bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Conversion in Albanian
Authors: Paçarizi Rrahman
Published: October 2019

Conversion is a unique way of forming new words, when derived word has the same shape as the original word. In traditional grammars, quite dominant is the definition that during conversions there is a change in the belonging of the part of speech or at least the change of the syntactic category of the word, without any change in the shape. The morpho-syntactic approach is based solely on changing the part of speech, while the lexical approach relies on the creation of the new lexical unit. This paper is an effort to expanded approach and perspective, because conversion in Albanian occurs also within the same parts of speech, or without changing it. While in English and German conversion is one of the most productive ways of word formation, in French, Spanish and Slavic languages it hardly exists. Italian applies conversion in a slightly different way. Albanian, on the other hand, is extremely advanced in this respect, since we have identified more than 500 cases of undoubted conversion as well as hundreds of cases of polysemy with a tendency of dissolution with high chances of differentiation of meaning, making those words new lexical units.
Metaphors in Polish wine discourse: A corpus approach
Authors: Zawisławska Magdalena , Falkowska Marta
Published: October 2019

This paper presents various types of metaphors within the emergent wine discourse in Polish. The analysis is corpus-based and it employs examples excerpted from Synamet – a semantically and morphosyntactically annotated corpus of Polish synesthetic metaphors. Polish wine discourse is juxtaposed against other thematic types of discourse included in the corpus, e.g., texts devoted to perfume, beer, or music, in order to point to their specificity with respect to metaphorical productivity. This comprehensive study of metaphorical expressions and the statistical analysis of the corpus clearly show which source frames are predominant in the conceptualization of wine taste, and which frame elements are most frequently activated. Apart from lexicalized metaphors, which constitute a significant part of Polish metaphorical expressions in wine discourse, we have observed many instances of creative elaboration of basic metaphorical images. Polish wine discourse also abounds with atypical metaphors that cannot be fully accounted for in terms of cross-domain mappings. These textual phenomena include layered metaphors, mixed metaphors, and narrative metaphors. The results of the analysis undermine the attempts to create a universal model of synesthesia in language, and call into question the existing models of source-to-target mappings for synesthetic metaphors.
Utilization of tailings in cement and concrete: A review
Authors: Gou Mifeng , Zhou Longfei , Then Nathalene Wei Ying
Published: October 2019

One of the advantages of cement and the cement concrete industry in sustainability is the ability to utilize large amounts of industrial solid wastes such as fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag. Tailings are solid wastes of the ore beneficiation process in the extractive industry and are available in huge amounts in some countries. This paper reviews the potential utilization of tailings as a replacement for fine aggregates, as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in mortar or concrete, and in the production of cement clinker. It was shown in previous research that while tailings had been used as a replacement for both fine aggregate and cement, the workability of mortar or concrete reduced. Also, at a constant water to cement ratio, the compressive strength of concrete increased with the tailings as fine aggregate. However, the compressive strength of concrete decreased as the replacement content of the tailings as SCMs increased, even whentailings were ground into smaller particles. Not much research has been dedicated to the durability of concrete with tailings, but it is beneficial for heavy metals in tailings to stabilize/solidify in concrete. The clinker can be produced by using the tailings, even if the tailings have a low SiO2 content. As a result, the utilization of tailings in cement and concrete will be good for the environment both in the solid waste processing and virgin materials using in the construction industry.
Bayesian analysis of periodic asymmetric power GARCH models
Authors: Aknouche Abdelhakim , Demmouche Nacer , Dimitrakopoulos Stefanos , Touche Nassim
Published: October 2019

In this paper, we set up a generalized periodic asymmetric power GARCH (PAP-GARCH) model whose coefficients, power, and innovation distribution are periodic over time. We first study its properties, such as periodic ergodicity, finiteness of moments and tail behavior of the marginal distributions. Then, we develop an MCMC algorithm, based on the Griddy-Gibbs sampler, under various distributions of the innovation term (Gaussian, Student-t, mixed Gaussian-Student-t). To assess our estimation method we conduct volatility and Value-at-Risk forecasting. Our model is compared against other competing models via the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC). The proposed methodology is applied to simulated and real data.
Cooperative activation of azides by an Al/N-based active Lewis pair – unexpected insertion of nitrogen atoms into C–Si bonds and formation of AlCN3 heterocycles
Authors: Uhl Werner , Martinewski Katja , Bruchhage Julia Silissa , Hepp Alexander , Layh Marcus , Dielmann Fabian , Mehlmann Paul
Published: October 2019

