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Summary: Motivation: Many mainstream welfare theories developed by social scientists and applied by economists and policy‐makers underestimate families' roles in providing welfare to citizens. This is surprising given that the family constitutes one of the main welfare pillars across typologies of the welfare state. Purpose: This article seeks to explore the role of the family as a welfare pillar with an ageing perspective. We aimed to test whether the family serves as a space for negotiations to improve wellbeing and achieve security in the absence of effective formal mechanisms Methods and approach: Applying the framework of "informal security regimes," this article draws on 37 life‐history interviews collected from older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh. Recurring themes are identified and analysed to explore the relationship between family and wellbeing/security. Findings We find that family relationships are often central in the pursuit of security. This shows how welfare delivery in low and middle‐income countries (LMICs), in this case Bangladesh, is deeply rooted in reciprocal family systems where all members actively fulfil moral and material expectations. Pursuing this collective goal can take different forms relative to each member's physical and mental capacity, position, gender, and age. Building on the empirical evidence, we propose the concept of "relational security" as a crucial marker and shaper of wellbeing. Policy implications: To be effective, welfare policies need to better consider how the conception and experiences of wellbeing and security, especially for the older persons living in extreme poverty, are deeply embedded within the complex functioning of the relationships that can shape welfare outcomes in different directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of involving citizens in the early stages of public sector innovation and bottom‐up governance arrangements for collaboration has been proposed in a number of theoretical papers. However, to date, few empirical studies are evident in the literature. To deepen our understanding of collaborative public sector innovation, our exploratory article analyses: (i) the actors of collaboration, (ii) collaboration across the innovation stages, (iii) the perceived aspects of collaboration for innovative outcomes, and (iv) the governance of collaboration. Our analysis covers 99 innovations from Italy, Japan, and Turkey. We reveal that collaboration still largely occurs within the bureaucracy of public sector organizations. Attempts to include civic and private sectors are evident, depending on the country context. Further, we uncover that a mutual understanding and shared goals are crucial for success, which is accomplished through top‐down governance as opposed to self‐governed bottom‐up networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to determine teachers' perspectives about classroom climate by investigating teachers' descriptions of a positive classroom climate, their practices towards a positive classroom climate, the challenges they encounter in creating a positive classroom climate, and their suggestions for a positive classroom climate. The research adopted the basic qualitative research design. The study group consisted of 45 teachers, and the data was collected via a questionnaire form composed of four open-ended questions. Based on the content analysis, subcategories and categories were identified for each sub-problem, and frequencies were reported. Findings showed that teachers regarded classroom climate as a multidimensional construct and their descriptions of a positive classroom climate included a wide range of interrelated in-class and out-class variables. It was also determined that teachers substantially focused on instructional practices to enhance the classroom climate. The most frequently encountered challenge was related to students' disinterest, followed by uninvolved parenting. For a better classroom climate, teachers suggested improvements regarding all stakeholders, instructional practices, social, emotional, and physical environment, and rules. Findings are discussed based on previous research, and suggestions are offered for further studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leaders' perceptions of the effectiveness of their organization's collaborations are critical as they determine current and future collaboration. This article examines perceived collaboration effectiveness—the extent to which targeted goals are achieved—based on an organization's role in that collaboration's governance arrangements (initiation, funding, coordination, and decision-making). Findings suggest that governance arrangements have modest association with perceived effectiveness of collaborations between nonprofits and local governments in Lebanon. Perceived effectiveness increases when an organization is directly engaged in coordinating the collaboration's work, activities, resources, and partners, but decreases when an organization has the responsibility for decision-making. Perceived effectiveness also appears to be related to trust, relationship effectiveness, service category, and the organization's sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Software design patterns have a considerable impact on the software development life cycle. Design pattern (DP) is a reliable and reusable solution provided by software experts to obtain quality software design. However, due to the large number of design patterns, selecting the appropriate one is quite difficult. To overcome this difficulty, several approaches with different methods have been presented to suggest the appropriate DP. Despite conducting a number of studies that have explored some aspects of this field, such as design pattern selection tools and techniques, there is a need for a deeper understanding, analysis, classification, and thorough review of the design pattern selection process. So far, no systematic review of design pattern selection approaches