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Incorporating student-facing learning analytics into pedagogical practice
Authors: Kitto Kirsty , Lupton Mandy , Davis Kate , Waters Zak
Published: May 2024

Despite a narrative that sees Learning Analytics (LA) as a field that enhances student learning, few student-facing solutions have been developed. A lack of tools enables a sophisticated student focus, and it is difficult for educators to imagine how data can be used in authentic practice. This is unfortunate, as LA has the potential to be a powerful tool for encouraging metacognition and reflection. We propose a series of learning design patterns that will help people to incorporate LA into their teaching protocols: do-analyse-change-reflect, active learning squared, and group contribution. We discuss these learning design patterns with reference to a case study provided by the Connected Learning Analytics (CLA) toolkit, demonstrating that student-facing learning analytics is not just a future possibility, but an area that is ripe for further development.
Learning gains in a flipped classroom to teach the principles of envenomation
Authors: Elliott Kristine , Winkel Kenneth
Published: May 2024

Diagnosis and management of venomous bites and stings, particularly snakebite, is important for Australian clinicians. In 2015, a flipped classroom was trialled to teach the principles of envenomation to year 1 medical students in a MD program. A bespoke online resource was developed and then used by students to prepare for a face-to-face class tailored to their learning needs. Students reported positively about learning the principles of envenomation with the online resource and found it useful. Responses from students also indicated that the interactive class was beneficial to their learning, particularly the clinical application of envenomation. These findings were supported by comparisons of pre- and post-test scores that showed significant learning gains across eight questions. The study also provided some insights into students' perception of knowledge retention and why some students may prefer to prepare individually for content attainment.
Determining the requirements for geographically extended learning (gxLearning)
Authors: Day Stephanie , Verhaart Michael
Published: May 2024

Blended learning, where face to face delivery is augmented with online components is used widely in Tertiary Education Institutions. With emerging and maturing technology solutions there is an opportunity to leverage them to provide alternative ways to facilitate pedagogically sound student learning. In particular, students may not be able to physically attend the class. The research presented in this paper considers how web conferencing technology, with appropriate hardware and software can be used to integrate face-to-face and geographically separate students (gxLearning), and describes three case studies in a variety of scenarios. The findings suggest the technology needed, and describes some notable advantages such as the ability to record the classes, as well as some significant issues, and will provide guidance to others considering using this delivery mode.
Evaluating a Professional Development cMOOC
Authors: Cochrane Thomas , Narayan Vickel
Published: May 2024

This paper focuses upon the evaluation stages of the design and implementation of a lecturer professional development cMOOC embedded within an educational design-based research methodology. In the design and development stages the first iteration in 2015 of the cMOOC informed the redesign of the second iteration in 2016. In this paper the overall impact of the cMOOC is evaluated via evidence of active participation, a post-survey of the 2016 participants, and evidence of impact through the development of participant eportfolios. Based upon our experiences we propose a transferable and scalable lecturer professional development framework that can be mapped to established teaching and learning accreditation pathways such as CMALT.
Models for understanding student engagement in digital learning environments
Authors: Wiseman Paul , Kennedy Gregor , Lodge Jason
Published: May 2024

Digital learning environments are increasingly prevalent in higher education. The flexible and less constrained nature of these environments, means students often need to be more autonomous in managing their own learning. This implies that students are sufficiently selfmotivated to successfully engage in autonomous learning. The concept of "student engagement" has shown promise in assisting researchers' and educators' understanding of how students' general involvement in study, and their more specific completion of learning tasks, can lead to beneficial outcomes in digital learning environments. However, student engagement has taken on multiple, diffuse definitions in higher education creating confusion about what engagement is and how best to promote it. In this paper we build on a model of engagement from organisational psychology that offers insight into task-level engagement. Established models in the area of student motivation are integrated to bring clarity to the construct at tasklevel in digital learning environments.
The Sociological Imagination Machine (S.I.M.)
Authors: Wheaton Hilary , Hall David
Published: May 2024

A leading online education provider used gamification and a custom built technology to assist the understanding and application of the sociological imagination in first-year Sociology students. In a sixteen-week period, a collaborative team including learning designers, teaching staff, education technologists and a graphic designer, devised and developed a gamified weekly activity for students featuring randomising and roleplay mechanics. Results indicated that the use of gamification improved students' engagement with their class group and assisted them in learning key concepts. The considered and purpose driven use of gamification has proven to be a valuable tool in online learning.
Using student voice in the design of game based learning
Authors: O'Rourke Mark
Published: May 2024

