bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The effectiveness of functional training on impulsiveness of females with intellectual disability
Authors: Farrokhian Sakineh , Alamdarloo Ghorban Hemati , Asadmanesh Enayatollah
Published: December 2020

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Functional Training (FT) on impulsiveness of female students with Intellectual Disability (ID). The research method was pretestposttest- with a control group. The statistical population consisted of all female students with ID in elementary school of Shiraz studying under the auspices of the Special Education Organization in 2018- 2019. The participants included 30 female students with ID selected through convenience sampling and randomly assigned to the experimental (n=14) and control (n=14) groups. The experimental group received the functional training for 15 sessions, while the control group did not receive any intervention. The Barratt Impulsiveness Scale Version 11 (BIS-11) was used for measuring the impulsiveness. The Impulsiveness pre-test was performed for both experimental and control groups. The experimental group received the FT for 15 sessions, while the control group did not receive any intervention. At the end of the intervention, post-test was performed for both groups. Mann-Whitney U test was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the mean scores of impulsivities and its subscales (motor impulsiveness, attentional impulsiveness and nonplanning impulsiveness) in the experimental group were significantly reduced. The results showed that FT had a significant effect on impulsiveness of female students with ID (p<0.001). Therefore, it is recommended to design and implement a FT program to improve impulsiveness in people with ID.
Medically Underserved Populations: The Athletic Trainer's Role
Authors: Wetherington Jefferson Jackson , Pecha Forrest Quinn
Published: December 2020

Context

Health care cost continues to rise; the US continues to spend dramatically more money than other developed nations per individual without increased health outcomes. More individuals are finding it harder to get access to a health care provider, especially those in medically underserved areas and populations.

Objective

To increase the knowledge of the athletic training educator about medically underserved populations and the roles athletic trainers (ATs) play as leaders in health care delivery.

Background

Current and future physician shortages are known and are only going to increase as more than one-third of current primary care physicians are expected to retire in the next 10 years. Forty percent of the population lives in areas that are medically underserved and designated by the government as areas of professional medical shortage; patients in these areas are primarily served by primary care physicians.

Synthesis

As with access to physicians, access to ATs has been shown to be based upon socioeconomic status and presents more challenges for the medically underserved. Early access to health care providers has shown to be important in adolescents, as negative health behaviors can carry into adulthood, leading to poorer health-related outcomes throughout life.

Recommendation(s)

To ensure that athletic training educational programs include opportunities to provide service to the medically underserved, education on social determinates of health, and the means by which ATs can fill critical holes in providing care for these patients. More research is needed to validate ATs' roles in providing quality health care. Additionally, more research is needed around how AT education can help meet patient needs.

Conclusion(s)

As the athletic training profession continues to evolve and responds to the growing demands of the complex health care system, access to an AT may provide a vital bridge to overall health care for patients within medically underserved populations.
Educational Technique: Incorporating Social Determinants of Health Into Athletic Training Education
Authors: Freiburger Rhianna , Picha Kelsey J. , Welch Bacon Cailee E. , Snyder Valier Alison R.
Published: December 2020

Context

Social determinants of health (SDH) are reportedly more important in determining a patient's health status than the actual health care services provided. Given their role and unique clinical practice environment, athletic trainers will encounter patients who are influenced by SDH. It is important to educate future generations of athletic trainers on the importance of SDH to promote positive patient outcomes.

Objective

To detail a strategy for implementing concepts of SDH into athletic training education programs.

Background

A purposeful educational strategy that incorporates didactic concepts and clinical practice application of SDH for athletic training students is important to produce a deeper understanding of the role these factors play in populational health.

Description

Delivery methods such as presentation modules and learning activities are presented.

Clinical Advantage(s)

Integrating SDH through a tailored activity exposes students to the concepts of SDH and promotes observation and use in clinical practice. Awareness and recognition of how SDH support delivery of patient-centered care may promote patient and population health outcomes.

Conclusion(s)

The inclusion of SDH into athletic training education using lecture, observational learning, and reflective techniques can expose students to SDH in clinical practice and promote whole-person health care.
Adopting a Public Health Lens: One Program's Story
Authors: Hoffman Mark , Crowell Cathleen , Hannigan Kim , Norcross Marc F. , Johnson Sam
Published: December 2020

Context

The clinical practice of athletic training involves the daily application of public health (PH) principles and practices. In recent years, there has been an increased interest in understanding and promoting the intersections of athletic training and PH.

Objective

The primary objective of this article is to share the path taken by the Oregon State University athletic training faculty to integrate PH perspectives into our work and provide examples of how this has affected our program, scholarly work, and service activities.

Background

Our college pursued and obtained accreditation from the Council for Education for Public Health. During the pursuit of accreditation, the college's leadership encouraged each academic program to integrate direct connections to PH.

Description

Our athletic training program embraced the administration's encouragement to adopt a PH lens and took definitive steps developing relationships and establishing collaborations with PH experts. Additionally, we started to establish approaches for infusing PH content and perspectives into our curriculum.

