scholarly journals Subjective forecasting of security practices in extreme situations

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-111
Author(s):  
T. M. Krasnianskaya ◽  
V. G. Tylets
Keyword(s):  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Financial Fraud ◽  
Extreme Situation ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
Individual Security ◽  
Voluntary Basis ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Safety Rules

The purpose of the research is to study the features of the subject’s predicted choice of security practices in connection with extreme life situations that are significant for him. The main hypothesis was the assumption that the choice of security practices can be associated with the type of extreme situation that initiates it, in such a way that each group of these practices corresponds with a certain type of extreme situations. The research was exploratory in nature. The authors used the methods of incomplete sentence and subjective scaling. A total of 200 university students participated in the study on a voluntary basis. The sample included 118 (59 %) girls and 82 (41 %) boys aged 18–21 years. The respondents identified subjectively significant extreme situations, such as illness, pressure on the psyche, domestic extreme, financial fraud, transport accident, trauma at work, criminal aggression, natural disaster, terrorist attack, destructive social conflict. Factorization has established their semantic grouping into general social, public and private extreme situations. The authors based the study on the selection of the following security practices: normative (compliance with safety instructions, safety memos, following the developed safety rules), socio-­cultural (taking into account the signs of danger, the use of talismans, protective amulets, conducting a ritual of protection against threats) and individual (compliance with the recommendations of significant persons on safety, the use of their own safety rules, their own safety traditions). The authors established on an empirical basis, that the choice of security practices differs depending on the extreme situation that initiates it. The most preferable for students are individual security practices, the least preferable are socio-­cultural ones. The choice of official security practices is more often associated with public extreme situations; the choice of socio-­cultural and individual security practices is more often associated with private extreme situations. The problem has prospects for further research.

scholarly journals Private and Public Sector Employer Actions for Home Office Workers During the COVID-19 Epidemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 509-519
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Nowacki ◽  
Sandra Grabowska ◽  
Teresa Lis
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Statistical Sample ◽  
Questionnaire Method ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Sector Employer ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract A research was conducted among the employees referred to work in the home office in connection with the announced state of the epidemic in Poland. The research was conducted using a questionnaire method, the study was attended by 199 respondents. The research is burdened with an error in the selection of statistical sample units, which resulted from the respondents’ involvement and their truthfulness. The aim of the article is to assess the activities of employers from the private and state sectors in Poland, related to the delegation of employees to work in the home office, and to analyze the skills and possibilities of self-organization of work by employees. An important result of the survey was to demonstrate the differences in the behavior of public and private sector employers. The study shows that the private sector has adapted better to sudden changes than the state sector.

scholarly journals Nierówność cyfrowa w gospodarce UE — zarys problematyki

Ekonomia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Karolina Olszewska
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Digital Gap ◽  
The Eu

This article outlines how the rapid evolution of the ICT sector in highly-developed economies has resulted in digital inequality between the EU-15 and countries that joined the EU in the first and second decades of the 21st century. The main hypothesis of the study is that digital inequality be-tween the economies of EU member states weakens the competitiveness of the EU in the area of EU economy 4.0 in the global market and could threaten European digital sovereignty, including the issue of access to public and private data and digital identity protection. The results of the an-alysis show that the currently existing digital inequality widens the digital gap between the EU and the US and China, and further bolsters the digital dominance of non-European countries. The main challenge lies in providing national economies of Central and Eastern Europe with appropriate instruments that would allow them to make up for these digital deficiencies . The study used critical literature analysis and data contained in the reports of the OECD, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, UNCTAD, WTO and European Commission materials.

The Influence of Students' Characteristics on Mobile Device Security Measures

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winfred Yaokumah
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Mobile Device Security ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
And Gender

This study aimed at investigating the influence of students' characteristics (majors, maturity, and gender) on mobile device security practices in the context of a developing country. Focusing on graduate and undergraduate students from both public and private universities, participants' characteristics were measured against three approaches of mobile devices security practices (user-behavior and activities, device settings, and disaster recovery). The sample consisted of 375 students from two public universities and three private university colleges. The results found that Technology and Engineering students differ statistically from Business and Arts students in terms of mobile device settings and disaster recovery practices. The undergraduate students were less engaged in risky activities with their devices compared with the graduate students. Moreover, the younger students were more cautious than the older students regarding user-behavior and device settings. Finally, female students were more negligent when it comes to setting the devices to militate against security threats.

