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Reminiscence-Focused Music Therapy to Promote Positive Mood and Engagement and Shared Interaction for People Living With Dementia
Authors: Kelly Lisa , Ahessy Bill
Published: July 2021

Although there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that combining music therapy and reminiscence in a structured and complementary way may yield positive well-being outcomes for people with dementia, there is a gap in the literature combining both in equal measure. Furthermore, there are no known studies exploring the use of ‘associative items’ as part of the combined intervention and no known standardised protocol or method currently exists. This mixed methods study aims to explore whether combining music therapy and reminiscence with associative items for people with dementia may promote positive mood and engagement levels and shared interaction through (a) musical expression, (b) reminiscence and (c) verbal interaction. Five weekly reminiscence-focused music therapy (RFMT) sessions with associative items were conducted with a group of five people with dementia living in a residential care unit. Results from the Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) revealed that the RFMT intervention was highly effective in promoting positive mood and engagement levels and shared interaction. Participants exhibited considerable positive mood and engagement (+3) 51.6%, and high positive mood and engagement (+5) 38.2%, of the total time observed. The three most frequent behaviours across the five RFMT sessions included musical expression, which was observed 53.2% of the time, reminiscence, observed 23% of the time, and verbal interaction, observed 34% of the total time observed. Data from the music therapist’s reflective journal and session summaries revealed that the associative items prompted reality orientation, verbal interaction, and cognitive stimulation. The music elements were found to increase group cohesion, stimulate cognition, and act as an anchor, re-orientating group members intermittently. Implications of practice are considered, and future recommendations of practice are outlined.
Kelly Meashey
Authors: Eyre Lillian
Published: July 2021

This is a book review of The Use of Voice in Music Therapy by Kelly Meashey published in 2020.
An Online Social Network model through Twitter to build a social perception variable to measure the violence in Mexico
Authors: Suárez Gutiérrez Manuel , Sánchez Cervantes José Luis , Paredes Valverde Mario Andrés
Published: July 2021

This paper describes the methodology and the model that used in Twitter to create an indicator that allows us to denote a social perception about violence, a topic of high impact in Mexico. We investigated and validated the keywords that Mexicans used related to this topic, in a specific time-lapse defined by the researchers. We implemented two analysis levels, the first one relative to the sum of tweets, and the second one with a rate of total tweets per 100,000 inhabitan
ENERMONGRID: Intelligent Energy Monitoring, Visualization and Fraud Detection for Smart Grids
Authors: Lagares Lemos Miguel , Pérez Gallardo Yuliana , Lagares Lemos Ángel , Gómez Berbís Juan Miguel
Published: July 2021

The current obsolete electricity network is being transformed into net an advanced, digitalized and more efficient one known as Smart Grid. The deployment of an Automatic Metering Infrastructure will make an unseen quantity of rich information available in near real-time, processed to make decisions for the optimal energy production, generation, distribution, and consumption. This document presents an analysis of the ENERMONGRID tool, a tool used for intelligent energy monitoring, data visualization and fraud detection in electric networks.
The Mediating Roles of Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction in the Effect of Career Satisfaction on Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Authors: RENÇBER İbrahim , KOPARAL Celil
Published: July 2021

This study aims to examine whether organizational commitment and job satisfaction have mediating roles in the effect of career satisfaction on organizational citizenship behavior. The study was carried out on white-collar workers who were chosen through convenience sampling from private sector companies operating in İzmir/Kemalpaşa Organized Industrial Zone, Turkey. The data from 308 employees were analyzed via structural equation modeling techniques at the IBM Amos 24 statistical program. The results indicated that career satisfaction had a positive effect on the sportsmanship, courtesy, and altruism dimension of organizational citizenship behavior. Also, it was found that job satisfaction and only affective commitment had mediating roles in this relationship.
On the Formation of the Axiological Content of the Spatiotemporal Structure of Human Existence
Authors:   Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russian Federation, Politov Andrei
Published: July 2021

The author considers the foundations of the origin and formation of the axiological content of the spatiotemporal structure of human existence. The object of the research is a human being and culture at the turn of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. The theoretical and methodological foundation combines a number of approaches characteristic of the social humanities: the scientific research program of cultural centrism aimed at understanding the complex subject of social and humanitarian problems and allowing to reveal and describe its unique, individually expressed properties; the relational concept of time and space, according to which the latter exist only in mutual connection with objects and, therefore, in inseparable unity with human being; dialectical model, within the framework of which the universe is an integral organic evolving process, all structural elements of which are dialectically interconnected; the theory of chronotope affirms the immanent unity of time and space. All that has been noted makes it possible, within the framework of the presented study, to interpret space and time as a complexly structured evolving multilevel chronotopological organization immanent to human being. Human existence appears as a temporal component of the chronotopological structure, and the spatial axis of the latter is the locus of human existence and the world around a person. The value content of human space and time arises and receives its development according to their relational essence, due to their inextricable dialectical relationship with human existence. The evolution of space and time is inseparable from the evolution of human being, is an integral component of his existence, which appears as personal, aesthetic and value development, experiencing the world around him, existentially and ethically determined communication with him. Forming and evolving together with a person, time and space not only act as accidents and modes of his being, but become his value-structured life-world, interconnected with the social and cultural spheres.
Russian Enlightenment as a Source of National Philosophy Formation
Authors:   Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management, Russian Federation, Kokovin Ivan
Published: July 2021

