bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Slovenski učbeniki zgodovine o španski državljanski vojni
Authors: Šuštar Branko
Published: February 2021

SPANISH CIVIL WAR IN SLOVENIAN HISTORY TEXTBOOKSThe article examines the image of the 1936–1939 Spanish civil war as presented in Slovenian history textbooks for primary and secondary schools 75 years after the war. In textbooks, this topic is important for presenting the period before World War II in Europe as well as the social and political differences present in Europe at that time. The Spanish civil war raises questions of democracy, fascism, communism, social reforms, violence and revolution in Europe. Initially, the textbook authors briefly discussed the Popular front, democracy and elections, communists and revolution, as well as the support of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany to Franco’s Nationalist faction and the support of Soviet Union to the Republican faction. After 1980, textbooks included a more detailed presentation of the broader social situation, the attitude of artists towards the Spanish civil war, and the impact of war on political divisions in Slovenia during World War II. The first textbooks generally mentioned that a number of Yugoslavs were fighting for the Republican faction, whereas later authors provided more information in accordance with research studies, i.e. that 500 Slovenians participated in the International Brigades.
Trnova pot razvoja narodne ideje v 20. stoletju: problemi oblikovanja naroda na Slovenskem in v Ukrajini skozi oči ukrajinskega zgodovinarja
Authors: Malšina Katerina , Sinkevič Jevgen
Published: February 2021

DIFFICULT PATH TO DEVELOPING THE IDEA OF A NATION IN THE 20TH CENTURY: PROBLEMS IN FORMING A NATION IN SLOVENIA AND UKRAINE AS SEEN BY AN UKRAINIAN HISTORIANThe article presents the development of the idea of a nation by comparing constitutional and social processes in Slovenia and Ukraine from the second half of the 19thcentury to the end of the 20thcentury. Upon examining the documentary and narrative sources on the formation of the Ukrainian and Slovenian nations, the authors point out that both Slovenians and Ukrainians co-existed within one country – the Austro-Hungarian Empire – as well as to the chronological and thematic similarity of historical independence movement processes in both countries, focusing on the period of Austria-Hungary, as well as on the time after World War I and World War II. The emphasis is on defining the following terms: What is a “national idea” compared to the political and state-related idea? What is the difference between the Slovenian and Ukrainian national idea? How should we define the “Slovenian nation” and the “European nation” today?
Španci v nemški službi na Slovenskem med drugo svetovno vojno
Authors: Kocjancic Klemen
Published: February 2021

SPANIARDS IN GERMAN SERVICE IN SLOVENIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAROn Slovenian territory during the Second World War were active different units of foreigners, which fought on the side of the German occupying force; among them were also two different units of Spanish volunteers. First unit, a half-battalion, was garrisoned in Lower Styria, specifically in Zasavje area, where it provided security for coal mines and railway. Second unit, of company strength, was integral part of brigade, then division of so called Karst hunters, based in Slovene Littoral, which was actively participating in counterinsurgency against Italian and Slovene partisans. Using critical analysis and interpretation of wartime sources and post-war literature article is presenting activity of Spanish volunteers in German service in Slovenia. Because of the size of both units Spaniards didn't significantly impact the progress of the Second World War in Slovenia, but are still part of Slovenian military and war history.
K problematiki štajersko-hrvaške dravske meje konec 18. stol.
Authors: Čuček Filip
Published: February 2021

On the basis of the archival materials the author focuses on the Styrian-Croatian border river Drava (between Ormož and Središče) at the end of the 18th century, when (due to the river bed changes) the competent authorities under Maria Theresa and Joseph II started to focus on the consequent border disputes. After the massive floods of the river Drava in the 18th century, the border residents who suffered damages (on the Styrian side) complained more and more frequently, trying to solve the situation at hand. The author is specifically interested in how the river bed changes influenced the life of the residents of the areas by the river and how these people solved the mutual local disputes at the turn of the century (before the border was agreed upon and drawn at the beginning of the 19th century).
Pregled enot in ustanov Waffen-SS na Slovenskem med drugo svetovno vojno
Authors: Kocjancic Klemen
Published: February 2021

AN OVERVIEW OF THE WAFFEN-SS UNITS AND ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE SLOVENIAN TERRITORY DURING WORLD WAR IIThe article offers an overview of the Waffen-SS military units and establishments operating both in Slovenia and beyond its borders, where they came in contact with the Slovenian partisans. The Waffen-SS units did not participate in the April War in Slovenia; at the first stage of the occupation (1941–1943), there were only a few of them present in Slovenia; however, at the second stage of the war (1943–1945), their presence in Slovenia became a regular occurrence. The Waffen-SS units were present in the entire Slovenian territory, ranging in size from companies up to and including corps.
The Effects of Assessment as Learning (AaL) on ESL students’ Academic Performance and Motivation in the light of self-Regulated Learning (SRL) Theor
Authors:   IQRA University, Karachi, Hinduja Preeta , Thomas Martin
Published: February 2021

