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The article titled "Digital technology and socio-educational development in municipal contexts" analyzes the contribution and potential of digital technology in the socio-educational development of local communities. It highlights the importance of using digital technologies to facilitate social interaction and communication between local administration and citizens, identify needs, and promote social participation. Additionally, it mentions that these technologies are key to territorial and educational development, and presents examples of municipal initiatives that use digital technologies to address the socio-educational needs of citizens. The article also reflects on the challenges faced by education professionals when introducing information and communication technologies in municipal contexts. [Extracted from the article]

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This article discusses the role of feedback in supporting student learning and the potential negative impact of excessive teacher-led assessment and feedback practices on teacher well-being. The author conducted a quasi-experimental study in a biology classroom to investigate a new approach to feedback that emphasized learner agency and engagement. The study found that the intervention group, which received whole-class feedback, reported improvements in their perceptions of both individual and whole-class feedback compared to the comparator group. The findings suggest that a more efficient and engaging feedback approach can benefit both teachers and learners. [Extracted from the article]

As interest in competitive sports continues to grow, the demand for sports talent also increases. Talent development is not only a social and cultural process, but also one of mutual adaptation between talent and environment. The key elements of the macro environment of talent development are the social environment and the values and customs of the athletes' own culture, while the key elements of the micro environment of talent development are the athletes' interpersonal relationships and support elements provided through parents, coaches, and peers. To cultivate elite athletes, the influencing factors of the sports talent development environment must be analyzed. Thus, using relevant theories from the existing literature, the current study proposes a hypothesis of the influencing factors and structural equation model of sports talent development environment. A total sample of 352 athletes (M = 13.96 years, 63.35% male) was gathered from the national sports reserve talent base, college sports teams, and professional sportsmen. Data was collected using the Likert six-level scale of the sports talent development environment, which was then analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software. The results show that the athlete's training environment, support network, family characteristics, communication, and team conditions were all factors which had a positive and significant impact on the construction of sports talents' development environment. The findings of this study contribute to the theoretical foundation for the enhancement of the sports talent development environment in China, the cultivation of high-quality sports talent, and the promotion of healthy and stable sports development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "«SHALOM» IN ITS BIBLICAL ASPECTS" explores the biblical understanding of peace in different current contexts, such as war and violence in Ukraine and Israel, as well as the problems that affect the quality of life. The author analyzes the concept of shalom from a relational and existential perspective, and proposes implications for peace and its construction. The relationship between war and poverty is highlighted, and questions are raised about the meaning of peace and how the Bible can contribute to peace and reconciliation. The article also mentions methodological considerations for the study of peace in the Bible, and explores the understanding of peace in the Old and New Testaments. In the Old Testament, peace is related to justice and is understood as the restoration of social and personal order. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ is presented as the Prince of Peace and the peace he brings to the world is emphasized. It is mentioned that peace is both a gift and a task, and that human beings have the responsibility to create a just and peaceful community. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the type of fraud being encountered by multiple researchers while conducting qualitative studies wherein study participants give false information to get incentives.

The article discusses the leadership dynamics of megachurches in urban centers of the Philippines, examining the doctrinal beliefs, attitudes, and responses of leaders from two prominent megachurches, Christ Commission Fellowship (CCF) and Victory Christian Fellowship (VCF). Topics include the historical formation of CCF and VCF, their growth trajectories, and the methodology used to study their leadership dynamics, including survey instruments and data collection procedures.

