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Career Construction Networks Among Junior and Senior High School Students

Although career construction theory has been utilized to understand how to construct the career process, it remains unclear how the various factors involved in this process interact comprehensively. In this study, we introduced the career construction network to explore the career development of junior high school students ( N = 372) and senior high school students ( N = 516) and its influencing factors, and investigated the adaptive readiness, adaptability resources, adapting responses, adaptation results and environmental factors within the network. The results showed that hope and proactive personality occupied influential positions in the network of junior high school students; hope exhibited the highest values of strength and closeness in the senior high school student sample; parental career-related behaviors, as the environmental factors, were located in the peripheral clusters of the two networks. In conclusion, this study provides insights and targeted intervention suggestions for adolescent career training methods.

Spatial roost networks and resource selection of female wild turkeys.

Wildlife demography is influenced by behavioural decisions, with sleep being a crucial avian behaviour. Avian species use roost sites to minimize thermoregulation costs, predation risk and enhance foraging efficiency. Sleep locations are often reused, forming networks within the home range. Our study, focusing on female eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) during the reproductive season, used social network analysis to quantify both roost site selection and network structure. We identified roost networks which were composed of a small percentage of hub roost sites connecting satellite roosts. Hub roosts were characterized by greater values of betweenness (β = 0.62, s.e. = 0.02), closeness (β = 0.59, s.e. = 0.03) and eigenvalue centrality (β = 1.15, s.e. = 0.05), indicating their importance as connectors and proximity to the network's functional centre. The probability of a roost being a hub increased significantly with greater eigenvalue centrality. Female wild turkeys consistently chose roost sites at lower elevations and with greater topographical ruggedness. Hub roost probability was higher near secondary roads and further from water. Our research highlights well-organized roost site networks around hub roosts, emphasizing the importance of further investigations into how these networks influence conspecific interactions, reproduction and resource utilization in wild turkeys.

Network Analysis of Sexual Well-Being in Women with Heart Failure: The Psychocardiological Perspective.

Sexuality is an important sphere of every person's life. Sexual dysfunctions and sexual dissatisfaction may also be present in cardiac diseases. Individuals affected by heart failure (HF) deserve special attention since it can be the final stage of many cardiac diseases. Therefore, it is important to verify potential correlates of sexual well-being in individuals with HF. This study was conducted online between 2019 and 2023, and 262 Polish women aged between 18 and 59 years (M = 45.48; SD = 7.65) participated in it. The Short Sexual Well-Being Scale, Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale, Fatigue Assessment Scale, and authors' questionnaire were used. Relationships between tested variables were verified with the use of network analysis performed with the EBICglasso estimator. Centrality assessment showed that sexual well-being had the highest values of betweenness, closeness and degree, followed by fatigue and depression measures. Sexual well-being was negatively related to the number of declared sexual dysfunctions, fatigue, stress and depression levels. Participants' age and HF duration were not related to the sexual well-being of tested women. Multiple additional partial correlations were detected. The obtained results show that sexuality may be a central sphere of life in women with HF and that one's sexuality should not be negated when working with cardiac patients.

Optimal pre-maintenance timing decision for asphalt pavement based on TOPSIS and combination weighting method

With the continuous growth of highway quantity in China, the post-maintenance of highways has become a focus of highway management, attracting widespread attention in the industry. Selecting an appropriate maintenance timing is of significant importance for highway maintenance. Based on the TOPSIS theory and the deterioration law of asphalt pavement performance indicators, this study takes cost, effectiveness, energy consumption, and carbon emissions as research indicators. Combined with the entropy weighting method and the analytic hierarchy process, the study establishes a decision model for determining the optimal preventive maintenance timing for asphalt pavement. This model determines the best timing for preventive maintenance of asphalt pavement through the values of relative closeness. Finally, by analyzing a practical maintenance case of a highway in Jiangsu Province, it is found that when the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) equals 90, it is the optimal timing for preventive maintenance of asphalt pavement, which verifies the rationality of the decision model and provides a scientific reference for selecting maintenance timing.

Understanding and Analyzing Social Network Structure Among University Students

Mobile phone arguably is one of the most reached and used technology in human history. Technology has become ubiquitous in the life of human beings. Equipped with multiple sensors and devices, smartphones can record each and every action, psychological and environmental states of users, making it a goldmine of rich data about and insight into the dynamics of human communication, human behavior, relationships, and social interaction. As a source of data for empirical research, this device has gotten much attention from scholars in various disciplines like sociology, social psychology, urban studies, communication and media studies, public health, epidemiology, and computer science. This research tries to understand the structure of social networks of university students by investigating their communication patterns using self-reported mobile phone data. Here, we can find those students who are connected to most of the classmates and maintain a strong relationship and perform a task successfully using the values of eigenvector, closeness, and betweenness centrality, respectively.

