Hasil untuk "Social Sciences"

SPULBAR CRISTI , DUPIR MIHAI CATALIN

This article analyses the evolution, structure, and dynamics of the academic literature on green finance in the context of climate change, using a bibliometric approach applied to publications indexed in the Web of Science – Core Collection for the period 2001–2025. The methodology is based on descriptive and relational bibliometric indicators, including the analysis of scientific production, sources, authors’ impact, co-authorship networks, and keyword co occurrence, complemented by thematic maps and temporal analyses of emerging themes, conducted using the Bibliometrix package within the R environment. The results highlight an accelerated growth of academic interest after 2016, with a concentration of publications in economics and finance journals such as Energy Economics, Finance Research Letters, and International Review of Financial Analysis, as well as a polycentric structure of international collaborations dominated by East Asia and Europe. The conceptual analysis reveals three major thematic clusters: the performance and impact of green investments, energy transition and sustainable economic growth, and systemic risks and financial stability. The emergence of themes such as financial digitalisation, fintech, and artificial intelligence indicates recent directions of research diversification. The article contributes by providing a systematic mapping of a rapidly maturing field and by identifying epistemic gaps, highlighting the need to expand comparative studies, interdisciplinary approaches, and analyses of green finance in emerging and transition economies.

Qingchen Li, Yiqian Zhao, Yajun Li et al.

In the context of Industry 4.0, user demands for industrial robots have shifted toward diversification and experience-orientation. Effectively integrating users’ affective imagery requirements into industrial-robot form design remains a critical challenge. Traditional methods rely heavily on designers’ subjective judgments and lack objective data on user cognition. To address these limitations, this study develops a comprehensive methodology grounded in Kansei engineering that combines Extenics-based semantic analysis, eye-tracking experiments, and user imagery evaluation. First, we used web crawlers to harvest user-generated descriptors for industrial floor-cleaning robots and applied Extenics theory to quantify and filter key perceptual imagery features. Second, eye-tracking experiments captured users’ visual-attention patterns during robot observation, allowing us to identify pivotal design elements and assemble a sample repository. Finally, the semantic differential method collected users’ evaluations of these design elements, and correlation analysis mapped emotional needs onto stylistic features. Our findings reveal strong positive correlations between four core imagery preferences—“dignified,” “technological,” “agile,” and “minimalist”—and their corresponding styling elements. By integrating qualitative semantic data with quantitative eye-tracking metrics, this research provides a scientific foundation and novel insights for emotion-driven design in industrial floor-cleaning robots.

Dmitry Yu. Fedotov

The instability of economic processes fuels the inconsistency of the revenue flow to the budget system. In order to overcome the cyclical nature of the budget process, which depends on cyclical fluctuations of economic conditions, fiscal rules are actively applied worldwide. The purpose of the study is to assess the countercyclical effect of the budget rules in force in Russia. The theory of economic cycles constitutes the methodological basis of the research. The paper employs structural, logical and comparative analysis, elaboration, scientific generalisation, and correlation analysis. The evidence is the data obtained from the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia for 2000–2023. The paper examines business cycles in Russia, as well as the cycles of revenues and expenditures of the consolidated budget, the cycles of formation and use of Russian sovereign wealth funds over the indicated period. The correlation analysis found that the revenues of the consolidated budget of Russia are procyclical with the correlation coefficient of the budget revenues and GDP growth rates equal to 0.8029. The procyclical nature of the budget expenditures has decreased due to the fiscal rules applied since 2004 with the correlation coefficient of the budget expenditures and GDP growth rates amounting to 0.5223. However, the procyclical nature of budget expenditures has not been overcome completely. Among them only the procyclical nature of healthcare expenditures has been reduced, while budget expenditures on education and housing and utilities keep on being significantly and to a greater extent dependent on the fluctuations of economic conditions. The paper proposes invoking the principle of fixed expenditures when applying budget rules, which assumes avoiding a decrease in budget expenditures compared to the previous year, calculated at comparable prices.

