bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
شرۆڤەكردنى ڕستەى زمانى كوردى لە ڕوانگەى تيۆرى دەسەڵات و بەستنەوەدا
Authors: Qadir Abubakir Omar
Published: January 2020

This study tries to analyze the Kurdish language, using Chomsky’s (1981) Government Binding theory, which is by itself regarded as a turning point in Chomsky’s Transformational Generative Grammar related to Universal Grammar. This approach will answer the diversity occurs in different languages according to Principles and Parameters.

First, Universal Grammar and its principles have been mentioned in this study. Later on, interpretations are given to the sub-theories of GB with which sentences in central Kurdish are analyzed. Besides, the level and method of the theory a long with the optional and obligatory movements are shown. Interpretations are given to different cases of noun phrase. The difference between grammatical case and theta role is indicated through examples.Again, indicating economy in expression, movement and null-constituents whose places can be filled by PRO/ pro are discussed. The distribution of pronouns to personal and demonstrative which refer back to the empty categories reveals the activeness of Kurdish as a pro-drop language.
Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Receiving a Hearing Dog on Mental Well-Being and Health in People With Hearing Loss: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Stuttard Lucy , Hewitt Catherine , Fairhurst Caroline , Weatherly Helen , Walker Simon , Longo Francesco , Maddison Jane , Boyle Philip , Beresford Bryony
Published: January 2020

Background

People with hearing loss, particularly those who lose their hearing in adulthood, are at an increased risk of social isolation, mental health difficulties, unemployment, loss of independence, risk of accidents, and impaired quality of life. In the United Kingdom, a single third-sector organization provides hearing dogs, a specific type of assistance dog trained to provide sound support to people with hearing loss. These dogs may also deliver numerous psychosocial benefits to recipients. This has not previously been fully investigated.

Objective

The study aims to evaluate the impact of a hearing dog partnership on the lives of individuals with severe or profound hearing loss.

Methods

A 2-arm, randomized controlled trial will be conducted within the United Kingdom with 162 hearing dog applicants, aged 18 years and older. Participants will be randomized 1:1 using a matched-pairs design to receive a hearing dog sooner than usual (intervention arm: arm B) or to receive a hearing dog within the usual timeframe (comparator arm: arm A). In the effectiveness analysis, the primary outcome is a comparison of mental well-being 6 months after participants in arm B have received a hearing dog (arm A have not yet received a hearing dog), measured using the Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale. Secondary outcome measures include the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, and Work and Social Adjustments Scale. An economic evaluation will assess the cost-effectiveness, including health-related quality-adjusted life years using the EuroQol 5 Dimensions and social care–related quality-adjusted life years. Participants will be followed up for up to 2 years. A nested qualitative study will investigate the impacts of having a hearing dog and how these impacts occur.

Results

The study is funded by the National Institute for Health Research’s School for Social Care Research. Recruitment commenced in March 2017 and is now complete. A total of 165 participants were randomized. Data collection will continue until January 2020. Results will be published in peer-reviewed journals and at conferences. A summary of the findings will be made available to participants. Ethical approval was received from the University of York’s Department of Social Policy and Social Work Research Ethics Committee (reference SPSW/S/17/1).

Conclusions

The findings from this study will provide, for the first time, strong and reliable evidence on the impact of having a hearing dog on people’s lives in terms of their quality of life, well-being, and mental health.

Trial Registration

International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Registry ISRCTN36452009; http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN36452009

International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)

DERR1-10.2196/15452
Fleshing Out Models of Gender in English-Language Novels (1850 – 2000)
Authors: Cheng Jonathan
Published: January 2020

Distant readers have used predictive modelling to study the strength of the relationship between characterization and binary notions of gender. This essay builds on that research, shedding light on several historical trends concerning anatomical description and its relationship to gender. Some of the evidence suggests that bodily language has long played a larger role in configuring fictional women than it did for fictional men. Other evidence implies that bodily characteristics were increasingly bifurcated along a gender binary, reflecting how characters are more and more physically sorted along a feminine-masculine axis. Taken altogether, this essay unpacks a suggestive correlation: a growing aspect of characterization was increasingly imbricated in heteronormative discourses. By weighing the discrepancies between the evidence presented in this essay, and that of its predecessors, this essay will ultimately suggest that disaggregating statistical models can unfold patterns of literary change that would otherwise remain suppressed.
MICROWAVE ASSISTED SYNTHESIS OF TETRAHYDROPYRMIDINE AND IN SILICO SCREENING OF ANTIDIABETIC DRUG
Authors: S. GEJALAKSHMI , N. HARIKRISHNAN , E. THILLAI GOVINDARAJAN G. , A. DIVYASRI
Published: January 2020

Objective: To detect the microwave-assisted synthesis of Tetrahydropyrimidine derivative and its molecular docking studies for Diabetes.

Methods: The Bignelli condensation method was used for Tetrahydropyrimidine derivative synthesis. The docking studies made in Argus Lab software.

Results: The Tetrahydropyrimidine is synthesized using the microwave. The Tetrahydropyrimidine derivative is found to be attack the insulin receptor, as it the tendency of binding with insulin receptor showed in Argus lab. Further, the good binding site of Tetrahydropyrimidine derivative with insulin receptor was predicted.

