Social Code Research Articles

Anticipated Performance and Air Pollution Tolerance Indices for the Establishment of Green Belt Development in an Industrial Area

Background: To identify the plant species tolerance levels in an industrial area by assessing Anticipated Performance Index (API) and Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) to establish a green belt in the industrial area. Methods: A survey on local species was conducted in and around the study areas. Seventeen plant species were chosen for an evaluation of tolerant species based on their occurrence and dominance in the study areas. Standard methods were applied for estimation of biochemical parameters such as Cell Sap pH, Relative Water Content (RWC), Total Chlorophyll Content (TCC), and Ascorbic Acid (AA) and were used to compute the APTI. API is assessed based on socioeconomic and biological characteristics. Correlation coefficient test was performed to gain the information about relationship between variables. Findings: The results revealed that APTI positively correlated with biochemical parameters in control, negatively correlated with in industrial samples and except ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is one of the critical elements in biochemical parameters. It changes plant species sensitivity to tolerance. In API, based on social, biological, and physical characteristics (+, -) codes were used to classify poor, moderate, good, very good, best, and excellent. In the present study Ficus benghalensis as excellent (87.25%) in the control area and best (93.75%) in industrial area; Syzygium cumini species best (93.75%) in control and excellent (87.25%) in industrial areas. In comparison, Mimusops elengi reported moderate (56.25%) to the poor (50) in control and the industrial areas. Novelty: This study was carried out to determine the impact of air pollution on plant species which exhibit either sensitivity or tolerance depend on their endurance level. The identified list of the tree species helps to minimize air pollution levels in theindustrial area and can be used to establish green belt development. Keywords: Anticipated Performance Index (API); Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI); Tolerance; Green Belt; Biochemical Parameters

ON THE LANGUAGE AND THE CONCEPTUAL-TERMINOLOGICAL APPARATUS OF TAX AND SOCIAL SECURITY PROCEDURE CODE

This study analyses some key terms in the Tax and Social Security Procedure Code (TSSPC) and their development within the years. The author outlines several vital issues about their proper use and expresses ideas about their prospective improvement.

Communication culture of the Khmer ethnicity in Vietnam (Case: communication in family and community phum, soc)

Communicative culture is one of the elements of culture. It bears the mark of the way of thinking, the way of education, the behavior of each person, the humanity of the community. Therefore, in each ethnic group, each country in general, and the Khmer people in Vietnam in particular, there are social codes of conduct suitable to cultural conditions, showing humanity through the behavior of each person. individuals in families and communities. The article approaches to study the communication culture of the Khmer in different languages, and the behavior between relationships within the family, phum, and squirrels of the Khmer. Since then, the study wishes to contribute to the development of behavioral culture, building a solid cultural foundation for individuals and ethnic Khmer people from the traditional cultural background and the development of Vietnamese society today.

Integrated, cross-sectoral psycho-oncology (isPO): a new form of care for newly diagnosed cancer patients in Germany

Integrated, cross-sectoral psycho-oncology (isPO): a new form of care for newly diagnosed cancer patients in Germany

Advance Care Planning-further development of the patient advance directive : What the specialist in internal medicine must know