Наталія Калугіна, Людмила Галан, Олена Івасенко

Статтю присвячено дослідженню впливу цифрових інновацій на розвиток маркетингових стратегій українських компаній, що є важливим аспектом сучасного бізнес-середовища. Актуальність теми зумовлена необхідністю адаптації українських компаній до швидких змін у цифровому середовищі, де інноваційні технології стають важливими інструментами ефективної реалізації маркетингових стратегій. Результати дослідження свідчать, що цифрові технології є вагомим елементом трансформації бізнес-процесів. Наголошено на важливості впровадження персоналізованих рішень для клієнтів, що є одним з основних напрямів у сфері маркетингу. У висновках підсумовано, що сучасні технології, зокрема цифрові інновації, значно змінюють підходи до розроблення та реалізації маркетингових стратегій українських компаній, що дозволяє підвищити їхню ефективність і зміцнити позиції на ринку, сприяючи сталому розвитку та досягненню успіху в цифровому середовищі.

Soraya Araujo, Andrea Bento, Carolina Cohen

Introdução Este estudo analisou a participação social nas consultas públicas promovidas pela CONITEC (Comissão Nacional de Incorporação de Tecnologias no Sistema Único de Saúde) com o objetivo de promover a equidade no acesso a tecnologias em saúde. A pesquisa, realizada por meio de um formulário eletrônico durante junho e julho de 2023, buscou compreender a percepção da sociedade sobre as consultas públicas da CONITEC e propor melhorias na metodologia de Avaliação de Tecnologias em Saúde (ATS). Métodos Foram coletadas respostas de 650 participantes por meio de um questionário eletrônico. Os dados incluíram informações demográficas, níveis de conhecimento sobre a CONITEC e ATS, percepções sobre o impacto das ATS na qualidade da assistência no SUS, viabilidade da participação pública, confiança nas decisões governamentais e a importância da participação da população na formulação de políticas de saúde. Resultados A pesquisa revelou que a maioria dos respondentes estava na faixa etária de 26 a 45 anos, com predomínio de mulheres (69,2%). Cerca de 47,7% dos participantes não trabalhavam na área de saúde, enquanto 52,3% estavam envolvidos de alguma forma, com destaque para aqueles que trabalhavam em estabelecimentos de saúde (26,2%). A maioria dos entrevistados (64,6%) conhecia a CONITEC e seu papel na saúde pública, mas apenas 58,5% entendiam o que era ATS. A maioria acreditava que as ATS impactavam positivamente a qualidade da assistência no SUS (75,5%) e que sua participação nas consultas públicas era viável (80%). No entanto, uma parcela significativa (63,1%) não tinha confiança de que o governo utilizava as informações coletadas nas consultas para incorporar novas tecnologias. A participação da população nas políticas de saúde foi considerada importante por 76,9% dos entrevistados, embora apenas 60% tivessem participado de consultas públicas online, possivelmente devido à falta de conhecimento (76,9%) e confiança (15,4%) em sua capacidade de contribuir efetivamente.  Discussão e conclusões Os resultados destacam a necessidade de melhorias nas consultas públicas da CONITEC para aumentar a confiança da população e garantir que suas opiniões sejam consideradas. Uma sugestão apoiada por 67,7% dos participantes foi a criação de formulários específicos para diferentes doenças ou tecnologias. Essas conclusões ressaltam a importância de reformular a metodologia de ATS e promover uma participação efetiva da sociedade na tomada de decisões em saúde.

Mario Furtado Fontanive

Este ensaio pretende mostrar um caminho que vai da escravidão, à qual foram sujeitos muitos trabalhadores desde antes da Revolução Industrial, passando pela Revolução Industrial, quando a violência a que eram submetidos os escravizados foi transferida para uma forma alienada do trabalho, até chegar às tecnologias digitais atuais. Propõe que os dispositivos tecnológicos digitais incorporaram estruturas alienantes advindas das antigas formas de submissão do trabalhador. O texto inicia falando sobre como as sofisticadas tecnologias atuais são desenvolvidas para resolver demandas que não têm ligação com as reais necessidades de grande parte da população e finaliza discorrendo sobre como uma nova forma de atenção para com populações marginalizadas pode incitar práticas emancipadoras.

