bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Black city: Modernisation and fugitivities in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Authors: dos Santos Figueiredo Glória Cecília , Estévez Brais , Troncon Rosa Thaís
Published: June 2022

Salvador is a Black city. Besides being a place mainly inhabited by a population which is racialised as Black, any urban phenomenon in Salvador is inseparable from the complexities and violence typical of the sites of racial encounter. In this article we explore two collaborative experiences that brought together the authors and different grassroots movements around two urban struggles in the city. The first experience unpacks the 30-year conflicts surrounding the Programme of Recuperation of the Historic Centre of Salvador, where thousands of people were evicted to turn a stigmatised Black neighbourhood into a scenario for cultural heritage enjoyment and tourism. The second experience uncovers plans underway to replace the Subúrbio railway with a monorail, a project which will negatively affect several Black neighbourhoods in Salvador and its metropolitan region and hundreds of thousands of Black daily life practices. These serve as just two examples of urban initiatives cyclically carried out by Salvador’s elites and official spokespeople which, under the discourse of modernisation, always threaten the improvised ways of inhabiting the Black city. We argue that the urban struggles that we analyse in this article trace a continuity with the historical struggles for the affirmation of Black life within sites of racial violence. For this reason, this article establishes a dialogue between urban studies and Black theory, through ideas of Black city and Black fugitivity.
Understanding the factors that contribute to Educator Flourishing
Authors: Rehal Brittany , van Nieuwerburgh Christian
Published: June 2022

Recent research supports the use of positive psychology in education and sets out ideas for educators and leaders to promote and guide student flourishing in schools. There is significantly less research on how educators flourish. This study explores the conditions needed for educators to flourish by applying Constructivist Grounded Theory to uncover the experiences of people who identify as flourishing educators. The researchers conducted 13 interviews with self-identified flourishing educators and educational leaders and sought feedback from experts on a proposed theory. Participants included educators and educational leaders in various locations throughout the U.S.A., Europe, the Middle East, and the U.K. This resulted in the Ecological Model for Flourishing Educators which included these elements: authenticity, integrity, agency, autonomy, professional and personal growth, positive relationships, receiving recognition and acknowledgment, being treated as a professional and feeling seen, valued and trusted. The term ‘flourishing educator’ is used to be inclusive of all types of educators, not merely teachers. Based on the research, the researchers posit a new definition of flourishing educators: A flourishing educator is an educator who feels seen, trusted and valued. They are treated as a professional and encouraged to be authentic. They have autonomy, integrity, agency and experience positive relationships along with personal and professional growth. This study has implications for educators and educational leaders, and will hopefully encourage further research on educators within the field of positive education.
BİR GALAT ŞEFİNİN PORTRESİ IŞIĞINDA GALATLAR
Authors: USLU AZARAK Laleş
Published: June 2022

MÖ II. binyılda büyük kabileler halinde Güney Almanya’dan, Doğu Fransa ve Avusturya’ya kadar yayılan Keltler, Kuzey İtalya’daki Alpler’e, Pirene Dağları’yla Ren Irmağı arasında kalan bölgeye ve Belçika’ya yerleşmişlerdir. MÖ 280 yıllarında üç kol şeklinde Anadolu’ya geçmişlerdir. Anadolu’daki savaşlarda paralı asker olarak savaşan iri yapılı, güçlü ve kendilerine özgü savaş sanatları olan Galatlar, Attaloslarla savaşmış ve yenilmişlerdir. Galatlar’a karşı kazandığı zaferi taçlandıran ve barok tarzında yapılan Galat yontu grubu oldukça etkileyici ve anlamlıdır. Bu çalışmada bir Galat şefinin, karısını öldürdükten sonra intihar eden yontusu ışığında Galatlar irdelenecektir.
ANALISIS KINERJA KEUANGAN PEMERINTAH KOTA JAYAPURA DITINJAU DARI RASIO KEMANDIRIAN DAERAH, KETERGANTUNGAN DAERAH, DESENTRALISASI FISKAL DAN EFEKTIVITAS
Authors: Melmambessy Dani
Published: June 2022

