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Analysis of the Survey Results of Interns of the First Year of Study Regarding Training in the Specialty «Otolaryngology» at the Undergraduate Level
Authors: Kononov Oleksandr , Trishchynska Maryna
Published: October 2023

Otolaryngology is a narrow medical specialty that focusses in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases of the ENT organs, as well as surrounding tissues. Today, there is a need in the experienced doctors who have knowledge, skills and conduct ethical rules. Otolaryngology is an important specialty relevant to family medicine, pediatrics, and general practice, as 20% to 40% of adult general practice consultations are related to otolaryngological complaints.
Taking into account the problem of insufficient training in otolaryngology in medical universities in some leading countries, we have proposed a questionnaire for persons who have graduated from medical universities in Ukraine and have not yet completed an internship on the subject of training in the specialty “Otolaryngology” at the university.
The objective: to analyze the degree of satisfaction with study of otorhinolaryngology in leading higher educational institutions of Ukraine at the undergraduate level of future general practitioners-family medicine doctors.
Materials and methods. A survey of first-year interns who graduated from various medical higher educational institutions of Ukraine was conducted. The questionnaire contained 11 questions. The questionnaire was distributed using Google Forms and processed using Excel.
Results. The analysis of the results of the survey showed that the training of doctors in the specialty “Otolaryngology” remains at an insufficient level due to the reduction of teaching hours. 1.9% of respondents were very dissatisfied and 17.3% of the respondents were dissatisfied with the quality of the obtained theoretical knowledge in otorhinolaryngology at the undergraduate level, in fact 1/5 of the respondents. 5.9% and 31.4% of respondents, i.e. 1/3 of surveyed persons, were very dissatisfied and dissatisfied, respectively, with the quality of the acquired practical skills in otorhinolaryngology at the undergraduate level.
The majority of respondents (76.9%) plan further training in otorhinolaryngology. Respondents want to improve their knowledge in all areas of ENT pathology (64.7%).
Conclusions. The improvement if the training process for future doctors, intensifying the training process and introducing modern methods to it, presenting the latest technology for disease diagnosis and treatment to interns remains a priority. In order to obtain high-quality theoretical and practical skills, it is necessary to increase the time for studying otolaryngology in medical higher education institutions.
The Study of the Effectiveness of Modern Phytotherapy for Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Chronic Prostatitis
Authors: Nikitin Oleh , Klymenko Yaroslav , Hrytsai Viktor , Samchuk Pavlo , Krasiuk Oleksii
Published: October 2023

The objective: to analyze the effectiveness and tolerability of a dietary supplement, which includes: Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens), pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita moschata), African tuber (Hypoxis hemerocallidea), stinging nettle root (Urtica dioica), African plum bark (Prunus africana), rye pollen extract (Secale cereale), in the treatment of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and chronic prostatitis (CP) for 6 months.
Materials and methods. 60 men were examined, they were divided into two groups: the main group (MG) – 28 patients who received the dietary supplement for 6 months, and the comparison group (CG) – 32 patients who used another combined herbal preparation for the treatment of BPH and CP. MG and CG patients were similar in terms of age, disease duration, and urination rate.
Patients of both groups were examined using clinical, laboratory and instrumental methods before the start of treatment and after its completion in 6 months.
Results. The main result of the research can be considered that the use of a dietary supplement based on Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens), pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita moschata), African tuber (Hypoxis hemerocallidea), stinging nettle root (Urtica dioica), African plum bark (Prunus africana), extract of rye pollen (Secale cereale) gives an excellent long-term effect in 96.4% of patients with CP and BPH.
As a result of the study, this dietary supplement demonstrated its effectiveness in the treatment of patients with BPH and CP for both subjective (IPSS and QOL, pain sensation) and objective indicators over a period of 6 months. During therapy the volume of residual urine in patients probably decreased and the maximum urinary flow rate increased.
Conclusions. Dietary supplement, which includes Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens), pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita moschata), African tuber (Hypoxis hemerocallidea), nettle root (Urtica dioica), African plum bark (Prunus africana), rye pollen extract (Secale cereale), is well tolerated by patients, has high therapeutic efficiency, does not cause side effects, does not disturb the sexual function of patients with BPH and CP, which allows to prescribe it for a long time.
Dive industry perspectives on the threats to coral reefs: A comparative study across four Asia-Pacific countries
Authors: Benkendorff Kirsten , Ngoc Quach Thi Khanh , Ab Lah Rosalizawati , Ode Inem , Dimmock Kay , Trinh Do Thuy , Banda-Marquez Ana , Limmon Gino
Published: October 2023