The study is devoted to the philosophical understanding of the problem of the cultural origins of Russian philosophy. In the author’s opinion, the source of diversity of modern approaches to the phenomenon of Russian Philosophy is, first of all, the absence of a unified methodological approach. The diversity of research on the phenomenon of the Russian philosophy origins is also a consequence of research susceptibility to certain methodological influences. The paper aims to identify a number of philosophical, historical, literary approaches to the problem of the genesis of the eighteenth century Russian Enlightenment. It is necessary to clarify the mechanisms and procedures for the reception of Western European ideas and concepts by Russian Enlightenment during the eighteenth century. On the basis of adaptation of natural law terms, the author considers certain trends in the theory of reconstruction of the Enlightenment phenomenon in Russia. He reveals a number of significant features of the process of reconstruction of the Enlightenment ideology formation on Russian soil, including the idea that European concepts and theories are assimilated by the domestic semiosphere in the form in which they existed in the culture of the West. The author highlights the idea, that researchers were convinced that Russia of the XVIII century already had a national philosophy. The paper also draws attention to the lack of analytical interest in the problems of transformation of the language of expression of political phenomena. In the same row, there is also the idea that the process of reception of the enlightenment heritage of the West had a revolutionary, not an evolutionary, specificity, and was devoid of cultural prerequisites. Basing on the material of historical and historical-philosophical studies, the author considers the possibilities of constructing a methodologically integral reconstruction, chronologically covering the entire period of the XVIII century. The research methodology is based on the approach that includes an analytical description of the problems of the thematic fields of discourse, concepts and theories of the Enlightenment on the Russian soil. The result of the analysis is the systematization of contradictions in the process of analyzing the phenomena of the Russian Enlightenment in the XVIII century.
The “Turkish Ideal” in the Philosophy of Ziya Gökalp
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation, Zhigulskaya Darya
Published: July 2021

Topic: The philosophy and views on the process of nation building of Ziya Gökalp – the revolutionary ideologist of Turkish nationalism and one of the founding fathers of Kemalism, who played a key role in the articulation of Turkish national identity in the early 20th century. It is hard to overestimate his impact on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: the founder of the Turkish Republic described Gökalp as the “father of my thoughts”. Gökalp’s ideas come together in the concept of the “Turkish ideal” or “mefkure” (Turk. mefkûre). The principle of “mefkure” was subsequently adopted by the majority of nationalist thinkers. Methodology: Contextual analysis of sources on the research topic; historical comparativism; synthesis and generalization of factual material. Results of the study: Ziya Gökalp’s ideas were focused on the transition from the multinational Ottoman state to a national state and the promulgation of the Turkish Republic. They were largely derived from the philosophy of Émile Durkheim, including idealist epistemology, positivist methodology and solidarist corporatism - together known as positivist idealism. Gökalp’s ideas can be summarized as cultural Turkism, ethical Islamism and Durkheimian solidarism. Gökalp succeeded in synthesizing different philosophical approaches, while avoiding eclectic mixing of ideas. Conclusions: Gökalp’s nationalism was heavily influenced by the West, though he tried to withstand this influence. The romantic principle of the “Turkish ideal” largely reiterates the concept of Volksgeist (German: “spirit of the people”) characteristic of German nationalism. Gökalp’s works clearly illustrate one of the key internal problems of Turkish nationalism – the question of how to restore national self-respect, which had been undermined by the prolonged decline of the Ottoman state and its stature in the eyes of the West. Gökalp’s philosophy clearly links the Young Turk ideology with the Atatürk regime. But in the course of his life, Gökalp’s views underwent significant changes, as he gradually turned away from the principles of the 1908-1909 revolution (constitutional monarchy, Ottomanism, Islamic reformism etc.) and laid the theoretical foundations of Kemalism and the modern Turkish state.
How Second (L2) and Heritage (HL) Language Learners Can Draw on Existing Knowledge to Overcome Common Discourse Issues in Spanish Compositions
Authors: Ryan John M. , Parra-Guinaldo Víctor
Published: July 2021