This study intended to investigate the effects of Assessment as Learning (AaL) strategy on satisfaction of academic performance and motivational beliefs of ESL (English as Secondary Language) students of Public sector school. Using the quasi-experimental pre-post-test control group design, and assessment strategy recommended by Lee and Mak (2014), this study examined the effects of Assessment as Learning (AaL) on students’ studying ESL writing skills in Argumentative Essay. Through the convenience sampling technique, 60 ninth standard students were selected to participate in the study. Students' performance was analyzed with the help of Argumentative Essay Test and Motivation was investigated by using Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ). Both control and experimental groups were trained through traditional teaching ESL strategies; however, experimental group students practiced an additional intervention identified as "Assessment as Learning (AaL)" strategy. After seven weeks of study, both groups' performance and motivation were evaluated through post-tests. The data from pre-tests and post-tests were analysed by Independent Sample t-tests. The results demonstrated that the experiment group’s academic scores and motivation were significantly higher, thus the implementation of AaL practice is recommended to raise self-regulation and performance of students.
„Imti į savo rankas tremtinių Lietuvon grąžinimą“: Lietuvos Tarybos ir Minsko lietuvių organizacijų veikla 1918 metais
Authors: Grigaravičiūtė Sandra
Published: February 2021

Straipsnyje atskleidžiamos sutelktos Lietuvos Tarybos prezidiumo, Lietuvos Tarybos Tremtinių ir belaisvių grąžinimo komisijos ir Minsko lietuvių organizacijų pastangos 1918 m. vasario–gruodžio mėnesiais organizuoti ir koordinuoti tremtinių bei pabėgėlių grįžimą į Lietuvą iš Rusijos, Baltarusijos Liaudies Respublikos teritorijos, Ukrainos, taip pat rūpintis jų šelpimu, apgyvendinimu, reikiamų dokumentų (liudijimų, pasų) išdavimu. Tyrimas apima laikotarpį nuo 1918 m. vasario 21 d. iki gruodžio 13 d., t. y. nuo Minsko lietuvių tarybos susirinkimo, kuriame iškelta būtinybė rūpintis tremtinių ir pabėgėlių grįžimu į tėvynę, iki Minsko komisijos tremtiniams Lietuvon grąžinti (trumpiau – Minsko komisija) turto perdavimo Lietuvos vidaus reikalų ministerijos Tremtinių grąžinimo skyriui akto pasirašymo datos. Tyrimas atskleidžia Lietuvos Tarybos prezidiumo, Lietuvos Tarybos Tremtinių ir belaisvių grąžinimo komisijos veiklą organizuojant grąžinimą ir grąžinant lietuvių tremtinius ir pabėgėlius iš teritorijų, užimtų Vokietijos kariuomenės 1918 m. vasario–kovo mėnesiais į rytus nuo Oberosto, Lietuvos Tarybos įgaliotinių (Minske ir kituose baltarusių gyvenamuose miestuose) paskyrimą ir veiklą, Minsko lietuvių tarybos sudėtį ir veiklą 1918 m. vasario–balandžio mėnesiais, ryšius su Lietuvos Taryba, Minsko komisijos sudėtį, veiklą ir atsiskaitymą už ją, grįžus į Lietuvą.
Politikų ir žiniasklaidos sąveikos: cinizmas kaip politinės komunikacijos stilius
Authors: Matkevičienė Renata
Published: February 2021

Temos pasirinkimą paskatino pastaruoju metu tiek visuomenėje, tiek žiniasklaidoje ryškėjanti kritiško politinių procesų vertinimo tendencija: analizuojant politinius procesus, vertinant valdžios ar politikų veiksmus, ypač politinių rinkimų kampanijas, pastebimas negatyvus, kritinis požiūris, reiškiamas tiek žiniasklaidos atstovų, politologų, visuomenės veikėjų, tiek ir pačių politikų.

Negatyvumas pastebimas ir pačių politikų tarpusavio komunikacijos diskurse: apie konkurentus, ar tiksliau apie oponentus, jų kalbas, keliamas problemas dažnai atsiliepiama itin kritiškai, išsakant tik neigiamą nuomonę, nurodant tik neigiamus argumentus ar kritines pastabas. Žinoma, toks negatyvus politikos konstravimas daugiausia perimamas iš žiniasklaidos, nes retas kuris pilietis pats aktyviai dalyvauja politiniuose procesuose ir mato politikų tarpusavio bendravimą, netarpininkaujamą žiniasklaidos. Nors tai ir nėra tikroji realybė, o tik žiniasklaidos formuojamas politikos atspindys, tačiau dažniausiai remiantis būtent žiniasklaidos konstruojamu turiniu ir yra formuojama ir suformuojama visuomenės nuomonė apie politiką, politikus, politikos institucijas ir jų veiklą. Verta atkreipti dėmesį ir į tai, kad žiniasklaida ne visuomet būna itin objektyvi realybės formuotoja. Turėdama savų interesų, žiniasklaida yra tendencinga, šališka politikos lauko atspindžio konstruotoja, tačiau akivaizdu ir tai, kad pati viena be politikų dalyvavimo ji negalėtų parengti politinio turinio, todėl ta politinė komunikacija, kurią pateikia žiniasklaida, yra politikų ir žiniasklaidos bendradarbiavimo ar (ne)su(si)tarimo rezultatas, iš dalies atspindintis politinius procesus ir, tikėtina, politinės komunikacijos pobūdį.

Šiame straipsnyje bus analizuojamas cinizmas kaip politinės komunikacijos stilius ir jo raiškos žiniasklaidoje tiriant žiniasklaidoje pateikiamų politikų kalbų turinį.

