Publication Of Report Research Articles

Analysis of the environmental safety of the biosystem in the integrated reporting of agricultural corporations

The article discusses approaches to organizing the process of integrating public reports of a corporation to form an information resource for sustainable development. The article identifies and reveals the main methodological procedures in the integrated report preparation system; identifies and characterizes the cycles of the integrated corporate reporting algorithm; determines the role of corporate profits in the formation of long-term value of sustainable development.

“WE’RE FAR FROM YOUR ONLY FRIEND”: STANCE TAKING IN POLITICAL SPEECH

Background. The research presents the analysis of Antony John Blinken's, the United States secretary of state, historic and significant public report on May, 16, 2024 during his visit to Ukraine. Politicians perform speeches mainly to outline the perspective for the nations, influencing the others and positioning themselves and the others through the discourse. The stance is defined as a social action which is realized through communicative strategies, and is equated to positioning. Methods. The aim of the article is to study the communicative strategies of stance-taking and positioning and methods of their realization in the mechanism constructing of a political speech. The research applied Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as the research method relating structures of the discourse to social practices based on 'ideological square' (Van Dijk, 1998) of positive-self and negative other presenting. Results. The stance-taking and positioning can explain the use of lexical patterns, constructions and discourse markers in the political discourse. This study argues the implementing of the stance-taking and positioning by the discursive strategies of polarization (positive in-group and negative out-group representation). Conclusions. The stance-taking and positioning in the political speech are presented on three levels (self- (the first order), the other (the targeted audience) positioning (the second order) and the third order positioning, when the speaker demonstrates his attitude to the people (state) not involved in the present interaction). They are implemented by the discursive strategies of polarization that embody the social ideologies (positive in-group and negative out-group representation) including the strategies of group inclusion, self-glorification, positive and negative evaluation and contrasting strategies. The linguistic means of verbalising the strategies of stance taking and positioning include the lexical content of the utterance, grammar tenses and stylistic figures of hyperbole, litotes, metaphor, personification, etc. Metaphors as conceptual and framing device help to present the main political actors, make it possible for political actors to show their stances, achieve goals and have the impact on the value judgements that they make. They express the author's attitude to the message, his points of view, positions, value orientations in relation to the subject of discussion.

Análise das políticas de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional nos países da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa

Public Policies are essential for the guarantee of Human Rights, such as the Human Right to Adequate Food (DHAA), which refers to an individual having access to food with quality, quantity and safety to meet their needs. To this end, Food and Nutritional Security (FNS) is involved in this process, which concerns a safe and continuous diet, which respects the stages of a person’s life and which is sustainable and permanent. The objective of this article is to present the main Public Policies for Food and Nutrition Security of the countries that make up the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP). An exploratory and qualitative documentary research was carried out to collect data on Public FNS Policies in CPLP countries. Data were collected from public archives, official documents, books, scientific articles, reports and legislation of the countries that make up this community. Among the FNS policies found, it is clear that there are weaknesses in the legitimacy of the DHAA in these countries and that some policies to strengthen and support FNS are outdated or incomplete, such as in the context of food acquisition, food and nutrition education and income transfer. Therefore, this work shows that there is a need for these CPLP Member States to improve and develop effective and equitable public policies that guarantee the Human Right to Adequate Food and Food and Nutrition Security for the population.

Title IX Offices at Top United States Universities with Medical Centers: Staffing, Investigations and Transparency

Background Sexual harassment pervades higher education and disproportionately impacts women in medicine. The Department of Education’s guidance related to Title IX, a federal civil rights law intended to protect against discrimination based on sex in educational programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance, was revised in 2020 to narrow the definition of sexual harassment and disallow a single investigator model. This added to the required tasks of already overburdened and under-resourced Title IX offices. Methods The current report documents characteristics of Title IX offices at leading universities with medical schools in the 2020-2021 academic year. Results Findings highlight a low number of staff managing sexual harassment complaints, with an average ratio of 2.99 staff per 10,000 people at the university. A small percentage of complaints were formally investigated, with only 4% at public universities and 11% at private universities. Findings also suggest a lack of transparency regarding the actual length of investigations, which was reported in only 20% of public reports. Conclusion Given the importance of trust that sexual harassment complaints will be handled in a timely and transparent manner, we suggest potential opportunities for universities to consider.