Student error analysis is an area of investigation that can shed light on how students learn. It can also serve as a pedagogical tool to increase students’ awareness of the most common types of errors to avoid. Quality of student output, however, isn’t solely determined by the number of errors students make, but also the extent to which students successfully employ certain other discourse-related strategies to improve their compositions. This paper argues that, aside from grammatical concerns, and at least from a discourse point of view, students already possess much of the knowledge they need in order to write better compositions. Both second (L2) and heritage (HL) learners of Spanish typically already possess some advanced writing skills in English, but we have observed that when attempting to write in Spanish, many of these same students will resort to more remedial means of presenting and/or expressing their ideas. In other words, unaware that so many discourse skills are transferable from English to Spanish, students will not necessarily apply the same strategies, or at least to the same degree, as they would if writing a similar essay in English. This paper, therefore, provides ten tips that students can draw on to improve both the presentation and expression of their ideas in compositions. Recommendations are divided into two categories, the first being aspects a student should always keep in mind when approaching any piece of writing, while the second are negative tendencies that are quite common, but which a student should necessarily avoid.
Implementation of E-Learning for ESP in Tourism During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Authors: Ginaya Gede , Somawati Ni Putu , Mataram I Gusti Agung Bagus
Published: July 2021

Covid-19 has been declared a global pandemic by WHO. This affects all aspects of human life, including education. The entire teaching and learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic was carried out online or by implementing e-learning. The online system of study intends to avoid human contact. This study aims to look at the media used to implement e-learning, considerations in choosing e-learning media, as well as the advantages and disadvantages found in implementing e-learning. There are six English lecturers who teach Tourism English at Tourism Department of Bali State Polytechnic. The data used in this study were obtained from questionnaires distributed online. The data is then analyzed by looking for a percentage and describing it.
The Representation of Chineseness in Eat Drink Man Woman
Authors: Zhou Mengjie
Published: July 2021

Eat Drink Man Woman, well-known as the last episode of “Father-Knows-Best” trilogy directed by Ang Lee, is attractive to numerous scholars following its nomination of Oscar. Through comparative studies, voluminous critics have devoted to the theme of globalization and cultural identity. However, few scholars notice that cultural identity as a sign of national image experiences a series of transformations. Therefore, this article mainly probes how the transformation of cultural identity changes the ideological component of national memory that contributes to nurturing the Chinese national identity. Father’ s image and daughters’ role are prominently represented in the film, particularly father’s psychological changes in some sense projecting the transformation of traditional ideology. Thus, combined with historic background this article will set about the transformation of father’s role and daughter’s image which predicate the deconstruction of traditional gender discourse, trying to figure out how does the transformed ideology expressed through the deconstruction of gender discourse contribute to the reconstruction of Chinese national identity.
Mood in Language: A Lexico-syntactic Analysis of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Covid-19 Sensitisation SMS
Authors: Ogunrinde Ebenezer Deji , Ajenifari Joshua Taiwo
Published: July 2021

Using data from widely circulated SMSes from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), this paper provides a lexical-syntactic analysis of language use by a government agency during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. The framework used for the analysis is dyadic, encompassing tenets from semantic theory (which deals extensively with lexical choices as well as the determination of the meanings attached to them) and Systemic Functional Grammar. The analysis reveals that a writer’s selection of lexical items in a particular text is a reflection of his mood. This plays a significant and important role in the writer’s arrangement of the lexical items into peculiar sentence patterns in the text. Mood which is a system at the deep structure of Systemic Functional Grammar determines, to a very large extent, the language a writer employs in a text. Repetition in NCDC COVID-19 sensitisation messages is used to emphasize the importance of such words. It is meant to further convince the general public that only self-efforts or actions can prevent the spread of COVID-19 as majority of the repeated words are action stimulated words (verbs).
Language and Manipulation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of All Progressive Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) War of Words
Authors: Krisagbedo Ebere Celina , Eze Jacinta Ukamaka , Mamah Jacinta Ginika
Published: July 2021

This paper examines the crucial role language plays in manipulating the act of discourse comprehension as a means of constructing mental models meant to effect mind control against the people’s best interests. To achieve this, the study utilises the rich resources of critical discourse analysis (CDA) precisely, the socio-cognitive framework, to analyse media political discourse within the Nigerian context. A number of discourses that hinge on the APC and PDP’s war of words over the issue of corruption extracted from the online editions of Nigerian newspapers constitute the data used for the study. The result of the data analysis indicates that Nigerian politicians consciously indulge in positive self-presentation and negative-other presentation by making use of the ideological square in the portrayal of self for the sole purpose of imposing their ideological designs on the entire populace in order to gain political dominance. Through the ideological square, each of the political parties aims at emphasizing the positive sides of its actions and the negative aspects of the other party while de-emphasizing its negative activities and the positive sides of the other through the use of manipulative language. Such manipulative use of language disables the people’s critical thinking for the manipulators’ benefit.
A Study of Modern Chinese Typological Characteristics From the Perspective of Linguistic Typology
Authors: Du Dan , Chen Wei
Published: July 2021

Based on Greenberg (1965), Dixon (2014), Liu (2017) and Lu and Jin (2015), this article analyzes and interprets the modern Chinese typological characteristics from the perspective of linguistic typology such as the language types, word order type, syntactic type, type of argument configuration, tense-aspect type and so on.
The Binary Road of George Farquhar in The Beaux’ Stratagem
Authors: Jamil Adil M.
Published: July 2021

