bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Foreign language anxiety in the acquisition of Rusian as a foreign language
Authors:   University of Zagreb, Jajich Novogradec Marina , Chagalj Ivana ,   University of Zagreb
Published: July 2021

The aim of the paper is to measure and define the causes of foreign language anxiety in learning RFL, as one of the most important affective factors in foreign language teaching. The causes of difficulties in foreign language learning, as well as the development of language anxiety, can be different. The study examines the sample of 80 Croatian undergraduate students majoring in Russian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb. In order to measure language anxiety, the questionnaire that included Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale, developed by E. Horwitz et al. [1991] was used. The hypotheses were that the level of anxiety would decline at advanced levels of language learning; with the students who were learning another foreign language at the university; those who had learned Russian before entering the university; as well as those who had integrative and instrumental type of motivation in learning the language, and those who had visited Russian speaking country before.In the area of moderate level of anxiety, certain categories in which students showed high level of anxiety were allocated. The main causes of anxiety were communication apprehension and fear of negative evaluation. Future studies need to take into consideration foreign language anxiety in different contexts of foreign language learning and psycholinguistic perspective of the issue.
Methodological Challenges in Assessing the Causal Effects of Teaching
Authors: Lüdtke Oliver , Robitzsch Alexander
Published: July 2021

In this paper, we focus on three particular challenges in specifying appropriate models that can be used to estimate the causal effects of teaching in nonrandomized designs. First, we clarify that from a causal perspective the ANCOVA and change score approaches address the same research question (i.e., estimating the causal effects of teaching) but rely on different assumptions to identify the causal effects. Second, we argue that the cumulative effects of teaching (over several years) are often underestimated with two-occasion data. Thereby, we also point out the great potential of marginal structural models for analyzing the effects of time-varying treatments. Finally, we briefly discuss the role of measurement error and compositional effects, which we believe deserve further attention in future methodological research.
Primate empathy: A flexible and multi-componential phenomenon
Authors: Brooker Jake S. , Webb Christine E. , Clay Zanna
Published: July 2021

Empathy, the capacity to share and understand others’ states, is crucial for facilitating enduring social relationships and managing ingroup and outgroup dynamics. Despite being at the center of much scrutiny and debate in human research, the evolutionary foundations of empathy remain relatively opaque. Moreover, inconsistencies remain regarding definitions and theoretical models, leading to discrepancies in how to systematically represent and address empathy and understand its evolutionary basis. As a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon, certain components of empathy are likely to be evolutionarily ancient whereas others may be more derived. As our closest living relatives, nonhuman primates provide an opportunity to explore the evolutionary origins of empathy and its subcomponents. Due to the rich diversity of primate societies, we can comparatively study evidence of affective responding and empathic behaviour within the context of different social dynamics and organisation. Although studies have been conducted on individual primate species, especially the great apes, direct species comparisons are rare. Here we examine the literature investigating evidence for empathy among primates focussing on its underlying affective and cognitive components. In reviewing the literature, we also highlight species that need more coverage to enhance our overall understanding of how empathy has evolved within the primate order.
THE MANUSCRIPT BY S. A. AVIZHANSKAYA ON THE BASHKIR WEDDING
Authors:   R. G. Kuzeev Institute for Ethnological Studies, the Ufa Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Galieva Farida
Published: July 2021

Sofia Aleksandrovna Avizhanskaya is known for her research in the field of decorative and applied art of the Bashkirs and the Bashkir collections she collected for the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR. However, her contribution to ethnographic science is not limited to this. The proposed publication introduces into scientific circulation Avizhanskaya’s manuscript about the Bashkir wedding, discovered in the Scientific Archives of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the 1956 field diary of Rail Gumerovich Kuzeev. The author supplements these materials with the information contained in Avizhanskaya’s expeditionary report, and highlights their novelty and uniqueness using our own field records of recent years. Archival sources indicate that during joint field research, Kuzeev often served as Avizhanskaya’s translator from Bashkir into Russian, including the story of a wedding, and shared his knowledge of the history and life of the Bashkirs. This helped Avizhanskaya to study the territorial features of the national costume, economic activities, food systems and other areas of the ethnography of the Bashkirs. For her part, she passed on the experience of expeditionary work. A record of the Bashkir “red wedding” made jointly by Avizhanskaya and Kuzeev fills in the source gap in the study of the Bashkir ritual of the mid-20th century. The manuscript presents the local features of the northeastern Bashkirs, preserved traditions, including the institution of “planted parents”, as well as other ethnic and Soviet customs that have penetrated into ritualism.
A Review of RAY WILKINSON, JOHN P. RAE, GITTE RASMUSSEN (eds.), ATYPICAL INTERACTION: THE IMPACT OF COMMUNICATIVE IMPAIRMENTS WITHIN EVERYDAY TALK. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, XXIII+470 pp.
Authors:   Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kolyadov Dmitry
Published: July 2021

