bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Problem Based Learning Untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Matematika Materi Volume Bangun Ruang Pada Siswa Kelas V Sd Negeri 243 Baruga
Authors: Muliana  , Sukmawati  , Ernawazti
Published: February 2024

Masalah utama dalam penelitian ini yaitu apakah melalui penerapan model problem based learning dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar matematika materi volume bangun ruang pada siswa kelas V SD Negeri 243 Baruga.  Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peningkatan hasil belajar matematika materi volume bangun ruang melalui penerapan model pembelajaran problem based learning pada siswa kelas V SD Negeri 243 Baruga. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas V SD Negeri 243 Baruga sebanyak 16 orang. Jenis penelitian ini adalah Penelitian Tindakan Kelas dengan Kurt Lewin yang terdiri dari empat langkah pokok, yaitu perencanaan, pelaksanaan tindakan, observasi, dan refleksi. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah tes hasil belajar, lembar observasi aktivitas siswa, dan dokumentasi.  Sedangkan teknik analisis data menggunakan analisis data kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pada siklus I yang tuntas secara individual dari 16 siswa hanya 7 orang atau 43,7% yang memenuhi kriteria ketuntasan minimal (KKM). Secara klasikal belum terpenuhi karena nilai rata-rata diperoleh sebesar 66,06. Sedangkan pada siklus II dimana dari 16 siswa terdapat 14 orang atau 87,5% yang memenuhi kriteria ketuntasan minimal (KKM) dan secara klasikal sudah terpenuhi yaitu nilai rata-rata yang diperoleh sebesar 86,43. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian tersebut di atas, dapat disimpulkan bahwa Hasil belajar Matematika siswa kelas V SD Negeri 243 Baruga Kecamatan Bantimurung Kabupaten Maros melalui penerapan model pembelajaran problem based learning mengalami peningkatan.
The Temptation To Go Beyond Conventional Long-Range Strike
Authors:   Australian Defence Force, Cook Daniel
Published: February 2024

Australia is enhancing its long-range strike capabilities through purchasing Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) and Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM). The Defence Strategic Review (DSR) intimated the development of hypersonic weapons (Department of Defence, 2023, p. 72). These capabilities are required under the DSR to achieve the strategic outcome of deterrence through denial (Department of Defence, 2023, p. 32). But there is a temptation to take this conversation further into nuclear weapons. Conflating discussions on Nuclear-powered submarines through AUKUS, calls for nuclear power generation in Australia (Dutton, 2023), long-range strike capabilities and deterrence leads to the question—should Australia go the extra distance to have a nuclear long-range strike capability?
Remote sensing approaches for land use/land cover change in coastal areas and oceanic islands: an open science-based systematic review
Authors: Tiengo Rafaela , Palácios-Orueta Alicia , Uchôa Jéssica , Gil Artur
Published: February 2024

In the current climate change context, detecting and monitoring relevant land use/land cover (LULC) changes in insular and coastal areas is critical as soon as they occur. This research consists of a systematic literature review of 167 open-access articles from January 2010 to June 2022, based on several parameters, namely year of publication, journals, geographic location of the study area, time range of the studies, data source, data type, sensors, remote sensing-based approach, data processing algorithms, accuracy assessment approach, and spatial resolution, using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) declaration as a guideline. The results revealed that the years 2020 and 2021 showed the highest number of studies published, namely 33 for each year (20%). The continent with the most case studies was Asia (48%), with China being the most productive country in this field (23%). The most analyzed time range was superior to 20 years (37% of the studies). Satellite imagery was the most applied data source (77%), followed by relevant historical data (e.g., land cover maps). The multispectral data was used in 77% of the studies, and the Landsat Mission represents three of five of the most used sensors. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index was the most applied remote sensing-based approach (10%), and the Maximum Likelihood Classifier Algorithm was the most widely used data processing algorithm (10%). The Overall Accuracy is the most applied accuracy assessment approach used in 85 papers (51%). Many articles used a 30-meter spatial resolution (69%), and higher resolutions completed the top 5 approaches. This study contributes to perceiving the main current approaches for monitoring LULC changes in insular and coastal environments to identify research gaps for future developments.
Zastosowanie metody równoległych współrzędnych w wizualizacji wielowymiarowych zbiorów danych
Authors: Migdał-Najman Kamila
Published: February 2024

One of general questions, which appears in the analysis of multi-dimensional data sets, is their graphical presentation. Using the parallel coordinate method developed and popularized by A. Inselberg, is proposed as a settlement of the problem. Main ideas of the method as well as an example of its using are presented in the article. Results of the analysis are shown graphically. The described method can prove to be a useful tool to receive and visualize information on multi-dimensional object sets.
Imputacja danych w spisach powszechnych
Authors: Młodak Andrzej
Published: February 2024

