The proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour: towards a conceptual framework for comparative research by Kathrin S. Kopp, Patricia Kanngiesser, Rahel K. Brügger, Moritz M. Daum, Anja Gampe, Moritz Köster, Carel P. van Schaik, Katja Liebal, Judith M. Burkart

“…Abstract Humans and many other animal species act in ways that benefit others. Such prosocial behaviour has been studied extensively across a range of disciplines over the last decades, but findings to date have led to conflicting conclusions about prosociality across and even within species. …”
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IGJR issue 1/2018 by IF and FRFG

“…• Might opportunity-equalising human capital investments be positive-sum ways of improving the intergenerational fairness of public policies (Heckman 2013; Vanhuysse 2015)? …”
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Class Action as a Strategy for Saving Waqf Land Assets in Indonesia by Rimanto Rimanto, Kholid Hidayatullah

“…This research is focused on finding the construction of salvage waqf assets that do not have adequate legality from reclaiming efforts by wakif heirs. …”
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Academic Debt in Higher Education: An Analysis of the Causes and Opportunities to Overcome by Yu. S. Ezrokh, A. M. Kashirina

“…The purpose of the study is to identify the key problems based on the results of a comprehensive empirical analysis of the situation of the formation of massive academic debt (using the example of the “Business Informatics” direction at a Russian university) and to substantiate ways to improve the activities of universities in order to overcome them and reduce students’ academic dept. …”
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Challenges and possible improvements for healthcare teams at outreach clinics in Nepal – a qualitative study by Ingrid Eriksen, Eirin Helene Rasmussen, Biraj Karmacharya, Seema Das, Elisabeth Darj, Maria Lisa Odland

“…Four categories emerged from the collected material: Finding ORC services being underutilised, Wanting to fulfil tasks and do a good job, Facing inadequate resources, and Seeing the need for improved organisation and cooperation. …”
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THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE SAUDI FINANCIAL MARKET WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF VISION 2030 by Djihed BOUMANKAR, Aboubaker KHOUALED, Khayreddine BOUZERB, Abderrahmen GUEROUI

“…Financial markets are the backbone of the economy for many countries worldwide due to their importance in achieving balance within the overall financial system. They do this through various roles and tasks, such as hedging operations and managing different investments in financial instruments like stocks and bonds. …”
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Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions with Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Methods: The Case Study of Cumbre Vieja Volcano (Spain) by Özer Akyürek

“…Volcanoes have affected natural life in various ways, from the existence of the earth to the present. …”
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Effect of Supervision on Employee Performance in Uganda: A Case Study of Shuuku Savings Cooperative SACCO in Sheema District. by Ayesiime, Peninah

“…The research findings show that Supervision also helps administrators in learning on new ways of how to do things, supervision helps in providing a gap within the employee performance, and therefore after that gap has been realised it will promote learning in the SACCO. …”
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Finding allowance distribution for root and connecting rod necks of crankshaft forging according to coordinate measurements by D. T. Safarov, A. V. Chekh

“…The article analyzes various ways to ensure the geometric parameters of forgings in the processes of hot volumetric stamping. …”
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100 Years of palaeo-research and its relevance for transformation and social cohesion in South Africa by Dipuo Kgotleng, Stella Basinyi, Wendy Black, Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise

“…We call for meaningful transformation and social cohesiveness, through measures to counter the wrongs of the past. To do this, we suggest meaningful and socially responsive practices such as equitable funding schemes, meaningful collaboration, and doing away with ‘helicopter research’. …”
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Does Caregiver Engagement Predict Outcomes of Adolescent Wilderness Therapy? by Joanna E. Bettmann, Naomi Martinez Gutierrez, Annelise Jolley, Laura Mills

“…However, wilderness therapy programs do not agree on what kind of caregiver involvement is required to improve adolescent program outcomes, nor has research examined different types of family engagement and their impact on adolescent treatment outcomes. …”
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Corpus-Based Reflective Practice for Professional Development: A Collaborative Micro Auto-Ethnography by Olcay Sert, Elisabeth Wulff Sahlén, Thorsten Schröter

“…We address this gap in two ways. Firstly, we describe a research and development project in which we employed a corpus linguistic tool to analyse and reflect on our own lectures, with the ulterior aim of promoting a corpus-based reflective practice (CBRP) model that would help other teachers do the same. …”
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INCOMPATIBILITY OR CONVERGENCE: HUMAN LIFE AS CAPITAL by N. M. Boichenko, Z. V. Shevchenko

“…The multiple social identities could be used to add value to the protection of human life, the affirmation of multiple social identities is a means of affirming the unconditional value of human life – it is unconditional in several alternative ways.…”
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Field-independence as a characteristic of police officers’ vital activity by D. V. Shvets

“…Field-dependence and field-independence are respond through individually unique means of perception, receipt and processing of information, which defines them as typical for the subject ways of solving problems, thinking, perception and memorization. …”
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Mental health services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in high-income countries: protocol for a rapid review by Yu Fu, Dawn Craig, Ge Yu

“…Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to mental health services, forcing the rapid implementation of alternative ways of delivering services alongside a greater immediate, and continuously growing, demand across those services. …”
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Wireless body area network: Architecture and security mechanism for healthcare using internet of things by Arun Kumar, Ritu Dewan, Wisam Subhi Al-Dayyeni, Bharat Bhushan, Jayant Giri, Sardar MN Islam, Ahmed Elaraby

“…Paper will also look at ways to increase security by integrating the CoAP I-DTLS protocol with the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256) and utilizing Certificate Authority (CA) improvements. …”
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The role of practical shooting in system of police shooting training: psychological component by V. V. Fedorov, O. B. Piskunova

“…Although much attention has been already paid to the psychological training of law enforcement officers in general and to the use of firearms in the scientific literature, such studies often just outline the problems, but do not suggest the ways to overcome them. The authors of the article aim to analyze the factors influencing the state of psychological readiness of a police officer to use a firearm while performing service duties, and to develop recommendations that should contribute to the formation of a state of psychological readiness, taking into account the specifics of practical shooting. …”
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Social contexts and black families' engagement in early childhood programs. by Jane Leer, Imari Z Smith, Zoelene Hill, Lisa A Gennetian

“…Yet, many parents of young children who are invited to participate in home visiting programs do not enroll. This study fills gaps in the literature by examining how the broader social context affects Black families' engagement in home visiting programs. …”
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The extent of western lowland gorilla social relationships within and between groups. by Kristena Cooksey, Jake Funkhouser, Crickette Sanz, Jean Marie Massamba, Thierry Fabrice Ebombi, Prospère Teberd, Gaston Abea, Gaeton Mbebouti, Kathryn Judson, Sean Brogan, Colleen Stephens, David Morgan

“…In this study, we examined the social relationships of four western lowland gorilla groups in the Ndoki landscape of northern Republic of Congo. To do so, we compiled all-occurrence social interaction and silverback nearest neighbor social networks from data collected during daily group follows conducted over several years. …”
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New frequency stability assessment based on contribution rates of wind power plants by SungHoon Lim, KangWon Seo, Jung-Wook Park, Kwang Y. Lee

“…Depending on their characteristics, these units will support the frequency stability in diverse ways. Traditionally, power systems have relied on synchronous generators (SGs), ensuring sufficient inertia and providing ancillary services for frequency stability. …”
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