Does board’s green theme training promote green innovation? A view from resource dependence perspective: Indonesian evidence

PurposeThe study has practical implications for decision-makers in that increasing board competence and expertise through training on environmental issues will promote green policy-making.Design/methodology/approachThis study included 655 firm-year observations from companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange between 2017 and 2021. Panel data regression analysis is used to investigate the hypotheses. Additionally, a robustness test is conducted to validate the consistency of the primary test results.FindingsThe results demonstrate that green theme training from the board of directors, board of commissioners and independent commissioners has a positive and significant impact on the implementation of green innovation at each level of the board. This result is aligned with the robustness test performed.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is restricted by the fact that the only data sources used to examine the board’s green training are publication reports and other reports that disclose the board’s training activities. Therefore, future research can be done by considering other methods, such as surveys to trace green training followed by the board. Additional research may also examine green theme training in the corporate governance structure from a different theoretical angle, such as agency theory and human capital theory.Practical implicationsIn practice, the study has implications for decision-makers in that increasing board competence and expertise through training on environmental issues will be able to promote green policy-making.Originality/valueThis study concentrates on Indonesia with two-board governance characteristics: the board of directors and the board of commissioners. Several scholars have examined the board of directors in light of resource dependence theory. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no research has explained the supervisory board within the context of two-board governance. In addition, the authors have not found research that analyzes board training activities related to the environment.

Implementation of Design Thinking Method in UI/UX Redesign of Public Complaint Application (Case Study: Go Siaga App)

Go Siaga App is a mobile-based application by Tangerang Sub-district Police Office that provides special community services for the Tangerang sub-district community which provides features in the form of reports of disturbances in public security and reports of loss or damage. Since it is a new application released in March 2021 on Google Playstore, there are several things that need to be considered to maintain the usability of the application. This research aims to redesign the user interface and user experience (UI/UX) of the Go Siaga application using Design Thinking Method in the design process. Some of the supporting aspects for testing the user satisfaction such as effectiveness, efficiency, usefulness, satisfaction, and learnability are met in the usability testing. The results showed that the percentage of all the aspects in usability from the redesigned version were all higher than the current one with 80% of effectiveness, 80% of efficiency, 80% of usefulness, 86.67% of satisfaction, and 73.33% of learnability. Therefore, based on the research results, the redesign of Go Siaga is more effective, more efficient, more useful, more satisfying, and also easy to learn.

The Diversity and Inclusion Report: The Rise of a New Corporate Public Reporting Genre

The diversity and inclusion (D&I) report is an important element in the corporate public reporting genre; however, as an emerging genre, it receives little attention from scholars interested in public discourse, so there are few guidelines on what should be included in a D&I report. This study helps to fill this gap in the research by examining 10 D&I reports from information technology and banking industries, exploring the reports’ rhetorical purpose and identifying their typified rhetorical moves. The author concludes by recommending what aspects of the current genre's substance and form should be improved to help meet the needs of stakeholders.

Analisis Informasi Publik di Kepolisian Sektor Pademangan

This research discusses public information in the Pademangan Sector Police. Public information is an important part of public administration. Public information is all information that is publicly available and can be accessed by the public freely. This information may include government data, public reports, legal documents, or other relevant content. The importance of public information in society is to encourage transparency, accountability and citizen participation in the democratization process. However, effective management and access to public information also raises issues related to privacy, security and ethics. The use of public information is also to provide open and transparent access to information produced or managed by the government or public institutions to the general public. This aims to enable the public to understand, monitor and participate in government and decision-making processes. Public information enables the public to have sufficient knowledge to evaluate government performance, understand public policy, and play an active role in community development and maintaining government accountability. Therefore, it is important for the government and other agencies, including the police, that provide public information to consider the interests of the community and maintain the basic principles of fair and just public information.

Finless Porpoise Bycatch and Stranding along the Shandong Peninsula, China, Based on Public Reports from 2000 to 2018.

The Shandong Peninsula is located on the western coast of the Pacific and is adjacent to the Bohai Sea (BS) and the Yellow Sea (YS) to the east. The East Asian finless porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis sunameri, a subspecies of the narrow-ridged finless porpoise N. asiaeorientalis, is the dominant cetacean resident along the Shandong Peninsula. However, there is insufficient monitoring data to determine the status of the cetacean species in this region. Based on the publicly available literature, media, and internet social website, this study investigated the spatial-temporal distribution of porpoise stranding and bycatch along the coast of the Shandong Peninsula. Data on over five hundred porpoises from two hundred reports between 2000 and 2018 were compiled and analyzed. Results showed that the bycatch and stranding of porpoises occurred widely across the peninsula throughout all months and increased rapidly between 2010 and 2017. The incidents were more frequent in the area where the BS and YS converged during the spring and early summer than in other seasons. The mean body length of bycaught porpoises was smaller than that of those found stranded. Fishing activities could be the principal cause of local finless porpoise incidents. However, limited data hindered a quantitative evaluation of the living conditions of finless porpoises in this area. Establishing a comprehensive monitoring system, which includes standardized reporting, rescue operations, and scientific research, is essential to finless porpoise protection along the Shandong Peninsula.