The Beaux’ Stratagem is a phenomenal play in all measures. Since its first performance on stage in 1707, it has proved that its magnetic appeal to audiences of different periods has never lost its charm. It ever continues providing gusts of laughter and a profound debate of everlasting sensitive issues on stage. This study endeavors to unravel the factors behind its magnetic appeal, at the same to shed light upon the comic devices standing behind its unprecedented success. The Beaux’ Stratagem was written at a time when the early attraction of wit, risqué language, rakish behavior of gallants, and exposure of female frailties have been worn out and lost their magnitude. At the dawn of the 18th Century, the theater-goers were fed up with the Comedy of Manners, Farce, and Intrigues. and looking for something different. More possibly, Farquhar made out that the audience wanted to feel rather than to think; thus he curbed a natural bent toward wit and tried to engage a more sentimental side in his plays. However, the Beaux’ Stratagem did not completely split with the traditions common during the declining period; it blended them with the new overriding vogues of sentimental and exemplary comedy. As a result, Farquhar’s play came out as an amazing hybrid, coupling the two norms into one design, and producing a dramatic admixture that sounds more typical and better than the ones encountered in the plays of his predecessors and contemporaries.
Definiciones del concepto de «religión» en el marco de las relaciones de poder modernas
Authors: Sarrazin Jean Paul
Published: July 2021

En este artículo se examinan las implicaciones políticas de los usos y sentidos del concepto de «religión» manifiestos en medios académicos e institucionales. Para ello se presenta una revisión de algunas de las principales definiciones del concepto provistas por las ciencias sociales, las cuales son analizadas críticamente y teniendo en cuenta sus consecuencias en el contexto moderno de relaciones de poder. La investigación identifica cinco tipos de presupuestos presentes en estas definiciones: a) la religión se concibe por oposición a la secularidad, b) se la imagina bajo una forma institucionalizada, c) que se expresa como un conjunto de creencias, d) las cuales son un asunto privado y e) que tienen por objeto seres o fuerzas sobrenaturales. Se concluye que lo que hoy se entiende por «religión» no puede desligarse de procesos de legitimación y de dominación, y que utilizar el término para clasificar ciertas expresiones culturales puede opacar sus particularidades y excluirlas del debate público.
Realidad social y narconovelas. Perspectivas de la violencia en jóvenes de la Comuna 13 de Medellín
Authors: Orozco Macías Andrés Fernando
Published: July 2021

Esta investigación busca analizar la perspectiva de 48 jóvenes de la Comuna 13 de la ciudad de Medellín sobre la violencia a partir del ámbito social en el que viven y las narconovelas que visualizan en televisión. Se desarrolló la discusión sobre cuál es el papel de la televisión en la formación social de los jóvenes. Para el análisis de perspectivas se optó por el modelo cualitativo de grupos focales, el cual permitió el contraste y debate sobre estos ámbitos de análisis. Se cuestionó el panorama que pretende sostener que la televisión influye sobre los comportamientos y se vinculó a la relación histórica y social de la violencia que produce el microtráfico, las bandas organizadas y la justicia por mano propia, estableciendo correlaciones con la realidad social y no una influencia para actuar como tal.
Reseña crítica. Francisco Cortés Rodas. (2020). Del arte de la paz. Reflexiones filosóficas sobre justicia transicional. Bogotá, D. C.: Siglo del Hombre.
Authors: Giusti Miguel
Published: July 2021

El libro Del arte de la paz. Reflexiones filosóficas sobre justicia, del conocido filósofo colombiano Francisco Cortés Rodas, es una valiosa contribución al debate sobre justicia transicional, teniendo siempre como punto de referencia el caso colombiano, pero situándolo en el contexto de las discusiones contemporáneas interdisciplinarias sobre justicia, memoria, perdón, derechos humanos y jurisprudencia internacional. La alusión en el título al «arte» de la paz es una referencia clara al sentido pragmático y prudencial de la propuesta de su autor, quien no se restringe a consideraciones meramente teóricas, sino que trata de aterrizarlas a contextos específicos que demandan soluciones concretas que no están exentas de controversia. Es mucho lo que se puede aprender de este libro.
La implementación del Programa Nacional Integral de Sustitución de Cultivos de Uso Ilícito (PNIS) en Antioquia. Un balance de sus primeros tres años
Authors: Restrepo Parra Adrián Raúl , Valencia Agudelo Germán Darío
Published: July 2021

El Acuerdo Final, suscrito entre el Gobierno de Colombia y las FARC-EP en el punto cuatro sobre Solución a las Drogas Ilícitas, abordó a los cultivadores de coca, marihuana y amapola. Respecto al eslabón de los cultivadores, el Acuerdo propuso la implementación del Programa Nacional Integral de Sustitución de Cultivos de Uso Ilícito (PNIS). Este artículo toma los componentes centrales de este programa para dar cuenta de la implementación en sus primeros tres años (2017-2019) en el departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. Para ello se analizan los datos producidos por los principales agentes veedores y verificadores del Acuerdo Final y se muestra cómo el PNIS ha sufrido serias transformaciones, además enfrenta dificultades de seguridad de los líderes, que dejan serios cuestionamientos sobre las posibilidades de lograr la consolidación de la paz en los territorios.
Sociedades precarias. Sobre la relevancia de la precariedad en las sociedades contemporáneas
Authors: Julian-Vejar Dasten
Published: July 2021