Trotz der zur Verfügung stehenden Vorsorgeinstrumente Patientenverfügung, Vorsorgevollmacht und Betreuungsverfügung ist der Behandlungswille des Patienten in der konkreten Situation oft nicht in handlungsleitender Weise bekannt. Ziele des systemisch angelegten Konzepts „Behandlung im Voraus Planen“ – advance care planning, sind die Ermittlung, Dokumentation und Umsetzung des Behandlungswillens des Patienten für den Fall, dass er selbst nicht (mehr) rechtsverbindlich über seine Behandlung entscheiden kann. Auf der individuellen Ebene unterstützt ein speziell geschulter Gesprächsbegleiter zunächst bei der Formulierung der Einstellungen zu Leben, schwerer Erkrankung und Sterben. Darauf aufbauend können die Behandlungswünsche für verschiedene medizinische Situationen besprochen und z. B. in einer Patientenverfügung dokumentiert werden. Hierzu gehören der Notfall, die Situation im Krankenhaus bei unklarer Dauer der Einwilligungsunfähigkeit und die Situation bei dauerhaftem Verlust der Einwilligungsfähigkeit. Durch achtsame, nichtdirektive Gesprächsführung im Sinne einer gemeinsamen Entscheidungsfindung („shared decision making“) wird der Vorausplanende befähigt, gut informiert und reflektiert zu entscheiden („informed consent“). Die an den zukünftigen Behandlungsentscheidungen beteiligten Personen, insbesondere der zukünftige Vertreter, werden möglichst frühzeitig einbezogen. Die institutionelle und regionale Implementierung des Konzepts fördert die Umsetzung des auf diese Weise ermittelten und wirksam dokumentierten Patientenwillens in der gesamten Versorgungskette. Durch den neuen § 132 g SGB V, der den Einrichtungen der stationären Altenhilfe und der Eingliederungshilfe ermöglicht, Behandlung im Voraus Planen zulasten der GKV anzubieten, ist eine zunehmende Verbreitung des Konzepts zu erwarten.Zusatzmaterial onlineDie Online-Version dieses Beitrags (10.1007/s00108-022-01333-9) enthält die Muster-Patientenverfügungen der DiV-BVP „Einstellung zu Leben, schwere Krankheit und Sterben“ und „Ärztliche Anordnung für den Notfall“ (© Deutsche interprofessionelle Vereinigung Behandlung im Voraus Planen e.V. (DiV-BVP), Frankfurt am Main, www.div-bvp.de).

Gamification Based Assessment in Pandemic Process: Game Programming Course

This research was carried out in order to increase students’ participation and motivation of learning with distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic process. It is aimed to determine the effects of including gamification elements in the game programming lesson on students' motivation and active participation in the lesson in the pandemic process. Gamification base assessment is realized according to student performance within the framework. Qualitative research method was used, in order to collect qualitative data open-ended questions were applied. In this study, the participants were in computer programming. According to the research results motivation, active participation, gamification method and gamification base assessment categories are founded. Gamification method category has socialization, social media usage, participation and motivation codes. And gamification base assessment category has fair, appropriate and performance codes. Thus, according to the research finding, it has been determined that gamification has positive effects on learning

Transnational Turkish–German community in limbo. Consequences of political tensions between migrant receiving and sending countries

AbstractA profound political tension between Turkey and Germany has gained an overall dimension on the political agenda of the intra‐European migration discussion since 2016. As close trade partners, Turkey and Germany became gradually political adversaries on different issues. 2016 and the following years marked a turnover in the already worsened mutual relations. A series of political issues such as recognising the Armenian genocide in 1915, open allegations and critical views against the Turkish President and prohibition of election campaigns for Turkish government politicians in Germany had driven political relations between the two countries to nadir. This obscure situation led the Turks of Germany (The phrases “Turks of Germany” or “Turkish migrants” are persons with migration background from Turkey who still bear Turkish citizenship or formerly were Turkish citizens. This group's ethnic or confessional identity is not recognised; their legal status and country of origin are preponderant.), who have close ties to their ancestors’ homeland and consider Germany as the centre of their lives, nolens volens into a limbo situation. Within the “guest‐worker program” framework in the second part of the 20th century, highly industrialised countries of Western Europe recruited migrant workers from different countries. This workforce should perform mostly blue‐collar labour in the receiving countries. After six decades of Turkish presence in Germany, the grandsons and granddaughters of the former guest workers are well‐represented in almost every sector of the society. However, their loyalty and integrability to the receiving country are challenged by German politics, especially by the governments of conservative chancellor Angela Merkel (2005–2021). If Turks of Germany feel closely connected to Turkey and Turkish culture (Workers from Turkey brought with them to the country of immigration their own “cultural assets”. Those are, language, religious and customary beliefs, social habits, dress, music, literature, social codes and manners, shared history, food, etc. However, migrants in the receiving country undergo a process of hybridity under the influence of the new cultural environment. (Please see: Bhabha [The location of culture, New York, NY: Routledge, 1994]) Culture within the framework of post‐colonialism has also been discussed in Edward W. Said's book “Culture and Imperialism” (Said [Kültür ve Emperyalizm. Kapsamlı Bir Düşünsel ve Siyasal Sorgulama Çalışması. Hil Yayın: İstanbul, 1998]). If Turks of Germany feel closely connected to Turkey and Turkish culture, they are not recognised as integrable members of the society. Identity‐based and culture‐oriented policies inexorably influence the willingness of migrants to feel like equal members in the host society, and it applies even to the new generations with migration backgrounds. The question of migrant integration is the most emotionally debated issue in Germany and seems to be the greatest challenge in the political agenda. Beyond the bilateral Turkish–German issues, the growing xenophobic sentiments, islamophobia and Europe‐wide political populism may cause a persistent bilateral tension in the medium term between the countries and among the transnational and native communities. Anti‐Turkish rhetoric in the media alienates the Turkish community and has a value to jeopardise integration efforts more and more.