Clinical Advantage

Athletic training programs can position themselves and their students to forge partnerships and find resources, solutions, or skill sets that are currently underutilized in athletic training.

Conclusions

The adoption of a PH lens by the athletic training program at Oregon State University has benefitted students and faculty. We recommend all athletic training programs explore opportunities to integrate PH into activities inside and outside of the classroom.
Case Report: A Single-Center Case Series on Skin Manifestations of Leishmaniasis from a Non-Endemic State in Southern India
Authors: Tharakan Santhi John , Peter CV Dincy , Karthik Rajiv , Rupa Vedantam , Rose Winsley , Thomas Meera , Manuel Malathi , Rupali Priscilla , Pulimood Susanne , Rao Ajjampur Sitara Swarna
Published: December 2020

Leishmaniasis is endemic in the Indian subcontinent with predominance of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) due to Leishmania donovani. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is uncommon, and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL) is rarely reported in this region. Recent reports reveal a changing epidemiology and atypical manifestations. A retrospective study of 52 suspected cases with cutaneous and mucosal involvement seen from January 2008 to December 2018 in a tertiary care setting in a non-endemic state in southern India is reported. Twelve patients were confirmed to have leishmaniasis; seven had MCL, two had CL, and three had post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL). All cases were male, with a median age of 41.5 years (interquartile range, 30–55.5 years), and the median duration of the disease was 6 years (interquartile range, 1–9.5 years). Patients with MCL had mucosal involvement including destructive ulcero-proliferative lesions due to delayed diagnosis; none had a history of travel to countries endemic for MCL and all were attributable to L. donovani species. On the other hand, Leishmania major which was the causative species in both CL patients was associated with travel to the Middle East. Patients with PKDL presented with multiple plaques and hypopigmented patches; one had concomitant VL and all were from endemic areas. Hitherto uncommon MCL, caused by potentially atypical variants of L. donovani, has emerged as a new manifestation of leishmaniasis in this region. A high index of suspicion based on lesions seen and history of travel combined with PCR-based diagnostics are required to confirm diagnosis for the various skin manifestations of leishmaniasis.
Phenomenological Study of Bukidnon State University Graduate Student Scholars
Authors: Dulay Lolita A. , Sumbalan Elvira
Published: December 2020

This study explored the lived experiences of the Bukidnon State University Graduate student scholars in the Mindanao Regions during the School Year 2014-2020. The study delved into the scholars’ experiences in the six related factors, namely: students, BukSU faculty, BukSU administration, DepEd administration, work, and family.
A phenomenological qualitative research design was employed. Twelve graduate student scholars were the participants of the study. The triangulation approach employing interviews, focus group discussions, and document review in the gathering of data assured the validity of the findings. Participants’ narratives on their lived experiences underwent transcriptions and analysis using Colaizzi’s method (1978).
There were six (6) themes that surfaced-out from the lived experiences of the graduate student scholars, namely: Challenging yet, fulfilling Student-Learning Experiences; Satisfying Learning Experience with Well-rounded graduate faculty; Heart-warming learning experience with the BukSU Administration; Impressive support from the DepEd Administration; Pressured learning experience; and encouraging support system.  A model showcasing the meaningful experiences of the graduate scholars and the attributes of how these scholars succeed in the pursuit of a graduate degree came out from these emerging themes.
Dini Milliyetçilik ve Ontolojik Güvence Arayışı
Authors: Aliyev Bahlul
Published: December 2020

Dini milliyetçilik İran devriminden sonra çok tartışılan, günümüzde de güncel olarak karşımıza çıkan bir olgudur. Sürekli değişen küresel olaylar, siyasal eğilimler bu olguyu sürekli dinamik tutmakta. Özellikle, muzaffer küreselleşme algısını rağmen, bazı sosyal bilimciler toplumların tepkiselliğinden yola çıkarak bu olgunun da başarısızlığa uğrayacağı yönünde kanaat getirmekte ve dinlerin ötekileştirme prensibi yüzünden toplumun tepkiselliğini açıklamaya çalışmaktalar.
Bu çalışma, Din Sosyolojisi disiplini içerisinde konuya önemli katkılar sağlamış bilim adamlarının fikir ve söylemlerini derleyen, özünde bir literatür taraması olmakla birlikte, ötekileştirme olgusuna etki eden faktör gibi dini milliyetçiliği ve ontolojik güvence arayışının bu olguyu nasıl etkilediğini incelemeyi de hedeflemektedir. Toplumun yenilikçi olaylara direncinde bu olguların rolünün öğrenilmesi de çalışmanın amacını oluşturmaktadır.
Modern biotechnology in optimizing plant waste utilization
Authors: Zaimenko Nataliia , Ivanytska Bohdana , Pavliuchenko Nataliia , Slyusarenko Olexandr , Tian Lijuan , Miao Tianlin , Liu Dejiang , Pyzyk Myron , Slaski Jan
Published: December 2020