Conclusion: From the research work, The Tetrahydropyrimidine derivative shows its affinity to bind with the insulin receptor. The binding value is averagely 7 which indicates it can attraction with the receptor, so it can control Diabetic mellitus by altering insulin secretion in blood plasma.
ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY AND TOTAL PHENOL AND FLAVONOIDS ANALYSIS OF SIBERIAN GINSENG ROOT
Authors: SHETTY NAGENDAR , HARIKA V. , LOKRAS SUMITRA
Published: January 2020

Objective: This study was examined to in vitro antioxidant activity and Total Phenol and Flavonoids content analysis of methanolic root extract of Eleutherococcus senticosus (Siberian ginseng).

Methods: 1,1-dephenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl free radical scavenging and FRAP assay propose that antioxidant activity of methanol root extract because of reducing capacity of the antioxidant against oxidative effects of reactive oxygen species.

Results: Scavenging activity of Siberian ginseng root RC50 value was shown 713.42±11.55 µg/ml and reducing power 0.13±0.01 mmol/g was investigated. In addition, total phenol 12.6±1.13 mg GAE/g DW and total flavonoids 9.8±0.20 mg QE/g DW were recorded.

Conclusion: Although all tests were performed in vitro assay, these results recommend that Siberian ginseng root may be a good source of antioxidant ingrediant.
STABILITY INDICATING METHOD DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION FOR SIMULTANEOUS QUANTIFICATION OF SORAFENIB AND REGORAFENIB DRUG SUBTANCES BY USING RP-UPLC
Authors: CHOPPELLA VIDYASAGAR , K. RAGHU BABU , BADIPATI SURESH , GONTHINA HARITHA , CHUKKA VENKATA KISHORE
Published: January 2020

Objective: The aim of the research work is to develop and validate a novel, sensitive, specific, rapid, accurate, precise and stability indicating gradient reverse phase ultra-performance liquid chromatography (RP-UPLC) method for the quantitative determination of sorafenib and regorafenib drug substances.

Methods: Liquid chromatographic method used for the analysis of the anti-cancer drug substances like sorafenib and regorafenib and method was developed and validated by using efficient chromatographic separation method and was achieved with the use of acquity UPLC system was used consisting of quaternary pump, photodiode array detector an auto injector and on line degasser.

Results: The separation was achieved using acquity UPLC BEH C18, 1.7 µm.2.1×50 mm analytical column at 30 °C employing a gradient elution. Empower software was used for data acquisition. During method validation all the parameters were evaluated as per ICH guidelines, which remained well within acceptable limits. Degradation of the drug substances was found to be stable to acidic, aqueous, basic hydrolysis, thermal hydrolysis and photolytic stress condition and the tests solution of the drug substance was found to be stable up to 24 h.

Conclusion: The results of linearity, precision accuracy and specificity were proved to be within the limits. This method can be employed in routine analysis for simultaneous estimation of sorafenib andregorafenib drug substances in quality formulations and dissolution studies.
DEVELOPMENT OF COLLABORATION IN THE ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES COURSES: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Authors: Jaleniauskiene Evelina , Leščinskij Robert , Jucevičienė Palmira
Published: January 2020

The mission of higher education institutions is to prepare future professionals for a rapidly changing labor market, yet what skills we teach students, and how we teach them, is highly problematic. The ability to collaborate is crucial for success in professional and academic endeavor; the challenge for foreign language educators is to shift the focus of courses in ways that address the development of collaboration skills. Yet, this also becomes a challenge in scholarly literature on English for Specific Purposes (ESP), since research in this field has been somewhat limited, i.e., most commonly it investigates collaborative writing as a way of developing collaboration. Furthermore, the explicit teaching of collaboration, as well as the inclusion of diverse tasks to enhance collaboration, are often neglected by researchers. Also neglected in this field of research are the challenges and opportunities that students experience while learning to collaborate during ESP classes. The paper aims at acquiring more in-depth insights into the phenomenon of collaboration during ESP classes to facilitate the practice of language educators who can no longer neglect the urgent need to develop collaboration through their classes. The authors of the paper, who were also the designers of ESP tasks, sought to develop collaboration skills by both engaging learners in collaborative tasks and integrating additional measures to address this skill. Qualitative data acquired via observations and semi-structured interviews revealed that such tasks could contribute to students’ overall performance to improve language proficiency because they enhance motivation and engagement. Apart from collaboration skills, they contribute to the development of many essential skills vital for engagement in the twenty-first century workplace. Notwithstanding, they pose challenges to students and this indicates the need for more frequent collaborative tasks and progress with additional measures that develop students’ collaboration abilities in higher education.
DEVELOPING TERTIARY LEVEL CLIL LEARNERS’ INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS WITH A SELF-PRODUCED COURSEBOOK INTEGRATING CONTENT AND LANGUAGE
Authors: Yang Wen-hsien
Published: January 2020

