Situational Approach Research Articles

АСПЕКТЫ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ВЫПОЛНЕНИЯ ПЛАНА ПЕРЕВОЗОК ГРУЗОВ ПОМАШИННЫМИ ОТПРАВКАМИ В ГОРОДАХ, СОЗДАННОГО ПРИ РЕШЕНИИ ТРАНСПОРТНОЙ ЗАДАЧИ ЛИНЕЙНОГО ПРОГРАММИРОВАНИЯ

The results of solving the transport problem of linear programming, as well as possible situations for solving the routing problem, are considered. A situational approach to the implementation of plans for the transportation of goods obtained by the method of combined matrices was used. It is concluded that the transportation plan obtained by solving the transport problem of linear programming in modern practice of economic activity, when participants in the transport process have different forms of ownership, cannot be organized within the framework of the methods of or-ganizing cargo transportation considered in this paper.

Parental Involvement With Early Adolescents: Variations Related to the Gender in Rural and Urban Areas

The current study addressed the variations of parental involvement according to the home location and the gender of adolescents, considering the mother’s education. Through a cross-sectional design, variations in parental involvement were analyzed with 1,079 mothers and their adolescents between 11 and 14 years old (mean age = 12.88, SD = 0.98) in Colombia, registering the home location, gender of adolescents, educational level of mothers, and the perceived parental involvement at home and at school. The data were analyzed through a multivariate general linear model and multiple linear regression. In the results, there were no significant differences in direct effects of home location and gender of adolescents in involvement, but they were found in the interaction, where less parental involvement of mothers is dedicated to girls in urban areas compared with girls in rural areas and boys in urban areas. It was possible to establish that the interaction between variables seems to be related to the educational level of the mothers. The findings supported a situated approach to parental involvement in the case of mothers, where factors associated with parents and adolescents are relevant in specific settings.

Networks of action situations in point-source pollution: the case of winery wastewater in Aragon, Spain

In this article, we offer an analysis of point-source water pollution governance in the European agri-food sector. Specifically, we tackle the case study of the wine industry in Aragon (Spain) through the lenses of the networks of action situations approach. We unveil key strategic decisions of wine producers in relation to compliance with water discharge regulations and explore the feasibility and effectiveness of potential solutions. According to our quantitative and qualitative analyses, the problem of peak load discharges in the sector can be explained by the strategic behavior of wine producers in the context of enforcement deficits, as well as by particularities of the wine production process, and controversies around the construction and management of public treatment plants. Coordination among wine producers and public treatment plant managers to invest in in-house treatment infrastructure or to smooth discharges out so they fit the capacity of treatment plants would be a promising solution; however, economic incentives and tightened enforcement of discharge regulations would also be necessary.Graphical abstract

ПОРІВНЯЛЬНА ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКА LEAN- ТА AGILE-МЕТОДОЛОГІЇ УПРАВЛІННЯ ЛАНЦЮГАМИ ПОСТАВОК В УМОВАХ НЕВИЗНАЧЕНОСТІ

The article identifies the main challenges in supply chain management in 2023. Factors influencing the choice and application of Lean / Agile methodology were also analyzed, their differences were outlined, and a Lean / Agile matrix was constructed, which can be used in supply chain management depending on the characteristics of supply and demand. It is reasoned that as a result, it will enable organizations to optimize operations, reduce costs, improve quality and increase customer satisfaction in a dynamic and competitive business environment. It is also important to understand how lean thinking and the agility method can strengthen and optimize the efforts of business structures in the field of digital transformation. The future of logistics is expected to be shaped by various trends and developments. The key aspects that can determine the future of logistics and the specifics of supply chain management are characterized. The main of them are: automation and robotics; artificial intelligence and machine learning; Internet of Things (IoT); sustainable business practices and green logistics; blockchain technology; customer orientation. The expediency of future implementation of a combined (hybrid) supply chain management methodology ("LEAGILE strategy"), which is a combination of both lean and agile supply chain management, is asserted. Speaking of synergy, combining Lean and Agile methodologies in supply chains can lead to the best results by leveraging the strengths of both approaches. Lean focuses on eliminating waste and increasing efficiency, while Agile emphasizes flexibility and the ability to respond to customer demands. By integrating these two approaches, organizations can achieve a balance between cost reduction and customer satisfaction. Some ways to combine Lean and Agile in supply chains for best results are outlined: 1. Demand-driven manufacturing; 2. Cross-functional collaboration; 3. Continuous improvement; 4. Partnership with suppliers; 5. Technology integration; 6. Flexibility in production; 7. Customer-oriented approach. It is worth implementing a situational approach to choosing a supply chain management methodology in conditions of uncertainty, taking into account the nature of demand, the product life cycle, marketing goals, etc.

