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Images of Shamans and a Werewolf Girl in the Khakass’ Heroic Epic
Authors: Mainagasheva Natalya V.
Published: October 2022

We have considered the images of shamans and a werewolf girl in the Khakass’ heroic epic. The appearance of the images of shamans and female shamans is due to the influence of shamanism, which has been developed among all the peoples in Siberia. There is no complete description of these images in the Khakass’ heroic epic, they are pictured schematically. Shamanic elements, actions, peculiar to shamans, are manifested in the descriptions of some magic objects used by this or that character. The werewolf girl’s image attracts attention: it has a special functional role - she turns out to be the donator of a soul to a child, the defender of a churt (home, homeland), the patroness of a brother and a sister. In her image, the influence of mythological ideas associated with totemism is discernible. The werewolf girl’s image is a personification of the image of a swallow, which has the idea of patronage and helping people. A swallow is a popular character in legends of not only the Khakass people, but also other Siberian peoples. The image of a cuckoo, which is a symbol of a heroine’s soul, became widespread in the Khakass epic as well. In the studied heroic tales, the mythological basis is seen in the presence of motifs of the first creation, childlessness, miraculous conception and miraculous birth, which receive a full-fledged artistic development in the epic. The mythological origins lie in the metamorphism of the characters, which can be explained by the ancient culture-bearers’ totemic notions.
The Representation of Racial and Ethnic Conflict in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah”
Authors: Shevchenko Arina R.
Published: October 2022

The relevance of the research undertaken is connected with the current tendency of multiculturalism in fiction, which has been developing and transforming with the appearance of new writers, to be non-static. Many contemporary authors have already become impossible to be correlated with a specific national literature since they have had the experience of living in more than one country and have been the bearers of several cultural codes due to their encounter with diverse mentalities as well as the formation of their own identity in the situation of cultural interaction. Ipso facto, it is possible to dwell on a new turn in the development of multicultural fiction to date. Suchlike state of affairs provides an opportunity to claim the necessity of scholarly comprehension of the works by the new multicultural authors’ generation. One of them is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), an African American female writer, whose creativity can be characterized as a sui generis phenomenon formed by the ‘fusion’ of African, British and American literary traditions. Her novel Americanah (2013) serves as the material for the study, the purpose of which is to consider the most significant peculiarities in the representation of racial and ethnic conflict in the text of contemporary multicultural fiction. Basing on the complex of historical and literary and social and cultural methods, the paper analyses the specifics of artistic embodiment of racial and ethnic and, consequently, cultural clash that influences on the main heroine’s self-identification process. The fact that the image of the central female character, a Nigerian immigrant to the US, is autobiographical substantiates the relevancy of biographical research method having been involved. The results obtained allow concluding that the only way out for the character, whose position mirrors the one of the writer herself, is hybridization, which allows including the experience of existence in American reality as well as self-realization as a part and parcel of the heroine’s native history, nation, tradition and culture.
The Theme of Female Loneliness in the Writings of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya and Can Xue
Authors: Fang Tian , Zhuchkova Anna V.
Published: October 2022

The issue of female loneliness is observed in many works by Russian and Chinese women writers of the XX-XXI centuries. Attention to this problem reflects the deep concern of women authors for the fate of women. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya and Can Xue are representatives of Russian and Chinese women’s literature of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Despite the fact that the writings of Petrushevskaya and Can Xue belong to different cultural traditions and were created within the different artistic and aesthetic frameworks, attention to the fate of women, the dark sides of life and an attempt to rethink modern life values bring them together. This paper compares and contrasts the writings of Petrushevskaya and Can Xue on the subject of loneliness. The essence and causes of loneliness are revealed. Based on a thorough analysis of their works, it is concluded that each of them approaches this issue from different seemingly opposing perspectives. Petrushevskaya pays attention to the daily life, in her works she depicts the individual loneliness of women through the image of a terrible but entirely real life. While Can Xue is interested in existential being of all mankind, she reveals the inner emptiness of human existence through various metaphors and illusions.
Armenian Text: Job’s Children
Authors: Shafranskaya Eleonora F.
Published: October 2022