The study aimed to develop a modern, cheap, and environmentally safe technology for the disposal of plant waste, with the participation of the most active microorganisms-destructors.The microorganisms’ ability to help transform plant waste into viable, fertile soil was extensively studied. We selected strains of micromycetes Penicillium roseopurpureum, Trichoderma hamatum, T. koningii, Alternaria alternata, and bacteria of the genus Cytophaga, which are characterized by high growth rate and the absence of phytotoxicity. To accelerate microorganism development, we used silicon-containing mineral analcime, which contained immobilized spores of micromycetes and bacterial cells’ suspensions. Modified analcime was added to the waste in a ratio of 10 : 1. The plant remains prepared in this method were analyzed under conditions of both model and vegetation experiments.An evidence for the expediency of using the silicon-containing mineral analcime as a starting substrate for immobilization of spores and suspension of bacterial cells in the culture fluid was provided. The microorganisms involved in the experiment showed a positive result in transforming plant waste during the 30-day observation period. The highest destructive activity against apple and grape waste is characteristic for the T. hamatum strain, for beet waste – P. roseopurpureum. The species-specificity of these destructive microorganisms on plant growth processes was proved. The maximum growth of corn sprouts in apple waste was detected by inoculation with T. koningii spores, grape waste – T. hamatum, and beet waste – a mixture of micromycetes with a Cytophaga sp. suspension. The optimal duration of plant waste transformation using analcime, inoculated with microorganisms, is 20–30 days. In the indoor farming conditions, the standard for utilizing the modified vegetable waste placement was 10 % of the total volume of a substrate during the preparation of soil mixes.The environmental safety of plant waste after their destruction was confirmed. The presence of a silicon-containing mineral in the mixture leads to increased growth and plant development, optimization of the agrophysical, agrochemical, and biological parameters of the soil, reducing soil fatigue, and increasing fertility.
Morphological features of the flower of Symphoricarpos species (Caprifoliaceae) introduced to Ukraine
Authors: Bulakh Olena
Published: December 2020

With the help of light and scanning electron microscopy, the features of inflorescences and flowers of six species of the genus Symphoricarpos introduced to Ukraine were studied, and the peculiarities of their structure were specified. Morphological peculiarities of the calyx, corolla, stamens, and style, differentiating S. albus (including S. racemosus and S. rivularis), S. hesperius, S. mollis, S. occidentalis, S. orbiculatus, and S. oreophilus var. utahensis, were determined. The obtained data are important for identification of the species and taxonomy of the genus Symphoricarpos. In particular, the results of our study showed that flowers of S. racemosus, S. rivularis, and S. albus share common features and this supports their synonymy under the name S. albus. Other five Symphoricarpos species showed differences in their floral morphology.Among the important features for identification of Symphoricarpos species introduced to Ukraine, which were not mentioned in available literature sources we can list: the number of flowers in the inflorescence, features of pedicels, shape and features of bracts pubescence, shape of calyx teeth and their pubescence, presence or absence of corolla tube convexity, presence of ovoid projection of anther’s connective, and size of all the floral elements.Symphoricarpos oreophilus var. utahensis has unique features of floral morphology. Its single flowers located in the axis of the leaves on the pendent pubescent pedicels; the calyx is elongated, fusiform; the corolla is narrowly tubular, without a convex at the base; the stamens are shorter than the corolla tubule or rarely of the same length, with a clear ovoid projection on the apex.
In memoriam – Stepan Stoyko
Authors: Bedernichek Tymur
Published: December 2020

On October 22 of this year, professor Stepan Stoyko – a prominent Ukrainian scientist and nature conservationist, died at the age of 100. Until his last days, he had a clear mind, was active in nature conservation, and continued working on academic publications. His last research article was published in September 2020, approximately one month before his death. For decades he was a principal investigator and head of a department in the State Museum of Natural History and the Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians. Stepan Stoyko created many protected areas, including the Carpathian State Reserve (Carpathian Biosphere Reserve), Roztochya Nature Reserve, and Carpathian, Yavorivskyi, Shatsky, Uzhansky, Skole Beskids, and Synevyr national nature parks. After the catastrophic floods in Transcarpathia in 1998, and 2001, he brought attention to clear-cutting, including the Carpathian forests’ illegal cutting. In his late 90s, Stepan Stoyko supported the initiative group Free Svydovets that protected one of the most important biodiversity islands in the Ukrainian Carpathians – Svydovets mountain range. His support was crucial to prevent building the largest Carpathian ski resort and conserve unique mountain old-growth forests, sub-alpine, and alpine grasslands. I knew Stepan Stoyko for over 20 years since I was 15 years old. Here I would like to share my perspective on his contribution to nature conservation and environmental science. To commemorate his scientific life and contributions, the Ukrainian community of botanists and ecologists Dovkolabotanika established Stepan Stoyko Award in the fields of nature conservation and environmental science for undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students.
An Astronomical Basis for the Myth of the Solar Hero
Authors: Heath Robin
Published: December 2020