The combined effects of climate change, marine tourism and other stressors threaten the ecological and economic sustainability of coral reefs. This study investigates dive industry stakeholder awareness of the threats to coral reefs through structured interviews with Dive Masters, company managers and marine management agencies in Vietnam, Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia. Stakeholders from all locations have observed degradation of local reefs. Destructive fishing was identified as the principal threat in all regions except Australia. Most participants identified threats from climate change and marine tourism. There was a lack of awareness about ocean acidification by all participants from Maluku, Indonesia. However, ocean acidification could make coral more fragile and, therefore, vulnerable to diver-induced damage. The majority of Dive Masters across all regions provide pre-dive briefings to reduce diver impacts and participate in environmental activities to protect local reefs. Stakeholders in three regions thought there was capacity to expand the local dive industry. However, in Nha Trang Vietnam, most industry stakeholders thought they were at, or exceeded, carrying capacity, whereas marine management employees thought there was room to expand. This study highlights an opportunity to improve diver education on the vulnerability of coral to damage in acidifying oceans. This study also identifies various non-regulatory and regulatory strategies used to reduce diver impacts, emphasising the value of multi-national knowledge sharing between the dive industry and regulatory agencies for adaptive management.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE MANIFESTATION OF THE EVALUATION COMPONENT OF MOTIVATION IN SENIOR PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH COGNITIVE DISORDERS OF DEVELOPMENT
Authors:   Mykola Yarmachenko Institute of special education and phychology of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Buzhynetska Kseniia
Published: October 2023

The article analyzes psychological and pedagogical sources on the peculiarities of the evaluation component of motivation. It has been outlined that, in general, motivation is considered as external, which arises in the process of achieving the goals of those educational tasks that are not related to the cognitive interests of the subject (motivation to avoid failure) and internal, which arises as a result of the subject's desire for self-development, self-improvement. It has been determined that the peculiarities of the motivation of children with cognitive disorders include those that have a certain peculiarity of purposefulness, which is manifested in the incorrect orientation in the task, erroneous and partial performance, inadequate attitude to the difficulties that arise, uncritical attitude to the evaluation of the result of educational and cognitive motives. It has been determined the main ways of formation of the evaluative component of motivation, which are interpreted as a personal formation that directly affects the regulation of behavior and activity, as an autonomous characteristic of the individual, its central component, which is formed with the active participation of the individual and reflects the originality of his or her inner world. The relevance of this problem is due to the fact that the senior preschool age is an important period for the formation of the evaluation component of the preschooler's motivation, its further development and influence on the personality. It has been revealed the leading role of the evaluative component of motivation, which is decisive for the successful learning and adaptation of the child to school in the future, since in the future the child must learn to find the mistakes made by comparing the results of his/her work with the sample; independently evaluate the results of his/her activity according to the guidelines given by the teacher (correct or not, what exactly; what is the identified error; what needs to be changed, what needs to be avoided in the next one and the ability to express self-evaluative judgments). It has been identified the criteria of the assessment component of motivation in senior preschoolers with cognitive developmental disorders. They are: consistency / inconsistency between the educational motive and the child's needs; the ability to subordinate intermediate goals to the overall goal; the ability to control their own activities, i.e. to exercise self-control; the ability to independently evaluate their own activities. It has been determined ways of correcting the evaluative component of motivation in older preschoolers with cognitive developmental disorders, which are aimed at its formation.
实体物理实验观察：Poynting vector 极有可能只是一种数学抽象
Authors: YANG Zheng-Ling
Published: October 2023

物理学电磁学中的坡印廷矢量（Poynting vector）是电磁场中的能流密度矢量。按照这种观点，即使在直流电路情形下，电源中的能量也不是通过电路中的电流传输到负载电阻去的，而是以电路周围电磁场能流的形式传输到负载电阻去的。费曼（Richard Phillips Feynman）在 The Feynman Lectures on Physics II 的“27 Field Energy and Field Momentum”里有一个电容器充电的 Poynting vector 理论解释。在实验室进行的实体物理实验中，没有观察到电磁屏蔽可以明显阻碍电容器充电的实体实验现象。建议大家充分地独立验证这个实体物理实验。
TMPRSS4 is differentially expressed in central nervous system metastasis in human breast cancer.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: October 2023

Metastasis to the brain occurs in a significant fraction of patients with breast cancer (1-3). We mined published RNA-sequencing and microarray data (4, 5) to compare primary and metastatic tumor transcriptomes for the discovery of genes associated with brain metastasis in humans with metastatic breast cancer. We found that transmembrane serine protease 4, encoded by TMPRSS4, was among the genes whose expression was most different in the brain metastases of patients with metastatic breast cancer as compared to primary tumors of the breast. TMPRSS4 mRNA was present at increased quantities in brain metastatic tissues as compared to primary tumors of the breast. Expression of TMPRSS4 in primary tumors was correlated with patient overall and distant metastasis-free survival. Modulation of TMPRSS4 expression may be relevant to the biology by which tumor cells metastasize from the breast to the brain in humans with metastatic breast cancer.
The influence of machine in deep healthcare
Authors: Egon Kaledio , KARL LETHO
Published: October 2023

