Universalism Research Articles

Work engagement among higher education teachers: exploring the influence of human values and subjective well-being

PurposeIn today’s competitive environment, understanding employee well-being and work engagement (WE) is crucial. This study explores the relationship between values, well-being and WE within positive organizational behavior (POB). The research aims to provide insights for promoting employee well-being and enhancing WE.Design/methodology/approachUsing a cross-sectional approach, three hundred and seventy-two teachers from higher education institutes in India participated by completing questionnaires. Covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) was employed to examine the mediation effect.FindingsHuman values i.e. benevolence (BE) and universalism (UN) significantly impacted teachers' WE. These relationships were mediated by positive emotions (PE), negative emotions (NE) and satisfaction with life (SWL). Interestingly, UN exhibited a positive relationship with PE and SWL and a negative relationship with NE. These findings contradict existing theories and may be attributed to India’s cultural aspects, particularly the concept of karma orientation.Research limitations/implicationsThe quantitative results obtained through CB-SEM could be complemented by future qualitative studies. Employing longitudinal research might yield different results. Generalizing the findings to other populations requires caution.Practical implicationsInstitutions should prioritize human values in teacher recruitment and development to improve engagement. Promoting PE, managing NE and enhancing SWL can boost WE. Future research should explore mediation with other variables and use longitudinal studies to understand cultural impact and intervention strategies.Originality/valueThe study contributes to knowledge on WE within positive organizational behavior by examining BE and UN. Additionally, exploring the mediating effect of PE, NE and SWL adds further value.

Evaluation of the periodontal and microbiological conditions of obese patients submitted to bariatric surgery

This article seeks to identify the periodontal and microbiological conditions of obese individuals undergoing bariatric surgery. The focus on obese patients is due to obesity being a growing public health problem, which is increasing in important epidemic proportions all over the world. Thus, this is a cross-sectional study with a qualitative approach, in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) from March to October 2018, with 25 obese patients who proposed to participate in the research. The periodontal situation was identified as: periodontal health, gingivitis and periodontitis. In the microbiological examination, the bacteria Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (AA), Porphyromonas gingivalis (PG), Streptococcus oralis (SO) and Universal (UN) were identified and quantified using real-time PCR. There was a statistically significant difference (p > 0.05) between the degrees of obesity in terms of gingivitis and periodontitis. The (AA) presented statistically significant difference (p < 0.05) in the situation of gingivitis and periodontal health. It can be concluded that (AA) had a higher average amount in obese individuals, even in the situation of periodontal health and PG lower amount in gingivitis and higher in periodontitis. There was a prevalence of (AA) and (PG) in the supragingival location, and prevalence of (AA), (PG) and (SO) in the subgingival location.

Application of a Phase Resolved Partial Discharge Pattern Analysis for Acoustic Emission Method in High Voltage Insulation Systems Diagnostics

An alternative method for analysis of acoustic emission (AE) signals generated by partial discharges (PD), based on a correlation between voltage phase run and AE pulses, so called phase resolved PD pattern (PRPD), is presented in the paper. PRPD pattern is a well-known analysis tool commonly used in such PD diagnostic methods as conventional electrical and UHF ones. Moreover, it yields various signal analysis abilities and allows a direct correlation indication between measurement results achieved using different methods. An original PRPD measurement methodology applied for AE method as well as some exemplary measurement results and further data analysis capabilities are presented in the paper. Also a comparative analysis of PRPD patterns achieved using various measurement methods and different PD source configurations have been investigated. All presented experiments were done under laboratory conditions using PD model sources immersed in the insulation oil. The main purpose of the presented research is to indicate an all-embracing analytical tool that yields an ability to direct comparison (qualitative as well as quantitative) of the AE measurement results with other commonly applied PD measurement methods. The presented results give a solid fundamental for further research work concerning a direct correlation method for AE and other described in the paper diagnostic techniques, mainly in order to continue PD phenomena analysis and assessment in real life high voltage apparatus insulation systems under normal onsite operation conditions.

Clustering effect in description of the alpha and heavier decay half-life

We examine the alpha and heavier cluster decay half-lives of the nuclei for 87 ≤ Z ≤ 96 using the analytical formula obtained by the Wentzel-Kramers-Brilliouin (WKB) method within the framework of the cluster model for the modified harmonic oscillator and spherical Coulomb potential. We correlate the clustering effect in the nuclei with the nuclear potential depth only and systematically investigate the alpha and heavier cluster decay half-lives. In addition to half-lives, the branching ratios relative to alpha decay half-lives are also calculated and results are compared with experimental data. The rms deviations of the alpha and cluster decay half-lives show a good agreement with the universal decay law (UDL), Horoi and one single line of universal (UNIV) curve models. Utilizing the optimized cluster model parameters, we also predict the half-lives of 14C, 20O, 24,25Ne, 28,30Mg and 32Si cluster emissions from various isotopes for guiding future experiments.

