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This article explores selected speeches of three global women leaders during the time of the Covid-19 pandemic from positive psychology perspectives. It focuses on speeches to address and manage the pandemic of global women leaders, such as Angela Merkel (Germany), Jacinda Ardern (New Zealand), and Tsai Ing-Wen (Taiwan). This study explores the question what global women leaders' leadership actions and responses are and how they address their nations with regard to the four pillars of PP2.0 and the PURE model during Covid-19. The study uses a post-modernist qualitative research design. It is anchored in the hermeneutical-phenomenological research paradigm, using leadership theories and PP2.0 as a lens to explore and understand their strengths with regard to the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors use thematic analysis to analyse the selected speeches made by the three women leaders at the onset of the pandemic in Germany, New Zealand and Taiwan. The study contributes to improve the u...

Zoothamnium niveum (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1831) Ehrenberg, 1838, a colonial, sessile representative of the Peritrichida (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophora) from the mangrove channels of Twin Cays (Belize Barrier Reef, Caribbean Sea), is remarkable for an obligatory association with ectosymbiotic, chemoautotrophic bacteria. The ultrastructure of the host and the symbiont is investigated by means of low-temperature and conventional scanning electron microscopy, thin section and freeze-fracture transmission electron microscopy. The cortex, the main interface between host and symbiont, differs from the general pattern found in other peritrichs only in having special inclusions of unknown nature and function in the pellicular alveoli. The stationary microzooids and the swarming macrozooids have a fully developed oral ciliature, similar to other peritrichs. The cytopharynx in the macrozooids is highly reduced and no food vacuoles have been detected. Two morphotypes of bacteria, different in size and shape, are present on different parts of the colony and are assumed to represent only one species. The ultrastructural features resemble those of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. The microzooids feed on bacteria whose size, shape, and ultrastructure is similar to their symbionts. This supports the assumption that Z. niveum gains at least part of its nutrition from chemoautotrophic bacteria.

Previous work on Relative Clause attachment has overlooked a crucial grammatical distinction across both the languages and structures tested: the selective availability of Pseudo Relatives. We reconsider the literature in light of this observation and argue that, all else being equal, local attachment is found with genuine Relative Clauses and that non-local attachment emerges when their surface identical imposters, Pseudo Relatives, are available. Hence, apparent cross-linguistic variation in parsing preferences is reducible to grammatical factors. The results from two novel experiments in Italian are presented in support of these conclusions.

A new method, called the DTG curve fitting method, has been used to determine the kinetic parameters of six major plastic materials found among urban refuse: high-density polyethylene, low-density polyethylene, polystyrene, polypropylene, poly(vinyl chloride), and poly(ethylene terephthalate). This method involves first measuring the weight loss behaviour by using thermogravimetry (TG) and then using the Arrhenius equation to fit the DTG curves obtained from the TG measurement. The kinetic parameter data obtained have been compared to, and agree well, with the literature data. With this method, computer software, named “DTGsim” has been developed, for use under Windows with a user friendly interface.

In 1538, the Christians let escape a great victory on the Turks and the possibility to vanquish definitively Barbarossa. Why this campaign was not a success despite the supposed superiority of the Christians? A synthetic reconstruction of this unfortunate operation at Preveza could provide us many useful informations revealing different mixed interests. Different sources could provide another explanation of the facts, illustrating the mentalities of the time.

The extent of organo-modified clay (C93A) platelets dispersion in polymer matrix and crystallization and melting behavior of iPP-based nanocomposites prepared by a single-step melt-mixing method were investigated by wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), transmission (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). WAXD patterns revealed exfoliated structure of nanocomposites containing 1 wt% clay, and mixed intercalated/exfoliated structure at higher concentration of nanoclay. The isothermal crystallization proceeds faster in the matrix polymer (iPP/PP-g-MA) than in nanocomposite samples. The results obtained for T mo suggest that the presence of nanoclay has induced a perfection of the formed crystals. The presence of C93A particles in PP leads to increase in crystallization peak temperature implying nucleating ability of clay particles, which was more pronounced in exfoliated than in mixed intercalated/exfoliated system.

This article evaluates Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) with a deviation of the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) which reckons that an association stands among Real Exchange Rate, Interest Rate, and Inflation Rate in Bangladesh. This article also determines a crucial heterogeneous firm's trade model which is intentionally considerable the same as the Melitz hypothesis. The optimistic and restraining aspects of the model are evaluated in a pattern intended to feature the niche financial motive of this model. This assessment intends to review how