Hossein Abdipour, Seyed Ebrahim Seyed Mousavi, Abdolali khammari
et al.
The primary aim of the present research was to investigate the correlation between the level of airborne particulate matter (PM10) and C-reactive protein(CRP) in healthy individuals residing in Zahedan. The study was supported from February 2024 to September 2024. Environmental samples were collected every 6 days and on days with high levels of dust in Zahedan due to its climatic conditions. The concentration of suspended particulate matter was measured during these collections. In addition, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method was utilized to analyze the amount of CRP in the blood samples of 40 volunteers aged between 20 and 35 years under varying levels of air contamination. Throughout the study period, the average, minimum, and maximum concentrations of suspended particulate matter (PM10) were recorded as 55, 212, and 500 µg /m3, respectively, signifying that PM10 levels exceeded standard limits. Current evidence indicates that exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) contributes to a range of harmful health effects, primarily through systemic inflammation.The levels of plasma CRP were notably higher during heightened air pollution conditions compared to normal conditions (p-value < 0.05). The concentration of suspended particles (PM10) surpassed the permissible threshold on the majority of measurement days. A positive association was observed between dust concentration and CRP levels. Given the exacerbation of cardiovascular and respiratory ailments when the levels of suspended particulate matter exceed regulated standards, it is imperative to prioritize health programs and personal well-being.
Environmental sciences, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Background: The potential health advantages of functional food products have increased their appeal. Their reception and implementation are greatly influenced by consumer attitudes and purchasing intentions. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is used in this study to examine how attitudes toward and intentions to buy functional food products in Hungary are influenced by health consciousness (HC) and nutritional knowledge (KN).
Methods: From March to May 2023, 396 adult Hungarian volunteers took part in an online survey. The poll measured respondents' intentions to buy functional food products as well as their health consciousness, nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and subjective norms (SN). Through pilot research, the questionnaire's reliability and validity were determined. Multiple regression analyses, one-sample t-tests, and Cronbach's alpha were all included in the statistical analysis.
Results: The majority of participants were female, working students. In support of hypotheses H1 and H2, health consciousness significantly influenced attitudes and purchase intentions. H3 and H4 are supported by the findings that nutritional knowledge strongly influenced attitudes and purchase intentions. Both perceived behavioral control and subjective standards had a beneficial impact on purchase intentions supporting H5 and H6.
Conclusion: This study provides important insights into Hungarian consumers' preferences for functional food items. It highlights the beneficial effects of health awareness, information, attitudes, arbitrary standards, and perceived behavioral control on buying intentions. It was discovered that attitudes play an important role in mediating the link between nutritional knowledge, health consciousness, and purchase intentions.
It was discovered that attitudes play an important role in mediating the link between nutritional knowledge, health consciousness, and purchasing intentions. The dynamic functional food market's marketers and legislators should take these findings seriously. The subtleties of these attitudes and their implications for promotional tactics can be explored in greater detail in future research. Promoting healthier food options and informing policy and marketing decisions require an understanding of consumer perceptions and behaviors.
This research examines the involvement of the community in creating and managing neighbourhood parks in Perumnas Mojosongo residential area, Surakarta, Indonesia, with the risk of transgression. The neighbourhood parks were undeveloped until residents intervened in these government land without legal permission. This research aims to explore the motives for intervening in these sites and the processes that drive the success of self-organised actions by local residents. It expands on previous studies by examining a different setting: spaces intended for public facilities in a planned residential area. The research began with a quantitative strand to select two sites that function properly as neighbourhood parks as the cases. The selection phase analysed the characteristics of the neighbourhood parks using frequency statistics by assessing the sites' condition from participant observation and official documents. Then, a multiple case study utilised semi-structured interviews to retrieve experiences from 16 key informants, residents with first-hand experiences regarding both parks’ development. The research concludes that residents' proximity to government-owned land motivates them to initiate park development, even on a small scale, when the government neglects the land. However, the legitimacy of their actions is only quasi-legitimate, as they lack formal permission from the government to utilise the land. Instead, their actions are supported by verbal permission, the perception of dispute resolution as a permit, or even the assumption of government funding as a form of approval. Social recognition from neighbourhood associations becomes a determinant of the safety of their actions.