Integrating content and language at tertiary level has recently become very popular in Asian contexts. Extensive studies have also been done, evidencing that CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) can be beneficial for improving learners’ linguistic outcomes and content achievements. However, cultural awareness, as one core dimension of the 4Cs (communication, content, cognition, and culture) conceptual framework is less addressed in the literature. Often it is assumed that CLIL education can also naturally increase learners’ cross-cultural competence, but hard evidence on the increment of this competence is still lacking in the CLIL literature. Thus, to bridge this gap, the present study used a mixed research method to investigate to what extent a self-produced CLIL culture coursebook can help university students enhance their inter-cultural knowledge in a national Taiwan polytechnic university. One survey was conducted to evaluate the tailor-made CLIL materials and another was administered to measure the cultural competence after the CLIL intervention. The coursebook writers as well as the CLIL learners were also interviewed in the study. The findings showed that the contextualised design met its set educational aims and targets, and the users made significant improvement in their cultural competence. Also, the interviewees showed a high degree of satisfaction with the coursebook and the approach, although the book authors held divided opinions on some issues. Implications and suggestions are provided.
ESTABLISHING A NICHE IN RESEARCH: RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE WRITINGS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST
Authors: Ankomah Christopher , Afful Joseph B.
Published: January 2020

One key means of negotiating entry into a particular discourse in a research community is via the problem statement section in both research articles and dissertations/theses. Students are mostly confronted with the challenge of establishing a research space. This paper investigates the rhetorical strategies employed by Language students in the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, to establish a niche in their introduction sections. A total of fifty-two introductions were collected from both undergraduate dissertations and postgraduate theses. The data was subjected to a qualitative content analysis. The results of the analysis indicated that both undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students employed Indicating a Gap as their best choice to establish a niche, with the PGs using it more than the UGs. Both groups of students used Establishing Problem and Need as their next preferred option to create a research space. However, it was only the PGs who used Counter-claiming as the third strategy. These findings of this study have implications for the scholarship on students’ academic writing and pedagogy.
DESIGN OF AN ART MUSIC RELATED ESP COURSE SYLLABUS IN THE CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT
Authors: Kovačević Darko
Published: January 2020

In the case of any ESP course, at any level, a careful syllabus design is of critical importance for its successful and purposeful implementation. After the introductory chapters, dealing with the key definitions and issues of ESP and art music related ESP, in the central part of this paper a design of an art music related ESP course syllabus is presented in detail, with the naming and description of all the steps and components included both in the design process and the subsequent practical performance of the course in direct work with students. The entire described process is planned with the full awareness of the contemporary life and circumstances, especially regarding the development of information technologies and information society and the consequences of such a development to the notions and concepts of learning, studying and teaching.
CORPUS BASED ANALYSIS OF FIRST-PERSON PRONOUNS IN RESEARCH PROPOSALS WRITTEN BY RUSSIAN STUDENTS
Authors: Grigoriev Ivan , Sokolova Alexandra
Published: January 2020

Although displaying authorial stance is an inseparable component for Anglo-American academic writing tradition, it seems to be problematic for those who are at the beginning of their academic writing career. The use of first-person pronouns is the most vivid principle of moving from formality and objectivity to uncovering the authorial stance and thus to involving the reader into the discussion. The paper focuses on the way novice writers use first-person pronouns for self-positioning. A corpus of Research Proposals written by Russian students majoring in five different subjects has been analyzed to establish discourse functions of first-person pronouns used, as well as to identify what has the major influence on the use of pronouns for authorial stance: disciplinary field or traditions of Russian academic writing. The research showed that socio-cultural traditions in writing influence greatly the way the students explain their position: ‘polite we’ not only outnumbers ‘I’ occurrences, but could substitute it in violation of conventions; disciplinary differences in discourse and textual features of the first-person pronoun use are not very visible but still play a part in academic writing. The findings from this research have implications for EAP curricula developers.Key words: authorial stance, research proposal, self-positioning, academic genres.
ESP TEACHERS IN THE WORLD OF GLOBALISATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION INTERNATIONALISATION
Authors: Chmelíková Gabriela , Hurajová Ľudmila
Published: January 2020

This paper deals with the new situation the ESP teachers have to face at Higher Educational Institutions. The authors bring an insight into the situation of ESP in Slovakia and Slovak Technical University. They also put forward that ESP teachers now have to accommodate a new role of facilitators in the internationalisation of higher educational environment using the example of their Visegrad+ Project bringing together ESP practitioners and disciplinary teachers from six countries.
“LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME”: TRANSLATED MESSAGES OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV’S POLITICAL DISCOURSE
Authors: Carter Elena Valerievna
Published: January 2020

Paremias are known to be a significant rhetorical force in various modes of communication. They serve well in oral speech and in writing, coming to mind almost automatically as prefabricated verbal units. The article aims to take a look at how the proverbial texts with the symbolic component “cup” employed in Nikita Khrushchev’s political speeches, as well as in his memoirs, have been rendered into English. The corpus linguistics methodology is used to identify the expressions containing the word “cup.” In analyzing the selected idioms, Conceptual Metaphor Theory is employed as a theoretical framework. The research contributes to the study of phraseology and translation as it provides an insight into challenges caused by linguistic and cultural differences while transferring metaphorical expressions from one language and culture to another.
LINGUOCULTURAL IDENTITY ASPECTS IN THE PROCESS OF FOREIGN VERBAL TRADEMARKS PERCEPTION AND TRANSLATION
Authors: Glukhova Olga Vladimirovna , Evsyukova Tatyana Vsevolodovna
Published: January 2020

