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Objectives: This study investigates race-ethnic differences among older non-Hispanic Black, non-Hispanic White, and Hispanic adults' financial, employment, and stress consequences of COVID-19. Methods: We use data from the Health and Retirement Study, including the 2020 COVID-panel, to evaluate a sample of 2,929 adults using a combination of bivariate tests, OLS regression analysis, and moderation tests. Results: Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black older adults experienced more financial hardships, higher levels of COVID-19 stress, and higher rates of job loss associated with COVID-19 relative to their Non-Hispanic White counterparts. Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic adults reported significantly higher levels of COVID-19 resilience resources, yet, these resources were not protective of the consequences of COVID-19. Discussion: Understanding how the experiences of managing and coping with COVID-19 stressors differ by race-ethnicity can better inform intervention design and support services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article describes why and how to strengthen financial competence in learning programs to recognize currency, therefore finance plays a crucial role to be applied to students. Introducing currency to students will be sufficient to influence understanding and knowledge regarding currency recognition through social gathering programs, as well as the wise use of money in the future. The role of the school is quite important in providing knowledge related to currency recognition learning for students. The cognitive nature of students who are still concrete and at the stage of development is quite effective in instilling the value of strengthening financial competence in the currency recognition learning program, with the aim that students who get their names out of the social gathering program on Mondays, which are rotated once a week should be able to manage their finances properly. good and know the types of currency, based on the needs and requirements as a student. The current state of students who tend to buy something without regard to financial principles can lead to irrationality in meeting needs. The research method used in this research is descriptive qualitative research method. From the results of this study, its usefulness boils down to developing learning designs that refer to the dimensions of knowledge and understanding, skills, and attitudes regarding financial financial competence so that they can create learning objectives and outcomes to increase students' understanding for their future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: The MBBS course is believed to be one of the most challenging and stressful courses for undergraduate students. While some amount of stress is required to transform medical students into doctors, high amounts of stress may adversely affect the cognitive performance and personal lives of students. Objectives: This study aims to analyze the perception of stress and stressors in 1st and 2nd year MBBS students and to compare the findings between subgroups of the study such as age, gender, year of study, etc. Methodology: Students were asked to fill out a questionnaire which assessed the perceived stress using the 14-question type variant of perceived stress scale (PSS-14). They were also asked to identify 33 stressors belonging to academic, emotional, physical, and social categories and grade the intensity of stress relating to each factor ranging from 1 (not stressful) to 5 (severely stressful). Results: Out of the total 222 responses, 56.3% of all students perceived themselves to be under high according to their PSS score (>28), while 42.3% perceived themselves to be under moderate stress. Students younger than 20 years, female students, 1st-year students, and day scholars reported higher perceived stress. Students also identified academic and emotional stressors as major determinants of higher perceived stress. Conclusion: A majority of students reported high perceived stress due to various academic, emotional, and physical stressors. There is a need for training students to effectively manage and relieve stress so that it does not adversely affect their personal and professional lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper investigates the citation patterns of financial aspects of elderly care that enhances their life. The study examines the citation patterns in a large corpus of peer-reviewed articles in the Scopus database. A total of 255 articles were included for this review. VOSViewer was employed to analyse citation information from the literature. This study examines the journals that are frequently cited, co-authorship and term occurrence in citations. Overall, our scientometric findings shows that there is exponential growth of literature with expanded international collaborators regarding financial issues toward quality caregiving, and the most term occurrence focused on patient, cost, and service. This study offers valuable insights for researchers in the field of quality aged care and the caregiving industries, enabling them to identify emerging research areas and make informed decisions in relation to the financial aspects of this type of care. By utilizing this approach, researchers can enhance their understanding of highly referenced material, strengthen the impact of their research for funding purposes, explore new and evolving areas in this topic, and identify potential