Analisis Kinerja Keuangan Pemerintah Kota Jayapura ditinjau dari Rasio Kemandirian Daerah, Ketergantungan Daerah, Desentralisasi Fiskal dan Efektivitas. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui kinerja keuangan daerah pemerintah Kota Jayapura diukur dari rasio kemandirian daerah, rasio ketergantungan daerah, rasio desentralisasi fiskal, dan rasio efektivitas. Hasil Penelitian menunjukkan bahwa rasio kemandirian keuangan daerah Kota Jayapura selama tahun 2017 sampai 2019 rata-rata menunjukkan angka yang sedang yaitu 23,14%. Rasio ketergantungan menunjukkan bahwa selama tahun 2017 sampai 2019 rata-rata menunjukkan angka yang sangat tinggi yaitu 83,10% artinya bahwa pemerintah daerah Kota Jayapura memiliki ketergantungan yang sangat tinggi pada dana yang diterima dari Pemerintah Pusat dan Pemerintah Provinsi. Rasio desentralisasi fiskal pemerintah daerah Kota Jayapura tahun 2017 sampai 2019 rata-rata menunjukkan derajat desentralisasi sebesar 16,82% termasuk dalam kategori kurang. Hal ini berarti pemerintah daerah Kota Jayapura belum sepenuhnya bisa mandiri menyelenggarakan desentralisasi dengan mengoptimalkan potensi daerah (PAD) untuk menyelenggarakan pelayanan umum yang baik. Rasio efektivitas pendapatan asli daerah tahun 2017 sampai 2019 rata-rata menunjukkan angka yang sangat tinggi yaitu sebesar 103,35% termasuk dalam kategori sangat efektif. Hal ini membuktikan bahwa pemerintah daerah Kota Jayapura sangat efektif dalam merealisasi pendapatan asli daerah (PAD) yang direncanakan dibandingkan dengan target yang ditetapkan berdasarkan potensi riil daerah.
An Extended UTAUT Model to Explore the Influential Factors towards M-Banking Apps’ Use
Authors: Konteos George , Saprikis Vaggelis , Avlogiaris Giorgos , Papathomas Aristides
Published: June 2022

Mobile banking apps (mBA) are considered vital tools for banks’ digital transformation as they offer self-service options for most of their provided services to their customers via mobile devices. However, only a small proportion of retail customers utilize them. The limited relevant literature focuses only on individuals’ behavioral intention to adopt or use mBA. The scope of this paper is to help in the examination of such a contemporary and vital topic through the investigation of the key factors that influence individuals towards mBA utilization via their smartphones. The study suggests and tests a conceptual framework that extends the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) with trust, innovativeness, compatibility, and convenience determinants. A sample of 411 adopters and non-adopters of mBA was analyzed through factor analysis and discriminant analysis. Findings reveal that almost all examined determinants do impact individuals’ m-banking app use.
How to Enhance Intellectual Property Business Organizations’ Capabilities? A Business Process Maturity Perspective
Authors: Fu Shaoming , Chou Chieh-Min
Published: June 2022

The organizational performance of intellectual property management departments is often subjective and not easy to evaluate in a traditional way. The software development department is similar to the intellectual property management department, as both are highly autonomous, rely heavily on professional manpower, and provide professional services. It is also difficult to use traditional factors to evaluate their competitiveness and success. Generally, the capabilities of the software development department can be evaluated by the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). The higher the maturity is of the organizational capability of the department or company, the better is the work performance. This research refers to the concept of CMM to evaluate the capability maturity of an intellectual property management organization and the key success factors of the Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM) to analyze and discuss such an organization. In this research, we use Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as an analysis tool. We analyze and compare In-house IP group and Law Firm IP group; their performance is mostly considered to be related to personal profession and is often regarded as difficult to evaluate. The capabilities that determine the overall maturity of an organization are usually not easily distinguished. Therefore, it is difficult to use a unified standard to measure the completion time and cost of a case. This is what the two different intellectual property management organizations have in common.
Politeness Strategies on Students’ Responses to Teacher’s Online Announcements
Authors: Selgas Genevieve S
Published: June 2022

The shift of the usual operations in education from face-to-face to distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic has made the Google classroom one of the online learning modalities. The study aims to identify the politeness strategies employed in students' responses to the Bukidnon State University teachers' Google classroom announcement within three semesters. It also explores the significant difference between genders in employing politeness strategies. The study applied a mixed-method research design. The findings show that the students employ four politeness strategies of Brown and Levinson (1987): Positive, Negative, Bald-On-Record, and Off-Record Strategies. In addition, the male students frequently use negative politeness strategies, which contradicts Lakoff (1975) claims that women's language consists of hedges, apologies, and indirect requests, a negative politeness strategy. Thus, determining significant differences in politeness strategies among students needs other factors such as cultural differences, gender language, gender performativity, and teachers' announcement to which the students respond.
Exploring the Four Dimensions of the Construction of Labor Education Curriculum System in Universities in the New Era
Authors: Li Jie
Published: June 2022

Under the general situation of college education reform in the new era, labor education is an important entry point for comprehensive reform and implementation of quality education in colleges and universities. Labor education curriculum is an important part of the implementation process of labor education. Starting from the connotation of labor education in colleges and universities in the new era, the construction of labor education curriculum system in colleges and universities based on the four dimensions of curriculum objective, curriculum content, curriculum implementation and curriculum evaluation is of great practical significance to promote the development of labor education and cultivate talents in the new era.
Begynnande naturvetenskap och könade kroppar i förskolans utelek
Authors: Günther-Hanssen Anna
Published: June 2022