The paper is a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of verbal trademarks in terms of cultural linguistics, psychological cultural linguistics and cognitive science. The paper considers the verbal trademarks as a distinct linguoculture capable of transmitting cultural values. The study aims to show the way linguocultural identity interrelates with the processes of verbal trademarks perception and localization. The first chapter deals with the concepts of cultural and linguocultural identity. The second chapter discusses the results of associative experiment held in terms of the paper. The experiment involved people of three age groups whose task was to share their associations with the particular verbal trademarks and resulted in a scope of  various lexical material. The conceptual and value-based analysis of the data received proved the hypothesis.  The last chapter is devoted to the concept of localization in marketing and translation studies. The article points out the cultural value aspects of the process.
PERFORMING LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS IN GERMAN LEGISLATIVE TEXTS
Authors: Balashova Elena Yurevna , Nagoga Olga Vladimirovna , Makshantseva Elena Anatolyevna
Published: January 2020

The article deals with the functions of legislative texts in German, describes the models of language functions in the context of pragmatic theory, and distinguishes basic, communicative, and specific pragmatic functions of the legal language. The aim of the study is to identify the specific functions of the language and to analyze the peculiarities of their manifestation in the texts of laws in German. The taxonomical and pragmatic methods along with the method of functional analysis were used to create the methodological basis for identifying the specific features of these functions in the texts of laws. As a result of the research, specific language functions were revealed - the functions of nomination, message, communication and influence in German legislative texts. The authors came to the conclusion that the functions of message and influence are more brightly demonstrated in the texts and they are implemented in the text of the law with the help of multilevel linguistic means and their combinations.
THE METHOD OF COORDINATES IN TEACHING ESP
Authors: Solntseva Elena
Published: January 2020

The article introduces a new approach to English language teaching and learning at media and journalism departments. It is called “the method of coordinates” and its purpose is to teach reading media, looking for author's intention and writing mass media texts. The method regards a mass media text as a multidimensional structure possessing such coordinates as protagonist, place, time, subject, author’s intention, audience targeting, relevant external links, irrelevant external links etc. Here the step-by-step analysis is described how to determine them in the text and thus notice the composition of the text. Further, the collected data are used to develop own writings in media. As an example, the report “Dalia Stasevska joins BBC Symphony Orchestra as principal guest conductor” from The Guardian (25.01.2019, by Imogen Tilden) is chosen. The novelty of the approach is in a particular combination of several steps while reading and analysing the content of a newspaper article. The method can be used in ESP classes at media and journalism departments while teaching students to read news articles and to analyse them semantically, pragmatically and structurally. It contributes to the development of reading skills and understanding author’s intention as one of the most difficult tasks with the learners of English as a Second Language and prepares students to create personal writings in media.THE METHOD OF COORDINATES IN TEACHING ESP
Lectura crítica de informes de investigación educativa en profesores. Una intervención educativa. Estudio multicéntrico
Authors: Leyva González Félix Arturo , Leyva Salas Rosalba Isabel , Gómez Clavelina Francisco Javier F. , Leyva Salas Félix Arturo , Valencia Sánchez Jesús Salvador
Published: January 2020

Introducción: En los Centros de Investigación Educativa y Formación Docente (CIEFD), del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), se forman los profesores que se desempeñan como tutores de los residentes. Existe la preocupación de cómo desarrollar la lectura crítica y qué estrategia educativa implementar.Objetivo: Determinar la relación entre la participación en aula de los profesores que acuden a los cursos en los CIEFD y el desarrollo de la aptitud para la lectura crítica de informes de investigación educativa.Método: Se realizó un estudio de intervención, multicéntrico en profesores inscritos en los cursos: Diplomados Metodológicos en Docencia Nivel (DMDN) 1 y 2 (n = 46 y n = 29, respectivamente), de los 6 CIEFD, periodo marzo-agosto de 2017. Se construyó un instrumento que evaluó la variable “Participación del alumno en aula”, constituido por 5 categorías y 18 indicadores; la variabilidad interobservador se estimó con una prueba de concordancia (kappa ponderada 0.80). La aptitud para la lectura crítica fue evaluada por un instrumento conformado por 3 indicadores y 120 ítems; su validez conceptual, de contenido y confiabilidad se valoró por ronda de expertos en investigación educativa con experiencia docente. Los DMDN 1 y 2 tuvieron una duración de 360 y 288 horas, respectivamente, y fueron desarrollados con la estrategia educativa promotora de la participación. Los instrumentos de medida se aplicaron en 2 ocasiones (mediciones iniciales y finales). La medición inicial para valorar la participación del alumno en aula, se efectuó a la mitad de iniciados los diplomados 1 y 2.Resultados: Se observaron asociaciones estadísticas significativas en el DMDN 1 de 4 CIEFD.Conclusiones: En esta investigación, a partir del análisis de los resultados, se recrearon algunas de las propuestas teóricas de la educación participativa. En algunos centros, el fortalecimiento de la participación con esta intervención educativa tiene relación con el desarrollo de la lectura crítica de informes de investigación educativa.
Percepción del estudiante como complemento para evaluar un escenario de simulación: enfermedades hipertensivas del embarazo
Authors: Ávila Juárez Silvia Angélica , Acevedo Flores Juan Manuel , Pradel Bernal Kennya Fernanda , Vidal Meléndez Ana Iveth , Morales López Sara
Published: January 2020

