bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Correlation between Students' Learning Interest and Motivation and the Ability to Solve Problems in Online Learning IPA Subjects
Authors: Aziza Devi Rahmatul , Wulandari Ria
Published: September 2021

The purpose of this study was to describe the correlation between student’s learning interest and motivation with problem-solving abilities in online learning. This research was a quantitative correlation study. The population in this research was 7th-grade students of SMP 2 and the sample was 72 students. The instruments in this study consisted of three questionnaires, namely the questionnaire of student's learning interest, the questionnaire of student's learning motivation, and the questionnaire of problem-solving skills for daring learning. The data analysis technique used was simple and multiple linear regression tests. The results of this study indicated that there is a negative correlation between students' interest and motivation to learn simultaneously with problem-solving skills in distance learning but in the low category.
Accessibility to Gender-based Violence Health Services for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Tanzania
Authors: Mtaita Caroline , Likindikoki Samuel , Mnjokava Shishira , Mbita Gaspar , Safary Elvis , Hilliard Dawud , Jahn Albrecht
Published: September 2021

Background and Objective: Gender-based violence (GBV) health services can offer lifesaving prevention and treatment, particularly for GBV survivors among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), which includes post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) provisions, counseling, and referrals to other GBV programs. Although there are many benefits to GBV services, such as HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health rights, and mental well-being, the number remains small for GBV survivors who access these services following the violence. This study was focused on identifying and describing the perceived barriers and facilitators of accessing GBV health services among AGYW in Tanzania. Methods: This was a qualitative study in which a structured and in-depth interview process was used for AGYW (N = 20) aged between 15 - 24 years old in two districts of Dar es Salaam: Temeke and Kinondoni. The interviewer explored the participants’ perspectives on barriers and facilitators relating to GBV healthservice access. Audiotapes from the participants’ responses were transcribed and later translated. Thematic areas were identified using the Social-Ecological Model. Transcripts were analyzed using inductive content analysis. Results: The study findings were divided into barriers and facilitators. Key barriers included lack of knowledge on available GBV health services, stigma, low self-esteem, negative attitude, fear of HIV testing, fear of disclosing perpetrator(s), and lack of parental support. Key facilitators included community and parental support, positive-prior experiences, and peer support. Conclusion and Implication for Translation: It is paramount to strengthen existing interventions to address community and GBV health facility stigma and to empower survivors in the overcoming of fear- and esteem-related issues. Additionally, it is necessary to increase GBV survivors’ access to related GBV health services through strengthening facilitators’ abilities and influences.
Das medidas de sustentabilidade às certificações sustentáveis: uma investigação sobre o desenvolvimento desses instrumentos
Authors: Guimarães Elcio Ricardo Leite , Guimarães Júnior Djalma Silva
Published: September 2021

A sustentabilidade é uma temática que tem recebido cada vez mais a atenção da sociedade para o alcance do desenvolvimento ambiental, social e econômico, no sentido de se obter a prosperidade sem comprometer o direito à vida das gerações atuais e futuras. Este artigo faz um levantamento das principais medidas de sustentabilidade e de suas práticas através de certificações. Trata-se de uma contribuição para reunir e sistematizar informações sobre a evolução deste tema, seus indicadores e a sua prática nas organizações. Uma das motivações deste artigo é disponibilizar dados para o estudo sobre o uso das certificações de sustentabilidade, utilizando-se de levantamento de informações qualitativas, em ambientes aceitos pelo mundo acadêmico, através de documentos em publicações nacionais e internacionais, tendo por objetivo mapear as medidas de sustentabilidade e o seu desenvolvimento até as certificações sustentáveis. O estudo classifica-se como aplicado, exploratório e descritivo, realizado através de uma pesquisa documental e qualitativa. Foram identificados 153 textos que tratavam da temática, sendo parte deles selecionados para este trabalho. Conclui-se que a sociedade clama por maior celeridade aos agentes públicos, organizações e empresas no tocante à melhores e efetivas práticas de sustentabilidade, em função da imperiosa necessidade em se alcançar relações mais equilibradas entre os fatores sociais, econômicos e ambientais. Os avanços tecnológicos são parte da solução para se obter esse equilíbrio, através da criação de metodologias de composição e análise de indicadores e de outras tecnologias que possam ser universalizadas e tornarem-se um processo de uso comum no setor público e privado.
Particle Physics at PSI
Authors: Signer Adrian , Kirch Klaus , Hoffman Cyrus
Published: September 2021

Particle physics results of constant value and
significant impact have been obtained at PSI, and several efforts
are presently ongoing and expected to deliver new findings in the
near future. In this special SciPost volume we collect them together
in a concise manner. Not yet included are ideas for future facility
upgrades or completely new experimental efforts, but we are set to
extend this volume in the years to come.
Mulan: a part-per-million measurement of the muon lifetime and determination of the Fermi constant
Authors: Carey Rebecca , Gorringe Tim , Hertzog David
Published: September 2021