The article considers one of the patterns of the Armenian text in Russian literature - the relationship of the historical destinies of the Armenian and Jewish peoples. The purpose of the study is to present, using the example of travelogues of writers of the second half of the twentieth century: Andrei Bitov, Vasily Grossman, Yuri Karabchievsky, Georgy Gachev, how this pattern of the Armenian text was formed - the pairing of the tragic fate of Jews and Armenians. The intention of the mentality of the Armenians, based on their ancient history, coincides with the Jewish intention, which is shown in the article using typological examples from the prose of Dina Rubina. The Armenian text, according to the author of the article, is a literary construct invented precisely by the writer’s creativity, first by prose, then by poetry responding to it. Thus, examples of the Armenian text, which is in interaction with the specified prose, are given from the lyrics of contemporary poets - Liana Shahverdyan, Alessio Gaspari. The Armenian text is a construct retransmitted in Russian literature. It was created by writers who reproduce certain stable patterns in their work. On the material of this study, we focused on one of them - the ontological relationship of Armenians and Jews. Its central motif is the metaphor of the historical memory of the bloody 20th century - a metaphor-reproach for the fratricidal wars of mankind.
The Philosophical Lyrics of Eduard Mizhit
Authors: Mizhit Lyudmila S.
Published: October 2022

The novelty of the approach of the famous Tuvan poet Eduard Mizhit to cognition and research of the world and the human soul, based on the dialogue of literary-philosophical, religious-mythological thought, is considered. For the first time in literary studies of Tuva, an attempt is made to comprehend philosophical lyrics using modern methods of hermeneutic analysis. The task is to interpret Mizhit’s philosophical reflections on the meaning of life, truth, free will and predestination. The present study analyzes the book of poems in prose by E. Mizhit “Kazyrgylyg kuduktung kyigyzy” (“The Call of the Whirling Well”, 2002), the collection of poems and poems “Bödüün oduruglar” (“Simple Lines”, 2006), the collection of free verse “The Broken Moment” ( 2011). Based on the material of the author’s poetic texts, we came to the conclusion that the poetics of E. Mizhit are distinguished by such features as dialectic, intertextuality, appeal to national roots. The key motif of the poetic universe of E. Mizhit is the search for truth, this search is transrational, and therefore the structure of the literary text becomes multi-layered, requiring significant epistemological efforts from the reader. The main questions posed in the analyzed works of Mizhit are mainly of an ontological nature, they are connected with the desire to comprehend the meaning of life. This trend is innovative for modern Tuvan poetry, which has not yet completely departed from the socialist realist paradigm.
The Role of the Intermediary Language in Artistic Translation
Authors: Akkalieva Aizhan F. , Amalbekova Maral B.
Published: October 2022

Indirect translation, as a linguistic and literary phenomenon, is of great interest in terms of linguistic, structural and linguocultural aspects of the languages involved in the translation process. Mediating or indirect translation, despite of being negatively treated both by some scholars and practical translators, remains relevant for the representation of many national literatures, including the Kazakh one. This paper is aimed at conducting a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the translation of a literary piece of fiction to assess the degree of influence of the mediating language on the adequacy and pragmatic equivalence of translation. As an empirical material the authors considered Russian and English variants of translation of the novel by well-known Kazakh writer S. Yelubay Aq Boz Yui . The analysis carried out as part of the study allowed us to come to the conclusion that the Russian translation, which is distinguished by a high degree of skill, recreates the national-historical specificity of the work. This is achieved due to the translator’s knowledge of extralinguistic information. The translation into Russian is dominated by categorical-morphological and pragmatic transformations. The English translation is characterized by lexical transformations. It was also possible to identify inconsistencies caused by structural-stylistic and linguo-culturological differences in the triad of languages under consideration.
Actual Problems of Modern Linguodidactics
Authors: Vladimirova Tatyana E.
Published: October 2022

The paper is devoted to teaching Russian language to foreign students at the pre-university stage of preparation for study at the main faculties of Russian universities. The ongoing process of general humanization of education at all its stages involves the search for effective technologies and the renewal of the educational paradigm as a whole. The main attention in this work is focused on such controversial issues as the anthropological linguodidactic paradigm, which is based on attention to the personal “project” of self-development of students and synergistic subject-subject interaction between the teacher and foreign students. The undertaken consideration of modern educational discourse, taking into account the ideas of self-development, self-organization and non-linear understanding of cause-and-effect relationships, makes it urgent to develop synergetic anthropology aimed at creating an active educational environment that takes into account the personal characteristics and potential capabilities of all subjects of university educational activities. The undertaken study allows us to conclude that modern linguodidactics, focused on an anthropocentric approach to language, implies the priority of subject-subject relations in pedagogical activity, synergistic interaction of all participants in communication, integration of knowledge, skills and competencies. A value approach to the personality of a student is a condition for his successful entry into the cultural world of the language being comprehended for his subsequent education at a Russian university.
Practices of Teaching the Russian Language in the System of Professional Development Courses for Teachers of the Russian Language and Literature in the Republic of Armenia
Authors: Balasanyan Liliya G.
Published: October 2022