Drawing on new materialist thought (Barad 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014), this study explores preschool children’s gendered becomings as they play and explore together with two large boulders in a natural setting. The study takes its point of departure in emergent science (Siraj-Blatchford 2001) which refers to science as a social practice that is already explored by children’s daily play. Data for the project was constructed during a field study in a Swedish preschool with 25 five-year old children. The focus of the field study was the children’s play and explorations together with the preschool environment, during activities not specifically guided by teachers. The findings show how also natural materials, as the boulders in this study, can take part in and shape, both the children’s scientific explorations and their gendered becomings. This means that the ways that a child managed to explore and become was dependent on if and how the child managed to co-act and play together with the boulders and friction. However, not only the boulders, but also gender norms functioned as co-creators in this process. This goes against the common thought of children’s play in nature as “free and equal”, a notion that is not often questioned. Studies exploring children’s play and learning outdoors often lack gender perspectives, especially when science is also in focus. One of the article’s conclusions is the need for preschool teachers to engage in how children explore emergent science together with the natural/ material-discursive surroundings. That is, how different natural materials co-act with gender norms in different ways, moment by moment, and thus enable or prevent children from engaging with science and scientific phenomena.
Bland provrör och spektrometrar
Authors: Hussénius Anita
Published: June 2022

This study considers academic chemistry environments and shows how both daily consumables and precious research instruments interact with students and teachers. In such an environment – a laboratory, a classroom, a staff room – language, discourse, culture, and matter are entangled, without the possibility to clearly distinguish them as separate entities. It is this entanglement the present article aims to illustrate. By using Barad’s feminist theory of agential realism and the concept of ‘culture’ on empirical data constructed during field work where chemistry professors where shadowed, I investigate and discuss how the intertwinement of matter and discourse occurs. By using an example from the empirical data, the agency of matter is shown as part of the emergence of materialdiscursive practices and it is also shown how such an agency sometimes has effects that extend far beyond the intended purpose and scope, sometimes creating limits for what is possible. In both cases, there are consequences for participants who are either co-creators of the practice or who suddenly find themselves in an already existing one. In the article, I introduce the concept of material dysfunctionality and show that the absence of material awareness poses a risk, primarily for students and other subordinated participants, of finding themselves in non-optimal or even impossible situations. Participants who, due to the material dysfunctionality of an educational or work environment, end up in a performance-unfavorable position, can be identified as incompetent and not recognized as a potential member of the discipline and the culture. Such negative adhesion is more likely if the participant’s perceived shortcomings are reinforced by the fact that she is a woman in a male-dominated environment. Other categories of differences may have similar consequences if perceived as challenging in the prevailing culture.
Snåriga sårbarheter i nyliberala tider
Authors: Johansson Wilén Evelina , Palmqvist Lina , Sundhall Jeanette
Published: June 2022

A central question within contemporary gender studies is how vulnerability can be understood in more positive and politically progressive terms, rather than being posed as the opposite of resistance. The attempt to redefine vulnerability is especially present in the work of contemporary vulnerability scholars, in their pursuit to analyze and resist neo-liberal ideals and neo-liberal politics. This approach has, however, been criticized by scholars who find the tools provided by vulnerability scholars too closely tied to the neo-liberal ideals that they have set out to oppose. With the help of two empirical studies, focused on children and old people’s political agency within a Swedish context, this article elaborates on how vulnerability studies supplies/does not supply sufficient tools to study inequalities within a neo-liberal framework. The article further argues that the political significance of vulnerability, and the political efficacy of using vulnerability as a political starting point, is highly context bound and suggests that there are other, potentially more politically radical, points of departure.
Frivilligengagemang och motståndspraktiker. Landsbygder, genus och protester i Norrlands inland
Authors: Lundgren Anna Sofia , Sjöstedt Angelika
Published: June 2022

This article focuses on rural life and the voluntary commitment that it often seems to require. It builds on extensive ethnographic material collected between 2013 and 2020 in the northern inland of Sweden. The geographic conditions are marked by sparsely populated areas with villages and some smaller towns with forest industry and tourism as primary sources of income. They have also, at least since the financial crisis in the 1990s, been marked by a withdrawal of the welfare state and welfare services as well as by depopulation. The article engages with how voluntary engagement in its various forms takes shape and how its meanings are based on what the engagement implies, where it is performed, how it is expressed, as well as on who is participating. This article explores these voluntary geographies as a contested space where notions of gender both structure and become structured by neoliberal discourses of hopes as well as fears for the future.
Effectiveness of the Existence of Isimu Type a Terminal in the District of Gorontalo
Authors: Mahmud Midun M , Lamangida Trisusanti , Akbar Muh. Firyal
Published: June 2022

This study aims to obtain information about the Effectiveness of Terminal Type A. Isimu in Gorontalo District, the research method uses qualitative type. Data collection techniques were carried out through interviews with a number of informants and observations and recording secondary data related to the research problem. The results of the study concluded that the achievement of the objectives showed that the existence of the Isimu Type A Terminal had not been effectively seen from the human resources owned and the infrastructure owned by the terminal was incomplete and not maintained. Whereas the other factor is the low awareness of the community in utilizing the terminal. So that the achievement of objectives has not been effective. While the Integration shows that communication between users and related parties is less than the maximum, it needs to be improved through socialization to increase understanding of service users. The Adaptation Indicator shows the benchmarks of the procurement and workforce filling process in supporting employee performance is not yet effective, seen from the lack of personnel and the lack of quality resources to support the effectiveness of the Isimu type A terminal.
Service of Trading Business License (SIUP) through Online Single Submission (OSS) System at the Department of Investment and One Door Integrated Services (DPMPTSP) Gorontalo Regency
Authors: Sakbir Sakbir , Idrus Sukiman
Published: June 2022

