Social Competition Research Articles

Social Capital, Import Competition, and Vaccine Uptake

Abstract This research note examines the relationship between social capital, economic globalization, and COVID-19 vaccines in U.S. counties. The author argues that the positive health benefits of community-level social capital can be undermined by import competition. Leveraging data from U.S. counties this note shows that the positive correlation between community social capital and vaccine uptake is lower in communities harder hit by import competition. This is however only the case for bridging and not for bonding social capital. These findings indicate that economic globalization can undermine the positive health impact of community social capital which has implications for inequalities in public health as well as responses to major health crises.

Single cell transcriptomic representation of social dominance in prefrontal cortex and the influence of preweaning maternal and postweaning social environment

Social dominance encompasses winning dyadic contests and gaining priority access to resources and reproduction. Dominance is influenced by environmental factors, particularly during early postnatal life and adolescence. A disinhibitory medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) microcircuit has been implicated in the expression of dominance in the “tube test” social competition paradigm in mice, but the neuroplasticity underlying dominance is not known. We previously reported that male pups raised by physically active (wheel-running, as opposed to sedentary) dams exhibit tube test dominance and increased reproductive fitness, and here we show that social isolation from weaning also increases dominance. By using single cell transcriptomics, we tested if increased dominance in these models is associated with a specific transcriptional profile in one or more cell-types in the mPFC. The preweaning maternal effect, but not postweaning social isolation, caused gene expression changes in pyramidal neurons. However, both the effect of maternal exercise and social isolation induced the coordinated downregulation of synaptic channel, receptor, and adhesion genes in parvalbumin positive (PV) interneurons, suggesting that development of dominance is accompanied by impaired PV interneuron-mediated inhibition of pyramidal cells. This study may help understand environmentally induced transcriptional plasticity in the PFC and its relationship to tube test dominance.

The Impact of Some Highly Educated Female Bloggers on Female College Students from a Feminist Perspective

In the era of new media, gender issues frequently appear in the public eye, and some highly educated female bloggers on social media platforms promote feminist education, while others still adhere to traditional gender norms. These female bloggers, who should symbolize independent women, are often conflicted and contradictory. This article aims to explore the causes of the psychological conflict of these highly educated female bloggers and to investigate the degree of attention and influence of female college students on them in contemporary society, in order to provide strategies for the development of feminism in new media era China. The study conducted a survey of female college students, focusing mainly on their degree of attention to gender issues and various female bloggers, their susceptibility to influence, and their gender concepts and perceptions of feminism. The study found that 52% of female college students follow both emotional bloggers and feminist bloggers. They learn about feminism while seeking advice from emotional bloggers, which also shows a sense of contradiction. The contradiction between highly educated women and female college students stems from a patriarchal society, in which women are in a disadvantaged position in social competition. Therefore, realizing true gender equality requires joint efforts from society, the media, and women themselves.

Research on the teaching reform of the “four in one” course of computer network security

This article combines the current characteristics of the "Computer Network Security" course in network engineering majors in universities, and continuously improves students' ability to apply theoretical knowledge through teaching them theoretical knowledge. Adopting a three-dimensional teaching method, gradually enhancing students' abilities through experiments, practice, internships, and practical training, so as to adapt to social needs and enhance their social competitiveness.

Experience of the implementation of non-formal adult education in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The article considers the experience of non-formal adult education in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The author analyzes the main legal documents of the legislative regulation of adult education in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The content of «non-formal adult education» is highlighted, which is considered as a structural element of lifelong learning that supplements the existing formal education and is a powerful tool for the sustainable development of society and the potential of each adult, in particular, increasing their competitiveness in the labour market. Statistical data on the participation of the adult population of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in formal and non-formal learning have been analyzed, which allow us to assess comprehensively the state of development and functioning of the adult education system in this country. Modern forms of non-formal adult education in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are characterized, including professional courses and trainings, internships, massive open online courses, etc. Examples of educational programmes and training courses available at British universities, which are providers of educational services in the field of non-formal adult education, are given. Attention is focused on the features of validation of the results of non-formal adult education in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The author concludes that the experience of the implementation of non-formal adult education in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland can serve as a certain reference point for the modernization of non-formal adult education in Ukraine, because the system of adult education in this country allows adults to adapt quickly to socio-economic challenges and realize themselves on employment and social security, economic growth and competitiveness.