Results of a simulation experiment aimed at an appraisal of utility of some original model of data imputation in censuses are presented in the paper. It is based on clustering of records-donors according to their similarity and on the method of statistical roulette, i.e. a rotational algorithm arranging to records receives the lacking data in a random way from the nearest homogeneous donor clusters. The exercise, which showed high efficiency of the applied attempt, was performed using data for the gmina Gołuchów in the Wielkopolska region collected during the National Population and Housing Census conducted in 2002.
Zmiany w sieci handlu detalicznego
Authors: Kłosiewicz-Górecka Urszula
Published: February 2024

In her article, the author, utilising data from the Central Statistical Office (GUS), carried out an analysis of the developments occurred in retail trade in Poland in 1989–2008. These are property-related, quantitative and qualitative developments manifesting themselves in a dynamic development of large trade facilities (supermarkets, hypermarkets, discount stores, shopping centres) functioning within the framework of chains, development of small shops operating according to the original development strategies (integration, specialisation, carrying out activities in the market niche, application of up-to-date information technologies in company management).
Indian renewable power sector: potential, policies, barriers, and its prospective
Authors:   PSG College of Technology, Bogaraj T. , Kanakaraj J. ,   PSG College of Technology
Published: February 2024

Increasing prices, green house gas emission, and depleting nature of fossil fuel makes the world to think about alternate sources of energy particularly renewable energy sources which are green sources, and freely available. Carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced by replacing the existing fossil fuel based systems with renewable energy sources as far as possible and increasing the energy efficiency of existing systems. Policies of Indian government to adapt more renewable energy sources are rigorous in the last decade. Various strategies taken by Indian government for the last two decades have increased the renewable share in the electricity sector. But the energy demand is increasing at about 10% every year. Renewable energy sources are added in a phased manner into the Indian electricity sector. This paper presents different renewable technologies, developments, potential, and barriers to renewable energy adaption in India. Unused potential of various renewable sources in India are indicated. Also, policies of Government and current, future status of renewable sources are summarised.
Die sieben Synonyme für Gott. Analyse des Gottesbegriffs im Lehrbuch der Christlichen Wissenschaft
Authors: Kappeler Max
Published: February 2024

Mit den sieben Synonymen für Gott führt Mary Baker Eddy einen neuen Gottesbegriff als ein Prinzip des Seins ein (vgl. „Wissenschaft und Gesundheit mit Schlüssel zur Heiligen Schrift“, S. 465). Diese Definition Gottes wird in dem hier vorliegenden Buch in seiner weiteren Entwicklung und Differenzierung vorgestellt: Es führt in die Analyse der sieben Synonyme aus dem Werk Mary Baker Eddys ein, stellt dar, wie die Ergebnisse dieser Analyse mit den von John W. Doorlys gefunden Ordnungen übereinstimmt, erläutert das Synonymitätsprinzip, legt die Synonyme als Sprache des Geistes dar und zeichnet den Weg der Bewusstwerdung der Synonyme als Seins-Faktoren nach, es zeigt die Synonyme in den unterschiedlichen Ordnungen auf der Ebenen der christlichen Wissenschaft, erläutert ihren dimensionalen Charakter, behandelt ihre jeweils spezifische Ausdrucksform in den einzelnen Kapiteln des Lehrbuchs der christlichen Wissenschaft und führt durch die daraus entstandenen Synonym-Matrizen. Abschließend werden die Synonyme noch vom Standpunkt der Einheit des Seins behandelt. Durch die verschiedenen Kapitel lernen die Lesenden somit die Vielschichtigkeit der sieben Synonyme kennen und werden zugleich in die spezielle Form wissenschaftlicher Kategorien in der Wissenschaft des Seins als einerseits deutlich voneinander unterschieden und andererseits als ineinander übergehend eingeführt.
Eine englische Übersetzung des Buchs finden Sie hier:
https://www.kappelerinstitute.org/kappeler-files/Books/7synonyms.pdf
The Final Strongholds of the Infinitive: (Silent) Modals in Romanian and Southern Italy
Authors:   University of Cambridge, Ledgeway Adam
Published: February 2024

Romanian and the Romance and Greek varieties of the extreme south of Italy show various degrees of diachronic and diatopic microvariation in the loss and retreat of the infinitive, whilst displaying at the same time a high degree of overall structural uniformity in their parallel preservation of the (bare) infinitive in: (1) restructuring contexts; (2) infinitival relatives; and (3) negative imperatives. On the surface, there is nothing a priori to suggest that these three contexts should be connected in any way. Yet the discussion below demonstrates how these three uses can be reduced to a single structural explanation which views the infinitive as a reduced clausal constituent (viz. v-VP) generated in a monoclausal structure selected in all cases by a modal, temporal or aspectual auxiliary which is phonologically overt in (1), but oscillates between overt and covert phonological realizations in (2) and (3) in accordance with crosslinguistic variation. The result is a unified analysis which allows us to capture the distribution of (bare) infinitival complementation in all the relevant varieties quite simply in terms of a so-called restructuring configuration in line with Hill’s (2013a,b, 2017) intuition that the Romanian (and more generally Balkan) bare infinitive instantiates a monoclausal structure selected by a T-related auxiliary.
Differential Object Marking and Diachronic Incrementation in Child Heritage Romanian
Authors:   University of Bucharest, Avram Larisa , Mardale Alexandru ,   Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, Soare Elena ,   Université Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis, Paris
Published: February 2024