The part-per-million measurement of the positive muon lifetime and
determination of the Fermi constant by the MuLan experiment at the Paul
Scherrer Institute is reviewed. The experiment used an innovative,
time-structured, surface muon beam and a
near-4\piπ,
finely-segmented, plastic scintillator positron detector. Two in-vacuum
muon stopping targets were used: a ferromagnetic foil with a large
internal magnetic field, and a quartz crystal in a moderate external
magnetic field. The experiment acquired a dataset of
1.6 \times 10^{12}1.6×1012
positive muon decays and obtained a muon lifetime
\tau_{\mu} = 2\, 196\, 980.3(2.2)τμ=2196980.3(2.2)~ps
(1.0~ppm) and Fermi constant G_F = 1.166\, 378\, 7(6) \times 10^{-5}F=1.1663787(6)×10−5
GeV^{-2}−2
(0.5~ppm). The thirty-fold improvement in \tau_{\mu}τμ
has proven valuable for precision measurements in nuclear muon capture
and the commensurate improvement in G_FF
has proven valuable for precision tests of the standard model.
MuSun - Muon Capture on the Deuteron
Authors: Kammel Peter
Published: September 2021

The MuSun experiment is a precision measurement of the
rate for nuclear muon capture on the deuteron, designed to resolve a
long-standing disagreement between experiment and theory, and to
determine an important low-energy constant relevant for a variety of
weak and strong dynamics. The experiment is based on a novel active
target method employing a pure deuterium cryogenic time-projection
chamber. The data taking was completed in two main campaigns and
the analysis is well advanced. The unique challenges and
corresponding strategy of the experiment as well as the status of
the analysis are presented.
The Mu3e experiment
Authors: Wauters Frederik
Published: September 2021

The experiment aims for a single event sensitivity of
2\cdot 10^{-15}2⋅10−15
on the charged lepton flavour violating \mu^+\rightarrow e^+ e^+ e^-μ+→e+e+e−
decay. The experimental apparatus, a light-weight tracker based on
custom High-Voltage Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors placed in a 1 T
magnetic field is currently under construction at the Paul Scherrer
Institute, where it will fully use the intense
10^88\mu^+μ+/s
beam available. A final sensitivity of 1 \cdot 10^{-16}1⋅10−16
is envisioned for a phase II experiment, driving the development of a
new high-intensity continuous muon source which will deliver
>10^99\mu^+μ+/s
to the experiment.
Laser spectroscopy of light muonic atoms and the nuclear charge radii
Authors: Antognini Aldo , Kottmann Franz , Pohl Randolf
Published: September 2021

The energy levels of hydrogen-like atomic systems are shifted
slightly by the complex structure of the nucleus, in particular by the
finite size of the nucleus. These energy shifts are vastly magnified in
muonic atoms and ions, i.e. the hydrogen-like systems formed by a negative
muon and a nucleus. By measuring the 2S-2P energy splitting in muonic
hydrogen, muonic deuterium and muonic helium, we have been able to
deduce the p, d, ^33He
and ^44He
nuclear charge radii to an unprecedented accuracy. These radii provide
benchmarks for hadron and nuclear theories, lead to precision tests of
bound-state QED in regular atoms and to a better determination of the
Rydberg constant.
The pion beta and radiative electronic decays
Authors: Pocanic Dinko
Published: September 2021

As the lightest meson, pion offers unique opportunities for measuring parameters and testing limits of the Standard Model (SM). The PiBeta experiment, carried out at PSI, focused on SM tests accessible through the pion beta, \pi^+ \to \pi^0e^+\nu_e(\gamma)π+→π0e+νe(γ), and electronic radiative, \pi^+ \to e^+\nu_e\gammaπ+→e+νeγ, decay channels. We review the PiBeta experiment, and update the pion beta decay branching ratio B^{\text{exp}}_{\pi\beta}=1.038(6)_{\text{tot}}\times10^{-8}Bπβexp=1.038(6)tot×10−8, along with the corresponding derived value of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element V_{ud} = 0.9738(28)Vud=0.9738(28).
Recent results of laser spectroscopy experiments of pionic helium atoms at PSI
Authors: HORI Masaki , Aghai-Khozani H. , Sótér Anna , Dax Andreas , Barna Daniel
Published: September 2021

A review of a recent experiment carried out at PSI involving laser
spectroscopy of metastable pionic helium (\pi{^4He}^+\equiv\pi^{-}+{^4He}^{2+}+e^-π4He+≡π−+4He2++e−)
atoms is presented. An infrared transition
(n,\ell)=(17,16)(n,ℓ)=(17,16)\rightarrow→(17,15)(17,15)
at a resonance frequency of \nu\approx 183760ν≈183760
GHz was detected.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INDEPENDENCE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS ONFINANCIAL ANDADMINISTRATIVEPERFORMANCEEVALUATION IN COMMERCIAL BANKS A FIELD STUDY ON A SAMPLE OF SUDANESE COMMERCIAL BANKS
Authors:   Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance, Bayan College of Science and Technology, Sudan., Osman Mahmoud Dalil Abdelmotalab
Published: September 2021

