Principal Position Research Articles

Conceptual principles of study of economic safety at building enterprises

The research focuses on the conceptual principles of the study of economic safety at building enterprises using the system approach. The authors research scientific bases of the theory of systems and system analysis concerning the present issue. The basic properties of systems and the elements of economic safety system at building enterprises are determined. The principal positions of the conceptual model of non-linear dynamics are described; the signs of non-linear safety evolution as a system are detected; the qualitative characteristics of non-linear system are characterized. The authors consider emergency to be one of the characteristics of economic safety system at building enterprises; emergency is the result of synergetic connections, which appear between the elements of the system; the system emergency properties and the results of emergency manifestation are examined; the integral properties of complicated dynamic systems are outlined. The advantages of the system approach for learning the economic safety of building enterprises are shown. The authors determine the system features of economic safety system at building enterprises and suggest the system approach where the economic safety of building enterprises is studied as a goal-oriented dynamic system, which operates and develops by the management of criteria of the assessment of the development level and the system is aimed at reaching an optimal level under conditions of scholastic rising external and internal negative impacts. The article also deals with the main tasks and principles which have to be solved in the process of functioning the economic safety of building enterprises. The results obtained due to the present study allow to deepen and widen the existed approaches to functioning and modelling the system of economic safety for building enterprises taking into account their branch specificity.

Quality Evaluation and Study of Ecological Toxicity of Heavy Metals in Shadegan Wetland

Wetlands hold a principal position in storing food for primary producers, so they are not able to bear the pressure. The slightest disturbance, hence, may harm wetlands and cause detrimental effects. The present study aims at monitoring heavy metals and evaluation of the sediment quality index of Shadegan wetland in Iran. Thus, a sampling of surface sediments of the wetland was performed at ten stations with three replications; after the preparation of samples with aqua regia, the concentrations of heavy metals were measured by atomic absorption spectroscopy. The quantification of sediment pollution using the contamination factor, contamination degree, pollution load index, ecological risk assessment index, and ecological toxicity of heavy metals in the region were all carried out. The results of Cf and Cd showed that the degree of zinc and copper contamination is low; however, the degree of lead contamination is moderate. Moreover, the obtained PLI was less than 1 indicating a lack of sediments contamination with heavy metals. The RI was less than 150 indicating a low risk of contamination. In addition, comparing the concentrations of elements with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Sediment Quality Guidelines showed slightly toxic and non-toxic sediments, respectively. Finally, based on a mixture of effect range median, all sediment samples are placed in the first category with less than 12% toxicity probability. Copyright © 2017 Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs.

Internal vs external promotion: advancement of teachers to administrators

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine selection practices of school districts by capturing the promotion of teachers to assistant principal positions to determine if: there is a relationship between employability and assistant principal promotion (within-school, within-district, and external); and if the state-specific educational leadership policy directly impacts the employability of assistant principal candidates.Design/methodology/approachPrincipals in the state of Georgia were the unit of analysis, and data collected included personal characteristics of each participant when entering their first assistant principal position, school characteristics of the place of promotion, and type of promotion (internally within-school, internally within-district, and externally). Both descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis were utilized to examine the impact of type of promotion as well as the state-specific educational leadership policy on participant employability at the time of promotion.FindingsThis study found a significant positive relationship between internal promotion (within-school) and employability as well as a negative association between participant employability and Georgia state-specific policy. Additional findings indicate a positive relationship between combination schools (i.e. grades K-8; 6-12) and participant employability.Originality/valueThis study advances the HRM literature concerning employee selection by expanding the scope of hiring practices outside of the private sector and provides focus on the public sector, specifically, the public school environment. In addition, the focal position (public school administrators in the state of Georgia) has yet to be utilized in employee selection research in the areas of internal and external promotion. Previous researchers have studied the probability of internal and external promotion based on demographic factors such as race and gender, however, this specific study uses distinctive predictor variables backed by literature to evaluate applicant employability.

