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Differentiation of self is reflected in the way we manage our money. Financial functioning represents an aspect of life that is heavily determined by our level of fusion, that is, to the way we handle the intermix between the emotional and intellectual systems, and our level of dependency on others. In this case presentation, the presenter describes her journey with money, which is an aspect of her efforts to differentiate a self. She explains how Bowen theory was--and continues to be--instrumental in informing her decisions about managing money individually and in the family. This description illustrates the impact that theory-guided principles can have in creating greater family stability, in this case through creating the conditions to attain financial security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BackgroundIn the era of economic globalization, major public health events—such as the Ebola epidemic, the avian influenza epidemic, the “SARS” epidemic, and the COVID-19 pandemic—occur more frequently, severely endangering human life safety and health and making global public health governance a major survival issue of universal concern. Therefore, governments have included the improvement of national health in their sustainable development goals, and its important position in global and national health policies has become increasingly prominent. However, the most common non-medical intervention taken by the government is to encourage people to actively participate in physical fitness activities to prevent disease and improve health. Therefore, how to improve the level of participation in national fitness is not only a hot topic in the academic community, but also a work content that governments around the world attach great importance to.ObjectivesTo reveal the complex interaction of the factors affecting the participation level in national fitness and obtain the linkage and adaptation mode of multiple conditions.Study designStarting from the three elements of manpower, financial, material resources, combined with the characteristics of the organizational behavior of local governments in China, this study puts forward an integrated analysis framework to understand the difference of the participation level in national fitness in various provinces and regions.MethodsFuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) is used to carry out configuration analysis on the participation level in national fitness in 31 provinces and regions in China.ResultsFirst, no single necessary condition can explain the results, whether for high-or low-level national fitness participation. Second, the construction of social sports instructors, public financial support for mass sports, and the supply of sports venues are the core conditions for improving the participation level in national fitness. Third, high-level participation of national fitness is carried out in five ways in China’s provinces.ConclusionThese findings enrich the literature on improving the participation level in national fitness, and provide useful practical enlightenment for the local governments to increase the participation level in national fitness.

AbstractThe human capabilities approach, developed by Nussbaum and Sen, focuses on the well-being of individuals by concentrating on functioning(s) and capabilities. Control over one’s environment is one of the ten (10) capabilities, according to Nussbaum, that should be respected and implemented for well-being. Nevertheless, research on issues of control over one’s environment is still scarce in South Africa. Therefore, guided by the human capabilities approach, this paper focuses on factors inhibiting control over one’s environment in Philippolis, Calvinia and Lamberts Bay which are small rural townships in South Africa. This is an essential step in facilitating awareness and provision of opportunities for control over one’s environment as an essential element for functioning. A qualitative approach was used to guide data collection and analysis. Data was collected from fifty-five (55) parents and a further twenty-three (23) stakeholders using semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was employed for the analysis of the data. Results of the study indicated that limited opportunities and financial resources, poor service delivery, lack of interest in politics, dependency, and school dropout impede individual’s control over their environment. The study highlights the need for increased efforts by all stakeholders in society to ensure access to resources necessary for functioning. Individuals and families should be encouraged to take advantage of the resources at their disposal and use them for improved quality of life such as using education as a conversion factor for improved lives.

