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COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION BODIES
Authors: Wiatrak Lidia
Published: June 2021

The aim of this study is to present the compliance functions in public administration bodies and, as a result, to present the demands with regard to the legitimacy of the compliance management in the public sector programme. The author has focused on theoretical considerations which purpose was to justify the necessity of implementing compliance procedures to public administration bodies. The analysis of the list of publications of the subject in terms of the issue mentioned above has been applied with particular reference to „Guidelines regarding the terms of creating and introducing effective compliance programmes in public sector.”, as well as to legal rules and press releases. In addition, the article has been based on the author’s knowledge acquired during the Approved Public Compliance Officer (APCO) training within „Ethics, Compliance & Integrity Professional” programme. The above mentioned issues comply with the present needs of public administration bodies which must implement whistleblowing procedures in accordance with the latest European Union directive and are willing to keep the compliance structures in accordance with the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau guidelines.
DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT IN DISTRICT HEATING SYSTEM
Authors: Wierzbiński Marcin
Published: June 2021

In the article author tries to scrutinize the problem regarding demand side management in district heating system. The aim of the article is to depict the ICT and IoT tools supporting demand side management in district heating. In the first part of the article the essence of demand side management was presented in particular in energy industry. After that the functionality and architecture of IT system supporting demand side management in district heating system were shown. In the last part of the article there were presented the benefits coming from implementation of such IT system in practice
Concurrency and Interference Analysis of Kernels on GPUs
Authors: Carvalho Pablo , Drummond Lúcia Maria De A. , Bentes Cristiana
Published: June 2021

Heterogeneous systems employing CPUs and GPUs are becoming increasingly popular in large-scale data centers and cloud environments. In these platforms, sharing a GPU across different applications is an important feature to improve hardware utilization and system throughput. However, under scenarios where GPUs are competitively shared, some challenges arise. The decision on the simultaneous execution of different kernels is made by the hardware and depends on the kernels resource requirements. Besides that, it is very difficult to understand all the hardware variables involved in the simultaneous execution decisions, in order to describe a formal allocation method. In this work, we studied the impact that kernel resource requirements have in concurrent execution and used machine learning (ML) techniques to infer the interference caused by the concurrent execution, and to classify the slowdown that results from this interference. The ML techniques were analyzed over the GPU benchmark suites, Rodinia, Parboil and SHOC. Our results showed that, from the features selected in the analysis, the number of blocks per grid, number of threads per block, and number of registers are the resource consumption features that most affect the performance of the concurrent execution.
Parkinson sEMG signal prediction and generation with Neural Networks
Authors: Zanini Rafael Anicet , Colombini Esther Luna
Published: June 2021

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by symptoms like resting and action tremors, which cause severe impairments to the patient’s life. Recently, many assistance techniques have been proposed to minimize the disease’s impact on patients’ life. However, most of these methods depend on data from PD’s surface electromyography (sEMG), which is scarce. In this work, we propose the first methods, based on Neural Networks, for predicting, generating, and transferring the style of patient-specific PD sEMG tremor signals. This dissertation contributes to the area by i) comparing different NN models for predicting PD sEMG signals to anticipate resting tremor patterns ii) proposing the first approach based on Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGANs) to generate PD’s sEMG tremor signals; iii) applying Style Transfer (ST) for augmenting PD’s sEMG signals with publicly available datasets of non-PD subjects; iv) proposing metrics for evaluating the PD’s signal characterization in sEMG signals. These new data created by our methods could validate treatment approaches on different movement scenarios, contributing to the development of new techniques for tremor suppression in patients.
Synthesizing Realistic Human Dance Motions Conditioned by Musical Data using Graph Convolutional Networks
Authors: Ferreira João P. M. , Martins Renato , Nascimento Erickson R.
Published: June 2021

Learning to move naturally from music, i.e., to dance, is one of the most complex motions humans often perform effortlessly. Existing techniques of automatic dance generation with classical CNN and RNN models undergo training and variability issues due to the non-Euclidean geometry of the motion manifold. We design a novel method based on GCNs to tackle the problem of automatic dance generation from audio. Our method uses an adversarial learning scheme conditioned on the input music audios to create natural motions. The results demonstrate that the proposed GCN model outperforms the state-of-the-art in different experiments. Visual results of the motion generation and explanation can be visualized through the link: http://youtu.be/fGDK6UkKzvA
Um Agente de Software para Recomendações de Estratégias Pedagógicas para Tutores a Distância em AVA
Authors: Sobreira Thyago Alves , Mendes Neto Francisco Milton , Fontes Laysa Mabel de Oliveira , Souza Rafael Castro de , Santos Igor Fernandes dos , Silva Salatiel Dantas
Published: June 2021