This study aims to determine the service of trading business permits through the Online Single Submission (OSS) system at the Investment Service and One Stop Services, Gorontalo District. The focus in this research is socialization, internet networking, and human resource capabilities. The research method uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The results of the study concluded that the socialization of Trade Business License services through the Online Single Submission (OSS) system has been carried out but has not been optimal because the socialization process is not followed up with assistance to business actors so that there are still many business actors, especially business actors in the MSME cluster who cannot operate the system. OSS. The internet network for Trading Business License services through the Online Single Submission (OSS) system is inadequate. This can be seen from the registration process or operation of the Online Single Submission (OSS) system which is considered complicated and has to be done repeatedly due to frequent network problems. The ability of officers in the service of Trading Business Permits through the Online Single Submission (OSS) system is good enough but not evenly distributed. This can be seen from the licensing service through the Online Single Submission (OSS) system which can only be operated by certain officers.
Total Quality Management (TQM) in Bpjs Patient Services in MM Dunda Limboto Hospital
Authors: Mohi Widya Kurniati , Makmur Ramli
Published: June 2022

This study aims to determine and analyze how Total Quality Management in BPJS Patient Services at MM Dunda Limboto Hospital. This research is a descriptive research with a qualitative approach. Several indicators used are Commitment, Communication, Cooperation, Criticsimn. Based on the results of research and discussion related to the indicators of criticism in question, it was concluded from several informants that the hospital should better understand the situation in the hospital with the existence of a suggestion box, because which patients think about that suggestion, it is better like the advice of the patient by filling in a draft that was delivered directly by the officer to be filled in so that the evaluation material was available and quickly knew the response from the patient but the patient was getting better.
System for Development of Local Work Unit Budget Work Plan (RKA-SKPD) at the Housing Office the People and Settlement Area of Gorontalo Province
Authors: Karim Dian Fitriani , Botutihe Nuzlan , Ayuba Ismail
Published: June 2022

This study aims to determine the System for Formulating Regional Work Unit Budget Plans (RKA-SKPD) in the Public Housing and Settlement Areas of Gorontalo Province. The research method used is a qualitative approach with descriptive research type. The results showed that in the preparation of the RKA- SKPD it was found that there were problems in its preparation. These problems are the lack of planning documents in the preparation of the RKA, budget constraints resulting in reduced budgets in program implementation, frequent delays in preparation time, copy and paste over the previous year's budget, lack of enthusiasm for budget efficiency and many other problems.
Anti-corrosive Polystyrene Coatings Modified with Tannic Acid on Zinc and Steel Substrates
Authors: Both Julia , Szabo Gabriella Stefania , Katona Gabriel , Muresan Liana Maria
Published: June 2022

Polystyrene (PS) polymer layers were prepared and studied as anti-corrosive barrier layers on both carbon steel and zinc substrates. To increase the corrosion resistance of the coatings, two different approaches were considered: (i) the use of mesoporous silica-nanocontainers impregnated with a corrosion inhibitor (tannic acid) introduced into the polystyrene matrix and (ii) direct impregnation of polystyrene coatings with the same corrosion inhibitor. The impregnated nanocontainers were characterized by Transmission Electron Microscopy. The thickness and the adhesion of the coatings were measured, and their corrosion behavior was investigated by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy. Results showed that the used inhibitor slightly decreased adhesion, but significantly increased the corrosion resistance of the coatings. The direct introduction of tannic acid into the polymer matrix offers higher corrosion resistance than in the case of polystyrene coatings doped with impregnated silica nanocontainers.
EFEITOS PSICOLÓGICOS ASSOCIADOS AO USO DA ISOTRETINOÍNA
Authors: Souza Ana Beatriz Campos de , Sousa Milena Nunes Alves de
Published: June 2022

