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Systematic review and theoretical comparison of children's outcomes in post-separation living arrangements.

The purpose of the systematic review was to synthesize the literature on children's outcomes across different living arrangements (nuclear families, shared physical custody [SPC], lone physical custody [LPC]) by extracting and structuring relevant theoretical hypotheses (selection, instability, fewer resources, and stressful mobility) and comparing the empirical findings against these hypotheses. Following the PRISMA guidelines, the review included 39 studies conducted between January 2010-December 2022 and compared the living arrangements across five domains of children's outcomes: emotional, behavioral, relational, physical, and educational. The results showed that children's outcomes were the best in nuclear families but in 75% of the studies children in SPC arrangements had equal outcomes. Children in LPC tended to report the worst outcomes. When compared with the different theoretical hypotheses, the results were the most consistent with fewer resources hypothesis which suggests that children especially in LPC families have fewer relational and economic resources whereas children in SPC families are better able to maintain resources from both parents.

The Limbu Song Palam: A Powerful Means of Inculcating Pragmatic Values

This article, as the statement of the problem, raises the question of whether the Limburaditional song Palam cultivates and instils useful knowledge and skills in practical life. In order to acquire the answer, this article has set the objective to find out the pragmatic values that the Palam song has in the Limbu ethnic community. The article, being descriptive in design, has readily made use of description as its pattern of development. It has used the qualitative research technique which is based on unstructured, non-numerical data drawn from related books, journals, research theses, or Online resources. The song Palam is concerned with ethnic as well as cultural issues, and for this reason, the article has chosen the ethnocultural theory which deals with ethnic identity-based cultural practices, traditional customs, and social behaviour. The theory also refers to a group of people who have a belief that they are ethnically and culturally divergent from other groups or communities. The analysis has revealed that the folk-song Palam has long been tacitly inculcating very significant as well as useful knowledge and skills to the community even though certain native individuals find it of no use at all. From this article, it is fairly expected that interested individuals and anthropologists can acquire specific insights from the Limbu culture and traditional song Palam.

Research on ontology construction of traditional Chinese handmade paper: Take Kaihua paper as an example

Abstract Digital technology has broadened the research methods in the field of cultural heritage protection, and promoted the online organization and utilization of different resources. New digital technology is used to further explore the resources related to traditional Chinese handmade paper (TCHP) in order to comprehensively and systematically realize the knowledge association of different types of handmade paper. In this article, the characteristics of TCHP are combined to existing mature and generic ontologies to design a new ontology model of TCHP, and Protégé software is used to construct the visual ontology. The model is verified by analyzing the digital resources of Kaihua paper. Constructing the ontology of TCHP can realize the knowledge organization and visual presentation of related resources, and also promote the further utilization of the resources and wider spread of the culture of TCHP.

Comparing student agency in an ethnically and culturally segregated society: How Estonian and Russian speaking adolescents achieve agency in school

ABSTRACT In this paper, the experiences and views of 16-year-old high school students are explored regarding their perceived agency in school related contexts in an ethnically and culturally segregated post-soviet school system in Estonia. Eight focus group interviews were conducted in spring 2021 with 37 students in schools with Estonian and Russian as the language of instruction (henceforth EIL schools and RIL schools). The study suggests that students in schools with a different instructional language experience agency in different ways, which reflect differences in their cultural, relational and economic resources. The forms of agency identified in this study manifested through the following themes: choosing responsibly; developing assertiveness; emancipation from teachers and parents; courage to express a different opinion; resistance to perceived injustice and freedom to make mistakes. In some of the most restrictive environments of RIL schools, a resistance or subversion dimension of agency was developed by students.

Delivering societal impact through supply chain design: insights from B Corps

PurposeThis paper examines how different configurations of societal impact are pursued by purpose-driven organizations (PDOs) and how these configurations align with the application of varying supply chain design (SCD) practices.Design/methodology/approachThis multi-method study uses quantitative data from 1588 B Corps and qualitative data from 316 B Corps to examine how PDOs align SCD with the pursuit of diverse types of societal impact. The authors first conduct a cluster analysis to group organizations based on the impact they create. Second, qualitative content analysis connects impact with enabling SCD elements.FindingsThe analysis of the five identified clusters provides detailed empirical insights on influencers, design decisions and building blocks adopted by PDOs to drive a range of societal impacts. Specifically, the nature of the impact pursued affects (1) whether a PDO will be more influenced by a need in the political environment or an opportunity in the industry environment, (2) the relative importance of the design of social flows versus material flows and (3) the need to develop new relational resources with beneficiaries versus leveraging existing capabilities to manage inter-firm processes.Originality/valueThis study responds to calls to disaggregate different dimensions of societal impact and examines the relationship between SCD and a breadth of sustainability impacts for different stakeholders. In doing so, the authors identify four SCD pathways organizations can follow to achieve specific societal impacts. This study is also the first to employ a supply chain perspective in the study of certified B Corps.

