bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
‘What tools should we use?’: Politicized youth’s perspectives on digital activism in the Basque Country
Authors: Odriozola Onintza , Iraola Iker , Larrinaga Ane
Published: November 2022

As has occurred with all political activism, contentious counter-hegemonic activism has found a new space for political action on the internet. The massive expansion of digital space in recent years has increased the socializing importance of the field of communications, especially among young people. However, it is not known to what extent the use of internet-based tools has spread in the contemporary protest repertoires of young Basque activists. Based on qualitative research carried out with young pro-independence nationalist activists in the Basque Country in the period following the end of ETA’s armed activity, the main objective of this article is to analyse the scope and limits of digital activism from the point of view of these new political subjects. The principal finding is that activists construct hybrid communication systems, in which physical and virtual spaces are combined, and where their inheritance of a community-based counter-hegemonic political activism and experimentation with new forms have come together.
Translation of Yuri Rozhdestvensky’s 1967 article ‘Language theory and the problem of language development’
Authors: Polski Maria
Published: November 2022

The article describes changes in language, which regularly happen after the introduction of new communication technologies, identifying the pattern: repeated changes in ways of creation, replication and conceptualization of language. The article points out that the electronic stage, just like oral, written and printed stages, requires human effort to adjust language to its new environment. The author argues for human agency: language theory consciously formulated to lead the necessary changes. The author proposes a new discipline, language semiotics, which would study the processes of creation and replication in language in order to suggest successful solutions during the turning points, aka crisis situations in language history.
Media-ecological engineering of the Soviets
Authors: Mir Andrey
Published: November 2022

This article explores the hypothesis that the Soviets built a society on the principles of media ecology. The media ecology of the Soviets had three sources: the materialistic (economic) determinism of Marxism, the environmentalism of Russian literature and the Bolsheviks’ goals of socialist upbuilding. Moreover, the determination to build a new society made Soviet ‘media ecology’ not just descriptive or critical but proactive. The Soviet media ecology could be nothing else but applied media ecology. The notion of media-ecological engineering is advanced in this article to describe the applied character of Soviet ‘media environmentalism’. The article is a part of a larger project, ‘The media ecology of socialism’, which aims at a media-ecological analysis of socialism in general and the Soviet mentality particularly.
The great symbol drain of Christianity: Neil Postman and the postmodern church
Authors: Sudnick Kati E.
Published: November 2022

The postmodern church is one that embeds within it the trappings of the digital age. These institutions, whether manifesting as a megachurch with thousands of congregants or a humble emergent church with an intricate website and decent local following, tend to default to therapeutic modes of operating their churches; for instance, the implementation of stage lighting, projection screens or contemporary music serves to create an emotional response from congregants rather than one of spiritual reflection. This article seeks to understand the church in this current moment within a media ecological framework. First, it attends to the postmodern church, considering three major components that comprise the model: modern architecture, in-house technology, and internet and social media use. Next, the article attends to Neil Postman’s work, particularly Technopoly, Amusing Ourselves to Death, and an essay written in ETC: A Review of General Semantics about propaganda to understand the media ecological underpinnings of the digital age. Finally, the article addresses the implications of the postmodern church as made evident through Postman’s scholarship. Overall, this article seeks to address the question: ‘How can the work of media ecologists aid in the understanding of the postmodern, digitized church’, using Postman as the primary scholar of interest.
The internet as a sacred and irrational space within the Ellulian milieu of ‘technique’
Authors: Turner Hossein
Published: November 2022

This article attempts to critically assess the concept of a ‘fourth milieu’ of ‘virtuality’ as possibly unique and distinct from Jacques Ellul’s technical milieu (the third of Ellul’s theoretical ‘three milieus’). The proposed fourth milieu challenges the very definition and boundary between ‘the real’ and the virtual, the rational and the irrational, the sacred and the profane, the human subject and the virtual subject. I argue that Ellul’s dialectical studies on the nature of ‘the word’ and ‘the image’ suggest that the internet is the space of the ‘irrational’ within the general ‘rational’ milieu that constitutes the technological organization of our society. Contrary to a ‘virtual’ milieu, I argue that the internet is the dialectical pole of ‘irrationality’, a parallel domain that exists in tension with the ‘rational’ pole of industrial society. Ellul’s concepts of the ‘sacred’ and ‘sacred of transgression’ contribute to the dialectical dynamics that are discussed in this article.
Towards an integrated theory of mediation: Combining postphenomenology and media ecology to understand the experience of location-based games
Authors: Prunotto Ale
Published: November 2022

This article highlights the utility of combining postphenomenology and media ecology to understand how experience is mediated in the context of location-based games. While both conceptual approaches are concerned with mediation, their analytical toolkits have different and complementary emphases. Postphenomenology is particularly well suited to examining the nature of human–media relations, while media ecology encourages us to apprehend these human–media relations in the context of complex entanglements of relations. This holistic approach is essential to understand how practitioners of location-based games experience the world. Such experience is influenced by many factors, including other entities that participants encounter in the landscape, other participants, the rules and roles of the game and locative media infrastructures. In this article, I explore the processes by which one location-based game, geocaching, mediates experience of the landscape. To do so, I draw primarily on a case study from the fieldwork conducted with geocachers in Melbourne, Australia.
Rolly chairs and media ecology: Applying communication theory to the activity permissible classroom
Authors: Peterson Valerie V.
Published: November 2022