The Book of Evidence: Iconotext in John Banville’s Ekphrastic Novel

The Book of Evidence (1989) is one of John Banville’s ekphrastic novels which are typical of verbal representation of visual representation. This paper aims to explore the intersemiotic transposition of literature and visual images by analyzing the way in which the two forms of signs interweave and the novel’s themes combine with the verbal representation of visual images. It is argued that the derogative verbal representations of laborers and women, as the protagonist’s perceptual images, denote the verbal/visual social coding and power relationship between the ekphrastic speaking subject and the mute semiotic other. Paintings to which ekphrastic texts are alluded to demonstrate the narrator’s displacement of colonial inborn superiority and racism towards the subordinated other. Verbal representations of pubs and drinkers vividly present the pregnant moment, moment of stopped actions displayed in paintings. The implications of verbal representations function as “a speaking speech” and evoke the power-dominated colonial history and critique its consequences of the overall inequality in Ireland between the 1980s and 1990s, identity hybridity and alcoholism in a new social order which resembles that of the colonized one. By comparing the narrative verbal representations of the woman in the portrait with the descriptive verbal representations of the maid, the paper probes into the protagonist’s inability to see others in real life and the denial of others’ alterity. In virtue of the language’s arbitrariness and freedom in conveying emotions and ideas, the ekphrastic narrative texts interpret and comment on the iconic woman’s portrait, which “envoices” the mute object and parodies the disregard for innocent lives and alienation resulting from long-term colonial violent conflicts between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. Critique of racism, alcoholism and violence in post-war Ireland is conveyed by integrating visual images’ highly ambiguous and socio-political implications into the texts, which makes the novel an iconotext where intersemiotic transposition occurs.

Satire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement

Satire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement

Rheumatologic inpatient treatment-more than a complex treatment : Data reflecting services and structures

Zur Bestandsaufnahme und Vorbereitung auf bevorstehende Reformen wurden Daten aus dem Institut für das Entgeltsystem im Krankenhaus(InEK)-Datenbrowser und den strukturierten Qualitätsberichten für die akutstationäre Rheumatologie ausgewertet. Die Versorgung ist sowohl in Bezug auf die Diagnosen als auch die Strukturen sehr vielschichtig. Unterschiedliche Formen der Spezialisierung können identifiziert werden. Dabei ist die rheumatologische Komplexbehandlung (RKB) nur eine davon, die im Mittel in knapp über 10 % der Fälle durchgeführt wird. 2020 gingen die Fallzahlen bei ausgewählten rheumatologischen Diagnosen um mehr als 20 % im Vergleich zu 2019 zurück. Bei der RKB war der Rückgang mit über 30 % noch ausgeprägter. Hinweise auf eine höhere Krankheitsschwere fanden sich in den verfügbaren Daten nicht. Es bleibt abzuwarten, ob das Fallzahlniveau der Vor-Corona-Zeit in den nächsten Jahren wieder erreicht wird. Es wurden 146 Organisationseinheiten (OE) mit mehr als 20 Hauptdiagnosen (HD) einer rheumatoiden Arthritis (RA) im Jahr 2019 identifiziert; 47 (32 %) davon haben mehr als 10-mal, 29 (20 %) mehr als 100-mal eine RKB kodiert. Alle 23 OE mit mehr als 300 HD RA sind Mitglieder im Verband rheumatologischer Akutkliniken (VRA); 15 davon nahmen am KOBRA-Qualitätsprojekt teil und tragen das VRA-Gütesiegel. Von den 116 internistischen OE weisen nur 55 (47 %) einen spezifischen rheumatologischen Fachabteilungsschlüssel nach § 301 SGB V auf. Angaben zur fachärztlichen Ausstattung waren zum Teil widersprüchlich. Wie viele Fälle mit entzündlich-rheumatischen Erkrankungen in fachlich spezialisierten Strukturen behandelt werden, kann mit den verfügbaren Daten nicht beantwortet werden. Dennoch können die verfügbaren Daten für die fachlichen, strukturellen und organisatorischen Weiterentwicklungen in der akutstationären Rheumatologie genutzt werden.