Assessment of the coding accuracy of warfarin-related bleeding events

IntroductionUsing International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition (ICD-9) diagnosis codes to identify potential warfarin-related bleeding events from administrative datasets is highly efficient but may be prone to identifying non-events. The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of bleeding-related ICD-9 codes to identify true bleeding events in patients who were receiving warfarin therapy at the time of hospitalization. MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study conducted in an integrated healthcare delivery system. Anticoagulated patients aged ≥18years and hospitalized between January 1, 2014 and March 31, 2014 were identified using administrative data queries. All hospitalizations were manually chart reviewed by a trained abstractor blinded to hospitalization diagnoses to assess for true bleeding events. Identification of the presence or lack of bleeding-related ICD-9 diagnosis code(s) for each hospitalization was then performed. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) were calculated for each ICD-9 code present. ResultsThere were 486 hospitalizations in 468 anticoagulated patients with 57 true bleeding events identified. Patients had a mean age of 73.4years and 50% were female. For codes in the principal position, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV were 7.0%, 99.8%, 80.0%, and 89.0%, respectively. For codes in any position, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV were 94.7%, 90.9%, 58.1%, and 99.2%, respectively. For major bleeding, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV were 100%, 83.1%, 14.0%, and 100%, respectively. ConclusionsWhile the absence of a bleeding ICD-9 code reliably ruled-out hospitalization for warfarin-related bleeding, bleeding ICD-9 codes in the principal position were rarely used and undesirable false positive rates were identified when ICD-9 codes when recorded in any position and for major bleeding. Manual chart review is recommended to validate bleeding events from administrative data.

Forming conceptual ideas on the librarianship early history in M. I. Slukhovsky’s works

The article is devoted to analysis of the socio-cultural concept origin and formation at the early history of the domestic library science, which main principal positions were proposed by M. I. Slukhovsky. It analyzes Slukhovsky’s professional development as a library scientist and a historian; overviews his major works on the librarianship history. The main emphasis is on a trilogy on the history of librarianship and bibliology in the XI-XVIII centuries.

Market, state and business in coordinates of the new economy

The formation of the new economy, which is replacing the industrial economy and has a multi-vector dimension1, causes deep transformations in all spheres of social existence, leads to the emergence of new forms and methods for organizing interactions between institutions that function in the area of socio-economic development. The relevance of the study is caused by the necessity of theoretical and applied substantiation of the new subjective composition and network interaction of these institutions. The scientific and practical significance of the research is to substantiate the formation and development of modern institutions and to establish a new format for their interaction within the framework of the new economy. The results of the study are aimed at identifying the latest trends in the modernization of institutes’ functions in the triad “market – state – business”. The subject of the study is the theoretical and applied principles of the social phenomenon “market – state – business”. The methodological basis for achieving this goal is systematic and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of redistribution of roles among these institutions and the improvement of their interaction in the process of ensuring sustainable development. The purpose of the research is a scientific and theoretical substantiation of the new configuration of the social phenomenon “market – state – business”. The principal position of the authors is their belief that a new interpretation should be given if not to all, but to the majority of categories and concepts that reflect the phenomena and processes occurring in the chain “market – state – business”. There is a need for a new, unorthodox, unconventional understanding of most of the phenomena and processes associated with the functioning of the leading institutions of the economy and society. The article presents the authors’ view on the contemporary role of each of the mentioned institutions, their interaction in the process of ensuring sustainable development. Particular attention is paid to the substantiation of the transformation of functions of the state and business under the current conditions. The authors demonstrate that the contemporary role and place of the leading institutions, which have to ensure sustainable development, need a new understanding.

The Problem of Over-Interpretation in Literary Studies

The article discusses the functions of over-interpretation in contemporary literary studies, beginning with an attempt to defi ne the principal epistemological positions in the debate on the ways of establishing literary meanings. The understanding of the role of interpretation depends on the choice of a given position. Over-interpretation has several homonymic meanings. The article highlights the differences between interpretation in literary studies and colloquial or artistic interpretation. It identifi es fi fteen types of over-interpretation and their implications in literary studies.

School Leadership Of The 90's And Beyond: A Window Of Opportunity For Women Educators

In the midst of thes school evolution, vacancies for principal and superintendent positions are increasingat a time when more women than men are enrolled in preparation programs for educationaladministration.

