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Ethics in palliative care
Authors: Haughey Conn , Watson Max
Published: April 2015

Ethical decision-making in palliative care can present unique challenges to all doctors. When caring for palliative patients, GPs will often be faced with complex decisions and discussions on issues including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, capacity, the role of autonomy, truth-telling and hope, and end of life nutrition and hydration. This article aims to provide an overview of the relationship between ethics, the law and our professional responsibilities. It will describe how GPs can utilise the framework of principlism to make ethical decisions. It will also look at how GPs should assess capacity, and address some of the more common ethical dilemmas faced by GPs.
Who Attains Status? Similarities and Differences Across Social Contexts
Authors: DesJardins Nicole M. Lawless , Srivastava Sanjay , Küfner Albrecht C. P. , Back Mitja D.
Published: April 2015

Informal groups form hierarchies and allocate social status in order to coordinate action and make collective decisions. Although researchers have identified characteristics of people who tend to get status, the extent to which these characteristics are context-dependent is unclear. In two studies, participants from the United States ( N = 157) and Germany ( N = 95) engaged in affiliative or competitive group interactions. We investigated whether the nature of the group’s task moderated the relationship between status attainment and personality. As in previous research, we found that extraversion predicted status in both competitive and affiliative contexts. In contrast, agreeableness was only associated with status in affiliative contexts. These findings underscore the importance of examining the relationship between personality and social status in context.
A common genetic variant of fucosyltransferase 2 correlates with serum carcinoembryonic antigen levels and affects cancer screening in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis
Authors: Wannhoff Andreas , Folseraas Trine , Brune Maik , Rupp Christian , Friedrich Kilian , Knierim Johannes , Weiss Karl Heinz , Sauer Peter , Flechtenmacher Christa , Schirmacher Peter , Stremmel Wolfgang , Hov Johannes R , Gotthardt Daniel N
Published: April 2015

Background

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) patients are at increased risk of biliary tract cancer, and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) serum levels might be used for screening.

Objective

To examine cancer screening with CEA in PSC patients and analyse how serum CEA levels are affected by genetic variants of fucosyltransferase (FUT ) 2 and 3.

Methods

In a retrospective cohort analysis we evaluated CEA levels in 226 PSC patients, including 19 with biliary malignancy, and investigated how FUT2 and FUT3 SNPs affected CEA levels. Receiver‐operating‐characteristic (ROC) analysis was performed and cut‐off values were determined based on Youden’s index. A control cohort contained 240 patients, including 28 with biliary malignancy.

Results

Median CEA concentration was lower in cancer‐free patients (1.4 ng/mL) than in cancer patients (2.0 ng/mL, P  = 0.014). ROC analysis revealed an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.671, the optimal cut‐off was 3.2 ng/mL. The FUT2 variant rs601338 (G428A) correlated with CEA levels, and the effect was most prominent in a subgroup of patients genetically incapable of expressing CA19‐9. The AUC improved if ROC analysis was performed separately for wild‐type (AUC: 0.731) and homozygous mutant (AUC: 0.816) G428A. The influence of FUT2 on CEA was confirmed in the control cohort.

Conclusions

CEA is interesting for biliary‐malignancy screening in PSC patients, especially in patients who do not express CA19‐9. This is the first study to show that the combined use of CEA measurement and FUT genotyping is clinically beneficial and that it might enhance the early detection of biliary malignancy in clinical practice. This approach could also be effective when screening for other common gastrointestinal malignancies.
Breast is best: Positive mealtime interactions in breastfeeding mothers from Israel and the United Kingdom
Authors: Shloim Netalie , Rudolf MCJ , Feltbower RG , Mohebati L , Hetherington M
Published: April 2015

We examined mealtime interactions to assess whether they varied according to maternal body mass index, country and mode of feeding in 41 Israeli and UK mother–infant dyads. Feeding behaviours were coded using the Simple Feeding Element Scale. Significantly, more UK mothers breastfed during the filmed meal compared to Israeli mothers. Mealtime interactions did not vary according to maternal body mass index or country. Women who breastfed (as opposed to those who bottle fed or fed solids) provided fewer distractions during the meal, a more ideal feeding environment and fed more responsively.
Self-Doubt During Emerging Adulthood
Authors: Peer Justin W. , McAuslan Pamela
Published: April 2015

Emerging adulthood (EA) is a critical time for identity exploration and making decisions regarding the future. Although most thrive, some emerging adults struggle with the prominent developmental features of this time. Little is known about factors that may positively influence development during EA. This study examined the mediating impact of mindfulness on the relationship between normative emerging adult processes (identity exploration, experimentation/possibilities, negativity/instability, self-focus, and feeling in-between) and self-doubt, while simultaneously considering the moderating effect of age and gender. Using data from the EA Measured at Multiple Institutions project, reports from 1,293 participants were utilized. Mindfulness mediated the relationship between various aspects of development (negativity/instability, self-focus, and feeling in-between) and self-doubt with age and gender moderating aspects of these relationships. The findings highlight the importance of mindfulness during this important developmental period.
Double Cystic Duct in a Septated Gallbladder
Authors: Otaibi Wael , Quach Giang , Burke Brian
Published: April 2015