Our increasing knowledge of the megalithic culture of the British Isles in the 2nd and 3rd millennia BCE tends to confirm the proposition that megalithic astronomers measured celestial positions with considerable accuracy. The evidence indicates that they understood the 18.6 year nodal period and the moon’s nine minute declination wobble. They also had sufficient geometrical ability to re-proportion spacings between lines, divide circles into whole number polygons and divide lines into equal integer spacings. We should therefore ask whether there is evidence of such early astronomy in the numbers which recur in certain myths.
Changes in Celestial Journey Literature: 1400-1650
Authors: Weber Alan S.
Published: December 2020

This study investigates an important historical phase in the curiously hybrid genre of the celestial journey narrative which has produced not only important scientific texts, such as Macrobius's Somnium Scipionis, but also some of Western Europe's finest poems, including Dante's Divine Comedy. I would like to compare Christine de Pizan's Chemin de Long Estude of 1403, which describes the author's celestial journey through the heavenly spheres, to another milestone in celestial voyage literature, Francis Godwin's English work The Man in the Moone of 1638. These two literary and historical endpoints illustrate the changes in European technical astronomy which occurred between 1400 and 1650, and also reveal the shift which occurred in the very nature of the celestial voyage genre. I will also briefly review other closely related early modern celestial voyage narratives written by Johannes Kepler and Bishop John Wilkins.
Once more on the origin of Semetic and Greek star names: an astromonic-etymological approach updated
Authors: Kurtik Gennadij , Militarev Alexander
Published: December 2020

The contribution is a new version of the paper "From Mesopotamia to Greece: to the Origin of Semitic and Greek Star Names" once written by a Sumerologist (L.Bobrova) and etymologist (A. Militarev), and recently revised, updated and corrected in most part by a historian of the Mesopotamian astronomy (G. Kurtik). The present paper analyzes Sumerian and Akkadian (Babylonian) names of 34 celestial bodies, and their equivalents in other Semitic languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Syrian Aramaic, and Ge`ez, or ancient Ethiopian) and in Greek and Latin. Its main goal is to demonstrate the importance of Sumerian and Babylonian celestial body names as a source of corresponding terms in other cultures, up to the conventional inventory of modern astronomy, and to reveal four strategies by which other cultures drew ideas for name-giving from the treasury of Mesopotamia's lexicon of celestial bodies. Whereas one of these strategies -- echoing, or full translation, of a Sumero-Akkadian term -- is axiomatic, the other three -- shift of meaning or interpretation of a Sumero-Akkadian term; lexical, or "material" borrowing; and, especially, folk etymology, or misinterpretation -- are understudied and practically unnoticed. The authors do not focus on such complicated matters as a historical background of Mesopotamian influence, direct or indirect, on Greek culture; a direction and routes of inter-borrowing between different speaking areas other than Akkadian and their contacts with the Greek world; a chronology of all kinds of cultural contacts and influences; probable connections between the early pre-Islamic Arabic and Babylonian traditions; or the problem of identification of Mesopotamian constellation and stars. However, the data presented may give a certain impulse to further investigation of these matters, while feasible etymologies and relations established between names can even throw some light upon debatable identification cases.
Watching the Heavens with a ‘Rooted Heart’: The Mystical Basis of Aztec Astronomy
Authors: Maffie James
Published: December 2020

Aztec epistemology maintained that humans acquire knowledge of reality mystically using their hearts, not their five senses. What, then, was the epistemological status of observational astronomy? Aztec epistemology assigned a privileged role to mystical knowledge and an ancillary, propaedeutical role to observational astronomy. The epistemological evaluation of observational claims in Aztec astronomy occurred within a context of mystically rooted metaphysical, religious, and astrological background assumptions. These played an essential role in the epistemology of Aztec astronomy.
Calculating the Lots of Fortune and Daemon in Hellenistic Astrology
Authors: Greenbaum Dorian Gieseler
Published: December 2020

This paper looks at some of the contributions the Lots of Fortune and Daemon make to the practice of Hellenistic astrology. First, an overview on the role that Fortune and Daimon play for the individual in the Greco-Roman world, including in the perceived fate of an individual, is given. Next, how Fortune and Daimon help to create the system of astrological lots is discussed. The Lots of Fortune and Daemon may be a way of incorporating ideas of personal destiny into astrology, at least in determining length of life, if not in other areas. For this reason, the methods used in their calculation become important. The paper examines variations in these methods and the rationale behind them, what different astrologers say about them, and discusses the way an ancient astrologer (Titus Pitenius, in P. Lond. 130) may have calculated the Lot of Fortune.
The Lichtenberger Prophecy and Melanchthon’s Horoscope for Luther
Authors: Hoppmann Jürgen G.H.
Published: December 2020