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have been making significant contributions to the field of healthcare. In recent research studies, deep learning algorithms, such as those using LSTM networks and CNNs, have been developed to improve various aspects of healthcare, combining reinforcement learning and supervised learning techniques. The impact of ML and AI is felt across various dimensions of healthcare, playing a crucial role in diagnosis, treatment, and overall patient care. These technologies are enhancing the capabilities of healthcare professionals and are becoming an integral part of modern healthcare systems.
LYSET is differentially expressed in central nervous system metastasis in human breast cancer.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: October 2023

Metastasis to the brain occurs in a significant fraction of patients with breast cancer (1-3). We mined published RNA-sequencing and microarray data (4, 5) to compare primary and metastatic tumor transcriptomes for the discovery of genes associated with brain metastasis in humans with metastatic breast cancer. We found that lysosomal enzyme trafficking factor, encoded by LYSET, was among the genes whose expression was most different in the brain metastases of patients with metastatic breast cancer as compared to primary tumors of the breast. LYSET mRNA was present at increased quantities in brain metastatic tissues as compared to primary tumors of the breast. Expression of LYSET in primary tumors was correlated with patient distant metastasis-free survival. Modulation of LYSET expression may be relevant to the biology by which tumor cells metastasize from the breast to the brain in humans with metastatic breast cancer.
Investigating Improvement of Iranian University Students in English Academic Writing and Their Engagement with The Instructor’s Corrective Feedback
Authors: Nobakht Elnaz
Published: October 2023

This dissertation project mainly aimed to investigate the improvement of students in an academic writing module through drafting and redrafting. The data were recruited from six writing assignments written by two Iranian university students at the Department of English within five months in 2021. The students wrote two drafts for each assignment. Employing a qualitative research approach, all of the drafts were analyzed to explore the students' overall performance in the final draft of each assignment. Also, it aimed to find out the changes that the students were able to make in response to the instructor's corrective feedback and the aspects they found difficult. The findings showed that both students showed improvement in the aspects of text construction, organization of ideas, lexis, and use of other sources over time. The student who produced stronger pieces of writing showed improvement in all drafts over the semester, whereas the student who produced weaker pieces of writing usually showed improvement in the final draft from one assignment to the next. Considering their final grades in the final drafts, it could be concluded that the weaker writer had a fluctuating rate of improvement over the module, but the stronger writer had a steadier rate of improvement.
EDIL3 is differentially expressed in central nervous system metastasis in human breast cancer.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: October 2023

Metastasis to the brain occurs in a significant fraction of patients with breast cancer (1-3). We mined published RNA-sequencing and microarray data (4, 5) to compare primary and metastatic tumor transcriptomes for the discovery of genes associated with brain metastasis in humans with metastatic breast cancer. We found that EGF-like repeats and discoidin domains 3, encoded by EDIL3, was among the genes whose expression was most different in the brain metastases of patients with metastatic breast cancer as compared to primary tumors of the breast. EDIL3 mRNA was present at increased quantities in brain metastatic tissues as compared to primary tumors of the breast. Expression of EDIL3 in primary tumors was correlated with patient recurrence-free survival. Modulation of EDIL3 expression may be relevant to the biology by which tumor cells metastasize from the breast to the brain in humans with metastatic breast cancer.
The prevalence of alcohol use prior to episodes of non-suicidal self-injury in women with borderline personality disorder participating in a randomized clinical trial of dialectical behavior therapy
Authors: Nance Melissa , Wilks Chelsey , Carpenter Ryan William
Published: October 2023

Objective: Alcohol use is an important, but understudied, risk factor for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), defined as deliberate physical harm to oneself without intent to die. Alcohol use may facilitate engagement in NSSI by increasing impulsivity and physical pain tolerance. Limited data also suggests that people engage in more medically severe NSSI under the influence of alcohol. Method: This study examined the use of alcohol prior to NSSI in a sample of 79 female patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) who were enrolled in a randomized clinical trial of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). We used multi-level modeling (MLM) to examine pre-registered hypotheses that alcohol use prior to NSSI would be related to the self-reported impulsivity of NSSI, physical pain experienced during NSSI, and the medical severity of injuries from NSSI. Results: Participants endorsed alcohol use prior to 21.96% (47/221) of NSSI episodes and roughly one third of participants (n=27) reported at least one episode of NSSI preceded by alcohol use. For NSSI episodes preceded by alcohol use, more than half (52.38%) of participants reported using alcohol up to the moment of initiating NSSI. Alcohol use was significantly associated with higher impulsivity of NSSI episodes (b=1.16, p=.041), but not physical pain from NSSI or medical severity of NSSI. Conclusions: Findings need to be replicated but indicate that alcohol use occurs frequently prior to NSSI and could be a target for reducing impulsive episodes of NSSI.
Sex and gender differences in risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies
Authors: Haering Stephanie , Meyer Caroline , Schulze Lars , Conrad Elisabeth , Blecker Meike K. , El-Haj-Mohamad Rayan , Geiling Angelika , Klusmann Hannah , Schumacher Sarah , Knaevelsrud Christine , Engel Sinha
Published: October 2023