In contemporary Romanian, differential object marking is undergoing a change from a system allowing two marking patterns in optional contexts to a system which preserves only one of these patterns. In the present study we verify if child heritage speakers opt for the novel system at a level beyond the one in the input. The data come from 34 narratives by 7- and 10-year-old heritage speakers of Romanian living in France, compared to 34 narratives by monolingual children living in the homeland, 11 adult first generation immigrants from France and 10 Romanian adults from Romania. The findings suggest that language change is not advanced in a heritage language acquisition scenario when the change is found in the weaker language and targets a phenomenon at the syntax-discourse interface.
Specificities in Object Clitic Doubling in Balkan Romance and Balkan Slavic
Authors:   University of Novi Sad, Tomic Olga Miseska
Published: February 2024

The present paper examines the specificities in object clitic doubling in two Balkan Romance languages, Romanian and Aromanian, and two Balkan Slavic languages, Macedonian and Bulgarian. Having illustrated, the conditions on clitic doubling in Romanian, Aromanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian, we analyse and compare these conditions. It is pointed out that the conditions on clitic doubling in Aromanian and Macedonian are almost analogous – definiteness plays a central role in clitic doubling of the direct objects of the two languages, whereas the clitic doubling of indirect objects mainly depends on specificity. The conditions on clitic doubling in Romanian and Bulgarian differ substantially from the conditions on clitic doubling in the Balkan languages with which they are in close genetic relationships. In both Romanian and Bulgarian, clitic doubling depends on discourse factors, but the types and usage of these factors are idiosyncratic. In Bulgarian, all topicalized definite objects are clitic-doubled, while the indefinite topicalized objects are clitic-doubled only under specific conditions. In Romanian, the cliticization of both direct and indirect objects is typically triggered by topicality and specificity, while direct object clitic doubling is, in addition, triggered by humanness. We argue that object clitic doubling results from a centuries-long socio-linguistic contact in an environment in which direct inter-translatability is needed. Clitic doubling in Macedonian and Aromanian occurs under almost identical conditions, because the two languages have for a long time been in such an environment. When the object clitic doubling phenomenon spreads in areas where no direct inter-translatability is required, distinct phenomena appear.
Nebogati hora, negoljam grad, neloš rezultat: the Golden Mean from a Bulgarian Perspective
Authors:   University of Calgary, Mladenova Olga Miseska
Published: February 2024

This article presents the outcomes of a corpus-based study of a subgroup of deadjectival adjectives formed with the negative prefix ne- that includes adjectives like nevisok (neither tall, nor short) visok (tall). The corpus consists of fragments of text showing how negative adjectives that can refer to mid-range properties have been used in Bulgarian writings since the 19th century. The author establishes the inventory of negative non-extreme adjectives, explores their semantic and prosodic characteristics and the types of relations they maintain with their source adjective and its antonym. The system of negative non-extreme adjectives which came into being in the 19th century took standard Bulgarian one incremental step away from its Balkan neighbours and simultaneously strengthened its ties to the Slavic-speaking world.
Interfaces between Inflectional and Derivational Morphology in Romanian
Authors:   Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics, Croitor Blanca
Published: February 2024

. In this paper I present a few cases from Romanian where the distinction between inflectional and derivational morphology is not clear-cut or where an affix crosses from one category to the other: a derivational suffix which becomes a plural/inflectional desinence marker in section 1., the use of a plural desinence with derivational value in section 2., the use of the definite article (inflectional suffix) as a derivational affix in section 3., and the analysis of an affix as either derivational, inflectional or both in section 4. The examples provided are from standard and regional contemporary Romanian, with a few diachronic observations.
Language Contact Phenomena in Maya under Spanish Influence – A Case Study on the Use of Pronominals in Yucatec Maya
Authors:   University of Hamburg, Brinkmann Lisa Marie
Published: February 2024

This contribution aims to analyse the language contact phenomena between Yucatec Maya and Spanish, focusing specifically on the case of pronominals. This empirical study takes place in the village of Xocén in Yucatán, Mexico where most locals speak Maya while Spanish is the official language also spoken by many (bilingual) locals. The use of pronominals in Maya differs from Spanish in terms of morphology, functions, case assignment, syntactic conditions, and discourse conditions. I apply the interface hypothesis developed by Sorace (2011) which expects bilinguals to show optionality in the use of pronominals that require specific syntactic and discourse conditions (interface), and the contact-induced language change hypothesis developed by Heine and Kuteva (2003) which expects the formation of the pronominals in Maya to be influenced by Spanish. In a case study with three monolingual Mayan speakers and six bilingual Mayan-Spanish speakers, I collected freely produced speech data in Maya focusing on the use of pronominals and analysed the different functions these pronominals fulfil. The results show that bilinguals do display optionality regarding certain pronominals that exist at interfaces and that no influence of Spanish can be found in the Mayan pronominal system. Therefore, Maya-Spanish bilingualism can be better characterised by Sorace’s interface hypothesis (2011) than by contact-induced grammaticalisation (Heine and Kuteva 2003).
The Influence of N+N English Loanwords on Romanian Morphosyntax Facilitated by Cognates
Authors:   Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics, Barbu Ana-Maria
Published: February 2024