ИНТЕРНЕТ- ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕ В ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ СОЦИАЛЬНО ОРИЕНТИРОВАННЫХ НЕКОММЕРЧЕСКИХ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЙ САРАТОВСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ

The experience of social project grant competition in the territory of Saratov region is analyzed. Both internal Internet communications of non-profit organizations and external ones with authorities and population are considered. Strengths and weaknesses of the project activity of non-profit organizations are studied, as well as the influence of Internet communications on them.

Adoption of LGBT-Inclusive Policies Adoption of LGBT-Inclusive Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, or Competition?

Adoption of LGBT-Inclusive Policies Adoption of LGBT-Inclusive Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, or Competition?

Constructing “English+” teaching mode enabled by ChatGPT: Taking “English + IT” subject as an example

With the explosion of English subjects, graduates majoring in English are now facing the dilemma of losing social and employment competitiveness. The present study found that English can combine its designated education with other subjects to improve students’ overall competence, and using the new artificial intelligence of ChatGPT may be a promising method to assist English language teaching. The research has conducted semi-structured interviews with five students studying “English Language and Data” subjects at a university in Zhejiang, China. Through the semi-structured interviews, all of the interviewees used ChatGPT during their studying life at university; they not only used ChatGPT in English major courses, but they also used it in IT-related courses more often, and they preferred using ChatGPT, believing it had more pros than cons. The results showed that ChatGPT had become a good tool for English language teaching and “English+” subject learning, and its future remains to be explored.

Research and Design of Fuel Management Online System

With the rapid development of China’s social economy, the demand for electricity in social production is also increasing. For current power plants, high fuel costs have become the most important operating cost, in order to be able to better control the cost of the power plant, it is necessary to strengthen fuel management work, and in the process of fuel management should be enhanced in the degree of application of information technology. Based on this, the fuel management online system from the perspective of 14 modules to make a comprehensive study of the current demand, so as to realize the online completion of the fuel storage, checking, settlement, statistics and a series of functions. To enhance the social competitiveness of power companies and provide support for future exploration and strengthening of power plant fuel management systems.

Exploring the teaching mode of college students’ psychological education under artificial intelligence technology guided by cognitive-behavioral theory

Abstract Under the current background of increasingly fierce social competition, the psychological pressure of college student groups is increasing, and mental health problems are becoming more and more significant. Based on the cognitive model of mental health and the theory of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, this paper constructs a comprehensive mental health education mechanism covering school, family and society. A mental health abnormality detection device was developed in the study, which integrates a mental health detection model and an early warning mechanism, aiming to detect students’ mental health problems in time. Empirical Analysis shows that the recognition accuracy of the mental health abnormality detection model constructed in this study is as high as 0.8748. Regarding the assessment of teaching effectiveness, the pre- and posttest changes in the mental health scores of the control group and the experimental group are significant, with the test value of the difference between the control group being 1.242, while that of the experimental group is 6.480. The average posttest score of the experimental group is 6.15, which is a decrease of 11.75 compared to that of the control group. This result indicates that the mental health education model proposed in this paper can significantly enhance and effectively improve students’ mental health. This study provides an effective teaching method for college students’ mental health education, which can help guide the practice of mental health education in schools.

A67: The Influence of Physical Exercise on College Students' Psychological Pressure

