Special Resources Research Articles

Психологические ресурсы успеваемости подростков: дифференциальные аспекты

<p>In recent years, psychologists pay more and more attention to the study of individual typological characteristics of people. The introduction adduces the purpose of the article - to analyze current trends in the study of non-cognitive predictors of adolescent achievement and summarize new data obtained in empirical studies of psychological resources of academic success. The first section of the article analyzes in detail the recent foreign studies of the most significant (according to meta-analyses) psychological resources of academic performance within the framework of an individual-oriented approach. Among the new trends, there is a focus on studying the profiles of psychological resources of academic achievement and their stability in different age periods, as well as an interest in predicting academic performance depending on the type of profile. The second section of the article analyzes the results of empirical studies of the students’ individual characteristics in the context of the differential-typological approach, conducted at the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education. The authors considered typologies created in the framework of studying the temperamental and characterological foundations of students' conscious self-regulation. They describe empirical typologies of special regulatory resources for achieving educational goals, including examination success. The research results allowed to develop the generalized ideas about age-related differential-typological differences in the regulatory and personal resources of academic achievement of the basic and high school students. The conclusion is made about the resource role of conscious self-regulation and school engagement in maintaining students’ academic performance. The studies demonstrated the predictive effect of conscious self-regulation on academic performance and school engagement during the students’ transition to high school. The conclusive part emphasized the practical significance of supplementing the studies of general patterns of manifestation of the psychological resources of academic performance with an analysis of students’ individual-typological characteristics which can be fruitful for the development of an individual approach in education.</p>

Dictionary Use by Trainee Translators

Abstract Dictionaries have always been an important tool for linguists, and more specifically for translators. Learning how students of translation use dictionaries is essential if students are to be effective users of dictionaries. This research examines the dictionary usage habits of 201 trainee translators and identified significant differences among first-, second-, third- and fourth-year students. The resources that students most often consulted, based on their first L2, were also specified. A self-reported questionnaire was devised to collect data. The results revealed that the use of monolingual and specialized resources tended to be higher in the last years of the degree program. The students’ lack of awareness and infrequent use of specialized resources were also reflected in the study. Generally speaking, our results showed that students did not take advantage of the wide variety of resources available.

Age‐based shifts in habitat selection of wild turkey broods

AbstractAnimals exhibit pronounced age‐based shifts in habitat selection, often because of increasing body size. Body size affects how animals access resources, traverse landscapes, and perceive predation risk. While adults may be habitat generalists, offspring may be constrained by diet, predation avoidance methods, and mobility given smaller body size, and thus be more specialized. Observed declines in eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) productivity and recruitment across the southeastern United States has necessitated evaluations of availability and composition of brood habitat. As poults are smaller and have more specialized resource requirements than adults, selection of vegetation likely changes as poults age. We evaluated aged‐based shifts in selection relative to vegetation communities, normalized difference vegetation indices (NDVI), and distances to trails by eastern wild turkey brooding females in a pine (Pinus spp.)‐dominated landscape in Georgia, USA, from April–July during 2017–2020. We used step‐selection functions and conditional logistic regression to evaluate resource selection of 36 brooding females. Of 175 nests monitored, 36 (20.6%) successfully hatched a brood and only 12 broods had at least 1 poult survive ≥28 days post‐hatch (i.e., 6.9% of nests produced a poult that was recruited into the population). Overall, brooding females selected for pastures (β = 0.730; 95% CI = 0.5144–0.9452), hardwoods (β = 0.324; 95% CI = 0.1608–0.4865), areas closer to trails (β = −0.002; 95% CI = −0.0023–−0.0014), and areas with greater NDVI values (β = 2.714; 95% CI = 1.7897–3.6380). Habitat selection shifted as broods aged, suggesting resource needs shift to scale allometrically with body size as broods get older. For example, selection strength waned as broods aged and broods were 2.47 times less likely to select pastures on day 28 relative to day 1 post‐hatch. Pastures were selected for after broods hatched, whereas selection for young pines increased as poults aged. Despite pine‐dominated cover types comprising nearly a third of the usable landscape, young pine communities were avoided by females with recently hatched broods. Managers may create better brood habitat by promoting early successional vegetation communities amidst a diversity of other land cover types to account for changing resource needs and predator avoidance capabilities as poults age.