Has Covid-19 increased gender inequalities in professional advancement? Cross-country evidence on productivity differences between male and female software developers

Objective: This article analyzed gender differences in professional advancement following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic based on data from open-source software developers in 37 countries.
 Background: Men and women may have been affected differently from the social distancing measures implemented to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that men and women tend to work in different jobs and that they have been unequally involved in childcare duties, school and workplace closings may have impacted men’s and women’s professional lives unequally.
 Method: We analyzed original data from the world’s largest social coding community, GitHub. We first estimated a Holt-Winters forecast model to compare the predicted and the observed average weekly productivity of a random sample of male and female developers (N=177,480) during the first lockdown period in 2020. To explain the cross-country variation in the gendered effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on software developers’ productivity, we estimated two-way fixed effects models with different lockdown measures as predictors – school and workplace closures, in particular.
 Results: In most countries, both male and female developers were, on average, more productive than predicted, and productivity increased for both genders with increasing lockdown stringency. When examining the effects of the most relevant types of lockdown measures separately, we found that stay-at-home restrictions increased both men’s and women’s productivity and that workplace closures also increased the number of weekly contributions on average – but for women, only when schools were open.
 Conclusion: Having found gender differences in the effect of workplace closures contingent on school and daycare closures within a population that is relatively young and unlikely to have children (software developers), we conclude that the Covid-19 pandemic may indeed have contributed to increased gender inequalities in professional advancement.

Intercivilizational dialogue: The possibilities of local civilisations

The article contains the basics of a scientific discussion held at the National Research Institute for the Development of Communications (NIIRC). In the course of the discussion, the issues of the methodology of civilizations studies , the complexity of the formation of the conceptual apparatus, different facets of the problems in civilizations dialogue, features and potential of local civilizations were discussed. Common approaches and differences in them, the issues of the ability of civilizations to a dialogue, subjectivity in the inter civilizational dialogue are revealed. It was proposed to use a rhythmic cascade approach, which can contribute to the development of the methodology of comparative analysis of civilizations, the increment of scientific knowledge in this field of scientific research. The participants drew attention to the constant factors determining the evolution of civilizations at the present time, to the possibilities of a constructive dialogue of civilizations. In the course of the discussion, the features of the Russian type of modernization, which developed under the conditions of a vast frontier in Asian Russia, cultural and historical tradition as a mechanism of interethnic dialogue in Russian- Ossetian relations, the community of social cultural codes between Russia and Ossetia are considered.

Forensic Social Work Ethics in Prolonged Solitary Confinement: A Struggle with Dual Loyalty

Substantial evidence on the damaging psychiatric and health-related effects of prolonged solitary confinement has been well-documented in decades of research and civil rights litigation. The emerging ethical dilemma for forensic social work concerns the dual loyalty when social workers are tasked with providing services to clients in restrictive housing. Using Frederic Reamer’s ethical decision-making framework, in concert with the NASW Code of Ethics and the NOFSW Specialty Guidelines on Values and Ethics, the ethical dilemma of dual loyalty in this practice context is explored. Forensic social workers experiencing this unique ethical dilemma are encouraged to consider rational and mindful decision making guided by social work ethical codes and principles of social justice.