is available. This paper aims to classify existing approaches, provide several criteria for comparing approaches, analyze each one, and identify and analyze the most important elements in this field, including open issues, data sets, and so on. The present investigation paper will help future research to employ the existing approaches taking into account the specification of each one and it also raises awareness about the approaches used in previous research and their potential limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Visual performance management (VPM) is a bundle of practices where visual techniques are used to offer timely information to shop-floor employees about the performance of processes. We investigate whether VPM contributes to the beneficial effects of Lean, and if so, what the relationship is between VPM and other Lean practices. Thus, the study builds on and adds to the stream of research that tries to establish how the various practices associated with Lean depend on and reinforce each other. Based on the outcomes of a survey, we establish that VPM is positively related with operations improvement. This effect is not direct, but mediated by Lean practices such as just-in-time and quality management. We conclude, therefore, that VPM should be seen as an infrastructural practice that reinforces an organisation's general fitness, and acting as an enabler for more dedicated Lean practices. In addition, we find that VPM positively moderates the effects of Lean practices, which supports the same conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates young university graduates who actively engage with critical reconversion processes in their relationship to work, by abandoning a relevant field of study and embarking on self-made projects in other areas. They are motivated by meaningfulness, freedom and creativity, albeit having to remain in underemployment or even unemployment. The flexibility of young workers and the individual capacity to reconvert have been at the core of policy discourse for the knowledge economy. There is, however, little evidence of youth experience of mismatch and reconversion trajectories, especially for highly skilled youth. Based on biographical narratives of graduates in Cyprus, this article investigates transformations in young people's relation to work in a context of economic crisis and precarity. The findings suggest that new fluid relationships with work are being negotiated by young people, moving across the boundaries of matched and mismatched employment, work and non-work. These are founded on the development of new subjectivities that put into question the social construction of work and its relation to value for youth in post-Fordist societies. For these young people from upper-middle classes, a compromise seems to be forged between an agentive stance of search for emancipation and embodied neoliberal imperatives of the knowledge society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the face of multiple global challenges, major policy-making initiatives are under way at various international fora. In many of these talks and discussions, a central question is how to fairly and effectively engage external stakeholders. While lagging behind for decades, the World Trade Organization has woken up to the potential of more actively engaging stakeholders in international trade policy-making, both to make better policies and mitigate implementation challenges. This contribution describes the groundbreaking steps taken in a number of Member-led informal discussions and dialogues: the Trade and Environmental Sustainability Structured Discussions and the Informal Dialogue on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade. The objective of this contribution is to describe and applaud recent developments and initiate a discussion on how the process can be made more inclusive and robust and, potentially, also be extended to formal World Trade Organization activities. In this context, the World Health Organization's ongoing negotiations on a new pandemic treaty are used to offer an interesting point of comparison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite marketers increasing interest in influencer marketing, selecting the right influencer(s) for such campaigns remain a challenge. The success of any marketing strategy can simply be attributed to its ability to achieve desired objectives. Hence, to advise brands, the present study examines the role of influencer credibility and influencer-brand congruence in impacting the brand's two main goals of conducting influencer marketing campaigns on Instagram, i.e., brand attitude and electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) intention. This research intends to recommend which factors brands should consider while selecting influencer(s) for their marketing campaigns on Instagram. A survey using a self-administered questionnaire was performed on 383 Instagram users. Data analysis was conducted using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique. The findings indicate that expertise, similarity, and congruence have a positive relationship with brand attitude. While expertise, trustworthiness, and similarity have a positive relationship with users' intention to engage in eWOM. The current study also offers theoretical and managerial implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Women's quality of life is essential both for women's and their family's health. The aim of this study was to examine the quality of life status and interaction of subjective socioeconomic status and violence, on quality of life of married women in west of Iran. Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional study that recruited 1533 married women using multi-stages sampling method. Multiple linear regression was employed for estimating adjusted association and 95% confidence intervals. Results: The mean (SD) age of the participants was 33.67(11). The majority of participants (92%) experienced some degree of domestic violence. Less than half of women (46.70%) perceived medium socioeconomic status. Mean (SD) score of quality of life was 3.57 (0.94). There was a significant statistical interaction between socioeconomic status and domestic violence on quality of life. Conclusion: These findings suggest that considering the interaction of subjective socioeconomic status with domestic violence in prevention program, especially in poor categories of family, appears to be one of the important ways in improving married-females' quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The second language acquisition (SLA) field has recently seen heightened interest in the study and application of positive psychology (PP). Emotion regulation is one of the concepts that has been stressed in PP. Several studies in PP have delved into how controlling one's emotions improves second language learning/teaching. One of the concepts that has slipped the minds of researchers in the field is altruistic teaching. Unlike egocentric acts, altruistic teaching acts are performed to improve others' well-being. Despite their importance in causing positive emotional effects, no study has investigated the impact of altruistic teaching acts on learners' emotion regulation. To bridge this gap, the present study sought to investigate the effect of learners' altruistic teaching on their emotion regulation. The study followed a sequential explanatory comparison group pre-test–post-test design. One hundred forty-one English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners were recruited for this intervention study and were divided into experimental and control groups. Learners in the experimental group performed altruistic teaching by teaching their peers how to write essays in English, whereas learners in the control group did group work tasks on English essay writing. The results of independent-sample t-tests and repeated-measures ANOVA showed that altruistic teaching significantly impacts EFL learners' emotion regulation. The results of qualitative data pointed to five themes, including enjoyment, self-esteem, bonding, devotion, and progress. Overall, the results suggested that altruistic teaching impacts learners' emotion regulation by enhancing their enjoyment, self-esteem, bonding, devotion, and progress. The paper has theoretical and pedagogical implications for SLA research and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper proposes an integrated method for modelling and designing Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) based on Sodium Metal Halide Batteries (SMHBs). The implementation of the proposed methodology for designing an SMHB-ESS used for supporting telecommunication DC microgrids is presented. The motivation concerning this specific case study is the role assumed by battery technology in improving the reliability and robustness of telecommunication DC microgrids. In this context, the SMHBs, due to their operative temperature, dynamic power response and robustness against cell breakdown, represent one of the most suitable technologies, mainly when challenging environmental conditions occur. The motivation for implementing an integrated design approach is the non-linear behaviour of SMHBs, which requires a high accuracy in battery modelling and in managing DC-DC interfacing for full SMHB capacity exploitation. To highlight the advantages of this novel approach, a comparison between the SMHB- ESS designs considering, as the DC-DC converter, a buck–boost topology actually implemented in the commercial systems and a Dual-Active-Bridge (DAB) converter, specifically developed for this kind of battery, was investigated. Considering different operating conditions in a specific DC telecommunication microgrid, the designed configurations of SMHB ESSs were simulated. Finally, a comparison of simulation results is presented and discussed, highlighting that DABs, despite their greater complexity compared to buck–boost converters, present advantages in terms of flexibility, dynamic performances and efficiency, increasing the available SMHB capacity by 10%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the phase‐field method has gained tremendous potential to serve as a continuum modeling approach of micro structural evolution mechanisms for multiple applications such as alloy solidification, phase transitions, and fracture. By replacing sharp interfaces between phases with a diffusive formulation, additional degrees of freedom, namely order parameters, enter the continuum model to locally describe the current phase composition at each material point. Single phase properties thus need to be interpolated carefully within diffuse interface regions by applying mixture rules subject to specific constraints in an underlying homogenization framework, c.f. [1,2]. However, there exists a variety of well established nonlinear interpolation schemes that can only partially, or not at all, comply with conventional homogenization approaches. To this end, an extension towards unequally and nonlinearly weighted averaging operators is presented, in which conventional unweighted homogenization represents a special case. The embedding of nonlinearly interpolated Reuss‐Sachs, Taylor‐Voigt and rank‐one homogenization models within the given framework is demonstrated by means of energy relaxation. Furthermore, upper and lower energetic bounds are compared between unweighted and nonlinearly weighted averages of order distributions, where the weighted case is shown to yield an improved effective energy description. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public research funding is a critical instrument in technology and social innovation. This paper explores the emerging themes and topical trends that commonly influence interdisciplinary research within a sample of global research projects, including reviewing a recent study of 1,000 projects used in the selection of expert interview participants (n  = 15). It examines the extent to which research funding agencies and academic institutions are shifting research priorities in the energy and climate change domain. It asks: What challenges does interdisciplinary research raise? The study reveals how cross-disciplinary research funding focuses on or fails to address the themes of sustainable development goals. In addition, it emphasises policy seduction and difficulty (resistance) in understanding cross-disciplinary methods in research and how research collaborations promote (or fail to promote) global South institutions and topics. Finally, the paper recommends that research funding needs involve a broader array of stakeholders in industrial decarbonisation research, including policymakers, industries, and citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: A proper understanding of the protective factors against suicide attempt can provide the basis for planning preventive interventions. This study aimed to identify protective factors against suicide attempt among women. Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in Kermanshah, Iran between January and May 2021. Participants were 20 Kurdish women, survivors of suicide attempt, selected by purposive sampling method. The data collection method was face-to face and audio-recorded semi-structured interview. Qualitative data analysis was done according to Diekelmann 7-step approach. Findings: According to the results, the main topic was protective factors against suicide attempt in women, with two categories; "Individual factors" and "Social factors". "Individual factors" had five subcategories including coping strategies, reasons for living, resilience, religious beliefs, and fear of death, and "social factors" had two subcategories including social support and effective communication. Conclusion: This study showed that women who intend to commit suicide may encounter some individual and social factors that play a protective role against suicide. It is recommended to identify and strengthen these protective factors for the effectiveness of suicide prevention interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this work is to study the mechanical behavior of microstructured materials, in particular porous media. We consider a detailed description of the material through a discrete model, considered as the benchmark of the problem. Two continuous models, one micropolar and one classic, obtained through a homogenization procedure of the material, are studied both in static and dynamic conditions. Furthermore, the internal characteristics of the material, such as the internal scale of the microstructure and the percentage of the voids, are made to vary in order to investigate the mechanical response and to have an exhaustive comparison among the models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public diplomacy represents an important activity that serves national interests and comes as a function of the development of the country and its people. The importance of public diplomacy is increasing, especially when considering the current global context - technological, digital, economic developments, interconnections, and interactions at multilateral levels. In Albania, little is known about public diplomacy, its role, and functions, how it is constructed and how it is represented through various initiatives. The study on Public Diplomacy as a Political Communication Tool in Albania aims to provide a general overview of public diplomacy in Albania, initiatives and activities taken in support of public diplomacy, and the role of public diplomacy in the development of the country and the benefits associated with it. For the realization of this study, a mixture of research methods was used, including desk review of exiting literature and key strategic documents, and interviews conducted with the public to assess public perception and knowledge on public diplomacy. The results show efforts made in years to engage in public diplomacy with countries all over the world, as a strategic intervention to promote the country's development. It furthers shows the low levels of recognition and knowledge of the wider public about public diplomacy in country. The study highlights that public diplomacy in Albania is in the steps of its development and yet to consolidate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examines the problems of anti-corruption activity of public organizations in EU countries as well. The prerequisites for the formation and main components of the anti-corruption policy are analyzed. As a methodological basis for the analysis of the participation of civil society in anti-corruption activity, the concepts of collective action as an analytical construct that explains the functioning of civil society, as well as the model of universalism-particularism, which are relevant for the analysis of corruption and anti-corruption policy, are proposed in EU countries. The interaction of government, business and civil society structures is analyzed. The concept of "collective action" is related to the psychological concept of "collective action". Analyzed practices and main problems of participation in the fight against corruption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is intended to examine the dialogue between central aspects of the works of Emílio Moura: the poetics of the myth, the topic of the trip and the poetry associated to the world of childhood. In synthesis, these three themes so constant in the Works of the poet reveal his desire to know the unknowable. In his first perspective, the poetry and the myth establish effective relations with the figure of the muse. In the second aspect, the theme of the trip reveals the poetic project of the poet from Minas Gerais in his search for something unattainable. At last, the relationship established by the poet between poetry and childhood can be seen as a kind of epiphany, in which the poet's childish memory shows what there is of most intimate and deep and never forgotten in his living. These souvenirs belong as much as to the Mythic and magic universe as to the poetic elaboration of his verses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a step-by-step procedure over