Women are at higher risk than men for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Comprehensive knowledge about these mechanisms is necessary to develop tailored, sex- and gender-sensitive preventive interventions. This systematic review and meta-analysis examined sex/gender-dependent risk factors, i.e., risk factors with sex/gender differences in i) vulnerability or ii) prevalence/severity, as well as sex/gender-specific risk factors, i.e., iii) risk factors present in one sex/gender only. We searched PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, PsycArticles, and PSYNDEX for articles published until October 16, 2022. We included prospective studies that assessed risk factors to predict subsequent PTSD symptom severity, as measured with the Clinician-Administered PTSD scale. The primary outcomes were sex/gender stratified pooled r for sex/gender-dependent vulnerability and sex/gender-specific risk factors, and pooled OR or SMD for sex/gender-dependent risk factor prevalence/severity. We screened 17,270 records and included 117 reports from 45 studies (N=13,752) in the systematic review. Seventeen studies (N=4,257; 1,827 women, 2,430 men) were included in the meta-analysis. Regarding risk factor vulnerability, analyses revealed no significant sex/gender-differences except for acute stress symptoms, with stronger associations for men (b=0.11, SE=0.06, p<.05). Regarding risk factor prevalence/severity, women reported more severe immediate psychological stress responses (range SMD: 0.23-0.56) and more commonly had a history of mental illness (OR=1.81, 1.27-2.58). Men showed higher trauma load (SMD=-0.15, -0.29—0.01). Few women-specific and no men-specific factors were identified. Results suggest that women’s heightened immediate psychological stress response drives sex/gender disparities in PTSD symptom severity. Preventive interventions should thus target women early after trauma.
Nonlinear Decline in the Association between Birth Weight and Cognitive Ability from Infancy to Midlife in a Community Sample of Twins
Authors: Womack Sean Richard , Beam Christopher , Giangrande Evan , Bell Sophie Amanda , Finkel Deborah , Davis Deborah , Turkheimer Eric
Published: October 2023

Birth weight is a widely used indicator of prenatal experiences in models of the developmental origins of cognitive ability across the lifespan. We modeled change in the strength of the association between birth weight and cognitive ability in a sample of twins (n = 1,501; 53.1% female; 91.1% White) followed prospectively from infancy to midlife. The magnitude of the association between birth weight and cognitive ability declined exponentially from infancy (B = .59, p < .05) to midlife (B = .27, p < .05). A 1-kilogram increase in birth weight was associated with an 8.85-point increase in cognitive scores at 3 months and a 4.05-point advantage after about 2.5 years. Biometric regression models revealed that shared environmental factors accounted for the decline in the association between birth weight and cognitive ability. A small, positive within-pair association persisted into midlife. Findings support developmental origin models of cognitive ability across the lifespan.
Integrating Threat Conditioning and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) to Advance the Study of Anxiety-Related Psychopathology
Authors: Cooper Samuel Emerson , Perkins Emily R. , Webler Ryan , Dunsmoor Joseph E. , Krueger Robert
Published: October 2023

Theoretical and methodological research on threat conditioning provides important neuroscience-informed approaches to studying fear and anxiety. The conditioning framework is at the vanguard of physiological and neurobiological research into core mechanistic symptoms of anxiety-related psychopathology, providing detailed models of neural circuitry underlying variability in clinically-relevant behaviors (e.g., decreased extinction, heightened generalization) and heterogeneity in clinical anxiety presentations. Despite the strengths of the threat conditioning approach in explaining symptom-level variability and syndromal heterogeneity, the vast majority of psychopathology-oriented threat conditioning work has been conducted using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) paradigm. Unfortunately, DSM categorizations fail to capture symptom-level resolution afforded by threat conditioning indices. Further, relations between fine-grained neurobehavioral measures of threat conditioning and specific anxiety symptoms are substantially attenuated by within-category heterogeneity, arbitrary boundaries, comorbidity, and limited reliability of the DSM. Conversely, the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a promising approach for modeling anxiety symptoms studied by threat conditioning work and for relating threat conditioning to broader anxiety-related constructs. To date, HiTOP has had a minimal impact on the threat conditioning field. Here, we propose that combining the HiTOP and neurobehavioral threat conditioning approaches is an important next step in studying anxiety-related pathology. We provide a brief review of prominent DSM critiques and how they affect threat conditioning studies and suggest solutions and recommendations that flow from the HiTOP perspective. Our hope is that this effort serves as both an inflection point and practical primer for HiTOP-aligned threat conditioning research that benefits both fields.
AFECTACIÓN DE LOS VIRUS RESPIRATORIOS EN NIÑOS. EL BINOMIO PULMÓN-CORAZÓN: NO TODO ES COVID-19
Authors: Martínez Julia
Published: October 2023

Los virus respiratorios son una causa común e importante de infecciones respiratorias agudas en niños, que pueden afectar tanto al sistema respiratorio como el cardiovascular (1). El binomio pulmón-corazón es una unidad funcional en la que las alteraciones en uno de los órganos pueden afectar la función del otro, esta afectación puede tener consecuencias graves en la salud de los niños.