Study on Language Consciousness in Statics and Dynamics: Difference in Methodology, Theory and Application Field (Review of Recent Publications)

The article is a review and analysis of recent publications dealing with the study of language consciousness. The analysis has revealed two types of research: the one aimed at describing the characteristics of some fragments of the language consciousness of a certain group of people, and the other one aimed at comparing fragments of the language consciousness of different groups of people. As a rule, the comparison is based on the activity that representatives of the two groups carry out regularly. Studies of this type give ground for conclusions about the causes of the observed phenomena since they identify factors that influence changes in the mental lexicon. Such factors are essentially the features of regular activity and the features of the individual and personal experience. For studies of the first type, the traditional interpretation of language consciousness as an integral part of human consciousness is suitable. For studies of the second type, a different interpretation of linguistic consciousness is required, the one that fixates the pattern of changes in the language consciousness of different groups of people. The author defines language consciousness as a psycholinguistic concept that shows how the internal and external factors for the functioning of a language as a human property are associated with changes in the meanings and senses of linguistic signs. Thus, language consciousness is not an integral part of individual consciousness, but a theoretical construct that fixates the patterns of change in the mental lexicons of a group of people depending on sociocultural and individual and personal factors. This concept reflects the ways the speech experience of a cultural group is organized depending on certain internal and external factors (those fixed by theory). The language consciousness does not contain a listing of the properties of individual images of consciousness, but instead a general pattern according to which the images of group or individuals consciousnesses are organized forming finally a certain system with its specific connections and characteristics which are determined by the impact of a peculiar combination of inner (personal senses, emotions, values, etc.) and outer (regular activity, social codes, cultural stereotypes, etc.) factors.

Exploring women’s mobilities and family transformations in Laos. Historical perspectives and mirrored ethnographic insights

In Laos, mobility was mainly a male practice. Social codes traditionally assigned to women have limited their long-term movement away from their families. In recent decades, the feminization of migration has been observed and its social and societal impacts need to be examined. Female migration has changed intergenerational dynamics and has a profound effect on family structures and relationships. How does the change in the organization of work affect daily life and challenge the family model that dominated until the early 1990s? How does the growing increase in the mobility of some women in the workplace alter the roles traditionally assigned to women? Ethnographic data invite us to revisit kinship and gendered norms under the emergence of globalized economies and its localized social forms.

Reuse and maintenance practices among divergent forks in three software ecosystems

With the rise of social coding platforms that rely on distributed version control systems, software reuse is also on the rise. Many software developers leverage this reuse by creating variants through forking, to account for different customer needs, markets, or environments. Forked variants then form a so-called software family; they share a common code base and are maintained in parallel by same or different developers. As such, software families can easily arise within software ecosystems, which are large collections of interdependent software components maintained by communities of collaborating contributors. However, little is known about the existence and characteristics of such families within ecosystems, especially about their maintenance practices. Improving our empirical understanding of such families will help build better tools for maintaining and evolving such families. We empirically explore maintenance practices in such fork-based software families within ecosystems of open-source software. Our focus is on three of the largest software ecosystems existence today: Android, .NET, and JavaScript. We identify and analyze software families that are maintained together and that exist both on the official distribution platform (Google play, nuget, and npm) as well as on GitHub , allowing us to analyze reuse practices in depth. We mine and identify 38 software families, 526 software families, and 8,837 software families from the ecosystems of Android, .NET, and JavaScript, to study their characteristics and code-propagation practices. We provide scripts for analyzing code integration within our families. Interestingly, our results show that there is little code integration across the studied software families from the three ecosystems. Our studied families also show that techniques of direct integration using git outside of GitHub is more commonly used than GitHub pull requests. Overall, we hope to raise awareness about the existence of software families within larger ecosystems of software, calling for further research and better tools support to effectively maintain and evolve them.