Assessing the accessibility of healthcare websites for disabled users: A case study of COVID-19 pandemic websites

BACKGROUND: The recent COVID-19 pandemic like situation has killed a large numbers of people and caused havoc across the world. With the aim of providing the COVID-19 related updated information about facilities, availability, utilization of COVID-19 related resources like vaccines, hospitals, beds, oxygen to the people and preventing its surge, many websites were developed for health guidance to the general masses. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to investigate the accessibility and usability of websites providing COVID-19 information in India. METHODS: This study evaluates the 38 websites providing COVID-19 information in India using automated tools. RESULTS: It was found that digital healthcare information is far from accessibility conformance and none of the websites conformed to web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 completely. The website adhered to understandability with average errors of 2.8 while less compliant to perceivability with average errors of 30.5. It was also found that most of the websites were mobile friendly.

The role of gender inequities in women's access to reproductive health services: a population-level study of Simiyu Region Tanzania

BackgroundAmref Health Africa, with support from Global Affairs Canada, examines if women's access to reproductive health services in Tanzania is affected by Gender social norms, decision-making power, roles and responsibility, and access to resources in relation to the utilization of reproductive Health Services in Tanzania. A Gender Need Assessment (GNA) was conducted in five districts in ' 'Tanzania Simiyu Region to improve the infrastructure, supply, quality, and demand for integrated Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH), Nutrition, and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services. The analysis identifies gender as a fundamental maternal and child health driver through existing gender inequality at the household and community levels that dictates women's status.MethodsThe qualitative assessment involved data collected from gender- and age-desegregated focus group discussions (FGDs) and in-depth interviews (IDIs) of key informants in three districts; Bariadi, Busega, and Meatu, in Simiyu region, Tanzania. Participants comprised 8-10 married women and men, unmarried women and men, and adolescent boys and girls. A total of 129 participants were involved in the FGDs.ResultsThis paper reports the critical drivers influencing gender inequality in Simiyu by detailing how Gender inequality affected women's access to reproductive health care in relation to; gender social norms, decision-making power, access to resources at the household and community level, roles and responsibilities, including men's and 'boys' roles are more valued than the roles and responsibilities of women and girls resulted to limited free time to do things for themselves, such as visiting the health facilities for RMNCAH.ConclusionsThis paper explored gender-based enablers and/or barriers influencing women and girls' realization of their sexual and reproductive health and rights. It was found that social norms, decision-making powers, and lack of access to and control over resources presented as key barriers. In contrast, continuous community sensitization and increased scope of women's participation in decision-making served as enabling environment to overcome gender inequities that influence woman's use of RMNCAH services in Tanzania. Such insights will shape interventions geared towards valuing differences in a manner that overcome gender inequities that influence woman's use of RMNCAH services in Tanzania.

Towards an extended resource theory of marital power: parental education and household decision-making in rural China.

Existing literature on the resource theory of marital power has focused on the relative resources of spouses and overlooked the resource contributions of spouses' extended families. We propose an extended resource theory that considers how the comparative resources of a couple's natal families are directly associated with marital power, net of the comparative resources of the couple. Using data from the China Panel Family Studies, we examine how the relative education of a couple's respective parents affects the wife's decision-making power, net of the relative education of the couple. Results suggest that the higher the wife's parental education relative to her husband's parental education, the more likely she is to have the final say over household financial decisions. Our study underscores the importance of situating the study of marital power in the extended family context and highlights the significance of social origins and intergenerational exchanges for marital power.

Exploring Terrorism Prevention: An Organizational Perspective on Police Investigations

Abstract The article analyzes the investigations conducted by the Berlin police into the subsequent perpetrator of the vehicle-ramming attack at a Berlin Christmas market on December 19, 2016. We explore why the police closed these investigations prematurely and thereby focus on an attempt to prevent lone actor terrorism. The analysis shows that the police closed its investigations owing to organizational dynamics driven by an increasing need to justify further resource investments in the face of absent conclusive evidence and scarce resources in relation to the organizational case ecology. We propose hypotheses for future research and formulate three contributions to existing research on the sociology of police, terrorism prevention, and lone actor research.