A escala global, las sociedades se encuentran sujetas a una colonización económica capitalista que centra como dinámica de coordinación la competencia, la aceleración y la desigualdad. La convergencia y expansión de este proceso involucra el ejercicio de una serie de prácticas, ensamblajes e instituciones, generando nuevas violencias, expulsiones y una actualización de las relaciones de poder. A partir del reconocimiento de este escenario, en este artículo se realiza un balance de la importancia que ha cobrado la precariedad y la precarización en las sociedades contemporáneas, considerando una perspectiva situada en Latinoamérica respecto al curso global de este proceso. Se analiza una serie de referencias y enfoques vinculados a la emergencia de la precariedad, proponiendo la definición de «sociedades precarias», las cuales sintetizan la convergencia de nuevos regímenes de gobierno, la estructura social de clases y los modelos de dominación precedentes.
Conceptions of patient safety through the prism of social representations of intensive care nurses
Authors: Barreto Rejane Santos , Servo Maria Lúcia Silva , Vilela Alba Benemérita Alves , Fontoura Elaine Guedes , Souza Sinara de Lima , Santana Neuranides
Published: July 2021

Objective. To analyze the concepts of patient safety from the perspective of the social representations of intensive care nurses.

Methods. An exploratory, qualitative and quantitative study, based on the Theory of Social Representations, was conducted in a large hospital in northeastern Brazil, with 20 intensive care nurses. Data collection took place in 2019, using the techniques of free word association test and semi-structured interview. The lexicons apprehended in the test were processed by the OpenEvoc software, by prototypical analysis of the evocations, and for the interview data, thematic content analysis was used.

Results. In the composition of the central nucleus, the elements of surveillance, knowledge, identification, communication, and quality stood out, and in the constitution of the peripheral system of the social representations of intensive care nurses permeate care, attention, attitudes, and normative aspects. The triangulation of the findings outlined three thematic categories: Central dimensions of critical patient safety; Attitudinal dimensions for patient safety in intensive care; Normative dimensions linked to the safe handling of the patient in the ICU.

Conclusion. The social representations of intensive care nurses reveal that the critical patient's conceptions of security involve effective surveillance and communication, promotion of a safe environment based on risk prevention, use of guides and protocols, teamwork, and the sense of responsibility and commitment to individuality of being cared for, elements that for this social group, are the differential for assertive and safe care.
Does a “russian philosophy” exist? The boundaries and nature of a question
Authors: Oppo A.
Published: July 2021

The issue of the existence of a peculiarly “Russian” philosophy has long been the object of many debates, which soon led to very different and often opposite conclusions. The question is always the same: Is there an original contribution that Russian authors made to philosophy, in the same way as with literature, arts, and sciences? What happened to Greek/Western philosophy when cultivated in “Russian soil”? In order to answer these questions, it is necessary to first carry out a brief examination of the never-obvious issue of “what being a philosopher means”, i.e. of what generally distinguishes an intellectual who claims to be a “philosopher” from other kinds of intellectuals or scholars. After this short but necessary premise, this article will try to sum up some of the classic and modern definitions of Russian philosophy (from Chaadaev to Evlampiev) and conclude by proposing a personal idea about an overarching frame of Russian philosophical thought. In my opinion, the latter mostly originates from a peculiar reception in Russia of Platonism, Idealism and Marxism that ultimately transformed those views, especially during the Silver Age, into a sort of “integral gnoseology”, which connects “logos” and “life” in a specifically dialectical way that can be described, pour cause, as “Russian”. This “integral gnoseology” ultimately conjoins science and humanism in an original way and is capable of opening up to discreet phenomena and to multiple levels of knowledge.
The Apophatic Dimension of Color in B. Zaitsev's Stories “Mist” and “White Light”: Its Ontological and Cultural Aspects
Authors: Dudareva M.A.
Published: July 2021

This article is timed to coincide with the 140th anniversary of the birth of the Russian writer B. Zaitsev and it is devoted to the apophatic dimension of Russian artistic culture, namely, the phenomenon of color in the stories “Mist” and “White Light”, which are included in the collection “White Light” (1922). The works are analyzed from a cultural-philosophical point of view. The research object in its widest sense is the apophatic dimension of verbal culture, manifested through a thanatological discourse and liminal states of the heroes, expressed by the author through a special color. Death is a priori apophatic, but this does not mean that its meaning cannot be approached. The focus is on the colors “white” and “black”, which are used by Zaitsev in a dominant and symbolic sense: white correlates with Light, and black – with Darkness. Both colors are considered from cultural-philosophical positions not only as achromatic, but also as apophatic: black enters into a paradigmatic relationship with white, spiritualizing it – to use the terms of the anthroposophical teaching, known to the writer. The ontogermeneutical reconstruction of the ethos of life and death in these stories allows us to approach the apophatic horizon of Russian verbal culture. This study gives the reader a holistic cultural and philosophical understanding of the phenomenon of color in the stories of B. Zaitsev. The main images, their nature and functions in the work are discussed. The results obtained may be of interest both to cultural scientists for the subsequent social and philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of color, and to philologists studying the poetics of B. Zaitsev.
Social Investment Policies in the EU: Actively Concrete or Passively Abstract?
Authors: Umbach Gaby , Tkalec Igor
Published: July 2021