 

A pesar de que en los últimos años la infección por el virus causante del COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) ha tomado gran interés en la salud mundial, no hay que olvidar que existen diversos virus que pueden causar una variedad de enfermedades respiratorias, desde resfriados comunes hasta neumonía grave, constituyendo las infecciones respiratorias agudas (IRA) que se manifiestan con un espectro de síntomas variables (1).

 

Algunos de los virus respiratorios más comunes incluyen el virus sincitial respiratorio (VSR) y el virus de la influenza (AH1N1, AH3N2), los cuales, según el Centro para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos (CDC), el virus sincitial respiratorio (VSR) es la causa más común de enfermedad respiratoria en lactantes y niños pequeños, causando aproximadamente el 50% de las infecciones respiratorias agudas en niños menores de 1 año, y el 70% de las infecciones respiratorias agudas en niños menores de 6 meses (2), mientras que la gripe, causa aproximadamente 20.000 hospitalizaciones y entre 100-200 muertes en niños menores de 5 años cada año en los Estados Unidos, con la tasa de hospitalización más alta en niños menores de 2 años con afecciones médicas subyacentes como enfermedades cardíacas (3).
Nadzieja i nowy realizm. Apel o zmiany w szkolnym czytaniu
Authors: Handzel Agnieszka
Published: October 2023

This article presents the ideas of factfulness created by H. Rosling and “new realism” presented by R. Bregman in his book Homo Sapiens. The author connects these ideas with subjects and topics present in obligatory reading according to “Podstawa Programowa” [core curriculum]. The author is convinced that “people are better than we think” (Bregman, 2020) and that we should use critical thinking and the idea of factfulness. In this article, she analyses whether those obligatory books are somehow still up-to-date for primary school students and presents some alternative books worth reading in class in order to bring hope and an optimistic look at the future of humanity.
Od czego zaczynać? Dyskusja o lekturach szkolnych w dobie antropocentrycznej opresji
Authors: Czernek-Pasierbek Paulina
Published: October 2023

The article is devoted to reflection on the canon and required school reading from the perspective of ecocritical studies, with particular emphasis on the Pieśni Panny XII [The Song of the Virgin XII] by Jan Kochanowski. The author presents the most significant theoretical information on Polish achievements in the field of “environmental humanities” and the role of veganism and vegetarianism in the era of advancing climate change. The article also discusses the dangers of the anthropocentric way of perceiving reality. The author points out the necessity to use the achievements of “environmental humanities” in Polish literature lessons and shows examples of how to read school books through this methodology.
Kartografia domu. O twórczości Barbary Gawryluk
Authors: Wójcik-Dudek Małgorzata
Published: October 2023

The article attempts to present one of the extremely important themes in the work of Barbara Gawryluk, which is emigration and the creation of a new home abroad. The author of the article, referring to selected works by the Krakow writer, tries to present how Gawryluk constructs the motif of a journey and the topos of the home and read the meaning that the writer gives to these spaces. The researcher notes the differences between the literary images of emigration caused by difficult economic conditions and the images of refugees forced to leave their homeland to save their lives.
Głos nieobecny, głos konstruowany — w kręgu studiów o niepełnosprawności w polskiej literaturze dziecięcej i młodzieżowej (Alicja Fidowicz, Niepełnosprawność w polskiej literaturze XX i XXI wieku dla dzieci i młodzieży, Kraków, 2020
Authors: Kuczaba-Flisak Magdalena
Published: October 2023

The article reviews the book Disability in Polish Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries by Alicja Fidowicz. The author of the review analyzes the book against the background of the changes in the humanistic reflection on disability studies in the context of social changes and the history of children’s and young adult literature.
Przejęzyczać się ku życiu (o poezji Joanny Mueller)
Authors: Skurtys Jakub
Published: October 2023