Straipsnyje pateikiama Delfi.lt skilties „Politikų akimis“ keleto metų straipsnių turinio kokybinė analizė ryškinant politinio cinizmo elementus.
Lietuvos Tarybos atstovavimas Vokietijoje. Pirmasis etapas (1917 m. rugsėjo 24 d. – 1918 m. kovo 31 d.)
Authors: Grigaravičiūtė Sandra
Published: February 2021

Straipsnyje analizuojamas pirmasis Lietuvos Tarybos atstovavimo Vokietijoje etapas (1917 m. rugsėjo 24 d. – 1918 m. kovo 31 d.), išskiriami du laikotarpiai (pirmasis – nuo 1917 m. rugsėjo 24 d. iki 1917 m. gruodžio 11 d., antrasis – nuo 1917 m. gruodžio 13 d. iki 1918 m. kovo 31 d.), pateikiamas jų apibūdinimas. Daugiausia dėmesio skiriama Lietuvos Tarybos atstovavimo Vokietijoje genezei (1917 m. rugsėjo 24 d. – gruodžio 13 d.), Lietuvos Tarybos delegacijų, vykusių į Vokietiją, sudarymo procesui, instrukcijų ir įgaliojimų joms parengti, pasirašytų dokumentų analizei ir vertinimui.
Batı Akdeniz Bölgesi İhraç Ürünlerinin Lojistik Faaliyetleri Açısından Isparta Süleyman Demirel Havalimanının İncelenmesi
Authors: Öçal Bora , Çarıkçı Oğuzhan
Published: February 2021

Günümüzde havayolu taşımacılığı, daha ziyade sadece yolcu taşımacılığı olarak bilinmektedir. Ancak küresel ticaret ve tedarik zincirinin son yıllarda gösterdiği gelişim yük taşımacılığına da yansımaktadır. Hızlı ve güvenilir olarak küresel ölçekte yük taşımacılığına imkân veren havayolu yük taşımacılığı önem taşımaktadır. Bu çalışmada Isparta ve Burdur illerinin yurt dışı pazara ihraç edilen ürünlerinin havayolu ile taşınmasına yönelik olarak Isparta Süleyman Demirel Havalimanının sahip olduğu potansiyel değerlendirilmiştir. Özellikle hızlı bozulabilir özellikteki yaş sebze ve meyve başta olmak üzere Avrupa ve Uzak Doğu’ya ihraç edilen ürünlerin diğer taşıma türlerine ve diğer havalimanlarına alternatif olarak Isparta Süleyman Demirel Havalimanı gümrüğünden çıkış yapabileceği önerilmektedir. Böylelikle kısıtlı iç hat yolcu taşımacılığı ve eğitim uçuşları amacıyla kullanımdan dolayı hava trafiği düşük olan uluslararası havalimanının daha işlevsel hale gelebileceği değerlendirilmektedir. Ayrıca Isparta Süleyman Demirel Havalimanının lojistik faaliyetlere uygun hale getirilerek kullanımının ileride bölgede kurulması ihtimal dahilinde olan lojistik merkeze katkı verebileceği de düşünülmektedir. Diğer yandan ele alınan havalimanının lojistik faaliyetlere yönelik etkin olması bölgesel kalkınmaya da katkı sağlayacaktır.
Evaluation of Children Referred to Pediatric Rheumatology Outpatient Clinic with Suspicious Laboratory Test Results
Authors: Karadağ Şerife Gül , Sönmez Hafize Emine , Tanatar Ayşe , Aktay Ayaz Nuray
Published: February 2021

INTRODUCTION: We aimed to evaluate the patients who were referred to the pediatric rheumatology outpatient clinic with suspicious laboratory test results. METHODS: All patients who were referred to our outpatient clinic with suspicious laboratory test results between March 2018 and March 2019 were evaluated. RESULTS: A total of 273 new patients who were referred with suspicious laboratory test results were evaluated. Among them; 48% were girls and 52% were boys and they were referred mostly from the clinics of child health and diseases (70.3%). The most frequent indications for referrals were anti-streptolysin O (ASO) elevation (n=86) and anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) positivity (n=47), while 66% of the patients were not diagnosed with rheumatic disease. None of the patients without complaints but with suspicious laboratory test results (n=49) were diagnosed with rheumatic disease. While 64.6% of those diagnosed with rheumatic diseases had periodic fever syndrome, 17.1% had juvenile idiopathic arthritis, 8.5% had postinfectious arthritis, and the remaining 9.8% had connective tissue diseases, vasculitis and uveitis. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Laboratory findings alone in childhood rheumatic diseases are not significant in patients without complaints. The diagnosis of rheumatic diseases should be made with the patient’s complaints, history, family history and physical examination findings and supported by laboratory findings. With the rational use of laboratory tests; unnecessary health expenses can be prevented and referrals of patients with nonrheumatic diseases to pediatric rheumatology outpatient clinics can be prevented.
The Effect Of Tenosynovectomy On Patient Outcome In Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Surgery
Authors: Aydın Ahmet Levent , Üçer Melih
Published: February 2021