Introducción: La hipertensión es uno de los trastornos más comunes en el embarazo, por tal motivo, en el Centro de Enseñanza y Certificación de Aptitudes Médicas (CECAM) de la Facultad de Medicina de la UNAM, se realiza un escenario de simulación para que los Médicos Internos de Pregrado (MIP) pueda enfrentarse a pacientes con dicha patología y así ser preparados para su práctica profesional.Objetivo: Recabar información sobre la percepción del médico interno de pregrado con respecto a la actividad de aprendizaje por simulación de Enfermedades Hipertensivas del Embarazo, para valorar su efectividad.Método: Se realizó un estudio transversal descriptivo en donde los MIP, posterior a participar en 3 escenarios de simulación para enfrentarse a pacientes estandarizados y así fortalecer y poner en práctica el tema de enfermedades hipertensivas del embarazo, evaluaron la actividad a través de una encuesta con escala tipo Likert.Resultados: El instrumento de evaluación obtuvo un Alfa de Cronbach de 0.884. Las pacientes estandarizadas, el trabajo en equipo durante la simulación y la logística de la actividad obtuvieron respuestas favorables en la evaluación, asignando en su mayoría “Completamente de acuerdo” y “De acuerdo” a los ítems contestados con base en la escala de la encuesta. Como área de oportunidad, se identificó que es necesario mejorar los recursos materiales para aumentar el realismo.Conclusiones: Se obtuvo una buena respuesta por los participantes con respecto a la actividad, y permitió detectar sus áreas de fortaleza y de oportunidad. Al mostrar los resultados se reflejan experiencias del Centro, mismas que pueden aprovecharse en otras instituciones en donde se pretendan implementar actividades similares.
Analisis dan perancangan data warehouse evaluasi mahasiswa studi kasus pada jurusan Teknik Informatika UMM
Authors: Maulana Mohammad Agung Alifferiza , S.Kom, M.Kom. Maskur , Soeharso Wildan
Published: January 2020

AbstrakDalam rangka meningkat kualitas pendidikan secara berkelanjutan diperlukan suatu trobosan yang mampu melakukan analisa proses bisnis yang bertujuan untuk memudahkah eksekutif dalam melakukan pengambilan keputusan. Untuk mengatasi hal tersebut dibangun sebuah data warehouse yang berdasarkan laporan borang akreditasi khusus standard 3 mengenai mahasiswa. Penerapan data warehouse berguna untuk mendukung pengambilan keputusan di tingkat management. Model data warehouse yang di gunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah menggunakan Skema Star, dan menggunakan nine Step Metodology. Dengan pembangunan data warehouse, diharapkan dapat menghasilkan informasi yang berkenaan dengan evaluasi mahasiswa berdasarkan standard akreditasi dengan lebih cepat, sesuai dengan kebutuhan, serta menghasilkan informasi yang lebih ringkas. Dengan menggunakan sistem data warehouse juga dapat dihasilkan analisis multidimensi  yang bersifat informasi analitis. Sehingga bermanfaat dalam pengambilan keputusan berkenaan dengan evaluasi mahasiswa.AbstractIn order to improve the quality of education sustainably, a breakthrough is needed. A breakthrough that able to analyze business processes that aim to make the processes itself easier for executives to make decisions. Data warehouse was built to overcome that, based on the report of the third standard  special accreditation forms about students. The application of data warehouse is useful to support decision-making at the management level. The data warehouse model used in this study is using Star Scheme and uses the Nine-Step Methodology. With the construction of a data warehouse, it is expected to produce information relating to student evaluations based on accreditation standards more quickly, according to needs, and produce more concise information. Using a data warehouse system can also produce a multidimensional analysis, which is an analytical information. So it can be useful in decision making regarding to the student evaluations.
Attractiveness Assessment of the American Labour Market for the High Qualified Specialists: A Case of Doctors
Authors: Apanovich Maria Yurievna
Published: January 2020