Artykuł poświęcony jest poetyckiej twórczości Joanny Mueller, zwłaszcza temu, jak traktuje ona zagadnienie form życia oraz w jaki sposób projekt krytyczny pisarki, skupiony właśnie wokół modernistycznej kategorii życia, przekłada się na działania stricte literackie Mueller. Autor zaczyna od polemiki z zarzutami dotyczącymi zachowawczości poetyki Mueller oraz jej pozorowanego eksperymentatorstwa, nawiązującego raczej do romantycznych gestów obrony podmiotowości niż do jej neoawangardowego przekroczenia. Stara się pokazać, w jaki sposób ta rzekomo antynowoczesna postawa sprzęga się dziś z feministyczną, nowomaterialistyczną walką o formę życia i odsłonięcie pracy niematerialnej. Stawką poetyckiej gry Mueller nie jest bowiem wiersz artykułujący społeczny gniew ani też działający jako dialektyczna negacja systemu, lecz afirmacyjna otulina, która na chwilę ugości w sobie i zabezpieczy prekarne życie.
Mieczysław Porębski – pisarz bytu i mitu. Lektura „Z." Szymutką
Authors: Szkaradnik Katarzyna
Published: October 2023

Artykuł jest poświęcony interpretacji wybranych motywów Z. Po-wieści – jedynego stricte beletrystycznego dzieła krytyka i teoretyka sztuki Mieczysława Porębskiego – w kontekście koncepcji i studiów Stefana Szymutki. Ten śląski literaturoznawca był szczególnie zainteresowany twórczością Teodora Parnickiego, z którą nieraz porównuje się wspomnianą „postmodernistyczną” powieść historyczną. Z. Po-wieść ukazuje wędrówkę tytułowego bohatera, odradzającego się Z., poprzez dzieje cywilizacji europejskiej. Fabuła taka obrazuje konfrontację z „wielką historią” (historią-bytem) i służy stworzeniu pewnej całościowej wizji. W komparatystycznej lekturze wypowiedzi Szymutki i książki Porębskiego (oraz niektórych jego innych tekstów) uwypuklony został problem relacji między historią, rzeczywistością a literaturą, szczególnie istotny dla obu bohaterów artykułu. O ile Szymutko wyraźnie przeciwstawia literaturę (domenę słów) empirycznej rzeczywistości historycznej, o tyle Porębski głosi apologię tej pierwszej jako narzędzia stawiania czoła dziejowości i obrony jednostkowej egzystencji. Pomimo okrucieństwa rzeczywistości historycznej twórczość artystyczna, która z nią koresponduje, pozwala osiągnąć katharsis i jedyną nieusuwalną „przyjemność historii” (sformułowanie Szymutki). Według Porębskiego podobnie działa mit, należący wraz z literaturą do tak zwanej sfery trzeciej wartości logicznej. Literatura zaś posiada zdolność do nadawania mitycznej – ponadczasowej – aktualności temu, co akcydentalne i efemeryczne.
Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism: The Case of Iain M. Banks’ Culture
Authors: Damnjanović Ivana
Published: October 2023

The Culture series created by Scottish author Iain (M.) Banks consists of nine novels, one novella and a couple of short stories situated in the same fictional universe. The eponymous Culture is a space-faring (and spacedwelling) civilization, a conglomeration of several humanoid species and sentient machines, most intellectually powerful beings called The Minds. Technological advances made the Culture a post-scarcity society focused on the maximization of personal freedom. The character of its socio-political structure, however, is somewhat unclear. Based on the differences between its internal and external politics, scholars have mostly placed the Culture within the categories of Utopia and Empire. This is, as the present paper argues, a false dilemma since the Culture is simultaneously both and neither of those. The main argument is that the truly adequate label for the political complexities of the Culture civilization was coined only after the untimely death of the author himself – around 2015, when the far (or, some would say, radical) left activists on the Internet coined the phrase Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. Using both writings of Marx and Engels on the features of communism and Ollman’s systematization of these features, I will try to show that this is indeed the case.
Instagram Use and Equity in Public Health: A Study on Brazil and Portugal During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Pinto Pâmela , Antunes Maria João , Almeida Ana Margarida , Renó Denis
Published: October 2023

Background: There are few studies on the use of Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in low-income countries, even though Instagram is considered a tool to fight COVID-19.

Analysis: This work applies both an exploratory approach and content analysis to study the Instagram profiles of Portugal’s National Health Service and Brazil’s Ministry of Health, as well as of citizens of these two countries, during the COVID-19 pandemic. 1,633 posts from these health authorities were analyzed. In addition, netnography methodology was applied to the analysis of a total of 48,691 posts.

Conclusions: Citizens and sanitary authorities used Instagram as a space to discuss the pandemic. Citizens emphasized feelings and opinions through photos. For their part, authorities adopted the platform as an official communication channel, with limitations regarding the equity of their content.
Analyse de l’image politique de François Legault sur Instagram pendant la crise de la COVID-19
Authors: Beaulieu Josée , Lalancette Mireille
Published: October 2023

Background: This article addresses communications on Instagram by Québec Premier François Legault. We were particularly interested in his use of this platform to manage the COVID-19 crisis. For this article, we carried out a content, discourse, and visual analysis of the publications on the Instagram account of the Premier of Québec during two key periods, the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis from March 12 to April 13, 2020, and its continuation from January 6 to February 8, 2021.