School Leadership Of The 90's And Beyond: A Window Of Opportunity For Women Educators

In the midst of thes school evolution, vacancies for principal and superintendent positions are increasing at a time when more women than men are enrolled in preparation programs for educational administration.

Gender Issues in K-12 Educational Leadership

This paper serves as a review of the research literature on gender issues in K-12 educational leadership, with a primary focus on the principal and superintendency positions in the United States. The prominent common themes or topics found in the literature are discussed. More specifically, barriers to gender equity in educational leadership are identified, and qualities or strategies used by successful female administrators where such barriers have been broken are noted.

SAPC – APPLICATION FOR ADAPTING SCANNED ANALOGUE PHOTOGRAPHS TO USE THEM IN STRUCTURE FROM MOTION TECHNOLOGY

Abstract. The documentary value of analogue scanned photographs is invaluable. A large and rich collection of archival photographs is often the only source of information about past of the selected area. This paper presents a method of adaptation of scanned, analogue photographs to suitable form allowing to use them in Structure from Motion technology. For this purpose, an automatic algorithm, implemented in the application called SAPC (Scanned Aerial Photographs Correction), which transforms scans to a form, which characteristic similar to the images captured by a digital camera, was invented. Images, which are created in the applied program as output data, are characterized by the same principal point position in each photo and the same resolution through cutting out the black photo frame. Additionally, SAPC generates a binary image file, which can mask areas of fiducial marks. In the experimental section, scanned, analogue photographs of Warsaw, which had been captured in 1986, were used in two variants: unprocessed and processed in SAPC application. An insightful analysis was conducted on the influence of transformation in SAPC on quality of spatial orientation of photographs. Block adjustment through aerial triangulation was calculated using two SfM software products: Agisoft PhotoScan and Pix4d and their results were compared with results obtained from professional photogrammetric software – Trimble Inpho. The author concluded that pre-processing in SAPC application had a positive impact on a quality of block orientation of scanned, analogue photographs, using SfM technology.

A Study of College Students’ English Autonomous Learning in the Network Environment

This paper analyzes the characteristics of autonomous learning and offers some strategies on how to promote college students’ English autonomous learning in the network environment. The autonomous learning in the network environment is characterized with purposiveness, selectivity, creative spirit, self-regulation, adaptability and intercourse. Five strategies are given to promote students’ English autonomous learning in this study. To promote students’ autonomous learning, the teachers should raise students’ independent consciousness, highlight their principal position in teaching, encourage the interaction of English learning in the network, take full advantage of individuation of network English and strengthen supervision in the learning process.

Rubia hangii (Rubiaceae), a new species from Guangxi Province, China

Rubia hangii, a new species of Rubia sect. Oligoneura from Guangxi Province, China, is described and illustrated. The placement of this species within Rubia is assessed based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis and morphological comparisons with related species. The new species is morphologically similar to R. siamensis and R. falciformis, but differs from the two taxa in having membranous to thin papery leaf blade, margins flat , slender petiole (< 1 mm wide), ovate-lanceolate stipule, triangular corolla lobes, fruit glabrous, with 1 ovule often aborted and 1 mericarp developed, rarely with 2 mericarps. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggested that R. hangii is closely related to R. argyi and R. pallida. Rubia hangii can be easily distinguished from R. argyi and R. pallida based on leaf and stipule arrangement, leaf shape, number of principal veins, inflorescence position and flower shape.