Performance Comparison of TR and FSRUWB System Using Particle Filter: Effects of Frequency, Data Rate, Multi-Path and Multi-Channel Communication

In this study, we introduced a novel scheme based on Transmitted References (TR) and Frequency Shifted Reference (FSR) for ultra-wideband (UWB) system. By taking into account tracking loop-based particle filtering together with a data collecting approach for single and multi-path channel situations, the suggested method is an enhanced model. Each particle's location is determined using this filtering technique, which is then utilised to calculate the timing inaccuracy and regulate the UWB system's timing pulse. Also, it can tackle the multimodal distribution of errors then effectively approximate the optimal solution. The data distribution is discretised via a number of particles that are weighted samples evolving concerning time duration. The simulation results show that, in terms of error rate, number of particles, and delay response, the recommended model of FSR-UWB with particle filter performs better than the TR-UWB with and without considering particle filter.

The Power and Place Collaborative: Participatory Strategies for Scaling

To challenge unidirectional, colonizing, and capitalist frameworks of scaling systems change, this article offers alternative strategies for design practitioners, educators, and researchers interested in diverse forms of scaling change across complex social systems. In particular, the article analyzes a participatory and transdisciplinary approach to systemic design practice and education that illustrates the process and benefits of scaling across, deep, in, scree, and long. The Power and Place Collaborative is a community-first, equity-centered, emergent, and situated educational approach to designing complex social systems change. An analysis of the Collaborative’s dynamic processes, activities, and relationships provides a case study on the possibility of imagining, creating, and sustaining community partnerships that scale meaningful change at multiple levels and in diverse contexts. Drawing upon data collected from a mixed-method explanatory inquiry project, this article describes strategies for intentionally designing systems of change that can be scaled in multiple ways, including building relationships, transforming mental models, and co-creation of responses to complex problems. Design professionals seeking to develop assessment plans that capture the emergent, embodied, relational, and situated nature of systemic design and its outcomes will likely find this study’s longitudinal, mixed methods research approach to be an instructive disruption of conventional inquiry processes.

Демаркация идентичности: проблема сохранения суверенитета индивида в цифровом пространстве

Introduction. In the digital age, the individual becomes the bearer and victim of an ambivalent and labile individual identity: a real identity, as an expression of one's own individuality, including personal, group, professional, gender, ethnic, civil, and a virtual identity, as a user of an information resource with an individual digital code. Today, a universal era of active imitation of real life is being formed, the construction of an anonymous individual based on a total upgrade of his identification codes. Theoretical basis of the study. Based on the identification and analysis of individual identity in the digital space, the conceptualization of various approaches to characterizing identity was carried out. It is expressed in the fact that the situational approach characterizes a theoretical construction that describes the ability of a person to form his identity in various situations and, in order to preserve his individuality, deviate from the general norms of group behavior; the intersubjective approach defines the unique place of the individual, his awareness as a consequence of internalization in the existing symbolic organization of the group; the structural-functional approach explicates a fixed set of attributions of an individual, which include his personal traits, functional characteristics and motivational structure. Results and its discussion. In the digital environment, the identification constructs of the individual are reproduced as some instrumental matrices or original operational models of everyday and social communication, models of relationships and interconnections in the plurality of social worlds. At the same time, reflecting social reality, the individual forms his attitude towards it according to the identification construct, and realizing his actions according to these matrices and models, the individual creates a part of reality itself, changes it, transforms it. Considering that an identification construct can be a purposefully formed or involuntarily emerging way of reflecting the reality that dominates an individual, it can be represented as a pragmatic-target result of a direct impact on the subject of an artificially constructed environment (manipulation), or as a consequence of a rational attitude to social reality in the form of a product of social experiences and social feelings determined by the principles and rules of the dominant reality.