INTRODUCTION: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is estimated to be the most frequently seen mononeuropathy, needing surgical intervention. Its prevalence is known to range between 1, and 3 percent. The components contained in this tunnel are the median nerve, four deep digital flexor tendons, as well as four superficial flexors and the tendon of flexor pollicis longus. Between the tendons and bursae an anatomical structure is present called subsynovial connective tissue (SSCT). SSCT absorbs and transmits stress between tendons and the median nerve and it functions as a scaffold for vascular elements. To find out the role of compression or pathologic proliferation of SSCT in the pathogenesis of CTS, we aimed to conduct a study about the surgical technique of this pathology and compared the long- term results of patients operated with or without SSCT excision in our neurosurgery clinic. METHODS: Between 2003 and 2019 we operated 1279 patients at our neurosurgery clinic. Among them 250 patients who had SSCT excision (syn+) were chosen and they were compared with other 250 patients operated without SSCT excision (Syn-). RESULTS: All patients were evaluated preoperatively and 12 months postoperatively based on the results of Boston Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Questionnaire. When pre-, and post-operative results were compared, we didn’t observe a statistically significant intergroup difference. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Although our primary goal in patients in whom we performed excision of tenosynovium is to relieve the median nerve by increasing decompression, we observed that there was no difference between the two groups in this large-scale study. We think that only liberation of the transverse carpal ligament during surgery will be sufficient.
Comparision of Rosiglitazone Maleat Only Use with Combination with Clomiphene Citrate in Infertile Cases with Clomiphen Resistant Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Cases
Authors: Ünal Sevinç , Şimşek Memet
Published: February 2021

INTRODUCTION: Most of the obese PCOS patients are resistant to clomiphene citrate standard doses. In these cases metabolic syndromes are treated by using insulin sensitizing drugs so that ovulation can be achieved.In this study rosiglitazine maleat was used in order to induce ovulation in obese clomiphene resistant PCOS patients. METHODS: 30 women(18-40 year old) with clomiphene resistant polycystic ovary syndrome that were obese (BMI>25 kg/m2) and hyperinsulinemic were seperated in two groups. In the first group (n=15) oral antidiabetic Rosiglitazone maleate( 4mg bid) which belongs to thiazolidinediones were used.In the second group(n=15) in addition to clomiphen citrate(50 bid)and Rosiglitazone maleate(4 mg bid) were used, ovulation and pregnancy rates were compared. In both groups ovulation and pregnancy were recorded, in the second group ovulation and pregnancy rates were higher than the first group but these rates were not significant. RESULTS: In group 1, ovulation was achieved in 5 patients (%33) and pregnancy was achieved in 1 patient (%7). In group 2, ovulation was achieved in 9 patients (%60) and pregnancy was achieved in 3 patients (%20).There was no statistical significance between two groups. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: In our study in obese and hyperinsulinemic patients rosiglitazone maleat can induce ovulation and in addition to clomiphene citrate also ovulation can be achieved although it is statistical insignificant. As a result Rosiglitazone maleate can be used alternatively as an insulin sensitizer and ovulation induction agent.
Childhood Guillain-Barré Syndrome’s Subtypes and Outcome: A Single Centre Experience
Authors: Akıncı Göktaş Özben , Bektaş Ömer , Yüksel Merve Feyza , Şahin Süleyman , Teber Serap
Published: February 2021

INTRODUCTION: In this study, we aimed to revise the clinical, epidemiologic and prognostic features of childhood Guillain-Barré syndrome. METHODS: Thirty two children admitted to our hospital and diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome between June 2007- November 2019 were enrolled in the study. We also administered clinical evaluation scale at onset, discharge, 1,3,6 and 12 months after discharge. RESULTS: The median age was 72.22 months (range from 6 to 202 months) with a male to female ratio of 1.46. Based on electrophysiological features; 22 patients were classified as acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, 10 as acute motor axonal neuropathy. The incidence of cranial nerve involvement was 28.1 % and was related to lower clinical scale score at admission and discharge. Clinical scale scores were significantly different between axonal and demyelinating subgroups except for admission. At 12th month follow-up visit, 78.1% of patients were recovered without sequal. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: We think that the most important predictor of morbidity is predicting the possible ventilatory support need during the follow up period. Short incubating period of antecedent infection and cranial nerve involvement will probably increase ventilatory support need. The prognosis was found to be significantly different between electrophysiological subtypes in our series, axonal forms being consistent with poor prognosis.
Verb-second in spoken and written Estonian
Authors: Vihman Virve-Anneli , Walkden George
Published: February 2021

This paper investigates clausal constituent order in Estonian, a language often described in the literature as exhibiting a verb-second “tendency”. We present a corpusbased study of ordering in independent affirmative declarative clauses, drawing data from both written and spoken corpora. Our results show that, while written Estonian is robustly a verb-second language along the same lines as the modern Germanic standard languages, spoken Estonian exhibits much more variation. Our findings lead us to suggest that spoken Estonian patterns with the recently-established class of “verb-third” languages, and that syntactic analyses developed to account for these languages can also account for our spoken Estonian data.
Toward an individual-difference perspective on phonologization
Authors: Yu Alan C. L.
Published: February 2021

Phonologization is often understood to be a process along the pathway of sound change where low-level physiological or perceptual variation that gives rise to sound patterns is explicitly encoded in the grammar. The nature of this transition and how it comes about remain largely unclear. The broad theoretical goal of this paper is to argue that phonologization should be defined at the level of the individual; it takes place whenever an individual acquires a so-called “phonetic precursor” as an intended, and controlled, pattern in the language, even if the pattern exhibits gradient properties. To illustrate this perspective, a case study on the nature of individual variation in vowel duration as a function of vowel height in Cantonese is presented, offering evidence that some Cantonese speakers have phonologized the height-dependent vowel duration effect and discussing the implications of this result for understanding intrinsic vowel duration as a phonetic precursor to sound change. The article closes with a discussion regarding the current proposal in relation to past models of phonologization and offers suggestions for future directions in phonologization research.
CAPTAÇÃO E REUTILIZAÇÃO DA ÁGUA COMO ESTRATÉGIA SUSTENTÁVEL
Authors: Silva Eduardo Gomes , Santana Otacílio Antunes
Published: February 2021