The Reformation coincided with a boom in the publication of astrological almanacs and astrology became a potent means of propagandising for differing political positions. One of the most notable Reformation astrologers was Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560), professor of Greek at Wittenberg from 1518, where he became one of Martin Luther's closest friends and collaborators. In 1521 he briefly found himself leader of the Reformation when Luther was confined in the Wartburg. His interest in astrology and his position at the centre of the Reformation raises important questions concerning the possible use of astrological forecasts of the Reformation's future course. Martin Luther's birth chart was to become a focus of debate amongst astrologers who wished to establish whether he was a new messiah or the Anti-Christ.
The Hermetica as Ancient Science
Authors: Zoller Robert
Published: December 2020

The Corpus Hermeticum1(CH) is a compilation of philosophical, theosophical, mystical and cosmological texts dating, in their present form, from the third-fourth centuries C.E. and attributed, according to tradition, to Hermes Trismegistus. These texts exerted considerable influence upon western philosophers, scientific thinkers and mystics throughout the Middle Ages, especially influencing the Renaissance Neoplatonists. Scholarly discussions of the Hermetica once focused upon this Corpus, which some have felt contains lofty ideals and noble speculations.
Marc Edmund Jones and New Age Astrology in America
Authors: Zoller Robert
Published: December 2020

Although astrologers and astrological concepts were instrumental in formulating the core assumptions of the modern New Age movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the increasing number of scholarly studies of the New Age movement pay almost no attention to astrology.1 The only two English language histories of modern astrology set out the role of the English astrologer Alan Leo (1860-1917) in creating an astrology designed to facilitate spiritual evolution and the coming of the New Age.2 This paper examines the foundation of an astrology of spiritual development and psychological growth in the USA and examines the key role played by Marc Edmund Jones (1888-1980). Jones used arguments based on the history of astrology, strongly influenced by theosophical theories of history, to justify his reform of astrology.
The Astrology of Marsilio Ficino: Divination or Science?
Authors: Voss Angela
Published: December 2020

This paper addresses the question of the kind of knowledge which informed the astrological practice of Marsilio Ficino, and in so doing distinguishes between two modes of understanding the human relationship to the cosmos, the natural scientific and the magical. I will seek to show that Ficino's critique of his contemporary astrologers derived from their lack of symbolic understanding, and I shall attempt to explore the nature of this understanding which for Ficino was fully revealed in the Platonic and Hermetic traditions. Finally I shall suggest that in his system of natural magic Ficino re-defined astrology as a unitive tool for healing, founded on both 'scientific' investigation into cosmic law and divinatory experience.
Astrology on Trial, and its Historians: Reflections on the Historiography of ‘Superstition’
Authors: Curry Patrick
Published: December 2020

This paper is an historiographical inquiry into some problems that arise when confronted with so-called supernatural, irrational or superstitious phenomena in human history. Other descriptions are possible, of course, but none of them without at least some question-begging - something that itself points to the principal problem. As an initial formulation, let us define that as follows: how can the historian describe and explain these phenomena without participating in the very processes - characteristically, to coin a phrase, ones of power/knowledge - that produced them in the first place?1 And this problem becomes especially acute when the discourse in question, like astrology (but unlike, say, phrenology) is still the subject of contemporary controversy. This is not something I hope to resolve here, but perhaps I can improve the quality of the questions it raises.
Ficino's Approach to Astrology as Reflected in Book VII of his Letters
Authors: Cleeve Julia
Published: December 2020

The twelve volumes of Marsilio Ficino's correspondence are rich in astrological references. Most celebrated among these is Letter 17 in Book VII which is addressed to Federico, Duke of Urbino, and whose express intention is to reconcile genuine astronomers and Christians. Ficino himself was a practising astrologer, and yet the arguments he advances in this letter are taken from his unpublished treatise Against the Judgement of Astrologers. This apparent contradiction - is Ficino a champion or a scourge of astronomia? - may be resolved if considered in the light of his over-arching Platonic cosmology.
Virginia Woolf and Astronomy
Authors: Ionescu Doina
Published: December 2020

This paper is a short investigation of the interconnections between the life and work of Virginia Woolf, an outstanding modernist British writer, and a pervasive popular interest in astronomy in the 1920s and 1930s in Britain. The study seeks to explore the roots and development of Virginia Woolf’s passion for astronomy and the way in which some of the popular discourses on astronomy of her epoch are reflected in her writings.
O catador de materiais recicláveis no município de Ponta Grossa, Paraná
Authors: Rolim de Moura Reidy , Dutra Szul Karoline , Sanson Sene Thais
Published: December 2020