Psychological analysis of the life situation of adolescents with orthopedic diseases

BACKGROUND: The situational approach is a promising direction in the study of the determinants of mental development and behaviors in modern psychological research. This study considered the possibility of using a situational approach in the study of psychological problems of children and adolescents with orthopedic diseases and discussed the objective and subjective characteristics of the life situation associated with orthopedic diseases and surgical treatment.
 AIM: The study aimed to examine the peculiarities of life situations in adolescents with various orthopedic diseases.
 MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study involved adolescents aged 1217 years diagnosed with idiopathic scoliosis (n = 54) and juvenile chronic arthritis (n = 44) and healthy adolescents (n = 43). Clinicalpsychological and psychodiagnostic methods were used. Mathematical and statistical data processing was carried out.
 RESULTS: The life situation of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis and juvenile chronic arthritis was characterized by events that cause traumatic experiences. Objective factors of the life situation and traumatic life events presented in the mental picture of the disease of adolescents agree with the pronounced emotional problems of patients with orthopedic diseases. Compared with healthy adolescents, adolescents with orthopedic diseases had higher general index of PTS, which indicates a pronounced subjective difficulty of the life situation of adolescents with orthopedic diseases. The results are confirmed by the severity of the subjective negative emotional reactions to certain characteristics of the disease. The objective and subjective characteristics of the life situation of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis and juvenile chronic arthritis may determine the degree of difficulty and the degree of risk in the occurrence of emotional trauma for illness, hospitalization, and treatment.
 CONCLUSIONS: Understanding the life difficulties of adolescents with orthopedic diseases can improve the prediction of behavioral problems and adaptation opportunities in hospital settings and provide timely psychological assistance to adolescents with severe orthopedic diseases, taking into account situational variables.

A Cultural Approach to Understanding Publics and their Information Behaviors during COVID-19: Self-Construal and Identity Salience

ABSTRACT Integrating the situational and cross-situational approaches to understanding publics, this study examined cultural antecedents (self-construal and political identity salience) to situational perceptions (problem recognition, involvement recognition, constraint recognition), situational motivation, and key information behavior regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Results from an online survey (N = 556) showed that political identity salience and interdependent self-construal triggered publics’ situational perceptions, which in turn activated their situational motivation and information forwarding behaviors. The study contributed to public research through examining important cultural influences on value-laden and polarized issues and revealing additional nuances in communicative activeness.

Understanding the governance of sustainability pathways: hydraulic megaprojects, social–ecological traps, and power in networks of action situations

To enable sustainability pathways, we need to understand how social–ecological systems (SES) respond to different governance configurations, considering their historical, institutional, political, and power conditions. We advance a robust methodological approach for the integrated analysis of those conditions in SES traps. Our advancement consists of a novel combination of the networks of action situations approach with an agency-based polycentric power typology and the concept of discursive power. We test the approach by building on previous research on the Doñana estuary–delta SES (Guadalquivir estuary), which is characterized by a rigidity trap in the context of ecosystem and water governance. Specifically, we focus on a recent hydraulic megaproject involving deep dredging in the Guadalquivir estuary, finally canceled due to its broad negative socioeconomic and environmental repercussions. According to our analysis, certain governance, institutional, and informational mechanisms currently prevent further SES degradation in Doñana. However, key governance actors are caught in a lasting coordination failure prone to mutual defection strategies owing to power dynamics and discursive-institutional inertia. Although seemingly stable due to counteractive mechanisms among actors, this situation is at continuous risk of being unbalanced by powerful actors promoting large SES interventions such as deep dredging. Such interventions bear the systemic risk of strong suppression of SES functions, and a regime shift to a lock-in trap. This overall undesirable situation might be escaped through transformative policy designs that take into account meso-level mechanisms, such as discursive power and its role in non-decision-making, pragmatic inaction, and inefficient investment and infrastructure.