The active Lewis pairs (ALPs) 2,6-Me2H8C5N–C(H) = C(SiMe3)–AlR2 (1a: R = 
t
Bu, 1b, R = 
i
Bu) have strained AlC2N heterocycles and relatively weak Al–N bonds. They react readily with a series of organic azides R′N3 [R′ = Ph, CH2C6H4(4-
t
Bu),
t
Bu, SiMe3, CH2Ph] by cleavage of the heterocycles and addition of the azides with their α-N atoms to the Al atom. The Al–N interactions result in an activation of the azide groups which insert into the C–Si bonds of the vinyl groups with their terminal γ-N atoms. Compounds with approximately planar five-membered AlCN3 heterocycles and intact N3 groups are formed in highly selective reactions.
Under the Mind's Hood: What We Have Learned by Watching the Brain at Work
Authors: Nobre Anna Christina , van Ede Freek
Published: October 2019

Imagine you were asked to investigate the workings of an engine, but to do so without ever opening the hood. Now imagine the engine fueled the human mind. This is the challenge faced by cognitive neuroscientists worldwide aiming to understand the neural bases of our psychological functions. Luckily, human ingenuity comes to the rescue. Around the same time as the Society for Neuroscience was being established in the 1960s, the first tools for measuring the human brain at work were becoming available. Noninvasive human brain imaging and neurophysiology have continued developing at a relentless pace ever since. In this 50 year anniversary, we reflect on how these methods have been changing our understanding of how brain supports mind.
Of Molecules and Mechanisms
Authors: Benson Deanna L.
Published: October 2019

Without question, molecular biology drives modern neuroscience. The past 50 years has been nothing short of revolutionary as key findings have moved the field from correlation toward causation. Most obvious are the discoveries and strategies that have been used to build tools for visualizing circuits, measuring activity, and regulating behavior. Less flashy, but arguably as important are the myriad investigations uncovering the actions of single molecules, macromolecular structures, and integrated machines that serve as the basis for constructing cellular and signaling pathways identified in wide-scale gene or RNA studies and for feeding data into informational networks used in systems biology. This review follows the pathways that were opened in neuroscience by major discoveries and set the stage for the next 50 years.
Voluntary exercise is motivated by ghrelin, possibly related to the central reward circuit
Authors: Mifune Hiroharu , Tajiri Yuji , Sakai Yusuke , Kawahara Yukie , Hara Kento , Sato Takahiro , Nishi Yoshihiro , Nishi Akinori , Mitsuzono Ryouichi , Kakuma Tatsuyuki , Kojima Masayasu
Published: October 2019

We previously reported that voluntary exercise contributed to the amelioration of abnormal feeding behavior with a concomitant restoration of ghrelin production in a rat model of obesity, suggesting a possible relationship between exercise and appetite-regulating hormones. Ghrelin is known to be involved in the brain reward circuits via dopamine neurons related to motivational properties. We investigated the relevance of ghrelin as an initiator of voluntary exercise as well as feeding behavior. The plasma ghrelin concentration fluctuates throughout the day with its peak at the beginning of the dark period in the wild-type (WT) mice with voluntary exercise. Although predominant increases in wheel running activity were observed accordant to the peak of plasma ghrelin concentration in the WT mice, those were severely attenuated in the ghrelin-knockout (GKO) mice under either ad libitum or time-restricted feeding. A single injection of ghrelin receptor agonist brought about and reproduced a marked enhancement of wheel running activity, in contrast to no effect by the continuous administration of the same drug. Brain dopamine levels (DAs) were enhanced after food consumption in the WT mice under voluntary exercise. Although the acceleration of DAs were apparently blunted in the GKO mice, they were dramatically revived after the administration of ghrelin receptor agonist, suggesting the relevance of ghrelin in the reward circuit under voluntary exercise. These findings emphasize that the surge of ghrelin plays a crucial role in the formation of motivation for the initiation of voluntary exercise possibly related to the central dopamine system.
Investigating the Influence of Glycerol on the Utilization of Glucose in Yarrowia lipolytica Using RNA-Seq-Based Transcriptomics
Authors: Lubuta Patrice , Workman Mhairi , Kerkhoven Eduard J , Workman Christopher T
Published: October 2019

Glycerol is considered as a promising substrate for biotechnological applications and the non-conventional yeast Yarrowia lipolytica has been used extensively for the valorization of this compound. Contrary to S. cerevisiae, Y. lipolytica seems to prefer glycerol over glucose and it has been reported previously that the presence of glycerol can suppress the consumption of glucose in co-substrate fermentations. Based on these observations, we hypothesized glycerol repression-like effects in Y. lipolytica, which are converse to well described carbon repression mechanisms ensuring the prioritized use of glucose (e.g., in S. cerevisiae). We therefore aimed to investigate this effect on the level of transcription. Strains varying in the degree of glucose suppression were chosen and characterized in high-resolution growth screenings, resulting in the detection of different growth phenotypes under glycerol-glucose mixed conditions. Two strains, IBT and W29, were selected and cultivated in chemostats using glucose, glycerol and glucose/glycerol as carbon sources, followed by an RNA-Seq-based transcriptome analysis. We could show that several transporters were significantly higher expressed in W29, which is potentially related to the observed physiological differences. However, most of the expression variation between the strains were regardless of the carbon source applied, and cross-comparisons revealed that the strain-specific carbon source responses underwent in the opposite direction. A deeper analysis of the substrate specific carbon source response led to the identification of several differentially expressed genes with orthologous functions related to signal transduction and transcriptional regulation. This study provides an initial investigation on potentially novel carbon source regulation mechanisms in yeasts.
The Molecular Basis of Private Property
Authors: Mamounis Kyle J. , Block Walter E.
Published: October 2019