Introduction: There is a growing role for patients, family members and caregivers as consultants, collaborators and partners in health system settings in Canada. However, compensation for this role is not systematized. When offered, it varies in both type (e.g., one‐time honorarium, salary) and amount. Further, broad‐based views of patient partners on compensation are still unknown. We aimed to describe the types and frequency of compensation patient partners have been offered and their attitudes towards compensation. Methods: This study uses data from the Canadian Patient Partner Study (CPPS) survey. The survey gathered the experiences and perspectives of those who self‐identified as patient partners working across the Canadian health system. Three questions were about compensation, asking what types of compensation participants had been offered, if they had ever refused compensation, and whether they felt adequately compensated. The latter two questions included open‐text comments in addition to menu‐based and scaled response options. Basic frequencies were performed for all questions and open‐text comments were analyzed through inductive qualitative content analysis. Results: A total of 603 individuals participated in the CPPS survey. Most respondents were never or rarely offered salary (81%), honorarium (64%), gift cards (80%) or material gifts (93%) while half were offered conference registration and expenses at least sometimes. A total of 129 (26%) of 499 respondents reported refusing compensation. Of 511 respondents, half felt adequately compensated always or often, and half only sometimes, rarely or never. Open‐text comments revealed positive, ambivalent and negative attitudes towards compensation. Attitudes were framed by perceptions about their role, sentiments of giving back to the health system, feelings of acknowledgement, practical considerations, values of fairness and equity and accountability relationships. Conclusions: Our findings confirm that compensation is not standardized in Canada. Half of survey respondents routinely feel inadequately compensated. Patient partners have diverse views of what constitutes adequate compensation inclusive of personal considerations such as a preference for volunteering, and broader concerns such as promoting equity in patient partnership. Organizations should attempt to ensure that compensation practices are clear, transparent and attentive to patient partners' unique contexts. Patient Contribution: Two patient partners are members of the CPPS research team and have been fully engaged in all study phases from project conception to knowledge translation. They are co‐authors of this manuscript. The survey was co‐designed and pilot tested with patient partners and survey participants were patient partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A conclusion to the book about the Northern narratives of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium is presented. It discusses the character of Fëanor and the Germanic 'original sin' of kingslaying. It also explores the theological use of 'Authority' by which Tolkien means his godhead, and its Boethian aspects of fate. It also examines Edain and their relations with the Noldor.

Chapter 9 of the book "Northern Narratives of J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium" by R. Z. Gallant is presented. It reveals significance of Galadriel's character in the legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien. It explores themes and spatial imagery in Galadriel's garden that invoked the struggles of the First Age.