This article addresses classroom furnishings from a media ecological perspective. I tell the story of how ‘buoy’ and ‘node’ chairs in an ‘activity permissible’ classroom ‘cooled-down’, complicated, and undermined the educational environment. In particular, I explain how the ‘message’ of these furnishings – the extensions afforded by their design – clashed with both pedagogical needs and the subject-matter of the course. I conclude that ‘activity permissible’ furnishings are not necessarily ‘better’ furnishings, and that the media ecology of furnishings is an essential consideration in the designing and assigning of classrooms.
McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (2020)
Authors: Nayar Sheila J.
Published: November 2022

Review of: McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (2020)

Washington, DC: Lexington Books, 192 pp.,

ISBN-13 978-1-79360-524-5, h/bk, USD 95.00
Towards media democracy: An examination of media policy reform activism and its impact on Zimbabwean media policy reform process
Authors: Last Alfandika , Akpojivi Ufuoma
Published: November 2022

In Zimbabwe, media activists have used several strategies to prise open the media space. The emergence of media policy reform activism (MPRA) in the last decade of the twentieth century in Zimbabwe has transformed media policies in several ways. However, the strategies of activism and the extent to which these strategies have influenced media policy transformation have not been adequately researched. Thus, using in-depth interviews with some MPRA under the Media Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ), the government, other media policy stakeholders and documentary analysis, this study examines the strategies used to impact media policy reforms and the extent to which the strategies have influenced the policy reform process. The study established that media reform activists in Zimbabwe use numerous strategies to open media systems. Nonetheless, there is a standoff between MAZ and the state over several issues which include but are not limited to the source of funding and ideologies.
Wissenschaftliche Fairness
Authors: Frisch Katrin , Hagenström Felix , Reeg Nele
Published: November 2022

Plagiate und andere Fälle wissenschaftlichen Fehlverhaltens landen regelmäßig in den Medien und geben auch Außenstehenden Einblicke in problematische Forschungsprozesse. Während diese Skandale ein Schlaglicht auf offensichtliche oder absichtliche Fehler werfen, sind die alltäglichen Herausforderungen wissenschaftlicher Praxis weitaus komplexer. Die Autor*innen analysieren die Vielschichtigkeit und Verwobenheit von fragwürdigen Forschungspraktiken, Machtstrukturen und Fehlverhalten. Ihr Konzept der wissenschaftlichen Fairness dient als Folie zur Analyse bestehender Problematiken und zeigt in einem Gegenentwurf Handlungsoptionen für mehr Integrität, Verantwortung und wissenschaftsethisch gute Forschung auf.
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Authors: Kreber Carolin
Published: November 2022

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) is conceptualized as a transformative learning process and social practice that is informed by certain types of critical reflection and virtues. A distinction is drawn between formal and informal inquiries into teaching and learning; yet it is argued that both forms involve peer review and going public, and both could lead to fresh insights, transformed perspectives on teaching, and, by extension, improved teaching practices, better student learning and enhanced benefits to society. While this theoretical viewpoint is not mainstream, it is suggested that it could usefully extend SOTL (and perhaps also 'Wissenschaftsdidaktik').
Apotheose der Krämerseele - Was die Optimierung des Quantified Self mit Heavy Metal, Karl Marx, dem Kirchenvater Augustinus, gotischen Kathedralen und spirituellen Bodybuildern zu tun hat
Authors: Scheller Jörg
Published: November 2022

Jörg Scheller wirft in diesem Artikel einen differenzierten Blick auf Selbstoptimierung. Anstatt gängige kulturkritische und metasoziologische Ansätze zu vertiefen, betont er die religiösen wie auch bildungsbürgerlichen Wurzeln technikgestützter Optimierungspraktiken des »Quantified Self« und plädiert für mikrosoziologische Perspektiven, die konkrete lebensweltliche Praktiken des Selbstoptimierens untersuchen, anstatt diese mit Makro-Strukturen (»der Neoliberalismus«, »der Kapitalismus«) zu identifizieren. Die Vielfalt und Hybridität real existierender Selbstoptimierungspraktiken spiegelt der Text mit konventionellen wissenschaftlichen wie auch essayistischen und Reportage-Elementen.
»Ich habe mir das Prinzip, das dem Stein inhärent ist, zu Nutze gemacht, um für mich weiterzukommen.«
Authors: Flöter Kirsten
Published: November 2022

Kirsten Flöter widmet sich in ihrem Beitrag der Frage, wie Heilsteine zum Zweck der Heilung sowie der Selbstoptimierung angewendet werden können. Anhand eines Handbuchs über Steinheilkunde sowie qualitativen Interviewmaterials, welches sie im Rahmen ihres Promotionsprojekts über spirituelle Praktiken und Weltvorstellungen im Kontext von s.g. Mittelaltermärkten erhoben hat, verdeutlicht sie, dass Techniken der Selbstoptimierung auch jenseits quantifizierbarer Selbstvermessung vorgefunden werden können. Insbesondere eine induktive, empirische Vorgehensweise erweist sich hier als fruchtbarer Ansatz, um Mehrdeutigkeiten von Optimierungsprozessen sichtbar zu machen.
Das Wissen der Literatur über Selbstoptimierung
Authors: Tönsing Johanna
Published: November 2022