This paper discusses some issues of the status of the Russian language for the CIS countries, and offers recommendations for the systematic organization of training in innovative practices. It is proposed, in particular, tuse the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) as a method for assessing the level of language proficiency in the learning process and defining the goals of each lesson. In the course of the study, we found that in the Republic of Armenia, out of 1350 schools, 65 are schools with in-depth study of the Russian language; 45 with Russian as the language of instruction for ethnically non-Russian children; 30 - for densely residing national minorities. Armenia is a monoethnic country. Only Russian is used by 5% of the population. Thus, the method of teaching the Russian language in schools with the Armenian language of instruction has become a kind of indicator for determining the quality of teaching Russian as a foreign language (or ILV) and identifying the problems of mutual influence of languages - invariable processes of transposition and interference. After analyzing the body of textbooks for schools developed in the last decade, we come to the conclusion that modern textbooks cognitively enrich students in various fields of knowledge and familiarize them with examples of high artistry, thereby fulfilling the aesthetic and educational task.
Development and analysis of models for service migration to the MEC server based on hysteresis approach
Authors: Poluektov Dmitry S. , Khakimov Abdukodir A.
Published: October 2022

Online video services are among the most popular ways of content consumption. Video hosting servers have a very high load every day, which we propose to reduce by migrating the application with the video content in demand to the local Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) server of the target. This makes it possible to improve the quality of services (QoS) provided to users by reducing the transmission delay. Therefore, an architecture has been proposed that allows, at times of increased demand for the same video content, to migrate the video service application to the edge servers of the network operator. To evaluate the performance of this approach, a mathematical model was developed in the form of a queuing system. The results of the numerical experiment make it possible to optimize the time of using local MEC servers to provide video content.
Detection of cyber-attacks on the power smart grids using semi-supervised deep learning models
Authors: Shchetinin Eugeny Yu. , Velieva Tatyana R.
Published: October 2022

Modern smart energy grids combine advanced information and communication technologies into traditional energy systems for a more efficient and sustainable supply of electricity, which creates vulnerabilities in their security systems that can be used by attackers to conduct cyber-attacks that cause serious consequences, such as massive power outages and infrastructure damage. Existing machine learning methods for detecting cyber-attacks in intelligent energy networks mainly use classical classification algorithms, which require data markup, which is sometimes difficult, if not impossible. This article presents a new method for detecting cyber-attacks in intelligent energy networks based on weak machine learning methods for detecting anomalies. Semi-supervised anomaly detection uses only instances of normal events to train detection models, which makes it suitable for searching for unknown attack events. A number of popular methods for detecting anomalies with semisupervised algorithms were investigated in study using publicly available data sets on cyber-attacks on power systems to determine the most effective ones. A performance comparison with popular controlled algorithms shows that semi-controlled algorithms are more capable of detecting attack events than controlled algorithms. Our results also show that the performance of semi-supervised anomaly detection algorithms can be further improved by enhancing deep autoencoder model.
Principles of libretto translation and problems of multimodal text interpretation
Authors: Boyarkina Аlbina V.
Published: October 2022

The multimodal nature of texts to music involves the complex interaction of verbal, auditory, in some cases visual and other components, which determines the functioning of the textual unity. In this regard, the translation of multimodal texts, and in particular the translation of opera librettos, puts forward special requirements for the translator, due to which even the knowledge of the subject area, terminology and style of the source text is not always sufficient to achieve high quality translation. Based on the analysis of the translation principles of one of the most prominent translators of opera librettos Viktor Kolomiitsov (1868-1936) and his translated texts, the article aims to determine the basic requirements to the translation of libretto as a multimodal text, combining the verbal and auditory components in the text unity. It also aims to answer the research question: what exactly is the special feature of multimodal text translation focused on auditory mode, and in case of opera libretto translations - what resources can be used to perform the translation? The material for the study included the texts to L. Beethoven and R. Wagner’s works and their translations. The comparative analysis of V. Kolomiytsov’s translations and several other translators’ approaches allowed us to confirm the assumption about the complexity of auditory multimodal texts translation, identify the main problems of libretto translation, and demonstrate different translation solutions in the transfer of the rhythmic logic of the source text, its syntactic features, alliteration and vocabulary. The procedure of text analysis involved elements of philological and comparative analyses of translations, as well as statistical calculations. It was revealed that the connection of the verbal component with the melodic line, its accents and rhythm predetermines the structure of the text to vocal works. For the translator, this means additional limitations, which are quite difficult to overcome. Equirhythmic translation correlated with music is one of the most difficult types of translation, in which preservation of “form” (rhyme, meter, number of syllables, coincidence of accents, etc.) plays an important role and predetermines the quality of auditory multimodal text translation.
Broadening the ontology of threats verbalized in written communication on the Internet
Authors: Komalova Liliya Ryashitovna , Kalyuzhnaya Lyubov Viktorovna
Published: October 2022