Assessment of retention characteristics of different attachments following new modifications (an in vitro study)

Background and objectives: This study aimed to compare the retention characteristics of different attachments used to retain partial dentures following new modifications.Methods: In this study three types of commonly used extracoronal castable attachments were selected, namely (1) Preci-verttix standard, CEKA attachment, (2) Preci-sagix mini size, CEKA attachment, (3) OT- cap normal, Rhein 83. They underwent simple modifications in order to improve their retention. A total of forty-two samples were prepared in three main groups. Each group subdivided into two subgroups with fourteen samples; 7 samples for non-modified and 7 for modified attachments. The tensile force was applied using a universal testing machine at a cross-head speed of 50 mm/min and maximum retention force at dislodgment was recorded. Strain and stress at dislodgement were calculated. Data were collected and analyzed using one- way ANOVA followed by Duncan test and finally paired ttest was performed for comparing the modified and non-modified attachments.Results: For all attachments, retention was increased significantly following modification except for OT-cap, which showed a non-significant reduction in retention. Modified Precivertix attachment was most retentive with the mean value of (48.893) Newton. For all attachments strain at dislodgement was increased after modification and highest mean value of (1.292) was recorded for Preci-sagix. Stress at dislodgement was increased following modification for all attachments, except Preci- vertix which showed significant reduction of stress. Conclusions: Modified Preci-vertix attachment showed the highest retention value with a significant reduction in stress.

DJEČJA PORNOGRAFIJA U SVJETLU RAČUNARSKIH KRIVIČNIH DJELA: MEĐUNARODNI STANDARDI I PRAVO BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE

Based on international standards in a number of universal (UN) and regional (Council of Europe) documents, a large number of national legislations, including positive law of Bosnia and Herzegovina, provide for several computer (computer, IT, information, cyber) crimes that violate or endanger various social values by using (or abusing) computers, computer systems or information technology. These are various forms of illegal activities of natural and legal persons, using computer systems, whether it is about old crimes take on new forms (forms of manifestation), or completely new crimes. Among these criminal offenses, computer crimes are especially dangerous for children and youth. In this paper the system of international standards and the basic characteristics of computer crimes, as well as the content of computer crimes as means of production or dissemination of pornographic material in the legal system of Bosnia and Herzegovina are considered.

Book Review: Matthew's Theology of Fulfillment, Its Universality and Its Ethnicity: God's New Israel as the Pioneer of God's New Humanity, by Herman C. Waetjen

Book Review: <i>Matthew's Theology of Fulfillment, Its Universality and Its Ethnicity: God's New Israel as the Pioneer of God's New Humanity</i>, by Herman C. Waetjen

On the universality of Somos’ constant

We show that Somos' constant is universal in sense that is similar to the universality of the Khinchin constant. In addition we introduce generalized Somos' constants, which are universal in a similar sense.

The Universality of Some Compositions on Short Intervals

The Universality of Some Compositions on Short Intervals

Book Review: Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality, by Annabel Herzog

Book Review: <i>Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality</i>, by Annabel Herzog

Einfluss von Silan-dotierten Umgebungsatmosphären auf tribologischen Eigenschaften von Titan

The production processes of the metalworking industry are usually carried out in the presence of oxygen. Par ticularly due to surface oxidation on tools and parts during production under normal atmosphere, high wear is observed in tribological systems. The focus of these investigations is the question to what extent the ambient atmosphere has an influence on the tribological system. For this purpose, the identification and characterization of wear mechanisms in an oxygen-free atmosphere is of high relevance. To analyse the influence of the ambi ent atmosphere on the tribological properties of titanium, ball-on-disc investigations are carried out on a univer sal tribometer (UMT) in an air, argon and silane-anodized atmosphere. By suppressing the oxidation under ex clusion of oxygen, a reduction of the tribochemical wear could be shown, which is accompanied by a reduction of the wear volume by a Factor of 4.5. However, due to the adhesion of both friction partners, which already occurs at low temperatures, caused by the omission of the friction-reducing cover layers, the friction coefficient increased. In addition, novel alloy formations at the interfaces were detected and analysed.