time, a numerical-analytical model of the nonisothermal viscoelastic–plastic behavior of crisscrossed-reinforced material is constructed. The components of the composition are isotropic; their viscoelastic deformation is described by the Maxwell–Boltzmann model of the body, and instantaneous inelastic behavior is described by the relations of the theory of elastoplastic deformation with isotropic hardening. The loading function and material constants depend on temperature. The conditions of the viscoelastic deformation, the beginning of unloading, neutral and active viscoelastic–plastic loading of the thermosensitive materials of the composition are formulated. Relationship between the mechanical and thermophysical characteristics of the composite material is taken into account. The structural relationships of the thermophysical component of the problem are presented. The developed mathematical model is focused on the use of explicit schemes for the numerical integration of viscoelastic–plastic and thermophysical problems. The initial-boundary problem of nonisothermal viscoelastic–plastic bending deformation of fibrous plates is formulated. The poor resistance of such thin-walled constructions to transverse shear is described in the framework of Ambartsumian's theory. Geometric nonlinearity of the problem is taken into account in the Kármán approximation. In the transverse direction, the temperature is approximated by a second-order polynomial. The method of additional boundary conditions is used to reduce the three-dimensional heat conduction problem to two-dimensional expressions. Dynamic bending of a flat-crisscrossed-reinforced fiberglass plate under the influence of an air blast wave is investigated. It is shown that in the absence of external thermal heating by oscillations, this structure heats by only 2–3°С. In such cases, the calculation can reasonably be carried out without taking into account the temperature effect. In the presence of intense thermal loading of the structure, the heat sensitivity of the materials of the composition must be taken into account. It has been demonstrated that in the presence of a temperature field nonuniformity over the thickness of the plate, the shape and magnitude of the residual deflection significantly depend on which face surface an external dynamic load is applied to. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Current link prediction strategies are about finding new probable strong relations to establish or weak ones to remove. An interesting strategy is utilizing link prediction to prioritize the edges in the network and finding newly probable established relations. In this paper we will introduce and explain RLP, reverse link prediction, as a new paradigm, and use popular basic scoring methods including CN, JC, AA, RA, and PA, as its core to examine. The test cases are nine datasets. Half of them are contact networks in different levels from personal contact to aviation, and another half is for covering different test situations. After reviewing the edge removal based epidemic mitigation methods, we show that RLP can be used to decrease the epidemics spreading speed as a general method with various link prediction algorithms, and here in this paper, preferential attachment (PA) has the best results overall. But the results heavily depend on the nature of the examined networks: regular, scale-free or small-world. We also propose an easy to understand criteria, path count, for comparing the efficacy of epidemics mitigation methods. RLP can be extended to use other link prediction scoring methods in various types of graphs as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay articulates a framework for understanding radical alterity in the aftermath of the abandonment of strong claims about ontological pluralism in recent works by key figures in anthropology's Ontological Turn. Arguing that both ontological anthropologists and their critics have overemphasized the ideational at the expense of material practice, it builds on the insights of STS-influenced work on ontology to develop a materialist case for the continued relevance of radical alterity to the anthropological endeavor. In so doing it advocates replacing a crypto-Protestant emphasis on "strange beliefs" with an attention to the materio-cultural precipitates of successful practical action in the world. In service of this goal, it elaborates a notion of "ontic capaciousness" that attends centrally to practice in a single, yet multiple, world in which multiple modes of successful practical engagement with the unknowable really Real result in the working up of disparate relatively durable and incommensurable actionable reals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although there have been attempts to theorise state-Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) relations in the Counter-Terrorism (CT) context, including the "co-option and containment" and "duality of coercion" perspectives, these two-way articulations have failed to account for the range of strategic options open to the state in regulating CSOs. This study presents the framework of Strategic Exclusion, Co-option and Containment (SECC) to underscore the general patterns of state engagement of CSOs in the context of CT. It mapped secondary evidence in 19 countries and used three illustrative case studies (Australia, Uganda and Russia) to examine the elements of SECC, namely, states' exclusion of CSOs in law and policymaking on CT, the use of strategic ambiguity in enacting and interpreting CT laws, delegitimizing or criminalising advocacy and influencing the transformation of CSOs into state adjutants. This pattern of engagement with CSOs is transforming voluntary and associational life in precarious ways. The article advances the Copenhagen School and rational-actor model of global strategic decision-making, and contributes to discourses on the closing of civic spaces, democratic recession and the resurgence of authoritarianism. It lays a foundation for generalisable theory and future empirical