Analysis of IT Acceptance Levels, ICT Attitudes, and Individual Innovation Levels of Special Education Teachers and their Opinions

The purpose of the study is to determine the relationships between teachers' ICT acceptance levels, ICT attitudes and individual innovation levels and to investigate their opinions. Mixed method research study including qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniques is used. In this study, an interview form was used to get the opinions of the teachers with the help of Teachers ICT Attitudes Scale (TICTAS) developed by Aydın and Semerci (2017), Teacher Candidates IT Acceptance Scale developed by Baydaş (2015) and Individual Innovation Scale adapted to Turkish by Kılıçer and Odabaşı (2010). 201 special education teachers (35.8% male and 64.2% female) participated in the study. In line with the findings obtained in the study, there is no difference in the attitudes of gender, age, professional seniority and branch variables towards special education teachers' information and communication technologies. Moreover, there is positive relationship was found between ICT attitudes and IT acceptance levels. In addition, teachers expressed their opinions on the fact that information and communication technologies extend the special education students' attention span. Therefore, it is thought that the relationships between teachers 'ICT attitudes, ICT acceptance levels, and innovation levels affect the attention and focus times of special education students and will have a greater impact on students' academic success. On the other hand, it is suggested to carry out more comprehensive studies such as this study to improve the ICT attitudes, ICT acceptance and innovation levels of special education teachers. In addition, it is thought that providing in-service courses that are structured and better equipped to improve the ICT attitudes, ICT acceptance levels and innovation levels of special education teachers will be more effective for the special education field.

INVALIDITY OF TRANSACTIONS IN INHERITANCE LAW

The article analyzes the features of invalidating bargains in the inheritance law of Russia (will, inheritance contract, acceptance of inheritance and rejection). It is concluded that the features of the hereditary legal relations themselves, as causally caused not by the expression of the will of the subjects of civil law, but by the death (declaration of the dead) of the potential testator, predetermine a special procedure for establishing defects in these bargains and the consequences of their invalidity, which differ from traditional restitution and compensation for losses. The legislative approach, consisting in the possibility of recognizing a will as the main bargain in inheritance law, invalid only after the death of the testator, on the one hand, is justified. At the same time, in practice, it necessitates the conduct of posthumous forensic psychiatric examinations in order to establish the true will of the testator and its compliance with the content of the will, which are very ambiguous in terms of the formulated conclusions. The regulation of an inheritance contract as a basis for inheritance, in turn, provides for an optimal mechanism for invalidating it. Acceptance of inheritance and rejection of it, committed by contacting a notary, can also be qualified as transactions, the consequence of the invalidity of which is a change in the dynamics of hereditary legal relations.

Analysis of the use of the UTAUT model for modeling the information technology acceptance process

The article is devoted to the issues of UTAUT models, which are currently the most commonly used tools of IT acceptance assessment. The aim of the article was to characterize the structure and stages of evolution of the above-mentioned models, to analyze the practical use of these models and to perform a bibliometric analysis of publications on UTAUT. The method of literature analysis and the SciVal Scopus and Google Trends tools were used to analyze UTAUT content search trend statistics. The described models are useful for testing technology acceptance by users with different characteristics in different organizations. The flexibility of the models in terms of extending and modifying them for the needs of various areas of IT technology implementation was demonstrated.

A Model for Measuring the Impact of Organisational Factors on the Effectiveness of the Knowledge Sharing System

Knowledge Sharing (KS), as a serious part of promoting the organization’s success, is a process of swapping knowledge among families, people, and organizations. Therefore, this paper tries to study the impact of organisational factors on the effectiveness of the KS, via four important variables. We presented a project plan that contains four research hypotheses, with the effectiveness of the KS as a dependent construct. Data were collected by questionnaires. The size of the sample for structural equations has come to be 247 via the utilization of the sample measurement procedure. A case study was carried out in 247 employees of the East Azerbaijan Customs organizations in Iran include: Customs of Tabriz, Nurduz, Jolfa, Sahlan, and Maragheh. In our investigation, Smart PLS 2.0 has been utilised for the measurement assess. Besides, the structural equation modelling (SEM) procedure has been utilised for testing the validity and reliability of the supplied model’s measurement. The results showed that organisational culture is the most important factor in the effectiveness of KS. Furthermore, information technology (IT) acceptance, attitude towards KS, organisational climate, and attitude to KS play an important role in the effectiveness of the KS. As a general result, organization managers must implement KS in their organizations to improve organisational performance, reduce costs, enhance organisational innovation, and reduce repetitive work, through which international trade facilitates and helps the country’s economy. Also, the managers may arrange rules for the efficiency of rewards; moreover, they should maintain an open and conducive environment for new ideas and criticism. Managers of organizations should make the culture of teamwork pervasive through actions such as education of teamwork and identification benefits of working in teams. In this way, they can improve the attitude of staff to KS and information and reach behaviours accompanied by KS.