Recent studies have examined the interactional management of verbal and non-verbal vocabulary explanations in second language (L2) classrooms. However, the use of material resources in vocabulary explanations has not been fully investigated yet. Based on a corpus of fourteen class-hours of (50-min each) video recordings of an L2 Oral Communication classroom at a higher education setting in Turkey, this study explores how material resources are employed in vocabulary explanation sequences in combination with talk and gestures. Using the micro-analytic lens of multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA) for the examination of the detailed transcriptions of vocabulary explanation sequences with material resources, three different patterns were identified: (1) gesture + material resources; (2) talk + gesture + material resources; and (3) scene enactment + material resources. The findings of this study contribute to classroom interaction research, more specifically to studies on vocabulary teaching, by providing a micro-analytic account of how material resources are employed in vocabulary explanations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses effects of subsidised, predominantly non‐standard, employment within the German labour market programme ‘participation in the labour market’ for long‐term welfare recipients on their health satisfaction, health‐based quality of life, satisfaction with standard of living and households' actual ownership of important goods (e.g., car or new clothes) or the lack thereof due to financial reasons. We differentiated subgroups by health, age and working hours. Data for participants and non‐participants (but entitled to welfare benefits) stem from the first two waves (2020/2021) of the panel survey ‘Quality of Life and Social Participation’. To identify causal effects, we employed matching methods based on administrative and survey data. Our findings show that 1 and 2 years after programme start, participation had significant positive effects on all indicators of health and standard of living. Thus, for the programme's focus group, subsidised employment, even if non‐standard, can contribute to improving health and material well‐being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sustainable implementation of resources and the transition to low-carbon construction is on the world's daily agenda. This paper describes the development of criteria for the efficient management of material resources in low-carbon construction. Net income, gross profit, balance sheets, and equity are proposed as indicators that serve as criteria for assessing the efficient use of resources. Nonlinear regression models were the methodological basis for the establishment of cause-and-effect relationships of the volume of construction of transport structures. It was established that since construction companies do not purchase materials for storage, the cost of materials for use in low-carbon technological construction work is directly proportional to the cost of construction. The volume of production in the construction industry is determined by construction costs. More efficient use of low-carbon materials reduces cost and construction waste. In this paper, we have established the relationship between the indicator of efficiency for the functioning of the construction enterprises in Ukraine and the use of low-carbon materials for the construction of transport structures. The practical value of the obtained results for low-carbon construction management lies in proving the relationship between the performance indicators of the construction enterprise (net profit, gross profit, output volume, balance sheets, and equity capital) and the use of low-carbon material resources. Our results form the basis for future research into the use of a cost-based model for low-carbon economy transition in municipalities and regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Problem: Missed Nursing Care (MNC) is an error of omission which occurs when a necessary nursing intervention is not initiated, is not completed, or when it is delayed. The MNC model explains this problem and describes four antecedents that can lead to MNC: (1) demand for patient care, (2) available human resources, (3) material resources, and (4) and relationship and communication factors. Aims: This study aims to test the relationship between the theoretical antecedents of MNC and their impact on MNC. Design: A quantitative cross‐sectional study. Methods: The Austrian version of the revised MISSCARE Survey was completed by nurses working in general hospital units between May and July 2021. Recruitment followed a respondent‐driven sample via Austrian nursing education institutions and social media. One thousand six nurses fulfilled inclusion criteria. The structure of the theoretical constructs of the MNC model was tested using a confirmatory factor analysis approach. The relationships between the four antecedents and MNC were explored using structural equation modelling with 427 complete cases. Results: The results support the structural validity of the revised MISSCARE Austria concerning the defined theoretical constructs, although discriminant validity and measurement error should be further investigated. The antecedent "resource allocation: labor" had a statistically significant impact on MNC: The lack of adequate nursing staff played the most important role to explain missed care in our model. Conclusion: In our study in Austria, MNC was mostly influenced by a lack of appropriate labor resources. Further studies exploring mediation effects and non‐linear relationships may contribute to better understanding of reasons for MNC. Patient or Public Contribution: No patient or public contribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the construction industry, the most significant specific weight in the cost structure is the cost of material resources. Therefore, the urgent task of management is to find ways to reduce them to increase construction companies' income and investment attractiveness. The article aims to study the problems of accounting and analysis for material resources and the effectiveness of logistics operations in the construction industry. The state of construction and accounting conditions in this industry were studied. It was found that construction enterprises must ensure the preservation and proper control over the use of available storage materials, but to do this, it is necessary to have a well-established accounting of the availability, receipt and use of materials. This will enable construction enterprises to comply with the norms and standards of material consumption and not increase the amount of non-production costs. Logistics costs, financial resources and material flows are closely interconnected and interdependent, so a system analysis should precede management decisions regarding them. The primary purpose of the analysis is to identify potential reserves and search for ways to improve the logistics system. Practical analytical accounting of various groups of logistics operations can be achieved only when the chief accountant and all accountants of construction enterprise know and understand how the logistics system and its software work. Comprehensive automation in the spheres of production and transportation contributes to the reduction of logistics costs. However, their accounting, analysis and control still remain a decisive factor in the effectiveness of management in the construction industry.