Pan-entertainment live streaming combines video with two-way communication and real-time viewer participation, allowing viewers to send virtual gifts to their favorite streamers. Drawing on social exchange theory, this study investigates the factors that influence viewers' gift-giving intentions in live streaming from the perspectives of both viewers and streamers. It also explores the moderating role of streamers' deceptive self-presentation. The theoretical framework is tested using AMOS and PROCESS Macro based on survey responses collected from 331 TikTok users in China. The results suggest that streamers' attractiveness, expertise, parasocial interaction, and the viewers' deceptive self-presentation significantly affect viewers' gift-giving intention, and that streamers' deceptive self-representation moderates the relationship between attractiveness, expertise, parasocial inter-action and the viewer's consumer intention. These findings contribute to social exchange theory by highlighting the importance of streamers' deceptive self-presentation in moderating the effects of attractiveness, expertise, parasocial interaction, and the viewer's deceptive self-presentation on the viewer's gift-giving intention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much marketing research focuses on what individual consumers need or want for consumption and how they satisfy these needs or wants themselves. However, consumers often give up money, time, or preferences to help others address their consumption needs and wants across the customer journey. The authors introduce the unifying construct of “consumption sacrifice,” defined as the willing and intentional act of incurring a cost to the self—in money, time, or preferences—when making a consumption decision, with expected direct benefits to one's partner. The authors offer examples of consumption sacrifices along the customer journey and suggest that this construct offers a new lens through which to examine the existing literature on choices involving others. The authors put forward the view that sacrifices are often invisible to recipients—and thus underrecognized and underappreciated—failing to achieve their full potential. At the same time, different sacrifice motives (partner‐focused, relationship‐focused, self‐focused) may affect the extent to which actors care about making sacrifices visible to recipients. Finally, the authors propose future research questions, including what leads consumers to perform more visible sacrifices, what drives the invisibility of sacrifices among recipients, and what are the consequences of performing and receiving invisible sacrifices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many studies have examined the sexual exploitation of children few have explored the economic and criminal exploitation, mostly using qualitative research. In addition, not many studies have been done on children who are economically exploited by their own parents who force them to work as drug couriers. This study used a mixed methods concurrent embedded model to obtain more comprehensive data with 15 child victims of exploitation and 150 respondents as informants. Data collection, data analysis, and data validity were done using qualitative and quantitative methods. The results showed that drug couriers were a form of economic exploitation as well as criminal exploitation of children by families. The contributing factor is the child’s fear of parents who always commit violence, although children worked as drug couriers because of their own desire to help the family economy and personal needs. The social environment contributes to the exploitation of children because it is in the social environment of children that helps parents work, thus undermining parents’ care for their children. Various methods are used if the child does not want to work as a drug courier, such as physical violence, psychological violence and threats, and sometimes giving gifts and freedom of association. The actions of parents are economic exploitation and crime against children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that to understand the impact of former U.S. President Donald Trump on the U.S.-Mexico border, his presidential agenda needs to be compared with other presidential administrations from the 1990s to the present. It looks at presidential policy agendas, as seen in executive orders, legislative policies, binational initiatives, deployment of the National Guard and military, presidential visits, and use of the bully pulpit with visits to the border region. These are compared to border operations indicators, highlighting formal and informal crossings of people and movement of goods. Though Mr. Trump has been specifically negative and aggressive toward the border, the securitization of the region has been part of presidential agendas since the 1990s. A key takeaway is to think about and discuss these results to ensure the border is livable, manageable and ready for the challenges of the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the question of whether Derrida in his political theology can be considered an "unfaithful" reader of Schmitt. While Derrida does not quote Schmitt's Political Theology, some of his assertions are reminiscent of Schmitt's disciplinary use of political theology. Indeed, Schmitt's account of the relationship between exception, decision, and sovereignty was abundantly discussed in Derrida's last seminar, The Beast and the Sovereign. Derrida attempts in this seminar to deconstruct the sovereignty of the nation-state and its onto-theologico-political foundation. The question I raise in this article is whether, in previous years, Derrida himself had not implicitly made a different political theology that, considering the negative theological path, develops an alternative idea of power. The hypothesis explored is that this alternative paradigm is derived from one of the names of the impossible: the gift. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite patients' cultural background influencing their satisfaction with medical care the majority of studies draw on assumptions and models from the Western world. We move attention to the East Asian world by investigating the attributes of Chinese patients' satisfaction with their hospital in-patient care. Our research design is an exploratory qualitative study of 577 incidents of Chinese hospital in-patients' complaints and compliments. The data were drawn from a sample of reports of patients' satisfaction with their care in a district general hospital over a five-year period. Analysis focused on satisfactory and dissatisfactory events to derive attributes involved. We find patients in Chinese culture evaluate satisfaction with their care using eight attributes: professionalism, efficiency, chīn-chièh, respect, patience, responsibility, value and ethics. We explore how Chinese patients' values and beliefs toward medicine and care-giving construct distinct meanings around these attributes. By synthesizing our findings with those in the literature we propose generic attributes which can form the basis of measures of Chinese patient satisfaction and inform training in cultural competence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