A simple and highly accurate method for fuzzy edge-based 3D morphometry

As the level of engineering technology increases, the mechanical problems posed in the area of mechanics become complex and diverse. The traditional measurement methods and content of past measurements no longer meet the needs, so more advanced experimental methods are needed to accurately measure the three-dimensional shape of objects and their deformations. Nitrate ester plasticized polyether (NEPE) propellants, are the highest energy solid propellant that have been applied in public reports in the world. Due to the material properties of the material itself, its mechanical properties cannot be accurately measured by conventional methods. This paper proposes a simple and highly accurate optical measurement method to study the volume change rate, Poisson’s ratio and true stress-strain curves of NEPE at different displacement loading rates of NEPE. In this paper, the strain of solid propellant NEPE in three directions during unidirectional stretching was measured by defocusing method and digital image correlation(DIC) method and the volume change rate, Poisson’s ratio and true stress-strain curves of NEPE under different stretching rates were obtained. The measured damage initiation engineering strain of NEPE at different tensile strain rates is 0.4687.

A Review on Risk-Based Audit Approach: Malaysian Public Sector’s Perspective

Purpose: This study aims to understand the Risk-Based Audit (RBA) approach, the advantages of RBA, RBA in the Malaysian public sector, and the issues and challenges inimplementing RBA in the Malaysian public sector. Design/ Methodology/ Approach: A library search and evaluation of earlier literature reviews were conducted on the topic of RBA and internal auditing that covers online and print sources, journal articles, newspaper articles, and official legal documents. Findings: RBA is a methodology that provides an independent and objective opinion to an organisation's management, determining whether the management of its risks is on acceptable levels. The strength of RBA lies in the distinct nature of this audit approach, which focuses on the business risk and factors triggering the risk and resulting in a more effective and efficient audit. Several issues and challenges were identified in the implementation of RBA, especially in Malaysia: (1) legislation requirements; (2) lack of resources; (3) limited access to data; and (4) duplication of work. Research Limitations/ Implications: The data pertaining to public sector internal audit reports are considered confidential and sensitive. This aspect placed limitations on the depth of the collected insights. This study also focused on the data obtained mainly from secondary sources, leading to results that cannot be generalised to other countries. Practical Implications: Findings from the document review and identification of current problems may offer indications to the Accountant General's Department of Malaysia (AGD) on the current usage of RBA. Therefore, subsequent actions are required to improve internal audit work. Originality/ Value: This study discussed the current state of RBA applied by the internal auditors in the Malaysian public sector. This finding may encourage future researchers to highlight the methods of integrating a comprehensive RBA that would fulfil the 3Es (effective, efficient, and economy) for the benefit of internal auditors, particularly in the Malaysian public sector. Keywords: Risk, internal audit, public sector, Accountant General's Department of Malaysia (AGD).

Web-Based Public Reporting as a Decision-Making Tool for Consumers of Long-Term Care in the United States and the United Kingdom: Systematic Analysis of Report Cards.

Report cards can help consumers make an informed decision when searching for a long-term care facility. This study aims to examine the current state of web-based public reporting on long-term care facilities in the United States and the United Kingdom. We conducted an internet search for report cards, which allowed for a nationwide search for long-term care facilities and provided freely accessible quality information. On the included report cards, we drew a sample of 1320 facility profiles by searching for long-term care facilities in 4 US and 2 UK cities. Based on those profiles, we analyzed the information provided by the included report cards descriptively. We found 40 report cards (26 in the United States and 14 in the United Kingdom). In total, 11 of them did not state the source of information. Additionally, 7 report cards had an advanced search field, 24 provided simplification tools, and only 3 had a comparison function. Structural quality information was always provided, followed by consumer feedback on 27 websites, process quality on 15 websites, prices on 12 websites, and outcome quality on 8 websites. Inspection results were always displayed as composite measures. Apparently, the identified report cards have deficits. To make them more helpful for users and to bring public reporting a bit closer to its goal of improving the quality of health care services, both countries are advised to concentrate on optimizing the existing report cards. Those should become more transparent and improve the reporting of prices and consumer feedback. Advanced search, simplification tools, and comparison functions should be integrated more widely.