The topicality of the research is justified by intensification of distractive communication between Internet users and by lack of understanding how to regulate such speech behavior, as the social function of internet-mediated communicative environment is still undetermined. The paper explores communicative features of threats-punishments and threats-warnings verbalized through written communication mediated by gadgets with access to the Internet. The aim of the research is to define the perlocutionary effect produced by verbalized threats based on written communication. Threats are understood as utterances containing a message about harmful consequences of the action of a threat sender towards a recipient of the threat if he or she will or will not do some action demanded in the threat. Verbalization means that threat is articulated in speech communication and realized in verbal form. The research hypothesis is tested on the basis of 68 threatening messages in the Russian language retrieved from contexts of speech communication in internet-messengers and on social network sites. We prove that the addresser (threatening person) verbalizes treats mostly in the form of punishments describing possible damage to the addressee’s (recipient’s) life and or health. We found out that threatening speech acts verbalized on the Internet are mostly similar in form and content to those realized in face-to-face communication. However, Internet threats are mostly determined as a reflection of emotional-modal state of the addresser in response to the actions of the addressee. Men are more active in the verbalization of threats-punishments, whereas women verbalize more threats-warnings. People tend to protect themselves by ignoring threats addressed to them. The obtained results clarify the idea of Internet-threat as affected speech behavior, the regulation of which is impossible within the framework of the existing legislation; therefore it is necessary to develop a criteria base consistent with public morality, with the participation of expert and academic communities and technological companies.
Functional categories of hedges: A diachronic study of Russian research article abstracts
Authors: Boginskaya Olga A.
Published: October 2022

The interactional nature of academic discourse has been analyzed in linguistics literature from different perspectives. However, these studies have been predominantly conducted on English materials. Little is known of how interactional metadiscourse elements are used in Russian academic prose and what diachronic changes in metadiscourse have occurred in the last decade. Building on previous research that suggests cross-linguistic, cross-cultural and diachronic differences in the use of hedges in academic prose, this paper explores functional categories of hedges used in Russian research article abstracts from a diachronic perspective. The main focus is on quantitative and qualitative variations in the functional realization of hedging, since it may be expected that it could change over time. The study was conducted on a corpus of 112 linguistics research article abstracts published in four Russian journals in two periods (2008-2014 and 2015-2021). To investigate hedging devices and their functional categories, this study employed quantitative and qualitative analyses. The quantitative analysis indicated that in the first period (2008-2014) hedging was most frequently realized through modals, reporting verbs, and quantifiers. In the second time span (2015-2021), reporting verbs, epistemic verbs, and adjectives of probability were among the most frequent functional categories of hedging. Overall, the distribution of functional categories of hedging changed in the second period when hedging was realized through a variety of lexical means belonging to different functional categories. In terms of the functions of hedging, the difference was also striking. In the first time span, hedges were employed to diminish an authorial presence in the text, while in the second one authors hedged to point toward possible methodological limitations and to signal inaccuracies of research results. Despite some data limitations, this study could be seen as a starting point for future research of metadiscourse in Russian-language academic prose from cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural or diachronic perspective.
Lingua-artistic technique of writing and its role in portraying an artist
Authors: Kozlova Lyubov A. , Kremneva Anna V.
Published: October 2022