The book of regional origin, but metropolitan in terms of the level of the TATLIN publishing house, aims to draw the attention of a wide audience and specialists to the process of comprehension and on this basis- design of creative leisure institutions, commonly called “DK” in Russia. The genesis of the development and functioning of this type of cultural institutions (from 1890 to the present day) indicates not only the uniqueness of the phenomenon of Russian and Soviet houses of culture in the world, but also on the need to rethink the heritage, transform spaces into more modern ones in form and content. On 296 pages, the reader will find a Russian and English text, rich illustrative material (photos, infographics, archival documents, illustrations), a description of the past, present and future of the "system" of houses and palaces of culture in Russia.
Sociology (General), Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Ransomware threats and incidents have exponentially increased causing both financial and reputational losses to organizations of all sizes and sectors. Ransomware attacks became the talk of the news when the world was hit by COVID 19 pandemic and people shifted to remote work in large numbers (Brynjolfsson et al., 2020, p. 13-14). Cybercriminals and threat groups are using various types of social engineering techniques such as email phishing, smishing, spear phishing attacks to spread ransomware infections in systems and networks. To protect organizations, users, and IT infrastructures it is important to understand how ransomware works, and how various threat actors use it to exfiltrate confidential data and information. Hence a critical approach toward ransomware infection and its mitigation by using different techniques is discussed and analyzed in this research paper concerning other scholarly articles and papers.
<p>The article is devoted to the analysis of the social responsibility of Russian business to internal stakeholders in the force majeure paradigm of the coronavirus pandemic. The article shows how the domestic business was socially responsible in preserving its enterprises and jobs, in maintaining the level of remuneration of employees. In addition, the article analyzes the level of social responsibility of business (SOB) and in a number of new areas that emerged during the pandemic, namely: responsibility for ensuring epidemiological safety in the workplace, for vaccination of employees, for the organization of remote workplaces, for the application of new managerial solutions in online working conditions, for maintaining a favorable working environment. climate change in the absence of the possibility of employees working face-to-face, etc. Noting that business as a whole has shown and is showing social responsibility to internal stakeholders during the pandemic, the author notes that in some aspects it is clearly insufficient. Thus, the efforts of business to retain highly qualified personnel, maintain the level of remuneration, to bridge the wage gap between managers and employees, to agitate employees for vaccination, etc. were insufficient.</p>
Sociology (General), Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Fernando Antonio Rosete Vergés, Claudia Escalera-Matamoros, Bárbara Ayala-Orozco
et al.
El presente trabajo busca identificar elementos y características para el establecimiento de estrategias de colaboración interinstitucional e intersectorial a partir del análisis de dos estudios de caso de conservación de la biodiversidad: el Coinbio y el Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano. En ambos casos, resalta la importancia de la adopción local y la implementación transversal, además de que comparten la participación de las comunidades locales y su incorporación a los espacios formales de toma de decisiones, aportando propuestas para resolver problemas ambientales y para el diseño e implementación de políticas públicas relacionadas con el desarrollo regional comunitario, a partir de la colaboración.
Cities. Urban geography, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
This article maps the changing global conversation on virtual currencies (VCs) internationally And brings that to bear on the development of a suitable regulatory framework for VCs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Through a review of recent international developments, the article notes a reversal in regulatory attitude towards VCs. This review suggests two emerging horizons of regulatory intervention. The first concerns the public issue of VCs to develop financial traceability and economic transparency – an arrangement that would be particularly relevant for developing countries with large informal economies. In particular, public VC issue raises follow-up questions of technological adequacy and the legal status of a means of payment guaranteed by the State. The second concerns privately issued VCs traded on independent platforms and focuses on the trade off between economic development, through a private market for VCs, and the risks connected to money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Here, a two-pronged system of ex ante licensing to private venture capitalists, coupled with ex post-sanctions, appears to be an emerging international standard for supporting economic development in countries marked by the preponderant weight of an underground economy.
Economic growth, development, planning, Human settlements. Communities
Neolithic studies were mainly about the agriculture. However, the Neolithic was a period where all aspects of human life changed dramatically. Hence, this era must be studied in detail by various disciplines, as well as the architecture. Although small in number, there still are some studies processing the Neolithic architecture. And additionally, there are restitutions drawn for some Neolithic structures. However, the restitutions are heavily based on personal predictions and are open and vulnerable to criticism. Göbeklitepe is a stunning Neolithic findspot from Tukey. Not only by the scale of the structures excavated but also by the facts it offered, this site forced scholars to reconsider what they knew about the early Neolithic. As the much interest increased in time, many studies processed about this site and various restitutions were prepared as well. Once again, these restitutions were personal, and they must be investigated by the facts that scientific studies on the site figured out. And more accurate restitutions for Göbeklitepe must be drawn, matching with same scientific data.