Game technologies can provide exciting ways to engage and educate students and provide an active learning experience with a goal-directed agency. This research investigates how student voice is integral to the development and trialing of educational computer games in order to effectively target, and add meaning and relevance to learning outcomes. Games can offer a transformational change in pedagogical approaches by being intrinsically motivating, providing immediate feedback and scaffolding skill and knowledge acquisition. The research focused on understanding learner needs by involving students in project based development and examines the rationale behind making a pedagogical shift from unidirectional content delivery to collaboratively designing experience. The study adopted a Design Based Research methodology, within an Activity Theoretical framework.
Assessing the impact of an "Echo360-Active Learning Platform"-enabled classroom in a large enrolment blended learning undergraduate course in Genetics
Authors: Montpetit Colin , Sabourin Sonya
Published: May 2024

In response to calls from the higher education science community to increase student engagement in learning, scientific teaching (reflecting the true nature of science by capturing the process of discovery in the classroom) and reflective teaching (or scholarly teaching), a genetics course was redesigned as a blended learning course. The new course model has provided several opportunities to engage students in the 5E learning cycle and to redefine the classroom experience. Despite the growing literature on effective design of blended courses, very little research has been conducted and very little is known about the impact of components of blended courses for large enrolment courses in relation to student learning outcomes. The goal of this investigation was to assess the impact of an Echo360-ALP enabled classroom on learning gains in a large enrolment blended learning course.
Natural Language Proficiency and Computational Thinking
Authors: Monson Ronald
Published: May 2024

Literacy as natural language fluency, is the primary literacy underpinning most learning but there is a new literacy gathering momentum in this information age - Computational Thinking. This paper draws connections between the two; highlighting analogs, differences, and bridges that are transforming both pedagogies while also illustrating a growing educational nexus.
Collective effervescence
Authors: Kizimchuk Stephanie , Freund Katharina , Prescott Margaret , McLaughlin Crystal , Mewburn Inger
Published: May 2024

This paper shares the experiences of a course team in designing and delivering a massive open online course (MOOC). It offers insight into how their approach can help build learning communities and enhance pedagogy for online learning through a return to best practice. It will discuss how a combined approach of using a core site in conjunction with social media platforms can temporarily overcome the functional limitations of xMOOCs, more deeply engage students, and improve moderation. Central to this, the concepts of collective effervescence and radical inclusion are shown to be effective principles of course design which facilitate ongoing support networks - an effective and sustained strategy for combating pluralistic ignorance within research education contexts.
Ethical considerations in the use of student data
Authors: Jones Hazel
Published: May 2024

As more emphasis is placed on the notion of 'show me the learning', institutions and individual staff are looking to the field of learning analytics to provide evidence of the learning that is happening. There is growing concern within the field that this evidence needs to be collected and utilised in ethical ways. However, there is a disconnect between national and international perspectives of the importance of institutional policy and guidelines regarding ethical use of student data, and the perceptions of academics about these guidelines. Although many universities are adopting such policies, results from a survey of academics suggest that such policy and guidelines are low on the ranking of factors that impact their current use and knowledge of learning analytics. Practical strategies are suggested to promote policy and guidelines, with appropriate support mechanisms that enable staff to embrace and adopt learning analytics through efficient, sustainable, and accessible processes.
Using digital tools in WIL to enable student journalists' real world learning
Authors: Jones Dianne
Published: May 2024

This paper explores how student journalists' adoption of digital technology during real world work-integrated learning (WIL) reporting projects, enabled authentic learning. Student journalists at a regional Queensland university interviewed the candidates for each of the four-yearly local government area elections, from 2008 to 2016, in Australia's second largest inland city and its surrounds. They published their multimedia stories on the Radio Journalism Online blog. This study considers the importance, when framing WIL projects for student journalists, of embracing the traditional and new technical skills and digital literacies that graduates will need to be job ready for multimedia newsrooms. It also considers the impact of recording and telling stories in the talents' or actors' own words on the students' perceptions of the accurcay and reliability of their election reports.
Designing a Review of the Learning Management System
Authors: Heathcote Liz , Palmer Edward
Published: May 2024

This paper outlines the design of a review of the Learning Management System (LMS) at an Australian Go8 University. From the experience of other universities undergoing this process, a series of evaluation activities were designed to ensure stakeholder engagement and user quality of experience rather than the traditional functionality comparison. The focus of the paper is to describe the methodology used with a focus on potentially transferrable learnings that other higher education institutions can use in their approach to evaluating their learning management systems.
The Power of the Crowd
Authors: Donlon Enda , Brown Mark , Costello Eamon
Published: May 2024