Double cystic duct in a single gallbladder is one of the least common variances encountered in the biliary system. This article presents a 54-year-old man who had a septated gallbladder with 2 separate cystic ducts. With intraoperative cholangiogram, he had successful laparoscopic cholecystectomy without any ductal injuries or complications.
Vertical distribution and analysis of micro-, macroelements and heavy metals in the system soil-grapevine-wine in vineyard from North-West Romania
Authors: Bora Florin-Dumitru , Bunea Claudiu-Ioan , Rusu Teodor , Pop Nastasia
Published: April 2015

Background

The determination of micro-, macroelements and heavy metals in the soil-grapevine-wine system is extremely important for the wine industry, the grape and wine quality, and also for consumer health. The quantitative analysis of 10 elements: Na, Ca, Mg, Fe, Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, Ni, Co were made in soil at different depths and also in grapevines (leaves and canes). For grape juice and wine there were analyzed the concentrations of Cu, Zn, Pb, Ni and Cd on three cultivars Fetească albă, Fetească regală and Riesling italian, located in Turulung vineyard, NW Romania. All the elements were detected using flame atomic absorbtion spectrometry (FAAS).

Results

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Conclusions

In soil, all the elements studied were under the maximum limit admitted, except, elevated concentrations of Cu. These high values obtained could be an effect of different Cu treatments in vineyards. In canes and leaves, Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, Ni had higher concentration levels than in grape juice (must) and wine. Conversely, the metal acumulation of wines obtained by micro-vinification process (in the laboratory) are lower than in must.
Subclinical atherosclerosis and impaired bone health in patients with primary Sjogren’s syndrome: prevalence, clinical and laboratory associations
Authors: Gravani Fotini , Papadaki Ioanna , Antypa Eleni , Nezos Andrianos , Masselou Kyriaki , Ioakeimidis Dimitrios , Koutsilieris Michael , Moutsopoulos Haralampos M , Mavragani Clio P
Published: April 2015

Introduction

To determine the prevalence and clinical/laboratory associations of subclinical atherosclerosis and impaired bone health in primary Sjogren’s syndrome (SS).

Methods

64 consecutive patients with primary SS, 77 with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 60 healthy controls (HC) οf similar age and sex distribution were enrolled. Demographics, clinical/laboratory features, classical risk factors for atherosclerosis and osteoporosis (OP) were recorded. Intima-medial thickness scores (IMT) and carotid/femoral (C/F) plaque formation, as well as bone mineral density (BMD) and fractures were evaluated. Determinants of IMT/BMD levels and the presence of plaque were assessed by univariate and multivariate models. Serum levels of the Wnt signaling mediators Dickkopf-related protein 1(DKK1) and sclerostin were determined in primary SS patients and HC.

Results

Increased arterial wall thickening (IMT > 0.90 mm) and impaired bone health (defined as OP or osteopenia), were detected in approximately two-thirds of primary SS and RA patients, with a mean IMT value being significantly increased compared to HC. The presence of primary SS emerged as an independent risk factor for arterial wall thickening when traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) including age, sex, hypertension, smoking (pack/years), LDL and HDL levels were taken into account in a multivariate model [adjusted OR 95% (CI): 2.8 (1.04-7.54)]. In primary SS, age was revealed as independent predictor of increased IMT scores; age and lymphopenia as well as increased urine pH as independent determinants of C/F plaque formation and OP/osteopenia, respectively. An independent association of OP/osteopenia with plaque formation was observed when independent predictors for both variables were considered, with low DKK1 levels being associated with both plaque formation and lower BMD levels.

Conclusions

Comorbidities such as subclinical atherosclerosis and impaired bone health occur frequently in primary SS, in association with disease related features and traditional risk factors. Wnt signaling mediators are potentially involved in the pathogenesis of both entities.
Lung function and respiratory diseases in people with psychosis: Population-based study
Authors: Partti Krista , Vasankari Tuula , Kanervisto Merja , Perälä Jonna , Saarni Samuli I. , Jousilahti Pekka , Lönnqvist Jouko , Suvisaari Jaana
Published: April 2015

Background

There is little information on lung function and respiratory diseases in people with psychosis.

Aims

To compare the respiratory health of people with psychosis with that of the general population.

Method

In a nationally representative sample of 8028 adult Finns, lung function was measured by spirometry. Information on respiratory diseases and symptoms was collected. Smoking was quantified with serum cotinine levels. Psychotic disorders were diagnosed utilising the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I) and medical records.