Осознанная саморегуляция и академическая мотивация как ресурсы выполнения обучающимися проектно-исследовательской работы

<p>The article presents the results of an empirical study of the relationship between the regulatory competencies of students, different types of academic motivation and successful performance of the research project work. Diagnostics of regulatory competencies was carried out by means of Morosanova’s "Self-regulation profile of learning activities questionnaire - SRPLAQ-M"; academic motivation was assessed using Gordeeva’s "Scales of academic motivation of schoolchildren". The diagnostics was carried out at the beginning of the academic year. Criteria-based assessments, set by the expert teachers, were used as indicators of the project work success. The study, performed on a sample of 9th grade students (N=187, 15-16 years old), provided evidence that regulatory competencies and motivation serve as prerequisites for the students’ success in research project work. The study allowed to empirically distinguish between the universal and special regulatory competencies. The data analysis revealed the resource role of regulatory competencies in performing an individual research project. It is shown that the general level of the conscious self-regulation development characterizes the universal resources for successful performance of an individual project and is positively associated with all expert criteria for assessment research project success. Special regulatory resources are the modeling of significant conditions and evaluating the results of actions. The study also revealed a mediator role of the regulatory competence of evaluating results in the relationship between the students’ academic motivation and the final assessment of the research project.</p>

La justificación de las condiciones de trabajo y demandas laborales en España: órdenes de valor

In this article, the dominant legitimating discursive strategies around the ever-increasing labour demands and ever-declining standards of safety and well-being at work in Spain are analysed through the lens of Boltanski and Thévenot’s (2006) view of the transformation of capitalism. A qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews is used. Results show that the justificatory arguments most commonly put forward by managers and experts are the logic of supply and demand, and values related to flexibility, resilience and adaptability to change. In contrast, the stability and protection established in the twentieth century are widely cherished values, particularly among union representatives and some human resources specialists. We found that discourse practices map two specific legitimating categories (market values and a projects orientation), and one critical category (Civic World), but the critical category has no practical impact, as the predominant feeling is resignation. Our research describes the common attitudes to legitimacy in the job market and points to a deep discontent in some of its key agents.

Effect of Training and Development on Employee Performance: A Case Study of Selected Banks in Mogadishu, Somalia

The aim of this investigation is to explore how the execution of representatives in present-day companies is influenced by training and development. The reason for this research is to look at the relationship between activities for training and development, recognize the factors that impact the adequacy of these programs, and propose proposals for improved methods. To attain these destinations, a mixed-method approach was utilized, including both quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews. The quantitative information was collected through a standardized survey dispersed to employees over diverse organizations, whereas the qualitative data was obtained through in-depth interviews with human resources specialists and supervisors. In arrange to infer noteworthy insights from the procured data, statistical analysis techniques were utilized near thematic analysis. The study's major findings appear an impressive advantageous affiliation between training and improvement and employee performance. Concurring with the findings, employees who took an interest in important and well-designed training programs had progressed levels of job performance, job satisfaction, and engagement. The study also found various components that affect the adequacy of training and development programs, such as leadership support, resource allocation, employee motivation, and organizational culture. These come about and have far-reaching consequences. Organizations that engage intensive and centred training and improvement exercises are more likely to see higher employee performance, job satisfaction, and organizational success. The inquiry emphasizes the significance of coordinating and training programs for personal worker necessities as well as corporate objectives. To optimize the adequacy of training and development exercises, it also highlights the significance of strong leadership support, legitimate resources, and a sound learning culture. The study's findings include the current body of information by giving empirical verification of the favourable impact of training and development on employee performance. The study's recommendations give businesses practical ways to progress the plan, execution, and appraisal of their training and advancement programs. At last, this inquiry could be a critical asset for HR specialists, directors, and decision-makers looking to develop a skilled and motivated staff and in this manner progress organizational execution in today's competitive financial world.