Tools and mechanisms for the organization of a multilevel operational management system at a knowledge-intensive enterprise are considered. The system is intended to ensure that the enterprise has the required material resources for its extremely diverse and rapidly changing production processes, in an era of complex digital transformation. The dominant groups of indices characterizing the integration of the proposed management system at the enterprise are listed. This list focuses on advanced methods and digital tools. It is clear that the Industry 4.0 paradigm is associated with greater automation of production and faster delivery of new products to the market, and so the enterprise's existing structure of business processes must be modified in the light of comprehensive digital transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Effective teaching in schools is a major concern in many countries of the world. Objectives of study were to analyze the effect of Knowledge provision on educational sustainability, to analyze the effect of knowledge relevancy on educational sustainability, to analyze the effect of financial resources on educational sustainability and to analyze the effect of material resources on educational sustainability in public secondary schools. Study was survey, descriptive and quantitative in nature. Population of the study comprised head teachers and SSTs of Tehsil Rahim Yar Khan. Multistage stratified sampling was adopted. Findings showed that majority of head teacher and SSTs disagreed that they provided factual knowledge, shared relevant ideas with real world settings and provide financial and material resources to students. It was concluded that majority of head teachers and SSTs disagreed that they keep and deliver updated knowledge for learning, share relevant ideas with real world settings to the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: identify the main problems of the logistics as a management governing organ to support the defense system of Ukraine and to suggest ways to solve them. Design/Method/Approach: the main research methods are methods of statistical analysis, military-economic analysis, expert forecasting methods. Findings: from the mentioned problematic issues, there is a need to create the state logistics, as a system of logistics flow management and the definition of state standards, a clear conceptual framework for logistics, both state and military (military). Theoretical implications: in the article, the authors made an attempt and proposed to improve the system of material resources support and services of the Ukraine Defense Forces and create a united logistics system of the state, as management system of material, information and human flows which based on their optimization. Papertype: descriptive and analytical.