Crowdsourcing is the term often used for processes of data collation and creation where individuals or groups of users who are not necessarily located centrally generate content that is then shared. While the term originates within the world of business, it has since gained traction within a number of academic and professional disciplines. Drawing upon two examples that have originated within the Republic of Ireland, this paper reflects on the educational potential of crowdsourcing. Firstly, it reports a unique one-year open crowdsourcing initiative which compiled a comprehensive A-Z directory of edtech tools for teaching and learning through collaborative contributions. Secondly, it describes an initiative to develop a crowdsourced repository of study tips and suggestions for adult, part-time, online and flexible learners embarking on further study. These two case studies provide a valuable context for considering the wider potential of crowdsourcing applications for teaching and learning purposes.
Voice-to-Text Transcription of Lecture Recordings
Authors: Dinmore Stuart , Gao Jing
Published: May 2024

Educational institutions are increasingly recognising the potential value for students that samelanguage- subtitles can bring to lecture recordings and other digital content. During 2016 the University of South Australia's Teaching Innovation Unit and School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences collaborated on a project which aimed to test our ability transcribe every piece of digital video content hosted by the University in to same-language subtitles in a cost effective way. We believe this augmentation to our existing media content would have various benefits for our students. This paper discusses the benefits of same-language transcription of media content and goes on to outline the details of a technical feasibility study.
Digital learning
Authors: Delaney Lorraine , Farren Margaret
Published: May 2024

Many countries have policies to improve the equality of opportunities afforded by higher education; to enable people from a wider range of backgrounds to benefit. In recent decades, Ireland has experienced a dramatic expansion in higher education (HE) participation. However, research indicates that certain groups continue to be under-represented; namely those from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Additionally, when working class students do participate in higher education they don't necessarily complete honours degree programmes. The possibility of economic mobility provided by lower level courses is often slight as they tend to have a low value in the labour market. Furthermore, costs associated with travelling, or having to live away from home while studying, present a significant barrier to accessing full-time HE for many working class students. Based on a case study of 268 distance graduates from Dublin City University (DCU) Ireland, this paper argues that without digital higher education provision, significant progress in widening participation is improbable.
Development of a tool to support continuous assessments and improve the feedback cycle on statistical analysis assignments for large classes
Authors: Corrias Alberto , Choy Jeanette Lyn Fung , Soong Swee Kit Alan , Gan Mark Joo Seng
Published: May 2024

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a tool, AGStex (Assignment Generation Software using Latex), that enables educators to generate individual assignments tasks and to provide targeted feedback to students in large classes in a timely manner. In this paper, the initial development of the tool targeted at a statistical data analysis course in the field of biomedical engineering is presented. In addition, the authors illustrate how educators can utilise the feedback generated by the tool to improve student learning in large classes. The paper concludes with an outline of the next steps for the project including suggestions on further work needed to inform the impact on the types of feedback generated by AGStex on students' learning outcomes.
Introducing pre-service education students to university experiences through an augmented reality game
Authors: Campbell Chris , Al-Harthi Aisha Salim Ali
Published: May 2024

Augmented reality has come into its own recently due to the advent of Pokémon Go. However, this technology has been around for several years and there is an increasing body of knowledge available. This study reports on an augmented reality game (ARG), called the UQ Amazing Race, that was developed for a first year education course for students studying to be teachers. Students had the opportunity to complete the UQ Amazing Race in class tutorials and then report on their experiences by completing a report a week later. Students' experiences were investigated, particularly regarding how the experience is different by gender and comfort with technology. Results suggest the game was engaging for all students but particularly positive for female students. Students with more comfort with technology reported significantly higher participation in the ARG.
Using a Video-Based Critique Process to Support Studio Pedagogies in Distance Education
Authors: Billingsley William , Ngu Bing , Phan Huy , Gromik Nicolas , Kwan Paul
Published: May 2024

Studio courses have become a key way in which professional skills, especially those involving collaboration and design, are taught in many fields, including computer science. Studios typically involve students working on a design problem, periodically presenting their work for critique, and critiquing the work of other students or groups. They support productive inquiry, as well as teamwork, communication, and reflection. However, although studios have become an important mode of instruction for on-campus students, they have not typically been offered for online or distance education students. In this paper we describe a studio critique process that is designed to work asynchronously, using short videos, and a tool that we have built to support it. We also describe qualitative observations from a pilot study, in which video-based critiques were used at a university whose students predominantly study online rather than on-campus.
Open Education Licensing
Authors: Wright Robin , Bossu Carina , Padgett Luke , Whitehead Derek , Carew Tony , Van der Veer Beale
Published: May 2024

