented reading public.

Dreamers of Peace: Laboratory School Mentors Notions of Peace and Their Aspirations

This study illustrates the concepts, reflections, and aspirations for the culture of peace of the Integrated Laboratory School mentors. Through narrative inquiry, the participants’ notions and understanding of peace were explored. Themes emerged from the narratives. The study reveals that the mentors’ concepts of peace are reflected in these themes: Peace as the Absence of Violence and Conflict, Peace as a State of Mind, and Peace as a State of Tranquility and Security. A peaceable classroom is described as a learning space that embraces diversity and a place of comfort and security. The experiences that compelled the mentors to reflect on their concept of peace are categorized into Diversity of Students and Working with Parents. Moreover, Engaging Activities in the Classroom and Teachers as Peace Bearers are the themes that reflect the teachers’ experiences that made them reflect on what a peaceable classroom is. Narratives also reveal the mentors’ aspirations for a culture of peace which are as follows: Equal opportunities for Everybody, an Integrated Peace Education Program, a Peace Lounge, and Learning Space, and the Creation of Peace Peer Mediators and Facilitators. Based on the findings, recommendations were advanced.

Searching for wholeness as a Jewish art therapist

ABSTRACT This opinion piece combines scholarly sources and personal experiences to address Jewish art therapists’ presence in the profession. When working with clients, Jewish art therapists may negotiate self-disclosure with addressing stereotypes. Collegial matters reflect societal ways that Jews are misunderstood: negating Jewish suffering, blurring anti-Israel and antisemitism, and conflating Jewish and White. Art therapists can create a more secure place for Jews through reflection, education, and advocacy. Plain-language summary Jewish art therapists have not been offered resources for how their identity impacts client relationships and collegial interactions. This opinion piece reviews the ways that unexamined Jewish misunderstanding and discrimination influence the profession. These include: negotiating client perceptions, underestimating Jewish suffering, confusing criticisms of Israel, and merging Jewishness with Whiteness. Art therapists can counter these influences through reflection, education, and advocacy.