This research aimed to identify the effect of bank risk management on the performance evaluation in the banking sector. To effect the field study, the research used the questionnaire as a tool to collect the data. The research also used the descriptive analytical approach to describe the field study. The research has reached a number of findings, key of which, is that, the board of directors is committed to the regulations related to the stakeholders parties, in order to guarantee the treatment of any irregularities in accordance with the rules and principles in force in the bank. The application of corporate governance guidelines will help in the potentiality of the inspection and evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial and administrative performance in the bank. The research findings have also shown that there is a correlation that is statistically significant between the independence of the board of directors and the financial and administrative performance evaluation in the bank. The research, on the other hand, recommended the activation of the role of the boards of directors in the commercial banks by assuming their tasks and duties, which may lead to reduce risk.
Territorio y territorialización: una mirada al vínculo emocional con el lugar habitado a través de las cartografías sociales
Authors: Castaño-Aguirre Carlos Alberto , Baracaldo-Silva Pilar , Bravo-Arcos Angela Milena , Arbeláez-Caro Joan-Sebastián , Ocampo-Fernández Juliana , Pineda-López Olga-Liliana
Published: September 2021

El territorio, la territorialización y las cartografías sociales, se constituyen como categorías que pueden aportar a la comprensión del vínculo emocional de los sujetos con el espacio o lugar habitado. Este artículo busca dar respuesta al interrogante ¿cómo las cartografías sociales permiten representar el vínculo emocional con el territorio? Se hace a partir de una revisión bibliográfica soportada en el rastreo de bases de datos de libre acceso. Una de las principales conclusiones es que el territorio se comprende como una categoría multidimensional que no solo vincula la apropiación e identificación con un espacio físico, sino que también profundiza en las construcciones sociales, políticas y simbólicas establecidas en la cotidianidad. Las cartografías sociales se convierten en estrategias de transformación social que permite a las comunidades o grupos, construir y abstraer los significados asignados al territorio y el vínculo emocional compartido entre ellos, para empoderarse como sociedad hacia el desarrollo colectivo.
A longitudinal analysis of tax planning schemes of firms in East Africa
Authors: James Kimea Alfred , Mkhize Msizi
Published: September 2021

Taxes play a significant role in the social and economic development of counties. On the other hand, taxes represent a significant cost to firms; hence they devise legal ways to reduce their taxes through tax planning. In East Africa, the statutory tax rate of firms averages 30%, which is considered a major burden to the firms. As a result, this study aims to longitudinally examine the tax planning practices of listed firms in East Africa countries (EACs). The study used twelve-year annual reports of ninety-one firms from EACs. Both cash effective tax rate (CEFR) and accounting effective tax rate were employed as tax planning measures. Descriptive statistics together with Wilcoxon signed-ranked test were used to analyze the results. The study demonstrates the existence of corporate tax planning by the listed firms in EACs. The average CETR of the firms was 17% as opposed to the statutory tax rate of 30%, demonstrating that the firms actively engage in tax planning activities. The evidence further demonstrated a gradual decrease in the tax planning activities of the firms over the past twelve years. The study further found out that the rates of decline in the firms’ tax planning were statistically insignificant. Despite the decrease in the firms’ tax planning, the tax authorities in EACs should enforce tax laws to eliminate the tax planning problem.
Can the risk management committee improve risk management disclosure practices in Indonesian companies?
Authors: Agustina Linda , Waluyo Jati Kuat , Baroroh Niswah , Widiarto Ardian , N. Manurung Pery
Published: September 2021

This study examines the role of the risk management committee as a moderating variable. The risk management committee will moderate the relationship between firm size, profitability, ownership concentration, and the size of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) disclosure board. The study is based on agency theory, which discusses the relationship between management and company owners and shareholders. The research sample consisted of 56 manufacturing companies in Indonesia with 224 units of analysis obtained using the purposive sampling technique. It has been proven that the risk management committee can moderate the relationship between firm size and ERM disclosure and ownership concentration and ERM disclosure. Company size is known to affect the disclosure of risk management in a company. But ownership concentration shows different things, that is, it does not affect corporate risk management disclosures. The results also show that the risk management committee cannot moderate the relationship between profitability and the size of the board of commissioners on the company’s risk management disclosures. It has also not been proven that profitability and the size of the board of commissioners directly affect corporate risk management disclosures. Thus, it can be stated that the risk management committee plays a role in controlling the extent of the company’s risk management disclosures; this is necessary to maintain stakeholder trust in the company.
An Investigation in to the Effectiveness of Participatory Budgeting in Achieving Community Development Goals in Port Loko District Council)
Authors: Lavalie Daniel E.M.
Published: September 2021