The theory of intermediality which first emerged within the frame of intertextuality theory has nowadays become a vast field of interdisciplinary research embracing studies in literature, linguistics, art and culture. In spite of the great amount of works discussing various aspects of this complex phenomenon, numerous questions related to the interpretation of its essence, the typology of intermedial interactions and their functions still remain the subject matter of discussions. An important factor determining the topicality of the intermediality issue is a great number of new textual practices which employ various forms of intermediality inviting for description and theoretical interpretation. All these factors account for the necessity of continuing the research of intermedial interactions. The article is devoted to the study of lingua-artistic technique of writing as one of the means of ontological intermediality. The lingua-artistic technique of writing is understood as the use of lingual means and devices activating visual images in the reader’s mind, due to which word and artistic image merge into one whole. The main objective of the article is to present the essence of the lingua-artistic technique of writing, to point out lingual means of its realization and to define their role in character drawing. The research is carried out from the cognitive-semiotic perspective, which is based on the assertion that art is synthetic in its very essence and the interpretation of all culture as Text presupposes the interaction of various semiotic codes participating in the expression of meaning. The empirical material of the study is represented by four novels written by I. Stone, J. Cary, J. Fowles and M. Porter about artists, real or fictional, representing different trends in art. The main methods of the study are the intermedial, inferential and comparative analyses. The research indicates that the lingua-artistic technique of writing is composed by the combination of lingual means and devices which include the nominations of colour and light, form, size, structure of objects, their location in space, composition, a wide use of similes, exfrasis, etc. All these means and their frequency are determined by the author’s cognitive style as well as by the artist’s specific manner of painting. The results of the study prove the considerable explanatory potential of the cognitive semiotic approach aimed at reconstructing the cognitive processes underlying various types of intermedial interactions.
Where to go at the end: Polylexicalization and polygrammaticalization of Kaz ‘edge’ in Korean
Authors: Rhee Seongha
Published: October 2022

Nominal lexemes undergo in history extensive development in the lexical as well as grammatical domains. Their semantic change involves diverse threads of conceptualization which shows significant aspects of language development. Despite the series of intriguing changes in form and meaning that the Late Middle Korean lexeme kaz ‘edge’ has undergone, encompassing polylexicalization and polygrammaticalization that merit an in-depth analysis, it has not yet received earnest attention to date. Thus, this paper aims to fill the research gap by analyzing the lexeme’s development from Late Middle Korean to Modern Korean from the grammaticalization perspective, drawing upon data from a historical corpus and dictionaries. An extensive diachronic data analysis based on concordance and lexical searches shows that new meanings or functions are so diverse that some of them even form an antonymic relation. Such a wide-ranging semantic and functional diversity is attributable in part to the role of the participating forms in word formation processes such as derivation and compounding but, more importantly, to differential conceptualizations of the source meaning ‘edge’ e.g., entity-internal and entity-external conceptualizations; mapping the ‘edge’ onto different continua, e.g., degree, path, likelihood; and involvement of subjectification, e.g., evaluative-epistemic judgment such as counter-expectation. The innovated meanings resulting from such cognitive operations form a conceptual network. The developmental processes of the lexeme kaz ‘edge’, in general, can be explained with reference to grammaticalization mechanisms, such as desemanticization, extension, decategorialization, and erosion, and some mechanisms are also operative in lexicalization as well. However, erosion, or the reduction of phonetic volume, is not prominent in these changes, suggesting that the principles should be interpreted as tendencies rather than deterministic diagnostics. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the complex relationship between lexicalization and grammaticalization.
Review of Anna Wierzbicka. 2021. Vo chto veryat khristiane: Istoriya Boga i lyudei [What Christians Believe: The Story of God and People]. Moscow, YaSK Publishers, 2021. ISBN 978-5-907290-71-6
Authors: Shmelev Alexei D.
Published: October 2022

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Potential of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter Inhibitors as Agents for Prevention of Ischemic and Reperfusion Kidney Injury
Authors: Yu. Poltev Vladimir , V. Pokrovskii Mikhail , B. Kovalenko Igor , A. Kostina Darya
Published: October 2022

Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors are a relatively new class of glucose-lowering agents with significant advantages over other groups due to their good safety profile and protective effects on the cardiovascular system and kidneys. Today, the question of their ability to prevent and reduce the severity of acute kidney injury remains relevant. The primary objective of the study is to investigate the Potential of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter Inhibitors as Agents for the Prevention of Ischemic and Reperfusion Kidney Injury. To gratify that objective, the experiment was performed on 80 Wistar line male rats. Acute kidney injury was simulated by reproducing a bilateral 40-minute renal ischemia-reperfusion. sodium-glucose cotransporter inhibitors were administered before surgery: dapagliflozin at doses of 0.5 mg/kg and 1 mg/kg, canagliflozin - 8.6 mg/kg and 25.7 mg/kg, empagliflozin - 1 mg/kg and 2 mg/kg. The renoprotective effects were evaluated after 72 hours based on the following parameters: serum creatinine and urea concentrations, glomerular filtration rate and fractional sodium excretion, as well as the level of renal microcirculation. Based on the results acquired, Preliminary administration of dapagliflozin, canagliflozin and empagliflozin led to a statistically significant decrease in the level of serum creatinine concentration and fractional sodium excretion, as well as an increase in the glomerular filtration rate, compared with the control group. The results demonstrated their dosedependent effect and ability to improve the parameters of renal microcirculation. Plus, the results of the study demonstrate a high dose-dependent renoprotective potential of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (dapagliflozin, canagliflozin and empagliflozin) on a model of bilateral renal ischemia-reperfusion. The results of this study can greatly contribute to the respective field.
Two Decades of Environmental Accounting: A Bibliometric Analysis
Authors: Thottoli Mohammed Muneerali
Published: October 2022