The article describes the migration of highly qualified specialists, using the case of medical workers in the United States. The theory of Kurt Levin and its later modifications, that explain the attractiveness of certain labor markets for workers, serve as a theoretical basis. The study aims at examining a separate area and the reasons for its attractiveness to foreign labor, as well as assessing the prospects for the inflow or outflow of human capital in the medical industry. The American case is of a special research interest due to the national peculiarities of educational programs for medical workers in particular - the duration and the need of confirmation the qualifications by passing the so called qualification exams. The national system of selecting medical personnel for vacant positions throughout the country is also of interest, as it provides for an element of quotas (allocation of a certain number of jobs for foreign labor) and an element of competitiveness (The National Resident Matching Program). Such a combined system allows the state to maintain a balance in the distribution of seats among US citizens and citizens of other states and at the same time strive to attract the best specialists in medicine on an adversarial basis. The study also reveals a pattern in the share of popularity of certain medical specialties among the migratory and non-migratory population, which allows us to draw conclusions about the possibility of a further more or less influx of foreigners into the positions of narrowly targeted doctors. In general, it can be summarized that the analysis of foreign labor on the example of the United States, as well as government measures to stimulate or restrict access by non-residents to this area, is quite significant and in some way useful as a possible strategy to follow for other countries, including the Russian Federation.
Chernenko, E.F. (2018). Energy Diplomacy. Moscow: Urait publ., 139 p. (In Russian)
Authors: Shiriiazdanova Irina Fanilevna
Published: January 2020

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Simone Weil’s Lectures on Philosophy: A Comment
Authors: Morgan W J
Published: January 2020

The purpose of this article is to introduce the reader to some intellectual origins of Simone Weil’s philosophy through a summary of and comment on her Lectures on Philosophy (1978) given when she was a teacher at a girls’ school at Roanne in the Loire region of central France. The article provides a comment on Simone Weil’s Lectures on Philosophy. There is a brief Introduction followed by a summary of Weil’s life which indicates her various interest as a religious thinker, mystic, anarchist, and political activist and some of the important academic commentaries on these aspects of her life and work. The source of the Lectures on Philosophy edited by her pupil Anne Reynaud-Guérithault is then discussed followed by a detailed summary of and comment on the Lectures themselves. They are grouped under five headings which are considered in turn. These are: The materialist point of view; after the discovery of mind; politics and social theory; ethics and aesthetics; miscellaneous topics and essay plans. There is a further discussion of Simone Weil’s later philosophical thought which shows that what she published reveals classical learning and intellectual quality, but also the several antimonies with which she struggled in her thinking, the two major influences on her thought being Ancient Greece and Christianity. There is a short Conclusion and Bibliography.
Logical Methodology
Authors: Ivlev V. Yu. , Ivlev Yu. V. , Ivleva M. L.
Published: January 2020

Absract. The regulatory documents of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science set the task of forming competencies of students. Competences are understood as knowledge and skills. Knowledge is the world outlook component of science, and therefore the corresponding academic discipline, and skills are its methodological component. The world outlook refers to the system of views on the subject area of science, and the methodology is the system of intangible means of cognition and practical activities developed in this science and presented in the relevant academic discipline. It is noted that the subject of study in logic is not only the particular structure of thoughts and processes of thinking (forms of thought and processes of thinking), but also the types and characteristics of the original components of complex thoughts and processes of thinking, such as signs and terms. In the article on the example of logic the author's concept of the methodological component of the academic discipline is described. Attention is drawn to the importance of using in the process of cognition methodological standpoints created on the basis of world outlook, as well as to the need to take into account the types of knowledge - empirical and theoretical knowledge, problem, hypothesis, theory. Some other methodological tools of logic are given, for example, principles, technology. More well-known methodological tools (methods, strategies, tactics, etc.) are not considered. It is assumed that the article will cause interest among the representatives of other philosophical, and not only philosophical, academic disciplines, and a discussion of the problem of ideological and methodological components of these disciplines will continue.
Construction of Social Reality in Fiction and Phenomenology of Everyday Life
Authors: Rudanovskaya S. V.
Published: January 2020

The idea of the constructed character of social reality implies human contribution to institutional arrangements and cultural patterns that determine the shape of collective existence. The article examines the specific features of social construction seen and studied in phenomenological approach by A. Schutz, P. Berger, Th. Luckmann. The concept reveals significance of daily cognitive style which enables people to structure and understand the world they share with others, escaping situations fraught with gaps of meanings and anomy. The author of the article analyzes the process of social construction, distinguishing it from imaginary building of reality that goes beyond the existed order. Reality of daily life is compared with fictional society represented in J.L. Borges’ “Lottery in Babylon”. Telling about the social construction as it may be, the story demonstrates the similarities between the mental procedures that underlie real and antiutopian (inhuman) routines. The article also centers on peculiarities of phenomenological beholder’s attitude towards sociality. On the one hand, it tends to be free from any theoretical abstractions, imaginary constructions or critical destruction of reality, on the other - inclines to transcend the reified forms of social being and engenders a certain critical message.
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Production Models and Forms of Employment: Socio-Philosophical Analysis
Authors: Tsurkan E. G. , Dryaeva E. D.
Published: January 2020