EEG emotion recognition based on linear kernel PCA and XGBoost

The principal component analysis of linear kernel and XGBoost models are introduced to design electro-encephalogram (EEG) classification algorithm of four emotional states under continuous audio-visual stimulation. In order to reflect universality, the traditional power spectral density (PSD) is used as the feature of EEG signal, and the feature importance measure under the weight index is obtained with XGBoost learning. Then linear kernel principal component analysis is used to process the threshold selected features and send them to XGBoost model for recognition. According to the experimental analysis, gamma-band plays a more important role than other bands in XGBoost model recognition; in addition, for distribution on channels, the central, parietal, and right occipital regions play a more important role than other brain regions. The recognition accuracy of this algorithm is 78.4% and 92.6% respectively under the two recognition schemes of subjects all participation (SAP) and subject single dependent (SSD). Compared with other literature, this algorithm has made a great improvement. The scheme proposed is helpful to improve the recognition performance of brain-computer emotion system under audio-visual stimulation.

전국시대 점복의 보편화에 대한 소고 - 《春秋左傳》과 전국시대 卜筮祭禱簡을 위주로

전국시대 점복의 보편화에 대한 소고 - 《春秋左傳》과 전국시대 卜筮祭禱簡을 위주로

A Universe for Everyone: Review of Max Tomba's Insurgent Universality

A Universe for Everyone: Review of Max Tomba's Insurgent Universality

THE CRITERION FOR TRANSFERABLE SELF-CONSISTENTLY TRANSLATIONALITY OF COORDINATE TRANSFORM OPERATORS AND REFERENCE FRAMES IN UNIVERSAL KINEMATICS

From an intuitive point of view universal kinematics are collections (sets) of changing objects, which evolve, being in a certain spatial-geometric environment, and evolution of whi- ch can be observed from many different frames of reference. Moreover, the definition of uni- versal kinematics impose the existence of some (preassigned) universal coordinate transform between every two reference frames of such kinematics. Transferable self-consistently translati- onal reference frames (in vector universal kinematics) are interesting because for such reference frames it is possible to give a clear and unambiguous definition of displacement of a moving reference frame relative to a fixed one, which does not depend on the choice of a fixed point in the moving frame of reference. In the present paper it is shown that an arbitrary reference frame m is transferable self-consistently translational relatively to a reference frame l (in some vector uni- versal kinematics F) if and only if the coordinate transform operator from the reference frame m to the reference frame l is transferable self-consistently translational. Therefore transferable self-consistently translational coordinate transform operators describe the conversion of coordi- nates from the moving and transferable self-consistently translational frame of reference to the (given) fixed frame in vector universal kinematics. Also in the paper it is described the structure of transferable self-consistently translational coordinate transform operators (this is the main result of the article). Using this result it have been obtained the necessary and sufficient conditi- on for transferable self-consistently translationality of one reference frame relatively to another in vector universal kinematics.

문학의 고고학과 귀납적 보편 - 김현 초기 시 비평 연구

이 글의 목적은 김현 초기 시 비평의 위상과 면모를 당대적 맥락 속에서 살펴보고 그 의미가 무엇일지를 상고하여 현재에 비추는 것이다. 초기 김현 비평의 중요한 문제의식들은 “경험적인 것을 선험적인 것으로 받아들이지 않고, 어떻게?”라는 질문으로부터 비롯되었다. 선험적인 것과 경험적인 것에 대한 사유로부터 촉발된 귀납적 보편에의 요청, 그리고 이에 대한 답변으로서의 문학의 고고학을 논의의 초점에 놓고 보자면, 1967년에 발표된 「시와 암시－언어파의 시학에 관해서」에 주목하지 않을 수 없다. 이 글은 말라르메의 암시의 시학을 통해 1967년 당시 한국의 시단을 조망하되, 암시의 시학이 한국적 조건에서 성립되기 어려운 이유를 천착하는 글이다. 김현이 보기에 언어파의 도래는 1967년 현재 이미 한국 시단에 발생한 사건이다. 이들의 시적 특징은 암시의 시학에 의해 가장 잘 설명되는데 암시의 시학이 한국적 상황에서 타당한 존재 이유를 가지고 이해를 구하려면 그 구성적 조건인 수직적 이원론이 필수적으로 요청되는 것이라고 하겠다. 다만, 이때의 수직적 이원론은 플라톤으로부터 기독교적 전통에 이르기까지의 서구에서와 같은 방식이 아니라 한국적 상황 속에서 발생할 수밖에 없을 것이다. 김현은 이를 “수직적 이원론의 토착화 문제”로 규정하고 있다. 결국 이미 도래한 언어파의 시는, 한국의 제반 문화적 근저가 수직적 이원론의 토착화 방향으로 진행된다면 가장 설득력 있고 절실한 호소력을 얻으며 한국시의 한 이념형에 가닿게 될 것이요, 그렇지 못한다면, 구조로부터 발원하는 것이 아니라 형식만을 ‘선험적으로’ 차용한 것에 지나지 않게 되리라는 것이 이 대목에서의 김현의 진의로 읽힌다. 김현이 이런 맥락에서 궁구한 문학(문화)의 고고학은 얼마간 바로 이찢긴 위치의 좌표들로 구성되어갈 성질의 것이었다. 김현의 시 비평 초기에 엿보이는 흥미로운 양상 중 하나인 ‘이미지 계보학’은 바로 그런 좌표들을 그러모으는 예비작업의 일환으로 볼 수 있다. 1960년대부터 1970년대 초입에 이르는 동안 우리 시단은 양적으로 비약적으로 성장했을 뿐만 아니라 질적인 측면에서도 새로운 실험을 거듭하며 활로를 새롭게 모색하고 있었다. 바로 이 시점에 김현은 한국시를 전체적으로 조망하면서도 연역적 재단을 피하는 방법을 모색했다. 그런 의미에서 볼 때 본문에서 살펴본 김현의 여러논의들은 결국 귀납적으로 구체적 실천들에 주목하고 이를 통해 실천들로부터 추상되는 보편을 만들어가고자 하는 시도의 일환이라고 볼 수 있다. 그리고 이는 문학활동 초기의 자신의 태도에 대한 반성에 기초해 한국적 상황에서의 정신사적 맥락과 결락을 토대로 당대에 다방면으로 전개되기 시작한 한국시의 이념형들의 성과와 가능성을 설명하기 위한 것이었다. 그것은 결국 한국시의 이념형을 추상하기 위해 고고학적 태도와 귀납적 방법에 기초한 작업이 전제되어야 한다는 것의 의미를 반추하게 한다. 2020년대의 오늘을 위해서도 바로 그런 귀납적 감각에 기초한 한국시사의 사후 재구성 작업은 새삼 절실해 보인다.