Results

Participants with schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses had significantly lower lung function values compared with the general population, and the association remained significant for schizophrenia after adjustment for smoking and other potential confounders. Schizophrenia was associated with increased odds of pneumonia (odds ratio (OR) = 4.9), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, OR = 4.2) and chronic bronchitis (OR = 3.8); and with high cotinine levels.

Conclusions

Schizophrenia is associated with impaired lung function and increased risk for pneumonia, COPD and chronic bronchitis.
Dock10, a Cdc42 and Rac1 GEF, induces loss of elongation, filopodia, and ruffles in cervical cancer epithelial HeLa cells
Authors: Ruiz-Lafuente Natalia , Alcaraz-García María-José , García-Serna Azahara-María , Sebastián-Ruiz Silvia , Moya-Quiles María-Rosa , García-Alonso Ana-María , Parrado Antonio
Published: April 2015

Dock10 is one of the three members of the Dock-D family of Dock proteins, a class of guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) for Rho GTPases. Its homologs Dock9 and Dock11 are Cdc42 GEFs. Dock10 is required for maintenance of rounded morphology and amoeboid-type movement. Full-length isoforms of Dock10 have been recently cloned. Here, we address GTPase specificity and GEF activity of Dock10. In order of decreasing intensity, Dock10 interacted with nucleotide-free Rac1, Cdc42, and Rac3, and more weakly with Rac2, RhoF, and RhoG. Inducible expression of Dock10 in HeLa epithelial cells promoted GEF activity on Cdc42 and Rac1, and a morphologic change in two-dimensional culture consisting in loss of cell elongation, increase of filopodia, and ruffles. Area in contact with the substrate of cells that spread with non-elongated morphology was larger in cells expressing Dock10. Inducible expression of constitutively active mutants of Cdc42 and Rac1 in HeLa cells also induced loss of elongation. However, Cdc42 induced filopodia and contraction, and Rac1 induced membrane ruffles and flattening. When co-expressed with Dock10, Cdc42 potentiated filopodia, and Rac1 potentiated ruffles. These results suggest that Dock10 functions as a dual GEF for Cdc42 and Rac1, affecting cell morphology, spreading and actin cytoskeleton protrusions of adherent HeLa cells.
Quantitative analysis of tissue deformation dynamics reveals three characteristic growth modes and globally aligned anisotropic tissue deformation during chick limb development
Authors: Morishita Yoshihiro , Kuroiwa Atsushi , Suzuki Takayuki
Published: April 2015

Tissue-level characterization of deformation dynamics is crucial for understanding organ morphogenetic mechanisms, especially the interhierarchical links among molecular activities, cellular behaviors and tissue/organ morphogenetic processes. Limb development is a well-studied topic in vertebrate organogenesis. Nevertheless, there is still little understanding of tissue-level deformation relative to molecular and cellular dynamics. This is mainly because live recording of detailed cell behaviors in whole tissues is technically difficult. To overcome this limitation, by applying a recently developed Bayesian approach, we here constructed tissue deformation maps for chick limb development with high precision, based on snapshot lineage tracing using dye injection. The precision of the constructed maps was validated with a clear statistical criterion. From the geometrical analysis of the map, we identified three characteristic tissue growth modes in the limb and showed that they are consistent with local growth factor activity and cell cycle length. In particular, we report that SHH signaling activity changes dynamically with developmental stage and strongly correlates with the dynamic shift in the tissue growth mode. We also found anisotropic tissue deformation along the proximal-distal axis. Morphogenetic simulation and experimental studies suggested that this directional tissue elongation, and not local growth, has the greatest impact on limb shaping. This result was supported by the novel finding that anisotropic tissue elongation along the proximal-distal axis occurs independently of cell proliferation. Our study marks a pivotal point for multi-scale system understanding in vertebrate development.
The role of fetal monitoring in intrapartum care
Authors: Hastings Chrissie
Published: April 2015

This article provides a brief overview of fetal heart rate monitoring. It discusses the role of fetal monitoring in clinical practice and explores some of the available technologies, within the context of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines for intrapartum care.
The status of assistant practitioners in the NHS
Authors: Jackson Joanna , Bungay Hilary , Smyth Terry , Lord Sue
Published: April 2015