This study examines the morphosyntactic influences of English on Romanian, through English compound loanwords of the type noun/adjective-modifier + noun-head (N/AMOD + NHEAD). Some of these loanwords undergo a transformation process in the Romanian language, which involves changing the English head with a Romanian cognate (e.g. stand-up comedy becomes stand-up comedie), but especially changing the order of the elements of the compound so that two variants coexist: NMOD + NHEAD (e.g. stand-up comedie) and NHEAD + NMOD (e.g. comedie stand-up). These variants, if interpreted as having free order, can create a new syntactic pattern with English characteristics. In order to assess the degree of expansion of this phenomenon, the evolution of 241 compound loanwords (listed in the Annex) is followed quantitatively and qualitatively.
A Case of Pseudo-Optionality as a Consequence of Language Contact
Authors:   The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Xu Zetao , Junnan Pan Victor
Published: February 2024

The current study demonstrates a case of pseudo-optionality in Chinese Wu, whereby certain adverbs can “optionally” appear in both pre-verbal position and post-verbal position. We argue that this is only a case of pseudo-optionality and that these “optional” constructions are in fact resulted from language contact between Wu and Mandarin Chinese. Importantly, no derivational relationship exists between the two adverbs, given that both are base-generated. Furthermore, the current case suggests that some phenomena related to apparent optionality can be a result of language contact, which offers a plausible account for problems related to the existence of certain optional structures under the framework of the Minimalist Program (see Chomsky 2000).
On the Internal Structure of Pronouns: From the Perspective of Noun Ellipsis
Authors:   Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics, Giurgea Ion , Ivan Rodica ,   Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics
Published: February 2024

The widespread pattern of “noun-less” variants of DPs (e.g. two/these [nP/NumPØ] vs. two/these cars) might lead to the expectation that the definite determiner should be able to head DPs with a null complement. The best candidate for representing the structure [Ddef [nP/NumPØ]] are 3rd person personal pronouns (Elbourne, 2005; a.o), an analysis supported by evidence for NP-ellipsis (or N-anaphora) in pronouns. However, equating pronouns with THE+[nP/NumPØ] faces a number of issues: the different behavior of pronouns and other definite descriptions with respect to binding; the differences in syntactic and semantic features between pronouns and DPs headed by THE (e.g. gender); the one-to-many structure-form relationship between the single structure THE+[nP/NumPØ] and different series of pronominal forms (strong and weak forms); and, a gap in the attested combinations of THE and [NØ]. Our account addresses these issues. We propose that the D used in pronouns, which we label Dpron, has the semantics of THE, but THE and Dpron differ in their formal features. We posit that a null NP complement needs to be licensed by features on the determiner the NP merges with, and that Dpron bears such features. Thus, we capture the fact that typical THE does not surface in cases where there is no overt element in the complement of D (i.e. what we call total emptiness) via the absence of these features on THE. Additionally, to further explore the differences between strong and weak forms in Romanian, we present the results of a corpus study on these forms.
Adverbial Agreement: Phi Features, Nominalizations, and Fragment Answers
Authors:   Università degli Studi di Siena, Massaro Angelapia
Published: February 2024

We investigate adverbial agreement in Sandəmarkesə (S. Marco in Lamis, Apulia) proposing phase-bound, local agreement relations, reducible to coordination, as in past and absolute participial constructions, suggesting a copulaless analysis where arguments are subjects in a small clause. With disjunct nominals with matching φ-features, the adverb agrees separately with each part in the set, otherwise resulting in ‘non-agreeing’ forms, which we test also with negative polarity items (niʃun-, ‘nobody’ and nentə, ‘nothing’). With fragment answers, the negation scopes over adverbs agreeing with the two proposed topics: matching of the φ-features of both nouns values the negative operator with the same features. In fronted adverbs, agreement occurs when the question contains overt coordinated arguments, elements continuing a chain, and if coordinated arguments have matching φ-features. In agreement in topical contexts with fronted adverbs, agreement occurs with the aboutness-shift topic closely preceding them, rather than with the embedded direct object.
Lexical Choices of the Contemporary French Press and the Representation of Montenegro: A Lexicometric Analysis of Journalistic Discourse
Authors:   University of Montenegro, Vusovic Olivera
Published: February 2024