The process of integration of digital technologies into the structure of social production and distribution leads to a series of definite trends in capitalist development. These trends are regular and interdependent. The acceleration of information exchange provides an opportunity to replace the Fordism with a thriftier network model, which involves outsourcing and reducing the longevity of contractual obligations and hiring relationships, which leads to the precarization of labor of a certain social group, which can be described as “precariat”. The change in working conditions leads to the change in ways of increasing labor productivity, which is the reason for the emergence of “societies of control” characterized by: distributed power, embedding previously external coercion into the personality, affective engineering, prolongation of the educational process, increasing tempo and rhythm of work, spreading the project as the form of work replacing routine forms, and the emergence of a liquid short-term identity inherent in representatives of the precariat. This article aims to discover and demonstrate the interconnection between these processes. Achieving this goal will open the way to a more thorough separate study of each of these processes in the future but this research will be made from the perspective of their systemic unity. According to the purpose of the article, the structure of work is the following: the first section is devoted to the acceleration of social time, which is connected with the compression of social space and with the change in scale in which commercial and state enterprises can operate. Quick positive feedback, which is provided by the digital network, leads to changes in the infrastructure of enterprises and the transformation of production and logistics models (Section 2). In addition, the acceleration of the feedback between the employee and the employer leads to the precarization of labor (Section 3), which is accompanied by the appearance of “societies of control” (Section 4).
Medea Mina Jeje e o sacrifício do filho morto
Authors: Costa Alexandre
Published: January 2020

O artigo faz uma análise de Medea Mina Jeje, peça de teatro recentemente apresentada em São Paulo concebida pelo ator Kenan Bernardes, com dramaturgia de Rudinei Borges e direção de Juliana Monteiro.
João Cabral de Melo Neto e o conceito de profundidade
Authors: Perius Cristiano
Published: January 2020

Este ensaio visa compreender a obra poética de João Cabral de Melo Neto a partir do conceito de profundidade, de Maurice Merleau-Ponty, utilizado como chave hermenêutica. Respeitando a autonomia de imagens que não se traduzem em conceitos, a fenomenologia é mobilizada de forma a acompanhar a experiência poética em seu próprio teor heurístico. É neste sentido que as características da poesia de João Cabral aparecem e são analisadas, como a antilírica, a metalinguagem e o engajamento social. Apesar da afinidade temática com a poesia de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, que retira a poesia das coisas, a semelhança é apenas aparente. A poesia de João Cabral compreende o conceito de profundidade, que atua por camadas, graus ou níveis de sedimentação linguística. A profundidade resulta do exercício de escavação com palavras que adquirem espessura semântica. Efeito do trabalho de mineração poética, o valor das imagens é descrito a partir de certas palavras, sempre as mesmas, mas que reverberam sobre as demais. A fim de descrever o profundo, as palavras escolhidas para a análise são: pedra, faca, cabra e cão.
Utupë: A imaginação conceitual de Davi Kopenawa
Authors: Valentim Marco Antonio
Published: January 2020

Pretendo oferecer uma interpretação do conceito yanomami de imagem tendo por foco sua exegese xamânica por Davi Kopenawa em A queda do céu. Para tanto, proponho três níveis sucessivos de consideração: uma exposição do conceito de imagem; a interpretação da imagem como forma espectral; uma comparação, de significado político, da conceitualidade xamânica com outras imagens filosóficas do conceito. Veremos que o conceito incorporado por Kopenawa implica uma modalidade inteiramente outra de imaginação conceitual, “outro modo de criação de conceitos que não o ‘filosófico’, no sentido histórico-acadêmico do termo” (Viveiros de Castro). Afinal, a ontocosmologia em questão é, sobretudo, “uma experiência corporal dos xamãs” (Albert).
Políticas econômicas e sociais na América Latina
Authors: Mendonça Luiz Jorge Vasconcellos P. de
Published: January 2020

As avaliações das políticas públicas latino-americanas aparecem como positivas tanto para setores da esquerda quanto para os adeptos da ortodoxia liberal. Para os primeiros, as novas políticas em benefício das classes mais desfavorecidas representam um primeiro passo em direção a mudanças mais profundas. Para os segundos, as políticas monetárias e fiscais ortodoxas e a melhor inserção no comércio internacional fornecem as bases para um crescimento sustentável. No entanto, quando avaliamos as políticas sociais atuais, cuja base é o conceito de vulnerabilidade social, fica claro que a superexploração da força de trabalho e a expropriação de amplas parcelas das populações envolvidas continuam sem solução. O principal mérito dessas políticas parece ser, em alguns casos, contribuir para a construção de um modelo econômico alternativo ao atual.
A falsa dicotomia entre teoria e prática
Authors: Wellen Henrique , Carli Ranieri
Published: January 2020

Analisa a relação entre teoria e prática no que concerne à atividade do assistente social. Tem como objeto tanto a falsa oposição entre ciência e política e suas consequências para o processo de trabalho dos assistentes sociais, quanto as correntes de pensamento que adotam esta oposição como um princípio filosófico. Analisa as teses do marxismo e do positivismo, assim como as suas posições diante de questões como a neutralidade, a prática política, a cientificidade do pensamento, e outros aspectos do problema.
Reestruturação produtiva e hipertrofiação da Assistência SocialL: a ofensiva do capital no Brasil
Authors: Silva Sheyla Suely de Souza , Davi Jordeana , Souza Moema Amélia Serpa Lopes de , Santos Maria Aparecida Nunes dos
Published: January 2020

