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PEDAGOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF VIRTUAL WORLDS-INTEGRATION OF SECOND LIFE IN EDUCATION OF STUDENTS FROM HUMANITARIAN SPECIALTIES

The COVID-19 epidemic has prompted higher education institutions to move to e-learning, regardless of their technological, organizational and pedagogical readiness. E-learning is usually conducted through virtual learning environments. They provide a set of tools for creating and publishing e-resources, conducting real-time video lectures, providing organizational information about learning, assessment, communication, uploading of students‘ work electronically, assessment by peers, work in different distribution and size groups of students, tracking personal progress of each student and the quality of the course as a whole. Despite the benefits of e-learning, most participants experience feelings such isolation, of relationship with colleagues, emotional coldness. This is especially evident for students from Arts and Humanities specialties. The present paper offers a possible solution of this problem based on the integration of virtual worlds in the VLE system. Second Life was chosen as the platform, which provides many free opportunities in a variety of educational contexts. Some of them are: the teachers are part of the learning group; participants learn together and from each other; sense of community/atmosphere; independence of the learning process from time and space; exchange of ideas; social life; multisensory interaction; self-construction of identity through an avatar; creating a learning context; easy access to various learning resources.Pedagogical foundation of educational usage of SL is based on the paradigm of social constructivism of Lev Vygotsky. Learning process in SL is based on learning from other people, through other people and through interaction with the environment (virtual and social). Based on this paradigm, SL implements a number of learning approaches: inquiry learning, experiential learning, learning through collaboration and interaction, authentic learning, learning through role-playing games and simulations, gamification. The very nature of SL encourages authentic learning, in which the student acquire new knowledge and updates existing ones by performing actions in a close to real professional environment, for which he prepares and solves real problems in the field of his or her future profession.The lack of real contact and the transition to fully e-distance learning caused by COVID-19 create psychological challenges for students and university tutors that can be overcome by integrating virtual worlds into the learning process. In this paper, we will propose a model for integration of SL in fully distance learning course for students from humanitarian specialties.
Invalid cloud top properties product of Fengyun-4A satellite imager induced by infrared calibration bias

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Recently, China successfully launched the new-generation geostationary (GEO) meteorological satellites, Fengyun-4A (FY-4A) in the year of 2016. In general, many mature and useful level-2 science product of Advanced Geostationary Radiation Imager (AGRI) onboard FY-4A were well developed in advance for satellite data users. Cloud top properties (CTP, including cloud top height, temperature, and pressure) product as an important science product is always used to monitor the rapid changes of typhoon and weather systems in the operational application. Unfortunately, we still find some invalid retrievals in CTP product of FY-4A/AGRI, which seriously impact on the use of this product (get some complaints from users). After comparing the invalid pixels with valid pixels and the same CTP product of Japanese Himawari-8 satellite and radiative transfer simulations, we find that the radiometric calibration bias of infrared band at 13.5&amp;amp;#956;m is the primary impact factor on this fault. The pixels with brightness temperature lower than 200K show a bias larger than 7-8K, which directly induce the invalid retrieval process in the CTP product of FY-4A/AGRI. However, this fault in CTP also inspire us to use the invalid CTP pixel to monitor the on-orbit radiometric calibration bias of infrared band in the future.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
Fuzzy Histogram Equalization and Computer Vision Automated Identification of Microcalcifications in Breast Cancer

Simple signs existent in mammograms for diagnosing breast cancer are considered to be microcalcifications or MCs. Therefore, true detection of MCs is needed to minimize schedule diagnosis, efficient care and death rate due to breast cancer. A challenging task is to evaluate and interpret mammograms and, moreover to the poor contrast consistency of MCs relative to the remainder of the tissue, the precise identification of MCs, such as the minor size and random shape and size of the MC clusters, has several obstacles. These restrictions in the manual analysis of MCs increase the demand for an automated recognition system to help radiologists in mammogram analysis and it is important to design strength algorithm for this purpose. The goal of this paper is to present an efficient procedure that can be used to enhance images for extracting features to give excellent classification. The classifier senses which the region was normal, benign or malignant. The performance of KNN classifier with fuzzy histogram equalization using Otsu’s multi-threshold segmentation gives excellent results in detection and recognition in mammograms for breast cancer distinguished in image mammograms obtained from the hospital.
The Protection of Confidential Information during the Disclosure of Evidence According to the Damages Directive