Against an insufficient intervention for patients with alcoholism or PTSD: An activity report on a psychiatric clinic after the 2011 complex disaster in Fukushima, Japan

Despite numerous studies using questionnaires to assess mental health problems among disaster victims following a disaster, only a few have examined actual medical treatment situations. Surveys of residents in disaster-affected areas following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster also indicate deteriorated mental health among survivors; however, concrete evidence of increased individuals seeking treatment at psychiatric institutions is still scarce.Using medical records of a psychiatric clinic in an affected area during the chronic phase after a disaster, this study investigated the status of interventions for patients with alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and others, including whether violence occurred during treatment.We found that 730 patients visited the clinic for a year, but a few with alcoholism received treatment. Patients who experienced traumatic stress during the disaster had a higher treatment discontinuation rate, though it is not correlated with their involvement in violence. However, a diagnosis of complex PTSD was correlated with involvement in violence during the treatment.The psychiatric clinic providing care during the chronic phase of the post-disaster period did not provide sufficient treatment for alcoholism, where therapeutic interpersonal interaction is emphasized, or for PTSD, where trauma-focused psychotherapy is the standard of care. It is difficult to ensure the availability of highly specialized resources and the establishment of comprehensive ties with the local people in affected areas, however, such a situation poses a challenge.

Using intervention mapping to develop evidence-based toolkits that support workers on long-term sick leave and their managers

BackgroundManaging long-term sickness absence is challenging in countries where employers and managers have the main responsibility to provide return to work support, particularly for workers with poor mental health. Whilst long-term sick leave and return to work frameworks and guidance exist for employers, there are currently no structured return to work protocols for employers or for their workers encompassing best practice strategies to support a positive and timely return to work outcome.PurposeTo utilise the intervention mapping (IM) protocol as a framework to develop return to work toolkits that are underpinned by relevant behaviour change theory targeting mental health to promote a positive return to work experiensce for workers on long-term sick leave.MethodsThis paper provides a worked example of intervention mapping (IM) to develop an intervention through a six-step process to combine theory and evidence in the development of two toolkits – one designed for managers and one to be used by workers on long-term sick leave. As part of this process, collaborative planning techniques were used to develop the intervention. A planning group was set up, through which researchers would work alongside employer, worker, and mental health professional representatives to develop the toolkits. Additionally, feedback on the toolkits were sought from the target populations of workers and managers and from wider employer stakeholders (e.g., human resource specialists). The implementation and evaluation of the toolkits as a workplace intervention were also planned.ResultsTwo toolkits were designed following the six steps of intervention mapping. Feedback from the planning group (n = 5; psychologist, psychiatrist, person with previous experience of poor mental health, employer and charity worker) and participants (n = 14; employers = 3, wellbeing director = 1; human resources = 2, managers = 2, employees with previous experience of poor mental health = 5) target populations indicated that the toolkits were acceptable and much needed.ConclusionsUsing IM allowed the development of an evidence-based practical intervention, whilst incorporating the views of all the impacted stakeholder groups. The feasibility and acceptability of the toolkits and their supporting intervention components, implementation process and methods of assessment will be evaluated in a feasibility pilot randomised controlled trial.

Typology of household adaptations to infrastructure system service interruptions

When infrastructure system services are interrupted, households implement adaptations to address needs that were previously met by the infrastructure system. In this paper, we introduce the Household Adaptations to Service Interruption (HASI) typology, which offers a new way to systematically enumerate, organize, and describe adaptations. Development of the typology was guided by a desire to better understand the implementation and effects of adaptations—who undertakes them, when, under what circumstances, and with what consequences. These, in turn, depend on tradeoffs between the replacement service provided by an adaptation and the requirements to implement it. The HASI typology, thus, includes two parts: (1) the main groupings, which have a hierarchical structure, and (2) additionaladaptation characteristics that are related to the replacement service and requirements to implement. The features used to group adaptations include modifying supply vs. demand; substituting the infrastructure system service (electricity) vs. specific uses it typically provides (e.g., lighting or cooking); applicable infrastructure systems; uses served; levels of substitution provided for each use; financial cost; health and safety cost; time and effort cost; effort frequency; special resources required; and side effects. The typology advances understanding of adaptations by providing a consistent vocabulary to discuss them; helping to identify new forms of adaptations; facilitating understanding of important adaptation features; and suggesting future research questions.