A popularização da modalidade de Educação a Distância, fomentada pelas flexibilizações das atuais diretrizes legais, bem como o avanço tecnológico dos Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem (AVA), traz uma preocupação com a qualidade do ensino ofertado, que está atrelada à interação efetiva entre os atores do processo de ensino e aprendizagem. Nesse sentido, sabe-se que o tutor é o ator responsável por promover a interação nesses ambientes e o seu desempenho nisto está ligado à participação efetiva dos alunos. Sendo assim, este trabalho propõe um agente de software capaz de recomendar estratégias pedagógicas para tutores a distância em AVA, visando melhorar o seu desempenho em promover uma interação efetiva dos alunos nos AVA. O agente desenvolvido faz as recomendações por meio de um modelo de conhecimento, representado por uma ontologia (desenvolvida através da metodologia 101), que mapeia as estratégias pedagógicas que visam promover a interação nos AVA. As estratégias pedagógicas utilizadas pelo agente foram levantadas por meio de uma Revisão Sistemática da Literatura e a aplicação de um questionário com profissionais da área da educação, mais precisamente na Educação a Distância (EaD). Para validação, o modelo de conhecimento do agente foi submetido a testes de corretude e completude. Foi desenvolvida também uma aplicação para amostragem das estratégias recomendadas pelo agente. Para ambas validações, foram alimentadas com dados históricos cedidos pela Secretaria de Educação a Distância de uma Universidade Pública Federal. Os resultados apontaram que o modelo de conhecimento do agente está operando de forma correta, sem nenhuma inconsistência, bem como as estratégias estão mostradas de forma clara pelo sistema desenvolvido.
Jacob Burckhardt a antropologický pojem kultury jako výraz historického konzervatismu
Authors: Budil Ivo
Published: June 2021

Kategorie kultury se prosadila v anglosaském světě v dílech představitelů klasického evolucionismu v antropologii Edwarda Burnetta Tylora, Johna Lubbocka nebo Lewise Henryho Morgana jako klíčový nástroj studia a porozumění lidské odlišnosti a rozmanitosti, který umožňoval emancipovat západní antropologického a historického myšlení od rasového konceptu. Zmínění autoři intelektuálně navazovali na odkaz představitelů skotského osvícenství, Adama Fergusona, Johna Millara nebo Williama Robertsona, kteří chápali dějiny lidstva jako progresivní sled univerzálních fází směřujících k dosažení nejvyššího morálního a materiálního stádia v podobě civilizace (Budil 2003, 85–89). Vůči této kombinaci skotského osvícenského progresivismu a antropologické instrumentalizace kultury lze nicméně postavit původní německé vymezení pojmu kultury, které je spjato s konzervativní reakcí na osvícenství a jež je bližší současným antropologickým a historickým vědám, které se oprostily od etnocentrického a ideologicky zatíženého pojetí univerzálního pokroku zosobněného západní civilizací. Tuto interpretaci kultury odrážející konzervativní historický pesimismus a obavy z dalšího vývoje západní společnosti lze ukázat na osobě a díle velkého švýcarského historika Jacoba Burckhardta, jehož Kultura renesance v Itálii, znamenala nejenom průlom ve studiu renesance, ale také důležitou inspiraci při zrodu moderního studia kulturních dějin a historické antropologie.
CONTRASTIVE INTERLANGUAGE ANALYSIS OF EVIDENTIALITY IN PHD DISSERTATIONS
Authors: Yildiz Mustafa , Turan Ümit Deniz
Published: June 2021

The present study investigates evidentiality in its broadest sense (Chafe 1986) in PhD dissertations as a genre of academic writing. For this purpose, Chafe’s taxonomy (1986), revised by Ifantidou (2001), has been used as a framework in order to analyze three different groups of datasets, including one group of native speakers of English and two groups of non-native speakers: a group of Turkish speakers of English and the other non-native speakers with diff erent L1 backgrounds. The texts of these three groups are examined in order to fi nd out whether the native language of the participants is a factor in the choice of evidential markers. The results show that the native speakers of English use evidential markers more frequently compared to the non-native authors. In terms of the Native Language/Interlanguage comparison in Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis (Granger 1996, 1998), the overall use of evidentiality reveals that non-native authors do not show native-like features in the use of evidentiality. In terms of the Interlanguage/Interlanguage comparison, Turkish authors of academic texts diff er from the authors with various native language backgrounds in terms of the use of evidentiality.
THE DISCURSIVE FORMULATION OF BREXIT: DECISION, OPPORTUNITY AND NEEDFUL AGREEMENT
Authors: Almaged Sadiq
Published: June 2021

This study sets out to examine the British Prime Minister Theresa May’s speeches delivered through her premiership. It aims to unveil the ideological discursive formation of Brexit after the referendum, and to investigate the way May squares the rhetoric to persuade the general public and the British/European political Elites to deliver the Brexit deal, though she campaigned pro-European Britain. I conduct a corpus-assisted discourse study approach, using discourse analysis methods and corpus linguistics tools for a case study of a purpose-built corpus of the Prime Minister speeches (2016-2019). The analysis revealed that the Brexit representation eschewed any identifi cation with ‘Europe’ and boosted Eurosceptic sentiments by (1) rationalizing the decision to leave the European Union; (2) proposing a better future after Brexit; (3) appealing to the British people’s emotion to support the Brexit deal.
IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA? WIKIPEDIA EDITOR DEBATES ABOUT EU CULTURE
Authors: Kopf Susanne
Published: June 2021