Pemanfaatan Social Network Analysis (SNA) Untuk Menganalisis Kolaborasi Panitia Pengawas Pilkada Tahun 2020 di Kecamatan Gunungpati Kota Semarang

The implementation of the 2020 Pilkada in Gunungpati District as a whole has improved in terms of the quality of its implementation. This is the result of the cooperation of all competent parties at the sub-district and village levels. This study aims to analyze the collaboration of the Supervisory Committee for the Election of Governors and Deputy Governors in 2020, Gunungpati District and to understand in depth the flow of information using Social Network Analysis (SNA). The results showed that the overall density of the supervisory committee network was 0.53 or 53%, so the characteristics of the network of members of the Panwaslu Kec.Gunungpati network were in the high category. Panwaslu members with the initials DAP, RV, WPU and M are the most dominant members of the Panwaslu with values of Centrality, Closeness and Betweness Centrality in the network.

Evaluation of Education Resources Allocation in Beijing Based on Entropy-TOPSIS Method

An entropy-TOPSIS method has been developed in order to evaluate the resources allocation in training education of higher vocational college in Beijing. In the developed method, the entropy method has been introduced into the TOPSIS framework to determine the weight of indexes of education resources allocation. The results indicate that the instruments for practical teaching from companies and the proportion of full-time teacher with bipolar teaching are the highest and least important indexes, respectively. The results of evaluation indicate a decrease in the total allocation of higher vocational colleges in Beijing from 2017 to 2019. And the highest and lowest values of closeness are 0.4247 in the year of 2017 and 0.3809 in the year of 2019, respectively. Moreover, the disparity of training education resources allocation between different higher vocational colleges in Beijing can be achieved, which could be used as a reference for improving the resources allocation and increasing the investment in training education.

Monodispersed Silica Nanoparticles Incorporated Nanocomposites of Gelatin and Psyllium for Sequestration of Noxious Pollutants

In the present study, monodispersed silica nanoparticles (SNPs) were synthesized by sol–gel method. To enhance the properties like surface roughness, surface area, and percentage swelling, the SNPs were incorporated into the hydrogel Gelatin and Psyllium to synthesize a nanocomposite material. The percentage of swelling was optimized by varying different reactions parameters like temperature, pH, backbone ratio, monomer concentration, cross-linker concentration, initiator concentration and amount of solvent. On incorporation of SNPs, the great enhancement in various properties likes surface roughness, and percentage swelling (1656% from 1100%) was observed. As an adsorbent, the synthesized nanocomposite was investigated with a tremendous hike in the dye removal efficiency on the incorporation of SNPs into the hydrogel network. The synthesized nanocomposite was found to remove 2.385 mg g−1 of Brilliant green (BG) in 5 h whereas 1.56 mg g−1 removal of Xylenol orange (XO) within 4 h. The higher values of K2 and closeness of theoretical and experimental adsorption capacity values at all the concentrations in both the dyes confirmed the adsorption kinetics data fitted well with pseudo-second order rate model. The correlation values (0.966 for BG and 0.995 for XO) and favourable RL (0.345 for BG and 0.263 for XO) of the adsorption data suggested better fit for Langmuir adsorption for both the dyes. Further, the negative values of ΔGo and ΔHo confirmed the adsorption of BG and XO dyes on the adsorbent is a feasible reaction. The reusability affinity of the synthesized SNP based nanocomposite up to 4 cycles outshine as a superior adsorbent material for the removal of cationic and anionic dyes from waste water.

Assessing the impact of grenade explosion towards Phnom Penh’s road network reliability

Under normal circumstances, the motorist optimal route choice is based on the perception of shortest route between the successive destinations. However, during disaster, some links and nodes are not accessible and consequently motorists reroute their commutes based on limited road network performance information. Therefore, the entire road network reliability cannot be optimized. Therefore, an efficient traffic diversion plan is required to improve the road network reliability. We used the Technique for order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to rank all nodes in the study area based on their values of betweenness and closeness. The study aims to assess the impact of grenade explosion towards Phnom Penh’s roadnetwork reliability in Chamkar Mon district and a traffic diversion plan then wasdeveloped to keep the traffic movement unaffected. The results indicated that there are 4 nodes their TOPSIS rank index value (RIV) increased greater than 25%, while, on the other hand, there are 9 nodes with TOPSIS RIV value decreased greater than 25%. The results also showed that 6 nodes with TOPSIS RIV persists comparatively high before and after the incident. These information was used as the basis of the design of the traffic diversion plan.