research on state behaviour towards CSOs in the context of violence, conflict, and security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates how science parks (SPs) act as innovation intermediaries to facilitate university-industry research and development (U-I R&D) collaboration and how the SPs' roles influence the collaboration effectiveness. Data was collected from documents and interviews with 52 participants in 19 collaboration projects across four SPs in northern Thailand. This data is unique because it includes the perspectives of the SPs' project managers as well as those of the university researchers, firm owners and managers in a developing economy context. Our findings show that the SPs performed consulting, brokering, mediating, and providing resource roles and thereby enhanced the attributes of researchers, firms, relationships between partners and collaboration projects, to ultimately improve the success of the collaborations. The SPs in Thailand are not only property-based organisations that provide space and facilities for firms to locate in. It is the SPs' active involvement in the U-I R&D collaboration that contributes to its effectiveness. SPs in a developing economy thus evolve their roles to offer greater support to firms in low-tech industries. We also offer evidence of trade-off effects and show how the SPs' roles and attributes of firms, researchers and relationships can substitute for one another to create effective U-I R&D collaborations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(1) Background: Organisational culture provides a framework and guidelines that influence behaviour and control employees' performance and activities. (2) Methods: This study uses Hofstede's five dimensions of organisational culture to understand better the organisational culture of three of the National Water Company's (NWC) branches in Saudi Arabia. A random sample of 500 employees, consisting of 50 managers, 100 supervisors, and 350 officers, were surveyed, and 334 reliable responses were received. SPSS was employed to analyse the responses, and the empirical findings suggest that NWC's corporate culture is in line with the findings of Hofstede. (3) Results: There was a sharp contrast between the male and female responses, with men ranking power distance, uncertainty avoidance, collectivism, masculinity, and short-term orientation, high, and the women ranking them low. Unfortunately, innovation and productivity suffer within this autocratic culture, resulting in the NWC not meeting Saudi Arabia's new national mandates outlined in Vision 2030. (4) Conclusion: The study recommends how HRM can help NWC change its organisational culture to increase innovation and productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The mechanical response of materials such as fiber and particle composites, rocks, concrete, and granular materials, can be profoundly influenced by the existence of voids. The aim of the present work is to study the dynamic behavior of hexagonal microstructured composites with voids by using a discrete model and homogenizing materials, such as micropolar and classical Cauchy continua. Three kinds of hexagonal microstructures, named regular, hourglass, and skew, are considered with different length scales. The analysis of free vibration of a panel described as a discrete system, as a classical and as a micropolar continuum, and the comparison of results in terms of natural frequencies and modes show the advantage of the micropolar continuum in describing dynamic characteristics of orthotropic composites (i.e., regular and hourglass microstructures) with respect to the Cauchy continuum, which gives a higher error in frequency evaluations for all three hexagonal microstructured materials. Moreover, the micropolar model also satisfactorily predicts the behavior of skewed microstructured composites. Another advantage shown here by the micropolar continuum is that, like the discrete model, this continuum is able to present the scale effect of microstructures, while maintaining all the advantages of the field description. The effect of void size is also investigated and the results show that the first six frequencies of the current problem decrease by increasing in void size. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science diplomacy—the use of science to advance diplomatic goals—is critical for addressing challenges to the global commons such as climate change and pandemics. Beyond the formal processes of science diplomacy, scientists and scientific organizations can play important informal diplomatic roles. Science diplomacy is critical for addressing global challenges such as climate change and pandemics. In this Perspective, Peter Gluckman argues that scientists and scientific organizations have important informal diplomatic roles to play beyond the formal processes of science diplomacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is well known that classical linear elasticity equations are not form-invariant under local transformations. This is intrinsically related to the inhomogeneity of elastic media. However, the reported new linear elasticity equations for inhomogeneous media may appear in different forms. This paper tries to clarify this issue by investigating the form-invariance of the Lagrangian under local temporal or spatial gauge transformations. In this way, these new equations in different forms can be easily understood as the results from different choices of gauge fixing schemes. It recommends to choose appropriate gauges with clear physical meanings to simplify calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigate from a philosophical point of view the concept of relation that is used to explain the physical phenomenon of Entanglement. If the concept of relation is understood in the ordinary sense of the mono‐dyadic construct, which requires a middle term between the two extremes, it is aporetic and, thus, incapable of explaining the phenomenon. To the contrary, we propose to think the relation as the act of self‐referring of