This paper addresses how the Wikipedia community has debated the existence of an EU culture on a Wikipedia discussion site between 2001 and 2019. That is, a corpus of discussions among Wikipedia editors (‘Wikipedians’) was examined to shed light on how the Wikipedians involved argue for/against the idea that an overarching EU culture exists at present. This, combined with an examination of debates about concrete cultural elements associated with the EU, permits an insight into Wikipedians’ conception(s) of the union. Drawing on argumentation analysis shows that the data examined indicates that cultural commonality across EU member states is not necessarily ascribed to the EU but to their being European countries. Additionally, even Wikipedians who argue that an overarching EU culture exists do not necessarily actually subscribe to this view but argue for reference to cultural elements in the Wikipedia article on the EU in order to signal to Wikipedia readers that the EU is “more than a set of treaties”.
Benefits of using the eye-tracking method for qualitative observation of students’ multiplechoice physics tasks solution process
Authors: Kekule Martina , Spanova Iva , Viiri Jouni
Published: June 2021

Metoda oční kamery se v rámci různých studií ukázala jako vhodnou pro studování kognitivních procesů žáků. V článku se zaměříme na výhody použití metody sledováním žáků středních škol při řešení testu s otázkami s výběrem odpovědi. Konkrétně se zaměříme na kvalitativní analýzu dat týkajících se pohybů očí dvou žákyň řešících úlohy z fyziky. Obě žákyně řešily všechny testové úlohy nesprávně, obě navíc vybraly jako odpověď stejné alternativy. V případě klasického zadání testu (vyplňování papírových dotazníků), bychom dostali od obou žákyň naprosto stejný výstup. Data z oční kamery nám však ukázala jak podobné přístupy řešení, tak i důležité odlišnosti, na základě kterých by pak vyučující pracovali s každou dívkou odlišně. Obě dívky četly zadání pozorně a věnovaly důraz klíčovým pojmům. Je tedy zřejmé, že špatná volba odpovědi nejde na vrub nedostatečného čtení zadání. Obě dívky zřejmě mají typickou miskoncepci týkající se 1. Newtonova zákona. Liší se zejména v jejich jistotě výběru odpovědi. Eva byla v odpovídání rychlejší a zabývala se zejména možností, kterou nakonec vybrala jako odpověď. Naproti tomu Jana se velmi často vracela k zadání, často nejprve přemýšlela o odpovědi, kterou nakonec nevybrala jako správnou. U Evy jsme pozorovali netypické vertikální sakády nad vybranými klíčovými pojmy. Jana při pohledu na spíše ilustrativní obrázek projevila typickou miskoncepci “graf jako obrázek”. Detailní analýzou jsme ukázali, že souhrnná data na tzv. oblast zájmu mohou být zavádějící, pokud je tato oblast příliš velká (např. jedna alternativa v testové otázce). Dále jsme představili možné indikátory pro kvalitativní analýzu a možnosti vizualizace zpětných sakád.
Protected areas: As main and very important space for biodiversity evaluation and their conservation
Authors: Canaj Etleva , Ramaj Elvana , Haska Hajri , Haska Eneida
Published: June 2021

In the diversity of pearl of the nature in Albania, known for its richness in particular underpin comprehensive biodiversity values, land and sea ecosystems, habitats and species of flora and fauna, which extend from the marine-coastal belt up to the field-montane and most in-depth, high in the mountains has a national and international importance. The high diversity of ecosystems and habitats offers rich habitats for a variety of plants and animals. This diversity is attributable to the country's geographic position as well as geological, hydrological, climatic, soil and relief characteristics. About 36% of the country's territory is covered by vegetation. There are still natural and semi-natural areas, where the degree of human intervention is almost absent or less sensitive. These areas, even preserve their true values of nature, both require special attention and care. For these reasons, Albania as part of the Balkan region as an area of global importance for biodiversity, referred to as a hot-spot of global biodiversity and that attention to this region is required to be pronounced by competent institutions and the entire community. Nature protection and biodiversity conservation is ensured through a number of legal and institutional mechanisms, which in Albania, especially in the last decade have taken a dimension oriented by principles stemming from international conventions in the field of nature and biodiversity. These mechanisms are already further consolidating and being adapted to European Union standards.
Cloud Computing in Agricultural Enterprises in Slovakia
Authors: Látečková Anna , Trnková Michaela
Published: June 2021

