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Fostering (Digital) Media Literacy Skills and Global Citizenship in the EFL Classroom
Authors: Ruhe Stefanie
Published: May 2020

This chapter employs the mediazation of politics, or the changes that the use of media for political purposes has brought about, to understand the intertwinement of the rules and regulations by which media products abide. Through examples of digital stories of undocumented youth in the U.S., posted on YouTube, the chapter demonstrates that digital stories not only provide a solid base for multimodal analysis, but they may also foster (digital) media literacy skills of English as foreign language learners in German high school. Yet, students need to understand how to read the multimodal language of new media correctly to truly participate in current political debates of the 21st century.
Telecollaborative Storytelling
Authors: Lypka Andrea Enikő , De Felice Dustin
Published: May 2020

Telecollaborative multimodal storytelling has evolved into an innovative pedagogic design that fuses information technologies, semiotic repertoires, and modalities with cooperative learning, personal accounts, and academic content. Informed by social constructionism and poststructuralism, this chapter presents a semester-long virtual exchange with language learners and pre-service teachers in two universities and the format of this initiative with a focus on pedagogical suggestions. Not only did this collaboration transcend the classroom, but it provided a supportive environment for multiliteracy, disciplinary knowledge, and cross-cultural competency development and identity negotiation within traditional and virtual learning spaces. Co-authored multimedia ensembles, reflective writing, and teamwork can enable learners to generate meaningful narratives, forge reciprocal partnerships, engender social consciousness, and express themselves creatively across linguistic, cultural, and technology capital.
Reclaiming the Multilingual Narrative of Children in the Borderlands Using a Critical Integration Approach
Authors: Kiser-Chuc Kevan A.
Published: May 2020

By joining together different methods and curriculum delivery in an elementary school setting, the author defined a unique critical integration approach to address questions of inclusive multilingual literacy practices. The author encouraged students to build upon their prior knowledge, ways in which to show that knowledge, and specifically, their linguistic cultural wealth, which generated a respect for the linguistic diversity of all students. The author created a collaborative pedagogical space in which the students constructed an innovative curriculum by co-mingling student experiences, their cultural and linguistic resources, and their interpretive frameworks. The teacher-research project involved a Funds of Knowledge orientation, the use of a variety of pedagogical tools influenced by the theory of Multiple Intelligences, gifted strategies, community cultural wealth, emancipatory education, critical and culturally responsive pedagogy, and visual arts aesthetics.
Latinx Siblings' Social Emotional Support During Shared Reading
Authors: Hill Tatiana Yasmeen , Palacios Natalia , Lucas Melissa , Dugan Stephanie , Kibler Amanda K. , Paulick Judy
Published: May 2020

In order to identify culturally adaptive approaches to socialization of school readiness skills involving siblings in Latinx families, researchers investigated how Latinx older siblings interact with younger siblings in the context of shared reading to support social emotional skills in three Latinx immigrant families. Analyses revealed that older siblings demonstrated socialization practices such as using commands or questions and using social cues, which appeared to foster focal children's engagement. Older siblings also modeled connecting to prior knowledge, problem solving, negotiation of roles, and asking for and providing help, which seemed to enable children's autonomous social participation. Importantly, practices co-occurred with warm and responsive interaction styles. Findings inform how Latinx immigrant families socialize emotional skills to accomplish early literacy tasks using practices that may be culturally specific and aligned with parental socialization.
Developing ‘Bridging' Semiotic and Pedagogic Knowledge for Pre-Service Subject Area Teachers in the ‘New Mainstream'
Authors: Humphrey Sally , Vidal Lizama Margarita
Published: May 2020

This chapter reports on ongoing research that has focused on supporting pre-service and practicing mainstream subject-area teachers to develop disciplinary semiotic and pedagogic knowledge. It aims to provide a principled rationale for the design and application of curriculum literacy units for secondary teachers, with a focus on fostering a more equitable engagement of the EL's students and other linguistically and socio-economically diverse learners. The chapter presents recent developments in the understanding of semiotic knowledge in secondary content-areas and relevant pedagogic principles for its teaching and learning. Principles related to the why, the what, and the how of teaching and learning are discussed and exemplified through teaching cycles applied in the context of a curriculum literacy unit, integrating both knowledge about language and pedagogy and a range of critical perspectives that are key in contemporary reflexive pedagogies.
Pre-Program Education Students' and Teacher Educators' Understandings of Teaching and Learning Within a Bilingual Community
Authors: Jackson Annmarie P. , Washell Cristina R.
Published: May 2020

This qualitative case study explores ways in which three teacher educators and three pre-program education students' understanding developed while working with students in an after-school literacy program within an immigrant community. The theoretical lenses guiding the study were funds of knowledge, translanguaging, and cultural responsive teaching. The results of the study show that teacher educators' understanding of pedagogy was shaped as they theorized about their own teacher preparation. The pre-program students were able to gain invaluable strategies for working with the children within their own community. Their learning included not only understandings about pedagogy, but also about the experiential realities of students' lives, outside of their cultures.
Prioritizing Financial Crises Due to COVID-19
Authors: Mishra Meghana , Mishra Pravudatta
Published: May 2020

