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The paper is an attempt to study the online participation behavior of youth in Assam in organizing social and political protests through Social media. During several protest demonstrations and rallies which took place in the middle of the year, 2012; there has been a series of cyber activism that took place prior to the street demonstrations and rallies. The paper attempts to justify the fact that, the street demonstrations and rallies which took place during that particular period, gained its momentum largely through Social Media. Therefore the period can be regarded as the beginning of cyber activism in Assam, since such online activities in publicizing and organizing any collective action in the physical world with regards to activism was not seen in the past. Based on the data collected through onsite surveys, such online communities have considerably given rise to new forms of collective action such as on/offline social and political protest in Assam through social media by publicizing and organizing people where the predominance of the youths is distinctly visible. It is seen that, there has been an increasing number of cyber activism among the online 'Assamese' youth communities which has apparently given raise to cyber-civil societies in urban areas. The predominance of youth in such protests is visible, since the use of social media has become a popular culture among the youth. About 17% of the Indian populations are between 15 and 24 and they are experiencing the changes brought by the New Media technology. In examining the practices on social media, authors focus primarily on "Facebook", which is the most popular social networking site in social media. Series of protest took place in the months of July, August and September, 2012 against unethical media practices; particularly the television media in Assam. Eventually protests against the insecurity of the women in Guwahati, the capital city of Assam and protest against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam were also demonstrated on the streets of Assam which gathered huge civic support. Few youth groups from Assam were also established who organized themselves through social networking sites to raise street demonstrations, along with certain other political parties, NGOs and offline civil society groups. The paper mainly studies the participation of youth in such protests and reflects on the case studies which can be regarded as the beginning of youth cyber activism that apparently gained momentum through social media in Assam.

The article deals with approaches to the theoretical study of emotions associated with religious experience. The purpose of the article is to analyze the prospects for the theoretical study of "religious emotions" in the "emotional turn" of contemporary humanities and social sciences. To determine the general frame of emotional-religious discourse, the phenomenological and anthropological research perspectives in the considered disciplinary field are investigated, as well as the confrontation of the universalist and constructivist approaches to the emotional nature of human in contemporary studies of emotions. Religious-emotional discourse is concretized by the example of explaining fear and using it within the framework of theories of the origin of religion. Religious fear is considered in the context of the phenomenological definition of religious feeling as the inexpressible "feeling of creature", "numinous feeling", "sublime feeling". In conclusion, the author focuses on the dichotomy of "internal" and "external" for understanding religious experience as a subjective religious experience and its external expression through ritual, bodily and other practices, as well as on the use of modern evolutionary concepts to relieve tension between the universalist and constructivist views on the origin and development of human emotions.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how repatriates' emotional support network affects their experience of re-entry.


Design/methodology/approach
This inductive, qualitative study is based on 27 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with Belgian organizational repatriates.


Findings
The analyses suggest that expatriation empathy is a key attribute of organizational repatriates' main emotional support providers. In addition, the results show that although partners are a main source of emotional support on re-entry, they are also important potential causes of distress. Lastly, the results suggest that the cultural diversity of a repatriate's emotional support network is linked with characteristics of the assignment and that it affects the experience of repatriation.


Research limitations/implications
The results provide empirical evidence that the expatriation empathy of repatriates' support providers is a more informative characteristic to consider compared with whether they have personal experience of expatriation. In addition, the results suggest that research should also take into account the negative side of social support, and, for example, consider the influence of crossover distress of partners who experience relocation difficulties themselves.


Practical implications
This study points to the possible benefits of organizing social activities or training for repatriates and their partner and any children, as well as the advantages of encouraging expatriates to invite home-country friends to visit.


Originality/value
Although most scholars agree on the importance of support for expatriates' well-being, the sources of relevant emotional support have received little research attention so far, as has how this influences the repatriation experience.

1 20 8 9 ; S ; [EN] The complex data characteristics collected in Industry 4.0 cannot be efficiently handled by classical Six Sigma statistical toolkit based mainly in least squares techniques. This may refrain people from using Six Sigma in these contexts. The incorporation of latent variables-based multivariate statistical techniques such as principal component analysis and partial least squares into the Six Sigma statistical toolkit can help to overcome this problem yielding the Multivariate Six Sigma: a powerful process improvement methodology for Industry 4.0. A multivariate Six Sigma case study based on the batch production of one of the star products at a chemical plant is presented. Palací-López, D.; Borràs-Ferrís, J.; Da Silva De Oliveria, LT.; Ferrer, A. (2020). Multivariate Six Sigma: A Case Study in Industry 4.0. Processes. 8(9):1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8091119 Linderman, K., Schroeder, R. G., Zaheer, S., & Choo, A. S. (2002). Six Sigma: a goal-theoretic perspective. Journal of Operations Management, 21(2), 193-203. doi:10.1016/s0272-6963(02)00087-6 Grima, P., Marco-Almagro, L., Santiago, S., & Tort-Martorell, X. (2013). Six Sigma: hints from practice to overcome difficulties. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 25(3-4), 198-208. doi:10.1080/14783363.2013.825101 Reis, M., & Gins, G. (2017). Industrial Process Monitoring in the Big Data/Industry 4.0 Era: from Detection, to Diagnosis, to Prognosis. Processes, 5(4), 35. doi:10.3390/pr5030035 Ferrer, A. (2007). Multivariate Statistical Process Control Based on Principal Component Analysis (MSPC-PCA): Some Reflections and a Case Study in an Autobody Assembly Process. Quality Engineering, 19(4), 311-325. doi:10.1080/08982110701621304 Peruchi, R. S., Rotela Junior, P., Brito, T. G., Paiva, A. P., Balestrassi, P. P., & Mendes Araujo, L. M. (2020). Integrating Multivariate Statistical Analysis Into Six Sigma DMAIC Projects: A Case Study on AISI 52100 Hardened Steel Turning. IEEE Access, 8, 34246-34255. ...

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