REGULATION OF CIVIL LAW EMPLOYMENT OR EMPLOYMENT LAW?

Performance of work on a basis other than an employment relationship takes various forms. Predominantly, it takes place based on civil law relationships, which are characterised by the principle of freedom of contract, which results in the possibility of freely shaping the content of any such legal relationship. However, recent years are marked by a gradual increase in regulations of employment other than based on contracts of employment, i.e. based on civil law contracts. Introducing a minimum hourly wage, limiting employment in trade on Sundays and public holidays, providing temporary work under civil law contracts or the much earlier widespread granting of employment rights to contractors in the putting-out system and, above all, granting the right to safe and hygienic working conditions to everyone who performs work justifies asking questions about future developments.

THE CONCEPT OF „EMPLOYMENT LAW” IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMPETENCES OF THE STATE LABOUR INSPECTORATE

The aim of the work was to present the factual competence of the State Labour Inspectorate and its analysis against the concept of „employment law”. This issue was presented on the basis of the classification of positions of the doctrine regarding „employment law” presented by B.M. Ćwiertniak. The review was carried out from the Act of 1981, which was a model solution for the „classical” labour law of the industrial era, to the current state based on the Act of 2007 and its amendments. The analysis has shown that this body is currently engaged in the control and supervision of „work” in its broadest sense. This is related to the fact that the material competence covers not only issues related to the employment relationship, but also the legality of employment, remuneration from the civil law relationship, social security obligations, bans on trade on Sundays and public holidays carried out regardless of the legal basis of employment. Therefore, from a formal point of view, the creation by the legislator of a possibly new branch of law - ‚employment law’ - would not require changes in the competences of the State Labour Inspectorate.

ASSESSING BORDER SHOPPER’S MOTIVATION AT PADANG BESAR, PERLIS

Shopping tourism had evolved over the years in becoming the main generator for the tourism industry, especially in Malaysia border areas like Padang Besar, Perlis. Even though there are carrying capacity issues and inadequate facilities, people continue to visit Padang Besar, especially during weekends and public holidays. Accordingly, this study investigates shopper motivation factors to shop at Padang Besar. The findings indicated that four push motivation factors and six pull motivation factors were important. Three categories of shoppers were identified from these factors, namely: the hunter shopper, prudent shopper, and comfortable shopper. The contribution of this study also presents a holistic view of border shoppers and various types of shoppers who visit Padang Besar, thereby helping stakeholders obtain valuable information to implement strategies for developing this area as a border shopping destination. It is anticipated that this study's results will help improve Padang Besar's development in building good facilities and infrastructure as demanded by visitors.

Environmental Conditions Associated With Youth Delinquency Events: A Temporal, Meteorological, and Contextual Perspective

Research on youth delinquency has been essential for gaining a deeper understanding of the etiology of delinquent behavior. Studies considering the environmental perspective have increased during the last decade, but relatively little attention has been paid to temporal patterns and weather conditions. The present study explores the seasonality of youth delinquency as well as the association between violent and non-violent youth offenses and temperature, rainfall, level of darkness, type of day, type of place, and companionship, using data gathered by the police along with data obtained from official weather agencies. To this end, we conducted ANOVA and contingency table analyses. Seasonality was found for non-violent crimes. Companionship, semi-public, and public places were all associated with a higher likelihood of non-violent crime, while darkness and public holidays raise the odds of violent crime to happen. No direct association was found between temperature and type of crime.

The effect of accounting for public holidays on the skills of the atmospheric composition model SILAM v.5.7