The Sierra Leone local council is charged with the responsibilities to govern and look over the welfare of its citizens in its localities but has been faced with a lot of challenges ranging from limited finance, insufficient staff capacity, insufficient material resources, mobility, and little compliance from bigger MDAs in terms of control. Hence has raised effectiveness issues in council operations. With the implementation of participatory budgeting in Port, Loko District Council calls for a study with the objective to investigate the effectiveness and linearity of participatory budgeting in the achievement of community development goals in the Port Loko District Council. Purposive sampling was done and administered a survey questionnaire to 420 respondents in the Port Loko District. Simple linear regression and correlational tests were used to interpret and analyze the primary data using SPSS 16.0 software package. The data analyses found out that there was a mean agreement rate of 1.95, which indicated that the respondents agreed that participatory budgeting was effective. The hypothesis test, if the effectiveness of participatory budgeting in Port Loko District Council has an impact on the achievement of community development goals, the major finding in this research is that effectiveness of participatory budgeting significantly affects the achievement of community development goals in the council district and concludes that participatory budgeting implemented in the Port Loko District Council in relation to the achievement of community development goals is effective, has a positive relationship and a strong correlation between them.
The Impact of Central Bank of Liberia Guidelines on Inbound Money Transfers in Liberia (the Liberian Bank for Development & Investment 2016-2018)
Authors: Kesselly Jerome M.
Published: September 2021

The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), according to its mandate under the Act of 1999 and its authority, in line with Section 55 and 39, on November 15, 2016, issue a regulation (No. CBL/RSD/004/2016) on payment of Inbound money transfers, which was ordered by former President of the Republic of Liberia, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The objective of this regulation was to support the effective management of the foreign exchange market. The regulation applies to all licensed financial institutions involved in money transfer services, such as Western Union and MoneyGram. The regulation did not apply to inbound money transfers that are made using recipient accounts at commercial banks. Conclusion: The theoretical framework presented in this research suggests that commercial banks, be precise, the Liberia Bank for Development and Investment (LBDI), are more likely to suffer a decrease in commission on inbound money transfers throughout the three years (3) of restrictions.
A MEDIAÇÃO WARATIANA COMO FORMA DE CONSOLIDAÇÃO DO MERCOSUL: A BUSCA POR UMA EFETIVA INTEGRAÇÃO SOCIAL
Authors: Fernandes Pedro Ernesto Neubarth , Rocha Leonel Severo
Published: September 2021

A complexidade cada vez mais presente na sociedade latino-americana nos faz repensar o modelo de integraçãoutilizado pela União Europeia no Mercosul, uma vez que já se identificou não estar este alinhado com a realidadedos Estados da América do Sul. Luis Alberto Warat ensina que é necessário que exista uma emancipação da lei,para que se recupere a sensibilidade que o racionalismo enterrou. Nesse sentido o núcleo da emancipação seriaa alteridade e o possível caminho para o sucesso emancipatório a mediação. Tendo por base esses ideais norteadores,busca-se na presente investigação analisar como a mediação, em Luis Alberto Warat, poderia funcionarcomo um possível instrumento para a promoção da pacificação social e, como tal, poderia solidificar o Mercosulcomo um processo de integração social. Para isso, realizar-se-á a presente investigação sob a perspectiva de umaabordagem qualitativa, isto é, por meio de consultas realizadas em doutrinas. Além disso, tem-se que o principalaporte teórico utilizado no presente estudo sejam as obras de Luis Alberto Warat, em particular as relacionadas àmediação.
INFLUENCE OF DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES ON TEACHING
Authors:   Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tuzla, Rešić Sead , Bešić Olgica ,   Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tuzla
Published: September 2021

Our times are characterized by strong changes in technology that have become reality in many areas of society. When compared to production, transport, services, etc education, as a rule, slowly opens to new technologies. However, children at their homes and outside the schools live in a technologically rich environment, and they expect the change in education in accordance with the imperatives of the education for the twenty-first century. In this sense, systems for automated data processing, multimedia systems, then distance learning, virtual schools and other technologies are being introduced into education. They lead to an increase in students' activities, quality evaluation of their knowledge and finally to their progress, all in accordance with individual abilities and knowledge. Mathematics and computers often appear together in the teaching process. Taking into account the teaching of mathematics, computers and software packages have a significant role. The program requirements are not dominant. The emphasis is on mathematical content and the method of presentation. Computers are especially used in solving various mathematical tasks and self-learning of mathematics. Still, many problems that require solutions appear in the process: how to organise lectures, practice, textbooks, collected mathematical problems, written exams, how to assign and check homework. The answers to these questions are not simple and they will probably be sought continuously, with an increasing use of computers in the teaching process. In this paper I have tried to solve some of the questions above.
AN INTERVIEW ABOUT SADDLE-MAKING, ONE OF THE TRADITIONAL HANDICRAFTS, IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Authors:   Faculty of arts and sciences, Adnan Menderes University, Ziya Sümbüllü Yusuf , Botalić Melinda ,   Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla
Published: September 2021