Open education will play an important role in digitally enabled learning for a global society. Resources that are openly available for re-use and re-mix are an important part of digital literacy and will be a key component in the online offerings of Australian higher education institutions in the future. However, one of the most significant issues for educators moving into the open environment is the need to understand those copyright and licensing decisions which must be made in order to make resources open. The Open Education Licensing (OEL) project aims to ensure that online material is available for re-use. It also aims to place open content into an evolving knowledge ecosystem in Australian education. The OEL Toolkit will help Australian educational developers make informed licensing decisions for use of their resources in the open environment.
The promise and pitfalls of social media use in Higher Education
Authors: Willems Julie , Adachi Chie , McClusky Trish , Doherty Iain , Bussey Francesca , O'Donnell Marcus , Huijser Henk
Published: May 2024

Social media is pervasive in all aspects of modern life, including health, education, parenting, entertainment personal relationships and current affairs. In Higher Education however, social media is becoming a site of tension between those pursuing connected and innovative educational practice on one hand and an increasingly constrained policy environment reacting to reputational damage resulting from subversive and risky online behaviour by students and staff on the other. Social media has polarised academics, many of whom dismiss it as time-wasting and trivialising academic work and others who embrace it as an open and evolving form of scholarship and academic practice. Students engage with it for learning despite the expected norms of traditional academic practice. This symposium will highlight and explore key issues dominating current debates around the use and misuse of social media in Higher Education drawing on the wisdom of the crowd to find solutions to such challenges.
Open Education Licensing
Authors: Wright Robin , Padgett Luke , Whitehead Derek , Bossu Carina
Published: May 2024

The adoption of open education resources (OER) by Australian higher education can enhance innovation, as well as increase access to teaching and learning in the digital environment. But without a clear understanding of the copyright and licensing challenges inherent in adoption of OER, Australian educators will not be able to create education resources, or disseminate them globally. This panel session will explore the potential impact of copyright and licensing decisions on Australia's creation and use of OER and their global reach. It will provide a forum to introduce the audience to a new Open Education Licensing toolkit, developed by the Open Education Licensing project; the project has been funded by the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching. Panel members will deal with four main topics: copyright licensing in Australia, how open licensing can transform education in Australia, the different ways copyright material can be used, and the toolkit developed by the OEL project. Panel members will discuss the research and development process underpinning the OEL toolkit and ask audience members to see the toolkit interface and explore the benefits it can provide for their own activities.
Contextualizing institutional strategies for technology enhanced learning
Authors: Russell Carol
Published: May 2024

An analysis of strategic planning documents for public universities in Australia identifies some patterns in institutional strategies for technology-enhanced learning (TEL). Institutional size, location and social mission are among some of the characteristics that shape TEL support. This study was part of a project to develop guidance on how institutions could contextualize use of the ACODE TEL benchmarking process. Text from publicly available documents was analysed to identify contextual characteristics that appear to be influencing institutional strategies and priorities for TEL. International studies identify a need for rethinking how institutions work. This study provides a snapshot of these rethinking processes in 2016, and some preliminary suggestions on how benchmarking might support these.
Gunya Online
Authors: Meyers Wendy , Swain Alex , Gili Jennifer , Sutton Emily , Pinckham Sue
Published: May 2024

A cornerstone of the Indigenous Strategy at Macquarie University (MQ) is the Gunya Model. A Gunya, in Darug language, is a traditional structure used by Aboriginal peoples as a home and shelter. In building the Gunya Online program MQ is building an online culturally safe place for distance Indigenous students to come together, connect with staff, services and each other as they journey through Higher Education. This poster outlines the early development of the project presenting initial findings from a research report that draws on literature and interviews with staff and students in the development of a model of best practice.
Exploring the unknown
Authors: McGregor Gillian , Bartle Emma
Published: May 2024

Serious games offer educators the opportunity to enhance student motivation and engagement, setting the stage for authentic and productive learning (Coates, 2005). Anecdotal evidence suggests barriers to adoption of serious games in education include perceptions of the need for technological expertise and high costs of development. The author created a serious game to assist post graduate professional psychology students to manage the transition from theoretical knowledge to professional practice. This demanding stage of development is key to graduate competence, perceptions of self-efficacy and employability (De Stefano, D'Iuso, Fitzpatrick, Drapeau, & Chamodraka, 2007; & Skovholt & Ronnestad, 2003). During this developmental stage, serious games provide an opportunity for safe and engaging learning opportunities. This case study provides insight into the theory and principles to be considered when developing a serious game.
Transformation through transition
Authors: Levy Philippa , Cox Travis
Published: May 2024