In the construction industry, the most significant specific weight in the cost structure is the cost of material resources. Therefore, the urgent task of management is to find ways to reduce them to increase construction companies' income and investment attractiveness. The article aims to study the problems of accounting and analysis for material resources and the effectiveness of logistics operations in the construction industry. The state of construction and accounting conditions in this industry were studied. It was found that construction enterprises must ensure the preservation and proper control over the use of available storage materials, but to do this, it is necessary to have a well-established accounting of the availability, receipt and use of materials. This will enable construction enterprises to comply with the norms and standards of material consumption and not increase the amount of non-production costs. Logistics costs, financial resources and material flows are closely interconnected and interdependent, so a system analysis should precede management decisions regarding them. The primary purpose of the analysis is to identify potential reserves and search for ways to improve the logistics system. Practical analytical accounting of various groups of logistics operations can be achieved only when the chief accountant and all accountants of construction enterprise know and understand how the logistics system and its software work. Comprehensive automation in the spheres of production and transportation contributes to the reduction of logistics costs. However, their accounting, analysis and control still remain a decisive factor in the effectiveness of management in the construction industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literature studying the characteristics associated with revictimization in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is heterogeneous and inconclusive. The absence of studies on the role of the emotional variables of the victims and the failure to distinguish revictimization by the same or different aggressors are two of the main limitations in this area of research. The aim of this work was to study the relative contribution of the material, social, and emotional resources available to IPV victims in predicting revictimization by the same or different perpetrators. The sample consisted of 290 women registered in the city of Madrid who had filed at least one police report for intimate partner violence. The material resources of the victims were evaluated through their level of monthly income and employability status, the social resources through perceived social support, and the emotional resources through emotional regulation and coping strategies. Hierarchical multinomial logistic regression models were estimated to predict single-offender victimization (SRV), sameoffender revictimization (VSRSA), and multiple-offender revictimization (VSRDA). The results revealed that: (1) differentiating between revictimization by the same and different aggressors improved the fit of the model by 50.8% compared to when only differentiating between victimized and revictimized women; (2) material resources had no significant weight in the prediction of any type of revictimization; (3) SRV women had more social support than VSRDA women (ExpB = 1.027; p < 0.011); (4), those victims who had made several reports to the authorities of violence by different aggressors (VSRDA), had worse emotional regulation than those victims who had made a single report to the authorities (VSRs; ExpB = 2.934; p < 0.026); and (5) VSRDA obtained the worst mental health indexes and they used more coping strategies based on positive reappraisal than the VSR women (ExpB = 0.863; p < 0.009) and those victims with several reports by the same aggressor (VSRSA; ExpB = 0.891; p < 0.028). These results show that being a victim of several episodes of intimate partner violence by different aggressors should be understood as a form of revictimization of great severity associated with worse emotional regulation and less social support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: In the era of economic globalization, major public health events-such as the Ebola epidemic, the avian influenza epidemic, the "SARS" epidemic, and the COVID-19 pandemic-occur more frequently, severely endangering human life safety and health and making global public health governance a major survival issue of universal concern. Therefore, governments have included the improvement of national health in their sustainable development goals, and its important position in global and national health policies has become increasingly prominent. However, the most common non-medical intervention taken by the government is to encourage people to actively participate in physical fitness activities to prevent disease and improve health. Therefore, how to improve the level of participation in national fitness is not only a hot topic in the academic community, but also a work content that governments around the world attach great importance to., Objectives: To reveal the complex interaction of the factors affecting the participation level in national fitness and obtain the linkage and adaptation mode of multiple conditions., Study Design: Starting from the three elements of manpower, financial, material resources, combined with the characteristics of the organizational behavior of local governments in China, this study puts forward an integrated analysis framework to understand the difference of the participation level in national fitness in various provinces and regions., Methods: Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) is used to carry out configuration analysis on the participation level in national fitness in 31 provinces and regions in China., Results: First, no single necessary condition can explain the results, whether for high-or low-level national fitness participation. Second, the construction of social sports instructors, public financial support for mass sports, and the supply of sports venues are the core conditions for improving the participation level in national fitness. Third, high-level participation of national fitness is carried out in five ways in China's provinces., Conclusion: These findings enrich the literature on improving the participation level in national fitness, and provide useful practical enlightenment for the local governments to increase the participation level in national fitness., Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2024 Xu, Zhu, Yang and Yan.)

The literature studying the characteristics associated with revictimization in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is heterogeneous and inconclusive. The absence of studies on the role of the emotional variables of the victims and the failure to distinguish revictimization by the same or different aggressors are two of the main limitations in this area of research. The aim of this work was to study the relative contribution of the material, social, and emotional resources available to IPV victims in predicting revictimization by the same or different perpetrators. The sample consisted of 290 women registered in the city of Madrid who had filed at least one police report for intimate partner violence. The material resources of the victims were evaluated through their level of monthly income and employability status, the social resources through perceived social support, and the emotional resources through emotional regulation and coping strategies. Hierarchical multinomial logistic regression models were estimated to predict single-offender victimization (SRV), same-offender revictimization (VSRSA), and multiple-offender revictimization (VSRDA). The results revealed that: (1) differentiating between revictimization by the same and different aggressors improved the fit of the model by 50.8% compared to when only differentiating between victimized and revictimized women; (2) material resources had no significant weight in the prediction of any type of revictimization; (3) SRV women had more social support than VSRDA women (ExpB = 1.027; p