In order to reduce the community-transmission of the novel coronavirus, precautionary measures require major attention. Reducing coronavirus transmission in the Indian population has included utilization of protective masks, which ranked in the first level, followed by hand hygiene, self-observations, respiratory manners, social distancing, and environmental cleanliness and ventilation, respectively. But the Indian Government has taken a good initiative by ordering a lockdown to provide safety to its population and sustainability to the environment or nature. People in some sectors are doing work from home to still the rate of transmission, but the financial transactions also stop. In some sectors (product/service), it is also not possible to work from home, and in India, the infrastructure or facilities or science is not that developed. Hence, the Indian economy is suffering. In this paper, an effort is taken to find the financial crises in India due to Pandemic COVID-19 and prioritize it by Topsis method.
Swallowing Disorders as a Predictor of Unsuccessful Extubation: A Clinical Evaluation
Authors: Colonel Philippe , Houzé Marie Hélène , Vert Hélène , Mateo Joachim , Mégarbane Bruno , Goldgran-Tolédano Dany , Bizouard Françoise , Hedreul-Vittet Martine , Baud Frédéric J. , Payen Didier , Vicaut Eric , Yelnik Alain P.
Published: May 2020

Background Unsuccessful extubation may be due to swallowing dysfunction that causes airway obstruction and impairs patients’ ability to cough and expectorate.

Objective To determine whether swallowing assessment before extubation is helpful in predicting unsuccessful extubation due to airway secretions.

Methods This prospective study included all patients intubated orotracheally for more than 6 days. Before extubation, 3 tests designed to assess (1) cervical, oral, labial, and lingual motility; (2) gag reflex; and (3) swallowing were used at the bedside. Causes of reintubation were identified, and their relationship to patients’ swallowing function before extubation was evaluated.

Results Sixty-two patients were enrolled. Data on 55 patients reintubated for swallowing dysfunction were analyzed. Nine patients were reintubated because of obstruction related to upper airway secretions. Evaluation before extubation enabled prediction of 7 of those 9 unsuccessful extubations. Among the 23 patients with central nervous system disease, 3 of 4 unsuccessful extubations were predicted. According to a multivariate logistic regression model, motility and swallowing were independent predictors of unsuccessful extubation (area under receiver-operating-characteristic curve, 80%). The gag reflex was the only significant predictor of the ability to cough (area under curve, 73%) and excessive pulmonary secretion (area under curve, 67%). Swallowing was an independent predictor of the need for suctioning (area under curve, 78%).

Conclusions Using simple bedside tests to evaluate swallowing before extubation is helpful when deciding whether to extubate patients who have been intubated for more than 6 days. Involvement of nurses in these decisions would improve patients’ management.
A meta-analytic study examining the relationship between alexithymia and dissociation in psychiatric and non-clinical populations
Authors: Reyno Sandra Marie , Simmons Maria , Kinley Jackie
Published: May 2020

Alexithymia and dissociation have been consistently linked in the literature, particularly in psychiatric populations.  Both arise from a disconnection between conscious aspects of self-experiences and perceptions at both the mental self and bodily levels.  This results in difficulty integrating thoughts, feelings and experiences into consciousness and memory, negatively impacting emotion awareness/regulation and reflective functioning.  We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the strength of the relationship between alexithymia and dissociation in both clinical and non-clinical populations.  Studies using two common measures of these constructs were included (i.e., the Toronto Alexithymia Scale and the Dissociative Experiences Scale).  Analyzing the effect sizes derived from 19 studies (including a total of 4664 participants) revealed moderate to strong relationships between alexithymia and dissociation.  The strength of the association increased in clinical and younger aged non clinical populations. These findings are discussed in the context of treatment recommendations.
Values in persons with borderline personality disorder: their relevance for the therapeutic interview
Authors: Mancini Milena , Stanghellini Giovanni
Published: May 2020

This is an explorative study on values of 25 patients affected by borderline personality disorder interviewed in a clinical setting (phenomenological-dynamic psychotherapy) and re-classified following Consensual Qualitative Research. We identified three main categories of values: recognition (the importance for attention, acknowledgment, commendation and acceptance by the other), authenticity (the importance of absolute emotional fusion with the other), and immediacy (the importance of instantaneous, hic et nunc satisfaction of one’s needs/desires). Each of these values expresses a kind of ‘logic’, namely the logic of intimacy (the other’s closeness as indispensable for defining oneself and establish/reinforce one’s selfhood and identity), spontaneity (over-reliance on feelings unrestricted by social norms undermining their intensity), and instantaneity (glorification of ‘now-moments’/execration of procrastination draining the vitality of feelings). The borderline person lives an emotional normativity constituted by the intensity of feelings under the spell of a frustrated normativity since they enter into a collision with the hypocrisy of common-sense ethical norms and social rules and conventions, as well as by potential conflicts with the feelings of the other. Acknowledging the values affirmed by borderline persons may help to better understand their condition - that is, to grasp ‘what it is like’ and make sense of the phenomena that affect them – and particularly to find a logic in their otherwise irrational and incomprehensible self-defeating behavior.
A Case Report of Pityriasis Lichenoides-Like Mycosis Fungoides in Children: A Challenging Diagnosis
Authors: Mohd Amin Siti Noorfadhilah , Muhamad Rosediani , Wan Abdullah Wan Noor Hasbee , Mohd Zulkifli Maryam , Bakrin Ikmal Hisyam , Tangam Teebah
Published: May 2020