Purpose: At this stage, the increasingly fierce social competition makes college students face significant challenges while striving for development opportunities. They will encounter various setbacks and challenges, causing excessive psychological pressure on college students, which will affect their mental health. As an effective means to promote people's physical and mental development, physical exercise plays an important role in the development of college students, It plays a very important role in relieving college students' psychological pressure. Therefore, it is particularly important to study how physical exercise affects college students' psychological pressure and the role of other factors. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of physical exercise on college students' psychological pressure, as well as the intermediary role between emotional intelligence, adversity beliefs, physical exercise, and college students' psychological pressure, it provides theoretical basis and empirical reference for relieving college students' psychological pressure. Methods: A convenient sampling method was used. 383 college students aged 18-25 were investigated by using WLEIS, Psychological Stress Scale, Physical Exercise Rating Scale (PARS-3) and Adversity Belief Scale. Results: (1) physical exercise, college students' psychological stress, emotional intelligence and belief in adversity were significantly correlated; (2) Physical exercise can negatively predict college students' psychological stress (direct effect=-0.0032, 95% CI:, Physical exercise does not have a separate intermediate role in the impact of physical exercise on college students' psychological stress through adversity beliefs (indirect effect=0.0001, 95% CI: [-0.0007, 0.0010]), but physical exercise has an impact on college students' psychological stress through the chain intermediary role of emotional intelligence and adversity beliefs (indirect effect=0.0008, 95% CI: [0.0003, 0.0014]). Conclusion: Physical exercise can have a direct impact on college students' psychological stress, and it can also have an impact on college students' psychological stress through the mediation of emotional intelligence and belief in adversity. In the face of numerous challenges in the society, college students can relieve the psychological pressure brought about by life and study through physical exercise and promote their own mental health by cultivating their own belief in adversity and emotional intelligence, so as to meet the challenges in the future with a more positive outlook.

Эвакуация Ленинградского монетного двора в Краснокамск

The evacuation of the Leningrad Mint to Krasnokamsk during the Great Patriotic War remains a relatively little-studied episode in the history of the enterprises’ evacuation to the Molotov Region. This is due both to the relatively recent declassification of the enterprise documentation and to the weak interest of researchers in this issue. The work of the Krasnokamsk Museum of Local Lore with documents from Perm and St. Petersburg archives allows us to conclude that the evacuation of the Leningrad Mint to the Urals and the organization of the awards production in Krasnokamsk were complex and difficult processes. The issuance of awards during the Great Patriotic War required the efforts of the enterprise's employees in conditions of a lack of production space, qualified labor, raw materials, and tools. One of the most important problems throughout the entire period of the enterprise operation in Krasnokamsk was the low qualifications of young workers, who often made mistakes in their work. Despite the difficult production conditions, the constantly growing plan, changes in technical parameters and the nomenclature of orders, the enterprise constantly increased labor productivity, became the winner of social competition, and introduced innovations – in particular, it switched to stamping complex awards. The result of the heroic work of the enterprise in Krasnokamsk was the production of more than 2.5 million finished orders and medals, more than 9 million semi-finished award products, more than 10 million copies of special products, as well as about 750 million coins of various denominations and 78 types of award products that appeared during the Great Patriotic War.

Young people on social media in a globalized world: self-optimization in highly competitive and achievement-oriented forms of life.

Research investigating young people's social media use has been criticized for its limited theoretical foundations and scope. This paper elaborates young people's social media activity from a socio-ecological evolutionary perspective (SEE), where young people's online exchanges cannot be divorced from the highly competitive and achievement-oriented modern market cultures in which they live. In highly competitive and achievement-oriented forms of life, young people's social media environments are often constituted as dynamic and evolving extrinsically oriented ecological niches that afford for status and identity enhancement while also affording for peer approval, belongingness, and self-worth nested within, and subordinate to, these higher-order affordances. The extrinsic value organization of social media platforms that serve young people's status and identity-enhancement are embodied by a community of mutually interdependent criteria that are evolutionary-based, developmentally salient, and market-driven: physical attractiveness, high (educational and extracurricular) achievements, and material success. Young people's online signaling of these interdependent extrinsic criteria affords for status-allocation and self-enhancement, where each criteria becomes an arena for social competition and identity formation, enabling young people to build personal and optimal models of social success congruent with their own interests and abilities. Young people's status and identity enhancing signaling of these extrinsic criteria is moving toward increasingly idealized or perfect embodiments, informed by accelerating, short-term positive feedback processes that benefit from the technological affordances and densely rewarding peer environments instantiated on social media.