The aim of this paper is to analyze how the contemporary French press used language to present Montenegro, through a corpus-based study of articles from five notable journals (Le Figaro, Le Monde, Le Point, L’Obs, L’Express), published over a period of fifteen years, from 2006 to 2021. Lexicometric analysis performed with open source software IRaMuTeQ enabled us to determine the structure of the vocabulary, as well as the salient themes and “lexical worlds” shaped by the French media about Montenegro, since the restoration of its independence in 2006. Fifteen years of reporting revealed three main centers of interest: politics, tourism and sports. The study also revealed how the most common toponyms in the corpus are characterized, how adjectives participate in the intensification of media content and what specificities distinguish the five analyzed journals, regarding the treatment of particular topics and over-use or under-use of some lexical units.
Words Expressing Eternity in the Novel Varlaam and Josaphat
Authors:   Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics, Stanciu Istrate Maria
Published: February 2024

The author aims to offer an analysis of the words used to denote eternity in the popular novel Varlaam and Josaphat, which was translated from Slavonic to Romanian by Udriște Năsturel in the mid-17th century. The analysed terms are: vecuitor, vecui, veacinic, preveacinic, preneclătinat, neputred, nevechitor, nesfărâmat, fără-de-moarte, fără-sfârșenie, pururea fiitor, pururea-trăitor, trăitor, stătător, and împreună-pururea-fiitor. Most of these terms were formed by imitating the internal structure of the Slavonic terms they translated. The current Romanian vocabulary retains only veacinic, in its literary variant veșnic. The other words did not survive the passing of time. Some of the terms do not appear in Romanian lexicographic works and seem to be personal lexical creations of Udriște Năsturel.
Whitehead’s Resistance to Scepticism in Relation to Santayana
Authors:   Cercetator independent, Rusu Bogdan
Published: February 2024

Without ever becoming central, the refutation of scepticism constitutes one of the pervading themes of Whitehead's philosophy of perception. His way of resisting scepticism about the external world was the doctrine of the two pure modes of perception, presentational immediacy and causal efficacy, and of the mixt mode of symbolic reference. In the present study, I try to evaluate Whitehead's theory of perception as a rampart against scepticism. First, I expose, in relevant outline, Whitehead’s theory of perception as it first appears in S, with the necessary refinements adduced in PR, and I find it wanting. Next, I show that Whitehead’s doctrine of subjective forms works as a patch for the theory, and allows it to counter some varieties of scepticism.
‘Feeling’ and Metaphysics in Whitehead
Authors:   Institutul de filosofie si psihologie Constantin Radulescu-Motru, Academia Româna, Baciu Claudiu
Published: February 2024

For someone who knows the history of Western metaphysics, it is entirely unexpected to hear that Whitehead’s metaphysics contains as one of its fundamental pieces the concept of ‘feeling.’ This could work if one envisages a metaphysics of the human being but not metaphysics in general. In my paper, I show what sinuous ways Western metaphysics had to follow so that ‘feeling' could be postulated as a universal feature of all entities in the universe and why ‘feeling’ is a sine qua non condition in conceptualizing the ‘actual occasion.’
‘Immediacy’ in Whitehead and Blaga
Authors:   Institutul de filosofie si psihologie Constantin Radulescu-Motru, Academia Româna, Serban Henrieta
Published: February 2024

In Whitehead’s metaphysics there is a concept of ‘immediacy’ which is interesting to interpret in relation to the concept of ‘immediacy’ found in Lucian Blaga’s metaphysics. Immediacy stands in opposition to the wholeness of existence and the complexity of reality in both thinkers. In Whitehead, immediate experience is merely a facet of the constructed series of events and processes fundamental for existence and reality and for connecting our objective, scientific and logical descriptions of the world, and the more everyday world of subjective experience. In Blaga, immediacy is the label for limited (animal-like) existence deprived of the metaphysical dimension. However, in Blaga, man is defined by the metaphysical dimension and thus, in terms closer to Whitehead’s view, always engaged in a crusade to comprehend both ‘physical multiplicity’ (the World) and ‘the infinite ground of all mentality’ (God), which is consonant with Blaga’s concept of man’s defining situation within ‘the horizon of mystery’. Both metaphysics accepted a perspective, or, an interpretation of the idea that God creates the World as well as the World creating God. In our view, the Unmoved Mover image of God remains as a ‘trace’ in the idea of permanent reference for the World. This is comparable with the perspective found in the metaphysics of Lucian Blaga, where the metaphysical center, the ‘Great Anonymous,’ ‘pushes’ backwards the human being, via limitative ‘divine differentials’ occasioning the limiting stylistic matrices for the creative and intrusive ontological and metaphysical drive of man.
Spinoza și Uriel da Costa. Schița unei filiații analitice
Authors:   Institutul de Științe Politice și Relații Internaționale ,,Ion I.C. Brătianu” al Academiei Române, Tănăsescu Gabriela
Published: February 2024