Corpus Linguistics and Technical Editing: How Corpora Can Help Copy Editors Adopt a Rhetorical View of Prescriptive Usage Rules

Scholars have long argued that technical editing should be viewed as a rhetorical practice in which copy editors take “a situational approach to each individual task” (Buehler, 1980/2003, p. 458). Yet many editing pedagogies still treat some language-level editing tasks, like those that involve prescriptive usage rules, as mechanical rather than rhetorical. This article discusses how empirical data from corpora can help copy editors adopt a more rhetorical view of prescriptive usage rules and introduces corpus linguistics as a methodology that can contribute to technical editing pedagogy.

The nature and content of the court situation

Purpose. The aim of the article is to present part of the results of the scientific work carried out within the scope of studying the prospects of building a holistic concept of forensic support of court proceedings. The immediate task of the proposed publication was to substantiate the author's vision of the nature and content of the concept of a judicial situation as a key category of the organization of judicial proceedings in criminal cases. Methodology. The methodology includes a comprehensive approach to the study of theoretical and practical aspects of the researched object. During the research, methods of formal logic were used, as well as: historical, systemic and terminological analysis, interpretation of concepts. Results. In the course of the research, it was established that the recognition of the objective-subjective nature of forensic situations is becoming more and more characteristic of modern approaches. Its which implies not only the presence of objective conditions, but also a subjective assessment of the situation, such a perception of it, which creates for the subject's need to react in the form of choosing the appropriate line of behavior. The subject selects certain elements of the surrounding reality into a certain system and identifies it as a situation of one or another type. Without a subject, there is no situation; he constructs the system himself, determining his place in it, his attitude to it and to its individual elements, in particular to other subjects, thus forming the structure of the «situation» system. The conduct of criminal cases by the court, like any other type of activity, is characterized by situationality - the dependence of its implementation on specific conditions and circumstances, that is, factors under the influence of which the object of the situation and its state are formed. The situational nature court research of the implies the need for the subject to choose the techniques and means most effective for the given situation. This regularity determines the key importance of the concept of a judicial situation and the situational approach based on it for building a theory of forensic support of court proceedings. Within the limits of this theory, it is envisaged to create a system of complexes of scientifically based forensic recommendations on the organization of judicial review of criminal cases, which will allow, with careful consideration of the individual characteristics of each judicial proceeding, to ensure its optimality in various judicial situations. Originality. Because of the study, the objective-subjective nature of the forensic situation received additional justification, the author's definition of the concept of "court situation" was proposed. Practical significance. The results of the study can be used in the educational process, research activities.

Усовершенствование ситуационной методологии разработки систем поддержки принятия решений для предприятий

The article proposes a technique for the development of a situational methodology for the development of decision support systems for organizational systems, taking into account the influence of the time factor. In the existing methodologies, insufficient attention is paid to the links between the organizational part of the model and the parametric method, with the help of which the choice of an acceptable solution is made, the assessment of the consequences of the decisions made is often ignored, and the application of these methodologies to solving practical problems is difficult. The main purpose of the article is to summarize the existing approaches to decision making based on an improved methodology for developing decision support systems, which is aimed at eliminating the identified problems. To achieve the goal, systemic and situational approaches, ontological engineering, structural analysis of systems, and methods for classifying complex objects were used. As a result, proposals were formed to improve the situational approach to creating decision support systems, including the definition of a hierarchy of decision-making process components, descriptions of transition methods between decision-making levels, with an emphasis on the level of choice of a parametric method for transforming a set of decision options into effective solution. The article concludes that the proposed methodology will simplify the process of designing decision support systems for enterprises.

Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start

This article sets out the case that there is a conflation of personal and situational liminality in the music industry. The response to this needs to include greater dynamism and development both of musical identities and innovations in the production and business of music. However, the confluence of liminalities produces vulnerabilities and precarities which militate against learning and innovation and lean toward stasis. I offer an alternative way forward, which adopts a different conceptualization of vulnerability and discusses how a situated learning approach can be used to develop socially enabled resilience.

A Critical Analysis of Reinhard Bonnke’s Charismatic Leadership Paradigm

The study of leadership has evolved over the years, focusing on different approaches. In the early nineteenth century, leadership study focused on the traits, skills, and behavioral and situational approaches of leaders. In recent years the focus has emphasized servant leadership, authenticity, and charisma. This article focuses on the charismatic leadership theory propounded by Max Weber. This article aims at analyzing the charismatic leadership style of evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. The article starts with a definition of leadership followed by an overview of charismatic leadership and then delves into the life of Bonnke with a biographical sketch of his life. The article brings to light Bonnke’s influence, contributions to the Spirit-empowered Movement, and leadership style. It concludes with a summative assessment of this leadership paradigm.

CARDIORENAL SYNDROME AS EXTRA-ARTICULAR MANIFESTATION OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

The article provides a description of a complex clinical case of cardiorenal syndrome type II in a patient having rheumatoid arthritis and a high degree of activity. The aim of this work is to highlight the problem of multiple organ damage in severe autoimmune diseases, as well as to share the experience of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in such situations. Under a long-term articular syndrome, the patient subacutely develops new threatening symptoms: signs of inflammatory cardiomyopathy, heart failure, nephropathy, acute renal failure. But thanks to intensive anti-inflammatory therapy, we managed to significantly mitigate the activity of myocarditis, restore myocardial, and as a result, renal function. The success of active anti-inflammatory treatment confirmed our diagnostic hypothesis of cardiorenal syndrome. Several clinical landmarks have become key points for us. First, we detected that myocarditis with myocardial dysfunction and nephropathy with renal failure occurred almost simultaneously. Since the patient was under observation for a long time, until recently, we knew for sure that there were no pathological changes in the function of the heart and kidneys. Then, we detected the subacute onset of cardiac and renal symptoms. Finally, NSAID-induced amyloidosis or nephropathy cannot clearly explain the active course of inflammatory cardiomyopathy. Therefore, based on the characteristics of this clinical situation, we made an assumption of cardiorenal syndrome, most likely type II. All subtypes have similar clinical signs, but their origin largely depends on the underlying disease, history, and features of specific kidney and myocardial damage. Kidney hypoperfusion in our case did not lead to severe irreversible changes in nephrons, which ensured the restoration of renal function. But a prolonged and deep episode of hypoperfusion may be partially or completely irreversible, due to ischemic necrosis of the epithelium of the nephron tubules. Thus, we have shown a complex clinical case of an extra-articular lesion in the form of a cardiorenal syndrome, as well as an algorithm of our actions regarding diagnosis and treatment. Relatively early diagnosis of cardiorenal syndrome obviously enables to achieve good treatment results in a relatively short period of time.

The organization of the human organ trade: a comparative crime script analysis

This study fills critical knowledge gaps into the organization of organ trade utilizing crime script analysis. Adopting a situational crime prevention approach, this article draws from law enforcement data to compare the crime commission process (activities, cast and locations) of 2 prosecuted organ trade cases: the Medicus case and the Netcare case. Both cases involved transnational criminal networks that performed kidney transplants from living donors. We further present similarities and differences between illegal and legal living donor kidney transplants that may help guide identification and disruption of illegal transplants. Our analysis reveal the similar crime trajectories of both criminal cases, in particular the extensive preparations and high degree of organization that were needed to execute the illegal transplants. Offenders in the illegal transplant schemes utilized the same opportunity structures that facilitate legal transplants, such as transplant units, hospitals and blood banks. Our results indicate that the trade is embedded within the transplant industry and intersects with the transport- and hospitality sector. The transplant industry in the studied cases was particularly found to provide the medical infrastructure needed to facilitate and sustain organ trade. When compared to legal transplants, the studied illegal transplant scripts reveal a wider diversity in recruitment tactics and concealment strategies and a higher diversity in locations for the pre-operative work-up of donors and recipients. The results suggest the need for a broader conceptualization of the organ trade that incorporates both organized crime and white collar crime perspectives.