The poster presents an overview of the 'MyUni Transform' project at the University of Adelaide. This involves institution-wide transition, between May 2016 and December 2017, to a single Learning Management System from three systems currently in use in the University (the move is to Instructure Canvas from, principally, Blackboard Learn and, additionally, Moodle and an in-house system). Rather than implementing transition through automated roll-across of existing learning content and design, the project is approaching the transition process as an opportunity to facilitate significant transformation in blended learning design and practice across the University, in alignment with the goals of its Strategy for Learning, Teaching and Assessment (2016-18). The poster identifies key elements of the change approach that has been adopted, and outlines a 'theory of change' impact evaluation perspective that is seen to have value for ongoing monotoring of, reflection on, and learning from, the project's early stages and beyond.
Embedding Classroom Practice in a 21st Century Learning Design (21CLD) MOOC framework
Authors: Butler Deirdre , Leahy Margaret , Hallissy Michael , Brown Mark
Published: May 2024

This poster explores the potential of MOOCs for teacher professional learning. It describes an innovative model that has evolved over a decade and how this could be implemented through different MOOC formats. Designed as a robust yet flexible framework that meets teachers' expressed needs, the model supports school-focused, job-embedded teacher professional learning, which challenges more traditional instructional environments. More specifically, it infuses digital technologies and other elements of 21st century skills into the teaching and learning experience. Employed initially in face-to-face contexts, the most recent development has been the design of a MOOC which maintains key elements and signature pedagogies from the initial phases to support a scalable and sustainable model of teacher professional learning.
The design process of university teachers
Authors: Agostinho Shirley , Bennett Sue , Lockyer Lori
Published: May 2024

This poster presents a teacher design process model. The model is empirically derived from research that investigated the design work of Australia university teachers. The dataset comprised detailed interviews from 30 teachers from 16 Australian universities about how they undertook their design work when designing new units and/or redesigning existing units. The findings characterise the design process as a top-down, breadth-first approach, which is iterative, and is conducted prior, during and after a unit's implementation. The significance of this model is that it illustrates a process that has been under-researched and thus provides important insights into how university teachers could be better supported in their design work. Implications from this work are discussed and ideas for future research are presented.
Krajobraz i wyobraźnia. O historii fascynacji i anatomii pasji w esejach Góry niewzruszone Jacka Woźniakowskiego i Góry. Stan umysłu Roberta Macfarlane’a
Authors: Dutka Elżbieta
Published: May 2024

W humanistycznej odmianie mountain studies relacje człowieka z górami są kluczowym zagadnieniem. Refleksję na ten temat podjął Robert Macfarlane w Górach. Stanie umysłu (2003). W artykule z bestsellerem brytyjskiego pisarza zestawiono rozprawę Jacka Woźniakowskiego Góry niewzruszone (1974). Polski historyk sztuki pisze o odkrywaniu gór dla kultury od czasów najdawniejszych do romantyzmu. W tym przełomowym momencie rozpoczyna swoją opowieść Macfarlane. Utwory są pod tym względem komplementarne i na ich podstawie można zrekonstruować historię fascynacji, która rozpoczyna się od niechęci, a prowadzi do obsesji często śmiercionośnej i przynoszącej cierpienie. Autorzy dokonują swego rodzaju anatomii górskiej pasji, rozkładając ją na czynniki pierwsze: Woźniakowski proponuje typologię postaw wobec gór uwidaczniających się w kulturze, a Macfarlane katologuje przyczyny zainteresowania szczytami i najważniejsze zagadnienia z nimi związane. Tak więc te dwa ujęcia są komplementarne.
Dać pokój ziemi. Egzegeza wybranych tekstów Nowego Testamentu
Authors: Kiersztejn Joanna
Published: May 2024

The peace in the Bible is a virtue connected to God himself. Analysing the New Testament’s writings, we discover that the peace brought by Christ cannot be read and understood only from political perspective thus it is not just a simple lack of war. The peace is God’s gift, it is the sign of the time of the Messiah. In Paul’s letters the peace it is a virtue related to justification that must be cultivated, because the peace of God is more effective than a man can imagine. It can not only break down all hostility and divisions, but also bring men closer to God himself. The John’s tradition brings similar view. Peace as a reality related to Jesus himself is the fullness of messianic goods and is eschatological in nature. However, these features make it therefore unfamiliar to the world. Adopting this way of seeing the peace and then putting it into practice has also its consequences. It leads to breaking away from the ‘structure of the world’ as we know it. But only then peacemaking becomes a manifestation of true wisdom. All those who introduce peace understood in this way deserve to be called children of God.
Nadzieja na wojnę zwyciężającą pokój. Myśl rosyjska w latach 1914–1918
Authors: Jedliński Marek
Published: May 2024

