Utilizing Cinematic Stories to Shift Fear Into Compassion Towards Pit Bull Type Breeds

Creating entertaining yet educational stories to cultivate curiosity in caring for animals can improve animal welfare as well as our own public health under a One Health initiative. More specifically, tailoring well-crafted cinematic stories utilizing thoughtful anthropomorphism about misunderstood dog breeds such as pit bulls can potentially debunk sensationalized media myths surrounding their reputation. Further research is worth pursuing on how an anthropomorphic film with an emotional arc utilizing a non-aggressive pit bull character can decrease a population\u27s previous concerns of “scary” dog breeds discriminated against under breed specific legislation while also championing the use of particular films as moral educators. While the pilot data showed both positive and negative trends in subjects’ perceptions of pit bulls, “scary” dog breeds, and animal sentience after watching the film Kitbull, emotional cinematic stories and the content within those stories matter. We as animal welfare scientists and media professionals must work in collaboration to create truthful yet compelling stories utilizing anthropomorphism more thoughtfully so that we may nurture an audience’s empathy and compassion towards misunderstood animals in society. By increasing our efforts in improving domesticated dog welfare with a focus on debunking societal myths about mislabeled “dangerous” dog breeds such as the pit bull through motion picture stories, we not only better animal and human welfare within local communities, but world-wide