A acne é uma das doenças de pele mais comuns, afetando cerca de 80% da população de adolescentes e adultos jovens no mundo. A depender da gravidade da acne, existem várias opções de tratamento, o qual é prescrito conforme o grau e gravidade da acne. Atualmente, uma das terapêuticas mais conhecidas e destinadas para a acne grave ou quando o tratamento com antibióticos orais e tópicos não respondem bem, é a isotretinoína, um retinóide oral sintético que possui grande eficácia. Neste contexto, este estudo buscou analisar os efeitos psicológicos do uso da isotretinoína em adolescentes e adultos jovens. Adotou-se o método de revisão sistemática da literatura de caráter qualitativo, utilizando ensaios clínicos indexados em bases de dados virtuais como US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, The Scientific Electronic Library Online, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, a qual abrange a Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde e o Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, além do ScienceDirect. Selecionaram-se estudos desde 1999, sem especificação de língua. Os resultados indicaram que o tratamento com a isotretinoína nos casos de acne não está relacionada com manifestações psiquiátricas, pelo contrário os pacientes apresentam uma melhora do quadro, por vezes relacionadas a autoestima e a estética. Ao fim da pesquisa, o uso da isotretinoína foi considerado seguro e não relacionado ao desencadeamento de efeitos psicológicos nos pacientes que fizeram utilização de tal medicação.
Recovery Strategies of Tourism Businesses in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia
Authors: Ralinas Fulka 'Ilmy Avicenna , Juhanda Juhanda , Faozen Faozen , Jatmiko Hadi
Published: June 2022

This paper explores compatible recovery strategies executed by the tourism business owners to survive their businesses due to the undeniable stagnation of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia.  The present study utilizes semi-structured online interviews to explore participants' activities, experiences, and strategies to maintain the tourism business during the COVID-19 pandemic. We garnered all data concerning the practical field experiences of participants by distributing google forms and collected further information from communication via telephone and WhatsApp. The research results showcased three strategies for the tourism business survival: improving hygiene and health standards, intensifying promotion, and operational cost control. Practically, this research will benefit tourism businesses to be more resilient in uncertain conditions in the future. The current study also contributes to the authority to resolve relevant policies incorporated with economic recovery related to the crisis due to the pandemic.
Resolución de problemas matemáticos en la EGB
Authors: Suárez Alicia
Published: June 2022

La importancia de este libro que inBlueditorial prologa aporta a los esfuerzos que desde la reflexión de la práctica pedagógica vienen haciendo los educadores sobre ubicar una dimensión más clarificadora del proceso de construcción del conocimiento; Por consiguiente, el componente cognitivo relacional autónomo de cada sujeto que aprende es el escenario en el que se conjugan relaciones que origen nuevos saberes, propios de su dinámica multidimensional de su mundo racional-subjetivo. Por tanto, las habilidades cognitivas se refieren a las distintas habilidades intelectuales demostradas por los individuos al desarrollar una tarea, un problema, un proyecto; esto le permite al sujeto humano que aprende apropiarse del conocimiento para resolver problemas y transformar su entorno.
Pedagogía: Dinámica de formación de la competencia investigativa intercultural en la Educación Básica
Authors: Tapia Ermel
Published: June 2022

La modernidad es escenario de disímiles acontecimientos que afectan la especie humana y la biodiversidad. Causados por la voracidad del capitalismo salvaje transfigurado en neoliberalismo, las reglas del mercado y el ecocidio, los pueblos del Sur no tienen otra opción que formar su propio capital humano y hacer de la ciencia uno de sus más productivos recursos desde lo más genuino de su cultura y de la cultura universal. En tal sentido, la universidad debe garantizar la formación de los profesionales de un país para responder atinadamente a la incertidumbre, a los cambios dramáticos resultantes de políticas que desarmonizan con el desarrollo humano. Este desafío ha de canalizarse a través de la ciencia, no aquella que matematiza la realidad, la simplifica y la recorta utilizando la visión occidental como único paradigma válido. Por consiguiente, constituye un imperativo para las universidades del Sur enriquecer la investigación intercultural como forma emergente de hacer ciencia desde la formación inicial de los profesionales, una investigación que no sea un calco europeizante; sino una que se legitime por responder al hombre del Sur, a sus problemáticas, a sus condiciones, a sus legados y que devenga en práctica transformadora. Es por ello que el libro Pedagogía Intercultural constituye una obra valiosa que penetra en la dinámica de la competencia intercultural de los futuros profesionales de la Educación Básica y aporta un constructo teórico, cuyas relaciones esenciales permiten dinamizar los contenidos de esta competencia en el pregrado y lograr la formación de profesores cada vez más comprometidos con la resolución de problemáticas educativas a partir de soluciones amparadas en la unidad y diversidad de todas las culturas que se entretejen en el Ecuador.
India, Pakistan Dispute over the Kashmir Issue and the Current Situation after Articles 370 and 35A
Authors:   Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University Tianjin, P.R China, Sabil Farooq Muhammad , Feroze Nazia ,   Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University Tianjin, P.R China, Cheng Tongshun ,   Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University Tianjin, P.R China
Published: June 2022

