Becoming Job-Ready? Narratives of Local Welfare-to-Work Programs and Client Experiences Across Differing Economic Contexts in California

Previous research on welfare-to-work exits has focused on individual client characteristics rather than local economic contexts. Drawing on a qualitative comparative case study design, this study enhances our understanding on how welfare-to-work organizational narratives and client experiences of becoming job-ready are shaped across two different economic contexts. In the disadvantaged economic context, a punitive welfare-to-work narrative is operational resulting in clients accepting precarious work. In the more privileged economic context, the individual responsibility narrative dominates as clients struggle to make ends meet. Our findings highlight how regional economic factors shape organizational narratives and impel clients to accept precarious low wage working conditions and unstable housing. Thus, there is a need for alternatives to welfare-to-work, such as unconditional, Universal Basic Income.

Communication and Swallowing Disorders: The Effects of Climate Change

Purpose: The environment plays a key role in determining the health of populations, and climate change is considered to be the greatest threat to human health in the 21st century. However, despite extensive research on its increasing effects on health in general, extremely limited attention has been paid to its impact on communication and swallowing disorders (CSDs). This is surprising considering the substantial effect that the environment and climate change (air pollution, infectious diseases, and extreme weather events) have on these disorders. Method: This tutorial is written by a speech-language pathologist and audiologist to provide education and resources on the ramifications of climate change for the professions. It also offers strategies for speech-language pathologists and audiologists (SLPAs) to use and to incorporate into their practice. Results and Conclusions: The effects of climate change on the incidence, development, and exacerbation of CSDs, such as aphasia, developmental language disorders, and dysphagia, are described in detail. As health professionals, SLPAs have the trust and respect of their clients and their community; they also have a duty of care to safeguard the health of their clients. The combination of prevention, advocacy, and education roles places SLPAs in the perfect position to take action on the effects of climate change on these disorders. To fulfill these roles and to address the pressing issue of climate change, several steps, ranging from the individual client level to the global level, are provided.

Regular Eating

The session described in this chapter is a supplementary session directed toward clients who are not receiving frequent, adjunctive treatment focused directly on eating regularly (such as meetings with a dietitian/nutrition counselor, residential treatment, or daily food coaching). During this session, clients learn about regular eating, including the importance of regular eating and specifically what it would look like for the individual client. The basic framework for regular eating is three meals and two or three snacks a day at spaced intervals. Together with the therapist, the client will brainstorm ideas for overcoming obstacles to regular eating and look at strategies to tackle compulsive eating.

ISSUES OF AUTOMATION OF THE AUDIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOST R 57580.2-2018

The modern world can be characterized by a huge amount of information and computerization of all spheres of human activity. But one of the most valuable information can be considered the information that concerns financial organizations. There are incidents of information security in financial organizations that can lead not only to the violation of the interests of an individual client, but also to the crisis of the financial market of the entire country. Information security audit allows you to detect violations in the organization's information system in a timely manner, which significantly increases the security of information. Often, timely and rapid receipt of a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the level of security allows you to avoid an incident. To improve the accuracy of estimates and reduce the time of their receipt, the application "Audit57580" was developed, the relevance of which is discussed in detail in the article.

Liability for Incorrect Client Personalization in the Distribution of Consumer Insurance

The use of personalization mechanisms should allow the insurance distributor to reduce exploration costs and adjust the offered insurance product to the needs, features, and situation of each individual client. This study seeks to examine how liability should be allocated when the process of the personalization of an insurance product does not result in the client’s choice of an optimal product. First, we identify the typical uses of new technologies allowing for an adjustment of insurance contracts. Second, we analyze the interplay between their application and the legal obligations of insurance product distributors. Subsequently, the paper discusses the scope of factors the insurance distributor is liable for when using personalizing tools in contacts with clients. We submit that offering an online personalization of insurance products ought to be regarded as being equivalent to providing advice under Art. 2, Sec. 1, Point 15 of the European Union Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). From the consumer’s perspective, our analysis makes the case for the insurance distributor’s liability for mispersonalization of an insurance contract.

Features of Functioning of the Market Environment of IT Services in Ukraine

The article is aimed at analyzing the domestic and foreign environment of IT services companies; identifying problems, trends and promising solutions for the development of this industry in the future, taking into account the geopolitical and regulatory changes. The article considers the essence of the information product, the evolution of the domestic market from the provision of individual outsourcing services to the development of innovative technologies and providing comprehensive solutions to the business problems of an individual client. A structural analysis of sales of products in the context of legal organization of enterprises and activities according to the CEA, and a dynamic analysis of income and contribution to GDP of the country are carried out. The balance of foreign trade in IT services, the type and geographical structure of export-import operations indicating the main trading partners are analyzed. The main companies that operate in the domestic market are named by the number of employment of professionals and the territorial priority of their location; a characterization of IT specialists of Ukraine by age, experience, level of qualification, mentality and gender, etc. is provided. The main types of activity and the availability of human resources of leading IT companies engaged in information products and having their own centers of global business are allocated. The main competitors along with competitive advantages of domestic IT specialists are determined. The main achievements of the industry are presented. Both the global and national problems of the industry are identified, in particular the impact of the COVID-factor. The main directions of problem solving in the industry environment are proposed.