论大学教师的主体地位及其回归

本文阐述了法律法规和实践赋予大学教师在学校教学研究及管理中的“主体地位”，分析在大学“党委领导下的校长负责制”和院系“党政共同负责制”框架下教师主体地位的现状。提出了贯彻“以人为本”理念使教师有尊严地从事教学研究；建立“教授委员会”制度把“学术权力”还给教师；完善“教代会”制度把“监督权力”赋予教师；构建“多元主体参与的院系治理结构”保证教师处于“主体地位”等基本观点，促使大学教师主体地位的彰显与回归。 This paper discusses the principal position held by the teachers in the activities of a university, including teaching, research and governance. This position is endowed by relevant laws and regulations and confirmed by the practice. It also analyzes the present condition of teachers’ position in China’s universities within the framework of the “Principal Accountability System under the Leadership of the Party Committee” at the university level and the “Mechanism of Common Assumption of Responsibility by Both the Party and the Administration” at the department level. On this basis, the paper proposes the implementation of the “people-oriented” idea to enable teachers to teach and research with dignity; the establishment of the “Professor Committee System” to return the “academic right” to the teachers; the improvement of the “Teachers’ Representative Committee System” to give the “supervisory right” to the teachers; and the construction of the “governance structure involving multiple parties for schools and departments” to ensure the principal position of the teachers. All this will shed new light on the issue and help uphold the principal position of university teachers.

Sculpture parks in contemporary China: the problems of originality and the prospects for evolution

Aspects of evolution and the current state of Chinese sculpture parks in the context of the latest trends in the interaction of sculpture and landscape are examined in the present article. Characteristics of the phenomenon of a specialized landscape complex for the permanent display of works by contemporary sculptors are presented. Characteristics of the relationship of sculptural parks with temporary exhibitions of sculpture in the open air are defined. Here is also examined the principle stages of how development of parks of modern sculpture in China are allocated. The structure and composition of the International Sculpture Park (Shijingshan, Beijing), Changchun World Sculpture Park, Yuzi Paradise Sculpture Park (Guangxi, Guilin), Deyang Stone Sculpture Park, Guangzhou Sculpture Park are analyzed. When compared with foreign examples, the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese parks of modern sculpture are identified. Principal positions are formulated, which should be guided by the development of new projects of and art landscape complexes in China. Refs 9. Figs 5.

Modern First Aid Tactics and New Techniques in Acute Poisoning Intensive Therapy

Modern tactics of emergency medical care in case of acute poisoning both at prehospital and hospital stages has undergone some changes. Changing of some principal positions was dictated by the international experience of emergency care of acute poisonings, where a new trend is defined by the motto: “The Importance of First Doing No Harm”, which can be translated as “the treatment of critical conditions — the first commandment is do no harm”. The literature review presents modern, restrictive approaches to gastric lavage in acute poisoning, highlights the options of the more extensive use of activated carbon in cases of mild and moderate poisoning severity and considers prospects for the use of new technologies of intensive therapy (high doses of insulin and fat emulsions) in the practice of clinical toxicology.

Catholicism and Evolution: A History from Darwin to Pope Francis by Michael Chaberek, O.P.