We are currently making great strides in the field of ICTs, which is associated with the availability of other larger volumes of information any species. There are problems with their analysis, storage, as well as security in companies. The aim of the paper was to focus on the agricultural sector in terms of innovation. In the presented article we deal with the issue of cloud computing and its use in management in agricultural enterprises in Slovakia. We characterize cloud computing, its advantages and disadvantages, as well as the current use of this service by agricultural entreprises in Slovakia. We used the method of questionnaire survey and personal interview to investigate the above problems. We also focused on the study of cloud computing and related issues from available foreign sources. The results show that agricultural enterprises in Slovakia use cloud computing services less with comparing to the countries of EU.
Brazil's Comparative Advantages and Specialization Dynamics in Agri-food Trade
Authors: Zdráhal Ivo , Hrabálek Martin , Kadlec Petr , Krpec Oldřich
Published: June 2021

In the last decades Brazil has become a global agri-food powerhouse. The article interrogates the shape and its stability of revealed comparative advantages in 46 of its agri-food products for the period 1995-2017. The results support the argument that the Brazil's agri-food trade was formed by comparative advantages of specific agri-food sectors. The results show that the external shape of agri-food specialization has strengthened, first since early 2000s and second when the trade shifted more towards China. The pattern was stable according revealed comparative (dis)advantage of particular products, more changes occurred in each product's score and in ranking of products. Products without initial comparative advantage seem to remain uncompetitive whilst the products with strong initial comparative advantage continue to be competitive. The persistence in distribution has increased. This suggests, the shape of Brazil's revealed comparative advantage in agri-food trade has evolved towards its finite structure (ceteris paribus).
« L’Académie des sciences et des beaux-arts » : le testament graphique de Sébastien Leclerc
Authors: Préaud Maxime
Published: June 2021

The engraver Sébastien Leclerc is very representative of the long reign of Louis xiv, with whom he is an almost exact contemporary. Admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1672, he was also closely allied with the Royal Academy of Science (founded 1666) of which he was one of the preferred engravers. His entire life is divided between the sciences and arts, and he was not only a fine mathematician and physicist, but also collected instruments and experimental models. The print entitled The Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts, dedicated to the king in 1698, appears to be Leclerc’s graphic testament. In it he exposes not only his faith in scientific progress as opposed to the quackish barbarism personified by the chiromancer of the first plane, and his admiration for the reign of the prince who authorized scientific renewal, but he also shows with a discreet pride – in scattering throughout his plate very clear and specific allusions for connoisseurs of his own past or present works issuing from royal commissions or else arising from his own initiatives – that he is not the last person to have participated in this noble enterprise. While knowing that Death, hidden in an anamorphosis, awaits him, he hopes that his genius will survive and that he will have earned the right to the eternal gratitude of the scholarly community. Thus, by this meticulous and subtle work, an artist whose recognized first qualities are exactitude and positive realism is inscribed in the ‘metaphysical’ tradition usually associated with the painters of Vanities.
Man Scans: The Matter of Expertise in Art and Technology Histories
Authors: Lynch Robin
Published: June 2021

Deux nus exposés au MoMA (New York) ont été produits à près de dix années d’intervalle à l’aide de technologies émergentes pour mesurer et transformer méticuleusement le corps humain en une image. Le premier, Nude, a été créé en 1966 par deux ingénieurs de Bell Labs. Le deuxième, Man-Scan, a été créé en 1974 par l’artiste Sonia Sheridan à l’aide de la technologie de numérisation de la corporation 3M. Tandis que ces nus ont été formés par l’usage de différentes technologies, les processus matériels par lesquels chacun analyse la forme humaine démontrent une préoccupation commune quant à l’utilisation de la technologie pour percevoir, traiter et transcrire des corps en des formats lisibles. Ces travaux mettent en évidence les enjeux de l’érudition interdisciplinaire, dans la mesure où ils représentent des sites de négociation de pouvoir entre disciplines, où les récits dominants sur le genre et l’industrie sont réarticulés, codés et intégrés aux technologies, à la réception et aux matériaux du nu.
“She entered a room like a self-portrait”: Duration and Unfinish in Pegi Nicol MacLeod’s Self-Portraits
Authors: Smither Devon
Published: June 2021

Entre 1925 et 1939, l’artiste canadienne Pegi Nicol MacLeod a réalisé un certain nombre d’autoportraits modernistes, intimes et introspectifs. Les critiques et les collègues de MacLeod ont souvent décrit ses peintures comme inachevées, précipitées, bâclées et manquant d’organisation, ce qui vaut pour l’ensemble de son oeuvre. Cet essai est une tentative pour lever le silence dans lequel MacLeod est plongée depuis sa mort, et ce, malgré la grande considération dont jouissait son art de son vivant. Je soutiens que la qualité ouverte, expressionniste et expérimentale des peintures de MacLeod va à l’encontre de la conception masculine du chef-d’oeuvre comme création entièrement aboutie. De plus, la lecture de ses oeuvres comme inachevées témoigne des préjugés liés aux genres dans la réception de son travail. En m’éloignant d’une interprétation psycho-biographique de ses peintures, je soutiens que les autoportraits de MacLeod sont profondément ambigus et incitent à une observation prolongée.
The key vectors of implementation of public initiatives in the area of extracurricular education of children in Eastern Siberia in the last quarter of the XIX – early XX centuries
Authors: Sevostyanova Elena
Published: June 2021

