Emotional intelligence: how to learn to understand your own and others' emotions

Emotional intelligence is a kind of foundation of the personality pyramid. The larger the volume of this pyramid, the more opportunities and influence a person can have on its own life, the lives of other people and on the world as a whole. All four profiles are equally promising. To build an effective life strategy, you need to understand your strong drivers and pay attention to the weak ones. In conjunction with the IQ vector of intelligence, emotional intelligence forms the life strategy of the "Creators". It helps to realize a person's potential and reach the top level of self-realization. The purpose is to substantiate the question of how to develop emotional intelligence. Emotional reactions affect cognitive processes and thinking, because by adapting and tuning to optimal waves, information is better perceived by a person. The authors used different methods: the ontological principle of genetically meaningful logic, a method of transforming concrete images of objects based on their abstract essence. To stimulate thinking, it is necessary to understand emotions well. The results of our study indicate the effectiveness of the implementation of these techniques and exercises for the development of emotional intelligence in high school students (that is, my peers). Thus, the analysis of theoretical sources and our own research has shown that the development of emotional intelligence requires the gradual formation of cognitive, affective and behavioral components of emotional intelligence through the integrated application of active methods for the development of emotional intelligence in high school students.

DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL FOCUS DETERMINE USERS’ INTENTIONS TO LIKE, COMMENT AND SHARE LIFESTYLE BRAND-RELATED CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA?

The purpose of this research is to analyze the differences in users’ intentions to like, comment and share lifestyle brand-related content on social media based on the social capital focus. In this paper, social capital is conceptualized as a positive outcome of users’ interaction on social media, focusing on bonding and bridging dimensions of social capital. However, in order to examine the differences in intentions to like, comment and share between social media users with bridging and bonding focus, social capital is analyzed as a cause of social media engagement, i.e. users’ contribution in terms of liking, commenting and sharing brand-related content on social media. A survey with social media users was carried out, using questionnaires as a method of data collection. A data set of 415 effective responses is collected and ANOVA test was used. The respondents were divided into two groups: social media users with bridging focus and social media users with bonding focus. ANOVA test revealed significant differences in intention to contribute to life-style brand-related content among the social media users with different level of social capital focus. Namely, the results indicated existence of significant differences in intention to like, intention to share and intention to comment lifestyle brand-related content depending on the social media users’ social capital focus. Social media users with bridging focus showed stronger intentions to like, share and comment life-style brand-related content comparing to social media users with bonding focus. The findings of this research study may help social media marketing managers to successfully design and implement effective life-style brand-related content depending on the social capital focus of the users.

Fungi Resistance to Multissite Fungicides

Multisite fungicides have been used for many years in fruit and vegetable crops worldwide. Cases of the fungi resistance development to these fungicides have been rare. From the 2002 season onwards, with the outbreak of Asian soybean rust in Brazil, caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi, site-specific fungicides became the main weapon for its control. From 2002 to 2011, penetrant mobile site-specific fungicides were used and until today in double (DMI + QoI) or triple (DMI + QoI + SDHI) co-formulatoons in an area of more than 30 million hectares and with three sprays per area. This resulted, as expected, in the fungus sensitivity reduction, today with cross and multiple resistance to those site-specific fungicides. From the 2011 season in an attempt to recover control that for some chemicals and mixtures reached < 30%, research was started with site-specific + multi-site mixtures, taking as example Phytophthora infestans resistance development to metalaxyl in Europe showinig long-lasting solution found by the addition of multisite mancozeb. It is expected that the effective life of site-specific + multi-site mixtures may be as long in controlling soybean rust as it has been for potato, tomato and grape downy mildews. This review presents the concepts involved in the sensitivity reduction to fungicides. Some fungal species and fungicides involved are listed. Considering the P. pachyrhizi sporulation potential, the great soybean area sprayed and the number of sprays per area mainly with site-specific co-formulations and the reduced area sprayed with multisites, we discuss the need for annual monitoring of P. pachyrhizi sensitivity to the these chemicals.