Narendra Javadekar, Archana Javadekar, Deepa Thakur

Mental illnesses have a significant impact on the lives of people not only because of their morbidity but also because of their noticeable impact on economic wellbeing. Out-of-pocket expenditure for mental healthcare services is significant in India and may even lead to impoverishment of the families. The present paper states that Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is necessary for mental healthcare primarily because of its rising cost and competing interests in government decisions and prioritization. HTA does a systematic evaluation of the consequences of using health technology. HTA will provide information to decision makers to develop and implement safer, cost-effective, and efficient policies at the individual and government levels. Appropriate guidance regarding the cost-effectiveness of mental health interventions will help to serve the purpose of providing transparent reports in the context of limited budgets.

杜婉琳*, 梅桂华, 马明 et al.

海上风电经长距离高压交流海底电缆接入电网，海底电缆容升效应显著，容易引起工频过电压，同时电力电子器件和线路电容引起的谐波谐振问题也严重影响着电网电能质量，因此进行海上风电场无功配置时应充分考虑过电压和谐波谐振问题。针对上述问题，建立了海上风电场谐波模型，对海上风电场的谐波模态阻抗进行扫描，继而分析海上风电场的谐振特性；然后研究了海上风电场无功特性，计算各种发电出力水平和并网点电压下的风电场无功缺额；接着以降低综合成本为目标，以静态电压稳定裕度、最小补偿容量、谐波谐振及过电压为约束，进行海上风电场无功优化配置；最后通过Matlab/Simulink仿真验证所提方法的有效性。

Burcu Akdeniz, N. Derya Ergün Özler

For the past 100 years, Turkishwomen have had the opportunity to obtain an education and enter the labor force due to the democratic regime established in 1923. Despite some economic and social barriers, they have taken advantage of these opportunities and advanced in their careers to some extent. However, as with all women around the world, they face barriers in their career paths. This study aims to analyze the scientific research studies on the glass ceiling syndrome conducted in Türkiye to gain detailed insights into people’s perception of the glass ceiling and capture their perspectives on the factors that contribute to it. This is a meta-synthesis study aimed at conducting a systematic review of selected qualitative studies and integrating their findings. A systematic search was conducted across local academic databases, namely, Dergipark and Tubitak Ulakbim-Equal. MAXQDA2022 software was used to code and analyze the articles. The factors forming glass ceiling defined by the studies were renamed as 18 subthemes in total and classified under three themes: (1) personal factors, (2) sociocultural factors and (3) organizational factors. Although the role of motherhood and work life balance was found to be the most frequently referred factor, some current research revealed that not only women but also men experience this syndrome in Türkiye, despite the patriarchal culture of the country. The study’s limitations are noted, and the implications and future research directions are discussed.

Diego Luna, José Antonio Pineda-Alfonso

The purpose of this study was to offer an inside look at the coexistence of different ways of conceiving and organising the knowledge of social sciences in current schools. To this end, the methods of autoethnography and critical discourse analysis were used in a case study focused on the teaching experience of one of the authors. The system of categories constructed allowed us to empirically verify the existence of a conflict between two major epistemological paradigms, competency and disciplinary, in clear correspondence with a gap between innovative educational discourses and traditional school practices. In the case analysed, this conflict led to a curricular over-dimensioning, which aimed to expand the elements to be worked on by teachers and their students qualitatively and quantitatively. The causes of this phenomenon are related to neo-liberal pedagogical parameters and allowed us to conclude that we should not conceive of competency-based learning either as an educational change by itself or as a strategy that guarantees change.

Carlos Jorge Lenczewski Martins

The continuous debate and research related to High Frequency Trading emphasises the importance of performing analysis on topics associated with the interaction of traders with different trading speeds, and the effects of this interaction on price efficiency and market quality. The aim of this paper is directly related to the analysis on how information diffusion may affect order submission decisions of traders, with different trading speeds and how these may affect price efficiency or market quality. The incorporation of information in submitted orders evidently affects prices, but it may also affect market quality for different reasons e.g., the use of low-quality information, or the fact that slower traders may be considering information that has already been incorporated in the market prices by faster traders, hence leading to the mispricing of the fair value. This paper provides findings on the above-mentioned topics, based on a literature review - both theoretical or of empirical studies (which are scarcely available) and leads to the conclusion that High Frequency Traders could be treated as natural “insider traders” leading to significant price efficiency, as understood by the Efficient Market Hypothesis.