This article documents the findings of a stakeholder consultation to explore the perceptions of senior managers on the impact of the assistant practitioner role, scope for further implementation, and to determine the perceived barriers to assistant practitioner use in the workforce. Interviews with directors of nursing or their nominated alternates were undertaken in sixteen provider organisations in two counties in England. Five main themes were identified: identifying and locating the assistant practitioner; implementation of the assistant practitioner role, challenges to implementing the role, education and training, regulation and registration. Organisations whose leaders are committed to implementing the assistant practitioner role and have expertise in leading change will have most success with the implementation and impact of the assistant practitioner role on service delivery. Implications for nursing management: The introduction of the assistant practitioner role within the workforce needs to be undertaken by an organisational wide implementation strategy where the potential contribution of the assistant practitioner within the workforce is clearly identified and valued.
Securing funds to give your literacy work a boost
Authors: Best Brin
Published: April 2015

Brin Best gives some practical advice on how to unlock the funds available for literacy work in your school and provides some examples of successful bids for relevant school projects.
Look before you leap
Authors: Wigford Andrew , Hall Catherine , Langford Dorothea , Hyrcak John
Published: April 2015

Are you feeling adventurous? Could your job search be extended to overseas posts? Whether you are thinking of making a move at home or abroad, preparation is all.
Little gems at spelling
Authors: Donohoe Tom
Published: April 2015

Tom Donohoe describes how a three-week spelling programme, divided into Ruby, Saphire and Diamond challenges, has made a potentially dull subject anything but.
Trace patterns of the past
Authors: Davis John
Published: April 2015

Bring prehistory to life by copying ancient crafts. Try painting by candlelight, weaving paper and drawing Celtic designs, and exploring their mystical meanings.
The Portuguese Version of Personal Outcomes Scale: A Psychometric Validity and Reliability Study
Authors: Simões Cristina , Santos Sofia , Claes Claudia
Published: April 2015

This article presents the results of a pilot study to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Escala Pessoal de Resultados (EPR), the Portuguese version of the Personal Outcomes Scale (POS), to assess quality of life (QOL) in people with intellectual disability (ID) in Portugal. We present the adaptation and validation processes of the EPR. Data were collected from 1,264 adults with intermittent and limited levels of support needs and respective proxies. Results of the research are discussed in requisites of the validity and reliability. The different coefficients illustrate that this scale may be a useful addition to the QOL assessment in Portuguese people with ID.
Italy: L’enfant terrible of the European spectrum allocation
Authors: Andrijašević Ivana
Published: April 2015

For all of its advantages, digital switchover in Croatia brought new problems. The most severe one is the inability of over 60,000 households in the coastal area of the Adriatic Sea to watch Croatian television broadcaster’s programmes. The reason for this situation is harmful interference caused by Italian television transmitters, which operate on frequencies assigned to Croatia. By doing so Italy directly violates international agreements regarding radio-frequency spectrum allocation and causes direct damage to Croatia and its citizens. However, Croatia is not the only country affected by this problem – Italian hunger for radio-frequency spectrum affects fifteen other countries as well. After too many promises, in 2014 Italy made the first concrete steps towards resolution of this issue. However, due to a long history of broken promises, the latest announcement of elimination of interference by the end of April 2015 is viewed with suspicion.
Places of memory in the new millennium: British influence on Spanish transnational heritage cinema and television
Authors: Oliete-Aldea Elena
Published: April 2015

A revival of Spanish heritage productions has taken place in the new millenium, with films such as Las 13 rosas/13 Roses (Martínez Lázaro, 2007) and La voz dormida/The Sleeping Voice (Zambrano, 2011) and successful TV series such as Cuéntame cómo pasó/Tell Me How It Happened (2001–2011), Amar en tiempos revueltos/Loving in Troubled Times (2005–2012/2013–), La señora/The Lady (2008–2010) and 14 de abril, la República/14th April, the Republic (2011). This article views this development against the backdrop of British heritage productions in film and television during the crucial Thatcher years. Borrowing conventions from this genre, Spanish heritage productions emphasize their ‘quality’ while including a component of revisionist nostalgia in the narratives. The aim of this article is thus to examine how the generalized wilful nostalgia of the last decades is reflected in Spanish cinema and television, which reproduce local historical events in global formats.
Los Métodos Mixtos de Investigación: Presupuestos Generales y Aportes a la Evaluación Educativa
Authors: López Sandra Milena Díaz
Published: April 2015

Este artículo presenta una revisión general de los presupuestos del nuevo paradigma que media entre los tradicionales enfoques cualitativo y cuantitativo: Mixed Methods Research (MMR) y sus aportes en el ámbito de la investigación educativa. El recorrido inicia con la presentación de su contexto de surgimiento, para dar paso a algunas de las definiciones presentadas por diversos autores.Posteriormente, muestra sus fundamentos teóricos y diseños metodológicos, además de algunos aspectos relacionados con la validez; por último, se propone una reflexión sobre los alcances de estos métodos y sus posibles implicaciones en futuros procesos de investigación y evaluación educativa.
Estudo normativo da versão Portuguesa do YLS/CMI – Inventário de avaliação do risco de reincidência e de gestão de caso para jovens
Authors: Pimentel Alberto , Quintas Jorge , Fonseca Ernesto , Serra Alexandra
Published: April 2015