How Can You Be Supportive?

This chapter highlights the importance of support for anxious children. Children with high levels of anxiety often feel helpless and vulnerable in the face of the overwhelming anxiety they experience. They have often learned that the way to cope with anxiety is to rely on avoidance and accommodation, and they may not believe they are able to cope any other way. Support is the parents’ way of helping the child to cope with the challenge of less accommodation, and it provides the parents with an alternative way to respond to the child when the child is anxious. When responding to a child who is anxious, support means showing the child two things: acceptance and confidence. Parents are being supportive when they respond to the child’s anxiety in any way that tells the child that they get it, that they understand the child is actually anxious, and that they do not judge him for it (acceptance). Supportive also means showing the child that the parents have complete confidence that the child is actually able to cope with some anxiety, and that they know the child can be OK despite feeling anxious (confidence).

Westrussism Concept in the Process of Modern Belorussian Identity Formation

The article examines the main stages of the Westrussism ideology formation and its development in the Belarusian historical school. The author analyzes the influence of this movement on the formation of the Belarusians identity in process of the Republic of Belarus development. He singles out the levels of contemporary Belarusian authentication and denotes the place of Westrussism concept within those levels. At the same time the author estimates Westrussism involvement in the process of Belorussian society public consciousness modernization, and the degree of it acceptance by the official historical science.

The Nature and Role of User Beliefs Regarding a Website's Design Quality

Researchers and practitioners have long been interested in identifying the criteria that users consider important in assessing whether a system is worth using. However, past research in this domain has not taken into account the characteristics of a system's design and their quality in a systematic and comprehensive manner, which is likely to have limited the development of actionable design guidelines. The article addresses this issue by suggesting a research model that links user beliefs—which have traditionally been used in IT acceptance and success research (i.e., information quality, system quality, usefulness, and ease of use)—to their beliefs regarding the quality of three categories of a system's design (i.e., visual quality, page layout quality, and navigation quality) and testing it in the context of organizational intranets. The analysis of data collected from 159 intranet website users in three organizations supported the model, suggesting that the three categories of design quality beliefs significantly influenced users' assessment of their system's information quality and system quality.

Empathy as a Mediator Between Parental Attitudes and Adolescents’ Aggressive Behaviour

This study was designed to examine relationships between adolescents’empathy and aggression and parental attitudes. Two hundred and one high school students aged 16-18 completed the Polish Retrospective Parental Attitude Questionnaire, Interpersonal Reactivity Index and the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire. Results showed that paternal attitudes have a great influence on the level of aggression in children, either raising (inconsistency and excessive demands) or lowering it (acceptance and autonomy). In contrast, the role played by empathy is considerably lower and only supports the relationship between parental attitudes and level of aggression. It also turned out that empathy partly plays the role of a mediator between fathers‘parental attitudes and the level of aggression in adolescents.

Appraisal of Strategy Adopted by Construction Professionals for Coping with Stress

Stress has been identified as a significant hindrance to construction professional’s performance on site. Unfortunately, stress cannot be eliminated on site, but it can only be managed with different stress coping strategies. Therefore, this study aimed at appraising the strategy adopted by construction professionals for coping with stress. Although past studies have examined strategies adopted for dealing with the stress from two dimensions namely: problem-solving and emotional based stress coping strategies. This study introduced the third dimension and called it acceptance a hybrid of previous dimensions. It also appraised the strategy adopted by construction professionals for coping with stress based on their working experience. Convenience sampling method was used in gathering data from selected construction professionals in Lagos state Nigeria. A total of 62 questionnaires were obtained from the professionals out of 70 that were distributed. The data were analysed with statistical package for social science (SPSS version 24), using, mean score and Kruskal Wallis test. The findings from the Kruskal Wallis revealed that the strategy for coping with stress coping is dependent on the construction professionals working experience. The study concludes that communication is a crucial element for coping with construction stress. The study recommends that construction firms and project managers should provide opportunities for construction workers to communicate among themselves. The findings from this study will be useful for project managers and construction firms in Nigeria towards ameliorating the adverse effect of stress among construction professionals.