The potential reason for South Asian instability and hostile action is the unresolved nature of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. In the past, it led to two major wars and several attempted events. Since the early 1990s, India and Pakistan have existed in an "Acting War" on Kashmir. Pakistan has been questioning India’s efforts to strengthen its control over Kashmir through force, and Pakistan supports the Kashmiri’s quest for self- determination in accordance with the UN Resolutions. Prime Minister Modi’s decision to abolish Articles 370 and 35A of the “Indian Constitution” that gave Kashmir a special status has caused controversy throughout the political arena. This paper analyzes the origin of the dispute and its impact on bilateral relations between India and Pakistan after the revocation of Articles 370 and 35A. This study is important because there will be greater realization in India and Pakistan that they need to settle the Kashmir dispute for their wellbeing and that of the region. This study proposes that India and Pakistan need to engage in composite bilateral talks on all important issues. Recurrent tension over Kashmir will undercut any initiative to bring stability to South Asia as well as perpetuate the risk of a nuclear war. Keywords: Kashmir; India-Pakistan Dispute; Articles 370; Current Situation
Chinese Language Teaching in Pakistan Problems and Solutions
Authors:   National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Azeem Aftab , Naveed Tahira ,   National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Jabbar Sadaf ,   National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad
Published: June 2022

The teaching of Chinese language in Pakistan has a history of more than 40 years, but it has only been in the past decade that it has become widespread. This paper aims to present a general overview of Chinese language teaching in Pakistani education system, to identify some of the theoretical issues and practical challenges this field is facing and finally propose the possible solutions to these problems. This is primarily a qualitative and descriptive study and questionnaire survey method has been employed to highlight the important issues and challenges that deserve serious attention from all stakeholders. Data analyses reveals that the Chinese language education in Pakistan is facing significant challenges in the area of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL), pedagogy, curriculum and teaching material, teaching methodology, teacher’s professional development etc. The researcher recommends some solutions on the basis of these findings, which in turn can significantly influence the way Chinese language is being taught in Pakistan. This research is beneficial for all the stakeholders including policy makers, educationists, teachers, students, and researchers to help them incorporate TCFL into the Pakistani education system. Keywords: Teaching Chinese as Foreign Language, Challenges, Curriculum, Pedagogy
Application of Educational Technology in Higher Educational Institutions
Authors:   International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Ajmal Fozia , Batool Momena ,   International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Hafeez Muhammad ,   Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Published: June 2022

With the emerging demand and importance of science and technology, it has become mandatory for all the individuals, especially for those who are university students to be familiar with digitalization. The current study highlights and investigates the utilization of digital technology application in universities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The population of the current study is male and female students selected from the institutes of higher education of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A sample of 80 students from public sector universities and 80 students from private universities have been selected through stratified sampling technique. The data has been collected by 5-point Likert Scale questionnaire. The results of the study indicate that most of the universities are using ICT tools in their teaching and learning system and these tools are proving very useful for the teachers and students. However, some of the adverse effects are also reported in the study like excessive use of internet inhibit the study habits. Keywords: Audio Visual Aids, Pakistan, Students, Technology, Universities
Indo-Israel Relations under Hindutva and Zionism Ideational Factors for Pakistan
Authors:   School of Politics and International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Abbas Syed Qandeel , Kazmi Syeda Hudaisa
Published: June 2022

The Indo-Israel relations are growing rapidly, especially under the Modi administration. These growing ties are based on ideological affinities, perception of common enemy and regional ambitions to attain strategic supremacy. The prevailing ideology of Hindutva in India and Zionism in Israel shapes the relations between these two countries and define the nature of consequences faced by Pakistan, especially in the context of its stance on Kashmir issue. The relations between India and Israel are manifold. The repercussions on Pakistan are not only because of Indo-Israel relations rather India’s rapidly growing relations with the Arab States, especially with the GCC. Since Pakistan could not openly support Arabs in their regional conflicts, the Arab States have changed their favors from Pakistan to India. Although, Saudi Arabia and UAE are still providing economic assistance to Pakistan but have withdrawn their support for Pakistan’s case on Kashmir. This paper primarily discusses the nature of Indo-Israel relations and how it is affecting Pakistan. The paper also considers the role of Arab States in the decline of Pakistan’s importance and impact on Kashmir after some prominent Arab States have signed the Abraham Accords. Keywords: Indo-Israel relations, Kashmir issue, Abraham Accords, GCC countries
The Complexity of Intra-Afghan Dialogue Civil War Looms in Afghanistan
Authors:   International Relations, Comsat University, Islamabad, Anwar Sajad , Kalim Inayat ,   Comsat University, Islamabad.
Published: June 2022

The US and NATO through a peace deal got a safe exit from Afghanistan. In this backdrop, the economic future of Afghanistan is more important. On the other hand, Pakistan has a short period to format its policies because after the US withdraws, there are serious threats of civil war and chaos in Afghanistan. India, Pakistan, Russia, and China are the rival states in the regions, which have strategic interests in Afghanistan. Regional, religious, ethnic, political, social, and economic complexities are the major obstacles to the Intra-Afghan peace deal. All these factors are indicating more complexes in the intra-Afghan peace process, which may lead to civil war. The possible solutions are the traditional Pashtuns Loya Jirga. This work attempts to analyze the stakeholders and trends in the Intra-Afghan peace process, and the complexities of the peace process. Keywords: Civil War, Peace Deal, NATO, Loya Jirga, Shura, Tribal system, Taliban
Chapter 3: Access to Resources
Authors: Klement Joachim
Published: June 2022