A água é essencial para a manutenção de todos os seres vivos na terra, dessa forma deve haver um processo de conscientização e prática da população para preservação desse recurso natural. Um sistema de ensino foi sistematizado, a partir da construção de um jogo de tabuleiro como uma ferramenta lúdica para se trabalhar a diversidade de conteúdos ligados à temática central. Neste contexto, o referido trabalho objetiva produzir um jogo físico de baixo custo a partir da identificação de técnicas de captação e de reaproveitamento da água, para aprendizagem lúdica no Ensino Médio. A referida pesquisa foi baseada na metodologia Design-Based Research (DBR), por apresentar investigações inovadoras no campo das ciências da cognição, tendo como ambiente de estudo a Escola de Referência em Ensino Médio Justa Barbosa de Sales, localizada no município de Vertente do Lério-PE. O jogo de tabuleiro “Para não faltar água” foi desenvolvido em parceria com educadores de biologia e geografia, sendo analisado e testado inicialmente, com características expositivas (por meio de cartas), cooperativas e competitivas. O produto, a partir da sua aplicabilidade, sensibilizou a comunidade na aquisição de comportamentos sustentáveis, além de facilitar a abordagem de conteúdos de forma satisfatória, atendendo as perspectivas primordiais em acolher um público além das limitações da escola. A didática aplicada no lúdico impacta a educação básica, quanto ao uso de ferramentas atrativas e diferenciadas, ajudando no processo de desenvolvimento cognitivo.
IDENTIFICAÇÃO E MAPEAMENTO DE ÁREAS CONTAMINADAS E COM POTENCIAL DE CONTAMINAÇÃO DE RECURSOS HÍDRICOS NO MUNICÍPIO DE JUNDIAÍ
Authors: Silva Fernanda Pacheco da , Oliveira Elidiane Aparecida de , Melillo Raquel Carnivalle Silva , Oliveira Cristiane Ronchi de , Gavioli Felipe Rosafa
Published: February 2021

A Serra do Japi é um importante remanescente da Mata Atlântica paulista, cujos ativos ambientais englobam a biodiversidade e a produção de água, com potencial para abastecimento público. O presente estudo avaliou a ocorrência de áreas contaminadas que possam interferir na qualidade da água no Território de Gestão da Serra do Japi, em Jundiaí. Utilizou-se dados da Companhia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo, referentes às áreas com águas subterrâneas contaminadas, e do Departamento de Água e Energia Elétrica, referentes aos poços outorgados do município. Através de geoprocessamento, realizou- se a espacialização dos dados e análise das possíveis interferências. Foram identificadas 81 áreas contaminadas e 335 poços outorgados em Jundiaí, sendo que não há áreas contaminadas no entorno da Serra do Japi. A espacialização indicou 103 casos de sobreposições entre as áreas contaminadas e poços nas regiões norte e central do município. Os resultados sugerem que os instrumentos de proteção da Serra do Japi inibem a instalação de fontes poluidoras na região, ao que tais instrumentos podem ser aperfeiçoados. Da existência de poços próximos a áreas contaminadas em demais regiões do município, estes representam um impacto sobre o ambiente e a saúde humana, sendo necessários estudos aprofundados e fiscalização para mitigar o problema.
The Effect of Environmental Education Training Course in Soil, Water and Forest Conservation on the Concept of The King Rama Ⅸ of Thailand
Authors: Sookngam Kannika - , Wongchantra Prayoon , Bunnaen Wutthisak
Published: February 2021

The purposes of this research were to study and compare knowledge about soil, water and forests conservation, environmental ethics and environmental volunteers using the environmental education training course on the concept of The King Rama Ⅸ of Thailand in soil, water and forest conservation before and after training of students having different genders and Grade Point Average (GPA). There were two sample used this research: one involved in the curriculum development consisting of 94 students in Environmental Education, Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies Mahasarakham University enrolled in the course Environmental Education Training Curriculum in the first semester of the academic year 2018, and the other composed of 67 first-year students in Environmental Studies who were enrolled in the course Environmental Education in the second semester of the academic year 2018. Both groups were selected through the purposive sampling. The research instruments were Environmental Education Training Course in soil, water and forest conservation on the concept of The King Rama Ⅸ of Thailand, knowledge test about soil, water and forest conservation, environmental ethics test and environmental volunteers test. The statistics used in the research were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, including hypothesis testing using t-test, F-test One-Way MANOVA, One-Way MANCOVA, and Univariate Test. The results showed that: 1. The students’ average score of knowledge about soil, water and forest conservation on the concept of The King Rama Ⅸ of Thailand, environmental ethics, and environmental volunteers in the posttest was higher than the pretest statistical significance (p< .05). 2. There was significant different of average score of knowledge about soil, water and forest conservation on the concept of The King Rama Ⅸ science of Thailand, environmental ethics, and environmental volunteers between students with different gender statistical (p< .05). 3. There was significant different of average score of knowledge about soil, water and forest conservation on the concept of The King Rama Ⅸ of Thailand, environmental ethics, and environmental volunteers between students with different Grade Point Average (GPA) statistical (p< .05).
Exploring Omani EFL Students’ Perceptions of the Newly Adopted Online Learning Platforms at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences-Salalah
Authors: Kashoob Muna , Attamimi Rais
Published: February 2021