Primary cutaneous lymphomas are rare diseases among the general population, and even rarer in children. Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most commonly diagnosed form in childhood. Several atypical clinical variants of MF have been reported, and pityriasis lichenoides-like MF (PL-like MF) is a recently described subtype. We report about a rare case of PL-like MF in an 11-year-old Malay boy with a 2-year history of multiple scaly erythematous papules associated with progressive and generalized hypopigmentation. This case report illustrates the significant dilemma in the diagnosis of the disease, particularly in the early stages, because its symptoms can mimic those of many common childhood inflammatory skin disorders. Later, the widespread hypopigmentation obscured the characteristic lesions, leading to misdiagnosis. Moreover, due to unfamiliarity of the disease, the diagnosis of PL-like MF was missed and delayed until only 2 years after the onset of the dermatosis. Therefore, primary care practitioners must have a high index of suspicion for this cutaneous neoplasm in children with persistent or worsening skin lesions, not responding to standard therapy, to ensure timely referral, diagnosis, and treatment.
Five Visions of Yang Zhu Before He Became a Philosopher
Authors: Defoort Carine M. G.
Published: May 2020

This paper traces the consecutive emergence of five important portrayals of Yang Zhu before he became a philosopher in the Republic. In the late Zhou, he was portrayed as a rival in debate and a defender of physical or personal integrity. From the Han onward, he became part of a rhetorical trope based on Mencius’ portrayal. In the Wei Jin he was a prominent figure in his own right. The fourth portrayal, from the Song onward, contained reflections on his thought in the shadow of Mozi and Confucian orthodoxy. Finally, in the late Qing, Kang Youwei presented him as a minor political reformer responding to Confucius’ reform plans. These layers contributed in various ways to the nowadays almost exclusive presentation of Yang Zhu as a philosopher, a defender of social tolerance, autonomy, or individual freedom. The rich variety of the portrayals has too often been sacrificed for this relatively homogeneous portrayal.
Diversifying Academic Philosophy
Authors: Silius Vytis
Published: May 2020

The article asks why, in Western universities, the success of the academic field of comparative philosophy has so far failed to significantly diversify the curricula of academic philosophy. It suggests that comparative philosophy has mainly relied on the same approaches that have made academic philosophy Eurocentric, namely, on the history of philosophy as the main mode of teaching and researching philosophy. Further, post-comparative philosophy and transcultural studies are presented as providing tools to address the foundations of the institutional parochialism of academic philosophy, while preserving one of the most fundamental tenets of philosophy—the quest for universal knowledge that transcends cultural particularities.
Chinese Philosophy and Universal Values in Contemporary China
Authors: Makeham John
Published: May 2020

Consistent with its growing economic, political and military might, China wants due recognition by and engagement with the global community of nations. This aspiration is complicated by the fact that Chinese political leaders and intellectuals continue to struggle with how “Chinese values” fit with “universal values”, and whether there is a single global modernity or whether there are multiple modernities and multiple—perhaps competing—universal values. In this paper I examine how some prominent Chinese philosophers are engaging with these issues, despite the fact that in 2013 the topic of “universal values” was prohibited as a discussion topic in universities on the mainland.
A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step
Authors: Nguyen Ngoc Tho , Rošker Jana S.
Published: May 2020

This special issue of Asian Studies is dedicated to Confucianism in Vietnam. The idea of this topic has a rather long history. It can be traced back to the second biennial conference of the World Consortium for Research on Confucian Cultures (WCRCC), which took place in Vietnam in 2016 and was hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University––Ho Chi Minh City under the theme “Confucianism as a Philosophy of Education for the Contemporary World”.
Philosophical Transmission and Contestation
Authors: Nguyen Tho Ngoc , Nguyen Phong Thanh
Published: May 2020