Against the historical-conceptual background of EU social policy and evolutionary governance, this article analyses the approach with which the EU propagates social investment policies. Social investment, understood as an active rather than passive way of social protection, has become a salient instrument for reinvigorating the EU’s social dimension, especially in the aftermath of the sovereign debt crisis. By means of a large-scale document analysis, we develop four EU social investment propagation approaches (reference, objective, tool, and action) according to how active (passive) and concrete (abstract) the EU’s intervention in social investment is. The results show that the EU mainly propagates social investment with an active approach, i.e., policy recommendations targeted at national governments. In terms of substance, the EU’s treatment of social investment is based on labour activation policies backed by skills development and job search support policies, which is consistent with the main purpose of social investment.
Mitigating Pro-Poor Housing Failures: Access Theory and the Politics of Urban Governance
Authors: Mielke Katja , Cermeño Helena
Published: July 2021

Looking at evolving urban governance and planning practices in the city of Lahore, Pakistan, the article aims to understand—from an Evolutionary Governance Theory perspective—to what extent these practices steer paths and modes of service provision and housing for low-income residents. With a focus on the endurance and transformations of urban governance practices and institutions, we first explore the influence of the changing development discourse and the impact it has had on the (re)configuration of urban governance and housing policies in Lahore. Second, drawing on extensive fieldwork and empirical data collected between 2012 and 2016, we highlight three vignettes depicting the development of different housing options for low-income residents in Lahore, i.e., a government-steered subsidised housing scheme, a privately developed ‘pro-poor’ settlement in the peri-urban fringe of the city, and residential colonies already—or in the process of being—regularised. By analysing the relationship between governance frameworks, the establishment of the three types of settlements and how residents manage to access housing and services there, we demonstrate how purposive deregulation in governance and policy generates a disconnect between urban normative frameworks (i.e., urban planning tools and pro-poor housing policies) and residents’ needs and everyday practices. We argue that this highly political process is not exclusively path-dependent but has also allowed the creation of liminal spaces based on agency and collective action strategies of low-income residents.
Policy Assemblages and Policy Resilience: Lessons for Non-Design from Evolutionary Governance Theory
Authors: Hartley Kris , Howlett Michael
Published: July 2021

Evolutionary governance theory (EGT) provides a basis for holistically analyzing the shifting contexts and dynamics of policymaking in settings with functional differentiation and complex subsystems. Policy assemblages, as mixes of policy tools and goals, are an appropriate unit of analysis for EGT because they embody the theory’s emphasis on co-evolving elements within policy systems. In rational practice, policymakers design policies within assemblages by establishing objectives, collecting information, comparing options, strategizing implementation, and selecting instruments. However, as EGT implies, this logical progression does not always materialize so tidily—some policies emerge from carefully considered blueprints while others evolve from muddled processes, laissez faire happenstance, or happy accident. Products of the latter often include loosely steered, unmoored, and ‘non-designed’ path dependencies that confound linear logic and are understudied in the policy literature. There exists the need for a more intricate analytical vocabulary to describe this underexplored ‘chaotic’ end of the policy design spectrum, as conjuring images of ‘muddles’ or ‘messes’ has exhausted its usefulness. This article introduces a novel metaphor for non-design—the bird nest—to bring studies of policy design and non-design into lexical harmony.
Percussive-Abrasive Stone Tools from Chagyrskaya Cave: Results of Functional Analysis
Authors:   Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Seletsky M. V. , Fedorchenko A. Y. ,   Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chistyakov P. V. ,   Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Markin S. V. ,   Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kolobova K. A. ,   Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Published: July 2021

В статье представлены результаты комплексного исследования каменных ударно-абразивных орудий активного действия из Чагырской пещеры с использованием экспериментально-трасологического и статистического методов, дополненных 3D-моделированием. Проведенные эксперименты в сочетании с трасологическим анализом позволили определить функции этих орудий путем сопоставления рабочих зон и следов утилизации на инструментах в полученной эталонной и археологической коллекциях. В результате выявлено 19 ретушеров, четыре отбойника для обработки минерального сырья и один для расщепления кости, что свидетельствует о доминировании в каменной индустрии Чагырской пещеры вторичной обработки над первичным расщеплением. С помощью статистического анализа прослежены различия в размерности манупортов и исследуемых орудий. Указанные артефакты не только являются перспективным и недооцененным источником информации для идентификации хозяйственно-трудовых операций, связанных с обработкой камня и кости, но и могут предоставить новые данные о функциональной принадлежности стоянок и мобильности древних гоминин.
Comparative Analysis of Developmental Levels of Mental Abilities in Modern Preschoolers and Their Peers Who Attended Kindergartens in the Last Third of the Twentieth Century
Authors: Denisenkova N.S. , Fyodorov V.V.
Published: July 2021