This article aims to empirically examine research related to environmental accounting (EA) using bibliometric analysis over the span of two decades. As part of the methodology, the study applies bibliometric measures based on the analysis made through Biblioshiny from the Web of Science (WoS) database from 2000 to 2021. The bibliometric analysis found that EA has evolved as a rising discipline, although it still faces several challenges in being recognised in accounting and management research. The number of articles is growing, but a significant number of these papers were published in nonaccounting journals. The limited number of articles and citations suggests that EA is still a developing field. The study has a few limitations, most of which are related to the use of bibliometrics. It only considers articles published in international journals through WoS databases and not conference proceedings. This might exclude a large amount of the current literature and other related research contributions to the field of EA. Business firms can engage in EA to gain competitive advantage and market value by marketising EA as part of their corporate social responsibility to increase value among stakeholders.
Corporate Criminal Liability: Some Reflections for Malaysia
Authors: Balasingam Usharani
Published: October 2022

Corporate criminal liability is a very important concept given the growth of commercial entities in reach, scope, and impact. A comparative legal doctrinal approach with the United Kingdom is adopted as the method of research. The paper recommends the need to demarcate between regulatory offences (involving standards of conduct in a specialised activity) and non-regulatory conduct (involving deception and fraud). The latter is to be treated with the full measure of the weight of the law to penalise, condemn and act as a deterrent, aside from ensuring that the offender does not reap benefits from the crime. It should not be compoundable and needs to attract the full rigour of criminal censure, as the behaviour is treated as morally repugnant deserving of full public censure and condemnation. The criminal processes, including any plea bargain, should be guided by transparent guidelines subject to court scrutiny. The ability to hold the corporation liable as distinct from the controllers is also discussed. Further recommendations are that the sanctions against corporations need to be diversified under a principle-based approach, as it does not suffer imprisonment or whipping, and can even pass on cost of fines to its customers. The penal provisions should recognise the distinct nature of corporations in the meting out of punishments.
“FLIPPED CLASSROOM TYPE PEER INSTRUCTION-BASED LEARNING” BASED ON A WEBSITE TO IMPROVE STUDENT'S PROBLEM SOLVING
Authors: Azizah Tuti , Fauzan Ahmad , Harisman Yulyanti
Published: October 2022

This study aims to develop learning tools in the form of lesson plans, student worksheets, learning videos, and PPT, based on WEB for first-grade seventh-school material linear equations with flipped classroom-type peer instruction. The development of this WEB-based learning tool uses the Plomp model. The steps for developing web-based learning tools include preliminary needs analysis, curriculum analysis, concept analysis, student analysis, and literature analysis. Then product development and assessment. This research was carried out during the product development stage based on needs analysis, curriculum analysis, concept analysis, student analysis, and literature analysis and then self-evaluated. The preliminary analysis obtained information that teachers need learning tools that can help students improve problem-solving skills, students need engaging learning media, students are interested in using learning media using videos with a period of 10-15 minutes, and PPT, accessed in the WEB. Then the product is compiled and evaluated on its own, related to the apparent error in using it. Based on the preliminary analysis, learning lessons, student worksheets, learning videos, PPT based on WEB and self-evaluation have been produced, which can then be validated by experts.
Music-in-Becoming: Close Attention!
Authors: Edvin Østergaard
Published: October 2022

This exposition is published as part of Edvin Østergaard, ‘Music-in-Becoming’, in "Practices of Phenomenological and Artistic Research", (eds.) Alex Arteaga, Emma Cocker, Erika Goble, Juha Himanka, Phenomenology & Practice, [Vol. 17, No.1, 2022], ISSN 1913-4711. See here: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/index
Lupus Pancreatitis: A Rarely Revealing Condition of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus about a Case
Authors: El Azzam Naima , Nkhaili Asmaa , Krati Khadija
Published: October 2022

Pancreatitis as an initial manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus is rare. one case is reported of young female patients who presented with fever, abdominal pain, vomiting and elevated levels of pancreatic enzymes. They were diagnosed with acute severe pancreatitis associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. There are a few reports in the literature about this association, but the pathogenesis and treatment are still controversial.
An Examination of the Relationship between Human Capital Types and Employability Perceptions: A Sample of a Foundation Vocational School
Authors: Koç Mehmet Hilmi , Fidan Tuncer , Kurt Türker
Published: October 2022