Korean American Children with Disabilities and Their At-Home Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from a Survey of Parents

Abstract This study investigated the at-home distance learning experiences of Korean American children with disabilities and their families during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 53 Korean American parents with children with disabilities residing in Southern California completed an online survey. Results revealed that their children with disabilities did not receive all the special education and related services they were entitled to during the pandemic. Compared to the pre-pandemic period, these children received fewer hours and a smaller number of related services. The survey results further identified the lack of resources and services in the Korean language as one of the greatest related challenges. Analysis of the open-ended survey showed that language barriers and lack of teacher preparation were the main challenges of the distance learning parents utilized for their children with disabilities during the lockdown. The findings advance understanding of disparities in special education services and resources and the unique challenges of Korean American students with disabilities and their families.

3D Printing for Cancer Diagnosis: What Unique Advantages Are Gained?

Cancer is a complex disease with global significance, necessitating continuous advancements in diagnostics and treatment. 3D printing technology has emerged as a revolutionary tool in cancer diagnostics, offering immense potential in detection and monitoring. Traditional diagnostic methods have limitations in providing molecular and genetic tumor information that is crucial for personalized treatment decisions. Biomarkers have become invaluable in cancer diagnostics, but their detection often requires specialized facilities and resources. 3D printing technology enables the fabrication of customized sensor arrays, enhancing the detection of multiple biomarkers specific to different types of cancer. These 3D-printed arrays offer improved sensitivity, allowing the detection of low levels of biomarkers, even in complex samples. Moreover, their specificity can be fine-tuned, reducing false-positive and false-negative results. The streamlined and cost-effective fabrication process of 3D printing makes these sensor arrays accessible, potentially improving cancer diagnostics on a global scale. By harnessing 3D printing, researchers and clinicians can enhance early detection, monitor treatment response, and improve patient outcomes. The integration of 3D printing in cancer diagnostics holds significant promise for the future of personalized cancer care.

Transformation Of The Information Museum Into A Smart Museum

The term smart museum has started to emerge in recent years along with the development of digital technology and smart concepts related to the application of technology in helping people in various sectors of life. The concept of a smart museum itself refers to the use of internet of things (IoT) technology such as sensors, wireless networks, digital applications, virtual reality, augmented reality, and smart systems to increase the interactivity, accessibility and involvement of visitors in the museum. Now more and more museums are adopting this smart solution as a way to attract visitors and optimize the visitor experience. In Indonesia, one of the museums that has transformed into a smart museum is the Museum Penerangan. In its efforts to become a smart museum, the Museum Penerangan has several supporting factors such as the number of human resources, technology support, program creativity, and support from top management. However, the main obstacle is funding because it requires a large investment to transform into a smart museum, besides that special human resources are needed to understand the technological needs that match the collection.

Job Vacancy Ranking with Sentence Embeddings, Keywords, and Named Entities

Resume matching is the process of comparing a candidate’s curriculum vitae (CV) or resume with a job description or a set of employment requirements. The objective of this procedure is to assess the degree to which a candidate’s skills, qualifications, experience, and other relevant attributes align with the demands of the position. Some employment courses guide applicants in identifying the key requirements within a job description and tailoring their experience to highlight these aspects. Conversely, human resources (HR) specialists are trained to extract critical information from numerous submitted resumes to identify the most suitable candidate for their organization. An automated system is typically employed to compare the text of resumes with job vacancies, providing a score or ranking to indicate the level of similarity between the two. However, this process can become time-consuming when dealing with a large number of applicants and lengthy vacancy descriptions. In this paper, we present a dataset consisting of resumes of software developers extracted from a public Telegram channel dedicated to Israeli hi-tech job applications. Additionally, we propose a natural language processing (NLP)-based approach that leverages neural sentence representations, keywords, and named entities to achieve state-of-the-art performance in resume matching. We evaluate our approach using both human and automatic annotations and demonstrate its superiority over the leading resume–vacancy matching algorithm.