Southern Vietnam was reclaimed by the Vietnamese in the mid-seventeenth century. They first brought their folk Buddhism and various popular religions to new land; however, the bureaucratic system then forced the Chinese Han–Song dynasties’ institutionalized and politicalized Confucianism on the population. The arrival of the Chinese from overseas since the late seventeenth century marked the introduction of Qing Confucianism into Southern Vietnam, shaping the pro-Yangming studies among local literati. Many writers claim that Qing Confucianism had no impact on Vietnam. Obviously, however, these writers ignored the diversity of Vietnamese Confucianism in the new frontiers in the South. Qing Confucianism was truly absorbed into many aspects of life among the local gentry, popularizing the so-called pro-Yangming studies.The article aims to study the transmission, contestation, transformation, and manipulation of Qing Confucianism in Southern Vietnam by penetrating deeper into the life, career, mentality, merits, and influence of local Confucianists and reviving the legacies of practical learning in local scholarship. The research discovers that the practical learning of Qing Confucianism dominated the way of thinking and acting of local elites, affecting ideological, educational, cultural and socio-economic domains of local society. However, the domination of the classical Confucian orthodoxy and the lack of state-sponsored institutionalization in late feudal periods, as well as the later overwhelming imposition of Western civilization under French colonial rule, seriously challenged and downgraded the impacts of Qing Confucianism in Vietnam. Therefore, Yangming studies were once transmitted but had limited impact on Vietnam.
China's new approach to environmental governance and environmental public interest litigation
Authors: Jiang Han , Blazey Patricia , Wang Yan , Ashiabor Hope
Published: May 2020

This article examines the comprehensive reform of the Chinese environmental governance system since the early 2010s after the goal of constructing ecological civilization was integrated into China's state policies. Legislative changes have been undertaken in order to improve the environmental governance system and juridical environmental protection has been reinforced to tackle environmental challenges through a revised public interest litigation system. China's current environmental public interest litigation system consists of civil environmental public interest litigation and administrative environmental public interest litigation. Only procuratorates have standing in administrative environmental public interest litigation whereas environmental non-government organizations who are permitted to undertake civil cases are in practice marginalized. Individuals, on the other hand, do not have standing in either civil or administrative environmental public interest litigation cases. The ecological and environmental damages litigation system has been established in order to recognize government agencies that have standing in protecting environmental public interest.
APLICACIÓN DE REGLAS DE ASOCIACIÓN SOBRE MICROSERVICIOS EN LAS MICROEMPRESAS
Authors: Cevallos-Macías John , Solórzano-Cadena Rubén , Palma-Menéndez Susana , Verduga-Urdánigo Fabricio
Published: May 2020

Las microempresas son un grupo tecnológicamente desatendido debido a sus recursos limitados y carencia de conocimiento tecnológico que en muchos casos impide su crecimiento como negocio. En la presente investigación se diseña una estructura de minería de datos que basada en reglas de asociación ofrece sugerencias de compras mediante un dispositivo móvil implementando tácticas de up-selling y cross-selling. El diseño de la propuesta se basa en el proceso de generación de modelos de minería de datos y culmina con la validación e implementación de modelos de reglas de asociación como microservicios orquestados por un Web Service, esta arquitectura de servicios se encuentra desarrollada en Node.js, y se conecta con una base de datos PostgreSQL, mientras que la aplicación móvil se desarrolló en Ionic Framework que le permite estar disponible para varias plataformas. La herramienta móvil presenta un aporte a los negocios informales, en los que un vendedor atiende directamente a los clientes y brinda alternativas de compra incrementando sus ventas en un porcentaje cercano al 25%, además de otros beneficios menos tangibles como la mejora en la atención al cliente en los negocios que carecen de infraestructura tecnológica.

Palabras clave: reglas de decisión, sistemas de recomendación, microempresa, microservicios.
Civic Education in United States: A Multiple Regression of Civic Education Scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Authors: Bittman Bonnie L. , Russell William B.
Published: May 2020

Social studies teachers instruct their students through a variety of instructional pedagogies. Social science education researchers have called for K-12 teachers to transition away from a traditional lecture format and move towards a format that encourages critical thinking. Classroom debates of controversial issues are a common method by which teachers engage students in higher-order thinking. This research study utilizes the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 12th grade civics assessment (n = 9,800) to identify instructional techniques that improve studentâ€™s score. Utilizing the NAEP Data Explorer online statistical analysis tool, a linear regression was conducted examining the effects of race, socio-economic status, instructional pedagogies, and access to newspapers and computers on student performance. Results show that discussing current events, at any frequency, increases student performance. Students who participated in classroom debates once or twice a month or less also improved. African-American and Hispanic students scored lower, as did students who qualified for free and reduced lunches. This study suggests that the inclusion of current events should be encouraged civics classes.
A Comparison of The Mathematical Processes Embedded in The Content Standards of Turkey and Singapore
Authors: Erbilgin Evrim
Published: May 2020

This study compares Turkey's and Singapore's mathematics content standards in terms of the highligthed mathematical processes. A mathematical processes framework was employed to analyze the content standards drawing on the standards for mathematical practice defined by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. The standards for mathematical practice include make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, reason abstractly and quantitatively, construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others, model with mathematics, use appropriate tools strategically, attend to precision, look for and make use of structure, look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. The data sources are 2013 mathematics curriculum standards of Turkey and 2013 mathematics syllabus of Singapore for grades 7 and 8. Data analysis revealed that the two countries reflected mathematical processes differently in their content standards. Some mathematical processes are not identified in Turkey's content standardsÂ  while all mathematical processes are observed in Singapore's content standards. The distribution of the observed mathematical processes are also different in the two countries. Suggestions for future content standards revisions are shared in the paper.
Constitutional Principles Of Judiciary: Peculiarities Of Formalization In The Cis Countries
Authors: Treskov Aleksej P. , But'ko Lyudmila V. , Dzidzoev Ruslan M. , Novikova Alevtina E. , Solovyev Andrey A.
Published: May 2020

