bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Consuming Technology in a Closed Society: Household Appliances in Soviet Urban Homes of the Brezhnev Era
Authors: Chernyshova Natalya
Published: October 2015

SUMMARY:
Несмотря на относительную изолированность от Запада и строительство социалистического образа жизни, Советский Союз периода “развитого социализма” переживал социальные перемены, которые, строго говоря, не были уникальными или специфическими для социалистического общества. Особенно заметны эти изменения были в области потребления. С точки зрения уровня жизни ситуация изменялась к лучшему с середины 1950-х гг., но брежневская эпоха стала настоящим бумом индивидуального потребления, что привело к серии социальных и культурных последствий. В настоящей статье предпринята попытка исследования потребления технологических товаров, таких как стиральные машины, холодильники, телевизоры. Исследование ограничено городским социальным контекстом. Автор считает, что процессы, происходившие в советской городской среде конца 1960-х до начала 1980-х гг., характеризовались целым рядом параллелей с западной культурой потребления. В частности, автор показывает, как советские граждане в довольно короткое время оказались способны к обретению субъектности в качестве потребителей современных технологий, чей выбор электрических и электромеханических товаров для дома определялся растущей информированностью о доступных товарах, селективностью и потребительской культурой. Статья демонстрирует продуктивность смещения акцента с провалов социалистического производства товаров народного потребления на исследование культуры потребления в разных и даже антагонистических политических и экономических системах. Автор считает, что такое исследование позволит представить более полный и нюансированный портрет жизни при “развитом социализме”, чем всем известные анекдоты про очереди и дефицит.
Community, Symbolic Order, and The Exclusion of the Social in Serguei Oushakine’s Patriotism of Despair
Authors: Rogers Douglas
Published: October 2015

SUMMARY:
Даглас Роджерс рассматривает книгу Ушакина в контексте литературы о травме и постсоветских трансформациях. Роджерс указывает, что Ушакин объединил интерпретации нескольких “сообществ потери” в Барнауле и создал, таким образом, возможность для оценки символического постсоветского порядка в целом. Однако он не показал, каким образом рассматриваемые “сообщества потери” – ветераны чеченских войн, солдатские матери и националистически настроенные ученые – принадлежат (или не принадлежат) к общему или нескольким социальным полям. Исключение социального аспекта из анализа постсоветского символического порядка, с точки зрения Роджерса, является недостатком исследования и может порождать непонимание. Именно игнорирование какой-либо барнаульской специфики позволяет Ушакину делать выводы об общем символическом порядке в России в целом, считает Роджерс. Блестящий анализ дискурсов потери не сопровождается в книге пояснением того, как они включены в каждодневные практики. Исключение социального аспекта проявляется и в тенденциозном отборе теоретических источников анализа. Роджерс отвергает интерпретацию книги Ушакина, высказанную Марком Липовецким, предположившим, что провал демократической революции в России имел прежде всего культурные корни. Роджерс видит в этом объяснении вариант хорошо знакомого нарратива российской отсталости – Россия вновь упустила свой шанс в силу психологического своеобразия ее граждан. Роджерс выступает за социализацию того образа сообществ потери, который создал Ушакин, и психоаналитического метода, который он положил в основу своего анализа. В частности, этого можно достичь посредством изучения того, как индивидуумы и сообщества (например, солдатские матери) позиционируют себя по отношению к государству. При таком подходе анализ должен учитывать символические и моральные аспекты их признания или непризнания. Роджерс предлагает также некоторые продуктивные направления исследований, основанные на вкладе Ушакина в антропологию постсоветских обществ. Они ориентированы на изучение политики [не]признания, с одной стороны, и социологизации исследуемых психологических механизмов и практик – с другой (последний тезис он иллюстрирует на примере исследования Эмили Мартин “Шизофренические прогулки. Мания и депрессия в американской культуре”).
Jerry Bentley, World History, and the Decline of the “West”
Authors: Pincince John
Published: October 2015

Through the lens of an approach to world history inspired by Jerry Bentley, this essay examines two recent publications that lament the decline of Western civilization and Eurocentric historical narratives.
Beyond the World-System: A Buddhist Ecumene
Authors: Goh Geok Yian
Published: October 2015

The Southeast Asian and southern Indian Ocean region between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries was characterized by fluid relations and dynamic exchanges that connected three main centers of Buddhist learning and practice: Bagan (Burma), northern Thailand, and Sri Lanka. A Buddhist ecumene refers to a geospatial religious and political subsystem that existed within a larger Buddhist commonwealth or world system from the 1000s to 1300s. The idea of the ecumene was manifested in the intellectual environment of fifteenth- to nineteenth-century writers of Burma, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. The beginning of this ecumene coincided with the reign of Anawrahta, an eleventh-century king of Bagan, and cakravartin . The strongest evidence for this ecumene and the king is derived from texts, with support from art history and artifacts.
“With a Pretty Little Garden at the Back”: Domesticity and the Construction of “Civilized” Colonial Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Aotearoa/New Zealand
Authors: Cozens Erin Ford
Published: October 2015