The article analyzes the self interpretative views of Russian thinkers on the Great War. Philosophers, historians and publicists unanimously assessed the armed conflict of 1914–1918 as a great change from the state of peace understood as apathy. The war was supposed to give hope for a positive transformation of Russia. According to philosophers, the conflict between the Orthodox East and the West was to lead to a renewal of the European spirit. The war was to destroy the foundations of Western thinking: rationalism, atheism, nihilism, militarism, capitalism and bourgeoisism. The German Empire for the Russians was the embodiment of these features of Modernity. The mission of the East was to be the religious revival of Europe, the liberation of the Slavs and the conquest of Constantinople.
Improved photocatalytic properties of WO3 nanoparticles for Malachite green dye degradation under visible light irradiation: An effect of La doping
Authors: Viswanathan Gokila , Solaiappan Ayyappan , Thirumalairaj Brindha , Krishnamoorthy Umapathi , Lakshmaiya Natrayan , Haque Siddiqui Md Irfanul , Shah Mohd Asif
Published: May 2024

Doped materials have received substantial attention due to their increased usefulness in photocatalytic applications. Within this context, the present study was dedicated to investigating the potential of the precipitation technique for producing La-doped tungsten oxide (WO3). To comprehensively characterize the synthesized La-doped WO3, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction were judiciously employed. The focal point of the investigation encompassed an examination of the impact of varying La concentrations on multiple fronts: the photocatalytic activities (PCAs), as well as any associated structural and morphological modifications. This holistic approach aimed to uncover the intricate relationship between La incorporation and the resulting properties of the WO3 matrix. Through the degradation of Malachite green dye within an aqueous medium, PCA of the La-doped WO3 samples was quantitatively evaluated. Remarkably, over 180 min under irradiation of visible light irradiation, the achieved levels of dye degradation were remarkable, amounting to 81.165, 83.11, and 83.85% for the respective samples. These findings firmly underscore the potential of La-doped WO3 as a proficient photocatalyst, particularly in color removal from wastewater. This study paves the way for enhanced wastewater treatment approaches by utilizing doped WO3 materials.
A heavy-tailed model for analyzing miRNA-seq raw read counts
Authors: Krutto Annika , Haugdahl Nøst Therese , Thoresen Magne
Published: May 2024

This article addresses the limitations of existing statistical models in analyzing and interpreting highly skewed miRNA-seq raw read count data that can range from zero to millions. A heavy-tailed model using discrete stable distributions is proposed as a novel approach to better capture the heterogeneity and extreme values commonly observed in miRNA-seq data. Additionally, the parameters of the discrete stable distribution are proposed as an alternative target for differential expression analysis. An R package for computing and estimating the discrete stable distribution is provided. The proposed model is applied to miRNA-seq raw counts from the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC) and the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) databases. The goodness-of-fit is compared with the popular Poisson and negative binomial distributions, and the discrete stable distributions are found to give a better fit for both datasets. In conclusion, the use of discrete stable distributions is shown to potentially lead to more accurate modeling of the underlying biological processes.
„Pártoljátok az árvák és özvegyek ügyét”
Authors: Mondovics Napsugár
Published: May 2024

The prophetic exhortation quoted in the title calls for the learning of correct moral values, the conscious choice and pursuit of values that determine almost all manifestations of the individual and the community. The values set as a model and passed on to the younger generations have a normative impact on the inner life of the community, on the coexistence of rich and poor, donors and recipients, citizens and recipients. In my study I seek for an answer to the question of how the idea of social care is expressed in principles, customs and legal institutions throughout the legal order of the Old and New Testament. My aim is to collect the universal values that can form the basis of the social safety net adapted to the times.
Sir Henry Sumner Maine et les systemes juridiques traditionnels
Authors: Hamza Gábor
Published: May 2024

The birth of comparative law in England is strongly linked with the Ancient Law, its Connection with the Early History of Society and its Relation to Modern Ideas, of Sir Henry Sumner Maine published in 1861. Maine is the first in England to be endowed ‘ad personam’ with the Chair of Comparative Law in Oxford in order to teach legal history and comparative (foreign) law. It is undoubtedly the Roman law that stood in the focus of interest of Sir Henry Sumner Maine serving as basis to carry out comparative legal studies. That approach is in particular manifested in Ancient Law as Maine attributes significance to the various institutions of Roman law. The author draws in particular a comparison between Maine and Bachofen as far as their approach relating to the basis of foreign law related research is concerned. The role that Roman law (ius Romanum), i.e. Civil law (ius civile), played in the development of English law during the centuries is also underlined in this paper, and in its last part, the author emphasizes the contemporary significance of Ancient Law and traditional legal systems for the foreign law related research on the basis of the works of Maine.
Az alexandriai zsidóság hatalomhoz való viszonya a Példabeszédek könyve Septuaginta-fordításának tükrében
Authors: Csalog Eszter
Published: May 2024