Private enforcement of competition law through national courts is on the rise. The Damages Directive predefines, for the first time in continental Europe, means for disclosure of evidence in private actions for damages for the breach of competition law. This article elaborates that disclosure is necessary due to the factual situation in private enforcement. However, the documents that have to be disclosed, often contain confidential information, especially business secrets. Since EU, and to a large part also Member States’ guidelines were missing, this paper will give suggestions and show means for the protection of confidential information during disclosure. To an extent, it, therefore, foreshadows the later 2020 Communication from the Commission Communication on the protection of confidential information by national courts in proceedings for the private enforcement of EU competition law (2020/C 242/01).
Applied knowledge in the humanities (based on the manuscript of N.I.Kareev “General methodology of the humanities”)

The purpose of the article is to introduce a fragment of an unpublished monograph by sociologist and historian Nikolay I.Kareev titled “General methodology of the humanities” (1922). The book was published only in fragments and needs further updating in terms of its significance for the history of Russian sociology. In the publication of archival documents and accompanying annotations, a fragment of the final seventh chapter “Normative and Applied Knowledge in the Humanities” is analyzed. In this text, the scholar turned to the complex theoretical issues of defining the role, function and correlation of fundamental and applied sciences. The text analyzes N.I.Kareev’s classification — the division of scientific knowledge into theoretical, normative and applied. By carefully examining applied knowledge, he revealed it in two aspects — vulgar and pragmatic utilitarianism. Regarding the first, he concluded that the absolutization of the utilitarian point of view is dangerous for science itself, since it makes the development of science dependent on particular goals, including party interests, and subordinates science to the changing circumstances of the moment. On the other hand, theoretical knowledge can also have value as the most reliable basis for any practical discipline. The importance of applied knowledge is due to the fact that true (factual) knowledge about society can only be obtained by inductive means, i. e., in order to cognize social reality, applied sciences must precede theoretical ones. The meaning of applied knowledge is that it, unlike theoretical knowledge, is aimed at transforming nature or society.
Art practices in preschool pedagogy: world trends and Kazakhstan realities

Art has always been an important part of early childhood development programs. In science, quite original techniques have accumulated in this direction, which today require detailed systematization and analysis. From here, the article reveals the world experience in introducing art practices in early childhood development programs. The author analyzes the best practices of cognitive and socio-emotional development of preschool children, based on different types of art. At the same time, the author looks for critically reflects on the achievements of Kazakhstan preschool pedagogy accumulated to this day in the context of the analyzed issue. The article presents the theoretical justification of the development model of young children in the system of preschool pedagogy, based mainly on visual arts. Systematic focused art education of children 3-4 years old is based on the formation of a steady interest of children in visual art as one of the most effective methods of active cognition of the world. The author’s methodology is based solely on generally available creative techniques and materials, which allows teachers and parents to widely use this experience in everyday life, helping children to express their impressions in graphic and plastic form.
A Novel Framework of Disambiguation Technique for Discovering Concept Drift

Word Sense Disambiguation has been a trending research area in Natural Language Processing. WSD is basically solution to the ambiguity which comes due to different meaning of words in different context. Major problem of WSD is that completely different algorithm might be needed for different applications. This paper presents a brief introduction to Word Sense Disambiguation and provides a structure for discovering concept drift. It works with the situation of the linguistic processing.
МАЛАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ ЛИНГВИСТИКИ И МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ КАК РЕСУРС ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОГО СОПРОВОЖДЕНИЯ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО САМООПРЕДЕЛЕНИЯ СТАРШЕКЛАССНИКОВ

Educational-and-professional self-identification of high school students is important in the social situation of their development. This process results in the conscious choice of the educational-and-professional direction and one's professional education in the future. Despite the availability of a considerable experience within practices in the activity of educational organizations, the occupational guidance work is not always effective. Therefore, new organizational approaches based on the idea of continuous pedagogical support of personality professional selfdetermination are needed. Pedagogical support for high school students is aimed to provide assistance in choosing a field of future professional activity, as well as developing competences required for their successful self-identification. The article describes the technology of pedagogical support for high school students’ professional self-identification implemented in Junior Academy of the SUSU Institute of Linguistics and International Communications (ILIC). Literature review and the analysis of pedagogical experience were used to define the methods and forms of pedagogical support. A questionnaire and statistical data analysis methods were used to define the effectives of Junior Academy activity. It was concluded that pedagogical support of professional self-identification of students implies the creation of an occupational guidance space as a system of opportunities for students' independent and free choosing their professional activity for the purpose of self-development and self-fulfillment. Actualization of a person's professional self-identification is invoked by educational events. The stages, methods and forms of pedagogical support of professional self-determination of students are determined. The survey data and statistics made it possible to outline the ways to improve the work of Junior Academy.
Smart Universities: Assistive Technologies for Students with Visual Impairments