INTRODUCTION The tobacco gift-giving culture in China poses a significant challenge to public health; however, there is limited research on effectively curbing the tobacco gift-giving culture and its associated tobacco gift consumption. This study examines the potential impact of two tobacco control measures that the Chinese government may consider adopting on cigarette gifting behavior in the future in Chinese society. METHODS This study employed a randomized survey experiment to examine the effects of cigarette price treatment and pictorial health warning labels (HWLs) on cigarette gifting. The total sample size of this study is 1035. Four groups of participants were presented with representative cigarettes categorized into high-, medium-, and low-priced products, along with different prices (normal and double) or external packaging imagery (normal and pictorial HWL versions). RESULTS The price of cigarettes for personal consumption forms an L-shaped distribution, and the price of cigarette gifts forms a W-shaped distribution. Increasing cigarette prices reduces smokers' willingness to gift high-priced cigarettes but stimulates the consumption of low-price cigarettes as gifts. Pictorial HWLs do not directly influence smokers' intentions to gift cigarettes, but they enhance the effectiveness of price regulation concerning medium-priced cigarette products. CONCLUSIONS If the price variance of cigarettes is not reduced, the effect of price regulation will be very limited. Implementing combined interventions of pictorial HWLs and price regulation or modifying the pricing structure of tobacco products may yield stronger control outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the disclosure of payments made to residents by drug and device makers, revealing that 12 present of residents received payments totaling 6.4 million U.S. dollar in 2020-2021, with meals being the most common type of gift. It study sheds light on physician-industry relationships during residency training, emphasizing the voluntary nature of reporting and suggesting that the actual number of payments may be higher.

Effortful control (EC), a self‐regulation skill, is associated with long‐term developmental outcomes. Music has been associated with infant self‐regulation and may be an intervention strategy for enhancing EC during toddlerhood. This investigation included 32 parent‐child dyads from a previously conducted randomized controlled trial (RCT). Participants (9‐15‐months old at baseline) attended either a music enrichment program or a playdate control once a week for 1 year and monthly for an additional year. At age 3, participants completed snack and gift delay effortful control tasks. Groups were compared using one‐way ANOVA. We found that participants in the music group had a significantly higher score during snack delay (music mean = 3.47 ± 0.94; control mean = 2.45 ± 1.51; p = 0.03; Cohen's d = 0.84). We did not find a significant group difference for latency to peek (music mean = 39.10 ± 20.10; control mean = 30.90 ± 19.88; p = 0.25; d = 0.57) or latency to touch (music mean = 105.73 ± 417.69; control mean = 98.35 ± 28.84; p = 0.38; d = 0.29) for the gift task. This study provides initial evidence that early participation in a music enrichment program may benefit later development of EC. This study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02936284). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Melissa Russell's 1835 travel journal provides insights into courtship and flirting in Alabama during that time period. The journal documents Melissa's journey and her interactions with men she met along the way, as well as her participation in leisure activities and receipt of gifts. While the journal offers valuable insights into social dynamics and cultural practices, it also reveals Melissa's racial prejudices. The text also includes information about Melissa's relationship and marriage to Perley Gerald, as well as her tragic death and Perley's remarriage. Another diary entry from an unknown author describes their experiences on a ship, including interactions with fellow passengers, playing games, and observing the sunset and moonrise. The author expresses their dislike for the behavior of Irish men in a neighboring room. The text also includes descriptions of the author's experiences in Mobile, Alabama, including declining a church invitation, going on a ride with Mr. Waldo, and witnessing southern hospitality. The author then travels on a steamboat along the river, encountering various landscapes and experiences, and reflecting on their journey upon arrival at their destination. [Extracted from the article]

The article provides a detailed account of the Norwegian Lawbook Ms. 4° 1 and its journey throughout history. The manuscript contains the Laws of the Land from 1274 and was originally owned by Bishop Ole Irgens. It eventually ended up in the University Library after being presented to the Commission of Antiquities. The article describes the manuscript's structure, writing process, and various additions and corrections made by different scribes. It also highlights the manuscript's value in studying medieval laws and scribal practices in Iceland and Norway. [Extracted from the article]