Discrediting the Subjects of Crime Disclosure and Investigation and the Criminalistic Methods of Neutralizing It

The article discusses the topical aspects of criminalistic methods for neutralizing the discreditation of the subjects of crime disclosure and investigation viewed as a special form of counteraction by suspects and accused persons. Using theoretical works of scholars of criminalistics, the authors analyzed the theory of counteraction to investigation and established the effectiveness of modern scientifically grounded methods and ways of neutralizing the unprecedented counteraction from the criminal environment in the 1990-s in the structure of organized criminal activities. They studied the conditions for the criminalistic research of discrediting the subjects of crime disclosure and investigation as a method of post-criminal counteraction - the subject-object organization of criminalistics, the development of the criminalistic theory on neutralizing the counteraction to crime investigation, the combination of the activity-based and situational approaches to researching this type of actions. The analysis of monographs on the problems of discrediting the subjects of criminalistic activity in modern conditions allowed the authors to state that they are little-studied and require substantial research, which will help improve the professional competence of the subjects of crime disclosure and investigation, increase the rates of anti-criminal activities in Russia, as well as contribute to all the fundamental areas of the science of criminalistics. It is proven that the discreditation of the subjects of crime disclosure and investigation is an unlawful method of falsifying information characterized by both general (used in all methods and ways of falsification) and specific features typical of only this type of destructive and unlawful human actions and behavior. It is noted that in most cases the discreditation of subjects responsible for criminalistic activities does not constitute a single intent with the method of committing a crime, i.e. its nature is relatively independent and connected with post-criminal determinants. The key goal of the studied way (method) of counteraction consists in obstructing law enforcement in crime disclosure and investigation. The authors present a criminalistic concept of discrediting persons involved in crime disclosure and investigation as a method of counteracting the investigation, analyze their characteristics, prove their scientifically grounded practical value for improving the effectiveness of crime disclosure and investigation.

«Уроки выходного дня» как методический прием формирования умений устной речи на русском языке иностранных студентов в рамках ситуативно-обусловленного латентного обучения

The aim of the study is to show the expediency of using a situated approach to teaching Russian as a foreign language (RFL) to foreign students in conditions of latent learning. The paper is the result of a thorough understanding of the practical experience of RFL teaching at the preparatory faculty of the Udmurt State University. The paper analyses the types of speech situations and educational speech situations in terms of the advantages and disadvantages of using them in the educational process; considers the issue of a successful use of situated learning in RFL teaching. Main attention is focused on the possibility of implementing situated learning in real communication in a latent, covert, implicit manner. Scientific novelty of the study lies in developing the methodological technique “Weekend Lessons” in order to form oral speech skills among preparatory faculty students. As a result, the main levels of speaking skills formation using the methodological technique “Weekend Lessons”, the stages of implementation of the specified methodological technique have been characterised, recommendations for its further application in the practice of RFL teaching have been provided.

Job Demands–Resources Theory: Ten Years Later

Burnout refers to a work-related state of exhaustion and a sense of cynicism. In contrast, work engagement is a positive motivational state of vigor, dedication, and absorption. In this article, we discuss the concepts of burnout and work engagement and review their antecedents and consequences. We look back at our inaugural Annual Reviews article ( Bakker et al. 2014 ) and highlight new empirical findings and theoretical innovations in relationship to job demands–resources (JD-R) theory. We discuss four major innovations of the past decade, namely ( a) the person × situation approach of JD-R, ( b) multilevel JD-R theory, ( c) new proactive approaches in JD-R theory, and ( d) the work–home resources model. After discussing practical implications, we elaborate on more opportunities for future research, including JD-R interventions, team-level approaches, and demands and resources from other life domains.