State and Development Guidelines in Subjective Well-being of students in Guangxi Vocational University of Agriculture

With the continuous development of the global economy, the transformation of social structure continues to accelerate, people’s living conditions gradually improve, and the demand level of college students continues to increase. However, due to the relative shortage of resources and the intensification of social competition, the pressure of college students has greatly increased. All of this All have a great impact on the happiness of college students.This article uses questionnaires and interviews to study the current situation of subjective well-being among students at Guangxi Agricultural Vocational University, and to provide guidelines for the development of subjective well-being among students at Guangxi Agricultural Vocational University.The research results show that the subjective well-being of students at Guangxi Agricultural Vocational University is generally at a high level. From the three dimensions that affect subjective well-being, self-health factors have the greatest impact, followed by family factors, and school factors have the least impact.The development guidelines proposed based on the above results are as follows: 1. Schools can help students by establishing mental health consulting agencies for college students, providing relevant mental health courses and face-to-face communication between teachers and students, thereby improving students’ subjective well-being. 2. Institutionalized guarantees are needed: A clear system should be established to ensure the improvement of students’ happiness and mental health education. 3. Disadvantages of improving students’ subjective well-being: First, the school’s hardware facilities can better help students build satisfaction with the school, thereby improving their sense of well-being. Secondly, there is room for improvement in helping students solve practical difficulties, such as timely intervention in students’ employment pressure and teachers’ timely intervention in students’ psychological problems. 4. Schools should organize relevant extracurricular activities to improve students’ subjective well-being. 5. Establishing positions dedicated to managing students, such as counselor positions, will help understand and solve students’ psychological problems. 6. Regular visits to students’ parents can help to gain an in-depth understanding of students’ family life and discover some hidden psychological conditions.

Соціально-економічна безпека як фактор забезпечення конкурентоспроможності організації

Modern economic life’s dynamism, complexity, and riskiness require enterprises and organizations to take measures to ensure economic security and gain competitive advantages. Human capital is one of the decisive factors for solving these tasks from a strategic perspective. Socio-economic security is one of the central economic categories, which, during the duration of the military conflict, acquired an extremely urgent importance for Ukraine. The study of the content and composition of the economic security of organizations made it possible to highlight the social component as a central element in its architecture. The social component ensures the interaction of the object-subject sphere of economic security management. It mediates the interaction of all types of assets and the effectiveness of the organization’s activities. The article examines the role and importance of human capital as the main element in ensuring the socio-economic security of the organization. The architecture of the components of the socio-economic security of the organization in the context of gaining strategic competitive advantages under the conditions of sustainable development is presented. The principles of achieving the socio-economic security of the organization, which contribute to increasing the competitiveness of business entities, are substantiated. It was determined that human capital determines the nature of the perception of strategic values of sustainable development, which should be the basis of achieving the goals of ensuring organizations’ social and economic security and competitiveness. Ukraine’s current state and place in the world competitiveness rankings have been studied. Based on the analysis of the dynamics of the human development index, an assessment of Ukraine’s human capital was carried out. The obtained results showed the relative stability of Ukraine’s positions in the pre-war period. It was determined that the trends in the country due to the military conflict cause significant risks of loss of human capital, provision of social and economic security, and restoration of competitive positions of the national economy. In turn, this requires the development of effective mechanisms for increasing the quantity, quality, and value of human capital as a foundation for ensuring the socio-economic security and competitiveness of organizations based on sustainable development. Keywords: security, competitive advantages, human capital, development, business entities.

A Behaviour of Religious Moderation among Salafi in Ambon

Salafi community in Ambon have developed since the arrival of Laskar Jihad during the 1999 Ambon Conflict. Social dan religious competition has divided them, which is not only triggered by their interpretation of Islam but also by their efforts to gain religious influence and socio-religious dominance within the Islamic society. The research method used in this research is qualitative phenomenology. The research results found that for the Salafis, love for their homeland was proven during the COVID-19 pandemic; Salafi groups in Ambon also implement all policies issued by the Indonesian government without exception. Religious moderation is a fair and balanced attitude that does not exaggerate or belittle religion. Another characteristic of the moderation attitude shown is constantly repairing and avoiding damage. Salafi community in Ambon continue try to protect their faith, soul, reason, honor, lineage, and property. They respect fellow religious people, regardless their religious background and beliefs.