The paper circumscribes, through a specific history of ideas approach, the influence on Spinozaʼs philosophy and his radical biblical analysis of the unique intelectual and religios model of marranos ‒ Sephardic “secret Jews” forcibly converted to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, later converted to Judaism in their exile in the Netherlands in particular. From the “radical cases” of heterodox marranos, the paper presents the historical and linguistic coordinates of Uriel da Costa’s biblical criticism, followed by Spinoza as well, and also the similarities of thought and existential parcours between the two thinkers.
Leibniz despre principiul continuității
Authors:   Institutul de filosofie si psihologie Constantin Radulescu-Motru, Academia Româna, Niţă Adrian
Published: February 2024

The idea that man is a living mirror of the universe, or, as a spirit, a living mirror of the divinity, is closely related to the theme of continuity. We will approach this issue less from the perspective of the theory of knowledge, but rather from a metaphysical perspective. The solution of the labyrinth of the composition of the continuum constitutes Ariadne’s thread through the labyrinth of Leibnizian thought, with the help of which we will be able to reach the end of many problems raised by the latter’s texts. Just like Ariadne’s thread, the solution of the labyrinth has two ends: one is located in the principle of continuity, the other in the theory of possibility, or, to put it differently, starting from the problematic theory of continuity we will reach the bright area of possibility.
Eseul kantian asupra îmbătrânirii Pământului: motive de îngrijorare sau de responsabilitate
Authors:   Institutul de filosofie si psihologie Constantin Radulescu-Motru, Academia Româna, Croitoru Rodica
Published: February 2024

From the Kantian essay on the aging of Earth follow consequences valuable until today. Among them, the care for water, necessary for the maintenance of nature and humans, is dominant. Another resource which should not be wasted is salt. It contributes to the maintenance of life as well. It is required that all these natural resources be responsibly maintained, in order to better serve their purposes. This is the implicit message of Kant’s essay on the aging of Earth: to be responsible for our planet.
Sentiment empiric și acțiune morală la Kant
Authors:   Universitatea din Craiova, Răduică Ionuț
Published: February 2024

In this study we aim to investigate Kant’s thought on the concept of feeling. Through hermeneutical method, that involves genealogy and links between ideas, we follow the develop of the concept of feeling in three main stages: one focusses on the Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime; the second regards some aspects from Critique of Pure Reason; and the later investigates the Metaphysics of Morals. The main question of the study is that the vision from the begining (feeling is self sufficient as practical postulate, despite some imperfection and malfunctions) is still available during the second and the third stages. Our theory sugests that Kant chose to advocate only the feelings that relies on reason (happyness, moral feeling), while the rest of them are asimitated with regular sensation.
Ce mai putem spera de la arta modernă? O perspectivă heideggeriană asupra artei moderne
Authors:   Universitatea din Bucuresti, Drella Anita
Published: February 2024

The central text around which I have written this work is: Art in the Epoch of Completion of Modernity, a text authored by Martin Heidegger between 1937 and 1938 but published posthumously. What draws attention in this work, distinguishing it from other Heideggerian texts, is the apparent shift from the usual manner of writing, primarily preoccupied with the meticulous choosing of the words that shape his thoughts. Instead, we encounter a Heidegger who is notably more decisive and impatient.
Actual coverage of the funds in the account by order on physical evidence under Polish criminal procedure
Authors: Jaworski Damian , Samiczak Kamil
Published: February 2024

The subject of this article is a consideration of recent changes to the current Polish criminal procedure. The changes concern in particular the investigation. Initially, the Supreme Court issued two resolutions, which eliminated the actual coverage of the funds in the account by order on physical evidence (this is a legal fiction - funds in an account are not physical objects). At that time, the public prosecutor could only use the "transaction suspension" or "blocking of an account" to freeze the funds. Later, the Polish legislator added Art. 236b to the Code of Criminal Procedure. The purpose of this provision is to outdate the above-mentioned resolutions. Instead of a suspension or blockade, the actual coverage of the funds in the account by order on physical evidence may take place. However, in the authors' opinion, this should only take place in the case of an ultima ratio action. This means, firstly, the end of the maximum duration of the "transaction suspension" or "blocking of an account" and, secondly, the impossibility to apply property collateral. These restrictions are not currently in Polish law. This means that the Polish public prosecutor can theoretically omit the provisions on the "transaction suspension" or "blocking of an account". This possibility applies to fiduciary currencies and virtual currencies. This paper may be useful in considering the options currently available to the public prosecutor in relation to a request for legal assistance to Polish law enforcement authorities which concerns the seizure of funds in an account.
Observation of mathematics learning results in Al Biruni Class IV students
Authors: Cahyanti  , Kartika Amelia , Laily Husnul
Published: February 2024