The article deals with the problem of forming a reasonable level of stocks of material resources of the logistics system of a manufacturing enterprise. It was stated that in the share of material resources of industrial enterprises, the leading place is occupied by stocks of raw materials, materials, semi-finished products, and blanks. The latter belong to the category of inventories. Therefore, the management of this type of material resources is one of the most urgent tasks for enterprises. In this regard, there is a need for a modern approach to the problem of managing stocks of material resources and the economic assessment of the profitability of creating production and commercial stocks. And at the same time, one of the important questions is to determine their optimal volume. It was found that when forming stocks of material resources, it is necessary to simultaneously comply with the requirements for the sufficiency of their volume to ensure the normal operation of the enterprise's logistics system, to reduce their volume as much as possible while increasing the degree of mobility, and to minimize the total costs associated with the formation of stocks. An analog model for assessing the economic efficiency of the influence of changes in the size of the stock of material resources on the comparative economic effect of the logistics activities of an enterprise is proposed for practical use. This model takes into account the causal relationship between natural (partial) and cost (generalizing) indicators of the inventory management system of material resources and provides an opportunity to calculate the comparative economic effect of changes in the volume of inventories at the enterprise. In practice, this will make it possible to economically substantiate the decision on the need to form stocks of one or another type of material resources. It is shown that the economic effect of the functioning of the logistics system of a manufacturing enterprise is significantly influenced by the growth of fixed and circulating assets. To determine the assessment of the impact of the growth of fixed and current assets on the value of the economic effect, an analog model is proposed. The main structural elements of such a model are an increase in capital investments in fixed assets, an increase in profits from product sales, a change in logistics costs, an increase (savings) in investment in current assets, a change in the cost of production. These factors are directly related to the growth of depreciation charges, the increase in profits from the acceleration of inventory turnover and the increase in net profit. Taking into account the results of the studies performed, it was found that the economic effect is formed by the total discounted net profit and the amount of depreciation (provided there are no penalties) minus the total additional capital investments in the enterprise. To calculate the economic effect, a corresponding mathematical relationship is proposed.