This paper presents the outcomes of an ongoing research project aimed at systematic identification, analysis and testing of available open source and commercial software systems that could significantly benefit college and university students with visual impairments in highly technological learning environments—smart universities. We analyzed dozens of software systems available for students with visual impairments, including JAWS, VoiceOver, Emacspeak, Orca, NVDA, ChromeVox, Duxbury Braille Translator, Kurzweil 1000, ZoomText, DesktopZoom, Microsoft Narrator, MAGic, ZoomText, Microsoft Magnifer, RoboBraille, OpenBook, Mind Manager, SensusAccess, Index Everest D, Focus 80, FreedomScientific Topaz, VisioBook, TSI Voyager XL, Opti Lite, Optelec ClearView, and other systems. Based on a careful analysis of available open source and commercial products we identified the top software systems that we recommend for implementation in smart universities to benefit students with visual impairments.
Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Brand Experiences: An Abstract

Virtual Reality (VR), an immersive computing technology (ICT) that incorporates multiple technologies to submerge the user in a responsive virtual world (Berg and Vance 2016; Brooks 1999), is receiving increasing attention from marketers. Because of increasing interest in VR applications, several researchers have begun to investigate how to use these applications to engage consumers with brands. For instance, research suggests that increasing the number and intensity of sensory inputs increases the imagination potential of VR. Existing technologies and applications offer a high degree of visual and auditory output, though the development of other sensory input is ongoing; the advancement of VR to facilitate the stimulation of all five senses has been a topic since the 1960s (Burdea and Coiffet 2003; Guttentag 2010; Gutiérrez et al. 2008; Price et al. 2013). Thus, the aim of this investigation is to test the effects of two sensory inputs – smell and sound – on consumer responses in a VR setting.In study 1, fifty-four undergraduate students (male = 16; mean age = 22) from a French university participated in a 2-level (smell: yes vs. no) between-subjects experience involving a virtual reality experience with chocolate (Villakuyaya). In study 2, sixty-one undergraduate students (male = 20; mean age = 23) from a French university participated in a 2-level (sound: yes vs. no) between-subjects experiment involving a virtual reality experience with tequila (Hacianda Patrón). The results of both studies indicate that the presence of an additional sensory input beyond the visual domain (either smell or sound) enhance purchase intentions toward the brand due to increased engagement with the experience.The findings underscore the need for marketers to incorporate multiple modalities in virtual reality experiences to increase consumer responses – doing so can increase competitiveness in the marketplace. This finding is especially important in digital marketing, especially in the contexts of online retail spaces and social media experiences.Future research should test these effects in additional sensory domains, including taste and touch. Further, scholars should investigate the influence that combinations of multiple sensory domains with a visual virtual reality experience can have on consumer responses. Additionally, given that the present investigation focuses on food and beverages, in what other product contexts might multisensory virtual reality experiences be effective, such as furniture, tourism, apparel, health and beauty care, and automotive?
Is information and communication technology a driver of industrialization process in African countries

This study investigates how information and communication technology affects industrialization process in 46 African countries over the period 2000-2015. Two information and communication technology indicators (consisting of internet penetration and Mobile phone penetration), and two industrialization indicators (entailing manufacturing value added and employment in industry) are used. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squared (OLS), fixed effects (FE) and system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The results show that ICT has a positive and significant effect on industrialization in African countries, even if this effect is tiny.
Evolution of opera at early stages of development as a musical theater