Analysis: We draw on a content, discourse, and visual analysis of the Premier’s messages on the Instagram platform to understand the strategies used by the Québec government on the Premier’s Instagram feed during the COVID-19 crisis.

Conclusions and implications: Through this study, we show the uses of Instagram and how this platform was leveraged to communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Legault responded to the urgency of crisis management by showing strong leadership and staying on message.
Evaluation of the effectiveness of the company's cash flow management system in the context of ESG-transformation
Authors: Borovkova Viktoriia Anatolevna , Borovkova Valeriia Anatolevna
Published: October 2023

In conditions of continuous transformations, the ability of an enterprise to sufficiently assess the effectiveness of cash flow management allows it to increase its solvency, stability, efficiency and competitiveness. The author's concept, a system of indicators and a methodology for a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of an enterprise's cash flow management system based on the measurement and analysis of its key components: potential, management, identification, cost-effectiveness, methodology, atmosphere are presented.
Unknown pages of Bahia Atshabarov’s biography
Authors:   Karaganda University of the name of academician E.A. Buketov, Smagulova G.М. , L.К. Shotbakova , B.Т. Тuleuova , N.А. Beisenbekova
Published: October 2023

The article deals with the life and work of the world-famous scientist, Doctor of medical sciences, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan Bahia Atshabarovich Atshabarov, who left a significant mark in the history of independent Kazakhstan and made a great contribution to its development. The authors pay attention to the unknown and unstudied pages from the biography of the famous specialist in the field of medicine B.A. Atshabarov, who was one of the first in 1957–1960 to investigate the terrible consequences of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site for the people of Kazakhstan, demonstrating his civic position and patriotism. The study of the personality of Bahia Atshabarov as an outstanding scientist, organizer, and patriot relies on the use of general scientific and special methodological principles. An objective analysis of various assessments of the consequences of nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site during the Soviet period, personal documents of B.A. Atshabarov and other eyewitnesses allowed us to reveal the multifaceted personality of B.A. Atshabarov.
Interdependence of the coexistence of civil society and the rule of law (logical and methodological discourse)
Authors:   Karaganda University of the name of academician E.A. Buketov, Baturin V.S.
Published: October 2023

The article discusses the reasons that cast doubt on the beliefs about the impeccability of state lawmaking, carried out in logic: law — rights — freedom. Protests related to the “struggle of citizens for their rights and freedoms”, especially aggravated in connection with COVID-19, even began to pose a threat to the integrity of individual states. An example is the January events of 2022 that took place in the Republic of Kazakhstan. A retrospective analysis of ideas about the interdependence of influence that exists between civil society and the state made it possible to identify their main trends. In antiquity, the state regulation of the life of citizens of the policy was carried out in the logic: freedom — duties — rights. In the Roman Empire, the rationing of the life of the state and its citizens begins to take on a pronounced legalized format. The evolution of ideas in this format clearly demonstrates that in the future various kinds of natural law concepts are united in that any artificial social formation has no right to alienate the rights that are given to the individual by nature itself. Since that time, in the lawmaking of states, unconditional priority has been given to rights. In the teachings of representatives of German classical philosophy in the relationship between civil society and the state, a return to the importance of parity between duties and rights is still visible. Subsequently, the logic: law — rights — freedom became the defining attribute of the lawmaking of states that today are classified as legal. As a result, the functioning of civil society, directly or indirectly, came under their direct patronage
Xiaokang — the Chinese Model of Development
Authors:   Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Assyl M.B. , Dauyen D.B. ,   Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages, Turgenbay A.A.
Published: October 2023

The beginning of the reform and opening up policy, which began in the 1980s, brought into the Chinese political lexicon a word made up of two simple characters, like “小康” (xiaokang). In this word, the character “小” (xiao) means “little” and “康” (kang) means “goodness, tranquility”. In foreign literature, this combination is translated as “low prosperity”, “average prosperity,” “small tranquility”, but the commonly accepted translation used in official Chinese documents is “moderately prosperous”. In Chinese political discourse, “Xiaokang” is related to such notions as social development, social policy, and people’s well-being. To date, achieving the level of “Xiaokang” and the comprehensive construction of “Xiaokang society” is the main practical activity of China’s modernization carried out by the Communist Party of China over the past 40 years of reform and opening up. This article examines the use of the concept of “xiaokang” (moderately prosperous) in the process of China’s modernization and socio-economic development during the reform period. Using historical and philosophical analysis, it traces the trend of transformation of the concept “Xiaokang” from antiquity to the present day. The expected achievement of the goal of “comprehensive Xiaokang society” and China’s proclamation of complete eradication of poverty by the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (2021) is a topic of great relevance for the study.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF “WARM-UP ACTIVITIES” AT ENGLISH LESSONS FOR THE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
Authors: Boivan Olesia , Striuk Natalia
Published: October 2023