For political and economic theory in general, libertarianism in particular, property rights are a pillar of central importance. One might describe the schools of political and economic thought solely by their approach to property rights, for example libertarianism as expansive and communism as constrained, with a fair degree of accuracy on the system as a whole.

Despite centuries of property rights philosophy, a fundamental weakness persists that can be most easily seen from a natural science perspective. Property classifications, such as between one's physical body, personal property, and other types of so-called private property, underlie much of the property rights theory, yet these classes are more of a result of technological limitations than philosophical or real economic distinctions.

We demonstrate through a lens of molecular and developmental biology how distinctions between types of property are misguided or illusory. Using the developing human embryo as the most basic example of property acquisition, we show that all subsequent examples of greater property acquisition and its use are fundamentally the same. The point is further developed with other biological examples.

Foundational concepts are of primary importance as their mistake persists through even the most elegant deductions. In order to defend itself from the political and economic attacks, the property rights ethic must be consistent and logical. For this, any artificial or contradictory concepts must be shed.
From Democratic to Authoritarian Populism: Comparing Pre- and Post-2010 Hungarian Pension Policies*
Authors: Ádám Zoltán , Simonovits András
Published: October 2019

We compare the pre- and post-2010 Hungarian political regimes through the lens of pension policies. We label the pre-2010 regime as democratic populist because it was characterized by fiscally irresponsible policies, yet it maintained the system of checks and balances and the rule of law. In contrast, we call the post-2010 regime authoritarian populist as it has employed authoritarian political techniques while maintained popular legitimation through regular elections. To substantiate the difference between the two periods from an economic viewpoint, we compare pre- and post-2010 pension policies to find important differences as well as surprising similarities. In particular, we analysed the following five policy aspects: (a) reform and partial privatization of the government-run pension system, (b) policies on the statutory (normal) and the effective (average) pension age, (c) indexation, (d) progression in benefits calculations and progressivity in the personal income tax, and (e) contribution rates. Based on ideological preferences, we argue that one would expect the pension system to become financially more sustainable but less redistributive after 2010 in comparison to the preceding period. Yet, we find that although pro-poor redistribution through the pension system has indeed been curtailed, fiscal sustainability has not improved due to the erratic policies.
The Importance of Behavioural Factors for Pension Savings Decisions – Cross-Country Evidence
Authors: Kaliciak Anna , Kurach Radoslaw , Merouani Walid
Published: October 2019

In this study, we challenge the problem of inadequate voluntary pension savings by exploring the micro-dataset of the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) for three countries: Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. The existing empirical literature usually focuses on the role of socio-demographic factors to understand this phenomenon, and theoretical studies additionally highlight the role of behavioural factors. However, empirical studies in this field are extremely scarce. The use of the LWS data enables us to fill this research gap. Separately for each country, we verify the role of individuals' risk attitudes and intertemporal choices in the demand for voluntary pension savings. To make the results more robust, we add a set of socio-demographic control variables to our regressions. Our findings clearly reveal that being more risk averse and being less forward looking negatively affect people's propensity to save for retirement. Furthermore, we confirm that age, gender and education are significant predictors of pension demand in each of the analysed countries. We argue that these conclusions have practical meaning to improve regulatory frameworks.
Parental Job Loss, Secondary School Completion and Home Environment*
Authors: Hajdu Tamás , Kertesi Gábor , Kézdi Gábor
Published: October 2019

This study examines the effect of parental job loss on adolescents' school completion during the secondary school years and the moderating role of home environment in that effect. It uses rich survey data from Hungary on adolescents between 14 and 21 years of age, with detailed measures of parental employment and home environment. The study replicates the average negative effect found in the literature. No effect is found for families with a history of providing a cognitively stimulating home environment, but the negative effect is strong for other families. Home environment matters more than initial income in moderating the effect. The results highlight the protective nature of a cognitively stimulating home environment.
Macroeconomic Factors Forming Family Business Heir's Career Choice Intention
Authors: Ljubotina Predrag , Bojnec Štefan , Vadnjal Jaka
Published: October 2019