Due to the rapid advancement of the relevant technology and the COVID-19 health pandemic, educational institutions have had to adapt to ongoing and ever-changing circumstances at a very rapid rate. Thus, the Moodle and Microsoft Teams platforms are being used by teachers to more directly teach students, as well as fulfilling its initial role in providing a supplementary tool to maintain, the convention of independent learning. The current study explores the perceptions of a group of Omani students who are currently enrolled in the English Language Center of the University of Sciences and Applied Technology, Salalah campus, (hereafter referred to as UTAS) regarding the new online learning platforms, i.e. Moodle and Microsoft Teams. To this end, a questionnaire was adopted from Rojabi’s (2020) study to measure the perceptions of the students towards both Moodle and Microsoft Teams platforms. A sample of 100 students was randomly selected from the population. The findings of the study have offered some important suggestions on how to improve the existing online platforms and pave the way for further research to be conducted in the same area.
Unsupervised Segmentation of Breast Infrared Images in Lateral View Using Histogram of Oriented Gradients
Authors: Correa Thays , De Oliveira Fabíola , Baffa Matheus , Lattari Lucas
Published: February 2021

Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the world. It is estimated that 29.7% of new cases diagnosed in Brazil occur in any structures of the breasts. However, the disease has a good prognosis if detected early. Thus, the development of new technologies to help doctors to provide an accurate diagnosis is indispensable. The goal of this work is to develop a new method to automate parts of computer-aided diagnosis systems, performing the unsupervised segmentation of the Region of Interest (ROI) of infrared breast images acquired in lateral view. The segmentation proposed in this paper consists of three stages. The first stage pre-processes the infrared images of the lateral region of breasts. Later, features are extracted from a descriptor based on Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG). Concluding, a Machine Learning algorithm is used to perform the segmentation of the sample. The current method obtained an average of 89.9% accuracy and 94.3% specificity in our experiments, which is promising compared to other works.
Viable Yeast Identification using Bag of Visual Words in Colored images
Authors: Souza Junior , Weber Vanessa , Gonçalves Ariadne , Alvarez Marco , Cereda Marney , Gonçalves Wesley , Odakura Valguima , Pistori Hemerson
Published: February 2021

In this research it is reported a system to automate the process of identification of viable yeasts whose population control is a crucial task in the ethanol production process. The identification and counting of yeasts made by human vision under a light microscope, is repetitive and susceptible to errors. We used computer vision techniques such as BoVW, Color Coherence Vectors (CCV), Color Moments (CM), Bag-of-Color (BoC) and Opponent Color (OpC) were applied for extracting characteristics that were classified by the Naive Bayes, KNN, SVM and J48 algorithms in 2614 images of yeasts separated into three classes: viable, non-viable and background. The results were analyzed using software R, which in the ANOVA test resulted in a p value equal to 2e􀀀16 indicating a significant difference between the techniques. The OPC with SVM classifier showed the highest performance using the PCC Percent Correct Classification metric, about 95% compared to other techniques.
Analysis of color feature extraction techniques for Fish Species Identification
Authors: Freitas Uéliton , Pache Marcio , Gonçalves Wesley , Matsubara Edson , Sabino José , Sant'Ana Diego , Pistori Hemerson
Published: February 2021

Color recognition is an important step for computer vision to be able to recognize objects in the most different environmental conditions. Classifying objects by color using computer vision is a good alternative for different color conditions such as the aquarium. In which it is possible to use resources of a smartphone with real-time image classification applications. This paper presents some experimental results regarding the use of five different feature extraction techniques to the problem of fish species identification. The feature extractors tested are the Bag of Visual Words (BoVW), the Bag of Colors (BoC), the Bag of Features and Colors (BoFC), the Bag of Colored Words (BoCW), and the histograms HSV and RGB color spaces. The experiments were performed using a dataset, which is also a contribution of this work, containing 1120 images from fishes of 28 different species. The feature extractors were tested under three different supervised learning setups based on Decision Trees, K-Nearest Neighbors, and Support Vector Machine. From the attribute extraction techniques described, the best performance was BoC using the Support Vector Machines as a classifier with an FMeasure of 0.90 and AUC of 0.983348 with a dictionary size of 2048.
Auswirkungen der Finanzkrise auf die kommunalen Ebenen Europas
Authors: Geißler René , Wortmann Markus
Published: February 2021

Die Finanzkrise hat enorme Auswirkungen auf die öffentlichen Sektoren weltweit gezeigt. Während für die Ebene der Staaten und einzelne Kommunalverwaltungen einige Forschungsarbeiten vorliegen, wurden die Auswirkungen auf die kommunalen Ebenen in Gänze bis dato kaum untersucht. Dieser Artikel schließt diese Forschungslücke und entwickelt aus der Literatur Kategorien von „direkten“ und „indirekten“ Auswirkungen auf die Kommunalebenen. Im zweiten Schritt werden diese auf 21 europäische Länder angewandt. Die „direkten“ fiskalischen Auswirkungen machten sich in Haushaltsdefiziten und einem meist erheblichen Anstieg der Verschuldung deutlich. Die „indirekten“ Auswirkungen gehen auf staatliche Maßnahmen im Umgang mit der Finanzkrise zurück, welche die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen der Kommunen strukturell veränderten. Solche Maßnahmen betrafen Zuweisungen, die lokale Struktur oder die Aufgabenverteilung zwischen Kommunen und Staaten. Die häufigste „indirekte“ Auswirkung ist die Intensivierung der Haushaltsregeln und der Überwachung.
Automatisierung von Routinetätigkeiten im öffentlichen Dienst
Authors: Adam Jan P. , Hahn Michelle , Hölscher Ines , Höschel Heike , Janzen Stella , Kögel* Lukas
Published: February 2021