This research is devoted to the actual problem of using the “warm-up activities” at English classes with first-year students. It is specified that “warm-up activities” (warm-up exercises or communication and game exercises) are short-term activities, which are performed at the beginning or during the lesson that do not require special preparation and are intended to introduce the initial element of the positive adjustment of pupils and the teacher to productive work and full interaction on the given topic. The purpose of the article is to study theoretically the phenomenon of “warm-up activities”, to determine the effectiveness of its application at English classes with the first-year students.It was underlined in the article, that learning any foreign language is determined as a multifunctional, long-term process that requires regularity, and certain creative and emotional moments, which are characterized by scientific and pedagogical representatives as the key directions of introducing the foreign language into the public environment for better adaptation to modern trends of the English language in Ukraine. Choosing the forms of language trainings in order to ensure their effectiveness, the teacher must take into account some general rules: pay attention to the level of foreign language proficiency; to hook the students with a certain technique at the beginning of the lesson in order to promote their interest immediately; “warming up” should be related to the main tasks of the lesson; remember the short duration of “warm-up activities”.It has been established that “warm-up activities” should be used at English language classes, as it builds the joint potential of those who teach and those who study.

Keywords: warm-up exercises; “warm-up activities”; positive attitude; foreign language competences; speech skills; interaction.
PREPARATION OF THE FUTURE TEACHER FOR THE USE OF INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES IN PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
Authors: Braslavska Oksana , Ozerova Lyudmila
Published: October 2023

The article highlights the main trends in the use of Internet technologies as an innovative direction in modern education, the basis for the formation of the information society, its globalization and informatization, which led to new requirements for professional activity and training of future specialists. The article substantiates the need for Internet resources and outlines the basic conditions for their use in practice; strengthening of the intellectual capabilities of education seekers in the information society, as well as individualization and improvement of the quality of education; organization of distance education; automation of the system of control and assessment of knowledge of education seekers; management of large volumes of information; formation of information competence of applicants; saving money and time, increasing the level of interest in training and professional growth of specialists. The solution of the set goal became possible with the help of such methods as observation, analysis of scientific sources on the raised problem, which made it possible to clarify the essence of the concept of “Internet technologies” and methods of compiling tasks with their help and solving them. The specifics of the use of Internet technologies, principles and means are characterized. Their effectiveness has been established: the use of Internet web resources provides access to a wide range of achievements of world science and research and development.The aim of the work was the theoretical substantiation of the peculiarities of training future specialists for professional activities by means of Internet technologies.It has been proven that the use of Internet technologies allows to positively influence the formation of the future specialist's personality, contributes to his information enrichment, development, ability to think critically, orient himself in the modern world. The main results of the work testify to the need to intensify approaches to the organization of the work of specialists with Internet technologies. In addition, the results of the work are drawing the attention of the community to the justification of the features of Internet technologies, which are determined by effective innovation in education, an effective means of training future specialists for professional activities.

Keywords: information; Internet technologies; information educational environment; Internet environment; professional growth; Internet resources; students of higher education; specialists.
USE OF INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES OF COLLECTIVE AND GROUP LEARNING (ON THE EXAMPLES OF STUDYING SCHOOL COURSES OF GEOGRAPHY AND NATURAL SCIENCE «GETTING TO KNOW NATURE»)
Authors: Нerasymenko Oksana
Published: October 2023

The standards of modern education set before every teacher the task of forming a person of a new generation – creative, active, proactive, one who uses innovative approaches in solving problem situations.The concept of the New Ukrainian School puts forward new requirements for the organization of education for those seeking education. It is possible to implement this work only when each student performs his educational process as effectively as possible. Traditional methods of education aimed at improving the information system of education do not provide the opportunity to fully reveal the inner creative and intellectual potential of each person, because it continues to be dominated by the traditional psychological and informational approach, which is aimed at developing memorization skills, rather than thinking and acting, and not the development of all psychological processes of the individual, which he should involve in the learning process.The article highlights the problems of using interactive learning technologies in the school natural science course “Getting to Know Nature”. Interactive technologies of collective and group learning (“microphone”, “unfinished sentences”, “brainstorming”, “teaching – learning”, “openwork saw”, “situation analysis are considered”), “decision tree” and others.It is noted that such an organization of training creates a special educational environment for personality development. Through mutual learning, experience in solving problems based on its theoretical understanding and application is acquired.

Keywords: method of teaching natural science; interactive educational technologies; “microphone”; “unfinished sentences”; “brainstorming”; “teaching – learning”; “openwork saw”; “situation analysis”; “decision tree”.