This article is dedicated to examination of public participation in the formation and development of extracurricular education of children in Eastern Siberia. The relevance of this research is substantiated by the importance of public sociocultural initiatives in modern Russia. The author highlights the key vectors of public innovation sociocultural activity, which included environmental education, organization of reading events and libraries for children, staging of performances, literary and musical mornings, physical education and play activities. Within the framework of these directions, the author determines their popularity, dynamics and interpretation of goals by the actors of sociocultural activity. Extracurricular education was intended for all population groups, and opened new dimensions for social interaction not only for children, but for parents as well. The research is based on the comparative methodology, and methodological ideas of V. A. Glazychev on the interpretation of city as a sociocultural phenomenon and the ability of urban community to create and maintain the conditions for its development through the efforts of all residents with the leading role of mobile innovation minority. In Eastern Siberia, the development of extracurricular educational work generally corresponded with the nationwide, but at a slower pace and smaller scale. The conclusion is made that in the provincial cities, the intelligentsia led moderate, although considerable activity on the development of applied problems of pedagogy, orienting towards the needs of a child. Overall, innovation social activity expanded the “geography of childhood” of the children involved. The public initiative filled the gap in the state system of extracurricular education and evolved to the creation of multifunctional recreation and educational centers for children.
Why schoolchildren and students do not want to learn, or the key components of pedagogical competence in unity of the logical, rhetorical and psychological aspects
Authors: Gusev Dmitrii Alekseevich , Potaturov Vasilii Aleksandrovich , Panich Natal'ya Aleksandrovna
Published: June 2021

Currently, demotivation, lack of cognitive interest, worldview and existential indifference of the students are perceived as a matter of course. One of the reasons consists in how the school and university pedagogues deliver the material. The students often say that they have no interest, as the cannot grasp what the teacher is saying. Thus, the material naturally becomes uninteresting, boring and “unnecessary”. This is one of the sources of mental indifference. The aim of this research is to establish correlation between the level of cognitive interest of students and pedagogical competence of the teacher, as well as and determine the key components of such competence and the ways for their formation in the educational process. The authors substantiate the dependence of the level of cognitive interest and motivation of students on the pedagogical competence. The theoretical and practical importance of this article lies in revelation the fundamental factors of students’ demotivation, which are directly related to the specificity of educational activity of the pedagogue, demonstration of the key components of pedagogical competence, as well as the methods for their formation, development and improvement, which can be used for remedying the lack of cognitive interest, educational and overall ideological and existential indifference of youth.
Instilling culture of interethnic communication among future physicians in sociocultural environment of the university
Authors: Sakharov Vasilii Aleksandrovich , Sakharova Lyudmila Gennad'evna
Published: June 2021

The subject of this research is the problems of instilling culture of interethnic communication among future physicians in sociocultural environment of a Russian medical university. Special attention is given to nurturing culture of interethnic communication among students in the process of developing general cultural competencies within the framework of academic and extracurricular activity. The key obstacle in realization of social procurement by higher education institutions aimed at instilling the culture of interconfessional communication among university students lies in the absence of holistic concepts for solving this complicated pedagogical problem, which would meet the modern requirements and sociocultural conditions. Therefore, there is a need for theoretical analysis of the established pedagogical practice in higher education institutions of the Russian Federation, development  of science-based approaches towards constructive generalization of knowledge on nurturing the culture of interconfessional communication alongside the concept of nurturing the culture of Interconfessional communication among students of higher education institutions of the Russian Federation, and the  model for its implementation. The relevance of the problem of instilling culture of interethnic communication among students of medical universities at the current stage of the development of higher medical education is substantiated by legislative requirements to youth upbringing in the Russian Federation and Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education. The novelty of this article consists in mainstreaming the need for nurturing the culture of interethnic communication among the students of Russian universities, which merits special attention.
Integration of school and university resources for preparing future defectologists
Authors: Tishina Liudmila Aleksandrovna , Danilova Aleksandra Mikhailovna , Podvalnaya Elena Vladimirovna , Lebedeva Anna Vasilevna
Published: June 2021