The modern principles of judiciary, being an integrative constitutional-theoretical category, are the object of scientific research from the point of view of a meaningful interpretation, as well as the specific nature of formalization, including its the comparative legal aspect. In this regard, the research subject of this article is represented by the norms of the constitutions of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The article presents the analysis results, which allowed us identifying the non-standard approaches to consolidate the constitutional principles of the judiciary in the focus group of acts. We associate these approaches with the compositional specific nature of principle reflection, as well as with the variably-substantive aspect, which quantitatively and qualitatively supplements the standard list of required fundamental ideas.
Exponentially Fitted Chebyshev Based Algorithm as Second Order Initial Value Solver
Authors: Adeyefa Emmanuel , O. S. Esan
Published: May 2020

In this research work, we focus on development of a numerical algorithm which is well suited as integrator of initial value problems of order two. Exponential function is fitted into the Chebyshev polynomials for the formulation of this new numerical integrator. The efficiency, ingenuity and computational reliability of any numerical integrator are determined by investigating the zero stability, consistency and convergence of the integrator. Findings reveal that this algorithm is convergent. On comparison, the solutions obtained through the algorithm compare favourably well with the analytical solutions.
3. Inteligencia espiritual y valores personales en los integrantes de la coordinación del proyecto educativo regional
Authors: González Guerra Carmen María , Vera Guadrón (URBE) Luis José
Published: May 2020

La finalidad de la investigación, fue proponer lineamientos estratégicos para fortalecer la inteligencia espiritual y los valores personales del personal de la Coordinación del Proyecto Educativo Regional en el Municipio Santa Rita, estado Zulia. La metodología fue cuantitativa el tipo de estudio fue proyectivo, con nivel descriptivo correlacional, el diseño fue de campo, no experimental, transaccional; la población se constituyó por directivos, docentes, obreros y administrativos. La técnica de recolección de datos fue la encuesta y el instrumento un cuestionario con escala tipo Likert, sometido a validez y confiablidad. La técnica para el análisis de datos fue la estadística descriptiva y el coeficiente de correlación de Pearson.  Los resultados permitieron elaborar lineamientos con base en los seis caminos de Zohar y Marshall (2001), como: el deber, amor y entrega, conocimiento, hermandad, entre otros, que brindan bases sólidas para que actividades personales y profesionales se realicen en atención a las necesidades.
2. ESTRATEGIAS COGNITIVAS PARA EL FORTALECIMIENTO DEL PENSAMIENTO CRÍTICO EN ESTUDIANTES DE EDUCACIÓN MENCIÓN CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Authors: Gouveia Muñeton Edith Luz , Atencio Ramírez Maxula , De Nobrega (LUZ) Janeth
Published: May 2020

Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar las estrategias cognitivas para el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en estudiantes de la carrera de Educación Mención Ciencias Sociales de la Facultad de Humanidades y Educación de Luz.  La investigación se enmarcó en una investigación descriptiva, de campo bajo un diseño No experimental. La población estuvo conformada por 111 estudiantes del segundo periodo de 2013.  Los datos se recolectaron mediante un cuestionario, validado por siete expertos, y confiabilizado con Alfa Cronbach, con 0,90. Para el análisis de datos se construyó un baremo de interpretación, se empleó la estadística descriptiva. Con los resultados obtenidos se concluyó que las  estrategia cognitivas explorar el  material, acceder al conocimiento previo , predecir, formular hipótesis, comparar la nueva información con lo que se sabe, crear imágenes mentales, inferir, generar preguntas y pedir aclaraciones, seleccionar ideas importantes, elaborar pensando ejemplos, evaluar, clasificar información, identificar relaciones, organizar ideas claves, transferir, aplicar conceptos, contribuyen al fortalecimiento del pensamiento crítico y optimizan el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de las Ciencias Sociales en los niveles educativos venezolanos.
Digital certification of aviation equipment on the basis of “Siemens PLM Software” technologies
Authors: Novikov Sergey V. , Sazonov Andrey A.
Published: May 2020