EKSISTENSI LEMBAGA PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DALAM MERETAS POTENSI KONFLIK SOSIAL BUDAYA: ANALISIS LEMBAGA STAIN SORONG DI PAPUA BARAT

This article discusses the role of strategic education institutions in developing a harmonious, harmonious and peaceful life in a diverse society of religions, tribes and cultures. As educational institutions function to engage in social integration, it is deemed most potential to instill the attitudes and values of togetherness, unity, peace, respect and closeness among ethnic, racial, religious, and cultural diversity of learners and society. The results of this study show the efforts and strategies undertaken STAIN Sorong institutions in applying a multicultural-oriented education. Through the cultivation of the spirit of multiculturalism will be a medium of training and awareness for the younger generation to accept cultural, religious, racial, ethnic and difference needs among others and willing to live together peacefully, especially in Papua.

Eksistensi Lembaga Pendidikan Islam dalam Meretas Potensi Konflik Sosial Budaya

This article discusses the role of strategic education institutions in developing a harmonious, harmonious and peaceful life in a diverse society of religions, tribes and cultures. As educational institutions function to engage in social integration, it is deemed most potential to instill the attitudes and values of togetherness, unity, peace, respect and closeness among ethnic, racial, religious, and cultural diversity of learners and society. The results of this study show the efforts and strategies undertaken STAIN Sorong institutions in applying a multicultural-oriented education. Through the cultivation of the spirit of multiculturalism will be a medium of training and awareness for the younger generation to accept cultural, religious, racial, ethnic and difference needs among others and willing to live together peacefully, especially in Papua

ANALYSIS OF THE INTERACTIONS OF NEURONAL APOPTOSIS GENES IN THE ASSOCIATIVE GENE NETWORK OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects an estimated 7–10 million people worldwide and 210000 people in Russia. PD is accompanied by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons and because of that neuronal apoptosis is an important factor in this disease. Analysis of gene networks is one of the key approaches in systems biology. We previously developed the ANDSystem tool, designed to automatically extract knowledge from scientific publications and reconstruct on this basis associative gene networks describing the molecular genetic mechanisms of biological processes. The aim of this work was prioritization of neuronal apoptosis genes by their involvement in PD pathogenesis, taking into account the structure of the PD associative gene network using ANDSystem. Analysis of the centrality of neuronal apoptosis genes, associated with PD, revealed that mean values of degree, closeness and betweenness centralities statistically significantly exceed such values of all nodes of the PD network. The APOE, CASP3 and GAPDH genes involved in neuronal apoptosis were among the most central genes. Prioritization of neuronal apoptosis genes for which there was no data in ANDSystem on their associations with PD was performed using standard methods (Endeavor and ToppGene) and the criteria of centrality and specificity of genes interactions with the PD gene network. Analysis revealed that genes involved in such processes as positive and negative regulation of neu ronal apoptosis, MAPK and ephrin receptor signaling pathways, are mainly represented among candidate genes with the highest priority (top 50, 70, 100 genes were considered). In particular, TP53, JUN, BCL2, PIK3CA and APP were among candidate genes with the highest priority.

Social Network Analysis Reveals the Negative Effects of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptoms on Friend-Based Student Networks

IntroductionSocial network analysis has emerged as a promising tool in modern social psychology. This method can be used to examine friend-based social relationships in terms of network theory, with nodes representing individual students and ties representing relationships between students (e.g., friendships and kinships). Using social network analysis, we investigated whether greater severity of ADHD symptoms is correlated with weaker peer relationships among elementary school students.MethodsA total of 562 sixth-graders from two elementary schools (300 males) provided the names of their best friends (maximum 10 names). Their teachers rated each student’s ADHD symptoms using an ADHD rating scale.ResultsThe results showed that 10.2% of the students were at high risk for ADHD. Significant group differences were observed between the high-risk students and other students in two of the three network parameters (degree, centrality and closeness) used to assess friendship quality, with the high-risk group showing significantly lower values of degree and closeness compared to the other students. Moreover, negative correlations were found between the ADHD rating and two social network analysis parameters.ConclusionOur findings suggest that the severity of ADHD symptoms is strongly correlated with the quality of social and interpersonal relationships in students with ADHD symptoms.

Complex network approach to relations between universities in China

Totally 14 variables are used to describe the state of each university. Properties such as degree, betweenness, closeness, and community are employed to detect nontrivial characteristics in the cosine distance-based spanning tree and the university relation network. It is found that the relation network can be divided into 12 communities, namely, the considered universities can be separated into 12 groups. Each group is represented with the center node, namely, the intra-node with the largest degree, and the boundary node, namely, the node with the largest value of betweenness among all the nodes contact with other communities. A set of universities, including the representatives of the communities and the boundary nodes with smaller values of closeness, is proposed to be reference universities in globally evaluation of the high-education system.