The opera originated in Italy. Researchers, right up to the exact date, say the time, when the first piece of music, called the opera today, was written. Nevertheless, the opera form has its own history, despite the fact that it was still a new art form at that time. The roots of this musical style go back to the musical everyday life of ancient Italian village entertainments, so-called «May» games, accompanied by songs and dramatic performances. Around the middle of the 13th century, in Umbria on the squares, people began to hold lauds, religious chants on the plots of gospel themes, which became in the next two centuries the basis for sacred performances (sacre rappresentazioni), a genre close to the mystery. In it, the music was also closely associated with the dramatic action. Thus, the opera, having arisen at the end of the 16th century as a kind of theatrical performance, accompanied by music, has its roots deep into the centuries of the Italian folk art. So, in the vocal class, it is necessary to acquaint students with the works of great composers, genres of musical art, theatrical productions and acting. At the same time, vocals, plastic, dance, acting – all this should be present in the future specialist at the highest professional level.
О троллях и расписаниях

Review of: Chernavin, G.I. 2021. Filosofiya trollya [Philosophy of the Troll]: fenomen platnykh botov [The Phenomenon of Paid Bots] [in Russian]. Moskva [Moscow]: RIPOL klassik
Review Helpfulness Score vs. Review Unhelpfulness Score: Two Sides of the Same Coin or Different Coins?

Online review platforms have increasingly incorporated the review evaluating system, which allows users to evaluate whether reviews are helpful or unhelpful to assist review readers and encourage review contributors. Although the review helpfulness score has been studied extensively in the literature, our knowledge regarding its counterpart, the review unhelpfulness score, is lacking. Addressing this gap in the literature is important because researchers and practitioners have adopted the unhelpfulness score assuming that it is driven by intrinsic review characteristics and that it can identify low-quality reviews. This study validates this conventional wisdom by examining the factors influencing the unhelpfulness score. We found that, unlike the review helpfulness score, the unhelpfulness score is generally not driven by intrinsic review characteristics. We also found that users who receive review unhelpfulness votes are more likely to cast unhelpfulness votes to other reviews. Finally, unhelpfulness voters engage much less with the platform than helpfulness voters do.
La relevancia del compromiso social desde el “aprendizaje experiencial”, pensada en contexto de pandemia 2020

The relevance of social commitment, from experiential learning, at a critical moment, generated by the COVID-19 coronavirus, allows us to rescue from the UCSE-DAR, the processes of comprehensive training of university students in the field of social responsibility university (RSU). In this line, the contextual situation and its conditioning factors for the various fields of society -economic, political, cultural, social and educational, among others- challenge us to a (re) ordering of structures and, in particular, in what the educational field is concerned with achieving continuities in training processes, with the noble imperative of promoting professionals committed not only to their disciplinary knowledge but also to social commitment. This work synthesizes the results of an investigation carried out in the field of Community Service.
Research and Application of Coal Mine Safety Monitoring System Based on Communication Technology

In the process of coal mine production, the dependence on working face equipment is very large, so the maintenance and management of working face equipment has a very important role, which can effectively improve the efficiency of coal mine production and avoid bad production accidents.With the deepening of the mining degree of mineral resources in China, the mineral industry itself has been developed and built for a long time, in which a lot of mining equipment has been used.In some mines with long mining time, we should improve the efficiency of mining and increase the strength and strength of mining.The research and application of coal mine safety monitoring system based on communication technology is a key link in coal mine production, which is of great practical significance and economic value.
METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE UPBRINGING OF MODERN YOUTH BASED ON FAMILY VALUES

From time immemorial, society has been characterized by a specific set of values, the system of which acts as a high level of regulation.Value systems are formed and transformed in the historical development of society.In each society, the value system is determined by the sociocultural, historical, political, cultural, economic conditions of its development, trends in social dynamics, the specifics of a particular period of functioning of society with its difficulties and prospects.The system of values consists of three elements - universal, cultural and individual.This article is aimed at considering methodological approaches to the study of the education of modern youth on the basis of family values, which is included in the element of individual values.The family is one of the main life values for people all over the world and as a system is characterized by the presence of connections and relationships (marital, consanguineous and others) between its constituent elements (family members) and manifests its integrity with an indissoluble unity with the environment (sociocultural reality).Modern youth is going through the process of active formation and development in the family, therefore, in the process of adaptation to the rapidly changing sociocultural reality, they use the system of family values, adapting it to modern conditions.The axiological, personality-activity, gender approaches were also methodological guidelines in the upbringing of the attitude to family values among modern youth.Thus, family values and trends characterizing the state of the family are significant social indicators that educate today's youth.