For investors, the most important geopolitical events involve access to natural resources. Gauging the scale of any disruption is essential to understanding the investment impact. Investors also need ways to hedge risks caused by such disruptions.
Chapter 5: My Rules of Forecasting
Authors: Klement Joachim
Published: June 2022

Forecasting the effects of geopolitical developments is difficult and is subject to large errors. Sound principles can serve as helpful guidelines for investment forecasts.
Peningkatkan Hasil Belajar Pendidikan Agama Islam Siswa Kelas XI Di SMA Ekasakti Padang Dengan Metode Pembelajaran Demonstration Berbasis Discussion Process
Authors: Riyadi Slamet , Adilah Nur
Published: June 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peningkatan keaktifan dan hasil belajar siswa pada mata pelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam (PAI) setelah diterapkannya metode pembelajaran demonstration berbasis discussion process. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK). Penelitian dilakukan di SMA EKASAKTI Padang pada kelas XI. Metode pengumpulan data yang dilakukan pada penelitian ini adalah: observasi, wawancara,  dokumentasi, dan tes. Analisis  data  dalam  penelitian  ini  dilakukan  secara deskriptif  kuantitatif  dan kualitatif. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah: (1). kesiapan siswa dalam menerima pelajaran  sebelum  dilakukan  tindakan  39,06%,  setelah siklus  I 70,31%, dan setelah siklus II 86,23%. (2). keaktifan siswa dalam proses pembelajaran sebelum dilakukan tindakan 23,18%, setelah siklus I 67,97%, dan setelah siklus II 85,41%. (3). persentase siswa yang mendapatkan nilai tuntas di atas 70 sebelum dilakukan tindakan 31,75%, setelah siklus I 68,25%, dan setelah siklus II 87,75%. (4). terdapat peningkatan yang signifikan antara masing-masing indikator pada setiap siklus, hal tersebut dapat di lihat  dari  peningkatan  kesiapan,  keaktifan,  dan  hasil  belajar  siswa  pada  saat sebelum dilakukan tindakan, pada siklus I dan pada siklus II. Pada siklus II semua indikator telah melampaui target persentase indikator keberhasilan yang telah ditetapkan.  Sehingga  siklus  penelitian dapat  dihentikan  pada  siklus  II dan dapat di tarik kesimpulan bahwa metode pembelajaran demonstration berbasis  discussion process berhasil serta lebih efektif dibandingkan dengan metode ceramah.
Looking for a Mind [and Body and Heart] at Work
Authors: Hensley Owens Kim , Molloy Cathryn
Published: June 2022

Editors' Intro
Cardiac Catheterization after Bypass Surgery
Authors: M. Otten Reed , Blankenship James
Published: June 2022

After coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, the typical patient will have progression of the original native coronary disease as well as atherosclerosis of the bypass grafts. When this leads to angina or myocardial infarction, repeat cardiac catheterization may be necessary. However, the risks of catheterization in post-CABG patients are higher than in non-CABG patients, and the benefits are smaller, so optimal medical therapy should be employed and clear indications should be present before post-CABG catheterization is undertaken. In the past decade, two advancements have been made in strategies for post-CABG catheterization. First, for patients with a left internal mammary artery graft, left radial access should be routinely used and is safer than femoral access. Second, diseased saphenous vein bypass grafts may offer a retrograde approach to chronic total occlusions of the native artery. When successful, retrograde stenting of the bypassed native coronary artery is more durable than interventions on the saphenous vein graft supplying it. This chapter summarizes indications, techniques, and tricks of catheterization and strategies for coronary intervention in patients with prior CABG.
Introduction to Monitoring of Bridge Infrastructure Using Soft Computing Techniques
Authors: Gordan Meisam , Sabbagh-Yazdi Saeed-Reza , Ghaedi Khaled , P. Thambiratnam David , Ismail Zubaidah
Published: June 2022

More than a billion structures exist on our planet comprising a million bridges. A number of these infrastructures are near to or have already exceeded their design life and maintaining their health condition is an engineering optimization problem. Besides, these assets are damage-prone during their service life. This is due to the fact that different external loads induced by the environmental effects, overloading, blast loads, wind excitations, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters can disturb the serviceability and integrity of these structures. To overcome such bottlenecks, structural health monitoring (SHM) systems have been used to guarantee the safe functioning of structures to make satisfactory decisions on structural maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation. However, conventional SHM approaches such as virtual inspections cannot be used for structural continuous monitoring, real-time and online assessment. Therefore, soft computing techniques can be significantly used to mitigate the aforesaid concerns by handling the qualitative analysis of the complex real world behavior. This chapter aims to introduce the optimized SHM-based soft computing techniques of bridge structures through artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms in order to illustrate the performance of advanced bridge monitoring approaches, which are required to maintain the health condition of infrastructures as well as to protect human lives.
Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods, and Human Well-Being: Experiences from Kenya
Authors: J. Pelser André , Samanthia Chimukuche Rujeko
Published: June 2022