A política pública social constitui-se em um dos pilares do Estado e volta-se para a provisão de recursos destinados a ações redistributivas que possibilitem meios de subsistência hábeis a alcançar e garantir equidade mínima na sociedade. Nesta ótica, o presente trabalho busca trazer uma reflexão acerca da aplicação da Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos (PNRS) no município de Ponta Grossa/PR em relação aos catadores de materiais recicláveis da Associação de Recicladores Rei do Pet (ARREP). A partir de uma revisão bibliográfica e documental, com a coleta de dados nos bancos da Prefeitura Municipal de Ponta Grossa-PR e aplicação de questionário semi-estruturado aos associados da ARREP, passou-se à confrontação de tais dados com os critérios da PNRS quanto à segurança alimentar, acesso a benefícios sociais e rede de atendimento municipal, os quais demonstraram como resultados a vulnerabilidade dos associados e como a aplicação da PNRS ainda é frágil e desarticulada no município de Ponta Grossa-PR, pois os catadores ainda enfrentam dificuldades primárias, como o baixo rendimento a partir da venda dos materiais e a ausência de autonomia da associação frente ao poder público, as quais obstam o pleno acesso a direitos e à cidadania.
Opinión de expertos con respecto al emprendimiento en PyMES en Hermosillo, Sonora.
Authors: Espinoza Valencia Francisco Javier , Real Pérez Isidro , Gonzalez Gonzalez María
Published: December 2020

La presente investigación se realizó mediante un enfoque cuantitativo y de corte transversal, para conocer la opinión de los expertos sobre el emprendimiento en PyMES en la ciudad de Hermosillo, Sonora en México, para lo que se tomó un muestreo por conveniencia sobre las incubadoras-expertos, de los que se recopiló la información mediante instrumento de recolección de datos y capturados en el softwere estadístico IBM.SPSS.Statistics.v21 en el cual se hace el análisis descriptivo y de frecuencias para identificar los aspectos que los expertos consideran deben tomarse en cuenta a la hora de emprender. La apreciación de los expertos demuestra que no existe la disposición de recursos para las empresas Pymes, no hay claridad sobre política o subsidio, programas de apoyo, dentro del sistema educativo básico no hay programas para formación de emprendedores, no hay disposición para la obtención de recursos para nueva tecnología, lo que sí hay es: la manera de realizar operaciones con clientes o proveedores en el extranjero, los servicios básicos e infraestructura de comunicaciones y además están de acuerdo en que la tecnología es el medio por el cual las empresas se vuelven más competitivas y logran un crecimiento sostenido; por lo que  lo podemos concluir que, los emprendedores están en disposición de aperturar nuevas empresas pero las condiciones no favorecen hasta cierto grado, un ambiente propicio para hacerlo.
Palabras clave: Emprendedores, Gobierno, Expertos.
Practices, Challenges, and Prospects of Online Learning during Covid-19 Pandemic in Higher Education: Lecturer Perspectives
Authors: Simamora Roy Martin , De Fretes Daniel , Purba Ezra Deardo , Pasaribu Daniel
Published: December 2020

This study aimed to investigate the lecturer' perspectives during COVID-19 pandemic in higher education. The participants have consisted of 8 from various universities in Indonesia. In this study, researchers chose narrative analysis as a research approach. A narrative analysis was used to explore lecturer perspectives or views on e-learning based on the practices, challenges, and prospects during COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the lecturers' perspective, the researchers concluded that online learning applications are beneficial for some lecturers to deliver lecture material without face to face, although there are some obstacles such as inadequate internet access. Some campuses provide self-developed applications to facilitate teaching lecturers and provide access to students to study lecture material. Some teachers also used online learning service provider applications or third parties such as Youtube, Zoom, Google Meet, Google Classroom and other online applications. Overall lecturers in universities can use existing learning applications. Efforts are needed to develop further, train, and improve infrastructure facilities to support online learning in the future. Online learning has high prospects and potential to be applied due to its extremely related to technological developments and ever-changing times wherever everything is quick and economical.
INFLUENCE OF CONTINGENT PAY AND VARIABLE PAY ON EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
Authors: Pat Allison , Ifeanyi Okoli , Chinenye Nuel
Published: December 2020

This study was to examine the influence of contingent pay and variable pay on employee performance in selected public universities. The study was anchored on social exchange theory. A cross sectional survey research design was employed for the study. Stratified sampling techniques were used to obtain a sample of 354 out of a target population of 4658 using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) formula. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire. The study used expert judgment method to determine content validity. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient at 5% level of significance. The findings revealed that there was a significant positive relationship existing between contingent pay and altruism and there was a significant positive relationship existing between variable pay and employee retention. The study concluded that contingent pay and variable pay has a significant positive relationship with employee performance variables (altruism and employee retention) in the public universities studied. The study recommended that universities administration should take into account the performance of people when granting pay system, as this will help them to motivate employees to try their best and stay longer in organizations.
Традиционные шкатулки абдра и ящики хайрчах у хакасов (ХVIII – начало ХХ века)
Authors: Chebodaeva M.P.
Published: December 2020

The article is devoted to the objects of decorative and applied art of the Khakass — caskets Abdra and boxes Khayrchah, which fell out of use at the beginning of the 20th century. The research was based on the museum collections of the Khakass National Museum of Local Lore and the Minusinsk Museum of Local Lore. The author examines the material, shape and decor of the Khakass caskets Abdra and boxes Khayrchah.