While recent research on family business succession has focused on examining the importance of individual and family characteristics, the role of macroeconomic conditions has been often neglected. This paper investigates the impacts of macroeconomic conditions on family business heir's career choice intention using individual level cross-country data of 18 European countries for the year 2013. We find that the level of economic development measured by GDP per capita, growth of GDP per capita, and youth rate of unemployment influence a family business heir's career choice intention. We also demonstrate that beyond the cross-country differences in macroeconomic conditions, individual characteristics of siblings, age, gender, work experience in family business, and start-up time play an important role. To mitigate succession failures, policies towards business succession with related firm survival should be specifically designed depending on different macroeconomic and youth labour market conditions.
Cost Efficiency Measurement Using Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis in the Czech and Slovak Banking Sectors*
Authors: Paleckova Iveta
Published: October 2019

The aim of the paper is to estimate cost efficiency and its determinants of the Czech and Slovak commercial banks within the period of 2005–2015. In this paper two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used. In the first stage, I estimate the relative cost efficiency applying the input-oriented model with variable return to scale and find that the Czech banks were more cost efficient than the Slovak banks. The main reason of cost inefficiency is the excess of clients' deposits in the banks' balance sheet. In the second stage, I use the panel data analysis and estimate the determinants of cost efficiency in the two countries. I choose 8 bank-specific and macroeconomic factors that influence cost efficiency. The results show that the larger banks with higher liquidity risk and with a lower value of the net interest margin were more efficient. It confirms the reason of inefficiency determined from the DEA model. Banks were highly cost efficient during the economic expansion with a lower value of the inflation rate.
Explaining Growth in African Countries – What Matters?
Authors: Da Veiga José Augusto Lopes , Ferreira-Lopes Alexandra , Neves Sequeira Tiago , Serra Santos Marcelo
Published: October 2019

In this paper we analyse the role of the traditional determinants of economic growth in the African countries in the period between 1950 and 2012. Due to the specificity and the single nature of each one of these countries, methods that take into account observed and unobserved heterogeneity are used. Results highlight the relevance of the growth rate of the capital stock to growth in the short-run, which is significant in all regressions. The growth rate of the government to GDP ratio is also important in all but one of the regressions in which it appears, and its growth is harmful for the growth of GDP per capita in the short-run. The variables related to public debt do not present any relationship with economic growth. Human capital has a positive relationship with economic growth in regressions that do not include public debt. The growth rate of real GDP per capita also depends (negatively) on its past value, i.e., the lower the real GDP per capita the higher will be its growth rate.
Engaging Tolerance
Authors: Strohl David J
Published: October 2019

This article reassesses the importance given by theories of multiculturalism and religious pluralism to understanding difference. I examine Ismaili Muslims’ social interactions with other Indians in everyday life, the public sphere and civic engagement. These interactions are marked by what I call an ‘engaging tolerance’, which privatizes some forms of difference while simultaneously creating moral obligations cutting across religious and class lines. Ismaili tolerance thus encourages their solidarity with other members of Indian society, while leaving the contents of their religious differences unknown. I further analyse the ways that Ismaili tolerance pushes us to rethink some of commonplace assumptions about inter-religious and inter-cultural engagement, particularly the idea that mutual understandings of difference are necessary for social cohesion in plural societies.
From Manuscript to Print
Authors: Irani Ayesha A
Published: October 2019

This article takes the Nabivamsa—the first major work of Islamic doctrine to be written in Bangla, in the seventeenth century—as the basis for larger observations about Islamic Bangla literature and its transition from manuscript into print. The article charts three moments in the four centuries of the Nabivamsa’s textual life, reflecting on why such well-loved early modern religious texts fell into obscurity in the print era. The first phase from 1666 to 1777 marks the emergence and efflorescence of this literature, produced by Muslim intellectuals in the Cattagrama (Chittagong)-Arakan region. The second period, from 1777 onwards, is marked by the emergence of print as well as dobhasi Bangla in colonial Bengal. The third phase of this survey pertains to the constitution of a literary public sphere in Bengal linked to the momentum generated by print. This period saw the formulation of the Bangla literary canon through the efforts of publishers, literary critics, anthologists, translators, editors, historiographers and manuscript collectors. All of these were sustained through print’s cultural marketplace and the public discourses it engendered. The essay examines the ways in which Islamic Bangla literature’s value was articulated by the politics of archive-building and literary historiography central to the nationalist project.
Evolution of the Patterns of Cultic Encounters between Buddhism and Brahmanism in the Religious Space of Some Excavated Buddhist Religious Centres of Early Medieval Bihar and Bengal
Authors: Prasad Birendra Nath
Published: October 2019