The multilingual practices of Laurence Sterne

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arja Nurmi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Laurence Sterne ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract This article discusses the multilingual practices identified in the public and private writings of Laurence Sterne, novelist and clergyman. The data used consists of Sterne’s two novels as well as a selection of his personal correspondence. Sterne uses a wide variety of languages in his texts, although the most common ones are French and Latin, the languages he seems to have been most fluent in. Sterne engages in some practices associated with translanguaging, particularly in terms of playful language use and mediation of foreign-language passages, but it is impossible to pinpoint any specific characteristics of translanguaging for certain. On the whole, it would seem that the analysis of Sterne’s multilingual practices does not benefit from the translanguaging point-of-view.

scholarly journals Potential educational use of geomorphological units and landforms

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. e019016
Author(s):  
Karina Kawai Higa ◽  
Vanessa Costa Mucivuna ◽  
Maria da Glória Motta Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Geological Heritage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Geomorphological Units ◽  
Geomorphological Features ◽  
Quantitative Assessments ◽  
Selection Of

The inventory of the geological heritage of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, was carried out from 2012 to 2015 and resulted in the selection of 142 geosites in 11 geological frameworks representative of its geological history. Among the frameworks is the “Geomorphological units and landforms”, which includes fourteen geosites representative of the main geomorphological features in the area. Since these kinds of geosites are very suitable to interpretative and educational purposes, in this work we present both qualitative and quantitative assessments of the potential educational use of the geosites present in this geological framework. The assessment was carried out using the GEOSSIT platform, which was developed by the Geological Survey of Brazil (CPRM). The outcomes of the quantitative assessment made it possible to rank the geosites according to their importance. The geosites Jaraguá Peak and Itapeva Peak achieved the highest rankings, a result that reinforces their current use for tourist activities; on the other hand, the geosites Jureia Massif and Diabo Hill were the lowest ranked. The data obtained in this study suggest the need to establish educational measures that may increase activities of valorisation, dissemination and conservation of these geosites, and that take into account the geodiversity elements. In order to implement such measures, some support from public and private agencies is fundamental. In general, geosites present excellent conditions for the dissemination of geoscientific knowledge, making a key to the construction of a geoconservation conscience by the general public.

scholarly journals Application of Fuzzy Topsis in Selecting the Major Factor Influencing Malaysians' Choice of University (IPTA or IPTS)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Nur Syuhada Muhammat Pazil ◽  
Norwaziah Mahmud ◽  
Siti Hafawati Jamaluddin ◽  
Saidatul Shareen Shakiren
Keyword(s):  
Private Colleges ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Fuzzy Topsis ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Cost Of Education ◽  
Decision Making Problem ◽  
Order Preference ◽  
The Right ◽  
Selection Of

Currently there are about 500 institutions throughout Malaysia which offer tertiary education level. They consist of public and private colleges. However, this variety will lead to confusion among the Malaysians in order to choose the right places to further their studies. The aim of this study is to select and rank the significant factor which influences the selection of university between IPTA and IPTS. By approaching the main objective, the sub-objective; to determine the most preferred university based on the associated factor can also be examined. Fuzzy TOPSIS (Fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) is one of the best methods to assess this kind of multi-criteria decision-making problem. The alternative of this research will be the factors influencing Malaysians’ choice of universities which are affiliation, course offered, cost of education and reputation. While the criteria will be IPTA and IPTS. The data was collected by interviewing experts in both fields; public and private sectors. The result referred by the value of closeness coefficient of each alternative is determined in order to rank those alternatives (factors). Based on the result, the major factor is affiliation while the rest is course offered, cost of The most preferred is IPTS that represents a better affiliation.