The article explores the ownership of Codex Hardenbergianus, an Old Norse manuscript, by Helvig Hardenberg, a Danish noblewoman. It suggests that Helvig may have obtained the manuscript herself, challenging the prevailing hypothesis that she received it as a gift from her husband. The article emphasizes the importance of recognizing women's actions and abilities, rather than assuming limitations based on gender. It also provides biographical information about Helvig and her involvement in scholarly activities, estate management, and legal processes. Overall, Helvig's life and accomplishments challenge traditional views of women's roles and highlight her power and influence as a landowner and estate manager. [Extracted from the article]

The essay "Anatomy of the Hispanic Baroque: history of an idea" by Gustavo Hernández Sánchez challenges the idea that the Baroque is opposed to the Renaissance. The author explores the pejorative origin of the term "Baroque" and argues that the Baroque spirit still persists today and is related to periods of decadence. The book covers historical, historiographical, philosophical, sociological, and art history topics to understand the context in which the concept of Baroque emerges. It also examines the relationship between the Baroque and modernity, as well as the influence of the Renaissance on the Baroque. The article analyzes the persistence of the dialectic between the Renaissance and the Baroque in education and art history studies, and addresses the influence of different approaches and methodologies in the study of the Baroque, including the national and regional approach, as well as the biographical approach. The gender perspective in Baroque art is also examined, and prominent artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi and Clara Peeters are mentioned. In addition, the contribution of prominent Spanish authors to the study of the Baroque is discussed, and reflections are made on the crisis of modernity and the neo-Baroque. The author invites us to think historically and problematize the present, and mentions the influence of the neo-Baroque in Latin American literature. The article concludes with a reflection on the current reality and the importance of understanding the Baroque. [Extracted from the article]