This article contains theoretical and practical material dedicated to one of the most pressing issues of higher special (defectological) education – the quality of preparation of young specialists for working in schools with impaired children, which defines the subject of this research. The author examines the practice-oriented approach towards university education of students majoring in defectology as one of the ways to improve the quality of professional training, which implies the expansion of cooperation of higher education institutions with public education organizations, integration of available resources for the development of professional competencies of future defectologists. Such collaboration increase the level of competence of students majoring in defectology in accordance with the modern practical standards, as well as helps to prepare a motivated young specialist, who is eager to solve the problems of modern education system in the future. The novelty of this research consists in the analysis and summary of the experience of cooperation between the higher education institution and educational organization adapted for students with impairments in the area of preparing future defectologists. The author reveals the potential and forms of such interaction, its impact upon the formation of professional competencies of special pedagogical staff. The following conclusions were made: constructive cooperation between the higher education institution and the school, joint solution of the tasks on preparing future defectologists within the framework of a practice-oriented approach should be carried out in different directions, such as organization of different types of practice, attraction of students and pedagogical staff  to research activity, analysis and summary of scientific-practical and scientific-methodological experience of educational organizations.
The characteristics of English verbs of slow movement in comparison with Chuvash verbs
Authors: Ignateva Tatiana
Published: June 2021

This article represents a comparative study of the verbs of slow movement in the modern non-cognate languages. The absence of comparative study of the verbs of slow movement in the English and Chuvash languages define the relevance of this work. The goal consists in examination of the verbs of slow movement based on the material of English and Chuvash languages, analysis of the semantic relations within this group, and revealing the determining features of linguistic units that belong to this semantic group, as the author believes that namely these determining features do not always coincide in the compared languages. The article employs the method of analysis of dictionary definitions, method of identification of meanings, and component analysis. Application of the method of interlingual comparison revealed common and distinctive components of the meaning, which are not evident in terms of intralingual analysis. The research relies on the data from electronic dictionaries. The novelty of this research consists in finding interlingual correspondences with varying degree of equivalence and differences among the verbs of slow movement in the English and Chuvash languages. The acquired results can be valuable in theory and practice of teaching English language of Russia-Chuvash audience, as well as for broadening linguistic horizon of the students.
Introductory Remarks on Ideology and Sociology
Authors: Ferrarotti Franco
Published: June 2021

The main contention of this paper is that the eventual decline of ideology would pave the way to personalism and piece-meal policy-making. In this respect, sociology should analyze the process of social evolution while the ideological goals tend to concentrate on the middle-range and distant future.
Why do the British still remember Scott of the Antarctic?
Authors: Jones Max
Published: June 2021

The announcement of the death of the British polar explorer Captain Robert Scott on his return from the South Pole, which he had reached on 17 January 1912, caused a sensation in Britain and around the world. Although he lost the race to the South Pole to a Norwegian party led by Roald Amundsen, the recent centenary of Scott’s last expedition aroused widespread interest not only in Britain but around the world. This paper examines why the British public continues to consume Scott’s story, with particular reference to the period since 1945. Part one examines how Scott’s story has been adapted to the cultural context of post-imperial Britain, in part by emphasising the scientific aims of his last expedition. Part two moves on to emphasise how this new emphasis was supported by the Royal Geographical Society and the Scott Polar Research Institute, and drew on the extensive material culture and striking visual record left by the Terra Nova expedition.
Die Bedeutung der ethne in der Politik und den Politeiai des Aristoteles
Authors: Dietze-Mager Gertrud
Published: June 2021

The Politeiai are one of Aristotle’s historical works. Several hundreds of fragments have come down to us. While Aristotle’s Nomima barbarika recorded the customs of the barbaric ethne, the Politeiai are generally considered to be a collection of polisconstitutions. A closer look reveals, however, that alongside a majority of Greek poleis Aristotle also included several ethne in his Politeiai, namely those in the North(west) of the Greek mainland and on the Peleponnesus. This article tries to shed light on Aristotle’s reasons for selecting these ethne. On the basis of key passages in the Politics, the author argues that their presence in the Politeiai indicates that Aristotle considered them as Hellenic, and, although inferior in status to the polis, capable of having a politeia. In Aristotle’s time, nearly all of the ethne known to have been included in the Politeiai had formed koina. While Aristotle did not explicitly discuss the federal state, he acknowledged its existence both in the Politics and the Politeiai, obviously inspired by the political reality of his time in which the koina played an increasingly prominent role, illustrated by their presence as members in Hellenic treaties alongside the poleis.
Notizie dal sito “Yi Dai Yi Lu” pindao in cinese e in inglese: un’analisi critica e comparativa
Authors: Riva Natalia
Published: June 2021

The promotion of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a major China-led development and cooperation project launched in 2013, features among the centrepieces of China’s current political discourse and is one of the most closely-followed topics by both China’s and international audiences. The organization of the first Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) held in Beijing on May 14-15 2017 generated a considerable mediatic echo in which Xinhua News Agency played a relevant role. This paper focuses on the website “Yi Dai Yi Lu” pindao (“一带一路”频道), the online space dedicated to the BRI by the state-subordinated agency. The examination offers a comparative analysis of a selection of news titles published over the period of the BRF in the Chinese and English editions of this website. The aim is to examine the narrative constructed therein by offering a two-fold examination of how and to what extent: (1) Xinhua’s institutional and entrepreneurial identity influences its news production; and (2) the nature of different audiences affects the representations of the BRI and BRF in discourses targeted by the same producer to a Chinese-speaking or English-speaking audience.
La sicilianità di Camilleri: un surplus di identità
Authors: Comune Antonino
Published: June 2021