O presente artigo reporta o processo de adaptação e validação da versão portuguesa do Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI) numa amostra de 2363 jovens em contacto com a ex-Direção Geral de Reinserção Social, Ministério da Justiça, Portugal. Este inventário avalia risco/necessidades criminógenas e fatores de proteção dos jovens delinquentes para utilização na assessoria técnica aos tribunais e na gestão de casos. Procedeu-se à tradução, retroversão e adaptação linguística do instrumento e à acreditação de profissionais como seus utilizadores. Foram estabelecidos os dados normativos para Portugal e perfis de risco que permitem diferenciar os jovens em função da fase processual, medida aplicada, antecedentes criminais, tipo de crime e diversas variáveis relativas ao seu contexto sociocultural.
La cocina en la obra de Marvel Moreno, famosa escritora del Caribe colombiano y reina del carnaval de Barranquilla en 1959
Authors: Morales Enrique
Published: April 2015

La obra de Márvel se desarrolla en la Barranquilla de mediados del siglo XX, con mansiones mohosas y rancias, repletas de lagartijas y telarañas, salones polvorientos llenos de espejos, gobelinos y cuadros; jardines con cayenas, acacias y pájaros tropicales, que además del mar y el Country Club serán los lugares recurrentes del universo marveliano.
Martha Derthick and the Art of Policy History: A Scholarly Appreciation
Authors: Berkowitz Edward
Published: April 2015

This essay examines how Martha Derthick creatively combined history and political science to produce influential analyses of key public programs, such as Social Security.
Unraveling from Within? The Affordable Care Act and Self-Undermining Policy Feedbacks
Authors: Oberlander Jonathan , Weaver R. Kent
Published: April 2015

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed through Congress on partisan lines and with only lukewarm public support. The Obama administration and Congressional Democrats, though, had reason to expect that the ACA’s political fortunes would substantially improve as the acrimonious debate over its enactment faded and millions of Americans came to receive significant benefits from health care reform. But 5 years after its passage, the ACA’s political foundations remain shaky. We suggest that one reason for the ACA’s unsettled fate is the role of policy feedbacks that undermine public support for and opponents’ acceptance of the program. The ACA experience highlights how policy feedbacks can vary widely in their political impact, and suggests that some policies are in fact self-undermining. We also emphasize the crucial role of partisan polarization as a mediating factor in shaping policy feedbacks.
Silence, Power and Suicide in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours
Authors: Battisti Chiara
Published: April 2015

This essay aims at highlighting the particular connection between the choice of suicide, and the voices, both abstract and concrete, of power. In every era the malleable materiality of the dead body finds legitimacy in the peculiar hermeneutics of suicide, in sets of institutions, procedures, and beliefs that identify suicidal deaths and assign them meanings. In the novel
Celsus and Chatwin go Walkabout
Authors: Carbone Paola , Rossi Giuseppe
Published: April 2015

A reading of Bruce Chatwin’s well-known (fictional) travel book
System of Continuous Agricultural Education in Precarpathia (Late XIX - early XX centuries)
Authors: Bilavych Halyna
Published: April 2015

Ukrainian public communities have important achievements in development of thesystem of continuous agricultural education in Precarpathia - Ukrainian Pedagogical Society“Ridna Shkola”, “Prosvita”, “Silskyi Hospodar”, the Union of Ukrainians and others. In the lateXIX - early XX centuries, they held important educational work among adults, organized variousforms of training - courses, professional-complementary schools, agricultural schools, high schools,colleges, courses, public universities etc. All this contributed to increasing of economic culture ofthe Ukrainian land. Formation of economic culture of children and adults in Precarpathia had itsown characteristics, mainly associated with the economic, social, historical, climatic, cultural andeducational conditions of life and activities. The system of continuous agricultural educationincluded some educational institutions such as courses, vocational schools, which performedvarious levels of training. Agricultural schools became an important area of lifelong education. Letus consider, for example, the activities of two schools - one of the first established societies“Enlightenment” in the Precarpathia - schools in Mylovanya (Tlumachchyna) and Starokosivska,which was founded in 1942 during the German occupation. Thus, on condition of the absence ofstate Ukrainian professional schools in the late XIX - early XX centuries civil societies created asystem of continuous agricultural education which was aimed at improving the economic cultureof young people and adults
Pedagogical Support of Gifted Students from Carpathian Mountain Areas by Means of Folk Art Crafts
Authors: Kozlovska Iryna , Bilyk Oksana , Kozlovsky Yuriy
Published: April 2015