An extended TOPSIS for determining weights of decision makers with interval numbers

In this paper, we develop a method for determining weights of decision makers under group decision environment, in which the each individual decision information is expressed by a matrix in interval numbers. We define the positive and negative ideal solutions of group decision, which are expressed by a matrix, respectively. The positive ideal solution is expressed by the average matrix of group decision and the negative ideal solution is maximum separation from positive ideal solution. The separation measures of each individual decision from the ideal solution and the relative closeness to the ideal solution are defined based on Euclidean distance. According to the relative closeness, we determine the weights of decision makers in accordance with the values of the relative closeness. Finally, we give an example for integrated assessment of air quality in Guangzhou during 16th Asian Olympic Games to illustrate in detail the calculation process of the developed approach.

Сезонная и межгодовая изменчивость Полыньи Уэддела по среднемесячным климатическим данным о сплоченности морских льдов

On the base of data on sea ice closeness seasonal and interannual Weddell Polynia variability is analyzed. Values of sea ice closeness (in percent) in 1°x1° grid for the period 1969-2008 from data set of British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) HadISST ICE and NCEP Data are used. For Southern Ocean sector between 60°S and Antarctica coast and 10°W-10°E for each year monthly average summary areas with ice various closeness are calculated. Here occurrence of Weddell Polynia is most probable. It is shown, that in average annual climatic ice field different closeness Weddell Polynia is shown in decrease of 35-45 % ice closeness in area between 60-65°S and 0-20°E. In climatic seasonal cycle Weddell Polynia is observed in November-December as closed space of ice with closeness decrease by 20-30%. This space separated from open Ocean by the crosspiece of solid-ice. In this area the maximum of annual harmonic amplitude in seasonal variability of sea ice closeness is marked. Climatic seasonal scheme of Weddell Polynia forming undergoes significant interannual variability, which is connected with large-scale variability in the ocean-atmosphere system due to Antarctic Circumpolar Wave.

Interpersonal relationships and group A streptococcus spread in a Mexican day-care center

To study the effect of different degrees of centrality on the carrying of identical group A streptococcus (GAS) clones in the nasopharynx of children from a Mexican public day-care center. Nasopharyngeal cultures were performed in children from rooms B (RB) (n = 35) and C (RC) (n = 37). The Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) patterns were compared among GAS isolates. A social networks questionnaire was filled out for each child and 10 classmates. Structure coefficients were compared among children with and without GAS. Four GAS clones were identified; clone I in five children from RC; clone II in two from RC and one from RB; clone III in one from RB and one from RC; and clone IV in one from RC. Social network structure: Density of RB and RC = 0.40 (+/- 0.87) and 0.35 (+/- 0.80), respectively. In RB, the homophily pattern of interaction was different in carriers (0.00), non-carriers (0.47) and both (0.47) p = 0.35. In RC, the homophily pattern was also different in carriers (0.46), non-carriers (0.68) and mixed (0.19), p = .001. In 4/5 with clone I, the values of degree, closeness and betweenness were above the group mean. In 3/3 with clone II, the values of degree and betweenness were also above the mean. In contrast, in those with clone III and IV, the values of degree, closeness and betweenness were below the group mean. The spread of specific GAS clones was associated with groups of children having a high proportion of ties and a high centrality level. This is evidence that spread of GAS strains among children attending day-care centers is not random but dependent on the degree of communication and physical contact between pairs.

Paternal and maternal symbolism in the parental images of psychosomatic and neurotic patients

This explorative study tends to elicit to what degree parental images of three subject groups: neurotic patients ( n = 158), psychosomatic patients ( n = 117) and healthy subjects ( n = 107)—can be viewed as a function of paternal and maternal symbolism. The Semantic Differential Parental (S.D.P.) an unipolar seven-step scale item list was employed. In this, 36 qualities reflect the main aspects of the paternal and maternal symbolic dimensions. Concepts offered for assessment were, among others, the father and mother images, both with a realistic and “ideal parent” appraisal. Our results suggest that psychosomatic patients do not differentiate between a separate paternal and maternal gestalt. In addition, their mother image on a real level appears more close to both the ideal father and ideal mother images. On the contrary, with neurotic patients the distinction between the paternal and the maternal symbolism and between real and ideal images determine to a large extent the experiencing of the concrete parental figures. Both the neurotic and the psychosomatic patients fail to conceptualize a maternal ideal image that is clearly distinct from the paternal ideal image. This seems based on too strong an emphasis with these subjects on the more general maternal aspects of caring and devotion in both ideal omages. Both patient groups seem to stress the active and self-giving values in the objects at the expense of the values of receptivity, empathy and closeness.