related terms, which is unique and identical for both terms. In the unity of this act, the duality of terms disappears, so that the authentic unity is obtained. Moving from this concept of unity, the phenomenon of Entanglement becomes intelligible, since the two particles emerge as the two abstract sections of a unique reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific and commercial endeavors could benefit from cross-organizational, decentralized collaboration, which becomes the key to innovation. This work addresses one of its challenges, namely efficient access control to assets for distributed data processing among autonomous data centers. We propose a group membership management framework dedicated for realizing access control in decentralized environments. Its novelty lies in a synergy of two concepts: a decentralized knowledge base and an incremental indexing scheme, both assuming a P2P architecture, where each peer retains autonomy and has full control over the choice of peers it cooperates with. The extent of exchanged information is reduced to the minimum required for user collaboration and assumes limited trust between peers. The indexing scheme is optimized for read-intensive scenarios by offering fast queries -- look-ups in precomputed indices. The index precomputation increases the complexity of update operations, but their performance is arguably sufficient for large organizations, as shown by conducted tests. We believe that our framework is a major contribution towards decentralized, cross-organizational collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

India is the second largest higher education network in the world, where the business environment is highly complex and competitive. So, what we need is an element of distinctiveness in our institutions of higher learning. A modification is required in the way these institutions are being run and supervised. A workable solution for managing and supervising them effectively lies in the improvement of managerial effectiveness in institutional heads, in terms of their actions and competencies. For the measurement of managerial effectiveness, various instruments are available but none of them were developed and standardized with the perspective of Indian higher educational context. This study reports the development and validation of a scale for measuring managerial effectiveness of heads in Indian institutions of higher learning. The validity check of the scale using factor analysis indicates that people management, task management, strategic management and relationship management are the main antecedents of managerial effectiveness applicable in the Indian context. The result is presented as a model with four factors and 31 items. Finally, the implications for HR professionals are outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The UK Government has recently announced a new Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 to facilitate tackling the threat of violent extremism. In light of this and previous initiatives, this paper provides a critical assessment of UK counterterrorism policy. This policy has created a notion of 'suspect communities' such that it has alienated young Muslims at the community engagement level, conceivably and empirically, potentially further exacerbating concerns government and communities have over questions of radicalisation, extremism, and the associated political and criminal violence. This paper argues that such policies can lead to the institutionalisation of Islamophobia, acting as an echo chamber for far right extremism to flourish. Significant gaps in government policy in this area can only be addressed by fostering effective relations between communities and policy makers, with enablers such as police officers, youth workers, activists and faith leaders empowered to formulate nuanced approaches in various local area settings. Given the social, cultural and political situation regarding British Muslim youth, including those presently thought to be fighting in parts of Iraq and Syria, as well as ongoing threats on UK soil presented as imminent and dangerous by UK government, there remain acute challenges with limited opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the military-media relationship and how effective relations between the military and the media are a weapon in a media-intensive war. Also, paper examines evolution of military media relations through various conflicts over the last 150 years. Media and military have very opposite cultures and thus very complicated relation between them. Their different cultures make relation and interaction between two organizations very challenging on many issues and neither side does not understand and can't understand each other which in the long run effects their cooperation. Both of them heavily depend on public support and approval for their actions or reporting. This paper will analyse each organization separately, their relations with each other and what are benefits or negative effects that they draw from that relation and also it will pinpoint what are key steps that need to be done to achieve maximum benefit from this relation. Also the paper will look into historical issues, current problems and what are the future problems and solutions for this relation in order to work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to research Generation Z, which presently enters the labor market, to determine its strengths and weaknesses, expectations, and factors of motivation, as well as to study the main aspects of motivation and to develop recommendations for establishing the interaction of employers with representatives of this generation. The article determines that one of the key problems of modern companies is the high level of personnel turnover. The increase in the level of personnel turnover is a serious threat to the efficient activities of companies, because the dismissal of employees leads to additional financial losses associated with the search and training of new staff. It is defined that in order