The article describes results of a study on the level of mental abilities in mod- ern children and in their peers from the last third of the 20th century. It was assumed that the mental abilities of modern preschoolers differ from those of their peers who were brought up in the pre-digital era. Developmental levels of sensory and intellectual abilities of preschool children aged 6-7 years (N=156) (studies from the 1970s), preschool children aged 5-6 years (N=100) (studies from the 1990s) were compared to those of children aged 5-6 years (N=184) and children aged 6-7 years (N=236) who attended preschool departments in Moscow, Moscow region, Smolensk and Ivanovo in 2015-2020. The level of development of sensory and intellectual abilities was assessed using specific tests (“Standards”, “Perceptual modeling”, “Schematization”, “Systematization”). The data was processed using statistical methods: descriptive statistics, the Fisher test, the Student’s t-test for samples with equal variances and samples with different variances. The results of the study show that the level of some sensory abilities of 21st-century preschoolers is lower than that of their 20th-century peers. On the other side, the level of intellectual abilities of preschoolers who were brought up in the early 21st century is higher than that of their peers from the 20th century.
PROGRAMA DE SANEAMENTO DA BACIA DA ESTRADA NOVA: A PERMANÊNCIA DE POLÍTICAS HIGIENISTAS NO PARÁ
Authors: De Oliveira Costa Ana Izabelle , Da Silva Gonçalves Cristiane , Cardoso Andrade Gabriela , Araújo Queiroz Isabelle , Maria dos Santos Dias Daniella
Published: July 2021

O presente artigo é resultado de análise de algumas operações realizadas pelo Programa de Saneamento da Bacia da Estrada Nova (Promaben) implementado na Região Metropolitana de Belém, desde 2015, visando promover intervenções de macro e micro drenagem nos principais canais dessa bacia. Nesse sentido, indagou-se: em que medida o reassentamento realizado pelo Programa de Saneamento da Bacia da Estrada Nova (Promaben), na cidade de Belém (PA), revela a permanência de políticas higienistas de saneamento urbano? A partir de análises bibliográficas e documentais, verificou-se que a discrepância entre a proposta apresentada pela Prefeitura Municipal de Belém e a real aplicação do projeto denotam a perpetuação de desigualdades estruturais observadas durante a história de organização urbana no Brasil. Além disso, constatou-se um verdadeiro descaso em relação à manutenção das dinâmicas e estratégias de sobrevivência locais, uma vez que o planejamento urbano fora elaborado a partir de um ponto de vista estritamente técnico e sanitarista.
MOTIVAÇÃO E HABILIDADES SOCIAIS NO CONTEXTO DO BEACH TENNIS
Authors: Garcia Barros Natalia , Mendes de Lima Aline , Fiorese Lenamar
Published: July 2021

Este estudo objetivou analisar a motivação e habilidades sociais em atletas de beach tennis. Participaram da pesquisa 72 atletas da modalidade, sendo 38 mulheres e 34 homens, com média de idade de 35,85 (± 12,17) anos, praticantes de beach tennis em Maringá/PR. Os dados foram analisados pelos Testes Kolmogorov Smirnov, U de Mann Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis e coeficiente de correlação de Spearman, adotando-se p
A LICENCIATURA EM QUÍMICA DE UM INSTITUTO FEDERAL: RACIONALIDADES FORMATIVAS SOB ANÁLISE
Authors: Fonseca Carlos Ventura , Hesse Fernanda Bianca , Ely Jardim Jackle Lauro , Prazeres Reppold Danielle
Published: July 2021

Este trabalho relata a pesquisa sobre o curso de Licenciatura em Química (que iniciou suas atividades no ano de 2015) do campus de um instituto federal situado no Rio Grande do Sul. Trata-se de um estudo de caso qualitativo, baseado em fonte documental e nos dados obtidos pela aplicação de questionários a docentes e discentes do curso. Busca-se investigar quais são os afastamentos ou as aproximações do curso investigado (em termos de concepção curricular e práticas formativas que são proporcionadas, suas racionalidades subjacentes) em relação a outros cursos de licenciatura (que possuem tempo de existência maior), com características já explicitadas/ criticadas pela literatura acadêmica. Foi utilizada a análise de conteúdo para categorização dos dados textuais obtidos e adotada a escala Likert, em perguntas feitas aos sujeitos. Os dados curriculares obtidos revelam espaço majoritário para disciplinas que abordam conhecimentos específicos de Química, indicando uma possível predominância de processos transmissivos de conteúdos, sem que sejam previstas formas efetivas de articulação com conhecimentos pedagógicos (típicos do magistério). Contudo, as respostas fornecidas pelos sujeitos, representantes do curso, também mostram que são valorizados aspectos práticos e críticos na formação proporcionada. Ao final, são apontados alguns desafios emergentes deste trabalho, pertinentes ao tema da formação docente nos institutos federais e à área de Educação em Ciências da Natureza.
Centroid-moment tensor solutions for 35 earthquakes in Western North America (1977-1983)
Authors: Ekström Göran , Dziewonski Adam M.
Published: July 2021