Reviewed by: Catholicism and Evolution: A History from Darwin to Pope Francis by Michael Chaberek, O.P. John Baptist Ku O.P. Catholicism and Evolution: A History from Darwin to Pope Francis. By Michael Chaberek, O.P. Kettering, Ohio: Angelico, 2015. Pp. x + 354. $21.95 (paper). ISBN: 978-1-62138-137-2. In Catholicism and Evolution, Michael Chaberek mounts a case against the theory of evolution in ten chapters and an appendix. He believes that the Catholic Church unambiguously ruled out the evolution of man's body but has, more recently, allowed a plurality of views, even mutually exclusive ones (3). He rejects Darwin's theory for philosophical reasons, because it appears to imply that a species has no proper end of simply being itself. That is, according to evolution, "each being by nature strives to become something else" so that "over time, a bacterium is supposed to turn into a plant, a reptile into a bird, a monkey into a man" (4). He also rules out evolution on scientific grounds, maintaining that "it is impossible to transform from one nature to another by way of small accidental changes" (3). The (theological) solution, as he sees it, is offered by intelligent design theory, which provides an "adequate scientific background for further development of the doctrine of creation within Catholic theology" (5). [End Page 453] In chapter 1, Chaberek reports on the birth of the evolutionary paradigm in the mid-eighteenth century among Charles Darwin and his less-well-known precursors, and examines the core neo-Darwinian principles of mutation and natural selection that explain the evolution of new species. Quoting Étienne Gilson, Chaberek reasons that because the term "evolution" refers to an unfolding of something preexisting, "creative evolution" is contradictory and impossible (7). That is, either there is something there already, with its potencies in place to unfold, or else there is a creator creating something new. In addition to challenging the principles of evolution, Chaberek exposes evolution's theme of strife, over against a view of an harmonious world, and Darwin's aggressive agenda. Chapter 2, "From Biblical Creationism to Intelligent Design," outlines the principal positions on evolution: young-earth creationism, progressive creationism, theistic evolution, and atheistic evolution. Chaberek traces the trajectory from young-earth or scientific creationism to intelligent design theory before discussing the emergence of theistic evolution. Young-earth creationism seeks scientific proof of Genesis's account of a six-day creation and of biblical genealogies that would establish the earth's age at less than 10,000 years. Intelligent design scientists "believe that natural selection and random mutations cannot explain the entire complexity of the organic world" (42). Thus, the intelligent ordering of things in the universe would require an intelligent producer. In chapter 3, "Early Statements of the Magisterium on Evolution," Chaberek comments on the 1860 Synod of Cologne, Vatican I's Dei Filius (1870), and Leo XIII's Arcanum (1880). Chaberek interprets the Cologne Synod to rule out the evolution of the human body in its determination that it is against the faith to hold that "man as regards his body, emerged finally from the spontaneous continuous change of imperfect nature to the more perfect" (73). And Chaberek takes Dei Filius's assertion that "the world and all things which are contained in it … were produced, according to their whole substance," to be a challenge to the theory of evolution (79). Moreover, he understands Leo XIII's formulation that God "miraculously took [Eve] from the side of Adam" to preclude her evolution (82). Chapter 4, "The Rise of Catholic Evolutionism," presents six Catholic figures who published proevolution works: George Mivart (1871); Fr. Raffaello Caverni (1877); Fr. Dalmace Leroy, O.P. (1891); Fr. James Zahm, C.S.C. (1896); Bishop Geremia Bonomelli (1898); and Bishop John Hedley (1898). Caverni and Hedley stopped short of saying that the human body evolved. Caverni's, Leroy's, and Zahm's books ended up on the Index, and Bonomelli issued a retraction of sorts. In chapter 5, "The Pontifical Biblical Commission Decrees, 1905-1909," Chaberek determines that this Commission's decree of 1909 "claims that Genesis tells a true history of the creation of the world...

Banking Regulation and Market Making

We present a model of market makers subject to recent banking regulation: liquidity and capital constraints as in Basel III and a position limit as in the Volcker Rule. Regulation causes market makers to reduce their intermediation by refusing principal positions. However, it can improve the bid-ask spread because it induces new market makers to enter. Since market makers intermediate less, asset prices exhibit a liquidity premium. The impact of regulation can be assessed by measuring principal positions and asset prices but not by metrics such as bid-ask spreads.

The Acclimation of New Assistant Principals


 
 
 
 Although the assistant principal position has been the career path for aspiring principals, some researchers have claimed the position lacks adequacy as a training position. With limited research available, the purpose of this study was to explore the induction and acclimation experiences of newly assigned assistant principals. Following a phenomenological research approach, interviews were conducted with six public school assistant principals. New assistant principals prepared for their positions by seeking prior leadership opportunities and asking questions, but they noted a lack of confidence in making decisions. These new assistant principals, recognizing the importance of professional relationships, worked to build trust with students and teachers. Implications for school district leaders, preparation programs, and aspiring candidates are provided.
 
 
 

Content Analysis of Ideological and Political Education Humanized Management for College Students

Human needs are the starting point of all human knowledge and practice activities, which also constitutes the ideological and political education humanized management content. College students’ need is closely related with its particular social identity and status, which not only has the general characteristics of ordinary youth, but also the characteristics of their own cultural level. The humanized management of ideological and political education for college students must show respect on the principal position of college students, satisfy their material needs, social needs and spiritual needs, and also develop and promote their needs. In addition, it’s necessary to improve the performance of the ideological and political education management, and promote the comprehensive development of college students as well.