It is not typical to draw conclusions from a translation regarding an ancient social and political issue. However, I will attempt to do it in this paper: on the basis of one of the most freely translated book of the Septuagint, the Paroimiai (Greek version of the Proverbs), I will try to get an answer to the question of how certain Jewish intellectuals saw the problem of proper relationship to pagan rulers in Alexandria in the second century Bc. As an introduction, I will outline the main events of the Jews’ stay in Egypt from the sixth century Bc to the Ptolemaic Age. Subsequently I will illustrate through some characteristic examples how far the translators went within the Torah if they wanted to update the text. Turning to the Paroimiai, I will show the most important features of the Greek text through some typical examples. Finally, I will present the passages where the attitude towards the king as well as the right behavior in civil life is concerned. One can clearly recognize the tendency that loyal relationship as well as the avoidance of riots or conflicts are even more emphasised in the Greek version. From this point of view, the text of the Paroimiai is unique; no similar tendency can be noticed in any of the Septuagint books, and this is only partly due to content reasons.
Comments on Dante’s Conception of Value
Authors: Barcsi Tamás
Published: May 2024

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is arguably one of the greatest figures in Western culture. A separate discipline, Dantist Studies, is concerned with exploring the different layers of his art. Without wishing to place myself among the scholars of this discipline, I would like to offer a few thoughts, mainly of an ethical nature, on the relationship of Dante’s works to the Renaissance.
Az apaszerep funkciói és az engedelmesség foka a kora újkori államelméletekben
Authors: Rigó Balázs
Published: May 2024

In the early modern theories of the state, thinking about governance started from the idea of body politic, through the introduction of passions and the family, to the patriarchal theory of the state, in which the monarch governs the people as a family as head of the family. To the head of the family, like to the monarch, the members of the family, like the people, owe obedience according to the laws of nature. The family has become the interpretative framework for the description of society, in which the monarch, by right of his supremacy, has been transformed into the head of the family. At the same time, the concept of the head of the family has undergone a significant change. The change in the role of the father has been accompanied by a change in the content of obedience as well.
Das sakrale Bild von Schuld, Unschuld und Sühne
Authors: Kocher Gernot
Published: May 2024

Guilt and innocence can be viewed from both the secular and the sacred side. Modern law is no longer aware of this double-sidedness, but until the legal world of the 18th century, which was determined by natural law, this two-sidedness was represented in many legal sources in the form of a combination of image and text as an opening for the sacred side, so to speak, followed by the legal text for the secular dimension. In my overview, I will present seven examples of this rich source material of European legal culture, which I will interpret according to the scientific method of legal iconography.
Early Modern Polonaises and the Myth of Polish Rhythms
Authors: Newton-Jackson Paul
Published: May 2024

Scholars have long viewed the history of Polish dances through the lens of “Polish rhythms.” These rhythms are thought to characterize dances known as Polish from the sixteenth-century lute pieces of Hans Neusidler to the piano music of Frédéric Chopin. The notion of Polish rhythms continues to shape our modern reception of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music: certain patterns are often used as a litmus test for whether a piece is evoking a Polish dance, even in the absence of an identifying label. I demonstrate, however, that there is little historical evidence that specific rhythms rendered dances Polish in the eyes and ears of composers, performers, or listeners from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Instead, the Polish rhythms narrative appears to have stemmed from a misreading of early modern music-theoretical sources on the part of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers, whose arguments were influenced by—and fed into—contemporary ideas of musical nationalism and essentialism. Focusing on eighteenth-century German sources, I also challenge any monolithic notions of Polishness in dance music by revealing how terms such as polonaise could denote multiple distinct dances (or could even refer to non-dance pieces). More broadly, these findings complicate the present-day practice of using abstract notational elements to identify unmarked dance topics, and I show how a greater attentiveness to factors beyond the score is vital for understanding how historical subjects experienced the popular dances of their time.
Black Life Insurance and the Blues
Authors: Simon Julia
Published: May 2024