The article is dedicated to the analysis of digital certification of aviation equipment on the basis of multifunctional “Siemens PLM Software” (PLM - Product Lifecycle Management) technologies and “Verification Management” solution. In the theoretical part of the article, the authors point out that during certification a project usually goes through two stages: validation and verification. The first stage involves checking the project requirements for correctness and completeness, while the second stage aims to confirm that the designed aircraft is fully consistent with the validated requirements for it. The article states that the implementation of modern systems engineering practices is based on various instrumental components, methodology, and professional competence and is implemented as part of the general PLM strategy of an enterprise using “Siemens Digital Industries Software” products. In the course of the research, the authors of the article came to the conclusion that “Verification Management” solution in the “Teamcenter Siemens PLM Software” system helps enterprises in the aerospace and defence industries to successfully implement projects on creation of innovative products within a given timeframe and budget. “Verification Management” solution forms a closed traceability cycle for all stages of the control process of project decisions aimed to confirm compliance of the design with specified requirements. “Verification Management Catalyst” module accelerates the enterprise’s transition to digital technology; therefore, this transition improves reliability and productivity while lowering the total cost of ownership. “Teamcenter” system supports verification of the implementation of product development programs, reduces the time and cost of project decisions, which ultimately improves the entire work of the enterprise. “Verification Management” solution is a fully functional lifecycle management solution that is able to transmit product requirements and their changes to all participants of the design process.
The Effect of Educational Tools Exercises on Certain Joints’ Angles in Javelin Performance and Achievement
Authors: Mohed S Hager , Jasim M Mohammed , Esmaeel K Raghdeh
Published: May 2020

The study included a number of axes that concentrated on selecting the exercises used in the educational process by the physical education professors and mixing them using wires and plastic nets. These methods help achieving the goals of the educational exercises. The educational exercises included all the technical stages of the Javelin, and have simultaneously concentrated on its difficult aspects, since some of the stages require more than spears and medical balls, but rather tools that help the students learn the initial applications from holding the javelin to the release step, and help the students be precise with the track of the spear through the movement of the plastic, spear-like sticks in certain measurements through parallel-fixed wires, and curved-fixed as well. These tracks well help the students focus on how to perform in the technical stages without much thinking about carrying the tools or the gravity, and concentrate on struggling with steering the spear while running. After mastering the fixed tracks, the Javelin is now performed on the plastic nets. Then, the student do the Javelin using the legal tools on the legal field. The educational exercises along the helping tools were applied on the experiment group for four weeks, an average of two educational units per week. Then it was compared with the original group, and as the statistics show, the experimental group has exceeded the original group. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3376371
Impact of Disaggregated Public Expenditure on Unemployment Rate of Selected African Countries: A Panel Dynamic Analysis Approach
Authors: Selase Aphu Elvis
Published: May 2020

The study demonstrated the impact of disaggregated public expenditure on unemployment rate in selected African countries with panel data spanning from 2000 to 2017. The data were majorly sourced from the World Bank Indicator. The study employed Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) techniques for empirical analysis. The findings of two-step system GMM showed that expenditure on infrastructure and education reduce unemployment rate, while expenditure on defense and health increase unemployment rate in the region. The short-run elasticity estimate showed that infrastructure and education expenditures reduce unemployment rate by 9% and 1.83%. A unit rise in defense and health expenditure increase unemployment rate by 5.2% and 84.5%. The long-run elasticity of infrastructure and education expenditure reduce unemployment rate by 3.8% and 7.89 %, while the long-run defense and health expenditure elasticity’s increase unemployment rate by 22.22% and 364.58% in the selected African countries. The policy implication is that, the positive relationship between expenditure on health and unemployment could be attributed to mismanagement of government funds due to corruption, while that of defense and unemployment could be high rate of insecurity and crimes in the region. Therefore, the study recommended among others a drastic measure to further improve the education sector through adequate investment in education that will help in skills, development and training. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3377972
Ethnic Identity Politics and Contemporary Experience
Authors: Shittu Sarah Terwse , Michael Ogbedu
Published: May 2020

This paper investigates the complex developments of identity in contemporary Africa considering that the emergence of identity politics is a consequence of the extraordinarily rapid and profound upheavals and transformations of human society at the turn of the 21stcentury. Contemporary world has considerably opened up and extraordinarily shrunk in specific historical circumstances. The act of migration particularly, is one that profoundly changes the individual, transforming the relationship of the migrant with his home country and new host country and then impacting their identity as a result. The expanding use of the term, identity politics, is scrutinized in this work and attempts are made at delineating its unwieldy parameters. This in turn reflects the socio-political composition of African societies.
Implications of Short Message Service (Text Messaging) on English Languge Writing and Learning Among Secondary School Students
Authors: Olusegun Atoyebi Adeola , Rebecca Adesina Taiwo
Published: May 2020