Статья посвящена предметам декоративно-прикладного искусства хакасов — шкатулкам абдра и хайрчах, вышедшим из употребления в начале ХХ века. Основой для исследования послужили музейные коллекции Хакасского национального краеведческого музея и Минусинского краеведческого музея. Автор анализирует материал, форму и декор хакасских шкатулок абдра и хайрчах. Используются историко-описательный метод и комплекс искусствоведческих методов.
Наталья Сысоева: художник, педагог, искусствовед, общественный деятель
Authors: Fedchina I.G.
Published: December 2020

The article is devoted to the Irkutsk artist Natalya Sysoeva, chairman of the Irkutsk branch of the Union of Artists of Russia, director of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, painter, author of still-lives and landscapes. In addition, Natalya Sysoeva was engaged in teaching activities both in art educational institutions of Irkutsk and at PJE University, Republic of Korea. Thanks to her energy, organizational skills, several large international projects have been carried out with universities and art schools in Russia, Korea, China, Mongolia. Under her curatorship, more than two dozen albums, catalogues dedicated to the work of Irkutsk artists and the collection of the Irkutsk Art Museum have been published.

Статья посвящена творческой деятельности иркутского художника Натальи Сергеевны Сысоевой, председателя Иркутского регионального отделения ВТОО «Союз художников России», директора Иркутского областного художественного музея им. В.П. Сукачёва, живописца. Помимо этого, Н.С. Сысоева много лет преподавала как в художественных учебных заведениях Иркутска, так и в университете Pai Chai, Республика Корея. Благодаря ее энергии, организаторским способностям осуществлено несколько больших международных проектов с университетами и художественными училищами России, Кореи, Китая, Монголии. Под ее кураторством издано более двух десятков альбомов, каталогов, посвященных творчеству иркутских художников и коллекции Иркутского художественного музея.
О великом деле «собирания искусств»
Authors: Fedotova E.D.
Published: December 2020

The article is an introduction to the conference “From the history of collecting: patrons, collectors, founders of museums”, organized by the Russian Academy of Arts. The author's address to the participants is devoted to a short story about people whose names are associated with the concept of “charity” — patrons, collectors, founders of museums in Russia and abroad. These are well-known personalities of various national schools, who became famous for their deeds in the field of caring for the preservation of cultural heritage. The purpose of the conference is to remember their names and noble activities.

Статья представляет собой вступительное слово к конференции «Из истории собирательства: меценаты, коллекционеры, основатели музеев», организованной Российской академией художеств. Обращение автора к участникам посвящено краткому рассказу о людях, чьи имена связаны с понятием «благотворительность», — меценатах, коллекционерах, основателях музеев России и зарубежных стран. Это известные личности разных национальных школ, своими деяниями прославившиеся на поприще заботы о сохранении культурного наследия. Цель конференции — вспомнить их имена и благородную деятельность.
Густав Хартлауб и «новая вещественность»: выставка, собирание коллекции, судьба
Authors: Koroleva A.Y.
Published: December 2020

The author of article views the curator activity of famous German art-historian and director of Mannheim Kunsthalle Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub in the context of the collecting and patronage. His interest to actual art has turned to most large-scaled project in the art of Weimar republic, that fixes the bone of new «neorealistic» art in the period between two world wars, that has got a name «New objectivity» after the Hartlaubs exhibition. The aim of article is the study of Hartlaubs role as a gallerist in the awareness of changing, which have took a place in the German art after expressionism and their fixation in the social consciousness by exhibition actual pieces of art and following acquiring of them for different museum collections. For the first time in Russian language tells this article about the rising of interest to the «New Objectivity», the history of the organization of famous exhibition in 1925 and her tourney about Germany, about the problem, that have took a place, also about the contradictions between the participants of two wings inside the movement. Special attention is given to the fate of collection, which was scattered by Nazi.

В контексте рассмотрения проблемы коллекционирования и меценатства автор статьи рассматривает кураторскую деятельность известного немецкого искусствоведа Г.Ф. Хартлауба, чей интерес к актуальному искусству в период Веймарской республики обернулся широкомасштабным проектом, зафиксировавшим рождение нового «неореалистического» направления в искусстве между двумя мировыми войнами, получившего название с легкой руки куратора Мангеймского Кунстхалле «новая вещественность». Целью статьи является изучение роли Хартлауба как галериста в осознании перемен, произошедших в немецком искусстве после экспрессионизма, и фиксации их в общественном сознании путем экспонирования произведений остроактуального искусства и их последующего приобретения музеем в свою коллекцию. Статья впервые в русскоязычной литературе освещает предпосылки возникновения интереса к живописи «новой вещественности», историю организации и последующего турне знаменитой выставки 1925 года, рассматривает те проблемы, с которыми столкнулись организаторы, а также внутренние противоречия между участниками и течениями внутри движения. Отдельное внимание уделено судьбе коллекции, разрозненной нацистскими властями.
Часовая коллекция Цяньлуна (1736–1795): первое собрание европейского искусства в Китае
Authors: Neglinskaya M.A.
Published: December 2020

Many of European clocks in the Beijing’s Palace Museum (Gugong) were made in second half of the 18th century, by the Qing Emperor Qianlong’s governing (1736–1795), when an exotic “Chinese style” (chinoiserie) in the decorative arts was at its height. The research methodology proposed below, which combines art history and cultural analysis, allows us to see, that the Palace Collection’s mix determined evolution of the clock’s industry in China and some European lands, who took part in the international clock and watch market. In forms and decor of Chinese clocks the 18th century were reflected the change of European market. Together with western mechanical clock, being at the same time scientific device and work of decorative art, the European styles system was by ritual participation admitted in China.