This paper, presented at the Conference Plenary the possibilities of pedagogical supportof gifted students from vocational schools, living in the mountainous areas of the Carpathians.Education of talented and gifted students requires pedagogical support. The specific conditions, inwhich Carpathian students live, require the development of pedagogical support of their abilities.New approaches to teaching science, which led to the selection of topics of this article aredescribed. Gifted personalities differ from their peers by same criterias. The social aspect of theproblem remains in the shadow: not to be ashamed of your talent and not to compare it withcliches. And goals of educators and psychologists have to be slightly different as is common.Widespread Carpathian crafts include: embroidery, artistic textiles producing, carpet manufacture,carving, pottery, metalworking, fabric painting, knitting, lace, artistic weaving, artistic working ofleather, stones, bones and horns. Nowadays, some detachment of mountainous regions hassignificantly reduced due to new means of communication, including the Internet. The possibilitiesof colleges in mountainous regions still cannot reach the level of the colleges in capital. InCarpathian and Prykrpattya regions there is a number of vocational schools of art direction.During the execution of creative work in class industrial training necessary for students to complywith the rules of relationships form and decoration in various ways: decorative motif obeys thefunctional form, enriching it artistic and creative solutions, utilitarian function obeys the decorativemotif Products, the form of the product can be extremely decorative, artistic and creative productsolutions focused on practical value and decorative value of the product. Pedagogical support ofgifted students from art colleges in the Carpathian region has extremely wide range ofopportunities. The problem of finding and nurturing talents is important for everyone who maytake a little thought about the prospect of human development. The practicability of folk art crafts,as a means of developing skills and creativity of students, use is substantiated.
Readiness of Senior Students from the Carpathian Terrain to Choose Teaching Profession: Pedagogical and Psychological Aspects
Authors: Blyznyuk Tetyana
Published: April 2015

The article presented at the conference is the study of the problems of upbringing andeducation of senior pupils from the Carpathian mountain area. Namely the author investigates thestudents’ readiness for choosing the teaching profession and willingness to work at rural mountainschools. Despite the big number of teachers in the labor market of Ukraine, now the system ofeducation meets an acute issue dealing with the selection to the pedagogical specialties talentedcreative young people who actually choose teaching profession by nature and strong personal will.Today there are very few teachers whose level of commitment to perform professional duties inUkrainian education is really high, and this is especially true about mountain school teachers. Thisphenomenon can be partially explained by the fact that teaching profession has low prestige in oursociety for the recent decades (Ukrainian teachers are not well-paid, their working conditions inrural Carpathian schools leave much to be desired). Therefore the problem of readiness of highschool students to perform professional-pedagogical duties is of particular relevance. The authoranalyzes the psychological and pedagogical basis of the presented problem, defines the essenceand structure of the notion “readiness for choosing the teaching profession”. In the context ofsolving this issue one of the important conditions the author considers the comprehensivedevelopment of senior school students, particularly the development of their creative abilities.
Teachers’ Training for Social and Educational Activity in Conditions of Mountain Area Primary School
Authors: Pesotskaya Leonida
Published: April 2015

The article reveals the question of using of the method of coaching in preparation of thestudents to the managerial activity in the sphere of preschool education in mountain areas. Thenecessity of preparation under the modern conditions of social-economic development ofmountain areas has been proved. The content of the article generalizes basic contradictionsbetween the necessity and reality. The definition of the main points of the research has been given.The attention is accentuated on the basic principles of management and on the notion “coaching”in the process of management of preschool education in mountain area. Coaching includespartnership, potential revealing, effectiveness. Methodology of coaching is based on the principlethat the person naturally is sufficiently talented and owns great potential, which isn’t realizedfully. An important condition of this approach is valuable, respectful attitude of the participants ofpolylogue to one another. Basic theoretical regulations of the coaching approach have beendetermined. In the context of selection of teching technologies on the basis of coaching approach,the method “reflexive team” has been briefly revealed. It is determined that coaching is a style ofmanagement, transformed culture: if the authoritarian style is substituted into coaching, then thehierarchy changes from the support of blaming and ridiculing to the objective evaluation, all-handsactivity changes to strategic planning.Coaching approach will allow optimizing the structure of economic activity of a separatepreschool educational establishment. The attention is accentuated at the fact, that using coachingwith the students at the lessons as a style of management of preschool education, will let futuremanagers of preschool educational establishments to form the skills of behavior in criticalsituations of mountain area, to enrich their activity with the new means of performing, to developprofessional flexibility and mobility, to learn clearly to determine the goals and priorities of activityof preschool educational establishment.
Provision of Socialization of the Personality in the Preschool Childhood in the Multicultural Educational Environment of Transcarpathia
Authors: Anna Anna
Published: April 2015