Auf Basis einer Umfrage unter 300 Beschäftigten im öffentlichen Dienst untersucht dieser Beitrag, welche möglichen Auswirkungen die Digitale Transformation auf das Tätigkeitsprofil von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern im öffentlichen Sektor haben kann. Zum einen finden sich erste Hinweise auf signifikante Effizienzpotenziale durch Automatisierung im öffentlichen Sektor. Zum anderen wird deutlich, dass die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter dieser Entwicklung mehrheitlich positiv gegenüberstehen und sie aktiv an der Verbesserung von Dienstleistungen mitwirken wollen. Aus diesen Erkenntnissen können zahlreiche Handlungsimplikationen für Veränderungsprojekte in der Praxis abgeleitet werden. Gleichzeitig ruft dieser Beitrag dazu auf, die Folgen der Digitalen Transformation für Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter noch besser zu erforschen.
Leo Tolstoy And Writers of World Literature Literary Reflections – Elchin Efendiyev
Authors: Hasanova Gulnara
Published: February 2021

It is a study of literary interaction questions and the identification of mutual enrichment patterns that currently acquire particular significance. The concept of foreign literary experience becomes ever more profound and diverse and is realized by a creative rethinking (not imitation or adoption) of another literature’s achievements. This paper aims to identify the profound influence of world literature on Tolstoy and vice-versa: the influence his creative works had on European literature. The paper shows the need to study the originality of Tolstoy’s artistic legacy’s foreign reception and, therefore, complement the overall picture of perception and functioning of the writer’s creation in the foreign literary context and cultural environment. The study of this theme is very significant from the standpoint of modern globalization, dialogue between cultures. The novelty here lies in the fact that the question of how Tolstoy’s works have been received within the context of creative cross-cultural dialogue has not been given sufficient attention within international comparative studies. There is no systematizing and summarizing research in the national science about a writer’s perception and peculiarities of appraisal of writer’s works involving the Azerbaijani studies material, drawing parallels with the national literature. For this consideration of Tolstoy’s work, the conception of Azerbaijani prose writing is taken to represent a World literary context. The outstanding playwright Elchin Efendiyev had due regard for Tolstoy’s creative work and his particular creative perception of the world. This work’s theoretical purpose is to develop a scientific paper that will expand understanding of the reception of an outstanding writer’s creative work by a western creative consciousness and will present a picture of international cultural ties.
Perceptions of World English Varieties by Chinese EFL Students
Authors: Martín Tévar Jesús
Published: February 2021

The objectives of this study are to elicit perceptions that Chinese users of English have towards a selection of world English varieties; to determine the effects of speaker gender and visual primes (ethnic faces) on perceptions; and also to reveal how these two factors interact with each other. In the present experiment, 278 respondents were exposed to eight world English varieties. Each accent sample had a female and a male voice version. Chinese students of English were exposed to these recordings, with the presence and absence of average ethnic faces as visual stimuli during the experiment, and requested to complete a questionnaire to reflect on their impressions by means of Likert scales. The results showed a preference for inner circle monolingual standards, and a rejection of outer circle Englishes (for the circles of English classification, see Kachru, 2006). Results also showed a positive perception of respondents towards their own Chinese accent. Ethnic faces visual prime and speaker gender factors, as well as their interaction, also proved to have significant influences on the results. Respondents rated accents significantly more positively when accompanied by ethnic faces.
Analysis of Class-as-Race and Gender Ideology in the US Young Adult Sports Novel Racing Savannah (2013)
Authors: Riestra-Camacho Rocío
Published: February 2021

Equine fiction is an established genre in the English juvenile literary canon. Current works in the field appeal to adolescent readers thanks to their interface between classic motifs of vintage and contemporary forms of equine narratives. Performing a close reading of selected passages in Miranda Kenneally’s Racing Savannah (2013), this paper acknowledges how this novel is a revitalization and a challenge to this pattern. Savannah, who is more gifted than her companions, is subordinate to the decisions of the junior of the household where she works. Jack Goodwin, the protagonist’s romantic lead, educated in a neocolonialist background of male jockeying, becomes Savannah’s marker of difference according to her sex and lower socioeconomic status, which lay at the root of her later racialization despite her being a white character. My analysis attempts to expose how these difficulties encountered by the protagonist to become a professional jockey articulate past and present constraints of the horse-racing ladder.
Shakespeare and Mercy at the Vatican, 2016
Authors: Cerezo Moreno Marta
Published: February 2021

This article explores a central chapter in the history of the Catholic reception of Shakespeare’s work during the contemporary age: the Catholic readings in 2016 of Shakespeare’s dramatic presentation of mercy in the context of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the Holy Year of Mercy. This study directs its focus first to Catholic public manifestations on mercy −such as printed volumes, articles and cycles of lectures− which incorporated Shakespeare’s reflections on mercy within their religious debate. Second, it studies how the Globe to Globe Hamlet performance at the Holy See on 13 April 2016 triggered the interpretation within the Vatican context of Hamlet as a play which, despite its focus on revenge and crime, opens up glimpses of mercy that allow a redefinition of justice.
Theresa May’s Representation of Reality in her Brexit Speeches
Authors: Dolón Herrero Rosana
Published: February 2021