As a correlational survey study using prediction design, this study focuses on the relationship between human capital types and employability perceptions based on the opinions of foundation vocational school students. The target population of the study consists of the students of the health vocational school of a foundation university operating in Istanbul in the 2018–2019 academic year. The sample consisted of 450 students. Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis techniques were conducted for the data analysis. The findings revealed that there were moderate level significant relationships between human capital types and employability self-perceptions of students. Social capital, labor market readiness and psychological capital are significant predictors of employability. While perceptions of students about human capital did not differ by class level, their perceptions of employability did. The psychological capital perceptions and employability perceptions of students who were working were found to be higher than those who were not. Furthermore, as students’ family income levels rose, their expectations about the prospective income when participating in labor force were found to increase correspondingly. As a result, this study revealed a relationship between human capital and employability. However, vocational school education was not found to sufficiently create the expected level of human capital among students, and students’ perceptions of employability were found to be influenced by non-educational variables, such as family income and being currently employed.
Studies on Sociology Teaching in Higher Education: A Comparative Literature Review of American, European, and Turkish Sociology
Authors: Polat Ayşe
Published: October 2022

This article is a literature review that comparatively examines publications and research conducted about the teaching of sociology in higher education. English, Turkish, and to some extent French academic journals and sources were surveyed, and articles about sociology education in different countries were compiled. Thereby, the possibilities and features of a field which can be called “studies on teaching sociology” were discussed and assessed within the context of American, European, and Turkish sociology. Through compiling the perspectives and ways sociology education are studied, the goal of this article is to draw attention to the issue of how to teach disciplines at higher education as well as to provide insights about potential future research on the topic. Teaching Sociology, the longest running academic publication devoted specifically to the teaching of sociology at higher education, was introduced and examined within the context of American higher education academic publications. Studies on the teaching of sociology in European countries such as England, France, and Germany as well as those on Türkiye were discussed in terms of the changes higher education has been going through over the last twenty years, such as the increase of the volume of the higher education, international standardization, the tension between research and teaching workload, and student focused research. While there is an increasing academic interest in the European, Turkish, and particularly American sociology concerning the topic, it is still an understudied field.
Perceptions and Experiences of Foreign University Students about Turkish Identity and Citizenship
Authors: Namlı Altıntaş İrem
Published: October 2022

The phenomenon of migration, a form of geographical mobility, refers to the displacement of individuals and societies due to social, economic, political, or natural reasons. This study focuses on the experiences of immigrant students coming to Türkiye for their higher education. These experiences were structured by the dimensions of identity, belonging, citizenship, and harmony. 40 university students coming to Isparta and Bursa from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and European countries were included in the study. 26 of these participants are women and 14 of them are men. They were asked questions about identity, belonging, citizenship, and social participation through phenomenological face-to-face interviews. Based on their responses to these questions, some categories were obtained by applying the thematic analysis method. None of the participants had any problems in feeling a belonging to Türkiye, but stated that this belonging is different in various parts of their life, and they have no hesitations in returning to their own countries. Language and religion were found as two key factors in ensuring harmony and belonging. It can be concluded that the experiences of immigrants regarding identity, harmony, belonging, and ultimately citizenship are not independent of each other, but have undergone historically- and culturally-driven ethnic changes.
A Content Analysis of the Audit (Regularity) Reports with Regards to the Turkish Court of Accounts’ Audit Findings: State Universities 2013–2018
Authors: Demirbaş Mahmut
Published: October 2022