Through an analysis of published archaeological data, this article attempts to understand the evolution of patterns of cultic encounters between Buddhism and Brahmanism in the religious space of Buddhist monastic centres of early medieval (c. 600–1200 ce) Bihar and Bengal. This article argues that the regular findings of sculptures of Brahmanical deities in the religious space of Buddhist monastic centres of this area was a manifestation of the attempts of the Buddhist Sangha to induce a subordinate integration of these deities to Buddhism. This attempt, however, did not evolve in the way desired by the Sangha. Brahmanical deities did not remain confined to the ‘outer mansions of the mandalas’. They, rather, impacted the character of major Buddhist deities fundamentally. The non-monastic devotees, most of whom did not have any fixed religious identity, interpreted these developments as a blurring of ritual and institutional boundaries between Buddhism and Brahmanism. The end result was not the Buddhist integration of Brahmanical deities in a manner of subordinate union, but Brahmanical appropriation of Buddhism in the long run.
When Womanhood Matters
Authors: Dhammadinnā Bhikkhunī
Published: October 2019

This article further articulates Sponberg’s (1992) seminal identification of four distinct attitudes toward women and the feminine in Buddhism, by including a sub-typology of ‘essentialist misogyny’. Textual and institutional voices in the Buddhist traditions are traced that testify to a process of essentialization of the female sex or gender that is first constructed as an entity, ‘womanhood’, and then devalued. This trend is already documented in the early Buddhist texts, where it stands in contrast to the soteriologically normative nonessentialized view of femininity. The discourse develops with misogynist positions taken in medieval Theravada works. It is further continued, albeit under an opposite agenda, that of the ‘Sacred Feminine’, in contemporary Western Buddhism. Such contemporary instances of an essentialized feminine exemplify how doctrinal and religio-historical tensions are renegotiated leading to the emergence of new incarnations of the Theravada, and Buddhist in general, scriptural canon, which in turn overwrite previously emerged ‘practical canons’.
Classical Yoga Philosophy and the Legacy of Samkhya: With Sanskrit Text and English Translation of Patanjala Yogasutra-s, Vyasa Bhasya and Tattvavaisaradi of Vacaspatimisra, by Gerald James Larson
Authors: Jacobsen Knut A.
Published: October 2019

Classical Yoga Philosophy and the Legacy of Samkhya: With Sanskrit Text and English Translation of Patanjala Yogasutra-s, Vyasa Bhasya and Tattvavaisaradi of Vacaspatimisra, by Gerald James Larson. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2018. 1040 pp., £100.00 (hb). ISBN 9-788-12084-201-4.
On fractal properties of Weierstrass-type functions
Authors: David Claire
Published: October 2019

In the sequel, starting from the classical Weierstrass function defined, for any real number $x$, by $ {\mathcal W}(x)=\displaystyle \sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} \lambda^n\,\cos \left(2\, \pi\,N_b^n\,x \right)$, where $\lambda$ and $N_b$ are two real numbers such that~\mbox{$0 <\lambda<1$},~\mbox{$ N_b\,\in\,\N$} and $ \lambda\,N_b > 1 $, we highlight intrinsic properties of curious maps which happen to constitute a new class of iterated function system. Those properties are all the more interesting, in so far as they can be directly linked to the computation of the box dimension of the curve, and to the proof of the non-differentiabilty of Weierstrass type functions.
Improving the Transparency of the Life History Method Data Analysis Process in Qualitative Biographical Research
Authors: Sadam Mare , Jõgi Larissa , Goodson Ivor Frederick
Published: October 2019

The transparency of the data analysis process is one of the main criteria for the empirical reliability of qualitative biographical research based on the life history method (LHM). The aim of the paper is to examine the transparency of the data analysis process used in published scientific papers based on LHM. The results show that the data analysis process is not fully transparent. Two kinds of analysis process were mainly used in research with LHM: categorical content analysis and portrayal.
Manifestation of Recreational Ideas in Non-Formal and Formal Curriculum
Authors: Lisauskienė Dovilė , Aleksienė Vilmantė
Published: October 2019

The aim of the article is to highlight manifestation of recreational ideas in non-formal and formal curriculum. The methods of research such as scientific literature analysis, systematization, synthesis, generalisation are used in the article.The article includesthree main parts. The aim of the first part is to reveal the relationship between formal, non-formal, and informal education in the context of the curriculum following the conceptions of lifelong learning, comprehensive learning. The conclusion is drawn that education forms are complementary; therefore, it is necessary to create the guidelines for promising education beneficial for young people. The formal curriculum should encompass all education forms, and not to be oriented towards ensuring the needs of learners. The second part presents the concept of the curriculum, emphasises the need for recreational activities as factors motivating youth to learn. It leads to the conclusion that the formal curriculum is oriented towards the efficiency of learning abilities/situation structural elements, teacher’s motivational teaching methods, and non-formal curriculum focuses more on strengthening internal (personal) motivation. The third part analyses non-formal and formal education curriculum. The document analysis showed that in non-formal education recreational ideas are realised through self-recognition motivational factor identifying the importance of education to personal improvement. In formal education, education policy makers declare recreational ideas in general curricula; however, there is a lack of direct recreational activities that motivated learners to learn in terms of understanding the importance of education for fostering their personality. The need for creating a recreational-educational environment was highlighted.
The Use of Passivity Strategies in a Group of 10–12 Year-old Pupils from the Perspective of Transactional An
Authors: Pierzchała Anna
Published: October 2019