The Influence Of Human Resources, Supervision And Career Development On The Work Achievement Of Merapi Barat Office Employees, Lahat District

This study aims to determine the influence of human resources, supervision and career development on the work performance of employees of the West Merapi sub-district office, Lahat district. The type of research used in this research is quantitative research. The data in this study used primary data using research data collection techniques and questionnaires. The research used a survey method, the research respondents were some 35 employees. Questionnaire instruments regarding Work Performance as related variables, Human Resources, Supervision and Career Development as independent variables and analysis tools using multiple linear regression. From the results of the study it was found that 1. The Human Resources Variable partially has a significant effect on Work Performance 2. The Supervisory Variable partially has a significant effect on Work Achievement 3. Career Development Variable partially has a significant effect on Job Performance at West Merapi District Office Employees Lahat District.

Effect of Virtual Education on Achievement of the Goals of the University of Applied Sciences & Technology during the Covid-19 at the Applied Science Higher Education Institute Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran

INTRODUCTION: Virtual education and learning exert diverse effects on courses of different natures. Moreover, considering that the prime goal pursued by universities of applied sciences and technology is to focus on skills enhancement, the method of presentation, and the tools used. The teaching method should be designed appropriately and evaluated in terms of effectiveness. The current research, focusing on the effect of virtual education on practical and theoretical courses, seeks to assess the impact of virtual education on the achievement of the goals of the University of Applied Sciences and technology during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Applied Science Higher Education Institute Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran. METHODS: This applied research was conducted based on a descriptive-survey design. The data collection tools were information and data, library resources, and a researcher-made questionnaire. FINDINGS: Based on the results and the means obtained for each item, holding question and answer sessions with the highest number of good and very good items ranked first. On the other hand, uploading videos and photos to the system and providing links to related resources ranked in last place. CONCLUSION: According to the experience of virtual education in recent years following the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of hybrid methods, including online and face-to-face teaching, is recommended for teaching in skill-oriented higher education centers.

Perfection is a sad and lonely place: A study of existential vulnerability in the life stories of persons struggling with perfectionism

ABSTRACT Under what life conditions do individuals turn to perfectionistic striving and ideals as a solution? The present paper examines how people with perfectionism narrate their relationship to our shared existential vulnerability; that we are vulnerable as human beings, and that the ways we relate to this vulnerability have consequences for psychological health. In the present qualitative study, we explored the life narratives told by nine students with perfectionism, drawing on semi-structured life-story interviews. We conducted an explorative-reflexive thematic analysis and identified five themes: 1) Outside—Feeling Alienated, 2) Relating to Chaos, 3) Trying to Control the Painful and Uncontrollable, 4) Islands of Just Being and Positive Contact, and 5) Heading Toward a Balance Between Doing and Being. Their perfectionism can be seen as a way of handling existential vulnerability at a point in their lives where relational resources needed to stay firm in a vulnerable state are lacking. Perfectionistic themes influence their personal identity in the domain of narrative constructions, values, belongingness, and embodiment. Accomplishments were dominant themes in the plots of their narrative self-constructions and values. They felt their “self-made” identities kept others at a distance. However, we also found strivings for a more fulfilling life with broader self-definitions.

Facilitated Peer Mentorship for Women Internal Medicine Residents: An Early Intervention to Address Gender Disparities.