Hydrogels, as the most typical elastomer materials with three‐dimensional (3D) network structures, have attracted wide attention owing to their outstanding features in fields of sensitive stimulus response, low surface friction coefficient, good flexibility, and bio‐compatibility. Because of numerous fresh polymer materials (or polymerization monomers), hydrogels with various structure diversities and excellent properties are emerging, and the development of hydrogels is very vigorous over the past decade. This review focuses on state‐of‐the‐art advances, systematically reviews the recent progress on construction of novel hydrogels utilized several kinds of typical polymerization monomers, and explores the main chemical and physical cross‐linking methods to develop the diversity of hydrogels. Following the aspects mentioned above, the classification and emerging applications of hydrogels, such as pH response, ionic response, electrical response, thermal response, biomolecular response, and gas response, are extensively summarized. Finally, this review is done with the promises and challenges for the future evolution of hydrogels and their biological applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The article is devoted to the issues of system research in the field of agricultural logistics. The necessity of agricultural logistics research on the basis of a systematic approach, the essence of which is manifested in the idea of studying the relationship between the individual parts of the logistics object with a mathematical model. The main principles of the system approach in the management of agricultural logistics systems are recognized as: consistency, decomposition, modeling, uncertainty, efficiency, consistency, sufficiency, purposefulness, alternativeness. The integrity and uniqueness of agricultural logistics systems is due to the cause-and-effect relationship, which manifests itself as a purposeful action of individual elements and subsystems and has a sustainable economic structure. The structural characteristics of agricultural logistics systems are highlighted in the process of synthesis of their components from the highest to the lowest level of the hierarchy, on the basis of which the conclusion about the hierarchical construction of agricultural logistics systems is made. It was found that the formalization of the model of agricultural logistics system is due to the finite level of specification of the number of parameters, blocks and constraints. Most of the properties of agricultural logistics system are probabilistic. Variability in the behavior of the agricultural logistics system arises due to external influences, the critical level of which exceeds the expected value. Thus, changes in the characteristics of each level of the agricultural logistics system must be coordinated with each other. A statement is formed about the completeness of decision-making at different levels of the hierarchy of the system, which results in the implementation and coordination of functions to achieve the goal. The behavior of the system is formed on the basis of the allocation of a particular alternative from a particular set of alternatives in accordance with the response to external influences. Methodology. The study is based on the use of such general scientific methods as: analysis, synthesis and analogy. For the system approach it is important to determine the structure of the system - a set of relations between the elements of the system, reflecting their interaction. The purpose of the work is to study the principles of the system approach in the management of processes and systems of agricultural logistics. Practical implications. The practical value of the work lies in identifying the main systemic cause-and-effect patterns emerging in the agro-industrial complex environment and potentially determining the structure of agricultural logistics systems. The agro-industrial complex is characterized by increasing rates. Grain and oilseed crops, vegetable oils and meal are the basis of external supplies, which in total account for more than 80% of the volume. One of the main problems of the agricultural sector is logistics, which must solve the issues of preservation of harvested products, transportation and sales to the end consumer. The functioning of agricultural logistics is reflected in the export potential of Ukraine, and at the same time it replenishes the budget. The share of exports of food products and agricultural products in the total exports of Ukraine in 2020 was 45.1%. Grain crops (42.4%); oils (25.6%); oilseeds (8.1%) account for the share of exports. There is a real need for terminals, both maritime and river terminals. These are all system characteristics of agricultural logistics A systematic study of agricultural logistics is a key element on the basis of which the practical organization of these systems should be considered as a source of long-term growth of the agricultural sector. Value/originality. The peculiarity of this study is the transformation, implementation of the basic principles of the system approach and the theory of systems to the industry specifics of agro-logistics. On the basis of influencing system factors of agricultural production, the properties of agro-logistic systems and their targets are highlighted and generalized.

The current trend continues in almost all areas of oil and gas production. The reason is trivial: the lack of interest among the users of natural resources themselves and, as a consequence, the lack of sufficient material resources necessary for the restoration of resource-developed territories. At the present stage, this problem is becoming more and more acute for companies, but the main reason is not in the consciousness of enterprises, but in the tightening of requirements at the legislative level and the deterioration of the profitability of the extracted raw materials. That is, environmental problems continue to grow, but it becomes more and more difficult to regulate them due to their colossal neglect [3]. A decrease in the profitability of deposits, wear and tear of technological equipment and assets lead to a deterioration in the quality of raw materials and a decrease in the efficiency of the work performed, which, together with social problems, only entails an aggravation of the ecological situation. These aspects have a significant impact on the productivity of companies in general - especially in the environmental sense - that are undercapitalized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Procurement logistics is considered as one of the main directions of activity that influences the efficiency of enterprise. The works of economists on the topic of the research were analyzed, and different interpretations of the concept of «procurement logistics» were considered. It is specified that there is no single correct definition, but all scholars tend to think that procurement logistics is a set of activities aimed at providing the enterprise with material resources, choosing sources of supply, controlling the fulfillment of orders. Each stage of the enterprise’s procurement logistics is characterized. Particular attention is paid to the stage of selecting sources of supply, as it is up to the supplier to fulfill the objectives of both procurement logistics and the enterprise in general. A detailed research on this process allows to more effectively identifying the ways to improve logistics activities at the enterprise. The process of developing a logistics strategy is considered, when managers try to reach a compromise between the three main objectives of procurement logistics: reducing capital, reducing costs and improving the level of service. It is proposed to include some aspects of procurement logistics management inherent in one of the most prominent transnational corporations (TNCs) Nestl? in the activities by other enterprises to improve their efficiency. The TNC Nestl? has developed a Responsible Sourcing Standard that reflects the current tendencies in procurement logistics to find a reliable supplier and defines the criteria that the supplier must meet. The vectors of procurement management at the enterprise have been identified, which are universal and will allow enterprises to improve the efficiency of logistics management, as well as to minimize costs.