Ідентифікація теоретичних аспектів репутації підприємства

Purpose – to identify the theoretical aspects of enterprise reputation. Design/Method/Research approach. Authors applied a structural-functional method in the course of systemic investigation and substantiation of the methodological toolset of enterprise reputation assessment and the method of logical generalization when analyzing the evolution of scientific views on the nature of the notion "reputation". The information base of this research is the monographic works and scientific publications on relevant subjects. Findings.  Authors have substantiated the theoretical aspects of enterprise reputation, according to which the reputation of an enterprise is formed under the influence of both intangible and tangible factors. Approaches to defining reputation of an enterprise were systemized, with their new classification proposed, which distinguishes the immanent-functional, value, emotional (image), monitoring, market, and integrated approaches. Current methodological toolset of enterprise reputation assessment has been analyzed, and the scope of its application has been determined, as well as the main advantages and disadvantages. An algorithm for evaluating an enterprise reputation has been developed, in accordance with the proposed theoretical approach, a market share, and the totality of consumers values. Practical implications.  Results of this study could form the basis for forming a policy of an enterprise concerning the activation of reputation management processes with the purpose of strategic development of the enterprise and in order  to faster meet the expectations of its stakeholders, which would provide a synergistic effect. Originality/Value.Authors proposed to define the essence of the notion of an enterprise "reputation", which, in contrast to existing interpretations, focuses on the cognitive-contemplative characteristic of an enterprise, which is formed based on the results of comparing the totality of tangible, intangible, personal, and social values, inherent to its external and internal stakeholders; changing them in time and space indirectly affects positioning of the enterprise in the market as a result of change in the way its stakeholders perceive it. Research limitations/Future research. Results of this study should be laid at the basis of the implementation of the proposed algorithm for assessing reputation in the process of enterprise management. Paper type ‒ theoretical.Цель работы – идентифицировать теоретические аспекты репутации предприятия. Дизайн/Метод/Подход исследования. Применен структурно-функциональный метод при системном исследовании и обосновании методического инструментария оценки репутации предприятия и метод логического обобщения - при анализе эволюции научных взглядов на природу понятие "репутация". Информационной основой исследования послужили монографические работы и научные публикации по соответствующей тематике. Результаты исследования. Обоснованы теоретические аспекты репутации предприятия, согласно которым репутация предприятия формируется под влиянием как нематериальных, так и материальных факторов. Систематизированы подходы к определению репутации предприятия и предложена их новая классификация, которая выделяет имманентно-функциональный, стоимостной, эмоциональный (имиджевый), мониторинговый, рыночный, интегральный подходы. Проанализирован современный методический инструментарий оценки репутации предприятия и определена сфера его использования, основные преимущества и недостатки. Разработан алгоритм оценки репутации предприятия в соответствии с предложенным теоретическим подходом, долей рынка, совокупностью ценностей потребителей. Практическое значение исследования. Результаты исследования могут стать основой для формирования политики предприятия по активизации процессов управления репутацией с целью стратегического развития предприятия и ускоренного удовлетворения ожиданий его стейкхолдеров, что обеспечит синергетический эффект. Оригинальность / Ценность / Научная новизна исследования. Предложено определение сущности понятия “репутация” предприятия,  которое, в отличие от существующих трактовок, сосредоточено на когнитивно-созерцательной характеристике предприятия, формируется по результатам сопоставления совокупности материальных, нематериальных, личностных и социальных ценностей, присущих его внешним и внутренним стейкхолдерам, изменение которых во времени и пространстве опосредованно влияет на позицию предприятия на рынке вследствие изменения его восприятия стейкхолдерами. Ограничение исследования / Перспективы дальнейших исследований. Результаты исследования должны быть положены в основу имплементации предложенного алгоритма оценки репутации в процесс управления предприятием. Тип статьи – теоретическая.Мета роботи – ідентифікувати теоретичні аспекти репутації підприємства. Дизайн/Метод/Підхід дослідження. Застосовано структурно-функціональний метод під час системного дослідження та обґрунтування методичного інструментарію оцінювання репутації підприємства та метод логічного узагальнення – під час аналізу еволюції наукових поглядів на природу терміну «репутація». Інформаційною основою дослідження слугували монографічні роботи та наукові публікації за відповідною тематикою. Результати дослідження. Обґрунтовано теоретичні аспекти репутації підприємства, згідно яких репутацію підприємства формують під впливом як нематеріальних, так і матеріальних факторів. Систематизовано підходи до визначення репутації підприємства та запропонована їх нова класифікація, яка виокремлює іманентно-функціональний, вартісний, емоційний (іміджевий), моніторинговий, ринковий, інтегральний підходи. Проаналізовано сучасний методичний інструментарій оцінювання репутації підприємства та визначено сферу його використання, основні переваги та недоліки. Розроблено  алгоритм оцінювання репутації підприємства відповідно до запропонованого теоретичного підходу, частки ринку, сукупності цінностей споживачів. Практичне значення дослідження. Результати дослідження можуть стати основою для формування політики підприємства щодо активізації процесів управління репутацією з метою стратегічного розвитку підприємства та прискореного задоволення очікувань його стейкхолдерів, що забезпечить синергетичний ефект. Оригінальність/Цінність/Наукова новизна дослідження. Запропоновано визначення сутності поняття “репутація” підприємства, у якому, на відміну від існуючих трактувань, зосереджено увагу на когнітивно-споглядальній характеристиці підприємства, що формується за результатами зіставлення сукупності матеріальних, нематеріальних, особистісних і соціальних цінностей, властивих його зовнішнім і внутрішнім стейкхолдерам, зміна яких у часі та просторі опосередковано впливає на позицію підприємства на ринку внаслідок зміни його сприйняття стейкхолдерами. Обмеження дослідження/Перспективи подальших досліджень. Результати дослідження мають бути покладеними в основу імплементації запропонованого алгоритму оцінювання репутації в процес управління підприємством. Тип статті – теоретична

Experimental Investigation of Supersonic Jets Using Optical Diagnostics

The complexity of many fluid flows and phenomena is a well-known characteristic driven primarily by turbulence, which has been a focal point of study for decades. Most engineering applications in fluids will encounter turbulence, and hence the need to understand how turbulence might influence the problem at hand is omnipresent. In many turbulent flows, there are large-scale coherent structures which directly influence macro-scale processes of engineering relevance, such as noise production. Over decades of study, it has been demonstrated that similar structures are often observed across many flowfields, despite differences in characteristic parameters, and this has led to the pursuit of simplified models through the use of these dominant, shared structures. Large-scale, coherent structures are of particular importance in turbulent jets, as they represent efficient sources of sound. Noise reduction of subsonic and supersonic fluid jets represents a large interest in the study of acoustic production in jets, and much of it is viewed in the context of controlling these large-scale structures. Supersonic jets in particular may emit an intense sound known as jet screech as a consequence of these structures. This noise source easily has the potential to be damaging to both structures and humans in close proximity, and is a particular target of noise reduction efforts. Turbulent flowfields from two supersonic, underexpanded, screeching jets are analyzed by means of three non-intrusive, high-speed, optical diagnostics. The first technique is high-speed schlieren. The second technique is pulse-burst particle image velocimetry (PB-PIV). The third technique is known as focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI). Extensive spectral, statistical, and modal decomposition analyses are used in this work to identify, extract, and characterize the most energetic features and coherent structures associated with jet screech. The large field of view of the image-based datasets is fully taken advantage of by creating spatial maps of spectral and statistical quantities, which highlight regions of increased fluctuations or activity. These are shown to agree with, or demonstrate additional features that could not be reproduced by the modal analyses. Modal analyses are used to evaluate the structure of the most energetic components in the flow of both screeching jets