This study aimed to observe the results of learning mathematics in fourth-grade students at SDI Al Biruni. The observation method was employed to understand the level of students' understanding of mathematics material and the effectiveness of teaching methods used in the school. The study involved 30 grade IV students as observation subjects. Data were analyzed through qualitative analysis to identify trends and patterns in the observations. The results of this study are expected to have provided an overview of the extent to which grade IV students at SDI Al Biruni mastered mathematics and offered insights into possible improvement efforts in the learning process.
Nipah: The looming post-covid pandemic
Authors:   UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA, Chiappelli Francesco
Published: February 2024

First identified as a pathogen in Malaysia and Singapore in 1999, Nipah virus (NiV) caused nearly 300 human cases and over 100 fatalities. It also killed about 1 million pigs. Three years later (2002), it was reported in Pteropus bats in Malaysia, in Cambodia & Thailand, (2005), and as far as Madagascar (2007) and Ghana (2008). India (Kerala) reported its first human NiV-caused fatalities in September 2023. Taken together, these trends emphasize its public health threat. In humans, NiV infection initially leads to fever, headache, body aches and muscle pain, nausea and vomiting. The symptoms rapidly evolve into sore throat, cough and atypical pneumonia leading to severe respiratory distress. The cadre of NiV-induced pathology (Nipah disease, NiD) then includes severe dizziness and drowsiness, progressive alteration in cognition and consciousness, acute encephalitis and seizures. Public health protocols (e.g., mask-wearing, quarantine), essential to contain and control CoViD-19, seem insufficient to contain NiD spread because NiV transmission occurs primarily via direct contacts with body fluids of infected carriers, but presumably not by airborne transmission. As in the case of SARS-C0V2, health care providers (i.e., physicians, dentists, nurses, dental assistants) are greatest risks not only of contracting but of spreading NiV infection. NiV is a high-pathogenicity pathogen, against which, at present, we have no anti-viral medications or preventive vaccine. Taken together, the evidence to date heightens the threat of an upcoming NiD pandemic.
Association between asthma and periodontitis
Authors:   Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia, I Ibraheem Wael
Published: February 2024

The association between asthma and periodontitis is of interest. 20 periodontitis patients with asthma (asthma group) and 20 patients without asthma (non-asthma group) were included based on inclusion and inclusion criteria. Periodontitis was classified according to 2017 periodontal classification and periodontal parameters such as tooth loss, pocket depth, clinical attachment loss, alveolar bone loss, bone reduction index, plaque index, bleeding index and periodontal risk were assessed. Effect of anti-asthmatic drugs and asthma control on periodontal parameters was also assessed. Inter-group comparison of all the continuous variables was done using independent „t‟ test. Comparison of categorical variables was done using Chi-square test. P value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results showed greater severity and higher grade of periodontitis with asthma group as well as with patients on anti-asthmatic drugs and patients with poor controlled asthma. Based on the results it can be concluded that an association between asthma and periodontitis exists.
PENGARUH KUALITAS PRODUK, GAYA HIDUP DAN CITRA MEREK TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN SMARTPHONE XIAOMI
Authors: Efendi Bahtiar , Ashshiddiqy Muhammad Zain
Published: February 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kualitas produk, gaya hidup, dan citra merek terhadap keputusan pembelian smartphone Xiaomi pada mahasiswa FEB Unsiq. Metode analisis data yang menggunakan analisis regresi linier berganda. Metode pengambilan sampel menggunakan non-probability sampling dengan teknik purposive sampling. Sampel penelitian ini diperoleh dari rumus Hair sebanyak 180 orang responden yang merupakan mahasiswa FEB Unsiq. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa: (1) Kualitas produk berpengaruh positif terhadap keputusan pembelian dengan nilai thitung (7,908) > ttabel (1,973) dan nilai  signifikansi (0,000) < (0,05). (2) Gaya hidup berpengaruh positif  terhadap keputusan pembelian dengan thitung (4,832) > ttabel (1,973) dan nilai signifikansi (0,000) < (0,05). (3) Citra merek berpengaruh positif terhadap keputusan pembelian dengan nilai thitung (3,485) > ttabel (1,973) dan nilai signifikansi (0,000) < (0,05).
Archaeological Investigations at the Trader's Cave,Niah National Park: Reports on the Second and Third (2018 & 2019) Field Seasons
Authors:   Sarawak Museum Department, bin Suffi Mohd. Sherman , Curnoe Darren ,   University of New South Wales, Sydney, Goh Mei Hsiao , Sun Xue-feng , W. Paul Jarrad , R. Cohen David , Sombroek Hank , McDowell Matthew , Peiris Roshan , Slack Micheal , Magalhaes Clara , Soares Rosario , Ali Haidar , Jami Mortiza
Published: February 2024