The development and implementation of budgetary policy is impossible without effective financial control, which is a tool for ensuring effective management of resources and property of the state in compliance with the principles of economy, efficiency, performance, and transparency. It becomes even more relevant nowadays, when new trends in the development of financial control emerge in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The state financial control sphere narrows down, while non-state control expands. There is a shift from the next to the previous financial control. The object of financial control gradually transforms. Scientific novelty of this study lies in the development of theoretical and methodological provisions and practical recommendations for defining the nature of financial control, its subject matter, goals, and classifications for studying the effectiveness of low-budget organisations in the Republic of Kazakhstan (RK). Rules, regulations, procedures, and costs are being replaced by planned goals, results, and efficiency. This requires a new conceptual approach to the essence of financial control and its place in the public finance management system. The practical significance of the study results lies in their use for the efficiency improvement of budgetary institutions’ cooperation.

The development and implementation of budgetary policy is impossible without effective financial control, which is a tool for ensuring effective management of resources and property of the state in compliance with the principles of economy, efficiency, performance, and transparency. It becomes even more relevant nowadays, when new trends in the development of financial control emerge in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The state financial control sphere narrows down, while non-state control expands. There is a shift from the next to the previous financial control. The object of financial control gradually transforms. Scientific novelty of this study lies in the development of theoretical and methodological provisions and practical recommendations for defining the nature of financial control, its subject matter, goals, and classifications for studying the effectiveness of low-budget organisations in the Republic of Kazakhstan (RK). Rules, regulations, procedures, and costs are being replaced by planned goals, results, and efficiency. This requires a new conceptual approach to the essence of financial control and its place in the public finance management system. The practical significance of the study results lies in their use for the efficiency improvement of budgetary institutions’ cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We defend a scalar theory of the relationship between material scarcity and justice. As scarcity increases beyond a specified threshold, we argue that deontological egalitarian constraints should be gradually relaxed and consequentialist considerations should increasingly determine distributions. We construct this theory by taking a bottom-up approach that is guided by principles of medical triage. Armed with this theory, we consider the range of conditions under which justice (of any form) applies. We argue that there are compelling reasons for thinking that justice applies under a far broader range of conditions than is standardly supposed, including those that could sensibly be labelled as conditions of extreme rather than moderate scarcity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A key challenge to achieving a net-zero transition by mid-century is rapid diffusion of several low-carbon technologies which requires massive upscaling of production capacity including vast use of material resources. However, both diffusion theory and main transition studies frameworks pay insufficient attention to the role of material resources. To better understand the relationships between diffusion, production, and material use in technology diffusion and transitions, we conceptually elaborate the role of material resources in the value chain perspective on Technological Innovation Systems (TIS). We account for how material scarcity appears and how it influences TIS structural and functional dynamics with particular attention to how actors along the value chain respond. Our study of China's Electric Vehicle lithium-ion battery TIS value chain shows that a shortage of critical materials occurred due to structural tensions between sectoral regimes along the value chain which influenced the TIS structural and functional dynamics both within and across sectors. The study contributes new insights on the role of materials in TIS and circular value chains, on how the TIS growth and diffusion phase unfolds, and on how urgency of a net-zero transition and geopolitics influence diffusion. • Critical material resources influence the pace and direction of sustainability transitions in growth and diffusion phase. • Extant work offers little insight on the role of resources and actors' strategies in the diffusion of green technology • The role of material resources in a technological value chain in accelerating transition processes is highlighted. • China's battery industry shows that material shortage comes from misalignments of sectoral regimes along the value chain. • Coping strategies developed by actors along the TIS value chain in the face of material scarcity are teased out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Logistics approach to information and material flow management at the enterprise allows to optimize the implementation of complex logistics operations. The employment of this approach to management of material flows and stocks is beneficial for the company as it optimizes the stock of material resources and the number of staff, reduces downtime and provides a more efficient use of space, as well as improves product quality. Optimization of information flows improves the quality, availability and timeliness of information in the logistics system of the enterprise. The article addresses the main aspects of the logistics system of the enterprise taking into account the interaction of information and material flows.