Humans are naturally born into the world in a variety of different races and tribes. Diversity and difference is one form of cultural treasures of a nation if the people live collectively in the frame of tolerance and mutual respect for each other, thus avoiding various social conflicts. One of the factors that make vulnerable causes of conflict is the language factor. Language is one element of culture that has an important role in maintaining the harmony of diversity. Language is not only understood as a sign only but is also viewed as a social system, communication system, and as part of a particular cultural society. Language serves as a tool of communication in the life of society which consists of a variety of races, tribes through the polite language will be able to build a peaceful coexistence between different backgrounds of history, culture and identity. Verbal abuse in multiracial communication often becomes the trigger of social conflict in the midst of society. Verbal abuse often leads to conflict, because every word that becomes the expression of meaning and meaning is formed based on the perception and interpretation of people involved in the communication process. The inappropriateness of choice of words used will result in perceptions that do not match the expectations of the communicant. Errors of perception will be a major obstacle in the process of communication. If the obstacles are not managed properly it will lead to conflict and hostility. Verbal abuse does not only appear in socio-political life, but also in literary texts. This research was conducted to analyze how the portrayal of language violence in Jacqueline Woodson novels. The theme will be examined in terms of its impact on efforts to create a tolerant society. This study was conducted using a sociolinguistic perspective. The results of this study found violent forms of language in multiracial community communication. There are seven forms of verbal abuse found: countering, discounting, accusing and blaming, judging and criticizing, trivializing, threatening, and denial. Based on these findings it can be concluded that the relation of power and dominance also manifested in aspects of language that directly occur in everyday life, such as at home, in the office, space, class, playground and others. Everything is the context in which individuals spend most of their time interacting, using language to express their intentions, and following up on specific purposes. Keywords—multiracial; sociolinguitics; verbal abuse
The first group to build artificial general intelligence or AGI stands to gain a significant strategic and market advantage over competitors, so companies, universities, militaries, and other actors have strong incentives to race to build AGI first. An AGI race would be dangerous, though, because it would prioritize capabilities over safety and increase the risk of existential catastrophe. A self-regulatory organization (SRO) for AGI may be able to change incentives to favor safety over capabilities and encourage cooperation rather than racing.
Naturally, human life is controlled by human relationships, even the animal kingdom is controlled by races and species. It is very important for a human being to keep such relationships between him and his parents, relatives, neighbors and community. Human kind is created as a social being in need for others. The differences between human beings are based on gender, position, race, tribe and/or power. How such relationships are established? Such relationships are supposed to achieve interest and satisfaction of two parties but sometimes one party attempts to monopolize such a relationship for self interest through the family connections, race, tribe, home or identity. The self interest involved with the higher class may use business, sex, or religion to achieve their goals which will definitely create radicalism in all aspects of people's lives whether they are religious, social or political.
Banyak faktor yang mempengaruhi prestasi kerja (job performance) karyawan. Faktor tersebut dapat datang dari lingkungan luar perusahaan antara lain suasana tertib atau konflik dalam masyarakat dan keluarganya, tuntutan masyarakat terhadap karyawan sebagai anggota masyarakat, baik dari segi politik maupun dari segi sosial.
Economic growth, development, planning, Regional economics. Space in economics
Artykuł prezentuje oryginalną, nową koncepcję teoretyczną wielości rzeczywistości przestrzeni turystycznej, dla której inspiracją stały się prace Leona Chwistka. Autorzy wprowadzają podział rzeczywistości turystycznej na formy, które następnie charakteryzują za pomocą nowatorskiego narzędzia analizy, jakim są itineraria. Rozważania teoretyczne zilustrowano przykładami analiz empirycznych na podstawie badań z lat 2012–2015.
Political science, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
A controvérsia do planejamento (1944-1945), entre Roberto Simonsen e Eugênio Gudin, é um momento privilegiado para o estudo da história das ideias econômicas. A participação de Roberto Simonsen nessa discussão pode ser revista e lida de maneira enriquecedora numa perspectiva de história das ideias. Este artigo investiga a especificidade teórica que distingue a abordagem de Simonsen em relação à de Gudin, postulando que o primeiro entra no debate pela via da história econômica. Sua abordagem está em sintonia com discussões teóricas do final da segunda guerra, levadas a cabo nas próximas décadas pela economia do desenvolvimento no Brasil. A inserção da contribuição de Simonsen no contexto histórico da controvérsia abre novas possibilidades de leitura desse debate essencial na construção de um pensamento econômico no Brasil.
Latin America. Spanish America, Regional economics. Space in economics