collaborators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to European diplomatic and military cooperation, the Great Turkish War, lasting from 1683 to 1699, resulted in the nearly complete recapture of Hungary from Ottoman rule. Only Banat remained in Ottoman hands until 1718. Although the events of the long war are known in detail, little research has been dedicated to what hardships and conflicts the recaptured territories encountered during the organisation of the military and financial, followed by the civil and ecclesiastical administration. The present study aims to focus on these issues by synthesising the research results of the past decades. It presents the challenges of the reconstruction that began during the war, as well as the conflicts among the military, financial, and civil authorities. During the Great Turkish War, the fate of Hungary was determined primarily by the interests of the Habsburg standing army, the Aulic Chamber (Hofkammer), and the Viennese court. This was also reflected by the fact that Leopold I convened the Hungarian diet only once, at the end of 1687. During the war, the Hungarian political elite, therefore, had very little say in the shaping of events and the new administration of the country. For this reason, the revival of civil and ecclesiastical institutions could only commence very slowly and in the face of great difficulties in the liberated areas, which were under close control from military and financial aspects. Consequently, a part of the country's population often regarded the liberation as occupation by the imperial generals, war commissioners, and chamber officials, and even as a series of devastations caused by the Habsburg forces. The recapture of the historical state of Hungary was, therefore, not without fierce political, social, and religious debates. Paradoxically enough, the Great Turkish War fundamentally contributed to the outbreak of the first independence movement in the history of Hungary, the War of Independence (1703-1711) led by Francis II RAkkzi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper evaluates the connection amid oil and financial innovation in Nigeria. The study employed quantitative technique (ARDL method) for the period of 1985-2019. The results signify that long-run coefficients show no significant connection amid oil rent and financial innovation in Nigeria. Furthermore, a negative connection is established between the pair of variables. The study recommends that financial regulatory body should review and regulate the participation of financial institutions, especially the deposit money banks participating in oil and gas business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study presents a strategic business development model for Iranian professional sports based on a global approach.Methodology: Due to the exploratory nature of the research, the qualitative research method was used to present a model related to the research topic. For this purpose, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 20 experts. According to the foundation data method, the research sample was selected as a combination of theoretical and snowball sampling methods.Findings: The research results showed that Iran's professional sports do not have a stable performance in both income and sports sectors. Also, obstacles and factors affecting strategic business development are based on a global approach in key players, stakeholders, sports structure, critical uncertainty, seniors, surprises, hardware infrastructure, human resources development, and development. It was achieved with the global approach, development consequences, and the preferred future of Iran's professional sports. For effective strategic business development based on a global approach in both sports and income should be provided with appropriate measures, compliance with requirements and taking into consideration considerations of the presented model, the basis for making the clubs profitable and, in the future, the financial and managerial independence of the club. Finally, acquire these previous properties to provide the basis for the optimal entry of clubs into the capital market.Originality: Based on the grounded theory method, interviews with experts and using MAXQDA software, we draw the relationships between factors related to business development in professional sports.

This study aimed to understand various scientific study and scientific sources, namely, to find the relevance between Indonesian millennial financial literacy education and awareness of financial behavior to the financial independence of Indonesian millennial. To facilitate the discussion and explanation of this issue, we have carried out a series of literature data searches from various studies of journal publications, books, and academic procedures that discuss financial literacy issues and millennial behavior regarding finance. After getting the data, we analyzed it by providing consistent coding of the data, evaluating the data into several components, and summarize the implications of the findings so that we could produce a valid conclusion from various data points. Based on the discussion and analysis of the data, we can say that Indonesian millennial financial literacy is very relevant to financial behavior and in supporting the ability and thus capacity in reaching financial independence. We hope the results of this study become an essential input in future study efforts regarding financial behavior, especially of Indonesian millennial generation.