scholarly journals A Review of the Use of Psychoacoustic Indicators on Soundscape Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margret Sibylle Engel ◽  
André Fiebig ◽  
Carmella Pfaffenbach ◽  
Janina Fels
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Collection Method ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Soundscape Studies ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis work reviews the literature of 46 peer-reviewed papers and presents the current status on the use of psychoacoustic indicators in soundscape studies. The selection of papers for a systematic review followed the PRISMA method. Afterwards, descriptive analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) were realised. For the PCA, the following parameters extracted from the papers were analysed: psychoacoustic indicator, hypothesis, statistical units, data collection method and major findings for each investigated psychoacoustic indicator. The results show an overview of the use of psychoacoustic indicators, through main hypothesis and findings for each psychoacoustic indicator i.e. the importance of statistical units, such as percentiles, to investigate the hypothesis related to the description of auditory descriptors and perceptual attributes. Another important finding is that many papers lack the specification of computation methods limiting the comparability of study results and impeding the meta-analyses.

scholarly journals Classification for the primary library ranking

2018 ◽  
pp. 16-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Poltavskaya
Keyword(s):  
Library Science ◽  
Stable System ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Concept Type ◽  
Term Type ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Ideal

The problem of libraries classification is examined; classification is characterized; the term “type” as the aggregate diverse forms of an object is analyzed. Classification process is to support the selection of every form of the objects being classified and to reveal the essence of the type as a stable system of essential features of the subject being classified. Yu. Stolyarov’s idealized construct of a library is interpreted as a library theoretical type which enables to divide the study subject in the library science from other “libraries”. The library theoretical type corresponds with the singular concept (concept-type) of the library. The characteristic elements of the idealized construct of “Stolyarov’s library” correspond with generic concepts. Various groupings of the four elements of this mental construction determine the existence of several real library forms as the system objects of different structure. Two main library forms (two subtypes) are specified that differ in their structure: i. e. public and private libraries. Library typology is defined as a result of real library form selection in accordance with their theoretical type - the ideal construct made of 4 elements, i. e. Stolyarov’s library.

scholarly journals Relationship of Innovative Self-Perception with Training, Hiring and Profits, of Micro-Entrepreneurs

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Alfonso Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Selection Of

Entrepreneurship has become a fundamental theme in Latin America. In recent years, public and private institutions have invested in training entrepreneurs in order to contribute to economic growth, develop work and reduce poverty. In the presented research, it is compared the self-appraisal as innovators, of micro-entrepreneurs who have attended training during the last five years, with micro-entrepreneurs without training, and additionally, it is studied if the micro-entrepreneurs that self-perceive themselves as innovators are more prone to hiring workers and obtain higher profits. The methodology used is hypothesis testing with Chi2 statistic and descriptive statistics. The results exhibit that trained micro-entrepreneurs call themselves innovators in greater proportion and that this relationship is more relevant in some training topics, moreover, that innovative self-perception is linked to a greater intention of hiring and profits. The evidence obtained is considered relevant, since it allows orienting training activities in Latin American countries and improving the selection of topics and methodologies to promote their effectiveness.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Traffic Conflicts as a Tool for Sustainable Road Transport

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 7198
Author(s):  
Vladislav Krivda ◽  
Jan Petru ◽  
David Macha ◽  
Kristyna Plocova ◽  
David Fibich
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Road User ◽  
Correct Identification ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Conflicts ◽  
Selection Of

This paper presents an approach to partially solving an issue within the scope of sustainable road transport, specifically the issue of potential accidents, i.e., traffic conflicts. First, a method is introduced for the analysis of traffic conflicts using video equipment. The attention is focused on traffic conflicts that occur at turbo-roundabouts. Given the diversity of causes of traffic conflicts, the emphasis is placed on the correct identification of the cause, i.e., whether the conflict is caused only by the negligence of the road user, or whether the conflict is more or less influenced by an inappropriately designed turbo-roundabout or one or more of its specific building elements (e.g., unsuitable corner radius). The next part of the article presents a selection of results that were obtained from analyses performed at about 100 turbo-roundabouts in nine European countries. Illustrative diagrams show the courses of the emergence of traffic conflicts, the causes of which are then described in detail. The conclusions from these analyses confirm the main hypothesis that the evaluation of traffic conflicts should be an essential part of designing roads, in order to increase traffic safety and, importantly, contribute to sustainable transport.

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