Exploration of Kejawen in "Visit Central Java" version of KukuBima Ener-G advertisement

Developments in the era of globalization are in the world's spotlight, not only on differences in mindset but also on many aspects. One of them is the impact on the existence of culture in Indonesia. This fact drives companies in Indonesia to reintroduce Indonesian culture through advertising. An example is the Visit Central Java version of the KukuBima Ener-G advertisement explored in this study, intending to take an essential role in contributing to presenting local content that specifically raises the cultural side of Central Java. This study also aims at seeing the cultural values embedded in Javanese society, namely the Kejawen, which is implied in the KukuBima Ener-G advertisement. This study used a descriptive qualitative approach and data collection techniques using John Fiske's Semiotics Method to analyze more deeply the content of advertisements based on the Social Code Theory initiated by Edward T. Hall. This study explores deeper in terms of the strategy of cultural visual but still displays the brand image. The results of this study lead to the emergence of a number of Kejawen from the aspect of Low Context Culture and High Context Culture in each advertising scene.

Gender Differences in Outpatient Peripheral Artery Disease Management in Germany: A Population Based Study 2009–2018

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a major risk factor for morbidity and death. Despite clear guideline recommendations regarding outpatient treatment and pharmacotherapy, implementation is inadequate. Gender differences are becoming increasingly important, especially in patients with atherosclerosis. Gender stratified PAD prevalence and differences in treatment by specialised outpatient care and pharmacotherapy were analysed in 70.1 million statutorily insured patients/year in Germany between 2009 and 2018. This was based on claims data according to §295 of the social code (SGB V) and drug prescription data according to §300 SGB V. Diagnosis of PAD was defined according to ICD I70.2-9 coding. Statistical analysis was performed with the chi square test for trend and two way ANOVA. In total, 17 633 970 patients with PAD were identified, of whom 47% were female. Prevalence of PAD in Germany increased between 2009 and 2018 and was higher in male patients. Only a minority of 37.1% presented to a vascular specialist. Interestingly, female patients were both less likely to present to a vascular specialist and to receive guideline recommended pharmacotherapy. Overall prescription rates of statins and antiplatelet drugs increased between 2009 and 2018, however. PAD stages were stratified by intermittent claudication (IC) and chronic limb threatening ischaemia (CLTI). In CLTI even fewer patients received a statin, with the gender gap increasing. The results demonstrate gender based differences in pharmacotherapy and specialised outpatient care of patients with PAD. While overall outpatient treatment by vascular specialists and guideline recommended medical therapy of PAD are low, women and patients with CLTI remain undertreated.

Health Care Planning for the Final Phase of Life - an Advance Care Planning Concept in Germany

Health Care Planning for the Final Phase of Life - an Advance Care Planning Concept in Germany Abstract. The international concept of Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a systematic and qualified communication process for people who want to talk about possible disease scenarios and their wishes for medical, nursing, psychosocial and spiritual care, and treatment for those scenarios, in the presence of their relatives and therapists. In Germany, section 132 g on health care planning for the last phase of life was stipulated in the Social Security Code Book (Sozialgesetzbuch) V as an insurance benefit of statutory health insurance funds (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) for certain patient groups, which reflects the ACP concept. An ACP concept that is geared towards the structures of the healthcare system in Germany has become known nationwide as "Behandlung im Voraus Planen" (BVP). As part of the BVP conversations, the individual wishes for future medical, nursing, and psychosocial treatments are recorded and discussed according to the principle of shared decision-making with residents of senior citizens' facilities or with disabled people in cantres for integration assistance. These wishes can be recorded in detail in a document such as an advance directive. Specially trained persons from the medical and non-medical professional groups - such as nurses, social workers, curative educator therapists - can hold these BVP conversations. For this purpose, further training which follows a predefined core curriculum of the GKV-Spitzenverband must be successfully completed.

Neuregelung der Hinzuverdienstm\xf6glichkeiten f\xfcr Transferbeziehende: keine leichte Aufgabe

AbstractIn its coalition agreement, the German government proposes a reorganisation of the rules of earned income to be considered as a means test of basic income. In doing so, it takes up a frequently voiced criticism of the design of the basic income support for job-seekers under Book II of the Social Code. In recent years, researchers have called for a strengthening of (monetary) incentives to work, especially to take up employment with higher weekly working hours. In this paper, we summarise potential effects of such a reform on labour supply, the income distribution and the government budget in the context of a complex welfare system characterised by a high level of benefit non-take-up.