Construction companies are very dependent on the projects carried out by a company. Therefore, measuring whether a company is distressed or non-distressed can be done by looking at the ratios derived from the components of the financial statements from both the balance sheet and the company’s profit and loss. This study offers a new method for measuring financial distress in companies with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). The model provided comes from several financial ratios in 17 construction companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The model is expected to produce the best model by showing the lowest prediction error rate. The results showed that the best ANN model has 25 inputs, 20 hidden layer neurons, and 1 best model output. The model obtained will be tested directly on the sample used; the results are that 6 construction companies in Indonesia have financial distress and 11 non-distress problems. This result proves that the best model obtained can predict the level of financial distress of companies with a small error rate to produce 6 companies identified as financially distressed. This result can be a warning for companies to increase revenue by adding new projects to get out of financial distress status. Traditional financial distress models such as Altman, Zmijewski, Springate, and Fulmer, which have become researchers’ guidelines for measuring financial distress, can be added to the ANN 25-20-1 model as a comparison to strengthen the research results.

Shareholders of listed firms are guaranteed reasonable security prices due to enhanced firm value, which translates to global wealth creation. However, firms’ value has declined globally. Therefore, this paper uses a causal-comparative design and panel data regression model to explore the nexus between corporate governance, asset structure, and value of Kenyan-listed firms from 2010 to 2019. Secondary data were extricated from audited financial reports of 51 firms. As hypothesized, the results show a positive relationship between board composition and firm value with a regression coefficient (0.17, p < .05). The composition of the audit committee is positively associated with firm value with a regression coefficient of (0.629, p < .05). A tangible and notable correlation exists between protecting shareholders’ rights and firm value with a regression coefficient of (0.28, p < .05), while financial disclosure was significant with a regression coefficient of (1.15, p < .05). Plant, property and equipment positively and significantly affect firm value with a regression coefficient of (2.10, p < .05), while financial assets had (0.28, p < .05), which was significant. Current assets positively and significantly affect firm value with a regression coefficient of (1.87, p < .05). Finally, the results reveal a positive but insignificant correlation between firm size and value with a regression coefficient of (0.22, p < .05), while the relationship between firm age and value is negative but insignificant with a regression coefficient of (–0.003, p < .05). The study recommends that sufficient managerial effort be directed towards corporate governance and asset structure to maximize shareholder value.

For 500 years, geopolitical Europe captured almost the entire planet, then after the Second World War it gradually retreated until it saw itself on the verge of extinction, dividing itself between the American West (the new Europe) and the Russian East (Eurasia). After 1990, slowly and with difficulty the core of Europe is being reformed, territorially and numerically reduced, but still a financial and cultural force swinging between the abyss and brilliance. A 9-point plan put into practice could make this continent the core of the world again, based on diversity, multiculturalism, peace and prosperity.

Introduction: Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a performance appraisal method that offers a broad perspective in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the organization's activities and is a prerequisite for strategic management. Performance evaluation as a control tool has always been considered by managers. Therefore, this study was conducted to apply the BSC approach to evaluate the performance of Rasoul Akram Hospital in Abdanan, Iran. Material & Methods: The statistical population of this survey study included all staff of Rasoul Akram Hospital, Abdanan, Iran, in 2021. According to Cochran's formula and sample size of 204, the collected data were obtained from both documentary and field methods. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to assess each component of the research. The confirmatory factor analysis was used as the statistical method for data analysis, followed by SEM structural equations and t-test in SPSS software (version 22). (Ethic code: IR.IAU.CTB.REC.1401.068) Findings: The examination of hypotheses indicates a direct relationship of performance with the implementation of BSC, factors related to internal processes, and the customer-oriented dimension (P

Texts related to economics and finances are characterized by the use of words and expressions whose meaning (and the sentiments they convey) substantially depend on the context. This poses a major challenge to Natural Language Processing tasks in general, and Sentiment Analysis in particular. For low-resource languages such as Spanish, this situation becomes even more acute. Yet, the latest advancements in the field, including word embeddings and transformers, have allowed to boost the performance of Sentiment Analysis solutions. In this work we explore the impact of the combination of different feature sets in the accuracy of Sentiment Analysis in Spanish financial texts. For this, a corpus with 15,915 tweets has been compiled and manually annotated as either positive, negative, or neutral. Then, feature sets based on contextual and non-contextual embeddings along with linguistic features were evaluated both individually and combined. The best results, with a weighted F1-score of 73.15880%, were obtained with a combination of feature sets by means of knowledge integration.