The collection of articles under review includes conversation analytic studies of interactions involving the participation of at least one person with communicative impairments (aphasia, dementia, dysarthria, etc.). The authors concentrate on how these impairments influence interaction—the organization of repair in particular—as well as on issues of participants’ adaption to impairments, collaboration, the agency of people with impairments, and practices of face maintenance. Three more general issues connected to this field of study are discussed in the review. The first issue is a choice of analytic categories and the application of the category of repair. This category seems justified since participants frequently have to clarify the meaning of their partners’ actions. However, this choice may appear problematic if one does not take into account that interactions with people with impairments have their own progressivity, which differs from the progressivity of ordinary conversation. The second issue is the role of nonverbal actions, which is crucial in circumstances where some of the participants lack verbal resources. The third issue concerns the problem of the understanding which participants try to achieve in the course of interaction and which researchers try to achieve in the course of analysis. This task becomes more challenging in comparison to ordinary conversations. On the one hand, actions of persons with impairments are sometimes ambiguous and require special interpretative efforts from their partners. On the other hand, there is always a risk that the partner will interpret actions of impaired person inadequately.
MARSHALL SAHLINS: A SHINING STAR FOR SAILORS NAVIGATING THE OCEAN OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Authors:   The Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Schmoller Jesko ,   The Centre for Comparative History and Politics, Perm State University
Published: July 2021

Marshall Sahlins Obituary
“THE RED DEATH” OF KABANKIN: THE WANDERERS AND RUSSIAN RITUAL MURDER IN LATE ROMANOV’S EMPIRE
Authors:   National Research University Higher School of Economics, Kuziner Igor
Published: July 2021

In this article I review the corpus of newspaper materials related to the purported involvement a group of Saratov Old Believers in a ritual murder, which allegedly took place in late 1911. Taking into account the context of other high-profile cases of ritual murder of that time—“Multan’s case” and “Baelis’ case”—the paper considers the specifics of the charges against the ethnic majority to which the suspected ethnic Russian wanderers belonged. The analysis focuses on the discursive transformation of the majority / minority boundaries under the conditions of the nationalizing Russian Empire at the turn of 19th–20th centuries, reflected in the press materials devoted to a specific episode. The religious factor in determining the boundary as “the Self / the Other” turned out to be non-essential—compared to the ethnic factor—when it comes to the Saratov wanderers. Thus, we find evidence for a certain normalization of the wanderers, who begin to be thought of as Russians first—and sectarians second. Their ethnicity, according to the logic of some of the publicists who describe them, endows them with a certain set of qualities—among them the impossibility of committing ritual murder. Without questioning the homogenizing logic of the modern discourse about defining the boundaries of “the Self / the Other” and “norm-deviation”, the article argues that these boundaries, even in the conditions of a nationalizing empire, appeared to be flexible enough to carry out the inclusion of subjects that were outside the conventional norm, thus making the normative area a plastic and constantly changing space. The ambivalent position of the Old Believers (representatives of a dominant ethnic group and, at the same time, a religious minority) was reflected in the press reports on the Saratov incident, forcing journalists and readers to take a fresh look at the limits of majority and minority, and to redefine the place of religious outcasts in this system.
Social Protection in Health: Characteristics and Coverage of Health Insurance Programme in Nepal
Authors: Khanal Geha Nath , Regmi Bhagawan
Published: July 2021