Over the next few decades, climate change is set to fuel the existing degradation of ecosystems across Africa, leading to dramatic consequences for poor rural populations that depend largely on agriculture and fishing for their livelihoods. This chapter draws on the findings of a study that explored how climate change affects the livelihoods and ultimately the well-being of farming and fishing households in a remote rural area in Kenya and discusses the coping strategies adopted by these communities. Understanding how climate change impacts people’s livelihoods is important as a precursor to assist communities to adapt to and cope with the adverse effects of climate change. The results pointed to relatively wide utilization of traditional knowledge in coping strategies. Conversely, robust modern technologies for forecasting weather patterns remain under-utilized among the target population. The chapter concludes with recommendations to capitalize on and strengthen the existing coping strategies of the affected communities.
Phenomenological aesthetics and the “Manufacture of the Guilty (Fabricación de culpables)”
Authors: Bertet David M. , Bergo Bettina ,   Chiasmi International
Published: June 2022

This article opens with a discussion of incarceration in the time of Covid 19. The story of one of the inmates in the high-security prison of Puente Grande (Mexico) leads us back to the beginning of the fifteen-year-long imprisonment of an innocent and, with it, to a complex narrative. The story concerns the use of the juridical concepts of delincuencia organizada (organized crime), racketeering, and kidnapping. As a charge it has been repeatedly implemented in what has come to be called la fabricaciόn de culpables (the “manufacture of the guilty”) in Mexico, Columbia, Argentina, and Brazil. Although the legal terminology changes, false incarceration is hardly limited to Central and South America. This is therefore a cautionary tale about how charges – and people – are framed, and how the latter are tried on social and corporate media, even before their official trials begin.
La geologia trascendentale come ecologia del pensiero
Authors: Amoroso Prisca ,   Chiasmi International
Published: June 2022

This article retraces the main instances at the root of Merleau-Ponty’s project of a « transcendental geology », a project announced in a working note of 1960. This project is linked to the complex intertwining of history and nature, which Merleau-Ponty thematizes as the two non-objectifiable dimensions that pose a challenge to reflexive thought. History and nature, both in their particular subjective manifestations as personal life or one’s own body, as well as in their broader sense as the history of peoples or nature as a domain of the unbuilt, are characterized as unavoidable, as quasi-objects that are the soil of existence. It is in this direction that Merleau-Ponty’s interest in the “ultra-things” of Henri Wallon, those entities that the child can neither conceive nor imagine, seems to be heading. I propose that ultra-things are linked to inhabiting: they are the uninhabitable (the past before my birth, a distant planet) and the dimensions that cannot be renounced (one’s own body, the Earth, the story of my life). This relationship with inhabiting restores the relational aspect of the problem of the unreflective in Merleau-Ponty and highlights the timeliness and urgency of the program of a transcendental geology as an ecology of thought and as an ecological philosophy.
Shame and ethics in Merleau-Ponty’s intersubjectivity: radical responsibility of the flesh and communities of the incommensurate
Authors: Fayad Sarah ,   Chiasmi International
Published: June 2022

Much work has been done, recently, on the harms and benefits of shaming. One may argue, for example, that feeling shamed inherently alienates and forecloses, and thus quite harmful to a compulsorily social and futurally oriented creature. This does not, however, preclude the argument that shame is ethically useful, providing, at a very basic, felt level, the absolute prohibitions such a social, futural, creature requires. This paper does not claim to finally evaluate shame itself. Instead I look to Merleau-Ponty, seeking the fleshly and felt structures of the social world – of our innate proximity and intimacy, as well as our isolation and alienation – within the embodied phenomenon of being ashamed. From the contours of this spontaneous, yet admittedly dangerous, corporeo-social phenomenon, there is comes an intimation of an ethics of the flesh: one which compels us to at least attempt to heed the often opaque, even mysterious powers of our bodies, not only for the good of our intimate others, but for the good of entire peoples.
L’internalisme et l’universalisme de Merleau-Ponty : une tentative de reconstruction des arguments de Les sciences de l’homme et la phénoménologie
Authors: Cormick Claudio ,   Chiasmi International
Published: June 2022

According to Merleau-Ponty, psychologism, sociologism, and historicism, all of which describe human consciousness as “conditioned”, would be incompatible with any claim to knowledge. However, the reason why knowledge would require a postulate of the autonomy of consciousness remains little explored in the specialized literature. Therefore, in our work we try to separate different aspects of the skeptical problem analyzed by Merleau-Ponty and show that the conditioning of thought is associated, successively, with the possible opaque character of the foundations of our own grasp of the position; the possible ephemeral character of the objects of knowledge; and, finally, of the possible relativity of knowledge to our historical period. In other words, we see that Merleau-Ponty’s argumentation, far from being monolithic, calls for three different solutions concerning the “crisis” of knowledge and that, in turn, the very problem that these are trying to solve is described by the phenomenologist in three different ways. We will also see that Merleau-Ponty’s own position during this period can be described as an internalist and universalist position.