Die fundamentale Transformation der Subjektivierungspraktiken in den letzten 50 Jahren wurde inzwischen in vielen Fachdisziplinen untersucht. Insbesondere in der Soziologie, in der Psychologie, in der Medienwissenschaft aber auch in Fächern wie der Ökonomie oder der Medizin findet sich Fachliteratur zum übergreifenden Thema der Selbstoptimierung. Am prominentesten beschäftigen sich die sogenannten ›Gouvernementalitätsstudienʻ mit dem Aufkommen der neuen Subjektivierungsfigur der Selbstoptimierung. Die Subjektivierungsfigur der Selbstoptimierung wird von den Gouvernementalitätsstudien als das Resultat einer Übertragung ökonomischer Logiken auf dezidiert nicht ökonomische Felder verhandelt. Jenseits der Gouvernementalitätsstudien gibt es aber auch Untersuchungen, die eher ein Moment der Selbstermächtigung in den neuen Subjektivierungspraktiken sehen und weniger eine Unterwerfung unter neoliberale Logiken. In diesem Beitrag geht es aber nicht darum, die außerliterarischen Felder und ihr Wissen über die neuen Subjektivierungsweisen wiederzugeben und darzustellen. Vielmehr soll in prägnanter Form das Feld der gegenwartsliterarischen Selbstoptimierungsdarstellungen vermessen werden. Auch in der Literatur werden Wissensdiskurse verhandelt, moduliert und neu hervorgebracht. Literarische Texte zeigen Facetten der Selbstoptimierung, die so nicht in den außerliterarischen Forschungen vorzufinden sind.
Selbstoptimierung in der Blogosphäre
Authors: Köhnen Ralph
Published: November 2022

Ralph Köhnens Beitrag zur Selbstoptimierung in der Blogosphäre untersucht Rainald Goetz' digitale Tagebücher ,Abfall für alle' und ,Klage'. Im historischen Rückblick werden dabei philosophische, religiöse, ökonomische und medizinische Traditionen der Selbstschrift rekapituliert, die im 20. Jh. in verziffernde Aufzeichnungsstrategien münden. Dabei wird gezeigt, wie Optimierungsprozesse in der Gegenwartsliteratur nicht nur inhaltlich, sondern auch formal sichtbar werden und wie das Alltägliche in spätmodernen Blogging-Praktiken ästhetisch überhöht wird. Die Analyse der literarischen Inszenierung von Selbstoptimierungsprozessen erklärt auch, wie Datensammlungen wie das ›Lifelogging‹ zu den neuen Erzählungen und Figurationen des Selbst werden.
Einleitung
Authors: Bernhardt Sebastian , Standke Jan
Published: November 2022

In der Einleitung grenzen Sebastian Bernhardt und Jan Standke das historische vom zeitgenössischen Erzählen ab und konturieren ihr Vorhaben, spezifische Perspektiven für die Vermittlung historischer Erzählungen in Literatur und Medien im Literaturunterricht aller Schulstufen zu entwickeln.
Ein kleiner Schritt für eine Maus - ein großer Schritt für die Menschheit
Authors: Dichtl Eva-Maria , Vorst Claudia
Published: November 2022

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Werken des Bilderbuchkünstlers Torben Kuhlmann, der historische Ereignisse zum Ausgangspunkt seiner Bild-Text-Narrationen macht und große Forschungsfragen der Menschheitsgeschichte en miniature umdeutet: Eine anthropomorphisierte Maus erfindet etwa die Flugapparate für den ersten Transatlantik-Flug wie auch für die erste Mondlandung. Durch die Vermenschlichung werden Identifikationsmöglichkeiten für Schülerinnen und Schüler bereits in der Grundschule geschaffen und eine bessere Durchdringung historischer Zusammenhänge - auch technischer Fragestellungen - ermöglicht. Die Autorinnen analysieren die ungewöhnliche Bildsprache sowie intermediale und interpiktoriale Anspielungen in ausgewählten Werken. Deren didaktische Potenziale werden herausgearbeitet. Methodische Anregungen für den Literaturunterricht, differenziert nach Jahrgangsstufen, beschließen den Beitrag.
»Ich war so naiv gewesen.«
Authors: Heintz Kathrin
Published: November 2022

Kathrin Heintz widmet sich in ihrem Beitrag Mirjam Presslers letztem Roman, der einen metaperspektivischen Blick auf das Schaffen der Autorin sowie auf das historische Erzählen im Allgemeinen wirft. Die besondere Konzeption des Romans wird offengelegt und das Werk im Feld des historischen Erzählens verortet, ehe eine diekatische Analyse erfolgt, die in konkrete Aufgaben zum kreativen Schreiben mündet.
Täuschungsspiele
Authors: Becker Annika
Published: November 2022

Täuschen, Manipulieren und Betrügen auf der Theaterbühne - unzuverlässige Erzählfiguren lassen sich immer öfter auch in postdramatischen Inszenierungen finden. Mit Schauspielenden verbindet sie vor allem eines: das unablässige (Selbst-)Inszenieren von narrativen Weltentwürfen, die sich als metareflexive Täuschungsspiele entpuppen. Vor dem Hintergrund der intermedialen Praxis der Romanadaption entwickelt Annika Becker eine Typologie theatraler Unzuverlässigkeit, die zum zentralen Bindeglied zwischen Literarizität und Performativität avanciert. Damit liefert sie einen grundlegenden und innovativen Beitrag zur interdisziplinären Erzählforschung am Schnittpunkt von Theater- und Literaturtheorie.
Literatur zwischen Biopolitik und Migration
Authors: Grieb-Viglialoro Christina
Published: November 2022