The article shows the results of the research that characterises passivity in the environment of Polish school youth following the assumptions of one of psychotherapeutic concepts – transactional analysis. Passivity should be understood hereas a lack of efficiency in dealing with a problematic situation, which may manifest itself in several strategies. Conclusions concern the scale of the phenomenon, the scope of the use of the respective strategies and the search for the reasons in the area of family relations.
The Use of the Small-sided Games Method in a Reduced Pitch Area for Learning Handball
Authors: Mikalonytė Rasa
Published: October 2019

Sports of playing games for student’s competence are rapidly growing and beneficial in the process of the development of skills. The article provides material on handball training in physical education lessons and informal environments (workouts), using a small-sided games method (SSG). The benefits of this method have been proven in the preparation of high-performance athletes, seeking the highest results in the competition. Team handball has become a modern and fast game that fascinates viewers and participants in much more foreign arenas. Therefore, it is particularly important that children and adolescents in schools can try this game at innovative methods.A problem-related question arises – how to organize physical education classes using a small-sided game method, teaching handball to make them more relevant to youth? The aim: to reveal how small sided games (SSG) can help quickly master the content of a learning game and contribute to handball promotion in schools. The article uses the analysis of scientific literature.Training based on techniques denies tactical training by dividing them, but gaming provides a new meaning, which allows to follow the integrity of the game (technique, tactics, thinking, social aspects) education. Usually, the basis for such gaming method relies on certain task limitations, which change the usual characteristics of the game, but maintain the main principle of the game.Conclusions. A handball training program based on game method is beneficial to the development of individual and team tactical, technical activities and improvement of other gaming components. Education through games allows the trainees to discover different solutions, teaches how to think fast and make the right decisions. Training tasks are completely connected to certain handball actions by applying SSG method. For that reason, small games could be the best ones for students involvement in playing games.
Socio-psychological Training for Readiness for Interaction in Professional Activity of Employers and Specialists with Blindness
Authors: Klopota Yevhenii , Klopota Olha , Gudonis Vytautas
Published: October 2019

The article contains the results of an experimental analysis of the peculiarities and prospects of the interaction of specialists with blindness with their potential employers. Young people with blindness and chiefs of different organizations and institutions (potential employers) took part in the experimental analysis of the readiness for interaction in professional activities. We have received positive dynamics in influencing the emotional component of self-identity of people with profound visual impairment; tendency on a behavior, focused on solving the problem; increasing the level of self-control and independence of other people‘s estimation. On the other hand, the most of potential employers have proven themselves in full capability of people with visual impairment, who can provide a productive professional career.
Job Demands-Resources and Personal Resources as Risk and Safety Factors for the Professional Burnout Among University Teachers
Authors: Stelmokienė Aurelija , Genevičiūtė-Janonė Giedrė , Gustainienė Loreta , Kovalčikienė Kristina
Published: October 2019

The study was oriented to identify the main risk and safety factors for the professional burnout among university teachers in Lithuania. 257 participants filled up a self-administered questionnaire in a cross-sectional survey. 42.8 percent of university teachers in Lithuania indicated that are often or permanently suffering from professional burnout. Quantitative and emotional demands alongside with perceived social support from a supervisor acted as risk factors, and personal resources and social support from colleagues – assafety factors for the professional burnout.
'The Emperor is Naked!': Exposing (In) efficiency of Self- Assessment and Group – Assessment in Higher Education
Authors: Minelgaitė Inga , Nedzinskaitė-Mačiūnienė Rasa , Kristinsson Kari , Gudjonsson Sigurdur
Published: October 2019

In this study, we examine how students grade themselves in comparison with their peers and teachers. Results were formed from a sample of 169 first-year students signed up to the course “Introduction to Management”, run by the School of Business at the University of Iceland and based on a cooperative learning strategy. Irrespective of whether students were evaluating their individual or group work, the mean outcomes suggest that their own grading is much higher than that of their peers, and higher again than their teachers. These results suggest that the self-interest of the Homo economicus was clouding objectivity, and it is also likely that the inexperience of the new undergraduates in such grading approaches played a role. Future research should not abandon the idea of self-assessment as a means of developing critical capacities among students, but rather seek to explore whether these results are replicated in other educational settings, such as different disciplines and sub-disciplines, and whether more experienced students, such as third-year undergraduates, demonstrate similar behavioral responses.
The Relevance of Citizenship, Sustainability and Heritage Education in Early Childhood and Primary Education in Spain
Authors: Ferreras-Listán Mario , Puig-Gutiérrez María , Moreno-Fernández Olga , Rodriguez-Marín Fátima
Published: October 2019