Colonialism in the first years of major settlement in Aotearoa/New Zealand was defined in part by anxieties regarding gender and civilization, and by the ways in which settlers and colonial administrators expressed those anxieties through a particu-lar attention to physical spaces within the colony. This article considers the ways in which ideas about British middle-class domesticity helped to create gendered colonial spaces that were imagined through and by settler women and men; at the same time, the creation of domestic spaces was seen as a vital component of the civilization of the Māori population of New Zealand, and in particular of Māori women. While the liminality of the frontier setting allowed for the disruption of some gender and class boundaries, the construction of colonial spaces—both public and private—proved an essential component of the civilizing project in New Zealand and of the reification of colonial ideals of moral domesticity.
Writing a World History of the Anglo-Gorkha Borderlands in the Early Nineteenth Century
Authors: Michael Bernardo A.
Published: October 2015

This paper argues against the idea of modern Nepal as an exceptional island of national unity and independence in a colonial world. It takes inspiration from the work of world historians, especially the work of Jerry H. Bentley, to write connective histories of Nepal that transcend the boundaries of nations, geographical regions, disciplines, and historiographies. The Anglo-Gorkha frontier that separated the territories of the kingdom of Gorkha (present-day Nepal) and the English East India Company offers a site for such explorations. In the early nineteenth century territorial disputes broke out between the two states, ultimately culminating in the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814–1816. A close study of the frontier and the territorial disputes reveal that they encoded disagreements over the geographical construction of the state. They also reveal a structure of shifting agrarian entitlements that created the fluid and fuzzy administrative divisions that marked the space of these borderlands. The colonial state would ultimately resolve these spatial dilemmas by undertaking surveying and mapmaking projects that would lay out linear boundaries and neatly emboxed territorial divisions to delineate the territories of the two states.
Modernity and the Silencing of Nature in Nineteenth-Century Maps of Bogotá
Authors: Gallini Stefania , Osorio Carolina Castro
Published: October 2015

El artículo explora el contenido ambiental de la modernidad urbana en una capital latinoamericana del siglo XIX a través de un análisis comparativo del silenciamiento cartográfico de la “naturaleza” en cuatro versiones de dos planos de Bogotá, con fechas 1797,1853, 1891 y 1896. Siguiendo a Harley, el artículo lee los mapas de Cabrer, Dussán y Clavijo como dispositivos políticos – aunque también técnicos – cuyos silencios revelan una “mentalidad subconsciente” acerca de la modernidad urbana y su relación con la naturaleza. Siguiendo a ecólogos urbanos colombianos y a expertos de planificación urbana en Bogotá, se entiende por “naturaleza” la red de relaciones ecosistémicas (Estructura Ecológica Principal – EMS) cuyos pilares originarios son los Cerros orientales, la Sabana y el sistema hidrológico de ríos y humedales. El análisis cartográfico se ocupa de la cambiante representación de estos componentes en el tiempo. El artículo encuentra que la reducción gráfica de los humedales, la pérdida de importancia visual de los Cerros orientales, y la literal desaparición de la Sabana de los mapas urbanos son indicadores cartográficos del proceso de construcción de la ciudad “moderna” como algo divorciado de su estructura ecológica. Silenciarla fue un arma ruidosa para domesticar la naturaleza.
Creating Wild Darién: Centuries of Darién’s Imaginative Geography and its Lasting Effects
Authors: Runk Julie Velásquez
Published: October 2015

Imágenes, mapas y textos escritos pueden constituir una geografía imaginativa y proveer evidencia conmovedora de como el espacio puede ser constituido socialmente. En este artículo caracterizo el imaginario geográfico del Darién salvaje y sus efectos. Analizo siglos de imagines y otros textos para ilustrar la representación dada por conocida de Darién como un lugar rico, peligrosos y primitivo. Comento cómo a mediados del siglo veinte este imaginario facilitó intervenciones en la región desde afuera, los cuales persisten hoy – de modernización de infraestructura hacia el acaparamiento de tierras. Estos resultados buscan avanzar historiografías de América Latina en el marco de la ecología política.
Revealing the ‘Lost World’: The American Geographical Society and the Mapping of Roraima during the 1930s
Authors: Pearson Alastair , Heffernan Michael
Published: October 2015

Este artículo explora el trabajo realizado por los cartógrafos de la American Geographical Society (AGS) durante los 1930s como parte de su proyecto más amplio de construir un mapa a escala 1:1,000,000 de Sur y Centro América, el llamado “Map of Hispanic America.” Nos centramos en la región alrededor de Mount Roraima en la triple frontera entre Brasil, Venezuela y la entonces Guyana Británica. Es una de los áreas más aisladas de la Amazonía, aparentemente una selva prístina no tocada por la colonización Europea, un área frecuentemente representada en los medios como un ‘mundo perdido,’ olvidado por la historia, hogar de muchas especies desconocidas de flora y fauna sobrevivientes de otras épocas geológicas. La compilación de un mapa nuevo y exacto de Roraima presentó varios problemas a los cartógrafos de la AGS. Su esfuerzo por crear una representación racional y cientifica de la region confrontaba continuamente los mitos y leyendas populares promovido por novelistas, periodistas y cinematógrafos.
Reescrituras de una misma geografía: Tensiones entre el Instituto Geográfico Militar (Buenos Aires), el Map of Hispanic America (Nueva York) y la Carte du Monde au Millionième (París – Londres)
Authors: Lois Carla
Published: October 2015