Der politische Umgang mit Migrant*innen und Geflüchteten stellt die europäische Gemeinschaft und insbesondere Einwanderungsländer wie Frankreich vor drängende Fragen. Die zunehmende politische Verwaltung des Lebens scheint sich im Kontext von Migrationsphänomenen besonders deutlich zu manifestieren, was in der Ästhetik zeitgenössischer Migrationsliteratur durch spezielle Erzähltechniken zum Ausdruck kommt. Christina Grieb-Viglialoro untersucht mit einem interdisziplinären Ansatz exemplarisch an französischsprachigen Texten, wie Literatur die Relationalität zwischen Biopolitik und Migration verhandelt und inwiefern sie einen Beitrag zu einschlägigen gesellschaftlichen Debatten leisten kann.
Digitale Stadtplanung
Authors: Schinagl Martin
Published: November 2022

Was bedeutet Digitalisierung in der Planung, wie verändern sich dadurch das Planen und der Blick auf Städte? In einer vergleichenden ethnografischen Studie untersucht Martin Schinagl aus einer raumsoziologischen Perspektive die Arbeitswelten von Stadtplaner*innen im Umgang mit digitalen Technologien. Dabei zeigt er, wie die Nutzung dieser Werkzeuge mit dem Tun der Planer*innen, der Organisation von Planungsprozessen und der Weise, wie Raumwissen konstruiert wird, zusammenhängen. Digitalisierung versteht sich so als technisiertes räumliches Anordnen sozialer Beziehungen. Sie materialisiert sich in den Orten des Planens und darin, wie Planer*innen Städte und Räume sehen, verstehen und gestalten.
Der Große Krieg der Triebe
Authors: Kühl Richard
Published: November 2022

Kein Krieg wurde sexualwissenschaftlich so intensiv erforscht wie der »Große Krieg« von 1914 bis 1918. Er fiel in eine Phase, als die »Entdeckung« des Unbewussten und die Begründung der Sexualwissenschaft als interdisziplinäres Fach erst wenige Jahre zurücklagen. Richard Kühl untersucht, wie die neuen Expert*innen im Kriegsraum ein regelrechtes Laboratorium der Triebe vorfanden und sich noch bis in die 1920er Jahre hinein mit den sozialen und kulturellen Kriegsfolgen kontrovers auseinandersetzten. Seine Analysen reichen bis in die Zeit um 1930, in der Sexolog*innen wie Magnus Hirschfeld in der »umkämpften Erinnerung« an die Materialschlachten auf eine Weise mitmischten, die das gesamte politische Spektrum beschäftigte.
Ein Bild und sein Doppelgänger
Authors: Hodde Johanna
Published: November 2022

Der berühmte Narziss des Caravaggio hält seit seiner Entdeckung die Kunstwelt in Atem und viele Fragen offen: Worin liegt seine paradigmatische Stellung als »Inbegriff des Narziss« begründet? Warum wird in ihm überhaupt Narziss erkannt, obwohl viele narrative Stränge des Mythos fehlen? Und wie kommt es in der wissenschaftlichen Rezeption zu der auffällig kontrapunktischen Interpretation des Bildes? Johanna Hodde nähert sich diesen Fragen empirisch durch eine tiefenpsychologische Exploration des Erlebensprozesses während der Bildbetrachtung sowie einer anschließenden Bildreflexion im Lichte einschlägiger Bild- und Subjekttheorien.
An approach to the biogeography of polypore fungi (Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota) in southern South America
Authors: Rajchenberg Mario
Published: November 2022

The polyporoid fungi from the Patagonian Andes forests of Argentina and Chile were analyzed from a biogeographic point of view through the optics of phylogenetic studies. A total of 72 species are accepted, including 4 that are still unpublished. Species were distributed as either Cosmopolitan (14 spp.), Antitropical (7 spp.), Pantropical + Austral-antarctic (3 spp.), Neotropical (4 spp.), South-temperate (= endemic, 28 spp.), Austral-antarctic (14 spp.) or Circum-austral (2 spp.) in distribution. They were recorded in the Valdivian province (71 spp.), but also in the Magellanic province (22 spp.) and the Maule province (21 spp.). Three species were also distributed northward in Chile and other 8 species were also found in Juan Fernández province. Almost 35% of the species are brown wood-rotting taxa, representing a relatively high percentage in the polypore funga of Patagonia as compared with other world regions; they are mostly associated with Nothofagaceae, not conifers as in the North Hemisphere. Nothophellinus proved to be the single endemic genus, Neophellinus is shown to be a sub-Amazonian genus, and Arambarria an austral genus with representatives in southern South America (south of the Tropic of Capricorn) and the Cape floristic region. For each species, a detailed account of the phylogeny is presented according to the literature, along with insights into its geographical distribution and relationships with other taxa in the genus where it is accepted. Austral lineages are highlighted at genus level (Gloeoporellus, Macrohyporia, Neolentiporus, Ryvardenia; incl. 5 species) and species level (another 12 taxa). Ongoing and completed speciation processes are pointed out. The following new combinations are proposed: Cyanosporus venatus, Neophellinus livescens and Postia exigua.
High-Order Compact Finite Difference Methods for Solving the High-Dimensional Helmholtz Equations
Authors: Wang Zhi , Ge Yongbin , Sun Hai-Wei
Published: November 2022