Handicraft products are of great value as material culture products since they have been used during definite times of a society. These products are significant because they will ensure cultural continuity between the past and future. Saaddle-making, a conventional handicraft, is one of these aforesaid culture transmitters of which realm of existence is getting narrow because of developing technology
UNDERSTANDING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS
Authors:   Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Department of Philosophy, Kaluđerović Željko , Potpara Jovana ,   Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Department of Philosophy
Published: September 2021

During the last sixteen years biotechnology, genetic engineering, transgenic organisms or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been raising numerous controversies. In the scientific sphere, genetic engineering and GMOs represent a special challenge for geneticists, breeders and physicians, in philosophy it is a topic of interest for bioethicists and agricultural ethicists, environmentalists are interested in the interconnectictions between new technology and environment protection, for multinational companies this is a potential source of huge profits, and for certain governments they represent an instrument for strategic control of food production within their countries as well as internationally. By taking into account the views of both advocates and opponents of this "revolutionary" method, authors believe that we should not a priori reject new and insufficiently studied technologies, but that in this particular it is necessary to be extremely cautious, in other words that from (bio)ethical point of view only those GMO investigations limited to scientific purposes are justified, provided that all required precautions have been taken. Also, authors are of the opinion that in this region as well as in Europe as a whole, at this moment, transgenic organisms are not necessery, neither in agricultural production nor in the food chain. Arguments for such a statement are found primarily in the potential issues that intentional breeding of GMOs might inflict upon the human health and environment. Namely, if borders of individual species are not overstepped and if their endogenous traits are made stronger, the potential risk of causing irreparable damage for both present and future generations which may be brought by changed biological succession will be reduced, i.e. one of the four fundamental bioethical principles will be applied and that is the nonmaleficence. Further intentional decreasing of biodiversity should not be allowed, which means that it is necessary to respect as much as it is possible the complexity of the very nature, its autonomy and "otherness".
THE FREQUENCY OF SYMPTOMS OF THE PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME BY ADOLESCENT FEMALES WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT
Authors:   Center for Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Čekić Elvira , Povlakić Hadžiefendić Meliha ,   Center for Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Published: September 2021

The aim of this study was to determine among adolescent females with hearing impairment the frequency of symptoms of the premenstrual syndrome.
NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY IN HUMAN ENVIRONMENT
Authors:   Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinča”, University of Belgrade, Vukanac Ivana , Kandić Aleksandar ,   Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinča”, University of Belgrade, Đurašević Mirjana ,   Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinča”, University of Belgrade, Šešlak Bojan ,   Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinča”, University of Belgrade
Published: September 2021

Since the radioactivity can not be detected by senses, the most usual reaction to it is fear of unknown. The majority of non-professionals share the common concept of radioactivity as something mysterious and dangerous. The main reason could be insufficient education as well as lack of public information on the properties of ionizing radiation and also on its influence on the environment. The fact is that radioactivity is inevitably present in human surroundings and that the humanity has been living for millennia without cognition and understanding of ionizing radiation effects. Nevertheless, proper usage of ionizing radiation in many fields of human activity could lead the way of prosperity.
SIGNIFICANCE OF EARLY-AGE LEARNING OF MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Authors:   Faculty of Science, University of Tuzla, Rešić Sead , Suljičić Amir ,   Faculty of Science, University of Tuzla
Published: September 2021

It is a fact that only hereditary, i.e. genetic factors are not sufficient for development of a child's brain; on the contrary, a child needs external stimuli expressed through touch, speech, images, which lead to the conclusion that immediate and extended surroundings shape the brain, meaning that the external stimuli stronger or weaker, mutually connect the brain cells and neurons.
THE USE OF PHRASEMES/IDIOMES IN BOSNIAN AND HERZEGOVINIAN MEDIA LANGUAGE
Authors:   Secondary Medical School, Tuzla, Brkić-Međedović Sedina
Published: September 2021

The paper is about the analysis of the use of idioms in Bosnian and Herzegovinian medial language where their origin, characteristics and their meaning are being researched. The frequency of the idioms in media language is defined. The idioms are given phraseological/idiomatical meaning, which are still not found nor written, are being identified.
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
Authors:   Kursk State Medical University, Alushina Daria
Published: September 2021

This article considers a motivation of the students to a volunteer activity in the context of nutrition. Key categories of volunteer motivation were explained based on sociological study of the students volunteers joined to project “Hercules” at the Kursk State Medical University.
Parent club as a rehabilitation structure for the family of a child with disabilities
Authors:   Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushinsky, Makeeva Tatiana ,   Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushinsky, Kokoshnikova Polina
Published: September 2021