‘In the Midst of Three Fires, a French one, an American one, and an Indian one’: Imperial-Indigenous Negotiations during the War of 1812 in Eastern British America

This essay argues that the War of 1812 in Eastern British America, despite the near-absence of land-based conflict in this region, marked a turning point in an imperial-Indigenous relationship that differed notably from comparable relationships elsewhere in North America because of the relatively late advent of substantial settler colonization. Diplomacy, which led in 1812 to the conclusion of a series of neutrality agreements in the borderland jurisdiction of New Brunswick, contributed to the forestalling of outright military conflict in the region. But diplomacy of this nature at the same time reached the end of its effective life, as the balance tipped towards a settled environment that eroded the effectiveness of the formerly powerful diplomatic tools of Indigenous-imperial negotiation. 1

Universality of evolutionary dynamics with arbitrary demography

The assumption of constant population size is central in population genetics. It led to a large body of results, which have proven successful to understand evolutionary dynamics. Part of this success is due to their robustness to modeling choices. On the other hand, allele frequencies and population size are both determined by the interaction between a population and the environment. Including explicitly the demographic factors and life-history traits that determine the eco-evolutionary dynamics makes the analysis difficult and the results dependent on model details. Here, we develop a framework that encompasses a great variety of systems with arbitrary population dynamics and competition between species. By using techniques based on scale separation for stochastic processes, we are able to compute evolutionary properties, such as the invasion probability. Remarkably, these properties assume a universal form with respect to our framework, which depends on only three life-history traits related to the exponential fitness, the invasion fitness, and the carrying capacity of the alleles. In other words, different systems, such as Lotka-Volterra or a chemostat model, share the same evolutionary outcomes after the correct remapping of the parameters of the models into three effective life-history traits. An important and surprising consequence of our results is that the direction of selection can be inverted, with a population evolving to reach lower values of fitness. This can happen because the obtained frequency-dependent noise (affected by the three life-history traits) can generate an effective force that counterbalance classical selection.

Scenario Modeling in Health System Management Perm Region (Part 1)

The article is devoted to the problems of scenario modeling in relation to solving a number of problems of managing the health care system of the Perm Territory, which in recent years has attracted attention by the development of a number of promising projects to develop this industry, to expand the availability of medical services and to improve the level of medical care for the population. Since any good-quality project must be directly linked not only to the future periods of its implementation, but also be scientifically justified in terms of insuring all kinds of risks and threats that will stand in the way of the successful completion of the project, recently all kinds of projects, programs and plans are often developed are created using the so-called scenario approach. Several options for the development of events with this approach are offered to the appropriate circle of leaders or the power structure for the subsequent adoption of an appropriate management decision.The authors of the article consider the main provisions and principles of the scenario approach using the example of the development of the health care system of a particular subject of the federation, which makes the material proposed for consideration very relevant. The authors also define, as they see it, the main result of improving the industry in the form of a target and a national goal — the expected (upcoming) life expectancy of the population of the study area. This socio-economic indicator, which has all the signs of fatefulness, is considered by the authors to be a priority analytical indicator of the level and quality of an effective life of a Russian. The latter determines the purpose of this study.The authors consider the construction of dynamic multivariate models of industry development options for a period of up to three years to be an efficient tool for analyzing and forecasting this indicator, which is presented in the article in the form of five simultaneous equations of multiple regressions. The results of this construction are continued by discussion, and the article ends with the list of the conclusions. The authors also inform the reader about the further direction of their scientific research.

Analysis of the potential for use of floating solar panels on Naghlo hydropower dam

The water and energy challenges have become a big concern in Afghanistan that need to be addressed cooperatively. One of the challenges in the country is electricity generation, and a small part of it is produced in the country, so there are a huge burden and cost to meet the remaining electricity need. Over years and without sustainable management almost all of the dams in Afghanistan lost their effective life due to reservoir sedimentation that led to the reduced reliability of water and power supply. On the other hand, Global warming and high temperature have a direct impact on the number of water sources. Since Afghanistan is located in an Arid to a semi-arid climate that is characterized by the high value of annual evaporation where the precipitation is less than annual evaporation, besides other forms of losses, its surface water is lost through evaporation. On the other hand, one of the challenges in the country is electricity generation, and a small part of it is produced in the country, so there are a huge burden and cost to meet the remaining electricity needs. One of the approaches that can meet both challenges simultaneously is the use of floating solar panels. It has significant advantages over the ground-based type of solar panels. These benefits include reducing water evaporation, improving water quality by reducing the growth of algae, and high solar panel performance. This paper aims at illustrating the potential for use of floating solar panels to generate power and the impact of floating solar panels installation on preventing surface water evaporation on Naghlo Dam.