This paper examines the network of discussions, productions, and national cartographic projects organized to fulfill the need of having a map of the world based on international cooperation on behalf of universal science. Specifically, we analyze: the Argentinian participation at the meetings of the Committee of International World Map on the one-millionth scale (IWM or MMM); the institutional organization of the cartographic offices in the early Argentinian bureaucracy in relation to the demands of the IWM; the Argentinian cartographic production to contribute to the project; the “answers” of Argentine cartographic offices to the topographic sheets which the American Geographical Society had presented as part of the provisional plan of Map of Hispanic America to supplement the lack of local production. In order to inquire into these issues on the basis of empirical materials, we discuss five historical controversies: (1) the debate about the reliability of sources and data collection; (2) political struggles presented in terms of methodological difficulties; (3) tensions between international goals and national interests; (4) geopolitical conflicts over the islands of the South Atlantic; and (5) similarities and differences between political boundaries and sheet borders: graphic economy versus “geopolitical purity.” This analysis will show that cartographic territories had already become as disputed as geographical territories themselves.
Geografías en disputa: Los cambios en los discursos geográficos de la Argentina (1852-1905)
Authors: Mastricchio Malena Mazzitelli
Published: October 2015

This paper discusses four key geographical works published between the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries in the context of competing proposals about creating an “official national geography.” The analyzed corpus has been selected on the basis of its impact on Argentine geography, cartography, and nation-building. The works of Victor Martin De Moussy and Woodbine Parish were the first important geographical and statistical descriptions of the Confederación Argentina and the Provincia de Buenos Aires respectively. The work of Francisco Latzina built upon these two works and was the first to unite the country into its approximate territorial whole. In the early 20th century, the erudite scholarship and cartography of Carlos Urién were selected by the Ministry of Education to be used in primary schools and to fulfill the role of official geography. These four works stand out for their processual and geographic construction of the modern Argentine nation-state.
“What Sacrifices Are Necessary”: The Corruption of Ritual Paradigms in Euripides’s Electra
Authors: Lush Brian
Published: October 2015

This diachronic exploration of Euripides’s Electra seeks to demonstrate that the play’s systematic deviation from normative ritual categories and experiences supplies a dramatic world congruent with the transgressive, divinely ordained violence undertaken by Orestes and Electra. Apollo’s punitive intervention, it is argued, comes after and strategically reinforces the miasma initiated by Agamemnon’s murder, and in this way the god models his retribution upon an existing pattern of Atreid transgression.
“The Unshriven Dead, Zombies on the Loose”: African and Caribbean Religious Heritage in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Authors: Yeates Robert
Published: October 2015

In demonstrating how scholarship has neglected African and Caribbean influences in Morrison’s work, this essay argues that there is a conspicuous gap in classifications of the character of Beloved. There is compelling evidence that African religious concepts of the living-dead, the Caribbean concept of the zombi, and the American adaptation of the zombi as zombie all bear profound influence on the composite identity of the character of Beloved. The hybrid assembly of the mythical and monstrous creature of Beloved thus establishes a new creation in an evolving transnational cultural tradition.
Snapshot Seeing: Kodak Fiends, Child Photographers, and Henry James’s What Maisie Knew
Authors: Berkley Angela
Published: October 2015

In this article, I argue that James’s What Maisie Knew investigates the consequences of a distinctly modern mode of observation that both depends on and subverts literary naturalism’s trope of the sensually vulnerable but inarticulate brute—a mode of observation much like the kind of snapshot photography that was widely practiced at the turn of the century. With her innate and curiously modern perceptual sensibilities, James’s Maisie gestures toward an anxiety about the potential of naturalism’s brutes to tell their own stories—an anxiety that I argue was also evinced by the rise of snapshot photography as a popular and affordable hobby.
Attending to Reading E. M. Forster: Howards End and Ruth Wilcox’s Unattended Death
Authors: Cruz Jo Ann Moran
Published: October 2015

This essay analyzes the meanings surrounding E. M. Forster’s treatment of the dying and death, early in Howards End , of one of the major characters, Mrs. Wilcox. It builds on Victorian and Edwardian social and cultural expectations of dying at home, Forster’s preoccupation with dying in the home in which one is born, and the difficult dying that Ruth Wilcox undergoes in a nursing home, to analyze Forster’s subtle delineation of the depths of treachery within the Wilcox household. This rereading of Forster’s novel underlines the importance of critically appraising Forster’s silences and looking for his misdirections and indirections.
Langston Unashamed: Radical Mythmaking in Hughes’s 1930s Short Fiction
Authors: Holcomb Gary Edward
Published: October 2015

This essay contextualizes several of Langston Hughes’s mid-1930s short fiction works, exploring ways in which these Black Marxist writings expose racism as a function of an absolutist US nationalist discourse. The essay argues that the short story “Cora Unashamed” is a crucial document of interwar period African American internationalist literature, as it imparts a black modernist fable that rearticulates the realist folklore of the 1930s Left. The article then considers several stories that carry on the radical socialist theme, including “The Blues I’m Playing,” “Little Old Spy,” “Why, You Reckon?”, “On the Road,” “Professor,” “Gumption,” and “The Trouble with Angels.”
“Mojado-Reverso” or, a Reverse Wetback: On John Grady Cole’s Mexican Ancestry in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses
Authors: Herlihy-Mera Jeffrey
Published: October 2015

In Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses , John Grady Cole was born in Texas and raised for perhaps 15 of his 16 years by a family of Mexican origin. A close inspection of his Latin American cultural attachments belies the critical readings of the character, which generally describe him as Anglo-American (in a cultural sense) who is a native speaker of English. McCarthy destabilizes the mythic cowboy through Cole, who performs a Mexican-American identity in Texas and Mexico. This article reexamines the cultural geography of the Grady-Cole homestead, the town of San Angelo, and the South and West Texas border area to offer new perspectives on John Grady’s cultural identity.
Learning by Doing: Developing a Baseline Information Literacy Assessment
Authors: Kiel Stephen “Mike” , Burclaff Natalie , Johnson Catherine
Published: October 2015

This paper details the design and implementation of an initial baseline assessment of information literacy skills at the University of Baltimore in Maryland. To provide practical advice and experience for a novice audience, the authors discuss how they approached the design and implementation of the study through the use of a rubric-based authentic assessment, employing a pretest and posttest delivered through a course management system. They also present lessons learned through the process of assessment focused on norming, test design and delivery, and the importance of institutional support and flexibility.
The Idea of a History of the Subject
Authors: Gauchet Marcel
Published: October 2015

Note: The following interview, L’Idée d’une histoire du sujet , was published in , 251–91). To provide some clarifying context, we begin with a few paragraphs from an earlier interview (2003, 9–14). The interview is slightly abbreviated, with omissions indicated by […]. Phrases added by translators for clarification, and a few French terms, appear in square brackets. The interviewers were François Azouvi and Sylvain Piron. The interview is preceded by a brief summary written by one of the guest editors of this special issue of PPP.
“An Athlete Like a Soldier Must Not Retreat”: Zionists, Sport, and Belonging in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Authors: Lichtenstein Tatjana
Published: October 2015

This article examines Zionists’ politics of belonging in interwar Czechoslovakia. It shows that the Jewish sports and gymnastics organization Maccabi was a vehicle for Zionists’ efforts to construct Jews’ belonging as individuals and as a collective in the new, multinational state. While Jews’ civic equality was formally guaranteed by the Czechoslovak constitution, actual, social and civic equality depended on a broader, public identification of Jews as legitimately belonging in Czechoslovakia. For Zionists, making Jews insiders, individuals that were respected as equal and loyal citizens, was contingent on Jews’ simultaneous belonging to a Jewish national and a Czechoslovak civic collective. Drawing on the ideal of the Zionist “new Jew” and on local traditions for minority nationalism, activists sought to create a symbiosis between Zionism and Czechoslovak patriotism in the 1920s and 30s.
A Portrait of Spinoza as a Maimonidean Reconsidered
Authors: Green Alexander
Published: October 2015

Warren Zev Harvey wrote a bold and now famous paper over thirty years ago entitled “A Portrait of Spinoza as a Maimonidean,” defending the dominant influence of the philosophy of the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides on the thought of Baruch Spinoza. However, since then, he further developed his thesis by publishing numerous articles showing that Spinoza was not only developing the ideas of Maimonides, but also was unique in synthesizing many different competing strands within medieval Jewish philosophy more generally, including those of Abraham Ibn Ezra, Levi Gersonides, and Hasdai Crescas. In other words, one can even be a Maimonidean by adapting the views of Maimonides’s critics who nonetheless continued his philosophic legacy within the discourse that he began. While the thought and character of Baruch Spinoza has been continually scrutinized and reinterpreted in every generation since his death, I argue that Harvey’s emphasis on the diversity of Jewish sources within Spinoza’s thought aims to be a model for a political liberalism that is rooted within the texts of the Jewish tradition, while also one that advocates an intellectual pluralism.
The Conceptual Transfer of Human Agency to the Divine in the Second Temple Period: The Case of Saul’s Suicide
Authors: Price J. H.
Published: October 2015

King Saul was not only Israel’s first monarch, but he was also her first sacrilegious ruler, a point on which the two historiographical books in the Hebrew Bible agree. However, each respective corpus delineates Saul’s portrayal in uneven and distinctive representations, varying in theological perspective and emphasis. 1 Samuel presents a complex account of Saul’s rise to power and his subsequent fall from divine favor, and culminates with Saul’s battlefield suicide. 1 Chronicles, however, shows no interest in Saul’s life, but begins and ends with his suicide. Though Chronicles uses the antecedent Samuel as a source, the story of Saul’s suicide and its ramifications experience a conceptual metamorphosis, resulting in considerable shifts in the perception of human and divine agency. Relatedly, Chronicles is temporally posterior to Samuel, finding its inception following the Judean restoration in the Second Temple period’s postexilic milieu. This paper seeks to uncover these shifts manifested in Chronicles by elucidating each account, highlighting the relationship between human and divine agency. Attention to the shifts yields a different sacrilegious Saul and an altered concept of divine transcendence, both birthed in the cradle of the Judean community in the Second Temple period.
Depicting Verbs and Constructed Action: Necessary Narrative Components in Deaf Adults’ Storybook Renditions
Authors: Beal-Alvarez Jennifer S. , Trussell Jessica W.
Published: October 2015