Is working life instability of middle-aged men getting universalized in Korea? - Comparison of work trajectories between two cohorts -

Is working life instability of middle-aged men getting universalized in Korea? - Comparison of work trajectories between two cohorts -

Matthew’s Theology of Fulfilment, Its Universality and its Ethnicity: God’s New Israel as the Pioneer of God’s New Humanity. By Herman C.Waetien. Pp. xv, 373, London, Bloomsbury, 2017, £85.00.

Matthew’s Theology of Fulfilment, Its Universality and its Ethnicity: God’s New Israel as the Pioneer of God’s New Humanity. By Herman C.Waetien. Pp. xv, 373, London, Bloomsbury, 2017, £85.00.

LOVE’S BODY AND THE BODY OF LOVE: On Norman O. Brown’s Eschatological Hermaphrodite and the Darwinian Continuities of Nature

ABSTRACT US-American philosopher Norman O. Brown (1913–2002) was one of the very few twentieth-century intellectuals to situate hermaphroditism at the core of their work. Although Brown’s publications became cult books of the then emerging protest subcultures and were eventually regarded as milestones in the history of Freudian revisionism, the reception of his views on hermaphroditism has been insubstantial. The present contribution focuses at first on Brown’s attempt to supersede binary sexuality and its same-sex/other-sex combinatories by positing an ambit of hermaphroditic reconciliation that emerges from the depths of the unconscious, but is effectual only as an eschatological ideal. Against this backdrop, Brown’s consequential neglect of Charles Darwin’s universalization of corporeal hermaphroditism and of Magnus Hirschfeld’s conception of human sexual intermediariness are analyzed and assessed.

Connecting Structures: Resistance, Heroic Masculinity and Anti-Feminism as Bridging Narratives within Group Radicalization

This article pursues two objectives. First, it provides a literature review of research on group radicalization and, second, building on previous research about narratives and their influence on radicalization, it introduces a new concept for comparative radicalization studies: bridging narratives. We use this term to address commonalities in the ideological elements found across various radicalized groups. As narratives shape perceptions of the world and guide processes of identification, they assume an important (internal) function in group formation. At the same time, various radical groups (ethnic nationalists, Salafist-jihadists and militant leftists) share core ideological elements, commonalities that can lead to the creation of new coalitions and unexpected alliances (an external function). The common factor among them are constructed conceptions of the adversary – be they modernity, universalism, Jewish people or feminism. Such constructions allow for the fabrication of an enemy as well as specific conceptions of hierarchical social orders. We analyze two examples in this context: anti-feminism (including heroic or toxic masculinity) and the resistance dispositif that promotes vigilante terrorism. This approach allows us to investigate processes of group radicalization while also taking into account their ideological content as well as the formal effects of such content on processes of group-building and the dynamics of radicalization. In the final section, we provide recommendations for action.