A gender gap persists in academic medicine, most clearly demonstrated in disparities in advancement in rank and leadership roles. Though the number of women entering medicine has been steadily rising for decades, the number of women in prominent positions such as medical school deans, full professors, and department chairs remains low.1 One potential solution to address this continued gender disparity has been intentional mentorship and sponsorship for women trainees and junior faculty.Past literature has suggested that newer mentorship models, unique from the traditional mentorship dyad, may be more effective for women.2 Multiple mentoring or peer mentorship models allow for increased collaboration and can foster a sense of community. We hypothesized that facilitated peer mentorship (pairing multiple mentees with senior group facilitators) may benefit residents by fostering community building and collaboration with their peers, in addition to receiving guidance and mentorship from senior faculty. Additionally, this mentorship model allows for flexibility in terms of time commitment and engagement at different times in the academic year, which may align well with resident schedules. While successful use of these novel mentorship models has been previously described for women faculty,3 there is a paucity of literature about their use at the resident level.We developed a faculty-facilitated peer mentorship program for the women residents in our internal medicine residency program and women faculty volunteers from our department's Clinical Excellence Society (which recognizes well-established, respected clinicians in our department). We recognize the nonbinary nature of gender identity; for the purpose of this program, all residents identifying with she/her pronouns were invited to participate. Groups of 4 to 5 residents (categorical, primary care, medicine-pediatrics, and transitional) were paired with 2 faculty facilitators. Resident groups were intentionally composed of individuals in differing years of training (postgraduate year [PGY]-1 to PGY-4). Residents were paired with at least one faculty member with a similar clinical interest (ie, a future career in hematology) or an interest outside the hospital (ie, balancing parenting and a career in medicine).Mentoring groups were asked to meet 4 times over the course of the academic year; the logistics of scheduling were managed by the group facilitators with reminder emails from the program organizer quarterly. A general curriculum was provided to group facilitators for each meeting, with an identified topic and related resources or activities. Topics included developing your professional mission statement, strategies for work-life integration, finding a research mentor, and navigating transitions within academic medicine and becoming a leader.A total of 24 residents and 10 faculty participated in this new mentoring pilot. Faculty and residents were surveyed at the end of the year to assess their experience in the program: 63% (15 of 24) of residents and 80% (8 of 10) of faculty who participated in the program responded to the survey. The majority of resident respondents (86%, 12 of 14) found the program helpful, and 93% (13 of 14) would recommend participation in the program to their peers. Residents attended between 0 and 4 of the peer mentoring sessions, with roughly half (53%, 8 of 15) attending 2 or more. Both faculty and residents found scheduling to be the biggest challenge. Residents and faculty thought that several of our original program objectives were achieved (Figure) and found the topics discussed at each session to be relevant to residents (finding a research mentor was identified as the least relevant). All of faculty respondents (100%) found participation in this program to be professionally fulfilling, and all (100%) would recommend participation to their peers.Robust mentorship is key to success within academic medicine. Developing effective mentorship models is critically important for women early in their careers as a means to address the gender gap in academic medicine. This faculty-facilitated peer mentorship model was well received and perceived as effective by both faculty and residents.The authors would like to thank the residents and faculty who participated in this pilot program and who offered their feedback to improve future iterations.

On a Few Responsibilities of (IR) Researchers (Fairness, Awareness, and Sustainability): A Keynote at ECIR 2023

On the ECIR 2023 Virtual Day, I talked about three things: fairness, awareness, and sustainability. This extended abstract summarises the 50-minute talk and provides related resources. Date: 31 March 2023.

Evaluation of Mechanized Field Operations Energies for Production of Sugar Cane Crop: Kenana Sugar Company as Case Study

Mechanization application in agriculture is important for timeliness of field operations and improvement of products quality. This study was conducted in a sugar company to evaluate the mechanization energy requirements for production of sugar cane crop. Mechanization index (MI), mechanization ratio (MR), mechanization productivity (MEP), specific mechanization energy (SME), total mechanization energy and mechanization energy use efficiency (MEU) were estimated. Data for the study was collected from field visits, agricultural engineers working in the company and also from the available information in literatures and other related resources. Results showed that the highest share of mechanized energy consumption belongs to land preparation operation (44%) followed by harvesting operation (30%), while the lowest was for the weeding and fertilization (5%). The highest share of mechanization energy expenses was found to be 72% diesel fuel. The total mechanization energy, overall mechanization index, specific mechanization energy, mechanization energy input ratio, mechanization energy use efficiency and mechanization energy productivity were 17176.3 MJha-1, 97.8%, 0.18 MJkg-1, 0.20, 6.6, 5.6 kgMJ-1. Although the mechanization index of all field operations was more than 90%, but the mechanization energy input ratio was still low, while the mechanization productivity energy was high.

Multi-Round Auction-Based Resource Allocation in Multi-Access Edge Computing Assisted Satellite Networks

In this paper, we study the resource allocation problem of multi-access edge computing (MEC) assisted satellite networks in ocean areas. Considering the demand heterogeneity of users and the limited resources of satellites, we propose an online multi-round auction-based resource allocation (OMARA) approach for resource trading between satellites and users, where satellites are the resource sellers and users are the related resource buyers. The proposed approach can effectively determine the price for the trading of resources and can match the service relationships accordingly between satellites and ground users. Finally, it is shown by the simulation experimental results that the proposed approach outperforms the other existing algorithms in maximizing service satisfaction.