PECULIARITIES OF USING PERSONALIZED MARKETING IN THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITALIZATION

The article reveals the peculiarities of modern companies development in the conditions of entrepreneurial activity digitalization and transformation by reorientation to the online environment, which allows to increase the level of competitiveness. The growing need of most users to implement individual approaches to product presentation by companies has been proven. Best practices show the success of personalized marketing in the process of increasing consumer loyalty to the brand. The peculiarities of using personalized marketing to increase the level of the target audience loyalty are revealed. The essential role of machine learning methods in the processing of structured and unstructured information obtained through digital channels for the construction of effective models of communications personalization with an individual client. The main formation stages of an effective strategy of personalized marketing are given. Personalization of marketing on the basis of profiling involves operational characterization of an individual visitor according to a system of collected indicators and the implementation of machine learning appropriate model, in most cases modern practices use different neural network architectures, achieving a high level of reliability. Active software development enables companies to apply ready-made solutions to optimize marketing strategy by reorienting to personalized offers to individual customers. Examples of personalization introduction by individual companies in the implementation of appropriate digital marketing tools are presented. Social media is one of the main resources used by the vast majority of the population in the digital environment. Companies actively use social media marketing to communicate with the target audience, providing access to thematic content at regular intervals, which helps stimulate consumer interest in the products of a particular brand. The introduction of innovations encourages companies to constantly adjust the use of digital marketing tools, refocusing on more effective ones in order to strengthen the level of communication with the target audience and increase conversions.

Telepsychiatry and Outpatient Department Services

The utilization of telemedicine and telepsychiatry (TP) services in the outpatient department (OPD) has been increasing in recent years. The information about the technological, administrative, and clinical challenges is being addressed by the telemedicine and TP guidelines published by several individual nations. TP aims to address the treatment gaps, barriers for utilization, accessibility, diagnostic validity, financial implications, and individual client preferences. Utilization of TP in the OPD varies from country to country depending upon their healthcare delivery systems. It also varies in populations utilizing the TP services—urban, rural, child and adolescent, geriatric, and differently abled. TP services in the OPDs are being incorporated differentially by government organizations, insurance recognized psychiatric healthcare organizations, private psychiatric group practice deliverers, and individual, standalone psychiatric healthcare deliverers. TP may not replace the traditional in-person consultations completely. Covid-19 pandemic has hastened its utilization across several healthcare delivery systems. Healthcare organizations, clinicians, other healthcare deliverers, and end users are in the process of adapting to the new scenario. Incorporation of the big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other technological advances in the psychiatric healthcare delivery systems into TP services in the OPDs would significantly contribute to the overall quality and efficacy of the psychiatric healthcare delivery systems in the future.

MIDWIVES’ KNOWLEDGE ON INCREASED WEIGHT GAIN AND AMOUNT OF CALORIE CONSUMPTION IN PREGNANCY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

This qualitative study provides an illustration that a midwife must follow the recommendations by the International Confederation of Midwives that the care given to the clients must be holistic. This should also occur in the consultation given during the antenatal visit about the ideal range of weight gain for each individual client along with the recommended amount of calorie intake. Therefore, when the two basic kinds of knowledge are less mastered by midwives, the care will be less holistic. Therefore, collaboration with nutritionists can be done when the midwife has detected what has happened to her client. With the correct mastery of competencies, the practice of midwifery care will become holistic and comprehensive.

Probing the 14-3-3 Isoform-Specificity Profile of Interactions Stabilized by Fusicoccin A

Fusicoccin A (FC) is a fungal phytotoxin that stabilizes protein–protein interactions (PPIs) between 14-3-3 adapter proteins and their phosphoprotein interaction partners. In recent years, FC has emerged as an important chemical probe of human 14-3-3 PPIs implicated in cancer and neurological diseases. These previous studies have established the structural requirements for FC-induced stabilization of 14-3-3·client phosphoprotein complexes; however, the effect of different 14-3-3 isoforms on FC activity has not been systematically explored. This is a relevant question for the continued development of FC variants because there are seven distinct isoforms of 14-3-3 in humans. Despite their remarkable sequence and structural similarities, a growing body of experimental evidence supports both tissue-specific expression of 14-3-3 isoforms and isoform-specific functions <i>in vivo</i>. Herein, we report the isoform-specificity profile of FC <i>in vitro</i>using recombinant human 14-3-3 isoforms and a focused library of fluorescein-labeled hexaphosphopeptides mimicking the C-terminal 14-3-3 recognition domains of client phosphoproteins targeted by FC in cell culture. Our results reveal modest isoform preferences for individual client phospholigands and demonstrate that FC differentially stabilizes PPIs involving 14-3-3s. Together, these data provide strong motivation for the development of non-natural FC variants with enhanced selectivity for individual 14-3-3 isoforms.