The development of psychiatric disorders and adverse behaviors : from context to prediction

Psychiatric disorders by definition cause significant impairment in an individual’s daily functioning. Certain disorders, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD) and eating disorders, have worse prognosis and high mortality rates compared to other psychiatric disorders. Similarly, adverse behaviors such as self-harm, suicide, and crime are often present in individuals with psychiatric disorders. It is of interest to further understand the etiology and associations of BPD and eating disorders to uncover potential avenues and opportunities for intervention. Moreover, prediction modeling has recently come of interest to psychiatric epidemiologists with the rise of large data sets. Prediction modeling may provide valuable information about the nature of risk factors and eventually aid clinical diagnostics and prognostics. Thus, the studies included in this thesis seek to examine the etiology, associations, and prediction approaches of psychiatric disorders and adverse behaviors. Study I examined the individual and familial association between type 1 diabetes (T1D) and eating disorder diagnoses. We used national health care records from Denmark (n = 1,825,920) and Sweden (n = 2,517,277) to calculate the association within individuals, full siblings, half siblings, full cousins, and half cousins. Individuals with T1D had twice the hazard rate ratio of being diagnosed with an eating disorder compared to the general population. There was conflicting evidence for the risk of an eating disorder in full siblings of T1D patients. However, there was no evidence to support a further familial relationship between the two conditions. Study II aimed to illuminate the nature of the correlates for BPD across time, sex, and for their full siblings. We examined 87 variables across psychiatric disorders, somatic illnesses, trauma, and adverse behaviors (such as self-harm). In a sample of 1,969,839 Swedes with 12,175 individuals diagnosed with BPD, we found that BPD was associated with nearly all of the examined variables. The associations were largely consistent across time and between the sexes. Finally, we found that having a sibling diagnosed with BPD was associated with psychiatric disorders, trauma, and adverse behaviors but not somatic illnesses. Study III created a prediction model that could predict who would have high or low psychiatric symptoms at age 15 based on data from parental reports and national health care registers collected at age 9 or 12. Additionally, we compared multiple types of machine learning algorithms to assess predictive performance. The sample included 7,638 twins from the Child and Adolescent Twin Study in Sweden (CATSS). Our model was able to predict the outcome with reasonable performance but is not suitable for use in clinics. Each model performed similarly indicating that researchers with similar data and research questions do not need to forgo standard logistic regression. Study IV aimed to determine if an individual will exhibit suicidal behaviour (self-harm or suicidal thoughts), aggressive behaviour, both, or neither before adulthood with prediction modeling. Through variable importance scores we examined the usefulness of genetic variables within the model. A total of 5,974 participants from CATSS and 2,702 participants from the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) were included in the study. The model had adequate performance in both the CATSS and NTR datasets for all classes except for the suicidal behaviors class in the NTR, which did not perform better than chance. The included genetic data had higher variable importance scores than questionnaire data completed at age 9 or 12, indicating that genetic biomarkers can be useful when combined with other data types. In conclusion, the development of psychiatric disorders and symptoms are associated with many factors across somatic illnesses, other psychiatric disorders, trauma, and harmful behaviors. The results of this thesis demonstrates the limitations of prediction modeling in psychiatric clinics but highlights their use in research and on the path forward towards personalized medicine

Insomnia in obsessive-compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder

El insomnio es un problema de salud pública que tiene importantes consecuencias negativas para los individuos que lo padecen. Un número creciente de estudios científicos propone una relación bidireccional entre el insomnio y las enfermedades psiquiátricas, sin embargo, la evidencia científica disponible respecto a la prevalencia de insomnio en el trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo (TOC) y en el trastorno dismórfico corporal (TDC), tanto en pacientes adultos como en población infanto-juvenil, era escasa hasta la elaboración de esta tesis doctoral. Mediante la elaboración de 3 artículos científicos, publicados en revistas científicas de ámbito internacional, se estudió la asociación entre el insomnio y las patologías psiquiátricas mencionadas anteriormente, obteniéndose las siguientes conclusiones: o La prevalencia de insomnio en el TOC a nivel poblacional es de aproximadamente 42% y las personas con TOC presentan 7 veces más probabilidades de sufrir insomnio que aquellas personas sin TOC en la población general. o Los factores familiares compartidos con los hermanos y la presencia de comorbilidad psiquiátrica no explican por completo la asociación entre insomnio y TOC, aunque la exclusión de individuos con una depresión o un trastorno de ansiedad comórbidos atenuó significativamente las probabilidades de padecer insomnio. o La prevalencia de insomnio en niños y adolescentes con TOC atendidos en una clínica especializada, coincide con la prevalencia de insomnio de los pacientes con TOC vistos en servicios especializados en la población general (42%). o El insomnio en niños y adolescentes con TOC se asocia con una mayor gravedad de la sintomatología obsesiva-compulsiva y depresiva, así como con un peor nivel general de funcionamiento. o En nuestra muestra de pacientes pediátricos con TOC atendidos en una clínica especializada, el insomnio pareció no interferir en la respuesta al tratamiento multimodal para el TOC. o El insomnio es muy prevalente en niños y adolescentes con TDC que acuden a una clínica especializada en el tratamiento de dicho trastorno (48,5%)

Microfog lubricant application system for advanced turbine engine components, phase 2. Tasks 3, 4 and 5: Wettability and heat transfer of microfog jets impinging on a heated rotating disc, and evaluation of reclassifying nozzles and a vortex mist generator

The wettabilities and heat transfer rates of microfog jets (oil-mist nozzle flows) impinging on a heated rotating disc were determined under an inert atmosphere of nitrogen at temperatures ranging from 600 to 800 F. The results are discussed in relation to the various factors involved in the microfog lubricant application systems. Two novel reclassifying nozzles and a vortex mist generator were also studied

Ghost number of group algebras

The generating hypothesis for the stable module category of a finite group is the statement that if a map in the thick subcategory generated by the trivial representation induces the zero map in Tate cohomology, then it is stably trivial. It is known that the generating hypothesis fails for most groups. Generalizing work done for p-groups, we define the ghost number of a group algebra, which is a natural number that measures the degree to which the generating hypothesis fails. We describe a close relationship between ghost numbers and Auslander-Reiten triangles, with many results stated for a general projective class in a general triangulated category. We then compute ghost numbers and bounds on ghost numbers for many families of p-groups. For non-p-groups, we introduce two other closely related invariants, the simple ghost number, which considers maps which are stably trivial when composed with any map from a simple module, and the strong ghost number, which considers maps which are ghosts after restriction to every subgroup of G. We produce the first computations of the ghost number for non-p-groups. We prove that there are close relationships between the three invariants, and make computations of the new invariants for many families of groups. We also discuss how computational algebra can be applied to calculate the ghost number

“The Problem of the Adjective”

The realm of the voice and the realm of the affective often share the distinction of the ineffable. Over the past 5-10 years, there has been a proliferation of scientific research and commercial products focused on the measurement of affect in the voice, attempting to codify and quantify that which previously had been understood as beyond language. Following similar work regarding the digital detection of facial expressions of emotion, this form of signal capture monitors data “below the surface,” deriving information about the subject’s intentions, objectives, or emotions by monitoring the voice signal for parameters such as timing, volume, pitch changes, and timbral fluctuation. Products claim to detect the mood, personality, truthfulness, confidence, mental health, and investability quotient of a speaker, based on the acoustic component of their voice. This software is being used in a range of applications, from targeted surveillance, mental health diagnoses, and benefits administration to credit management. A study of code, schematics, and patents reveals how this software imagines human subjectivity, and how such recognition is molded by, and in service of, the risk economy; revealing an evolution from truth-telling, to diagnostic, to predictive forms of listening