We investigated twelve deaf adults’ use of American Sign Language (ASL) in video-recorded narrative renditions of a wordless picture storybook. All of the adults had typically hearing parents and were divided between earlier and later ASL acquisition. Specifically, we analyzed their use of depicting verbs, constructed action, lexical signs, and combinations of these components as they navigated among multiple perspectives. Participants rendered these perspectives in similar yet individualized ways regardless of sign language experiences. We present qualitative descriptions of and the quantitative patterns found in their use of these components. We suggest that educators of signing deaf children can embed these components in their instructional practices to meet their students’ language needs.
Teacher-as-Researcher Paradigm for Sign Language Teachers: Toward Evidence-Based Pedagogies for Improved Learner Outcomes
Authors: Rosen Russell S. , Turtletaub Meredith , DeLouise Mary , Drake Sarah
Published: October 2015

In the teaching of sign languages as foreign languages (FLs), teachers instruct learners in vocabulary and conversational grammar. In doing so they frequently notice that some learners are able to learn and produce vocabulary and use correct grammar, whereas others struggle. For a better understanding of learners’ learning processes and their own pedagogical approaches, FL teachers turn to research studies on the teaching and learning of FLs. However, those studies are often largely inapplicable to their in-classroom practices. To resolve this problem, this article proposes and explicates teacher-as-researcher as a research paradigm for teachers’ pedagogical development to bring about improved learner outcomes.
Bridges to Understanding: What Happens When a Bakhtinian Critical Lens Is Applied to an American Sign Language Poem
Authors: Kincheloe Pamela
Published: October 2015

The article is an attempt at a close Bakhtinian reading of the ASL poem “Wise Old Corn #1” by Peter Cook and Kenneth Lerner of The Flying Words Project. As such, it proposes that referring to dialogic concepts in a reading of “Wise Old Corn #1” will accomplish two goals: it will reveal the cultural content of this particular poem, which has never been explicated before, and it will also test the utility of a critical examination of the dialogic possibilities inherent in the moving images of sign language poetry and ASL literature in general.
Social media platforms as educational interfaces - considering the way forward for blended learning
Authors: Preece Kelly Louise
Published: October 2015

Despite their pervasiveness, Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are subject to a number of criticisms of their efficacy as platforms for blended learning (Weller, 2006). This paper considers the use of social media platform Padlet as an alternative educational interface through evaluation of an intervention-based case-study. Focus groups were conducted with the student cohort, identifying a number of recurring themes that form the main body of this paper: visuality and clarity of the interface, autonomy over learning, students as co-producers and critical reflection. These themes address the intervention itself, and acknowledge the limitations of the research by proposing potential developments. The paper concludes by drawing together questions for further research, and notably reflects on whether it is more pertinent to address the way we use educational interfaces, rather than the interfaces themselves, in considering ‘the way forward’ for blended learning in Higher Education 2018.
Characterization of the generalized Chebyshev-type polynomials of first kind
Authors: AlQudah Mohammad
Published: October 2015

Orthogonal polynomials have very useful properties in the mathematical problems, so recent years have seen a great deal in the Â field of approximation theory using orthogonal polynomials. In this paper, we characterize a sequence of the generalized Chebyshev-type polynomials of the first kind Â \(\left\{\mathscr{T}_{n}^{(M,N)}(x)\right\}_{n\in\mathbb{N}\cup\{0\}},\) Â which are orthogonal with respect to the measure \(\frac{\sqrt{1-x^{2}}}{\pi}dx+M\delta_{-1}+N\delta_{1},\) where \(\delta_{x}\) is a singular Dirac measure and \(M,N\geq 0.\) Then we provide a closed form of the constructed polynomials in term of the Bernstein polynomials \(B_{k}^{n}(x).\)We conclude the paper with some results on the integration of the weighted generalized Chebyshev-type with the Bernstein polynomials.
Partial orders on \(C = D + Di\) and \(H = D + Di + Dj + Dk\)
Authors: Ma Jingjing
Published: October 2015

Let \(D\) be a totally ordered integral domain. We study partial orders on the rings \(C = D + Di\) and \(H = D + Di + Dj + Dk\), where \(i^{2} = j^{2} = k^{2} = -1\).
Les cinq esprits de l’homme divin (Aspects de l’imamologie duodécimaine XIII)
Authors: Amir-Moezzi Mohammad-Ali
Published: October 2015

Le corpus ancien du Hadith imamite contient un certain nombre de traditions sur les « cinq esprits » de l’imam. A quelques variantes près, ceux-ci sont les suivants: l’esprit saint, l’esprit de la foi, l’esprit de la puissance, l’esprit du désir et l’esprit du mouvement. « L’esprit saint » est présent dans toutes les versions. Ces traditions, concernant les membres intellectifs de l’homme divin, ne semblent pas avoir des fondements proprement islamiques ou arabes. En revanche, des traditions religieuses et spirituelles antiques et tardo-antiques peuvent nous fournir de nombreux parallèles saisissants. Dans une première partie, la « préhistoire » de la notion est étudiée. De nombreuses exégèses gnostiques et manichéennes d’Isaïe 11, 2–3 sont examinées (en particulier le
Cultural education through the high school level English textbooks
Authors: Ookawa Kouki
Published: October 2015