Background: Value-based healthcare provider reimbursement models have been proposed as an alternative to traditional fee-for-service arrangements that can align financial reimbursement more closely to the outcomes of value to patients and society. This study aimed to investigate stakeholder perceptions and experiences of different reimbursement systems for healthcare providers in high-performance sport, with a focus on fee-for-service versus salaried provider models. Methods: Three in-depth semi-structured focus group discussions and one individual interview were conducted with key stakeholders across the Australian high-performance sport system. Participants included healthcare providers, health managers, sports managers and executive personnel. An interview guide was developed using the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment framework, with key themes deductively mapped to the innovation, inner context and outer context domains. A total of 16 stakeholders participated in a focus group discussion or interview. Results: Participants identified several key advantages of salaried provider models over fee-for-service arrangements, including: the potential for more proactive and preventive models of care; enhanced inter-disciplinary collaboration; and the ability for providers to have a deeper understanding of context and how their role aligns with a broader set of priorities for an athlete and the organisation. Noted challenges of salaried provider models included the potential for providers to revert to reactive care delivery when not afforded adequate capacity to provide services, and difficulties for providers in demonstrating and quantifying the value of their work. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that high-performance sporting organisations seeking to improve primary prevention and multidisciplinary care should consider salaried provider arrangements. Further research to confirm these findings using prospective, experimental study designs remains a priority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Most research on socioeconomic status (SES) and eating disorders (EDs) has focused on young White women. Consequently, little is known regarding how SES may relate to EDs/disordered eating in older adults, men, or people with different racial identities. We examined whether associations between SES and EDs/disordered eating differed across age, sex, and racial identity in a large, population‐based sample spanning early‐to‐later adulthood. Methods: Analyses included 2797 women and 2781 men ages 18–65 (Mage = 37.41, SD = 7.38) from the population‐based Michigan State University Twin Registry. We first examined associations between SES and dimensional ED symptoms, binge eating (BE), and self‐reported ED diagnoses across age and sex in the full sample. We then examined the impact of racial identity on associations by conducting within‐ and between‐group analyses among Black and White participants. Results: In the full sample, lower SES was associated with significantly greater odds of BE and lifetime EDs in men, but not women, across adulthood. The association between lower SES and greater BE risk was stronger for Black men than for White men, though significant in both groups. Conversely, Black women showed a positive association between SES and dimensional ED symptoms that significantly differed from effects for Black men and White women. Conclusions: Associations between socioeconomic disadvantage and EDs/disordered eating may be particularly robust for men in adulthood, especially men with a marginalized racial identity. Oppositely, Black women may encounter social pressures and minority stress in higher SES environments that could contribute to somewhat heightened ED risk. Public Significance: Little is known regarding how associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and eating disorders (EDs) may differ across age/sex or racial identity. We found lower SES was associated with greater odds of a lifetime ED or binge eating in men only, with a particularly strong association between lower SES and binge eating for Black men. Results highlight the importance of examining how SES‐ED associations may differ across other aspects of identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since cooperation has been identified to be a key factor of future manufacturing firms' success, manufacturing concepts incorporating cooperation gained increasing interest within research and industry. However, the benefits from a financial standpoint have not yet been investigated thoroughly. Therefore, this paper investigates financial aspects of a resource-sharing platform where manufacturing companies can request resources (in case of shortage) or offer them (in case of surplus) through a central platform. In the first step, the additional costs and revenues are worked out in the context of a resource-sharing network. In the second step, a model is developed in order to evaluate and compare the additional costs (manufacturing, management, administrative, penalty, inventory and distribution costs) as well as the additional revenues (incomes) of a resource-sharing platform. Then, platform-based and direct exchange-based resource sharing algorithms are compared from the financial perspective. Finally, the model is validated and tested with experiments conducted using an agent-based