The study investigated commonly used abbreviated words among the sampled population. It also determined the difference between those that abbreviated words and those that did not abbreviated words. The study revealed the list of abbreviated words in the study. And also ascertained which gender abbreviated words most. These were with a view to provide information on the implications of SMS language on English Language writing and learning of the students. The study adopted quantitative survey research design. The population for the study Comprised 83 senior secondary school students in Olorunda Local Government, Osun State. The sample size comprised 100 respondents, selected using multistage sampling technique. One Local Government Area (LGA) was selected from thirty Local Governments in the state using simple random sampling technique. From the LGA, four senior secondary school was selected using simple random sampling technique and from each school, 25 students were selected from senior secondary school II using simple random sampling technique. The students were taught for forty minutes on how to write a letter devoid of using abbreviated words and after the lesson, the students were asked to write a letter to their father informing him about social amenities in your school. Those letters were collected, marked and converted to data for this study. Data collected was analyzed using simple percentages. Those letter were collected, marked and converted to data for this study. The result showed commonly used abbreviated words by the respondents such as, pls (please) 9 times by 9 students, u (you) 26 times by 10 students , and fyn (fine) 5 times and so on. The result also revealed 51 students (representing 61.4%) did not abbreviated words in the letter writing and 32 students (representing 38.6%) abbreviated words in the letter. The result showed that female gender was the gender that abbreviated words most in the letter with 49% and male with 35%. Lastly, the result also revealed percentage of students that used abbreviated words 38.6% of the students used abbreviated words while 61.4% of the 100% total population did not used abbreviated words The study concluded that use of abbreviated words did not have effect on English language learning and writing among secondary school students in Olorunda Local Government, Osun State.
Does the Gender of Ministers Matter? A Critical Analysis of the Appointment and Performance of Women Ministers under President Goodluck Jonathan’s Administration in Nigeria, 2011-2015
Authors: Awofeso Olu , Akinlolu E. Akinola
Published: May 2020

In a presidential system of government, the executive arm is the highest organ of policy formulation and implementation. This, to a large extent, is complemented by the oversight and law making functions of the legislature for a functional governance. In addition to the President and the Vice President who are often elected, several appointees of the President make up the executive council, and are responsible to the President who takes stock of their performance and determine their continued relevance in office. Researches on gender studies often highlight the roles of these appointees, especially in respect to parity issues and the need for equal representation. Surprisingly, however, scholarly works on gender and politics in Nigeria often fails to study the activities of women ministers and their impact on policy. The Goodluck Jonathan administration is credited for mobilizing the highest proportion of women into ministerial positions since the dawn of the Fourth Republic. It then becomes imperative to ask if the performance of the women ministers, considering the influence they wield under the regime, portrays them as acting in the interest of women in the country. Drawing largely on secondary data. The study seeks to answer this question by profiling the women appointees and investigating the factors that influenced the unprecedented increase in the number of women ministers under President Jonathan’s administration, with a view to assessing their impact on policy making especially with regard to women issues.
En endret gutterolle på vei? Nye kjønnspraksiser i den norske barneskolen
Authors: Overå Stian
Published: May 2020

Denne artikkelen undersøker gutters skoleliv i et kjønns- og endringsperspektiv. Med utgangspunkt i resultatene fra ph.d.-avhandlingen Kjønn-barndom-skoleliv (Overå 2013) er formålet å bidra med oppdatert empirisk kunnskap om kjønnet atferd blant dagens gutter, som kan betraktes i lys av tidligere studier. Ved hjelp av empiriske vignetter fra en barneskole i Oslo rettes fokus mot guttenes daglige samspill. Analysene peker på trekk av både stabilitet og endring når det gjelder hvilke normer, erfaringer og praksiser gutter knytter til kjønn. Når det gjelder kjønn og endring, tegner feltmaterialet et bilde der omsorg og intimitet hadde en fremtredende plass i guttenes hverdagskultur.
Goethe e a descoberta da natureza
Authors: De Brito Thiago Macedo Alves
Published: May 2020

Este artigo tem por objetivo expor alguns parâmetros da “ciência da natureza”, de Goethe, sobretudo a partir das descobertas que fez em sua viagem à Itália. Tendo como foco a apreciação das paisagens natural e artística, o poeta irá intuir um fenômeno primordial (Urphänomen) que será base de sua morfologia e de sua estética. Ênfase também é dada às aproximações com o jovem naturalista alemão Alexander Von Humboldt. Ambos compartilham a ideia de um todo orgânico captado pela intuição e apreciado pelo olhar do cientista e do artista.
The Impact of Autocratic Leadership on Disruptive Political Behavior, Moderating the Relationship of Abusive Supervisory Behavior and Mediating the Relationship of Employee’s Perception of Job Insecurity
Authors: Hussain Asif , Yang Xue , Yali Lu , Ibrahim Asma , Hussain Samina
Published: May 2020

This study examines the impact of Autocratic leadership on Disruptive Political Behavior with the moderating effect of Abusive Supervisory Behavior and the mediating effect of Employee Perception of Job Insecurity. It examines the employee perception of job insecurity while working in an autocratic culture and the political strategies which an employee chooses to cope up with such insecurities. The data was collected through a structured questionnaire from a sample of 248 employees which include middle-level managers, front-line managers, and their employees. Pearson correlation test was used to establish the relationship between variables. Findings reveal the existence of a significant positive relationship between the variables. Result also prove that there is a significant positive moderation of abusive supervisory behavior between the relationship of autocratic leadership and employee perception of job insecurity, and shows partial significance with mediating effect of employee perception of job insecurity with the relation of autocratic leadership and disruptive political behavior. The study concludes with a discussion and future directions.
De grote toezichtinterviewestafette – deel 3:
Authors: Batting Marije , Groenleer Martijn
Published: May 2020