The agenda of social protection has become very popular in recent years. Several social protection programs in healthcare are designed to increase the healthcare coverage, ensure financial protection and enhance the scope and quality of services and access to medicines which ultimately paves the way for universal health coverage. The national health insurance programme (NHIP) is one of the approaches implemented in Nepal to cover healthcare expenditure. This paper discusses the gradual development of the health insurance programme in Nepal and the key features of NHIP that have been implemented since 2016. It further highlights the implementation status of NHIP, the milestones it covered, and the role of political parties in implementing NHIP in Nepal. Furthermore, the paper discusses the challenges associated with enrollment of formal and non-formal sectors, the mismatch between geographical coverage and the number of service contact points, and commitment from the political parties for effective implementation of NHIP. It seeks major implementation reforms to ensure effective implementation of NHIP.
Traditional and innovative in the orchestration of Ivan Karabyts‘ third concerto for orchestra «Lamantation»
Authors: Rakochi Vadym
Published: July 2021

The orchestration of Karabyts’ Third Concerto for Orchestra “Holosinnia” (“Lamentations”) has been studied. The relevance of the study. Despite a number of research works on Karabits’ Third Concerto its orchestration remains little studied yet. Therefore, the main objective of the paper is to examine orchestration of the Third Concerto for orchestra and to research the interaction between ‘traditional’ and ‘innovative’ traits in Concerto’s orchestration. The methods of the research. The score analysis lies in the core of the paper but historical, comparative, and semiotic methods of analysis have been applied as well. Attention is focused on the combination of traditional and innovative origins which paved the way for the composer to rethink the methods of presentation in the orchestra. Thus, these transformations reflect the original (author’s) approach to the genre. It was emphasized that Karabyts interprets the synthetical character inherent to the concerto for orchestra genre particularly wide. It is emphasized that this approach allows the composer to identify a palette of genres of instrumental music: for one performer, different combinations of chamber ensembles, concerto grosso and solo instrumental concerto. In particular, the opposition between two groups was strengthened not only due to unequal quantity of performers in each of them (concerto grosso), but also by relying on the different nature of the material or the use of bells or tube, quite rare in this role, to solo (solo concerto). The combination of traditional and innovative is reflected in the composition of the orchestra (paired with a large percussion group) and the approach to percussion instruments (endowing them with melodic, semantic, formative and other functions). It is emphasized that Karabyts repeatedly applies “percussion-like" interpretation in relation to other instruments. Such an approach results in a qualitative transformation of the instruments: the inherent warmth of a string timbre decreases; the singularity of each wind color neutral-lizes. Complications of semantics at each rhythmic, intonation, and timbre ostinato formulas are revealed. The introduction of a particular (author’s) approach to the baroque tradition of combining the functions of a soloist and a capellmeister, the manifestation of which is the solo of bells perso-nally made by Karabyts, has been noticed. The conclusions state that the Concerto’s orchestration plays important role in dialectically combination of “objective” and traditional (the passage of time, the history of the people, destiny) with “subjective” and individual (the author’s attitude to events and their rethinking). Such an approach is typical for the twentieth-century musical art. The significance of the research is that it reveals the importance of orchestration as a means of expression and thus brings better understanding of the functional potential of orchestration within the frame of the twentieth-century art tendencies.
Synthesis of Scientific and Creative Picture of the World on the Example of the Genre of Thought in the Research of F. Kolessa and the Composer's Interpretation of D. Sichinsky
Authors: Bolgar Vitaliy
Published: July 2021

The relevance and novelty of the research lies in the specific nature of the musical tradition in the context of the relationship between scientific and creative picture of the world, especially folk art, which has always been central in the research of Ukrainian historians, ethnographers, folklorists (scientific field), and also was the main vector in the works of many composers: M. Lysenko, K. Stetsenko, S. Lyudkevych, F. Kolessa, D. Sichynsky, L. Dychko, M. Skoryk, and others (creative sphere).
A striking example of this phenomenon is the Duma - one of the brightest "pages" of Ukrainian folklore. Since its inception, this genre has taken an honorable place among the many assets of Ukrainian folk art. Representing a vivid example of a heroic epic, Duma (as well as numerous historical songs, which is stylistically close) is a kind of evidence of the Cossacks, the history of the XVIXVIII centuries, presented in artistic rethinking, creative reflection of kobza and lyric environment.
Research methods: historical - reveals the process of formation of the ethnographic approach to the study of Ukrainian thoughts in the scientific activity of M. Lysenko, S. Lyudkevych, O. Slаstion, F. Kolessa and others. Analytical - the method of holistic analysis of the work allows to reveal the ways of interpretation of the genre of thought by means of the academic musical tradition. Comparative - used to compare the methodological approach in relation to the genre of the Ukrainian Duma in the authentic version and its subsequent composer's embodiment. The conclusions testify to the fact that in the existence of this genre features of both scientific and creative picture of the world, manifested in the diversity and versatility of its sound: authentic documentary recording and composer's rethinking in the author's musical works of the classical tradition. The theoretical propositions are supported by a historical summary that highlights the formation of folklore ethnography in Ukraine. In particular, the personalities of F. Kolessa, N. Lysenko, D. Sichynsky lend themselves to more detailed consideration. Their role in the formation of musical ethnography in Ukraine is determined. On the example of a holistic analysis of D. Sichynsky's "Think about Nechay", the main composer means of the classical academic tradition, expressing the authentic sound of the thought, were determined.
ПРО ОДИН АЛГОРИТМІЧНИЙ ПІДХІД ДО ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ РАНГУ ЧИСЛА В СИСТЕМІ ЗАЛИШКОВИХ КЛАСІВ
Authors: Поліський Юрій
Published: July 2021