to build effective relations with staff, employers need to determine the basic needs of employees, their values. Currently, representatives of four generations are present in the labor market as part of the staff of modern companies – each one with unique requirements and different motivations. The article provides a characterization of these generations and specifies that every year the expansion of generation Z in the labor market is becoming more and more noticeable. The views on the theory of generations and the determination of belonging to generation Z on the basis of the period of birth of persons are considered. The dynamics of the level of unemployment on the population aged 15–24 both in Ukraine and in the European Union are also analyzed. Based on the carried out research, the strengths and weaknesses of Generation Z are considered and highlighted, its main expectations are formulated. Based on K. Hurrelman’s research, the authors of the article formed recommendations on how to better establish cooperation with Generation Z. The key aspects of Generation Z motivation highlighted by the results of the research will be useful for managers of modern companies in forming effective methods of communication and establishing effective cooperation with representatives of this generation.

In this paper, a coherent boundary value problem to model metamaterials' behaviour based on the relaxed micromorphic model is established. This boundary value problem includes well-posed boundary conditions, thus disclosing the possibility of exploring the scattering patterns of finite-size metamaterial specimens. Thanks to the simplified model's structure (few frequency- and angle-independent parameters), we are able to unveil the scattering metamaterial's response for a wide range of frequencies and angles of propagation of the incident wave. These results are an important stepping stone towards the conception of more complex large-scale meta-structures that can control elastic waves and recover energy. This article is part of the theme issue 'Wave generation and transmission in multi-scale complex media and structured metamaterials (part 1)'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction project agreed with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has become highly controversial in Nepal. According to MCC policy, the contract, signed in 2017 with the goal of increasing the availability of electricity in Nepal and reducing transportation costs, must be ratified by the Nepali parliament. Confusion and controversy arose, since the move would create a precedent for the ratification by parliament, if demanded, of each and every foreign investment in Nepal. There are also legal controversies when countries that receive MCC grants are required to comply with MCC provisions intended to ensure that projects are not hampered by changes in state law. A further controversial point is a provision that makes implementation of the MCC project conditional on approval from India. The MCC is actually a part of the United States' broader Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), related to military pacts such as the QSD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) that are aimed at containing China. In such circumstances, how can Nepal maintain its stance as a non-aligned nation in relation to its giant neighbors? Leaders of various political parties, civil society organizations, and the general public in Nepal currently fall into two camps that either support or reject the MCC grant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is about the importance of understanding immigrant Latino parental involvement in the United States' educational system. Misconceptions regarding Latino parental involvement will be presented as a way to help pre-service teachers and educators to understand factors that determine Latino parental involvement. This information can be used to create opportunities for this group of parents to engage in school activities in accordance with their reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This conceptual paper focuses on intellectual influencer concept to offer a differentiation tool for influencer marketing activities. First, influencer marketing is explained from the traditional point of view. Secondly, the historical development process of the public intellectual concept which was formerly a subject of non-marketing disciplines such as journalism, sociology, and philosophy is discussed. Subsequently, the relationship between these two concepts together with influencer marketing and related marketing communication activities are evaluated. Finally, marketing-related areas where intellectual influencers can produce content are elaborated. This study could open a fresh field in academic research by bringing a new dimension to influencer marketing. Also, it can offer a noteworthy alternative for businesses in terms of differentiation, attracting attention and reaching target markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research from various national contexts has shown that less privileged parents face various barriers when developing relationships with teachers compared to their more privileged counterparts. Chinese rural citizens have been disadvantaged within the hukou system, where existing studies have shown various and complex inequalities as regards rural parent–teacher relations. Such complexities, this article argues, might contribute to the ongoing discussions on the integration of Bourdieu's and Coleman's approaches to social capital. Informed by Bourdieu's three moments of field analysis, this study presents three core themes as regards Chinese rural parent–teacher relations: physical separation, social distance, and kinship sentiments. Through qualitatively exploring the life stories of a group of Chinese rural students before their entry to elite universities, this article bridges Bourdieu's social reproduction stance and Coleman's productive view in relation to social capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]