In this paper, the sixth-order compact finite difference schemes for solving two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) Helmholtz equations are proposed.
Firstly, the sixth-order compact difference operators for the second-order derivatives are applied to approximate the Laplace operator.
Meanwhile, with the original differential equation, the sixth-order compact difference schemes are proposed.
However, the truncation errors of the proposed scheme obviously depend on the unknowns, source function and wavenumber.
Thus, we correct the truncation error of the sixth-order compact scheme to obtain an improved sixth-order compact scheme that is more accurate.
Theoretically, the convergence and stability of the present improved method are proved.
Finally, numerical tests verify that the improved schemes are more accurate.
Error Estimates for the Numerical Approximation of Unregularized Sparse Parabolic Control Problems
Authors: Casas Eduardo , Mateos Mariano
Published: November 2022

We study the numerical approximation of a control problem governed by a semilinear parabolic problem, where the usual Tikhonov regularization term in the cost functional is replaced by a non-differentiable sparsity-promoting term.
Sociolinguistic representations of variation in Moroccan spoken Arabic: discourses, practices and internet memes
Authors: Barontini Alexandrine , Ziamari Karima
Published: November 2022

This paper explores metalinguistic representations of Moroccan Arabic, through speakers’ discourses – taken from various spontaneous recordings and interviews with Moroccan Arabic speakers, of various ages, social backgrounds, and, for the most part, living in Meknes – and humoristic images and memes mocking local accents to be found on social media. By comparing language practices and metalinguistic representations with internet memes related to language stereotypes, our objective is to highlight indexicality, iconization and rhematization, in the circulation of metalinguistic representations, especially their reproduction through copy and imitation, which is the main attribute of memes that interests us. Markers, values, meanings associated with variation constantly change and shift through speakers’ practices and discourses, interacting with language ideologies, representations and stereotypes. With that in mind, we examine metalinguistic discourses and sociolinguistic variables in parallel to each other in order to study old and new representations along with social categories such as young/old, virile/effeminate, as well as regional stereotypes.
La diglossie traversée: La littérature en tunisien et le tunisien dans la littérature
Authors: Achour Myriam
Published: November 2022

Cette étude se situe dans le prolongement des travaux se rattachant à l’examen des idéologies langagières en général et de ceux se rapportant à ces idéologies dans les espaces arabophones en particulier. Ma thèse principale consiste à montrer que si le tunisien a existé dans la littérature, la littérature tunisienne, elle, ne s’est exprimée en tunisien que récemment. Sur la base d’un riche travail de documentation portant sur les écritures en tunisien, associé à un travail de terrain anthropologique attentif aux acteurs impliqués dans ces écrits, la question de recherche consistera à interroger deux moments d’écriture en tunisien pour savoir si les écritures correspondant à ces deux moments sont portées par les mêmes idéologies langagières. En filigrane, c’est une lecture critique du concept de diglossie qui me permettra, tout au long de l’article, de soutenir mon argumentation. A la double condition de le considérer comme un concept sociologique plutôt que linguistique d’une part, et de le traverser et non pas de s’y installer pour analyser les pratiques langagières contemporaines d’autre part, il devient possible d’éclairer sous un angle différent les enjeux liés à ces pratiques.
Comparison of different global DTMs and GGMs over Sri Lanka
Authors: De Silva Weeramuni Javana Praboni , Prasanna Herath Mudiyanselage Indika
Published: November 2022

Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are real-world geographical databases that are important in studying many Earth related topics. Because the vertical accuracy of global DEMs differs across regions due to various reasons, acquiring reliable heights for a region using global height models is crucial. The objective of this study is to compare and assess the most reliable global height model for Sri Lanka. The official height system in Sri Lanka is the Mean Sea Level (MSL) based orthometric height system. In this study, the quality of ASTER, SRTM, NASADEM, MERIT, and DEMs compiled from digitized contour data of Sri Lanka was evaluated using the known heights of the Fundamental Benchmarks (FBMs) of Sri Lanka. In addition, recently published high-resolution Global Geopotential Models (GGMs) were used for the accuracy assessments of gravity related quantities computed using DEMs. The SGG-UGM-2 GGM, which showed the minimum STD and RMSE of geoid undulation difference was found as the best fit GGM over Sri Lanka. It was found that the NASADEM at its highest resolution, which gave the lowest RMSE of 2.954 m was the best global DEM for Sri Lanka.
How far westward? Revisiting the distribution of Arctonyx badgers in the westernmost global range
Authors: Akash Muntasir , Chakma Suprio , Biswas Joyanto , Ahmed Sultan , Debbarma Haris , Zakir Tania , Rahman Hasan A. , Ansary Zaber , Kabir Jahidul
Published: November 2022

Bangladesh delimits the westernmost range of Arctonyx badgers, but their presence in the country is not completely understood. The whole of Bangladesh is reportedly home to the northern hog badger (A. albogularis); however, there is no valid record to date. The greater hog badger (Arctonyx collaris), its larger congener and a globally vulnerable mustelid, has three valid records. This work, between 2001 and 2021, traced 28 records (all of A. collaris: 20 from literature review and social media, 8 from camera-trapping) in Bangladesh including four rare cases of erythrism and seven conflict incidents. All but five were from mixed evergreen forests of southeast Bangladesh, the known A. collaris range. One record was from wet deciduous forests of northern Bangladesh (bordering Meghalaya, India), a region not previously marked as an A. collaris range. In 2021, from 4436 trap-nights of sampling, 17 notionally-independent events (all night-time) were obtained. This produced the first evidence of A. collaris in northeast Bangladesh, a region that borders the Tripura Hills, India (where it was first recorded in 2020) and belongs to the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. The work proves the existence of relict populations whereas the absence of A. albogularis signifies a re-assessment of its westernmost distribution.
Personalized computational estimation of relative change in coronary blood flow after percutaneous coronary intervention in short-term and long-term perspectives
Authors: Simakov Sergey S. , Gamilov Timur M. , Danilov Alexander A. , Liang Fuyou , Chomakhidze Petr Sh. , Gappoeva Mariam K. , Rebrova Alina A. , Kopylov Philipp Yu.
Published: November 2022