This study analyses Theresa May’s three seminal Brexit speeches. These describe the kind of desirable post-Brexit EU-UK relationship that she envisioned, and together constitute a corpus of 18,532 words. The speeches can be considered as landmarks on a timeline that was initially meant to lead to the delivery of Brexit. It is hypothesized that there may be meaningful differences between the speeches, and that these affect the representation of reality. These in turn would have a bearing on May’s discursive self-representation as either an individualized or a collectivized social actor. To account for such representational values, the study draws on Halliday’s Transitivity System (1994), starting from the clause and its potential to express ideational meanings. With the aim of uncovering more convincing and interesting findings, a statistical analysis is applied.
La Historia social aplicada a la antigua Mesopotamia: cambios historiográficos y nuevas vías de investigación
Authors: Justel Vicente Josué Javier
Published: February 2021

La presente contribución pretende revisar de qué manera la Historia Social, entendida como corriente historiográfica, ha penetrado en el mundo de los estudios cuneiformes y en la Historia de Mesopotamia. De esta manera, se ha realizado una exhaustiva revisión de la bibliografía disponible, sobre todo la referida a los veinticinco últimos años. El resultado principal es que esta tendencia historiográfica ha sido fructífera para el estudio del mundo cuneiforme, si bien dependiendo de periodos y temas ha tenido desigual fortuna. Además, se proporciona una visión (personal) de las líneas de investigación que, en el futuro, podrían seguir desarrollándose en el marco de la Historia Social de la antigua Mesopotamia.

This contribution aims at revising how social history, understood as a historiographical current, has entered the world of cuneiform studies and the history of Mesopotamia. A thorough review of all the available literature has been carried out, especially those studies published during the last twenty-five years. The main outcome is that this historiographical trend has been rather fruitful within the framework of cuneiform studies – yet with unequal results, depending on periods and topics. Finally, a (personal) vision is offered of the areas of research that, in future, may be further developed in the context of the social history of ancient Mesopotamia.
La infancia en la antigua Mesopotamia: 25 años de investigación
Authors: Justel Vicente Daniel
Published: February 2021

El artículo plantea un recorrido por las principales investigaciones sobre la infancia en la antigua Mesopotamia. Estos análisis se han desarrollado tradicionalmente de forma paralela a los diferentes estudios sobre la familia en la Antigüedad. Los documentos cuneiformes que nos informan sobre los niños del Próximo Oriente antiguo no son solo numerosos, sino también variados en naturaleza literaria, en procedencia geográfica y cronológica. Las aproximaciones al tema han tenido una marcada evolución historiográfica y se han desarrollado de manera muy especial durante las últimas dos décadas y media. En el artículo se pretende poner en valor la importancia de este campo, centrando especialmente la atención en las investigaciones desarrolladas al respecto durante los últimos 25 años. Finalmente, se señalan brevemente las perspectivas de futuro de una cuestión con un potencial investigador evidente.

The article is articulated around the main investigations on childhood in ancient Mesopotamia. These analyses have traditionally been developed in parallel with the different studies on family in Antiquity. Cuneiform documents that inform us about children in the Ancient Near East are not only numerous, but also varied in literary nature, in geographic and chronological provenance. The approaches to the subject have had a marked historiographic evolution and have been specially developed in during the last two and a half decades. The article aims to highlight the importance of this field, focusing in particular on the research carried out in this regard over the last 25 years. Finally, the prospects for the future of an issue with an evident research potential are briefly indicated.
Conflictos armados y su tratamiento en educación. Análisis de la producción científica de los últimos 25 años en la Web of Science
Authors: Vicent Naiara , Castrillo Janire , Ibañez-Etxeberria Alex , Albas Leire
Published: February 2021

En este trabajo se realiza una revisión bibliométrica sobre estudios que abordan el tratamiento de conflictos armados de corte político en educación, con ánimo de obtener un esbozo de lo que se está realizando actualmente en el panorama internacional. Para ello, se ha realizado una búsqueda y análisis de estudios asociados a la didáctica de las ciencias sociales y la educación para la ciudadanía en la Web of Science (WOS). La muestra final, compuesta de 128 estudios, denota un crecimiento de investigaciones sobre la temática en los últimos años y el uso de múltiples metodologías y enfoques. Expone también un rico panorama en cuanto a escenarios de conflicto y temáticas tratadas. Apunta, en último término, a la utilidad de llevar estas temáticas a las aulas de cara a mejorar la convivencia y a promocionar la paz y la reconciliación en las sociedades afectadas por conflictos violentos.

In this work, a bibliometric review is carried out on studies that deal with the treatment of politically-motivated armed conflicts in education, with the aim of obtaining an outline of what is currently being done on the international scene. To this end, a search and analysis of studies associated with the teaching of social sciences and citizenship education in Web of Science (WOS) has been undertaken. The final sample, comprising 128 studies, denotes a growth in research on the subject in recent years and the use of multiple methodologies and approaches. It also presents a rich panorama in terms of conflict scenarios and issues addressed. Finally, it points out the usefulness of bringing these issues into the classroom in order to promote the peaceful coexistence and reconciliation in societies affected by violent conflicts.