Self-Defence and Battered Woman Syndrome in a Selected isiXhosa Short Story

The fact that there are continued public reports of abuse and violence against women and young girls in South Africa, and elsewhere in the global village, is enough to underline that gender-based violence (GBV) is profoundly entrenched in social and human settings. Considering this, it stands to reason to recurrently contest this challenge relying on isiXhosa literature, among other mechanisms. In fact, violence against women and young girls has been regarded by several scholars, government and non-governmental organisations, and community members as an international crisis. On account of this, this article critiques how self-defence and battered woman syndrome (BWS) are reproduced in a selected isiXhosa short story titled “Umfazi Akayongqongqo” (A woman is not a punching bag). This short story is recognised herein as a primary source of data, while African feminist theory is applied to uncover the complexities pertaining to self-defence and BWS as they emerge as a direct consequence of prolonged incidents of GBV. The findings and discussions indicate that prolonged occurrences of abuse and violence towards women and young girls have the potential to lead to situations where victims of GBV cannot tolerate it any longer, hence resulting in retaliation, self-defence and BWS. While there are contrasting views concerning self-defence and BWS, particularly within the legal frameworks, this article underlines the necessity to strike a balance between these important social, cultural, and political issues in a bid to reasonably solve the conundrum—GBV. The concluding remarks present possible future scholarly discourses that may be considered in an attempt to address this challenge. For instance, it would be prudent to consider ways to decolonise isiXhosa literary scholarship, focusing on re-evaluating traditional canons, challenging Eurocentric voices and promoting indigenous African knowledge systems (IAKS). By the same token, it would be perceptive to examine how isiXhosa literature mirrors and responds to the legacies of colonialism, including matters related to identity, language, and cultural representation.

Possibilities of Legal Mechanisms to Counteract Greenwashing to Achieve the Principles of Sustainable Development

Objective: The paper examines the practice where companies use environmental advertising or statements about their environmental responsibility to promote their products or services (greenwashing). The objective of the study is to analyze the main signs of greenwashing and develop recommendations for countering environmental offenses. Methods: The research methods are based on the analysis of a limited number of studies that were selected according to special parameters and comprehensively considered. Methods of analogy and comparative analysis were also used. Results: The main signs of greenwashing, the negative consequences to which greenwashing can lead, and the main measures to control this kind of environmental offense are considered. According to the results of the study, it has been concluded that at the international level, greenwashing should be defined as a socially dangerous culpable act that contradicts the norms of law and harms society, the state, individual citizens, and the environment. Conclusion: To counteract greenwashing, it is necessary to introduce a ban on the application of seals that are not introduced by state bodies and are not based on a certification system; a ban on eco-friendly labeling without providing evidence, and without certificates; and a ban on eco-friendly statements about the product, if they relate only to a certain aspect of the product. Furthermore, a system of public reports needs to be introduced where manufacturers can publish reports about their production processes and product test results. This will help consumers make informed decisions about the purchase of products. Besides that, environmental, social, and governance principles need to be implemented in the contract system, together with a penalty system.

Evaluating the effects of velocity models and array configuration on induced seismic event locations in the Permian Basin

In the final months of 2022, two substantial earthquakes with magnitudes exceeding ML 5.0 hit West Texas, USA, causing widespread public concerns about the effect of industrial activities on human and environmental safety. The monitoring of earthquakes in this region is largely based on the data of the public regional seismic array, which consists of stations spaced typically tens of kilometers apart. Accurate hypocenter determination of these induced events is crucial as it provides insight into the triggering mechanism, enabling operators and regulators to develop effective mitigation strategies. However, there are debates regarding the accuracy of the publicly reported induced event data due to discrepancies between public reports of event hypocenters and those determined using local dense arrays operated by private companies. The primary objective of this study is to identify the underlying causes of the discrepancies between results obtained from the public regional array in West Texas and local dense arrays. Through modeling and analysis of field data collected by a local dense array in the Permian Basin, we determine that three critical factors influence the reliability of induced event results. First, the accuracy of the velocity model used for the event location is the most crucial factor. Second, the distance between a station and an event plays a crucial role in determining the sensitivity of the data to the hypocenter depth. Finally, consistency between the observed and modeled wave propagation behavior is crucial for ensuring the validity of the objective function in the inversion. Our findings indicate that it is challenging to obtain reliable hypocenters using a regional sparse array with station spacing on the order of tens of kilometers. The best practice for obtaining an accurate event hypocenter and magnitude is to monitor induced seismicity using a local dense array and process the data with a velocity model that fully characterizes the local basin’s geology.