This study explores how students deal with material resources in their peer interaction when working in pairs in an open-ended problem-solving task. The productive use of material resources can be expected to support successful peer work. However, research into social phenomena in peer interaction is needed in order to identify and describe productive and less productive forms of dealing with material resources as students participate in open-ended problem-solving tasks. Consequently, this explorative study responds to this research need. Based on multimodal data, including video recordings, transcribed talk and the written contributions from four pairs of Year 7 students aged 12-13 years, the analysis focuses on different ways in which students deal with material resources while negotiating their participation as they respond to the task. The findings indicate that aspects of participation are a key factor for describing productive and less productive ways of dealing with material resources by the student pairs. Foregrounding aspects of participation for an increased awareness of potential obstacles to student-centred work is among this study’s contributions for classroom practice and theory development.

Aim. To study the attitude to material resources and intangible values in relation to the level of altruism.Methodology. A survey was carried out (N = 299), methods of measuring altruistic attitudes (M. Yasin), diagnostics of intentions and expectations in a situation of intended exchange (S. Poddubny) were applied; comparative and discriminant analysis (SPSS 27.0) was performed.Results. It was found that with a high level of altruism, expectations to receive material resources from a partner in a situation of social exchange are more pronounced. With a low level of altruism, willingness to share material resources is more pronounced than expectation them to get them from an interaction partner. A “formula of altruism” was drawn up based on assessments of the readiness to share intangible and material values, expectations to receive intangible and material values.Research implications. The results deepen the understanding of the relationship between altruism and attitudes towards material and non-material resources.

The article is devoted to questions of mobilization of material and manpower resources in the period of the Great Patriotic war. The special attention is turned on mobilization of militarians and recruits of republic, and also on provision of the Red Army with technics, horses, active participation of the population in gathering warm things, money resources, food stuffs, in construction of defensive works.

The article considers the classification of resource management methods of the enterprise. Additionally, it is proposed to allocate technological methods of resource saving management, the fifth group of methods. The matrix of methods of resource saving management in relation to spheres of management is constructed. The system of possible goals of resource saving management at the enterprise is formulated. The goals of resource saving management in the spheres of material resources use are selected and grouped. The main causes and sources of loss of material resources at the enterprise are identified. The functions which are capable to provide effective realization of process of management of resource saving at the enterprise are considered. Subsystems of the resource saving management system according to the functional approach are allocated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study assessed the availability and quality of human and material resources at the Campus-based Youth Friendly Centres in Southwestern Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted and the study was carried out among ten counsellors and centre coordinators of Youth Friendly Centres in four higher institutions of learning in Southwest Nigeria using interview guide and observation checklist to collect data. The result revealed that there were no enough counsellors at the YFCs and some of the counsellors available at the centres did not have enough qualification to render HIV counselling. It was also revealed that material resources were moderately available at most of the centres but not up to the require standard stipulated by the World Health Organization.

In modern conditions of economic management, efficiency of work of all enterprises of agricultural production depends on the level of organization and functioning of the system of resource maintenance of agricultural complex. The article is aimed at analyzing and substantiating methodologies of usage of the material and economic resources of agricultural enterprises. A categorical analysis of the varieties of the terminology of «resources» was carried out. The basic properties of the material and economic resources of enterprise and their place in the system of management of agricultural enterprise have been defined. According to the classification attributes of the resources of enterprise, their grouping was accomplished in the direction of use. The issue of creation, use and preservation of the material and economic resources of agricultural enterprises was researched. Development of an efficient methodology on formation of a system of use of the material and economic resources in agriculture will allow to strengthen innovative activity, provide economic security of agricultural producers and, as a result, become a basis for solving numerous agricultural problems.