Alexandru Simion

In order to be successful in an increasingly competitive environment, today every sports organization has to face challenges, which are increasingly difficult to anticipate with accuracy, a fact that causes management to care more and more about performance. The strategic approach to the management of a sports organization has as its starting point the fact that sport has become, in the current era, a complex phenomenon with economic, political and social connotations. We have focused the study on the analysis of financial management strategies and practices used by top sports clubs in Europe, as this is where the highest turnover is obtained in the field of football, highlighting the factors that led to the advantages or disadvantages of applying such strategie.

Sandipan Sikdar, Rachneet Sachdeva, Johannes Wachs et al.

This work quantifies the effects of signaling gender through gender specific user names, on the success of reviews written on the popular amazon.com shopping platform. Highly rated reviews play an important role in e-commerce since they are prominently displayed next to products. Differences in reviews, perceived—consciously or unconsciously—with respect to gender signals, can lead to crucial biases in determining what content and perspectives are represented among top reviews. To investigate this, we extract signals of author gender from user names to select reviews where the author’s likely gender can be inferred. Using reviews authored by these gender-signaling authors, we train a deep learning classifier to quantify the gendered writing style (i.e., gendered performance) of reviews written by authors who do not send clear gender signals via their user name. We contrast the effects of gender signaling and performance on the review helpfulness ratings using matching experiments. This is aimed at understanding if an advantage is to be gained by (not) signaling one’s gender when posting reviews. While we find no general trend that gendered signals or performances influence overall review success, we find strong context-specific effects. For example, reviews in product categories such as Electronics or Computers are perceived as less helpful when authors signal that they are likely woman, but are received as more helpful in categories such as Beauty or Clothing. In addition to these interesting findings, we believe this general chain of tools could be deployed across various social media platforms.

Juliane Junge-Hoffmeister, Antje Bittner, Susan Garthus-Niegel et al.

BackgroundThe subjective experience of giving birth to a child varies considerably depending on psychological, medical, situational, relational, and other individual characteristics. In turn, it may have an impact on postpartum maternal mental health and family relationships, such as mother–infant bonding. The objective of the study was to evaluate the relevance of the subjective birth experience (SBE) for mother–infant bonding difficulties (BD) in women with mental disorders.MethodsThis study used data from N = 141 mothers who were treated for postpartum mental disorders in the mother–baby day unit of the Psychosomatic University Clinic in Dresden, Germany. Patients' mental status at admission and discharge was routinely examined using a diagnostic interview (SCID I) and standard psychometric questionnaires (e.g., EPDS, BSI, PBQ). Both, the SBE (assessed by Salmon's Item List, SIL) as well as medical complications (MC) were assessed retrospectively by self-report. The predictive value of SBE, MC, as well as psychopathological symptoms for mother–infant BD were evaluated using logistic regression analyses.ResultsAbout half of this clinical sample (47.2%) reported a negative SBE; 56.8% of all mothers presented with severe mother–infant BD toward the baby. Mothers with BD showed not only significantly more depressiveness (EPDS: M = 16.6 ± 5.6 vs. 14.4 ± 6.2*), anxiety (STAI: M = 57.2 ± 10.6 vs. 51.4 ± 10.6***), and general psychopathology (BSI-GSI: M = 1.4 ± 0.7 vs. 1.1 ± 0.6**) compared to women without BD, but also a significantly more negative SBE (SIL: M = 79.3 ± 16.2 vs. 61.3 ± 22.9***). Moreover, the SBE was the most powerful predictor for BD in univariate and multiple logistic regression analyses [OR = 0.96*** (95% CI 0.94–0.98) vs. OR = 0.96** (95% CI 0.93–0.98)], even when univariate significant predictors (e.g., current psychopathology and MC during birth) were controlled.ConclusionsA negative SBE is strongly associated with mother–infant bonding in patients with postpartum mental disorders. It needs to get targeted within postpartum treatment, preferably in settings including both mother and child, to improve distorted mother–infant bonding processes and prevent long-term risks for the newborn. Furthermore, the results highlight the importance of focusing on the specific needs of vulnerable women prior to and during birth (e.g., emotional safety, good communication, and support) as well as individual factors that might be predictive for a negative SBE.