В статье показано, что западная часовая коллекция Цяньлуна (1736–1795), явившаяся первым в империи Цин (1644–1911) собранием произведений европейского искусства, связана с художественным рынком и феноменом шинуазри. Предложенная ниже методология, сочетающая искусствоведческий и культурологический подходы, позволяет увидеть, что состав этой коллекции повлиял на развитие производства механических часов в самом Китае и западных странах — участницах международного рынка искусств XVIII века. Собирательство механических хронометров в государстве Цин было обусловлено ритуализацией часов, устранившей проблему дуализма китайского и западного начал в цинской культуре и искусстве.
Коллекция вечных ценностей: Дом-музей З.К. Церетели в Переделкине
Authors: Romanova E.O.
Published: December 2020

The article is focused on Zurab Tsereteli’s House-Museum in Peredelkino near Moscow. Serving as a continuation of the museums previously founded by the artist in Georgia and Russia, the collection of the House-Museum presents to the fullest possible extent a multifaceted specter of creative search in the artist’s experimental space. At the same time, the main feature of the museum is that it represents wholly the realization of Tsereteli’s live program aimed at transfiguration of a man by the means of art.

Статья посвящена Дому-музею Зураба Церетели в подмосковном поселке Переделкино. Выступая продолжением музеев, созданных художником ранее в Грузии и России, коллекция Дома-музея наиболее полно представляет многогранный спектр творческих поисков автора в экспериментальном пространстве. Однако главным в этом музее является то, что он представляет собой во всей полноте реализацию жизненной программы З.К. Церетели, цель которой — преображение человека и мира средствами искусства.
Падма
Authors: Chandra L.
Published: December 2020

This article is about the the meanings and iconography of Padma as a red lotus, Vajrayana deity, yogini, a Auspicious Emblem, one of the Eight Nagas (snakes), one of the incarnations of Avalokiteshvara. Famous images from Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian and Indian treatises and other sources are given. The translation of Lokesh Chandra's article from the Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography was made by S.М. Belokurova.

Статья посвящена значениям и иконографии Падмы как красного лотоса, божества Ваджраяны, йогини, благого символа в монгольском Ганджуре, одного из Восьми Нагов (змей), одной из инкарнаций Авалокитешвары. Приведены известные изображения из японских, китайских, монгольских и индийских трактатов и других источников. Перевод статьи Локеша Чандры из «Словаря буддийской иконографии» выполнен С.М. Белокуровой.
Pengaruh Strategi Pemasaran, Pemberdayaan, dan Pelatihan Terhadap Produktivitas Pengrajin Kain Tapis di Kabupaten Pringsewu
Authors: Arya pramudya M iqbal , Sucinda Bunga Ayu , Meliyanti  , Sanjaya Vicky F
Published: December 2020

The purpose of this study was to see the effect of Marketing Strategy, Empowerment and Training on the productivity of the marketing filter cloth craftsmen. The number of respondents studied was 78 people, using saturated samples. Data collection was done by distributing questionnaires. The analysis technique used is multiple linear regression. The findings in this study are Marketing Strategy, Empowerment and Training have a positive and significant effect on employee work productivity.
A proposal for conservation and complementation for the historic Diyarbakır City Walls: the Urfa Gate, towers and city walls
Authors: IŞIK Nursen , HALİFEOĞLU Fatma Meral , İPEK Süleyman
Published: December 2020

Fortification, conservation, and restoration of the structures and buildings that can be considered as cultural heritage are very crucial. Diyarbakır, one of the cities included in the UNESCO Cultural Heritage List thanks to its historic city walls and Hevsel gardens, has been home to many of these types of structures and buildings. The current study covers the observational examination of the historic Diyarbakır City Walls: the Urfa Gate, towers, and city walls. This study aims to determine the structural damages occurred on this part of city walls and then, constitute a path for the conservation and complementation for such types of historic structures. Besides, the study also contains the remedy and suggestion parts for such kinds of damages coming into existence on these types of structures. The observational examinations revealed remarkable structural damages on the load-carrying systems of the gate transitions and towers. Moreover, irregularities and soil coverings on the ground floors of the towers and also, material lost on the city walls and towers as well as slumping were sighted during the examinations. For these problems, the fortification and complementation suggestions have been listed to support holistic conservation and sustainability in the city walls, gate transitions, and towers.