For Camilleri Sicily is the mythical space for all his writings, it is the archetype of the locus which all the island’s inhabitants carefully guard. As language is located in space, it is both the expression of a territory and the vocal instrument of the people who inhabit it. Therefore Camilleri’s Sicily is created by his use of dialect, which adds to his sense of identity. This Sicilianità is not only an element that inspires his writing and his humanity, but it also becomes a playful mixture of oral and written expression, which is both a linguistic game and a reflection on the nature of dialect itself. Camilleri’s shrewd use of satire, the vehemence of the imaginary and the grotesque, his play with words and language are a very serious business and emphasize the linguistic experimentalism of many Sicilian writers.
L’orrore della colpa nell’ultimo Grossman
Authors: Calusio Maurizia
Published: June 2021

The recognition of the sins of the survivors of totalitarian regimes has great importance for the victims in Vasily Grossman’s last works. This paper analyzes how this issue turns out to be central in the artistic delineation of some of the most remarkable characters in Grossman’s works, from the half-mad Ikonnikov in Life and Fate to the cook Anna Sergeevna Michalëva, who, in Everything Flows, tells the story of the Holodomor.
Electrocortical (EEG) correlates of music and states of consciousness
Authors: Skaric Lazar , Tomasevic Milorad , Rakovic Dejan , Jovanov Emil , Radivojevic Vlada , Sukovic Predrag , Car Marko , Radenovic Dejan
Published: June 2021

The study of the perception of music is a paramount example of multidisciplinary research. In spite of a lot of theoretical and experimental efforts to understand musical processing, attempts to localize musical abilities in particular brain regions were largely unsuccessful, save for the difference between musicians and non musicians, especially in hemispheric specialization and in EEG correlational dimensions. Having in mind that human emotional response to music and to art in general is limbic dependent, this motivated us to address our question to a similar possible neurobiological origin of musicogenic altered states of consciousness and its possible EEG correlates, “resonantly” induced by deep spiritual music. For example, as in sound-induced altered states of consciousness cultivated in some Eastern yogic practices. The musicogenic states of consciousness are evaluated within a group of 6 adults, upon the influence of 4 types of spiritual music. The most prominent changes in theta or alpha frequency bands were induced in two subjects, upon the influence of Indian spiritual music, Bhajan.
DLPFC implication in memory processing of affective information. A look on anxiety trait contribution
Authors: Ferrari Chiara , Balconi Michela
Published: June 2021

Recent studies suggested to approach to the analysis of the emotions and cognition from an integrating point of view rather than investigate the two constructs per se. In line with this research approach, the present study aims to investigate how emotions can affect memory processes and which cerebral areas are involved in this mechanism. We also aim to understand if and how this processing is influenced by specific personality traits, as anxiety trait. Using a rTMS measure, participants were asked to performance a memory task (a retrieval task) composed by verbal material with and without emotional content. Subjects were also assessed for their anxiety trait (high and low anxiety subjects). Our study provided a strong evidence for the influence of the emotional content and personality trait on the memory processes. Secondly, the role of the Left Dorso-Lateral Prefrontal Cortex in emotional memory was pointed out with a specific function of this frontal network in managing the emotional memories.
Sentence relevance and memory retrieval in discourse comprehension: N400 and LrNERP effects
Authors: Amenta Simona , Eralti Sara
Published: June 2021

The present study explored the effect of different degrees of relevance in discourse comprehension by using ERPs analysis. A principle of pragmatic relevance is supposed to guide inferential mechanism underlying discourse processing. Discourse level comprehension needs a system of predictions about which information is more relevant in order to process the ongoing sentence meaning. This system should construct a specific mental model, where inferences related to the present sentence are stored and maintained. Three degrees of relevance of a new information (new sentence) with respect to an old information (target sentence) were manipulated: directly relevant; indirectly relevant; not relevant. Twenty-one subjects participated to the experiment and they were asked to try to comprehend a set of two paired sentences (old-new paired sentences) based on their conceptual relevance. Two negative deflections, peaking respectively at about 410 msec post-stimulus (N400), more right anterior-centrally distributed, and at about 550 msec (late negativity, LrN), more right central localized, were found. Repeated measures ANOVA found that the amplitude of both the N400 and LrNis modulated by the degree of relevance and by the strength of the underlying associations between the two sentences. Indirect relevance resulted in increased negativities in comparison with direct relevance. Contrarily, non-relevant condition did not produce an increasing in N400 and LrNamplitude. Unrelevance of the knowledge related to the actual mental model of sentences may induce a rapid and costless discarding of non pertinent information. The conclusive inference is that a subset of neural processes responding to degree of relevance of information is separable and cortically more frontally and centrally localized. Functional differences between N400 and LrN for relevance were discussed.
Emotional experiences of the community-dwelling with mild cognitive impairment and their families
Authors: Nakano Masako , Sato Shinichi , Nakahara Jun
Published: June 2021