Thomáz Augusto Sobral Pinho, Roberto Ribeiro Pinho

Cartographic language has a great importance for the teaching of Geography, providing subsidies that broaden the possibilities of understanding the geographical space. However, many teachers havedifficulties in structuring Cartography concepts and in interpreting graphic materials, limiting cartographic approaches to superficial and decontextualized analyses of socio-spatial reality. Given these circumstances, this study proposes to reflect on the use of Social Cartography as a didactic alternative to overcome these obstacles, enabling the full development of the students spatial reasoning and critical awareness, based on their experiences. The discussion is based on the results of the application of a Social Cartography workshop, applied with three classes of a public high school inPernambuco, located in Recife. From the participatory construction of social maps of the neighborhood where the institution is located, the potential of Social Cartography for school geography was verified, enabling the understanding of cartographic knowledge and, at the same time, the critical formation of subjects in the face of social and spatial reality. From the methodological point of view, in addition to the practice mentioned above, a bibliographic survey was carried out on the platforms: Capes Journal Portal, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), ResearchGate and Google Scholar. The literature review was based on the following KEYWORDS: School Cartography, School Geography, Teacher Training and Social Cartography.

Mehmet Özçağlayan, Filiz Yavuz Çakıcı

Nükleer enerji hükümetler üstü bir konu; bir devlet politikasıdır. Dolayısıyla siyasi görüşleri farklı olsa da 1970’lerden itibaren hükümetler eliyle nükleer enerjiye geçiş sürecinde ısrar edilmiştir. Öte yandan nükleer enerji, başta yöre insanı olmak üzere tüm halkın yaşamını etkileyecek nitelikte bir konudur. Bu yüzden sürecin başarıya ulaşması, halkın, Türkiye’nin nükleer enerjiye geçişine rıza göstermesine bağlıdır. Medya ise halkın rızasını sağlamak için egemen söylemi yeniden ve yeniden üreterek yayan bir kurum olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Kavramsal temelini Gramsci’nin hegemonya kuramının oluşturduğu bu makalede, Teun van Dijk’in Eleştirel Söylem Analizi disiplininden yararlanılarak, Bülent Ecevit’in başbakanlık koltuğuna oturduğu 11 Ocak 1999 ile Akkuyu nükleer santral ihalesini iptal ederek nükleer enerji konusunu rafa kaldırdığı 25 Temmuz 2000 tarihleri arasında, nükleer karşıtı hareketin Milliyet gazetesindeki temsiliyetine odaklanılmış ve bu süreçte, Milliyet gazetesinin nükleer enerjiyle ilgili egemen söylemi üretip üretmediği ve topluma karşı sorumluluğunu ne kadar ve nasıl yerine getirdiği değerlendirilmeye çalışılmıştır. / Nuclear energy is a supra-governmental issue and a state policy. Therefore, although their political views were different, transitioning to nuclear energy by governments since the 1970s has been insisted. Contrarily, nuclear energy affects all people’s lives. Hence, the success of Turkey’s nuclear phase-in depends on the general public’s consent. To provide it, the media emerges as an institution reproducing the dominant discourse. The article, having a conceptual base from Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and using the discipline of Teun van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis, focuses on the representation of the anti-nuclear movement in the Milliyet Daily between January 11, 1999, when Bülent Ecevit became the Prime Minister, and July 25, 2000, when the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant bid was cancelled; and in this process, it was evaluated whether the Milliyet Daily produced the dominant discourse on nuclear energy and how and how much it fulfilled its responsibility towards society.