Este artigo sistematiza estudos sobre os redirecionamentos da proteção social brasileira, cujos resultados evidenciam que, no contexto da atual ofensiva capitalista, há uma estreita relação entre os processos de financeirização, reestruturação produtiva e reestruturação da proteção social. Assim, através da análise das relações entre as particularidades da proteção social na realidade brasileira e as macrodeterminações do processo de restauração capitalista, concluímos que a hipertrofiação da assistência social no Brasil, numa perspectiva de expansão focalizada e seletiva, assentada nos programas de transferência de renda, reflete estratégias de redução dos gastos sociais; de desuniversalização dos direitos sociais e mercantilização das demais políticas da seguridade social e de minimização dos efeitos da reestruturação produtiva sobre a integralidade social, em substituição aos direitos do trabalho e em consonância com os objetivos do capital de liberar-se dos custos da reprodução da força de trabalho e de transferir o fundo público para a esfera financeira.
O projeto de modernidade, crise capitalista e ideologia pós-moderna
Authors: Pereira Danielle Viana Lugo , Jesus Altair Reis de
Published: January 2020

A presente comunicação parte de autores como Habermas, Berman, Harvey e Bauman para evidenciar o significado, bem como, as controvérsias presentes no projeto da modernidade e sua negação pelo discurso pós-moderno. Neste sentido, buscamos uma reflexão teórica sobre o rumo tomado pelo capital e seus reflexos na atualidade. Sobretudo ao que diz respeito à lógica de produção e circulação capitalista, ou seja, o impasse na sobrevivência da humanidade, subordinada às leis da mercadoria e à destruição em massas de forças produtivas que se sucede a cada crise econômica, ofuscados em grande medida em função de fatos de ordem conjuntural.
Assistencialização das políticas sociais? Breves notas sobre o debate contemporâneo
Authors: Silva Márcia Nogueira da
Published: January 2020

O presente artigo tem como objetivo apresentar o debate teórico sobre o processo de assistencialização das políticas sociais no Brasil. Identifica que, embora o debate sobre o processo de assistencialização seja embebido de uma série de tensões teórico-metodológicas e políticas, sua natureza constitutiva, suas características, bem como seus impactos – identificados pelos diversos autores implicados no debate – se configuram como uma enorme contribuição para o desvelamento das formas atualizadas de enfrentamento das refrações da questão social.
Universidade Federal Fronteira Sul: uma conquista popular
Authors: Nadaletti Cristiane Letícia
Published: January 2020

Fazer uma reflexão sobre a história da luta pela universidade no Brasil não é tarefa simples. Tendo como plano de fundo a luta pela criação da Universidade Federal Fronteira Sul, este texto apresenta uma breve sistematização do processo de luta popular que levou a esta conquista. Articulando estes elementos com a crítica ao atual sistema de ensino superior no Brasil, buscamos caminhar no sentido de construir respostas, mesmo que  parciais para as seguintes questões: É possível que esta universidade dialogue permanentemente com a sociedade que a constituiu e que lhe dá legitimidade? É possível criar uma universidade que supere o corporativismo e esteja profundamente engajada com a busca de soluções para os grandes problemas da humanidade? É possível criar uma universidade verdadeiramente comprometida com as necessidades da população?
Mulheres e homens em jornadas sem limites: docência, gênero e sofrimento
Authors: Borsoi Izabel Cristina Ferreira , Pereira Flavilio Silva Pereira Silva
Published: January 2020

Este artigo visa discutir aspectos da atividade acadêmica que impactam a saúde dos docentes e o modo de organizar o seu tempo dentro e fora do âmbito laboral, considerando as diferenças de gênero. A pesquisa foi realizada na UFES e abordou 96 professores efetivos (56 homens e 40 mulheres). A maioria deles declara extrapolar a jornada laboral regular e estar sobrecarregada. Dentre as queixas relativas à sua saúde, predominam aquelas de ordem psicoemocional e/ou psicossomática. Quanto ao gênero, as mulheres declaram jornadas de trabalho mais extensas, usam medicação prescrita com maior frequência e apresentam mais sintomas de sofrimento ou adoecimento.
Interfaces no trabalho dos catadores de materiais recicláveis: relações complexas com o Estado e o capital
Authors: De Melo Josimery Amaro , Souto Jackson Vital
Published: January 2020

Este artigo trata do fenômeno da reciclagem central no debate socioambiental e acadêmico. O objeto principal diz respeito aos processos em que parte dos materiais recicláveis adquire importância para o Estado e para a indústria. Sob modalidades diversas a atividade da coleta/cata de materiais recicláveis tem em comum a disseminação de um discurso: gerar emprego com preservação do ambiente. A pesquisa (obedeceu aos princípios éticos que permeiam os estudos com humanos do Ministério da Saúde), da qual foi fruto este artigo, realizou-se junto a catadores de materiais recicláveis de duas associações da cidade de João Pessoa (PB), com os quais objetivamos analisar as relações de trabalho destes com o Capital e o Estado. Obtivemos neste estudo grandes descobertas das quais nossa teoria e método de base marxiana foi imprescindível. Preocupamo-nos neste artigo em repor o debate teórico considerando o mergulho necessário na realidade, que trataremos em outro momento.