It cannot be denied that intercultural understanding is crucial in the process of learning English at elementary school, junior high school, high school, and beyond. This paper analyzes the high school English textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan from the perspective of intercultural understanding. First, it elucidates the types of articles, the countries materials deal with, and the purposes of the materials used in the books. Then it considers important elements of intercultural education. The result of the research shows that the materials contain various kinds of categories, and many concern English-speaking countries. Furthermore, an important fact is that many materials concerning Japan, aimed at understanding its own culture, are shown in the textbooks as well. Finally, the paper suggests future direction for the use of materials in the textbooks in order to facilitate intercultural understanding.
Four Nursery Rhymes
Authors: Peake Mervyn
Published: October 2015

Reprinted from Lilliput, May 1950 (vol.26, No.5, issue 155, pp.37-40).
Design Method of Winch Driven by Contactless Magnetic Coupling under Deepwater
Authors: Zhang B. , Wanga Z. , Wang T. , Yu H.J.
Published: October 2015

Through the combination subject of scientific research, the design method of the winch driven by contactless magnetic coupling is researched for the core purpose of the turning shaft sealing in a deepwater environment. This method has six design phases, including domestic and foreign information query and retrieval, graphic analyses of relevant structures, innovative design of 2D assembly sketches, a theoretical computation of structure parameters, the 3D modeling and motion simulation and engineering drawing. This method is of generality, which can provide examples for the postgraduate students and engineering personnel in self-renovation design of scientific research.
Wendung nach Innen
Authors: Balz Viola , Klöppel Ulrike
Published: October 2015

Vorspann

Kann das wirklich sein? Die psychiatrische Fürsorge war in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren in der DDR wesentlich fortschrittlicher als bisher angenommen. Reformorientierte Ärzte gewannen damals großen Einfluss auf die Gesundheitspolitik, sie scheuten sich auch nicht, den für eine sozialistische Gesellschaft heiklen Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitsbelastung und psychischen Erkrankungen zu thematisieren. Der Erfolg währte allerdings nicht lange, wie Viola Balz und Ulrike Klöppel zeigen können. Die Reformer wurden durch parteitreue Psychiater verdrängt, die an Tabuthemen nicht mehr rührten und vor allem auf kostengünstige Behandlungsmethoden setzten, nicht zuletzt auf Psychopharmaka. Letztlich, so die These der beiden renommierten Autorinnen, verdrängte man das Thema Sozialpsychiatrie. Wenn es um die psychische Gesundheit ging, waren bei den Bürgern der DDR Selbstverantwortung und Mündigkeit gefragt.
La enseñanza apasionada como agente emancipatoria en la formación de formadores
Authors: Álvarez Zelmira , Yedaide María Marta , Porta Luis
Published: October 2015

El presente trabajo se enmarca en la producción del Grupo de Investigación en Educación y Estudios Culturales (GIECC) de la Facultad de Humanidades, Uni­versidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina). Partiendo de los relatos de los grandes maestros y profesores memorables obtenidos mediante el uso del método biográfico-narrativo, se expone el valor de la pasión en la enseñanza y su poten­cial para la formación docente. Los profesores apasionados revelan gran intimidad entre la enseñanza y su propio proyecto vital, y capacidad para dejar huellas en los itinerarios profesionales de sus estudiantes. Sobre la base de una literatura pe­dagógica consonante, el trabajo finalmente plantea el potencial de la pasión como agente emancipador de los sujetos de la formación docente.
A Critical Analysis Of The Work Of The European Commission And European Court Of Human Rights In Relation With Non-Compliance Of Interim Measures - Period 1957-2011
Authors: Burbano Herrera Clara
Published: October 2015

Abstract

Today, interim measures have a key role in many of the cases that are brought before the European Human Rights System. The instrument has been designed to preserve and protect rights and freedoms to persons in a situation of extreme gravity and urgency, together with the interests of the parties in a case before the Court. This legal figure has been applied – nowadays – on a daily basis for more than half a century, first by the former European Commission on Human Rights (European Commission or Commission) and later by the European Court of Human Rights (European Court, Court or ECtHR).

Despite the fact that interim measures have over time acquired a growing importance in the case law, States when faced with such a measure requiring them to act, sometimes refuse to abide by them. This contribution aims to give an exhaustive overview of the State incompliances. It is argued that the number of non-compliances is steadily growing, as is the number of perpetrators, not only among the ‘new’ Member States, but also among the ‘older’ member States and even the ‘founding fathers’ and that this can have a negative effect on the supervisory system as a whole. Some initiatives can, however, be taken by the European Court and the Committee of Ministers to improve and streamline the procedure with regard to interim measures, whereby all actors in the dispute may benefit.
Poder Discrecional de la Corte Constitucional en el Estado de Cosas Inconstitucional
Authors: Cortés Zambrano Sonia Patricia
Published: October 2015

RESUMEN

El presente trabajo es una reflexión académica que pretende  mostrar como en casos concretos, en virtud del poder discrecional de los jueces constitucionales,  explicando la singularidad de los procesos de interpretación constitucional a partir de valores y principios en procura de la protección de los derechos fundamentales y  debido a la Constitucionalización del derecho, pueden actuar válidamente fuera del rango de su competencia, amparados en lo que la Corte Constitucional ha llamado “ El Estado de cosas Inconstitucional”.