This study aimed to clarify the emotional experiences of a community-dwelling sample of elderly individuals with mild cognitive impairment and their families. The participants included an elderly man and his wife and an elderly woman and her daughterin- law. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and analyzed by using a qualitative inductive method. In total, 212 codes were extracted from the interviews and categorized into 37 sub-categories. Finally, we obtained the following 4 categories: Bewilderment regarding memory decline, Avoidance of neighborly relations, Fluctuation of confidence in the family, and Desire to maintain a healthy life.
Neuropsychological deficits in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): a South India experience
Authors: Rajeswaran Jamuna , Nalini Atchayaram
Published: June 2021

ALS is a terminal progressive degenerative neurological disorder studies suggest that approximately 35% to 52% of ALS patients experience cognitive deficits which may be identified early in the course of the disease. Cognitive deficits being the integral part of the disease has not been studied in the Indian setting. This is one of the first studies assessing the pattern of cognitive impairment in ALS in the Indian condition. The objective is to examine the neuropsychological profile of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Cognitive function was studied in 20 ALS patients: mean age 45.85 13.9 years (22- 65). Neuropsychological test battery was administered. In all 21 test were administered individually in 4-5 sessions which lasted for 7-8 hours. The results show that the majority of patients were from lower/middle socio-economic background. Scores were compared with gender, age and education specific norms, wherein scores falling below 15th percentile of the normative data were treated as deficits. ALS-associated cognitive impairments include deficiencies in visual attention, working memory, fluency, cognitive flexibility, response inhibition, planning, problem solving, and visual-perceptual skills. These impairments indicate executive dysfunction. In conclusion ALS is a disease that affects higher cognitive frontal functions, especially the EF.
Executive functions in early childhood: interrelations and structural development of inhibition, set-shifting and working memory
Authors: Stievano Paolo , Valeri Giovanni
Published: June 2021

The aim of the present study is to examine the interrelations of executive function (EF) tasks with general cognitive ability and linguistic level in preschool children. The analyses of the correlation between EF sub-domains, particularly inhibition and setshifting, have been studied to comprehend the ontogenesis of EFs. Task analysis has allowed us to identify which EF sub-domains are prevalent in each task, with particular attention to inhibition and set-shifting definitions. The sample was composed of 40 typically developing children from 48 to 69 months old (M = 58 months, SD = 5.02); 28 boys and 12 girls. The results give some insight into the development of executive functions, their utility in clinical assessment and indication.
Visual rehabilitation with Retimax Vision Trainer in patients with severe Acquired Brain Injury: report of two cases
Authors: Chiari Margherita , Savi Caterina , Battagliola Erika , Saviola Donatella , De Tanti Antonio
Published: June 2021

Retimax Vision Trainer is a device that has the purpose to improve visual function by means of the detection of a visual evoked potential associated with a sound feedback. We evaluated the effectiveness of rehabilitative treatment in two patients with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). Results, subjectively appreciated, are objectively confirmed by the improvement of visual function.
Sickness and Abnormal Behaviors As Indicators of Animal Suffering
Authors: Panzera Michele
Published: June 2021

The welfare status of an animal represents the integrated outcome of all sensory and other neural inputs from within its body and from the environment. These inputs are processed and interpreted by the animal’s brain according to its species-specific and individual nature and experiences, and then are perceived consciously. That being said, for an animal to be able to perceive states that we believe would reflect its welfare, the animal must be alive and conscious, and it must also be sentient. Previous studies, which I cite and describe further later in this paper, show that the brains of animals, especially mammals, have enough complexity to process mental states. The mental abilities of an animal arise as a result of sensory and other neural inputs linked to nutritional, environmental, health and behavioral components of physical or functional abilities. They are also linked to cognitive-neural inputs and activity related to external challenge. All of these components are integrated and expressed mentally as varying degrees of thirst, hunger, weakness, debility, breathlessness, nausea, sickness, pain, distress, fear, anxiety, helplessness, boredom and so on.
Humans’ Best Friend? The Ethical Dilemma of Pets
Authors: Andreozzi Matteo
Published: June 2021

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the need for a reassessment of the moral status of pets. I argue that pets rest on an undefined ethical borderline, which brings several puzzling problems to both human-centered ethics and animal ethics and that neither of these fields adequately handles these issues. I focus specifically on human relationships with companion animals as one of the most significant interspecific relationship involving humans and pets. I also show that a deeper questioning of the moral status of pets is a required step toward the moral rethinking of human-animal relationships.