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of organizing a parent club for families raising children with disabilities. Based on practical experience, the authors identify the conditions necessary for the effective functioning of the parent club. Based on the results of the study of the social potential, psychological characteristics and relevance of this form of work for parents, a program of classes was compiled and the main directions of the club's work were determined.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOTIVATIVE COMPONENTS OF THE PERSONALITY OF PUPILS BY MEANS OF ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
Authors:   Kursk State University, Kiperman Jana , Vorobiev Alexandr
Published: September 2021

This article examines various aspects of the development of the motivational components of the personality of schoolchildren and their socialization by means of additional education. The paper describes the results of a study of the development of speed-strength qualities of athletes of 12-14 years old using special exercises during the educational-training process within the framework of the program for the development of both speed-strength abilities, and motives and communication of those involved.
Hegel as an atheist and intuitivist in the interpretations of Alexandre Kozhève and Nikolay Lossky
Authors:   Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Korolkov Alexander A.
Published: September 2021

The Russian exiled philosophers Alexander Kozhevnikov (Alexandre Kozhève) and Nikolay Lossky, who had to leave Russia in the 1920s, gave paradoxical interpretations of Hegel’s work: Kozhève treated Hegel as an atheist whereas Lossky interpreted him as an intuitivist. Both philosophers have influenced the development of Western European philosophy and contemporary understanding of Hegel’s texts. The history of Russian philosophy would be poorer if we forget that Kozhevnikov acquired recognition as a French philosopher Kozhève only at a mature age. A strong influence on Kozhève’s treatment of Christianity was exerted by Vladimir Soloviev’s philosophy, to which he devoted his first dissertation under the guidance of Karl Jaspers. His attention to the Christian understanding of love as an endless power over the finite manifestations of spirit, which was expounded upon/revealed in his course of lectures on Hegel, enjoyed great popularity in France and influenced the formation of eminent philosophers. Hegel’s atheism in Kozhève’s interpretation is not a denial of religion, since religion and philosophy have common interests applied to eternal themes; they differ only in methods of the cognition of the Absolute. The logic of the anthropological interpretation of Hegel led Kozhève to the rationalization of religion by elevating philosophy over it. Hegel’s atheistic anthropology turned his study into a summary of religious evolution, with theology eventually ousted by anthropology. Nikolay Lossky, who had written a book on intuitivism before the revolution, in his creative work abroad extended his notion of intuitivism by calling Hegel an extreme intuitivist. He based this conclusion on Hegel’s upholding of the principle of the identity of thinking and being, that is following the logic of an object in cognition. The possibility to eliminate the contradiction between knowledge and being, about which Hegel wrote, is interpreted by Lossky as intuitivism and even empiricism.
Immanuel Kant and Herman Cohen’s philosophy of religion
Authors:   Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Belov Vladimir N. , Berdnikova Aleksandra Yu. ,   The Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Karagod Yulia G. ,   Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Published: September 2021

The article analyzes the main characteristic features of the philosophy of religion of the founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism Hermann Cohen. Special attention is paid to Cohen’s criticism and reinterpretation of Kant’s “practical philosophy” from the point of view of the philosophy of religion: Cohen supplements and expands Kant’s provisions on moral law and moral duty, interpreting them as divine commandments. The authors emphasize the fundamental importance for Cohen of the “internal similarity” between Kant’s ethical teaching and the main provisions of Judaism. The sources of Kant’s own ideas about the Jewish tradition are shown, which include the work of Moses Mendelssohn “Jerusalem” and the “Theologicalpolitical treatise” by Baruch Spinoza. Cohen’s criticism of these works is analyzed an much attention is paid to the consideration of Cohen’s attitude to Spinoza’s philosophical legacy in general. The interpretation of the postulates of Judaism by Cohen (and their “inner kinship” with Kant’s moral philosophy) in ethical, logical, and political contexts is presented. Cohen’s understanding of such religious-philosophical and doctrinal phenomena as law, grace, Revelation, teaching, the Torah, messianism, freedom, the Old Testament and the New Testament, etc. is provided and analyzed. The main points of Cohen’s religious teaching as “ethical monotheism” are considered; in particular, the authors analyze his understanding of the idea of God as “the only one”, which is highlighted in the works of Paul Natorp. It is concluded that Cohen’s philosophy of religion, which is based on the postulates of Judaism as well as Kant’s “practical philosophy”, could be characterized by the terms “ethical monotheism”, “universalism” and “humanism”.
Plato’s Socrates and a new interpretation of the kosmos
Authors:   Comenius University in Bratislava, Zelinová Zuzana
Published: September 2021