The rapid tempo of social changes is inherent in the modern Ukrainian society that hasresulted in the actual and problematic personality socialization questions in preschool childhood.This period is exactly that sensitive period for the primary child world view formation,consciousness, social features etc. The stay in preschool educational institution plays an importantrole in preschool age child personality development.Transcarpathian region is the region situated on the southwest of Ukraine within the westernpart of Ukrainian Carpathians and Transcarpathian lowland. At about 80% of the region’s territoryis covered by the Carpathian Mountains. In accordance with the Ukrainian Law “On the Status ofMountainous Settlements in Ukraine”, until recently 192 settlements (31% out of the total quantity)belong to the mountainous. Volovets and Mizhgirya districts fully subject to the action of the aboveindicated law, while in other districts the portion of settlements with the mountainous settlementsstatus is presented from 13,6 (in Mukachevo district) up to 84,4 percent (in Rakhiv disctrict). In ourpublication we will pay attention to four mountainous districts of Transcarpathian region: VelykyiBereznyi, Volovets, Mizhgirya and Rakhiv districts. This publication presents the comparativestatus analysis of preschool age children support carried out by the preschool educationalinstitutions in Transcarpathian region in the period starting from the year of 2000 until 2013. In themountainous districts of Transcarpathian region the preschool educational institutionsestablishment, quantity of children in them and preschool institutions loading tendency analysis iscompleted.The distribution of preschool educational institutions as per children educational languages isgiven in this article.The above mentioned confirms, that in recent years, active attention has beenpaid to the new preschool institutions creation, namely in mountainous and half mountainousdistricts of Transcarpathian region. Also, the rising tendency of the number of children in theseinstitutions is observed. However, the need to expand the children coverage by preschooleducation is constantly felt.Allocation of children in permanent preschool institutions in accordance to their language ofeducation has been changed significantly; nevertheless it still does not satisfy the nationalminorities’ needs, due to the fact that it does not correspond to the quantitative composition ofmodern Transcarpathian population.
Korczak Janusz, Makarenko Anton, Zaharenko Olexandr – Knights of Humane Pedagogy
Authors: Bida Olena , Prokopenko Lyudmyla
Published: April 2015

History does not have so many knights of pedagogy, such Teachers whom thousands ofstudents are grateful to, whose names are carved on the tables of human memory. Yanush Korchakand Oleksandr Zaharenko are among them, they were eager to do good to the people, they gavelives for the humanity, for the happiness of everybody. The courseы of life of two prominentTeachers is discussed in the article, the professional credos of prominent teachers-humanists aresingled out. We cited a famous French writer-humanist Saint-Exupery in the epigraph.In our opinion, his quotation is a professional credo of all famous teachers’ humanists. Besides,these Fox’s words (the character from “Little Prince”) appear to be the combined motto of severalteachers humanists, namely: a Polish educator Yanush Korchak who was announced an Educatorof 1979 by UNESCO; a Ukrainian pedagogue Anton Makarenko, announced an Educator of 2008by UNESCO; a prominent educator and a great teacher-humanist Olexandr Zaharenko, anacademician from Sahnivka, a small village in Cherkasy region.
The Main Conditions of Forming Ukrainian Diaspora in the USA
Authors: Nych Oksana
Published: April 2015

The historical and political aspects of the Ukrainian Diaspora forming are depicted in thearticle. The main attention is paid to the four waves of the Ukrainian immigration. The authoranalyzes the reasons of Ukrainian migration and shows the historical and political conditions of itformation
The Pedagogical Potential of Cultural-Educational Preschool Environment in the Inter-Ethnic Tolerance Upbringing Process
Authors: Romaniuk Katerina
Published: April 2015

In the article the author focuses attention on the need of early education of inter-ethnictolerance and anticipates increasing of the efficiency of the process by the pedagogical potential ofcultural-educational environment of preschool. Author investigates the Ukrainian and foreignscientific approaches of the interpretation the concept "cultural-educational environment" andidentifies its major components. The paper accented that preschool educational space helps toupbring foremost ethic-cultural competence of preschoolers and then nurture respect andfriendliness to other nationalities.Author outlines a significant role of the organization and specific filling with different objects inthe preschool playing area, proposes the ways to model it.
The Formation of Ecological and Economic Competences in the Context of the Stable Development of the Carpathian Region
Authors: Khymynets Volodymyr
Published: April 2015