Insurance, and specifically life insurance, seems like an odd topic for the blues. Associated with urbanism and capitalism, the theme contests an understanding of the blues as an “authentic” expression of a rural folk culture. Focusing on a cluster of blues songs that reference life insurance reveals the consciousness of a long history of racialized exploitation and discrimination, including the everyday experiences associated with it. The representation of insurance in the blues also provides a window into polysemic modes of signifying and subtle forms of resistance.1 Recognizing the potential for insurance to function as fertile lyrical subject matter for messages of resistance or struggle requires excavating its long, racialized history extending back to the antebellum world.
Characterization of MgO and Al2O3 based Refractory waste as partial replacement for Fly ash based Geopolymer
Authors: Harmaji A. , Adhikaprasetyo A. , Sunendar B.
Published: May 2024

Green process is a manufacturing technologies method without harming the environmental, one of the green process is reclaiming and reuse the manufacturing waste into applicable products. Geopolymer is one of the examples of green process products. Geopolymer are a material from synthesized aluminosilicate and alkali silicate that formed polymeric SiO4 and AlO4 structure. Geopolymer can be applicated for building or refractory material. Aluminosilicate material such as fly ash is used for Geopolymer precursor. In this study, fly ash as precursor is substituted by magnesium oxide (MgO) and aluminum oxide (Al2O3)-based refractory waste. It was then activated by activator consist of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and Na2SiO3 (water glass). Results shown that the compressive strength of Al2O3 refractory waste based geopolymer are generally higher than MgO refractory waste based geopolymer. The result showed an addition of Al2O3 refractory waste improved the compressive strength of geopolymer specimen. XRD and FTIR characterization conducted to analyse the morphological compound and bonding of resulting geopolymer. The substance that contained in MgO and Al2O3 refractory based geopolymer are Quartz, Periclase, Corundum and Albite. FTIR results shows the siloxo and sialate bond as proof of geopolymerization has successfully occured.
GaN based light emitters
Authors: Slyotov M.M. , Slyotov O.M. , Potsіluiko-Hryhoriak H.V. , Mazur M.P. , Mazur Т.М.
Published: May 2024

The article discusses the preparation of epitaxial layers and GaN crystals, as well as the results of studies of their optical and luminescent properties. The parameters of the band structure of the resulting hexagonal modification materials ΔCR ≈ 10 meV and ΔSO ≈ 48 meV were determined. The mechanisms of the main recombination processes that determine the formation of radiation from undoped and Zn-doped materials have been established. The role of interband recombination and annihilation of excitons in the formation of radiation in the high-energy region and transitions of carriers through energy states that are formed and created by intrinsic point defects of the crystal lattice and dopant has been established. The role of response recombination processes in the formation of short-wave radiation spectra is analyzed.
COVID-19 Effect on Accelerating Technology and Innovation in Businesses
Authors: Arman Husam , Al-Fulaij Shaikha , Al-Qudsi Sulayman , Alawadhi Ahmad , Al Ali Mohammad
Published: May 2024

This paper assesses empirically the COVID-19 effect on businesses and the potential dynamic changes regarding post-COVID-19 automation and technology penetration using various logistic regression models. A field survey was used to collect the necessary data for testing various hypotheses. This study demonstrates the severity of the pandemic on businesses and how it has changed their perspectives on technology as a critical aspect of survival and future success. The results showed that capital-intensive firms are more resilient to the crisis. In addition, the firms that were affected severely in terms of employment due to the pandemic believe that technology will significantly impact hiring, investment, and value added. This paper investigates a unique phenomenon represented by COVID-19, its impact on businesses in a resource-rich context and their responsiveness concerning technology deployment and automation.
Design and manufacture a syringe pump for intelligent injection of specific doses of contrast medicine in medical imaging applications
Authors: Shirzadfar Hamidreza , Ahmadpour Zahra , Soltani Maryam
Published: May 2024

The construction of an Arduino Uno based syringe pump with the ability to measure the patient's body temperature during injection and detect the contrast material bubble has not been done so far. A syringe pump is a device that controls the volume and flow of milliliters to microliters for a certain period of time with very high precision, which gradually pushes the injection piston. This use of syringe pump for drug administration has been done for years. The working principle of this system consists of installing two steel rods to push the syringe piston at a set speed, which works through a coupling system. The advancement of technology has made it possible to use a motor as the driving force of the syringe filled with liquid released through the needle, and the electronic system in this tool is used as a controller. The design using a stepper motor based on Arduino Uno is chosen to adjust the flow rate; the research includes two stages of software and hardware construction. The hardware is implemented with the components needed to build a syringe pump with an Arduino Uno as the brain of the system and a stepper motor as a piston pusher.The flow rate in the syringe pump can be adjusted with the keyboard and displayed on the screen. It is also possible to see the patient's body temperature on the screen, and to detect bubbles in the contrast liquid during injection, we also put a sensor in this device that alerts the operator.