Demographic predictors of disciplinary sanctions among middle school victims of bullying: a quantitative correlation study

ABSTRACTBullying victimization is a very common, complex, and potentially damaging form of violence among children and adolescents. Bullying is defined as unwanted, aggressive behavior, which involves a real or perceived social power imbalance. One in 10 public schools reports at least one case of serious violent crime, such as aggressive bullying, cyberbullying, rape, robbery, fights involving weapons, and suicide each year. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects bullying victimization has on students’ school disciplinary sanctions (suspensions, office referrals, and expulsions) by examining a national data set that consisted of 13,965 students. This study used a correlation design. The independent predictor variables used to examine bullying victimization among middle school students in this national data set were age, race, gender socioeconomic status (SES), and physical and emotional bullying victimization. The dependent criterion variable was disciplinary sanctions. The study results indicated that race, gender, age, and socioeconomic status collectively predict middle school students’ disciplinary sanctions (suspensions, office referrals, and expulsions) among those who have experienced emotional and physical bullying victimization on a national level. Policymakers may use the study results to implement strategies that may be used to reduce physical bullying in learning institutions.

In pursuit of high-quality primary care: A call to action to implement the objectives of the 2021 NASEM report.

A seminal National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus report released in May 2021-Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care-emphasizes the importance of ensuring that high-quality primary care is accessible to all people, regardless of whether they have paid for it and in spite of its limited availability. This report outlines five recommendations for primary care stakeholders seeking to transform the health care landscape. This article summarizes these recommendations; identifies progress made toward high-quality primary care implementation since the report's publication; and outlines examples of policies, operational approaches, and advocacy strategies we believe are necessary to implement high-quality primary care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

International Fair of Plovdiv in Bulgaria’s Trade Relations with Underdeveloped Countries in the Second Half of the 1950s

Abstract Josef Stalin’s death in 1953 was the cause of a change in the policy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Eastern bloc. If this led to a tentative détente on the European continent in East-West dialogue, Nikita Khrushchev’s new policy toward the Third World strained competition with the United States for strategic influence over postcolonial countries. Eastern European states were encouraged to increase their contact with the former colonies at all levels. Therefore, participation of underdeveloped countries increased at the International Fair Plovdiv in the 1950s. Research curiosity, however, was sparked by the following questions: What was the place of the International Fair Plovdiv in the context of struggle for Third World countries and markets? Did Bulgaria use it only as a weapon in the Eastern bloc’s common diplomacy, or did it have economic benefits for expanding trade relations with underdeveloped countries? This article tries to answer these questions by referring to archival documents, reports in periodicals, and Bulgarian and foreign publications on the subject.

Should I take aspirin? A qualitative study on the implementation of a decision aid on taking aspirin for bowel cancer prevention

ObjectivesAustralian guidelines recommend 50–70 years consider taking aspirin to reduce their bowel cancer risk. We trialled a decision aid in general practice to facilitate the implementation of these guidelines into...

Pengaruh Nilai-Nilai Islam terhadap Kualitas Audit pada Auditor Kantor Akuntan Publik di Makassar

Various cases of financial violations in companies that are not disclosed in the public accountant's report indicate the low quality of the audit. The cause of the low audit quality is due to the non-compliance with applicable ethical standards and auditing standards in regulating public accounting services. This study aims to determine the effect of Islamic values on audit quality. The type of research used is quantitative. This re-search was conducted on the auditors of the public accounting firm in Makassar. The sample used was purposive sampling with the criterion being that only Islamic auditors were respondents. The number of respondents who filled out the questionnaire through the google form was 146 people. Analysis of the results of qualitative research was carried out descriptively from the data information received while the analysis of quantitative research used structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis with the help of SmartPLS 3.0 soft-ware. The results showed that the value of monotheism, the value of monotheism, did not directly affect audit quality, monotheism had a direct effect on the value of the khilafah, the value of the khilafah had a direct effect on the quality of the audit and monotheism had an indirect effect on the quality of the audit through the value of the khilafah.