Inclusion in Quebec childcare centers: financial support, adaptation, and training

BackgroundInclusion in childcare centers involves a support system that includes funding policies, inclusive practices and access to ongoing training. The province of Quebec (Canada) benefits from a network of subsidized childcare services for children from birth to 5 years old. Although two financial measures support educational childcare centers welcoming children with disabilities, there is a lack of knowledge about how these measures are used.Research questionsThe research questions are: (1) How do childcare centers use financial measures to support inclusion? (2) What adaptations are made in childcare centers? and (3) What is the ongoing training of educators to support inclusion?MethodThis research presents the results of an online survey completed by 94 childcare management staff and 154 childcare educators. The survey was developed using a two-way process involving the researchers along with representatives from government ministries and agencies and childcare management staff.ResultsResults reveal that just over half of management staff request financial measures for all children with special needs and does so mainly to hire additional and specialized human resources and replace staff in meetings with specialized services. The financial measures are perceived to meet material adaptation needs better than those for human resources. Adaptations made by educators relate to instructions, individual interventions, equipment, group activities, physical environment, and schedule and routines. Over half the educators report that adaptations involving group activities and schedules and routines are the most difficult to implement. Less than half the managers and educators had received ongoing training on inclusive practices. Issues addressed during such training include commonly recognized interventions based on diagnoses, collaboration with parents, collaboration with partner agencies or institutions, instructions, individual interventions, group activities, equipment, physical environment, and schedules and routines.DiscussionResults are discussed in terms of (1) needs met and funding model, and (2) dimensions of quality inclusive practices such as leadership of childcare management staff, training and professional development, collaboration with health and specialized social services, learning environments and partnership with families.

Experiences of Child Welfare Workers in a Child Sex Trafficking Training

ABSTRACT Child welfare workers are serving victims of child sex trafficking (CST) more frequently in their daily interactions, but they are ill-equipped to understand CST as a phenomenon or how to meet the needs of minor victims. Specialized training targeted to teach child welfare workers about various aspects of CST including risk factors, identification of victims, local and state laws about CST, and services for victims exist but are not readily available or consistent. The current study is a qualitative examination of child welfare workers’ perspectives on CST training in a Mid-Atlantic state. Focus group participants identified 17 key ideas within four themes about the challenges of working with survivors of child sex trafficking, the strengths and value of training, training improvements and ongoing needs, and missing resources for survivors. Policy implications include further child trafficking training for workers, and more specialized income and housing resources for survivors, toward the United Nations goals of empowering women and girls, and building a more just, peaceful, and inclusive society.

Opportunities for Organization of Classes in Foreign Languages by Means of Microsoft Teams (in the Practice of Teaching Ukrainian as a Foreign Language)

The characteristic aspects of learning a foreign language require special resources and tools for online learning. Criteria for choosing educational platforms depend on the key elements of an academic subject area. Microsoft Teams (hereafter, MT) educational platform is considered to be a competitive one because it meets most of the needs that arise during the formation of a secondary linguistic persona. Due to a large number of enterprise programs, there is a successful acquisition of language skills and the implementation of all types of oral activities for students. A significant MT advantage is the constant analysis and monitoring of participants’ needs in the educational process by developers. The article highlights both MT advantages and disadvantages. The attention is drawn to individual programs, which, in the authors’ opinion, are the most successful to learn writing, reading, speaking, and listening, as well as organising classes that meet the needs of modern foreign students.

Managing polysemy in terminological resources*

Abstract Polysemy, even when it is considered within specialized domains, is a recurrent phenomenon and the topic is debated from time to time in terminology literature. Part of this literature still advocates ways to prevent polysemy. Another portion recognizes the prevalence of polysemy, especially in specialized corpora, but considers it from the perspective of other phenomena, such as ambiguity, indeterminacy, categorization or variation. Although the number of perspectives on meaning have increased over the years, the treatment of polysemy in terminological resources is still unsatisfactory. This article first shows that polysemy is an integral part of specialized communication and that there are different kinds of domain-specific polysemy. Then, it reviews selected perspectives that have been taken on polysemy in terminology literature. The treatment of 45 polysemous lexical items in four specialized resources is then analysed. Finally, different methods based on lexical semantics are proposed to account for polysemy in terminological resources.