simulation model. The findings (1) can be applied in the design and operation of such a platform, and (2) are helpful for companies who are considering this type of collaboration as a way to increase their competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the concept of digital banks, which are financial organizations that function only through digital platforms, and highlights their evolutionary trajectory and regulatory considerations. This study examines the historical development of electronic banking, the legal frameworks governing its operations, and the widespread acceptance of electronic payment systems both in Jordan and on a worldwide scale. A comparative analysis of conventional and digital banks reveals that traditional banks provide face-to-face encounters and foster established trust, whereas digital banks promote convenience, cost-effectiveness, and greater interest rates. The selection between the two options is contingent upon individual preferences and specific banking requirements. Both traditional and digital banks are subject to government laws; nevertheless, digital banks may encounter heightened scrutiny as a result of their exclusive online presence. The importance of cyber security and anti-money laundering laws cannot be overstated. So the electronic banking institutions have established a permanent presence in the financial landscape, providing novel and streamlined services. However, they encounter persistent obstacles, such as the need to adhere to regulatory requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Financial need strongly predicts women's recidivism. However, little is known about influences on change in system-involved women's financial need. Qualitative data from women with significant increases and decreases in financial need show the importance of tailored assistance finding jobs to improve financial status, and the relevance of worsening physical health and limited access to safety-net benefits to increasing financial need. Prior convictions act as a barrier to employment especially for Black women, and younger women most often associated financial problems with lack of mental health care. Gender, race, and age responsive assistance is needed to improve system-involved women's financial standing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Domestic violence has been a global phenomenon in society for ages. It is so complex and needs to be dealt with accordingly. This paper tries to discuss one of the findings from the overall, bigger study that was carried out to examine the issue of economic abuse and the financial well-being of victims of domestic violence. It attempts to explore the issues faced by victims of domestic violence from the perspective of practitioners who handle such cases. The data of this qualitative study was obtained during interviews and focus group discussions (FGD) conducted using thematic analysis. A total of fifteen staff members or practitioners in the Department of Social Welfare were asked to share their experiences in handling cases of domestic violence victims as well as financial conflicts and the economic well-being of abuse victims. The results of the study found that the issues of economic and financial abuse are focused on the issue of employment and source of income as well as the dependency of the perpetrator and the victim, the issue of the perpetrator’s negative lifestyle and the perpetrator’s control over the financial resources generated by the victim. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Accurate data analysis is an important part of data-driven financial audits. Given the increased data availability and various systems from which audit files are generated, RCSFI provides a way for standardization on behalf of analysis. This research attempted to automate this hierarchical text classification task in order to save financial auditors time and avoid errors. Several studies have shown that ensemble-based models and neural-network-based natural language processing (NLP) techniques achieved encouraging results for classification problems in various domains. However, there has been limited empirical research comparing the performance of both of the aforementioned techniques in a hierarchical multi-class classification setting. Moreover, neural-network- based NLP techniques have commonly been applied to English datasets and not to Dutch financial datasets. Additionally, this research took the implementation of hierarchical approaches into account for the traditional and ensemble-based models and found that the performance did not increase when implementing the included hierarchical approaches. DistilBERT achieved the highest scores on level 1-2-3-4 and outperformed the traditional and ensemble-based models. The model obtained a F1 of 94.50% for level 1-2-3-4. DistilBERT also outperformed BERTje at level 1-2-3-4 despite BERTje being specifically pre-trained on Dutch datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the sustainable revenue of private sports clubs in Iran. Methodology: The research method was qualitative, and we used Strass and Corbin approach. The participants were specialists in sports management and activists in clubs' sports, marketing, and economics issues; then, by theoretical and snowball methods, 16 participants were considered. The research sampling method was theoretical and continued