This study quantifies the impact of emission changes during public holidays on air quality (AQ) and analyses the added value of accounting for the holidays in AQ modelling. Spatial and temporal distributions of atmospheric concentrations of the major air pollutants (the main focus was on NO2, but we also included O3, CO, PM2.5, and SO2) were considered at the European scale for all public holidays of 2018. Particular attention was paid to the events with the most pronounced continental- or regional-scale impact: Christmas and New Year, Easter, May Day vacations, and the last days of Ramadan. The simulations were performed with the chemistry transport model SILAM v.5.7 (System for Integrated modeLling of Atmospheric coMposition). Three model runs were made: the baseline with no treatment of holidays, the run considering holidays as Sundays, and the run forcing 80 % reduction in emissions during holidays for the weekday-sensitive sectors. The emission scaling was applied on a country basis. The model predictions were compared with in situ observations collected by the European Environment Agency. The experiment showed that even conservative treatment of official holidays has a large positive impact on NOx (up to 30 % of reduction in the bias inhomogeneity during the holiday days) and improves the CO, PM2.5, and O3 predictions. In many cases, the sensitivity simulations suggested a greater emission reduction than the level of Sundays. An individual consideration of the holiday events in different countries may further improve their representation in the models: specific diurnal pattern of emissions, additional emission due to fireworks, and different driving patterns.

Sleep and Alcohol Use Patterns During Federal Holidays in the United States.

We conducted a retrospective observational study using remote wearable and mobile application data to identify US public holidays associated with significant changes in sleep behaviors, including sleep duration, bedtime and waketime, and the consistency of sleep timing, as well as changes in the point prevalence of alcohol use. These metrics were collected and analyzed from objective, high resolution sleep-wake data and survey responses of 24,250 US subscribers to the wrist-worn biometric device platform, WHOOP (Boston, Massachusetts, USA), who were active users during May 1, 2020 through May 1, 2021. Compared to baseline, statistically significant differences in sleep and alcohol measures were found on the US public holidays and their eves. For example, New Year's Eve corresponded with a sleep consistency decrease of 13.8% (+/- 0.3), a sleep onset of 88.9 minutes (+/- 3.2) later, a sleep offset of 78.1 minutes (+/- 3.1), and more than twice as many participants reported alcohol consumption (138.0% +/- 6.7) compared to baseline. The majority of US public holidays and holiday eves were associated with sample-level increases in sleep duration, decreases in sleep consistency, later sleep onset and offset, and increases in the prevalence of alcohol consumption.

Influencing Factors Evaluation of Machine Learning-Based Energy Consumption Prediction

Modern computing resources, including machine learning-based techniques, are used to maintain stability between the demand and supply of electricity. Machine learning is widely used for the prediction of energy consumption. The researchers present several artificial intelligence and machine learning-based methods to improve the prediction accuracy of energy consumption. However, the discrepancy between actual energy consumption and predicted energy consumption is still challenging. Various factors, including changes in weather, holidays, and weekends, affect prediction accuracy. This article analyses the overall prediction using error curve learning and a hybrid model. Actual energy consumption data of Jeju island, South Korea, has been used for experimental purposes. We have used a hybrid ML model consisting of Catboost, Xgboost, and Multi-layer perceptron for the prediction. Then we analyze the factors that affect the week-ahead (WA) and 48 h prediction results. Mean error on weekdays is recorded as 2.78%, for weekends 2.79%, and for special days it is recorded as 4.28%. We took into consideration significant predicting errors and looked into the reasons behind those errors. Furthermore, we analyzed whether factors, such as a sudden change in temperature and typhoons, had an effect on energy consumption. Finally, the authors have considered the other factors, such as public holidays and weekends, to analyze the significant errors in the prediction. This study can be helpful for policymakers to make policies according to the error-causing factors.

Differences in management of telemedicine alerts on weekdays and public holidays: Results from the OptiLink heart failure trial