The Turkish Court of Accounts’ regularity reports released after the audits of the public universities conducted in 2012–2018 covering 87% of them in total (103 public universities in 2012 and 129 in 2018) were examined in terms of their compliance with the international audit standards set by INTOSAI. No university name is mentioned in the report. Our goal is to understand the audit findings and draw university administrators’ attention to the findings. Although the Turkish Court of Accounts classified its audit findings as “affecting the audit opinion” and “not affecting the audit opinion”, the audit opinion did not change, which does not match the INTOSAI international audit standards. The Turkish Court of Accounts neither gave an adverse audit opinion nor issued a disclaimer of opinion. The Turkish Court of Accounts is observed to audit the public universities on a continuous basis and at a high rate. In line with the international audit standards, the audit reports were found to require a qualified opinion of 50.7% and an unqualified (positive) opinion of 49.3%. Especially in 2017, 76.2% of the institutions should have been given qualified audit reports. On average, 69.37% of the audited institutions had findings that did not affect the audit opinion, and 49.81% had findings that affected the audit opinion. Some of the audit findings fit in with the description of fraud. The findings that may fall within the scope of error and fraud are not even classified. The number of institutions with audit findings has increased over the years, which reveals that neither the findings are understood properly nor the due attention is paid to them. It was determined that the regularity audit reports do not comply with the continuity, consistency and full disclosure principles, among the fundamental principles of accounting. The fact that the Turkish Court of Accounts shares all audit reports with the public is an indicator of its transparency and impartiality. The Turkish Court of Accounts performs an important task on behalf of Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM), and it is an institution that everyone needs. The Turkish Court of Accounts should not be weakened. However, the Court must distinguish between classification, consistency, error and fraud, and to reflect its opinion accordingly. It must also follow the INTOSAI audit opinion standards.
Metaphors of University-Industry Relations: Interpretations on Technology Development Zones Unveiled
Authors: Yılık Mehmet Ali , Kondakçı Yaşar
Published: October 2022

The purpose of the study is to examine metaphors that are used to explain university-industry relations. Metaphors are a lucrative qualitative tool in organizational analysis because extracting and interpreting metaphors that are used by participants in an organization can not only allow researchers to access hidden perceptions or feelings of the participants but also helps them gain insights about a key organization of university-industry relations: Technology Development Zones (TDZ). In this multiple-case study, 20 participants were involved from two universities and an institute of high technology, and their embedded TDZs in Turkey. Participants are high-rank manager-academics, faculty affiliated with university-industry relations, high-rank managers from TDZs and those of firms inside these TDZs. In order to collect data, semi-structured interviews were used in the study. Results from a content analysis of within-case and cross-case data from the three cases in the study showed that participants use superordinate themes of positive and negative metaphors to explain university industry relations. The positive metaphors superordinate theme involves the metaphors of interface, machine, bars district, showcase, and plants, while the negative metaphors superordinate theme includes zombie, babies, and real-estate metaphors. Based on the participants’ descriptions of these metaphors and their justification for their use, some conclusions were made on the participants’ evaluations of the university-industry relations phenomenon, which is the focus of the study.
Turkish Higher Education Law 2547 and the Representation of the Higher Education Board in the Press (1980–1981)
Authors: Karavar Hilal , Efilti Atay Seyran
Published: October 2022

In order for universities, which play a key role in the education systems, to adapt to the changing world, some innovations are needed in higher education. Since the first university was established, many different laws have been enacted to regulate the higher education system in Turkey. Each new law or regulation introduced brought along controversies with it, and even caused some social conflicts. Although the Higher Education Law 2547 and the Higher Education Council, which was established on November 6, 1981, are defined as an effort to reform and improve higher education, no consensus is observed among different social segments as to whether it has actually brought an effective regulation or not. This study aims to reveal how the Higher Education Law No. 2547, which has brought great debates since 1981, when it came into force in Turkey, was represented in the press of the period. Thus, the news published in Milliyet, Hürriyet, Tercüman and Cumhuriyet newspapers between 1980 and 1981 were analyzed. The analysis of the news revealed that the new higher education law was discussed by focusing on the administrative and scientific autonomy of universities, problems related to the centralized governance structure, the change and effects of the university admission exam regulations, and the problems faced by university faculty members.
Faculty Members’ Perceptions of their Academic Titles and Job Stress
Authors: Korkmaz Celalettin , Öztürk Sevim
Published: October 2022

This study aims to determine the relationship between faculty members’ perceptions of their academic titles and job stress, and the variables affecting their perceptions. Designed as a survey, the quantitative method was used in the study. The research sample consisted of faculty members working at ten public universities. The data were collected via two scales named “Scale of Academic Title Perception” and “Scale of Academics’ Job Stress”. The obtained data were analyzed by frequency and percentage values, t-test, ANOVA, correlation and regression analysis. A significant difference was found in terms of faculty members’ titles and subject areas and perceptions of the faculty members were differentiated by components of the Scale of Academic Title Perception. Likewise, there was a significant difference between faculty members’ perceptions regarding their job stress levels and their academic titles, seniorities and genders. Moreover, there was a significant negative correlation between the academic title perceptions of the faculty members and their levels of job stress. The results indicate that the faculty members’ perceptions of academic titles and the components of the titles are a significant predictor of the level of job stress and there is a significant negative correlation between them. Some suggestions are made to take measures that will positively affect the academic title perceptions of faculty members and reduce their job stress.