This article presents the results from a study on the way of addressing, the education of active and global citizens. In this case, there has been an analysis of the different Spanish legal texts that put the early childhood and primary education curriculum into practice at the national level, with its particular implementation on Andalusia. From the results obtained we are able to conclude that there is a need for the integral reconstruction of the curriculum, structuring it on relevant socio-environmental problems.
The Implementation of Guided Research - Based Learning with Graduate School Students of an Elementary Education Study Program
Authors: Sopandi Wahyu , Sukyadi Didi , Sukardi Rendi Restiana
Published: October 2019

The research aims to investigate how guided research-based learning (GRBL) helps students of an Elementary Education Study Program (EESP) in carrying out research and preparing scientific articles, besides mastering the fundamental concepts of science. This is an experimental one-shot case study research design, which involved seven master’s degree students from our EESP. The result shows that students’ capability is improved, but they still face difficulties in every step of writing publishable scientific articles.
Music Teacher’s Competences in the 21st Century
Authors: Davidova Jelena
Published: October 2019

Rethinking education of music teachers for new learners’ generation is as crucial as identifying the new competencies that today’s music teachers need to develop. According to analyses of EU documents and scientists’ conceptions concerning music teacher’s competences, the author characterizes tendencies and priorities for improving music teachers’ competences in the 21st century. The basic task of music education is promoting the formation of learners’ personal attitude to the world, to self and others, to provide the opportunity for learners to learn music as a new form of communication. In this context music teacher has to demonstrate knowledge and understanding not only in music subject, but in a) communication and positive relationship-building; b) collaboration with parents, colleagues, musicians, composers and specialists in other spheres; c) development of creative and social skills of learners based on three pedagogical principles – personalization, participation and productivity, as well as through and in the arts/culture approaches in music education process.
The Perspective of Christian Pedagogy in the Educational Dialogue of Love
Authors: Danilevičius Eugenijus
Published: October 2019

The article validates the substantiality of the educational dialogue of love to the Christian pedagogy. The first part of the article introduces to the multidisciplinary character of Christian pedagogy. The second part of the article reveals the place of the educational dialogue of love in the main purpose of Christian pedagogy, that is to educate and cultivate the divine virtue of hope, faith and love. The third part of the article presents the main element of Christian pedagogy – educational dialogue of love. Practical originality of this scientific article is related to one of the given conclusions–recommendations of the research: the author suggests that the Teachers Preparation Standard should include the competence of developing the dialogue culture. It is essential that teachers must acquire competence of creating a dialogue to establish good relations with students, that is, to show understanding and acceptance, listen attentively, avoid being judgmental and negative criticism. Dialogue of love becomes an important educational factor ensuring accurate and adequate communication in various pedagogical situations in teaching, which are constantly changing and often unpredictable. The development of dialogue culture becomes a special mission for teachers.
School Students’ Motivation for Learning Sciences: How is it Influenced by Self-confidence in Science and Inquiry-based Teaching Approach?
Authors: Pečiuliauskienė Palmira , Belakoz Alena
Published: October 2019

The article deals with the Lithuanian school students’ motivation for learning science on the basis of TIMSS 2015 data. This article analyses the influence of two factors on motivation for learning science: the self-confidence in science of school students’ and teaching science using inquiry-based approach. The purpose of the research is to analyze the influence of self-confidence in science and the influence of teaching science by inquiry approach on students’ motivation for learning science.
Nem Indicação Política, Nem Cooperação: A Importância da Autonomia do TCU no Controle de Recursos Públicos Federais Transferidos aos Municípios
Authors: Fonseca Thiago do Nascimento
Published: October 2019

RESUMO O Tribunal de Contas da União possui garantias institucionais de independência e autonomia para fiscalizar e julgar com isonomia quaisquer agentes que participem da gestão de recursos públicos federais independentemente da esfera de governo em que estes recursos são geridos. O presente trabalho verifica se a indicação política dos ministros do TCU e se iniciativas formais de cooperação institucional influenciam o desempenho do órgão no controle de receitas municipais provenientes da União. A partir de dados processuais inéditos obtidos por web scraping, a análise pôde contar com todas as fiscalizações sobre os municípios entre 2005 e 2014. Os testes indicam ser irrisório o efeito da indicação dos ministros sobre a chance de condenação de contas municipais, enquanto a iniciativa própria e a atuação exclusiva da instituição de controle aumentam a chance de condenação quando comparadas à cooperação formal de instituições que informam suspeitas de irregularidade ao órgão. Os resultados sugerem que garantias de independência enfraquecem a influência de partidos políticos por meio da indicação dos ministros e que a autonomia do TCU é importante para identificar irregularidades de modo mais assertivo.
Evaluation of the performance of the modified early warning score in a Brazilian public hospital
Authors: Montenegro Sayane Marlla Silva Leite , Miranda Carlos Henrique
Published: October 2019