PALABRAS CLAVES

Constitucionalización del Derecho, estado de cosas inconstitucional, ausencia de Estado, interpretación constitucional, poder discrecional del juez constitucional
El Principio de Complementariedad y las Estrategias de Actuación de la Corte Penal Internacional en la Fase de Examen Preliminar
Authors: Olásolo Alonso Hector
Published: October 2015

Resumen

El presente artículo analiza el papel relevante que en la actualidad desempeña la Corte penal Internacional luego de diez años de vigencia en constante evolución, frente a las situaciones que requieran la activación de la competencia de la justicia penal internacional. En concreto el texto analiza el cuestionamiento que surge sobre por qué la CPI mantiene el examen preliminar en relación con los asuntos de Colombia y porqué no abre una investigación con respecto a la situación nacional.

Palabras clave:

Principio de complementariedad, admisibilidad de casos, examen preliminar, para política, jurisdicción de justicia y paz
Didácticas etnográficas aplicadas al estudio del hecho religioso
Authors: Elizalde Prada Oscar Augusto
Published: October 2015

La apuesta de la universidad como una institución que aprende implica elriesgo de proponer nuevas didácticas ancladas a experiencias de formaciónabiertas y participativas. Este artículo presenta una propuesta de implementaciónde algunas didácticas etnográficas en estudios sobre el hechoreligioso, a partir de la sistematización de su proceso de configuración en elámbito universitario, considerando las relaciones didácticas que se puedenestablecer entre la mediación etnográfica y el trabajo de campo.
PENGUKURAN KINERJA PERBANKAN SYARIAH DENGAN PENDEKATAN BALANCE SCORECARD
Authors: Huda Nurul , Sabrina Ivo , Zain Efendy
Published: October 2015

The aim of this research is to measure the performance of Islamic banking using balance scorecard. Performance of Islamic Banking is seen with the Balanced Scorecard is used there are four perspectives, namely: finance, banking / internal business perspective, learning and growth, however in this study used only three perspektif , minus the customer's perspective. The third perspective is transformed into the five components of performance measurement variable Banking. The result of this research is learning and growth perspective for shariah compliance, legal, and institution has a very good score. For fundraising, financing performance and services for Islamic banking shariah compliance perspective has a good score. From financial report and social legitimacy has a good scoreDOI: 10.15408/etk.v12i1.1900
PENGARUH KUALITAS PELAYANAN SDM BANK SYARIAH TERHADAP KEPUASAN NASABAH: STUDI PADA BPRS BERKAH RAMADHAN
Authors: Hermanto Hermanto
Published: October 2015

The purpose of this study was to observe the effect of the quality of human resource services of Islamic banks on customer satisfaction. The analysis technique used in this study is the multiple linear regression method. Data collection in this study combines the questionnaires and interviews. The sampling technique used in this study is accidental sampling method. The results show that there is a quality of the human resources of Islamic banks have an influence on the level of customer satisfaction either partially or simultaneously. While partially, only guarantees only variable that has a significant effect. This shows that it is necessary to improve the quality of service in the SRB Blessings of Ramadan in improving customer satisfactionDOI: 10.15408/etk.v12i1.1907
HUBUNGAN E-BANKING DALAM MENINGKATKAN CITRA PRODUK TABUNGAN iB PLUS DAN KARTU BNI SYARIAH
Authors: Daliyanik Prapti
Published: October 2015

The aim of this research is to analyze the correlation between e-banking to the images increasing of iB plus saving product and BNI Syariah card. And also to the customer’s perception of e-banking services on iB plus saving product and BNI Syariah card. The analysis method that used in this research is correlation analysis. The correlation between e-banking service on image product increasing is about 0,583 or 58,3%. It means that between e-banking services (based on customer’s perception) and image product increasing of iB plus product and BNI Syariah card has an average correlation.DOI: 10.15408/etk.v12i2.1911
Impact of jaguar Panthera onca (Carnivora: Felidae) predation on marine turtle populations in Tortuguero, Caribbean coast of Costa Rica
Authors: Arroyo-Arce Stephanny , Salom-Pérez Roberto
Published: October 2015

Existe poco conocimiento sobre el impacto que tienen los jaguares sobre las tortugas marinas que anidan en el Parque Nacional Tortuguero, Costa Rica. Este estudio evaluó el impacto de la depredación de jaguar sobre tres especies de tortugas marinas (Chelonia mydas, Dermochelys coriácea y Eretmochelys imbricata) que anidan en Tortuguero. Los reportes de depredación fueron obtenidos empleando dos metodologías, revisión literaria (eventos registrados antes del 2005) y monitoreos semanales a lo largo de la playa (durante el periodo 2005-2013). La depredación del jaguar se ha incrementado de una tortuga en 1981 a 198 tortugas en 2013. Asimismo, los jaguares consumieron anualmente un promedio de 120 (SD= 45) y 2 (SD= 3) tortugas verdes y tortugas baula en Tortuguero, respectivamente. Nuestros resultados indican que los jaguares no representan una amenaza para la población de tortugas verdes que anida en Tortuguero, y no son la causa principal de la disminución poblacional de la tortuga baula y carey. No obstante, se recomienda continuar con el monitoreo con el fin de entender cómo esta interacción depredador-presa evolucionará en el futuro.
Influence of motor skills’ training methodic on senior pupils’ speed-power and endurance qualities at light athletic trainings with aplication of interdisciplinary connections
Authors: Al-Ravashdeh Abdel Baset , Kozina Zh.L. , Bazilyuk T.A. , Ilnickaya A.S.
Published: October 2015