The paper deals with the peculiarities of the formation of ecological and economiccompetences at modern school. The paper shows that ecological and economic education iscontinuous and uninterrupted psychological process which is directed towards the formation ofknowledge, culture and consciousness of a person. Attention is paid to the problems ofenvironmental and economic situation in the Carpathian region of Ukraine. Ecological andeconomic model of education can develop effectively only on the basis of humanistic orientationand innovation potential of the educational institution. The humanization provides increasedattention to the individual as a whole, the promotion of its abilities, physical and moral qualities.Modern education aims to form environmentally and economically responsible person, that isready for the conscious activity on the basis of the gained knowledge and formes behavioral normsand rules concerning the environment. Humanity has the ability to choose either the path ofenvironmental and economic education, or the path of the global catastrophe and self-destruction.Civilized, cultured people are called to protect and multiply the good, by laws and authority toestablish the highest spiritual values of the life in the society and public opinion. Only intelligenceand environmental and economic culture, that is continuous educational training and educationalactivity, may generate culture of society, relevant to the permanent development, and transfer itsrelationships with the environment on the way of intelligent coexistence.
Peculiarities of Grammar Study of Mountain First-Form Pupils
Authors: Kiryk Marija
Published: April 2015

The articles describes the role of analiztor system (auditory, visual, kinesthetic) at theinitial stage of learning literacy and language development six years old. They from specificintegration system, that provides more efficient perception, memorization and reproduction ofeducational material. The article deals with attempt to ascertain linguadidactic interconnectionsand interdependence between grammar education (reading, writing) and speech of six-year pupils.Summing up it should be mentioned to organize 6-year pupils studing in the country mountainschool becides pedagogical, economical, geographic and social problems psychologiclinguadidactic are added. Preferences of mountain country children:– Formation from childhood ability to live in harmony with nature;– Sensitive perception of alive and inanimate surrounding nature;– Life-style form children’s responsibility for entrusted things, labour habits, training by hardnature conditions.They should be solved in complex providing achievents of psychology, pedagogics, linguistsand up-to-date technology. The aim of the article - to reveal individual peculiarities of countrymountain child who needs special method of approach to grammar studing as well as to helpcountry teacher who strongly feels lack for efficient method help. All these affect on prepearinglevel, children’s outlook, general development. Scientific and methodogical institutions have noteasy task-system training and skill raising of primary school teachers to realize State standart ofprimary general education. Acquaintance of country teacher with up-to-date achievements inpsychologic, pedagogic and linguistic education will help him to organize his work in the countryschool on rather higher level as well as let him give more qualitative education services and savecountry school as the main country existent validity.
TEACHER EDUCATION IN INDONESIA (An Account on the Development and Programs to Improve the Professional Qualification and the Competence of Indonesia Teaching Personnel)
Authors: Fahriany Fahriany
Published: April 2015

Abstract: Education is defined as a planned effort to establish a study environment and education process so that the student may actively develop his / her own potential to gain the religious and spiritual level, consciousness, personality, intelligence, behavior and creativity to him / herself other citizens and for the nations. The ultimate goal of   every  teaching and learning process is the success of the students to acquire the knowledge of subject matter being taught and one of the key successes in gaining the teaching learning objective is the teacher role. In fact, there are several aspects in order that the teacher professionalism may take place. To put the teacher professionalism into reality, it is not just from the teacher individually, but the surrounding, communities and the system where the teachers works and belong to, will give influence to it. The development of teacher education in Indonesia cannot be separated from the development of education in Indonesia. Since the independence in 1945, Indonesia has committed to make education available to all Indonesians citizens. This is due to the constitutional commitment stated that all citizens have the rights to get an education and the government has the responsibility to implement a national education system. DOI: 10.15408/tjems.v1i1.1107
PENGEMBANGAN DESAIN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN PAI BERBASIS KARAKTER MULIA YANG HOLISTIK, HUMANIS, EMANSIPATORIS, DAN EFEKTIF
Authors: Nata Abudin , Sofyan Ahmad
Published: April 2015

Abstract: Religious education required not only to provide a deep understanding of the religion, but rather should contribute to the community in shaping the character mulia. Many efforts had to meet these demands, but has not shown significant results. This study offers a learning model based on the character of religious education that is holistic noble, humane, and effective emansipatoric, with the steps: Modelling, reflecting, deep discussion, problem solving, socialization and authentic assessment. Based on the results of a descriptive qualitative study in Madrasah Development UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, it turns learning model has been implemented, and the results were quite effective in forming a noble character. MP UIN Jakarta, though not yet executed the systematic learning model and be consolidazed, but in fact it has brought learning outcomes that meet the expectations of society. Therefore such a learning model that needs to be strengthened and applied to other educational institutions. DOI: 10.15408/tjems.v1i1.1109
ICT DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA ARAB
Authors: Arifah Fatwa
Published: April 2015

Abstract: ICT in education becomes a matter being discussed at this time. Arabic Language Learning as a part of a Foreign Language Learning is one of many aspect that influenced by ICT. Some researcher believe that ICT can solve some problematic of language learning. Arabic Language Learning has its own problems of non-linguistic that make some difficulties to the learner. This paper discusses the role of ICT in improving the quality of learning Arabic by optimizing the use of ICT in improving cultural competence in learning. DOI: 10.15408/tjems.v1i1.1113