One of the most common problems encountered in present-day research into ancient natural philosophy is the question of when the term kosmos (κόσμος) began to be used not only for order, but also for the meaning of world order. This article attempts to argue that this new interpretation of kosmos is connected with Socratic thought and asserts that the Socratic anthropological turn can only be meaningfully discussed due to changes in the field of natural philosophy. This anthropological turn is best expressed by Roman orator and philosopher Cicero in his well-known work Tusculan Disputations. The article attempts to offer an interpretation based on the belief that the collocation world order presumes a philosophical turn towards a focus on humans and their internal world experiences. For the author’s interpretation, the specific concept of koinonia (κοινωνία) as it is found first in Empedocles’ fragments and later in Plato’s philosophy is important. The article consists of three parts: the first part deals with several traditional meanings of kosmos (Homer, Hesiod, Thales, Anaximenes, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Pythagoreans etc.), the second part with meanings that Socratic philosophy (especially Plato, partly Xenophon) assigns to the term, and the final part attempts to argue that it is explicitly Plato who first began using kosmos with the meaning of world or world order.
Michel Foucault’s experience, limit-experience and spirituality problem
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Korotkov Dmitry M. , Tsypina Lada V. ,   St. Petersburg State University
Published: September 2021

The article is devoted to the historical and philosophical reconstruction of the concepts of experience and limit experience in the context of the problem of spirituality in Michel Foucault’s philosophy. The authors proceed from the thesis that in the postmodern space the concept of philosophical experience dramatically changes its traditional meaning. Turning to liminal philosophy, associated with the figures of Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot, the authors includes Foucault in this series in connection with the transformation of the concept of spirituality in the course of the intellectual evolution of the French thinker. In Foucault’s legacy, it is possible to distinguish several meanings of “experience”, each connected with a special type of “spirituality”, atheistic during the formation of Foucault’s philosophical position, political during its heyday and aesthetic during its decline. Regardless of these qualitative differences, spirituality in Foucault’s project remains an unattainable goal. The authors associate this feature of the Foucauldian interpretation of spirituality with the experience of desubjectivization. The “limit-experience” is understood by Foucault in two ways: how to set boundaries and how to overcome them. It is necessarily preceded by the experience of assembling the subject by the field of one or another truth. Between these two types of experience, Foucault places “experience-correlation”, which connects areas of knowledge, types of normativity, and forms of subjectivity. If “limit-experience” is established in the process of fleeing from the chaos of everyday life, then the “experience-correlation”, examined from the standpoint of Foucault’s archeology and genealogy, forces one to unravel the subject’s historical structures. Thanks to the practices of changing, dispersing, and splitting the subject, everyday life acquires once-lost meanings. However, spirituality remains an unattainable excess provoking a person to experience in which he himself will inevitably be absent.
Cyborg ontics
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Sokolov Boris G. , Morina Larisa P. ,   St. Petersburg State University
Published: September 2021

The article is devoted to the analysis of ontic dispositions of modern reality. The modern reality is the post-, smart-, cyber-reality of the modern semi-artificial semi-living post-human cyborg. Imperatives that have been funding the cultural and ontic space of man for thousands of years, such as pain, fear, desire for pleasure, death, etc., are no longer in the zone of the sacred or metaphysical, but rather in the sphere of planned and pragmatically oriented technology. Modern cluster and virtual-based construction of the living world format the world around according to the patterns of information space, in which both time and space, technological or production chains, social ties, models of interaction and existence are formed in a smart and post-temporal and spatial paradigm that deconstructs the classical models of time, space and cultural environment as a whole. In the modern cultural environment and, accordingly, in the ontic space of the post-human cyborg, the logic of building a medial virtual-digital reality is incorporated. The article provides a cultural-philosophical and hermeneutical analysis of the main provisions of the new ontic space of modernity (logic of “logistics”, binarism, “logic of order”). It is shown that in the virtual and digital life world there is a transformation of personal parameters: structures of thinking, patterns of behavior, as well as ways of self-identification. To describe this phenomenon, the term “digital identity” is proposed, and its characteristics are given: foundation by virtual-digital means, dematerialization of relationships and actions, prosthetics by network organs, subjective non-autonomy and obedience to orders. The authors draw conclusions about the nature and essential features of the posthuman cyborg as a natural product of the new virtual digital reality.
Archetype and matrix image (potential forms of an image)
Authors:   University of Wrocław, Błocian Ilona
Published: September 2021