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for 12.8% of all deaths. Although the clinical benefits of treating stenosis with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have been extensively demonstrated, residual myocardial ischemia remains in about 30–50% of patients even after a formally successful PCI. We apply previously developed and validated 1D model of haemodynamics, which distributes terminal hydraulic resistance based on the diameters of the parent vessels and Murray’s law by a recursive algorithm. In our new model the terminal resistance is decreased according to a transmural perfusion ratio increase. In contrast to our previous work we calculate the transmural perfusion ratio for personally defined zones. Thus, peripheral hydraulic resistance of myocardial perfusion is personalized based on patient data, whichwere extracted from computed tomography perfusion images. The model serves as a computational tool for simulating pre- to post-PCI changes in coronary haemodynamics of four patients. We simulate fractional flow reserve (FFR), coronary flow reserve (CFR), instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR), average flow in selected arteries in hyperemic and rest conditions before PCI and after PCI immediately after the surgery (in a short-term) and in a long-term (several months) perspectives. We conclude that high FFR and iFR values in short-term and long-term perspectives are not necessary correlate with CFR improvement and long-term blood flow recovery in coronary arteries.
BIOCOMPATIBLE GRAPHENE OXIDE (GO) NANOBIOSENSOR USED FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF GLUCOSE
Authors:   Department of Physics,Riphah International University Faisalabad Campus, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan, BILAL M. H. , MEHMOOD R. ,   Department of Physics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, FAKHAR-E-ALAM M. ,   Department of Physics, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan, MUNIR T. ,   Department of Physics, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan, SAADULLAH M. ,   Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan, MAHMOOD A. ,   Department of Physics, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan, MAJEED S. S. ,   Department of Physics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, GHAFAR N. ,   Department of Physics,Riphah International University Faisalabad Campus, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan, SOHAIL A. ,   Department of Physics, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan, MEHMOOD-UR-REHMAN K. ,   Department of Physics,Riphah International University Faisalabad Campus, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan
Published: November 2022

Graphene oxide (GO) nanoparticles based electrochemical nanobiosensor was developed to check the sensitivity response of biological elements. Present work is related to synthesize GO nanoparticles by Hummers method for the detection of glucose using electrochemical nanobiosensor. Two dimensional hexagonal crystal structure and crystallite size was calculated by XRD analysis and randomly crumpled like surface morphology was identified by using SEM micrograph. Furthermore, different rotational and vibrational functional groups (C-O, C=C, CO2 and C-H) attached to the layer of graphene oxide and peak shift toward longer wavelength was studied by FTIR and UVvisible spectrum. Finally, voltammetry cyclic used for sensitivity of glucose and presence of glucose was recorded in concentration of 5mM at scan rate of 50mVs-1 . In future this type of nanobiosensor used for the detection of biological element like DNA.
Circulating microRNAs associated with gestational diabetes mellitus: useful biomarkers?
Authors: Dinesen Sofie , El-Faitarouni Alisar , Dalgaard Louise T
Published: November 2022

Different types of small non-coding RNAs, especially miRNAs, may be found in the circulation, either protein-bound or enclosed in extracellular vesicles. During gestation, and particularly during gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), the levels of several miRNAs are altered. Worldwide the incidence of GDM is increasing, in part driven by the current obesity epidemic. This is a point of public health concern because offspring of women with GDM frequently suffer from short- and long-term complications of maternal GDM. This has prompted the investigation of whether levels of specific miRNA species, detected early in gestation, may be used as diagnostic or prognostic markers for the development of GDM. Here, we summarize the mechanisms of RNA secretion and review circulating miRNAs associated with GDM. Several miRNAs are associated with GDM: miR-29a-3p and miR-29b-3p are generally upregulated in GDM pregnancies, also when measured prior to the development of GDM, while miR-16-5p is consistently upregulated in GDM pregnancies, especially in late gestation. miR-330-3p in circulation is increased in late gestation GDM women, especially in those with poor insulin secretion. miR-17-5p, miR-19a/b-3p, miR-223-3p, miR-155-5p, miR-125-a/b-5p, miR-210-3p and miR-132 are also associated with GDM, but less so and with more contradictory results reported. There could be a publication bias as miRNAs identified early are investigated the most, suggesting that it is likely that additional, more recently detected miRNAs could also be associated with GDM. Thus, circulating miRNAs show potential as biomarkers of GDM diagnosis or prognosis, especially multiple miRNAs containing prediction algorithms show promise, but further studies are needed.
Percepciones y Sesgos Cognoscitivos en la Educación Básica
Authors: Santizo Rodall Claudia Alejandra
Published: November 2022