until the saturation. We used depth and exploratory interviews to collect the data, and the validity of the findings was determined by member matching, peer review, and pilot interviews. Open, axial, and selective coding was used to analyze the data. Findings: The findings showed 15 components include organizational attitudes, technical aspects, budgeting, financial support, value issues, human aspects, scientific procedure, professional behaviors, customer orientation, Organizational structure, outsourcing, information aspects, interdepartmental cooperation, media activities, and equitable distribution have an influential role in sports club fundraising of Iran. Originality: Since private sports clubs do not have governmental financial support, this study provides a sustainable fundraising concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This research aims to identify and validate Iranian sports entrepreneurs' optimal use of crowdfunding. Methodology: The research method is mixed. In the qualitative section, the participants included 16 sports management professors, entrepreneurship management, sports entrepreneurs, and sports business people in the interview, and the data were analyzed by Maxqda version--2020 software. Furthermore, 360 participants participated in the survey during the quantitative section, and the data was analyzed with Smart PLS software. Findings: The findings showed casual elements, including entrepreneurial attitude, human capital, and policies. The background conditions include the institutionalization of entrepreneurship, business management transparency and improvement, a customer-oriented culture, and cultural and social factors. Also, the intervening factors comprised laws and regulations, financial and economic elements, protective laws, and information technology factors. The practical strategies also included expert forces, trust building, creating supportive and monetary policies, and communicating with entrepreneurs. Finally, the results showed the growth of sports businesses, distribution of justice in financial resources, economic productivity, and positive attitude toward sports entrepreneurs as social capital. According to the results, the identified factors can provide the necessary ground for collective financing by sports business entrepreneurs. Originality: Funding has always been one of the main challenges of entrepreneurs, and crowdfunding can be an effective way to provide the capital a start-up company needs. The purpose of this study is to optimize collective capital by sports entrepreneurs by a quantitative study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Literature on psychosocial impact, financial burden, and worry in hirsute females with facial hair is limited. Objective: To assess psychosocial impact and financial burden, worry among females with hirsutism. Methods: In this cross‐sectional, questionnaire based observational study, 50 females with hirsutism having facial hair were interviewed and provided with questionnaires examining the psychosocial impact and financial burden. Psychosocial impact in participants was assessed by the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) questionnaire, and the financial burden was evaluated using a composite financial burden score. Self‐reported financial worry was also calculated. Results: A total of 50 completed DLQI surveys and financial burden surveys were taken for analysis. The mean DLQI of 50 hirsute females was 15.98 ± 5.79. The mean value of financial burden score was 0.98 ± 1.45, and financial worry was 1.5 ± 0.90. There were 16% of total hirsute females who commonly used trimming/ shaving and Laser therapy as a treatment modality followed by 12% females who did not use any treatment modality for their facial hair. There were 10% females who used waxing and followed by 6% who used a combination of waxing, trimming, and bleaching for managing facial hair. The financial burden impact of laser therapy was significant (p = 0.013) among all treatment modalities. Conclusion: The present study concludes that hirsutism poses a very large effect or psychosocial impact on hirsute females with a significant financial burden with laser therapy as compared to other treatment modalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Findings from prospective studies question the assumption that mental health problems observed in traumatized adults mainly reflect the effects of potentially traumatic events. Aims: Aim of the present comparative prospective study is to clarify the extent to which victims of potentially traumatic events with mental health, social, financial, and/or legal problems, already suffered from such problems before these events. Method: Data was extracted from three surveys of the prospective VICTIMS-study (T1 = 2018, T2 = 2019, T3 = 2020), conducted with the population-based longitudinal LISS-panel. Differences between victims (n = 340, victimized by violence, accidents, and serious threats in the 12 months before T3) and nonvictims (n = 3,872, not victimized by such events in this period), were examined using multivariate logistic regression analyses. Results: The large majority of victims with current (at T3) anxiety and depression symptomatology (74%), general mental health problems (71%), partner/family (67%), financial (76%), and legal problems (58%), and lack of support (79%), already