АНАЛІТИЧНИЙ ОГЛЯД ПУБЛІКАЦІЙ З КОНСИТУЦІЙНОГО ПРАВА У ВИДАВНИЦТВІ ОКСФОРДСЬКОГО УНІВЕРСИТЕТУ (Монографічні видання)

The integration of Ukraine into the world and European research space in the field of jurisprudence requires a thorough acquaintance with the latest methodological approaches and theoretical and doctrinal developments of the world's leading experts. Familiarity with the publishing activity of foreign legal scholars and the work of academic publishing houses plays an important role in this regard. The presented analytical review highlights the activity of publishing constitutional and legal studies of the Oxford University Press, which is the largest university publishing house in the modern world. The characteristics of constitutional publications are structured according to thematic sections: sources of constitutional law and reference publications, studies on the constitutional law of individual countries and regions, as well as problems and phenomena related to constitutional development (freedom, deliberative democracy, human rights, local self-government). If we depart, so to speak, from the territorial principle, the following thematic blocks can be distinguished in relation to the issues of Oxford University publications on constitutional law: a) comparative legal constitutional studies; b) analysis of constitutionalism within the framework of classical doctrinal discourse (constituent elements of constitutionalism, constitutionalism in the philosophical dimension, problems of the social context of modern constitutionalism); c) globalization of law and the phenomenon of global (transnational, supranational) constitutionalism. This distinction is quite arbitrary, because two or more problems may be covered in a particular publication. Publications of the University of Oxford accumulate the main achievements of world jurisprudence in the field of constitutional law. Many of the characterized editions are available on a special online resource "Oxford Scholarship Online".

Evolutionary dynamics of dispersal and local adaptation in multi-resource landscapes

Dispersal can enable access to resources in new locations. Consequently, traits that govern dispersal probability and dispersal distance may impact an individual’s ability to acquire resources. However, spatial variation in the quality or quantity of resources may mediate potential adaptive benefits of novel dispersal traits. Ecological traits (i.e., those that determine how an individual processes resources) will also, by definition, affect how an individual interacts with the resource landscape. In a spatially heterogeneous environment, this creates potential for evolutionary feedbacks between dispersal-related traits and ecological traits. For example, dispersal may introduce individuals to novel resources, at which point there may be selection for local adaptation of ecological traits. Conversely, an individual’s ability to utilize different resource types may determine how dispersal impacts fitness. Here, we develop an individual-based model to investigate co-evolution of dispersal and ecological traits in a landscape where multiple resources vary independently across space. We find that: (1) resource specialists can emerge and tend to evolve dispersal strategies suited to the structure of their preferred resource type and (2) generalists, when they emerge, tend to possess intermediate dispersal strategies. Lastly, we note that the effect of dispersal on the evolution of the ecological trait is weaker than vice versa and, as a result, appreciable heterogeneity in the abundance of resources across a landscape will likely obscure a signal of co-evolution.

Organizational Commitment: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract For decades, both researchers and management specialists along with human resources specialists have tried to explain, understand, measure and evaluate the consequences of the main organizational phenomena considered to be responsible for the employee performance, for their intention to stay within or to leave the organization, as well as for other phenomena with notable implications on the performance of organizations, such as absenteeism and scrap’s reduction. Organizational commitment is one of the most important organizational behaviors that leads to a better employee performance and a decrease intention to leave the organization, to reduce absenteeism and to reduce the negative behaviors manifested by employees in relation to the organization. Also, the existence of a high organizational commitment leads to the creation of an innovative working environment. Currently, organizational commitment is one of the most important topics, analyzed both in the academic literature and among practitioners. This is the reason why, in this paper, we aimed to analyze the evolution and structure of the scientific papers that approached this subject, using the method of bibliometric analysis. The data needed in order to perform this analysis was extracted from both the Web of Science and Scopus. Based on the collected data, the evolution in time of the number of publications that approached this subject was analyzed, also the names of the authors who with the most contributions in approaching this subject, the countries where these publications were present, the countries of origin of the authors between which most collaboration relations were established. Also, the intensity of the links between the most used keywords in relation to the analyzed keyword was analyzed, as well as the intensity of the links between the main keywords related to the term organizational commitment.