Understanding the Electoral Preferences of Beginner Voters in the 2020 Bulukumba Local Elections

Law no. 10 of 2008 concerning general elections states that first-time voters are those who are voting for the first time and are 17 years old or more or are/have been married and have the right to vote in general elections (and the Regional Head Election). New voters who have just entered voting age also do not have a broad political reach to determine where they should vote. So, sometimes what they choose is not what they expected. The aim of the research is to find out the preferences of novice voters in the 2020 Bulukumba regional elections. The type of research used is qualitative with a case study approach. The informants in this research were six (6) people consisting of the Bulukumba KPUD, political parties and first-time voters. The results of the research regarding the Political Preferences of Beginner Voters in the 2020 Pilkada in Bulukumba Regency are: first, sociological, the condition of beginner voters who are still unstable and have minimal understanding of politics tends to make their political attitudes and direction of support follow the family and community in the voter's environment. Second, psychologically, the emotional closeness and image of the candidate to first-time voters makes new voters participate as volunteers in supporting the candidate through campaign activities using a social media approach and competition activities. Third, Rational, the level of education of novice voters is a determining factor in voters' attitudes in determining political attitudes, where only a few novice voters make their choices through program analysis and candidate profiles obtained from various information.

Acetylcholine muscarinic M1 receptors in the rodent prefrontal cortex modulate cognitive abilities to establish social hierarchy.

In most social species, the attainment of social dominance is strongly affected by personality traits. Dominant individuals show better cognitive abilities, however, whether an individual's cognition can determine its social status has remained inconclusive. We found that mice show better cognitive abilities tend to possess a higher social rank after cohousing. The dynamic release of acetylcholine (ACh) in the prelimbic cortex (PL) is correlated with mouse dominance behavior. ACh enhanced the excitability of the PL neurons via acetylcholine muscarinic M1 receptors (M1). Inhibition of M1 impaired mice cognitive performance and induced losing in social competition. Mice with M1 deficiency in the PL performed worse on cognitive behavioral tests, and exhibited lower status when re-grouped with others. Elevating ACh level in the PL of subordinate mice induced winning. These results provide direct evidence for the involvement of M1 in social hierarchy and suggest that social rank can be tuned by altering cognition through cholinergic system.

Research on Strategies for Improving the Employability of Chinese College Students

This dissertation aims to discuss the strategies to improve the employability of Chinese college students and put forward corresponding countermeasure suggestions. Through theoretical analysis, the thesis firstly analyzes the current challenges facing college students' employment, including factors such as fierce social competition and diversified career demands. Subsequently, through the comprehensive use of relevant psychology, pedagogy, career development theory and other disciplinary theories, the importance of college students' career planning is discussed in depth, and strategies to improve college students' employability are comprehensively elaborated. Finally, this paper puts forward a series of feasible countermeasures, including strengthening career planning education, expanding internship and practice opportunities, and establishing a diversified employment service platform, etc., with a view to providing theoretical support and practical guidance for improving the employability of college students.

Concerning Patriotic Education of Youth in the Educational Environment of the University

The article outlines the relevance of civic-patriotic education of student youth in new socio-political realities. The purpose of the study to develop a model for organizing a competition (festival) of social advertising, to determine its communicative potential in the system of educational work of the university. To do this, it draws on materials from both domestic and international scientists, as well as examples of successful social contests and festivals held in Russian society. Over the course of the study, the dynamics of patriotic sentiments in Russian society were also defined. Determined are the features and significance of higher educational institutions as resource centres for the development of a patriotic culture and enhancing its significance for young people. The practices of patriotic education in the country’s higher education system have been investigated. The necessity of using innovative technologies and tools for creating a communicative environment of patriotic education along with traditional classes is substantiated. It is determined that the inclusion of sociocultural design in the educational process meets a request of a modern student for proactive learning. The educational and educative potential of competitive and festival activities is analysed. As a tool for helping students develop their value orientations, a model for organizing and running social advertising competitions is proposed. The emphasis is on the need to attract students to the direct organisation of competitive events. The necessity of popularising the results of competitions both by the organisers, partners and direct participants is substantiated. It is concluded that student participation in social advertising competitions and festivals contributes to the development of constructive patriotism, as well as the formation of civic responsibility and youth social activity. The prospects for further research are established.