Seismic records from the GDSN (SRO, ASRO, DWWSSN, RSTN) and IDA networks were used to obtain long-period (T > 45 sec) focal mechanisms for 35 earthquakes in Western North America (longitude: −140° to −110°; latitude: +30° to +60°) employing the centroid-moment tensor method of Dziewonski et al. (1981) and Dziewonski and Woodhouse (1983). The same algorithm was applied to all events, the smallest (M0 = 6.4 × 1023 dyne-cm) being an aftershock to the 1979 Imperial Valley, California, earthquake and the largest (M0 = 8.5 × 1026 dyne-cm), the 1980 Eureka, California, earthquake. All events were analyzed with and without the constraint Mrθ = Mrφ = 0 on the moment tensor; an ad hoc criterion on the relative variance reduction was employed to determine a favored solution. Our solutions show general agreement with other published results, as well as with tectonic structures. Agreement with results obtained using the abundant local and regional data confirms the adequacy of the method in determining long-period source parameters and verifies its applicability in regions where local and regional data are scarce or nonexistent.

In some cases, disagreement between our solution and results from first motion studies appears to be related to source complexities. Our moment tensor represents the total stress release of the composite event.

A consistent westward movement of the centroid locations reflects lateral heterogeneities in the crust and mantle.
Coupling of ocean bottom seismometers to sediment: Results of tests with the U.S. Geological Survey ocean bottom seismometer
Authors: Trehu Anne M.
Published: July 2021

The response of an ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) to a transient pull that excites the natural OBS-sediment coupling resonance can be modeled as a mass-spring-dashpot system in which the resonant frequency and damping are functions of instrument mass and bearing radius and of the physical properties of the sediment (primarily the shear modulus). For the very soft sediments sometimes found on the sea floor, this resonance may be within the main frequency band of interest (2 to 15 Hz) for many common instrument configurations. To test the model and to find an anchor that would shift the coupling resonance to a higher frequency and decrease its amplitude, we conducted a series of tests which measured the response of the vertical and horizontal components of the U.S. Geological Survey OBS to transient pulls as a function of anchor configuration and sediment properties. The tested anchors included a concrete “flowerpot,” a tripod, a plate, and a perforated plate. Sites were on soft, organic-rich ooze and on firm sand. Several small shots were also fired at the ooze site in order to compare the response of the plate and “flowerpot” anchors to seismic signals. For a given anchor at a given site, the observed response was very repeatable. We found that the model predicts the vertical coupling response quite well and that good vertical coupling can be achieved with the plate or perforated-plate anchors. The response to the horizontal pulls, however, was similar and resonant for all anchors.
Focal mechanism analyses for Virginia earthquakes (1978-1984)
Authors: Munsey Jeffrey W. , Bollinger G. A.
Published: July 2021

Focal mechanisms are presented for 11 earthquakes from the Giles County, Virginia, seismic zone and for 12 earthquakes from the central Virginia seismic zone. These earthquakes (0 ≦ M ≦ 4) were monitored by local networks between January 1978 and October 1984. In Giles County, six single-event focal mechanisms and five composite-event focal mechanisms were determined. In central Virginia, eleven single-event focal mechanisms and four composite-event focal mechanisms were obtained. A computer program, FOCMEC, that systematically searches the focal sphere for valid mechanism solutions, based on both P-wave polarities and (SV/P)z amplitude ratios, was used to determine the focal mechanism solutions.

The results for the Giles County seismic zone show predominately strike-slip mechanisms on steeply dipping (73° ± 16°) NNE (right-lateral motion) and ESE (left-lateral motion) trending nodal planes. However, some (4/11) of the solutions show similar movement on nodal planes rotated 45° counterclockwise. The means and standard deviations for the trends and plunges of the P axes are N46°E ± 24° and 13.5° ± 20°, respectively, as computed from the six single-event focal mechanisms and two composite-event focal mechanisms.

Focal mechanisms from central Virginia exhibit much more scatter in mechanism types and nodal plane orientations than observed in Giles County. The P axes in central Virginia are generally northeast-trending for shallow earthquakes (<8 km) and northwest-trending for deeper ones (>8 km). The focal mechanisms exhibit a mixture of reverse and strike slip faulting on planes that dip 62° ± 16°.

The two Virginia seismic zones are separated by only 200 km, yet their seismogenic characteristics are very different. In Giles County, the earthquakes occur beneath the Appalachian decollement, and the faulting and inferred stress orientations are uniform. In central Virginia, however, the seismicity is occurring at and above the decollement and the associated fault planes and stress orientations are quite variable.