The article is devoted to the analysis of potential forms of the image in culture and the development of the Jungian concept of an archetype in Wunenburger, Bachelard, Durand and modern cultural studies. The notion of archetype in Carl Jung’s concept is related to the distinction between the archetype in itself, noumenon and archetype image conceived as a phenomenal manifestation of archetypal forms in the space-time, historical and social reality. This distinction has a Kantian lineage, which Jung was clearly conscious of. He provides a reference to the conception of Kant, calling it “a school of philosophical criticism” several times in his writings. In the studies of Jung’s concept, his approach to transcendentalism (Z. Rosińska) is at times present, and a certain type of its specific, evolutionary interpretation is used. The archetype, being a “thing in itself ”, determines the appearance of phenomenal forms in the space-time, historical and social world, while remaining outside the direct entanglement and referring to the evolutionally active sphere of the unconscious as an anthropological datum. The archetypal image expresses the permanent approximation of manifestation of the semantic core of the archetype itself. The notion of an archetype has evolved in contemporary understandings and conceptions; it was conceived as a psychological expression of the evolutionary pattern of behavior, as an affective-representative node and ante rem of an idea, as a hermeneutic pattern of meaning or as a kind of matrix image. The archetype can be understood in connection with anthropological structures or with a cultural image; one way of comprehension does not exclude the other.
Religious language as natural-sacred language
Authors:   Institution for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Saeidi Massoud Toossi , Hossini Seyed Hassan ,   Sharif University of Technology
Published: September 2021

The article offers a different interpretation of Antony Flew’s views about the problem of religious language. This interpretation shows that Flew’s ideas can be perceived as a critique of belief in the content of religious statements, rather than a critique of their meaning. By interpreting his thought in this way, it is clear that Flew’s approach is not new and we can find similar ideas in the history of theological thought. In connection with this interpretation, the authors analyze prevalent theories related to this problem in order to identify the principal doctrines used to find a new solution. In this regard, the new potential solution is assessed in order to complete the approach previously undertaken. The main idea is to merge two distinct and also contrasting concepts found in the literature: “natural” and “sacred”. Such a merging can begin with the concept of natural language as a theory drawn from the literature on the philosophy of language. According to the principles of the philosophy of language adopted by this article, religious language is rooted in natural language, but it is distinct from other forms in that it is the customized use of natural language by the saints of a particular religion. By offering an explanation to natural language, it is possible to view saints as the ones who used natural language in order to talk about the divine sacred realm. Similar to previous thinkers who spoke about religious language, the authors offer their own analogy. This analogy is compared and contrasted with previous ones to reveal the advantages of the proposed new view of the problem of religious language. The authors propose a new type of natural language with the special characteristic of being sacred.
Aquifer storage of treated wastewater for subsequent recovery as an important strategy for sustainable water security in Kuwait
Authors: Al-Huwaishel Afnan S. , Elmi Abdirashid , Mukhopadhyay Amitabha
Published: September 2021

This research explores the possibility of creating an underground water reservoir by injecting treated wastewater and evaluates the recovery efficiency and water quality under different injection/recovery scenarios. An injection/recovery well was established in the Dammam Formation aquifer in Kuwait. Six observation wells were also drilled nearby to monitor the water levels and quality. A three-dimensional (3D) numerical hydraulic and transport model was set up using the coupled version of MODFLOW and MT3DMS. Four scenarios of cyclic and continuous injection with different injection and pumping rates stretching over 5,400 days were investigated. Two dispersivity values, low (10 m) and high (200 m), were used in each scenario in order to establish the minimum and maximum recovery limits of useful water that can be expected from the site. The combination of injection rate of 650 m3/d and subsequent recovery at 1,000 m3/d proved to be the optimum option for the storage of water, resulting in good recovery efficiency and acceptable water quality. Based on these results, it was concluded that aquifer storage is a feasible strategy for mitigating growing water scarcity in the State of Kuwait and other countries in the larger Middle East.
Ancestral knowledge application via “albarradas” and “tapes” in water management in Santa Elena province, Ecuador
Authors: Herrera-Franco Gricelda , Carrión-Mero Paúl , Briones-Bitar Josué
Published: September 2021

Integral water management is relevant for sustainability through the criteria application of accumulation, recharge and environmental control of a watershed, enhanced by the rescue of ancestral knowledge. In the Santa Elena province (PSE), there are hundreds of structures of “albarradas” and “tapes”, built by pre-Columbian cultures as tools for water management. The aim of this paper is to present ancestral knowledge linked to groundwater by describing the use of “albarradas” and “tapes”, for the provision of water in rural communities in semi-arid areas. The methodology includes: i) generalities on the use of ancestral structures; ii) description of the “albarradas” and “tapes” in the PSE; iii) conceptual scheme of the structure of this ancestral knowledge; iv) rescue and practice for water management in semiarid areas. In the PSE there are vestiges of more than a hundred “albarradas” and “tapes” in rural areas, which reveal a history and experiences in the management and use of groundwater in these territories. The Ecuadorian government has supported the rescue of knowledge through the rehabilitation of the “albarradas”. In Manglaralto, the community itself, together with strategic allies, has been evolving and adapting this ancestral knowledge, to respond to a growing demand, and thus provide water for their own community, and they have been strengthening their productive activities such as tourism and agriculture. Nowadays, by using the “albarradas” and “tapes”, a system of planting and harvesting water has been put into practice (SyCA), and has becomes the key for water sustainability and the development of rural communities.