In November 2017, 50 years after Tom and Barbara Harrisson completed their excavations in the West Mouth of the Niah Great Cave Complex (NGCC), we began archaeological excavations in the Trader's Cave (Fig.1). While the area containing the Niah Caves was privately owned land at the time the Harrissons undertook their research it was gazetted as a National Park in 1974 and today comprises 3,138 hectares of forest and karst areas including many largely unexplored caves. Our research project, underway since 2011, aims to assess the archaeological and palaeoenvironmental potential of the caves in Niah National Park beyond the areas subject to research previously by the Harrissons. The Trader's Cave (3°49’1.16”N, 113°46'54.42”E) is the second largest cavern in Nia National Park and is located approximately 150 m north of the West Mouth within the same karst tower (Bukit Bekajang) as the NGCC. As noted previously (Curnoe et al. 2017), the Harrissons excavated a small trial excavation in the northern tourist entrance of the cave during 1956, but never published the results or returned to the locality for further archaeological research. Until our project began, there had been no archaeological activities within the main cavern of the Trader's Cave despite its size: the cave being ~200 m in maximum length, ~30 m at its widest point and with a maximum height >15 m. Similarly, while Hazelbroek and Morshidi (2000) provided a brief description of the geology of the cave, the only detailed speleological investigation of the Trader's Cave was published in 2017 (Dodge-Wan 2017). Since our first field campaign (Curnoe et al. 2017), we have completed a further two field seasons with a total duration of 16 weeks of field research 2017 - 2019 in this cave, with further excavations planned for 2020 - 2022.
Developing and managing rock art tourism: The importance of site histories, visitor centres, visitor books and visitor experience
Authors:   Griffith University, S.C Tacon Paul
Published: February 2024

Archaeotourism is a major global industry that takes many forms, from onsite visitation to museum visits and, increasingly, various sorts of virtual experience. Of the different types of places people like to visit those with rock art can be particularly powerful. Rock art consists of paintings, prints, stencils, petroglyphs, bas relief and other human-made marks in caves and rock shelters, as well as on boulders and rock platforms. Worldwide there is growing public interest in visiting rock art sites or replicas of important sites closed to the public. Across Southeast Asia there are a range of sites open for public visitation with widely variable infrastructure, management strategies, custodial arrangements and funding. Management and conservation plans are rare as are long-term monitoring programme. However, sites remain popular with tourists and often are a source of national pride. In this paper, these issues are explored with examples from various Southeast Asian countries, especially Malaysia. Lessons from new research into Australian rock art tourism is also referred to. Among other things, the importance of site histories, visitor books and visitor centres for rock art sites open for tourism is emphasised, as well as the nature of visitor information and experience. It is concluded that rock art site visits should be grounded in other sorts of archaeological tourism as well as experiences of nature wherever possible. Also, we need to make sure sites are well looked after and not 'loved to death'. Lastly, these sorts of tourism experiences can be promoted as a way of enhancing personal health and well-being given recent happiness' research results from many parts of the world.
A importância das práticas pedagógicas no ambiente socioeducativo
Authors: Leite Thiago de Castro , Ferreira Herberth Gomes , Pinel Hiran
Published: February 2024

Temos como proposta neste artigo, fazer uma breve reflexão acerca do papel da pedagogia, mais especificamente, das práticas pedagógicas no ambiente da socioeducação. Para isso, buscamos trazer alguns elementos e estudos que direta ou indiretamente corroboram com a nossa discussão, dentre os aspectos teóricos, históricos e/ou metodológicos, que puderam guiar nossa reflexão. Nessa linha, buscamos destacar a formação histórica de uma pedagogia que se voltou para o campo do social, evidenciando o que foi se tornando uma prática pedagógica no ambiente da socioeducação. Ao longo do trabalho, mostraremos aqui e ali como foi se formando o que se conhece hoje como socioeducação e seu amparo legal. Ao final, tentamos apontar a importância das práticas pedagógicas nesse espaço, também educacional, como sinal de esperança.
The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral play therapy on exam anxiety and academic vitality
Authors: Safari Reza , Heidari Shaban , Hasanzadeh Ramazan
Published: February 2024

Background and purpose: Examining the issues and problems of students in the field of education and personality and identifying the factors that probably hinder their personal and social growth is of particular importance in every society. The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral game therapy on exam anxiety and academic vitality in elementary school boys. Methods: This research was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of implementation method, it was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population in this research included all male students of primary school in district 2 of Sari city. In this research, a sample consisting of 30 students who were selected by voluntary sampling from among all the male students of primary school in district 2 of Sari city. They were randomly divided into two groups of 15 people (cognitive behavioral play therapy and control group). The data were collected using the children's test anxiety questionnaire (Wren and Benson, 2004) and the academic vitality questionnaire (Martin and Marsh, 2006) and were analyzed by univariate covariance analysis and spss.22 software. The significance level of the tests was considered 0.05. Results: The results showed that cognitive behavioral game therapy led to a significant improvement in the experimental group compared to the control group in reducing exam anxiety (P<0.001) and increasing academic vitality (P<0.001) in male students. Conclusion: Based on the findings of this research, cognitive behavioral game therapy can be used to improve exam anxiety and academic vitality in students in psychology and counseling centers.