De grote toezichtinterviewestafette – deel 3: Autoriteit Consument en Markt

Voor deze aflevering van het estafette-interview spraken Marije Batting en Martijn Groenleer namens de redactie van Tijdschrift voor Toezicht met Martijn Snoep, sinds 1 september 2018 bestuursvoorzitter van de ACM. Het gesprek vond begin november 2019 plaats. Mede naar aanleiding van de suggesties van Hanzo van Beusekom, bestuurslid van de Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM), die we interviewden voor nummer 2019-3 van Tijdschrift voor Toezicht, spraken wij met Martijn over de elementen van een goede toezichtstrategie en over de balans tussen handhaven en beïnvloeden.
Toezicht op het gebruik van algoritmen door de overheid
Authors: Drouen Thijs , van Eck Marlies
Published: May 2020

Toezicht op het gebruik van algoritmen door de overheid – Tijd voor een zorgplicht

De overheid maakt in toenemende mate gebruik van systemen die taken verrichten die eerst door ambtenaren werden uitgevoerd. Denk aan het verlenen en uitbetalen van uitkeringen, het opleggen van boetes, bedienen van ophaalbruggen enzovoort. Bij de inzet van deze systemen wordt niet altijd onderkend dat hierbij voldaan moet worden aan de regels die voor de overheid gelden. Bovendien brengt de inzet van deze systemen – algoritmen – nieuwe, deels voorzienbare en deels onvoorzienbare risico’s met zich mee. Daarom wordt steeds vaker gevraagd om meer toezicht op algoritmen. Om dit toezicht effectief te laten zijn zou er een zorgplicht moeten worden ingevoerd.
Autonoom toezicht op autonoom toezicht?
Authors: Wolswinkel Johan
Published: May 2020

Autonoom toezicht op autonoom toezicht? – Enkele bestuursrechtelijke beschouwingen mede naar aanleiding van SyRI

Het bestuursrecht is niet alleen van belang voor de vraag aan welke normen overheidstoezicht met behulp van autonome (zelflerende) systemen is onderworpen, maar ook voor de vraag wie deze normen stelt en effectueert. Niettemin lijkt de dominante opvatting momenteel dat het bestuursrecht onvoldoende in staat zou zijn om het gebruik van zelflerende systemen adequaat te reguleren. Dit essay schetst hoe de rechtsontwikkeling ten aanzien van autonoom overheidstoezicht vorm kan krijgen als een (zelflerend) proces van laveren tussen analoog en digitaal bestuursrecht, waarbij de bestuursrechtelijke verworvenheden van het analoge toezicht worden geconfronteerd met de uitdagingen van het digitale toezicht.
Verantwoorde implementatie van artificial intelligence
Authors: Frijters Daniel , Attema Jelle
Published: May 2020

Verantwoorde implementatie van artificial intelligence – AI biedt kansen voor toezicht

Automatische en Intelligente Systemen (IEEE, 2018) rukken steeds verder op in de samenleving. De toepassing ervan is echter niet onomstreden. Er is veel politieke en maatschappelijke onrust, met name over het gebruik van deze systemen door de overheid. Vooral toezichthouders liggen daarbij onder vuur. Snel wordt vergeten dat het gebruik van algoritmes kansen biedt voor het werk van toezichthouders. Daarom is een verantwoorde implementatie van artificial intelligence van groot belang, waarbij de toezichthouder zich verdiept in de werking van de technologie en de eisen die eraan gesteld moeten worden, welke kansen technologie biedt en wat nodig is om deze te realiseren. De toezichthouder moet oog hebben voor de gevolgen van technologie voor de positie van burgers en andere belanghebbenden, voor de veranderingen in verhouding tussen toezichthouder en burgers, en open oog voor (soms onvoorziene) rollen en bijpassende verantwoordelijkheden die op de toezichthouder afkomen als gevolg van het toepassen van technologie.
Spherical Indicatrices of Involute of a Space Curve in Euclidean 3-Space
Authors: TUNÇER Yılmaz , Ünal Serpil , Karacan Murat Kemal
Published: May 2020

In this work, we studied the properties of the spherical indicatrices of involute curve of a space curve and presented some characteristic properties in the cases that involute curve and evolute curve are slant helices and helices, spherical indicatrices are slant helices and helices and we introduced new representations of spherical indicatrices.
BBDF-Alpha for solving stiff ordinary differential equations with oscillating solutions
Authors: Mohd Zawawi Iskandar Shah
Published: May 2020

In this paper, the block backward differentiation α formulas (BBDF-α) is derived for solving first order stiff ordinary differential equations with oscillating solutions. The consistency and zero stability conditions are investigated to prove the convergence of the method. The stability region in the entire negative half plane shows that the derived method is A-stable for certain values of α. The implementation of the method using Newton iteration is also discussed. Several numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the method in terms of accuracy and computational time.