Background In the OptiLink heart failure study, timely and appropriate reactions to telemedicine alerts improved clinical outcomes in heart failure patients. This analysis investigates the relation between the weekday of alert transmission and the subsequent patient contact. Methods In patients enrolled in the intervention arm of the OptiLink heart failure study ( n = 505, age 66.1 ± 10.1, 77.2% male, left-ventricular ejection fraction 26.7% ± 6.1%), fluid index threshold crossing alerts were analysed according to the weekday of the transmission. Transmissions on Mondays–Thursdays were categorized as TD1, Fridays–Sundays as well as public holidays as TD2. Results Of 1365 transmitted alerts, 867 (63.5%) were categorized as TD1 and 498 (36.5%) as TD2. Same day telephone contacts were more frequent in TD1 (46.2%) than in TD2 (18.3%; p < 0.001). Accordingly, the median time to contact was significantly longer in TD2 compared with TD1 (2(1–3) vs 0(0–1) days; p < 0.001). Rates of no telephone contact were no different between the groups (12.1% vs 12.4%; p = 0.866). Although signs of worsening heart failure were prevalent in 32.4% in TD1 versus 32.1% in TD2 ( p = 0.996), initiation of a pharmacological intervention occurred more likely in TD1 compared with TD2 (27.9% vs 22.9%; p = 0.041). No differences existed concerning hospitalization for heart failure within 30 days after alert transmission (3.9% vs 3.4%; p = 0.636). Conclusion Alert transmissions during weekends and public holidays were less likely associated with timely patient contacts and initiation of pharmacological interventions than during the week. Telemedical centres providing 24/7 remote monitoring service and specific education programmes for physicians might help to optimize patient care.

Pediatric Traffic Injuries on Halloween in the United Kingdom: Prevalence and Injury Severity

The study results serve as a reminder for parents, children, and drivers to be alert to the danger of traffic crashes on Halloween. The aim of this study was to examine whether Halloween is associated with a higher incidence of traffic injuries and whether traffic injuries sustained on Halloween are more severe than those sustained on other days. The U.K. STATS19 database, including the data of all road traffic crashes occurring from 1990 to 2017, was employed. A total of 73,587 pediatric traffic casualties (involving pedestrians, cyclists, and moped riders) were included. Between 17:00 and 19:00 (17:00~18:59) on Halloween, the number of casualties was higher than that on other public holidays and usual days. The logistic regression model revealed that, between 17:00 and 18:00 (17:00~17:59), the risk of being killed or seriously injured on Halloween was 34.2% higher (odds ratio = 1.342; 95% CI = 1.065–1.692) than that on other days. Pediatric crashes occurring on Halloween are associated with a higher number of injuries and increased injury severity.

PATRIOTISM in the Lithuanian Language

Patriotism as a phenomenon is not new and it has manifested itself in various ways. The roots of contemporary Lithuanian patriotism go back to the middle of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The available data from that period do not allow making any specific conclusions but it can be seen that the word patriotism was a relatively new in the beginning of the 20th c. Patriotism was best understood in the interim period between the two world wars, when an attitude started to form that own nation should not only be elevated distinguishing it from others but it is also something everybody has to be proud of. After Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union, a new concept, i. e. soviet patriotism, emerged. This idea is based on internationalism, commitment to socialist order and solidarity of soviet nations. The attitude of a present-day Lithuanian to patriotism is reflected best in contemporary discourse. The issues of love for Homeland have been frequently discussed not only by political analysts or historians but also by representatives of arts and sports. Moreover, the media have frequently discussed issues, which are not characteristic of real patriotisms or even have raised some doubts about patriotism being an exaggerated phenomenon. However, comprehensive research studies on patriotism are few. The concept of patriotism has almost escaped the research focus of linguists. Therefore, an attempt will be made to bridge the gap in linguistic research analysing the data available in dictionaries, discourses and surveys. It can be stated that a contemporary individual tends to nurture the same values as people in the interim period. These embraces work for the sake of homeland and nation, concern about its future and welfare, nurturance of homeland and the mother tongue, culture and history. Loyalty, gratefulness, nostalgia to homeland, attachment to the land of their birth, honesty, courage, freedom, responsibility and pride are assigned to patriotism. Patriotism implies defence of own country in the hour of peril. This is particularly emphasised in the historical discourse, where defence of own country is one of the prevailing motives, and in the surveys of students. Contemporary discourse allocates less attention to this issue. Patriotism is related to acknowledgement of the country’s mistakes, promoting its name and celebration of public holidays. Patriotism can hardly be imagined without knowledge of the national history, culture, its heroes and prominent figures. The data from both discourses and surveys allow claiming that patriotism is perceived as a feeling or feelings, an inner state or a value. In fact, it can be stated that though patriotism is not an old concept, which replaced such concepts as ethnicity and love for homeland, the view of patriotism, which formed at the end of the 19th c. and in the beginning of the 20th c., has remained the same up to now.