What types of attributions and appraisals predict gratitude to God (GTG)? After preregistering key hypotheses, we did an Internet survey of 1078 U.S. adults focused on a recent positive event. Even when controlling religiousness and God belief, GTG was strongly related to divine attributions for the event, which seemed more plausible when God was seen as powerful and loving and when divine attribution made the event seem more meaningful. In addition to these cognitive judgments, divine attributions and GTG were linked with desire: wanting to see God as a cause. Relationally, GTG was associated with seeing God's intentions as positive (trying to help, love, comfort, encourage, or protect), with actually feeling loved, cherished, valued, or appreciated by God in response, and with seeing the event as a divine gift – a perception more likely when people saw God as a gift-giver: giving gifts often to many people, including themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This conceptual paper presents a framework that integrates 11 forms of voluntary payments as seemingly disparate as bribes and bequests, and gifts and gratuities to show that "voluntary" payments vary in the shades of gray not only in terms of how much like bribes they are but also in terms of how voluntary they actually are. We provocatively suggest that these payment types might be susceptible to becoming entrenched through self‐reinforcing norms because the voluntary payments are not necessarily voluntary and to an extent akin to bribes. Specifically, it provides an overarching framework to showcase the similarities and differences between bribes, lobbying efforts, suggested fees, pay what you want, tips, bequests, legacies, charity, crowdsourcing, dowry, and gifts, identifying gaps in domains that are under‐researched. Starting with the question as to whether a service has been, is being, or will be performed for the voluntary payment, and whether payments are made to an individual or a cause, the framework highlights the following: (1) the differences in the purpose underlying these payments, (2) the different modes of payment used; (3) the economic and social norms governing the payments; and (4) external and internal emotions associated with these payment types. The integrative framework allows for an amalgam of disparate literatures ranging from morality and behavioral pricing to charity and gift giving. The process model suggests a multitude of areas for future research in the domain of consumers' voluntary payment decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nikephoros Phokas' defeat of the Islamic Emirate of Crete in 961 AD is one of the most renowned examples of Reconquista celebrated by ancient authors and dealt with by modern historians. Transcending its historical and contextual framework, both in the past as in the present, this case of Reconquista has often come to take on further symbolic meanings, as a paradigm of an ideological and political confrontation between the worlds of Christianity and Islam. The aim of this article is to reassess the significance of this episode, with specific regard to how it relates to the preceding period of the Emirate, questioning the extent to which it can be regarded as the prodigious event of liberation of the island celebrated by textual sources and modern folklore as an archetype of the 19th-century patriotic struggle against the Ottornan occupation of the island. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Researchers and scientists are increasingly encouraged by their institutions, by external organizations and by societal demands to foster the global dissemination of their knowledge production. Such dissemination is nowadays very frequently carried out online through different digital practices and texts. The current Web 2.0 and Science 2.0 context requires complex discursive practices to recontextualise and communicate specialised knowledge in a way that is accessed, understood and accepted by multiple audiences. The use of explanatory strategies has been highlighted by previous research as playing a key role in the recontextualisation of scientific findings. Such strategies can be realised verbally and non-verbally through diverse semiotic modes and affordances of the digital medium. A taxonomy of verbal explanatory strategies (elaboration, explicitation, exemplification, enumeration and comparison) and non-verbal (visual representations and spatial organisation) is presented stemming from the data-driven analysis of a sub-corpus of web-hosted practices, which is part of the SciDis Database compiled by the InterGEDI research group at Universidad de Zaragoza. In particular, the sub-corpus consists of 30 texts: 10 author-generated digital texts -- from the knowledge dissemination community The Conversation --, and writer-mediated digital texts -- 10 feature articles and 10 research digests -- on circular economy and sustainability. Results show that verbal explanatory strategies are more frequent than non-verbal ones and that within the latter exemplification and explicitation are most common across all three types of digital dissemination practices. Author-generated scientific digital texts present more non-verbal explanatory strategies than writer-mediated ones -- feature articles, and especially than research digests. The findings on the strategies resorted to and their realisation can be used to design tools for researchers, scientists and scriptwriters, mediators of disciplinary knowledge, who need to communicate such knowledge through digital platforms to diversified audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background. Physicians and the medical manufacturing industry (MMI) are closely associated and may have some form of financial or business arrangement. Research has highlighted that these interactions negatively impact physicians' prescribing behaviour. We tried to explore medical students' perspectives regarding these interactions. Methods. We did a questionnaire-based survey to capture the demographic information and included five yes-or-no questions with two possible answers that probed the participants' awareness. Statements (26 Likert-style questions) describing various physician--industry interactions were formulated based on previous research. Excel was used to gather the data, and SPSS v 25.0® for Windows was used to analyse it. Frequencies and percentages (qualitative variables) and means and standard deviations were used to present descriptive statistics (quantitative variables). The associations between the independent variables and awareness were examined using chi-square test. Results. About 40% of students knew doctors and MMI work together, but only 6% knew there were rules about accepting gifts from MMI. Eighty-four per cent of respondents felt free samples from MMI were an excellent way to learn about new products. The prevalence of awareness was higher in interns/housemen (51.6%) compared to medical students (35.9%). Most (43%) of the participants preferred an online database as a method of disclosure. Conclusions. Our findings indicated students' knowledge gaps regarding ethical considerations and recommended guidelines regarding the relational dynamics of medical practitioners and MMI. Students should be taught appropriate conduct and best practices and must strive to develop skepticism towards MMI marketing claims. This may be achieved by implementing various educational interventions in the medical curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Middle East region is facing several problems related to local issues, including the Blue Nile Dam crisis that threatens Egypt’s water security. The crisis arose when Ethiopia announced its intention to build a dam on the Blue Nile for economic purposes. Despite ongoing negotiations between Egypt and Ethiopia, the dispute has escalated in the past three years and the parties have failed to reach an agreement. The media has played an active role in highlighting the positions of the parties to the Blue Nile Dam crisis. This article focuses on monitoring and analyzing the media discourse about the Blue Nile Dam crisis in the Egyptian, Sudanese, and Ethiopian press and the interpretation of its trends in light of its connection with what the media discourse presents to countries in the surrounding political and media context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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