Purpose: to determine influence of technology of integral motor and intellectual aspects’ impact on development of senior pupils’ motor skills. Material: in the research 2 groups of pupils participated: control (n=34 - boys) and experimental (n=34 - boys). Results: confident changes in light athletic skills have been registered. In experimental group confident changes in indicators of motor fitness were registered in tests for speed-power qualities and endurance (short and long distance run, jumps, throws). We also found that it is necessary to take into account dozing of exercises, when training motor actions. Conclusions: it is recommended to use approaches to creation of holistic idea of movement. Theoretical part shall be oriented on deep understanding of physical principles of movements’ rational technique. Keywords: abilities, skills, athletics, students, methods.
Pedagogic conditions of health saving functioning organization of comprehensive educational estableshment’s headmaster
Authors: Gres O.V.
Published: October 2015

Purpose: substantiation of pedagogical conditions of health saving functioning organization of comprehensive educational establishment’s headmaster. Material: publications on topic of the research. 40 literature sources have been analyzed. Results: it has been found that pedagogic conditions of effective health saving functioning of comprehensive educational establishment headmaster are: influence of interconnection of district educational administration’s teaching-methodic departments; activation of headmaster’s personality; understanding of values by headmaster and his acquiring of health related knowledge and knowledge about health saving in process of education; realization of self-education by headmaster; renewal and acquiring of new knowledge and experience, which would ensure personal-professional growth of headmaster and facilitate increase of quality of pupils’ education and teaching. Conclusions: self-education provides wide opportunities for improvement of administrative, communicative and reflexive qualities and skills as well as gives proper tools for independent and creative solution of health saving tasks in favor of pedagogic process’s subjects.
Formation of schoolchildren’s healthy life style culture as one of key problems of modern comprehensive educational establishment
Authors: Davydova T.M.
Published: October 2015

Purpose : optimization of educational-teaching process in modern comprehensive educational establishment in context of pupils’ health protection. Material: in experiment 1012 pupils (of age from 11 to 15 years old), 532 students of higher educational establishments, 176 teachers, 34 methodologists and representatives of educational establishments’ administrations participated. Results: positive influence of schoolchildren’s healthy life style on general health condition has been determined. Model of formation of adolescents’ health culture, which consists of four sub-systems: health protection technologies; health related technologies; technologies of teaching to healthy life style; formation of personalities’ qualities, facilitating health strengthening, has been offered. It has been found that the presented model orients pupils on formation of positive, firm, individual picture of health as the necessary condition of their viability. Conclusions: it has been established that formation of positive motivation for healthy life style is connected with demand in reducing of secondary education system to modern conditions of renewed content of education, forms and methods of work in comprehensive educational establishments.
Structural model of in-group dynamic of 6-10 years old boys’ motor fitness
Authors: Ivashchenko O.V. , Yermakova T.S.
Published: October 2015

Purpose: to determine structural model of in-group dynamic of 6-10 years old boys’ motor fitness. Material: in the research 6 years old boys (n=48), 7 years old (n=45), 8 years old (n=60), 9 years’ age (n=47) and10 years’ age (n=40) participated. We carried out analysis of factorial model of schoolchildren’s motor fitness. Results: we received information for taking decisions in monitoring of physical education. This information is also necessary for working out of effective programs of children’s and adolescents’ physical training. We determined model of motor fitness and specified informative tests for pedagogic control in every age group. In factorial model of boys’ motor fitness the following factor is the most significant: for 6 years - complex development of motor skills; for 7 years - also complex development of motor skills; for 8 years - strength and coordination; for 9 years - complex development of motor skills; for 10 years - complex development of motor skills. Conclusions: In factorial model of 6-10 years old boys’ motor fitness the most significant are backbone and shoulder joints’ mobility, complex manifestation of motor skills, motor coordination. The most informative tests for assessment of different age boys’ motor fitness have been determined.
Study of muscular skeletal apparatus’s functional state of junior sportsmen-power lifters, who have backbone verterbral abnormalities
Authors: Ilmatov V.R.
Published: October 2015

Purpose: determination of abnormalities and disorders of muscular skeletal apparatuses’ status of power lifters, who have vertebral abnormalities of backbone. Material: 58 junior sportsmen participated in the research. 36 sportsmen were the main group of the research and had vertebral disorders in backbone. For posture testing visual examination was used. Backbone mobility was tested with goniometry method. Flat feet were registered with plantography method. Results: we determined posture abnormalities in sagittal and frontal planes; feet flat, limited maximal movements in thoracic and lumbar spines. It was determined that the most limited were rotational movements and backbone unbending. The next were side bents. These limitations were accompanied by pain syndrome. These observations indirectly confirmed theory of direct interaction of backbone structures with nervous structures. It is also a confirmation of vertebral abnormalities’ presence in junior sportsmen. Conclusions: it was found that in junior sportsmen - power lifters with backbone pathologies in 100% of cases symptoms are determined by local limitations of backbone mobility with pain syndrome. In 35% of cases they are accompanied by posture’s disorders and feet flat. Orientation and methodic of rehabilitation of such sportsmen have been determined.