Este artículo explora la presencia de sesgos cognoscitivos en las percepciones de docentes y estudiantes con base en conceptos de la psicología de las decisiones (Kahneman, 2002; Sunstein y Thaler, 2017). El propósito es valorar el alcance de esta teoría para orientar el diseño de la política pública en educación. Este análisis no verifica esta teoría sólo analiza sus condiciones necesarias, es decir discute la naturaleza de las percepciones, y sesgos, que los docentes y estudiantes tienen de las prácticas en el aula con trascendencia para la gestión escolar. Se revisan entrevistas a docentes que provienen de estudios de caso en primarias públicas y las percepciones recabadas en la encuesta de contexto que complementa la prueba estandarizada de aprendizajes aplicada a estudiantes de 6to de primaria en México. Estos estudios y encuestas no se basan en la teoría de los sesgos por eso este artículo tiene un carácter exploratorio. Se concluye que en el sector educativo los sesgos se presentan como percepciones parciales de la realidad educativa y que éstos son relevantes para la gestión escolar y destacan perspectivas omitidas en el diseño de las políticas públicas en educación.
Diseño y Validación de un Instrumento para Analizar la Motivación para Aprender Inglés en Estudiantes de Bachillerato
Authors: Ramirez Ulises
Published: November 2022

Este trabajo describe la construcción de un instrumento de investigación para determinar la motivación bajo el Sistema Motivacional del Yo para L2 propuesto por Dörnyei (2009) al utilizar la escala de Likert de 6 puntos y adaptado al español a partir del cuestionario propuesto por Taguchi, Magid y Papi (2009). El cuestionario contó con 51 ítems y pasó por diferentes criterios de validez (claridad de las preguntas, ítems pertinentes e inteligibles), además consiguió la confiabilidad de las dimensiones con el apoyo del coeficiente Alfa de Cronbach. La versión final del instrumento fue aplicada a una muestra de 690 estudiantes de bachillerato de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), con la cual se obtuvo la confiabilidad del cuestionario (alcanzando un coeficiente Alfa de Cronbach superior a 0,7 en la mayoría de las dimensiones analizadas). Los resultados muestran que se generó un cuestionario confiable para determinar los aspectos que conforman la motivación bajo el Sistema Motivacional del Yo para L2.
Books: Morgan, G. A., Liao, H. F., & Józsa, K. (2020). Assessing Mastery Motivation in Children Using the Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ). Gödöllő: Szent István University. ISBN: 978-963-269-922-6.
Authors: Suherman Suherman
Published: November 2022

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Risk and Protective Factors in Choosing Course Sets in Secondary Education: Perspectives of Career Counsellors and Students from the Latgale Region of Latvia
Authors: Pancerko Pāvels , Pipere Anita , Kravale-Pauliņa Mārīte
Published: November 2022

This paper presents an exploratory study of the perspectives of career counsellors and students on risk and protective factors in choosing course sets in secondary education. The study, conducted in the Latgale region of Latvia, uses a qualitative research design based on a triangulation between the perspectives of school career counsellors and students. Data obtained from interviews with four career counselors and a focus group with six 15–16 year old students from urban and rural schools were analyzed using thematic analysis. The study acknowledges that school career counsellors can serve as a vital resource for Latvian society in managing and addressing the challenges of current educational reform and inequalities in education and career management caused by socioeconomic disparities.
Balansuojant tarp paidia ir ludus: kompiuteriniai žaidimai mokyklos ugdymo(si) procese
Authors: Ivanauskienė Gintė Marija
Published: November 2022

Šiuo straipsniu yra siekama aptarti kompiuterinių žaidimų dvipoliškumą (tarp žaismingumo (paidia) ir rimtumo (ludus)) – jo problematiką, ir šio bruožo suteikiamas naujas galimybes kompiuterinius žaidimus integruojant į mokymo(si) procesą bendrajame ugdyme, remiantis projekto „Dideli maži ekranai. Medijų raštingumas Lietuvos mokyklose“ atvejo studija, kuriame analizuojamos jame dalyvavusių mokytojų patirtys bei projekto dokumentai. Tyrimas parodo, jog kompiuteriniai žaidimai, nors esantys itin populiarūs mokinių tarpe, mokyklos kontekste dažniausiai yra vertinami kaip smagi atsikvėpimui skirta veikla ir retai kada yra atkreipiamas dėmesys į rimtąją kompiuterinių žaidimų pusę, galimai dėl kurios priežasties jie neturi jokios vietos Lietuvos formaliojo ugdymo procese.
The Benefits of Learning Analytics for Education: An Analysis of the Experiences of Lithuanian General Education School Teachers
Authors: Melnikova Julija , Batuchina Aleksandra , Šakytė-Statnickė Gita , Šmitienė Gražina
Published: November 2022

The article discusses the benefits of learning analytics for education: the theoretical part reveals the concept of learning analytics, discusses how learning analytics technologies help to improve the teaching / learning process. The focus is on the most important group of learning analytics beneficiaries - teachers. The benefits of learning analytics in teachers’ pedagogical work are discussed. The empirical part of the article presents the results of a qualitative study for the analysis of teachers’ experiences. The study involved 17 teachers from Lithuanian general education schools with experience in working with learning analytics tools. The semi-structured interview method allowed to gather the research participants’ insights into the use of learning analytics in Lithuanian schools from the perspective of teachers. Qualitative analysis of the content of the informants’ answers revealed teachers’ opinion on the benefits of learning analytics for teaching and learning, teachers’ competencies to work with learning analytics tools, empowering teachers to use learning analytics tools and to make data-based pedagogical decisions.
https://ispranproceedings.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1531
Authors: Shcherbakov Alexandr , Frolov Vladimir , Galaktionov Vladimir
Published: November 2022