had these problems (at T1 and/or at T2). A similar pattern was observed among nonvictims. Of the victims with current probable PTSD (at T3), 87% already had any mental health problem. At T3, among both groups, the incidence of problems was substantially lower than their prevalence. The large majority of victims with post-event mental health, social, financial, and legal problems already suffered from these problems in the past. Conclusions: When victims seek help for their problems, professional care providers should be aware that in most cases, as among nonvictims, these problems are chronic/re-current rather than new problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Village Owned Enterprises is a business entity established with the aim of helping provide facilities to local village communities to be able to develop entrepreneurial skills, starting from creativity to produce an item that can generate selling value and use value over a long period of time, by In other words, they are able to compete in terms of quality. However, it is very unfortunate when the active members of Village Owned Enterprises do not yet have the skills to keep financial records which is one of the important aspects of running a business. This activity aims to provide training to every active member of the Village Owned Enterprise in the Kludan Village, Sidoarjo with the Asset Based Communities Development method with several stages that have been carried out including conducting studies, having dreams or targets, setting procedures, setting clear goals and having selfdetermination. It is hoped that the service activities that have been carried out will have a positive impact by demonstrating the development of the abilities possessed by each member of the Village Owned Enterprise in utilizing financial literacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Korea has promoted Northeast Asia's financial hub, the Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI) for September 2022 ranks 5th among Northeast Asian financial hubs and 11th among world financial hubs. In order for Korea to play a role as a global financial hub, it is necessary to study technical analysis, design, and construction of an intelligent ICT financial system applied with artificial intelligence as well as economic, legal, and institutional financial infrastructure in Korea. In this thesis study, we analyze legal, institutional, ICT, and financial security technologies for an intelligent artificial intelligence financial ICT system and an optimized financial infrastructure system that aim for permission from the financial supervisory authority for global financial institutions to participate in the financial market of Korea. and presents best practices for designing and building. Through this study, global financial companies can easily participate in the Korean financial market, and the Korean financial economy as a global financial hub will be revitalized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Child poverty is associated with poorer physical and mental health, negative educational outcomes and adverse long-term social and psychological consequences, all of which impact on service demand and expenditure. Until now, however, prevention and early intervention practice has tended to focus on enhancing inter-parental relationships and parenting skills (e.g., via relationship skills education, home visiting, parenting programs, family therapy) or child language, social-emotional and life skills (e.g., early childhood education, school-based programs, youth mentoring). Programs often target low-income neighborhoods or families but rarely address poverty directly. While there is substantial evidence for the effectiveness of such interventions in improving child outcomes, null results are not uncommon and even positive effects are often small, short-term, and difficult to replicate. One avenue to enhance intervention effectiveness is to improve families' economic circumstances. There are several arguments for this refocusing. It is arguably unethical to focus on individual risk without acknowledging or seeking to address (where relevant) families' social and economic contexts, while the stigma and material constraints associated with poverty can make it harder for families to engage with psychosocial support. There is also evidence that increasing household income improves child outcomes. Although national policies to alleviate poverty are important, it is increasingly recognized that practice-based initiatives have a role to play (e.g., income maximization, devolved budgets, money management support). However, knowledge about their implementation and effectiveness is relatively thin. For instance, there is some evidence that co-located welfare rights advice in healthcare settings can improve recipients' financial circumstances and health, but it is mixed and of limited quality. Moreover, there is little rigorous research on whether and how such services affect mediators (parent-child interactions, parenting capacity) and/or child physical and psychosocial outcomes directly. We call for prevention and early intervention programs to attend more to families' economic circumstances, and for experimental studies to test their implementation, reach and effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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