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Continuum

Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a system that supports the management and use of geospatial data and related resources. It involves the creation and maintenance of a network of organizations, people, and technology that enables the sharing of geospatial data across sectors and stakeholders. In recent years, the growth of geospatial data and the increasing reliance on it by various sectors has led to the emergence of new trends in SDI, such as the use of cloud computing and big data analytics, the integration of geospatial data with other types of data, and the emphasis on open data and data interoperability. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) refers to geospatial data that is collected and contributed by individuals or groups, rather than traditional sources using the application of web 2.0 and location based applications, social media, mobile devices or say citizens as the censors. Crowdsourcing in geospatial data generation concept of VGI has changed the traditional concept of SDI having one way relationship as producers and users to the user driven SDI, where user create diverse, high quality data (spatial, temporal, attribute) and also use the data interoperable, transparently, world widely and free of cost. Various authors have discussed about the application of VGI in the world of the digital data and also point outs the possibility of integration of VGI in SDI as the starting of the new generation of SDI in the form of Global GIS platform, Data Spaces, System of Systems (SoS), Geoverse, Digital Earth, Digital Twin, Virtual Geographic Environment (VGEs). However, there exists multiple VGI challenges such as data quality, data structure, data differentiation, data copyright, and data confidentiality and privacy, but with the proper cooperation and partnerships, policy and legal arrangements, standard developments, financial arrangements, inter/intra communication and added advantages of web 3.0, concept of Global Digital Ecosystem containing Geoverse, SDI and SoS is possible. Hence, VGI is the present and also the future in this SDI continuum.

Commentary from the left to the right side of the ledger: Fully expressing the real value of nursing.

Commentary from the left to the right side of the ledger: Fully expressing the real value of nursing.

The Human Microbiome as Visceral Commons: Resisting Rhetorical Enclosure

ABSTRACT Exhortations to tend to the flourishing of one’s gut microbes have increased in past years and can be recited by rote: consume pre- and probiotics, diverse plants, and fermented foods; avoid unnecessary medicinal antibiotics and antimicrobial products. Recognizing that all frontiers of enclosure require corollary rhetorical enclosures, this essay locates the human microbiome as an imminent frontier of simultaneous capitalist and rhetorical enclosure. Human microbiome rhetoric encodes microbial life as a contained asset and narrowly frames human-microbe relations as the concern of responsible neoliberal consumers. Individual health as the ambit of concern should give way to the understanding of human-microbial relations as a shared multispecies concern—a visceral commons. Foregrounding the rhetorical dimensions of the practices that manage a crucial relational resource, a visceral commons coheres by means of intense feeling regarding the ways in which an always already distributed yet crucial resource irrevocably entangles us. This essay borrows concepts from commoners to close with four gestures resistant to the rhetorical enclosure of the human microbiome.

Burden of Acute Kidney Injury among Adult Hospital Patients in the Italian Lombardy Region: A 20-Year Real-World Data Analysis

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent condition, with persistent shortage of large-scale epidemiological studies. We analyzed the population-wide healthcare system of the Italian Lombardy region over the 2000–2019 period, and evaluated AKI incidence, mortality, and related healthcare resource utilization and cost in all citizens 40 years and older. Methods: The retrospective cohort analysis of an administrative claims database that routinely collects information about healthcare provision in a high-income region with 10 million citizens. Over 20 years, AKI was identified in 84,384 hospital discharge records by the International Classification of Diseases 9th Revision codes (mean age 77.4 ± 11.6 years, 52.5% were males). Results: From 2000 to 2019, the AKI rates per 100,000 population changed from 32.9 to 90.5 for incidence, from 4.7 to 11.9 for mortality, and from 32.3 to 44.1 for years of life lost (YLLs), respectively. In-hospital mortality changed slightly (14.2% and 13.2%, respectively), while 30-day mortality decreased from 21.5% to 17.4%, respectively. Incidence rates increased with age and were higher in males, and varied almost four-fold between provinces. The median hospitalization cost was €4,014 (IQR: 3,652; 4,134), and the annual cost of treatment risen from €5.2 million in 2000 to €22.9 million in 2019. Hemodialysis was administered in 7.4% of hospitalizations. Over the total study period the cumulative AKI burden accounted for 11,420 in-hospital deaths, 63,370.8 YLLs, and €329 million of direct cost. Conclusions: This real-world analysis demonstrates the high burden of AKI with prominent geographical differences that require further implementation of preventive and diagnostic actions.