Geometry simplification for the radiosity method is a laborious process and it is difficult to automate in the general case. As an alternative solution to this problem, this paper proposes a modification of the radiosity method using approximation called “virtual patches”. Virtual patches are elements of the geometry obtained by clustering some points of the original geometry for which the illumination is calculated. They have a normal, color and area, but do not have a geometric representation, representing a cloud of points inside the voxel. In comparison with the original radiosity method, the proposed method, without reducing the performance of calculating global illumination, increases its accuracy.
Huns and Bulgars
Authors: Kerényi Bálint
Published: November 2022

The primary aim of the article is to present a different approach in the critic of sources concerning the reconstruction of „late Hunnic” and „early Bulgaric” period of steppe history. In the last half century it became a main narrative in research, that the Bulgars, appearing around the 480's on the Balkan Peninsula, are identical with those Oguric tribes (Saragur, Ogur, Onogur), that – according to Priscus rhetor – arrived to the eastern part of the European steppe circa 463. Also it is assumed by certain authors, that in the years following the battle at Nedao river (455) the Hunnic tribes, overrun by the newcomers, fled behind the Moesian borders of the East-Roman empire and lost all the continuity of their political and ethnic existense. Analyzing however the sources providing information on this period – Jordanes' Getica, the works of Cassiodorus, Ennodius, Malalas, Procopius and others –, we can let ourselves to assume differently. Although in this article I do not deal with the questions related to early Hungarian history, it is clear enough, how important the above mentioned problem is in view of these questions as well.
Hatim, Basil (2020) Communication Across Cultures: The Linguistics of Texts in Translation
Authors: Wai-man Ng Raymond
Published: November 2022

Hatim, Basil (2020) Communication Across Cultures: The Linguistics of Texts in Translation. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. ISBN: 978-1-905816-30-9
Don’t Speak Local Languages
Authors: Manan Syed Abdul
Published: November 2022

This study demonstrates how various stakeholders’ orientations about languagein- education policy and linguistic/cultural diversity are shaped by a monolingual habitus in Pakistan. The notion of habitus originates from Bourdieu’s (1991) social theories that refers to ‘a set of dispositions which incline agents to act and react in certain ways. The dispositions generate practices, perceptions, and attitudes which are regular without being consciously coordinated or governed by any “rule”’ (p. 13). Using a mixed methodology that utilized questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, the study presents insights from students, teachers, and school principals within 11 low-fee schools in part of Pakistan. Results suggest that the respondents consider native languages economically and culturally deficient. Their dispositions are marked by linguistic commodification and linguistic shaming as they theorize English-medium policy as an ideal choice. Linguistic and cultural diversity is viewed as a challenge, whereas myths of uniformity of language and culture influence their beliefs. The respondents maintain ideological positivism, which is reflected in their unquestioned legitimization of the normative sociolinguistic order. I conclude that stakeholders have been socialized within a unified linguistic market, dominated by English or Urdu-medium policies; therefore, they envision a monolingual habitus, and fail to imagine alternative policies beyond the current language hierarchy.
Transtorno Depressivo Maior: Um Estudo Comparativo sobre Cognição Socioemocional e Funções Executivas
Authors: Mônego Bruna Gomes , Fonseca Rochele Paz , Teixeira Antônio Lúcio , Barbosa Izabela Guimarães , Souza Leonardo Cruz de , Bandeira Denise Ruschel
Published: November 2022

Resumo O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a cognição socioemocional e as funções executivas em pacientes com Transtorno Depressivo Maior unipolar. A amostra incluiu 22 pacientes entre 36 e 93 anos de idade (M = 59,32; DP = 12,89) e 23 indivíduos controles entre 30 e 81 anos de idade (M = 63,00; DP = 13,56). Além de dados demográficos, foram avaliados sintomas de ansiedade e de depressão, empatia, teoria da mente, reconhecimento de emoções, controle inibitório, flexibilidade cognitiva e fluência verbal. Não houve diferença estatística significativa entre os grupos quanto à idade e à escolaridade. Os pacientes apresentaram significativamente mais ansiedade, depressão e angústia pessoal do que os controles. Indivíduos com sintomas depressivos mais graves apresentaram menor velocidade de processamento.
Clinical Intervention in Depressive Suffering: ADI/TIP Method, Psychology and Phenomenology of Affects
Authors: Jost Maria Clara , Goto Tommy Akira
Published: November 2022

Abstract Depression itself composes, in the West, an epidemiological phenomenon constituted by neurochemical factors highlighting an eminently psychic suffering which indicates the importance of psychotherapy. Nevertheless, it becomes evident the lack of propositive researches within clinical phenomenology. Such theoretical study uses the method of bibliographical research to present the therapeutic process of the ADI / TIP Method theoretically based on the phenomenological analyzes of affections as a possibility of intervention. The enlightenment over the structures from the experiences of affective sphere allows the apprehension of the contributions of this short duration (10-15 sessions) process, whose satisfactory results / changes demonstrate transformations in both the subjective/intersubjective configurations of individuals and the comprehension of singular senses resigned to the prime affective-emotional experiences, reducing the depressive symptomatology and collaborating for the current psychological practice investigation.