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the performance of the modified early warning score (Mews) in a nursing ward for patients in clinical deterioration. Method: This is an analytical, quantitative and predictive study. Mews’ parameters (systolic blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature and level of consciousness) were evaluated every six hours. The following events were reported: death, cardiopulmonary arrest and transfer to intensive care. The evaluations were performed in a hospital of reference in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Results: A total of 300 patients were included (57 ± 18 years old, males: 65%). There number of combined events was observed to be greater the higher the score’s value (00%; 00%; 01; 09%; 19%; 28%; 89%, respectively, for Mews 0; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5 and 6; p < 0.0001). Mews ≥ 4 was the most appropriate cut-off point for prediction of these events (sensitivity: 87%, specificity: 85% and accuracy: 0.86). Conclusion: Mews properly measured the occurrence of severe events in hospitalized patients of a Brazilian public hospital’s nursing ward. Mews ≥ 4 seems to be the most appropriate cut-off point for prediction of these events.
Workloads and burnout of nursing workers
Authors: Carvalho Deciane Pintanela de , Rocha Laurelize Pereira , Pinho Eliana Cardia de , Tomaschewski-Barlem Jamila Geri , Barlem Edison Luiz Devos , Goulart Leonardo Salomão
Published: October 2019

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify workloads in nursing work and its association with nursing worker burnout. Method: a cross-sectional study, including 211 nursing workers from a university hospital, between July and August 2016. For the analysis, the descriptive statistics, Chi-Square Test, Fisher’s Exact Test and Mann Whitney U-Test were used. Results: the most evidenced loads were biological. A significant association was found between workloads and workers’ occupation, as well as a significant association between workloads and worker burnout. Burnout caused upper limb pain, neck and lumbar pain, lower limb pain, muscle spasm, lower limb edema, mental fatigue, headache, nervousness, and forgetfulness. Conclusion: workloads identification is a subsidy for the promotion of interventions that minimize the burnout generated to the health of the nursing worker.
Child and adolescent violence: oral story of women who attempted suicide
Authors: Correia Cíntia Mesquita , Gomes Nadirlene Pereira , Diniz Normélia Maria Freire , Andrade Isabela Carolyne Sena de , Romano Cátia Maria Costa , Rodrigues Gilmara Ribeiro Santos
Published: October 2019

ABSTRACT Objective: To unveil expressions of intrafamily violence experienced in childhood and/or adolescence by women who attempted suicide. Method: This is a study with a qualitative approach based on Oral Story. Participants were ten women with a history of suicide attempt, who experienced intrafamily violence in childhood and/or adolescence. The research was carried out at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, linked to a Toxicological Information Center in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Results: From the orality of women, the study allowed the emergence of the following representative categories of intrafamily abuse experienced in childhood and/or adolescence: psychological violence, rejection, neglect, physical violence and sexual violence. Final considerations: The study alerts to intrafamily violence as an aggravation related to suicidal behavior, offering elements that help in the identification of their expressions, which will raise awareness to suicidal behavior and consequently suicide prevention.
Burnout assessment in nurses from a general emergency service
Authors: Nobre Daniela Filipa Rocha , Rabiais Isabel Cristina Mascarenhas , Ribeiro Patrícia Cruz Pontífice Sousa Valente , Seabra Paulo Rosário Carvalho
Published: October 2019

ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the level of Burnout among nurses in a general emergency department. Method: Quantitative, descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study. 32 nurses from a general adult emergency department answered a questionnaire to evaluate Burnout. (Copenhagen Burnout Inventory). Result: It was verified that 59.4% of the nurses presented total Burnout. Work-related burnout was the subscale with the highest average score. It was found that the lower the age and the longer the time working in the institution, the higher the level of Burnout. Longer professional experience was related to lower levels of Burnout. There were also higher scores of Burnout among participants who thought about changing their profession, their institution or their service. Conclusion: The prevalence of Burnout is high. Professional Burnout was the most critical subscale. Age and the current work are the subscales that most influence perceived Burnout
Standardization, ethics and biometric indicators in scientific publication: integrative review
Authors: Ribeiro Renata Perfeito , Aroni Patricia
Published: October 2019

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze scientific evidence available in health literature on ethics, standardization and biometric indicators. Method: an integrative review carried out in August 2016, on the databases: National Library of Medicine, Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (Latin-American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences), and on the library Scientific Electronic Library Online. The review included primary articles on: ethics, standardization and biometric indicators, in Portuguese, English, or Spanish; and excluded studies that were not found as full texts, as well as opinions, commentary, reviews, theses, and dissertations. For the evaluation of the articles, it was used evidence levels from one to five. Results: eight articles were included, with scientific evidence levels 4 and 5: scientific productivism, production evaluation systems, internationalization, impact factor, classification of journals, and adequate and inadequate practices for publication. Conclusion: it was verified the need for publications with higher evidence levels so that Brazilian journals can follow international standards dealing with research ethics.