В роботі досліджено систему залишкових класів щодо можливості реалізації немодульної операції визначення рангу числа.
ВІЗУАЛІЗАЦІЯ РЕЗУЛЬТАТІВ ДОСЛІДІВ У НАУКОВИХ E-СТАТТЯХ
Authors: Красніков Кирило
Published: July 2021

Комп’ютери дають нові можливості представляти дані, розраховані за допомогою математичних моделей. Простий статичний рисунок не може відображати всі деталі 3D-моделі та еволюції складного фізичного процесу, що може значно обмежити поширення наукових результатів та корисність електронної статті. У цій роботі розглядається представлення даних для читачів мультимедійними веб-компонентами, що замінюють статичні рисунки в електронній статті. Область перегляду складається з вбудованих компонентів популярних Інтернет-браузерів, відповідає представленим функціональним та технічним вимогам, включаючи підтримку безкоштовних медіа-форматів. Показується та пояснюється його структура інтерфейсу користувача, подібна до відеокомпонента. Вміст, який відтворюється областю перегляду, організований за моментальними знімками, які містять масиви чисел та інших даних. Ці знімки використовуються для оновлення віртуальної 3D-сцени. Сцена складається з камери, джерел світла, статичних та генерованих моделей, включаючи кольорові чотирикутники та стрілки для поля швидкості. Як результат, представлена ​​ілюстрація демонструє реалізовану область перегляду із прорисованим станом металургійного процесу в конкретний момент часу. Порівняно з існуючими роботами розглядається надання аудіо-коментарів для області перегляду в електронній статті, що розширює коло його потенційних читачів. Запропонований компонент може відтворювати еволюцію 3D полів, інтуїтивно керуючи відтворенням, включаючи розташування віртуальної камери.

Якщо порівняти запропонований компонент області перегляду із вбудованим аудіо-відео компонентом HTML5, можна побачити додатковий селектор швидкості відтворення та кольору фону. У вікні перегляду є елементи управління, які відповідають функціональним вимогам, і його можна стилізувати за допомогою CSS, наприклад, зробити фон прозорим.

Подальше дослідження планується для спрощення використання області огляду та вбудовування у наукові роботи. На підготовку тривимірних даних потрібно витратити менше часу, наприклад, дозволяючи авторам вибирати готові до використання моделі та параметри типових процесів. Запропонований підхід може бути продовжений для інших галузей та спеціальностей, не обмежуючись металургією.
КОМПЛЕКСНЕ РІШЕННЯ ЗАДАЧІ ВИБОРУ РУХОМОГО СКЛАДУ ТА УПРАВЛІННЯ ЗАПАСАМИ
Authors: Шматко Дмитро , Авер’янов Володимир , Коробочка Олександр , Сасов Олександр
Published: July 2021

Основними заходами, прийнятими на автомобільному транспорті в останні роки і спрямованими на підвищення ефективності виробництва, підвищення продуктивності праці, були: організаційні заходи для збільшення використання транспортних засобів, більш повне використання їх вантажопідйомності та місткості, скорочення порожніх пробігів, розробка оптимальних схем перевезення вантажів, вдосконалення технології організації перевезень, підтримання ритмічності вантажно-розвантажувальних робіт за добу. Подальший розвиток та вдосконалення автомобільного транспорту вимагає підготовки кваліфікованих інженерно-технічних працівників, які мають сучасні передові засоби організації, планування, впровадження, аналізу транспортного процесу. Важливим завданням організації перевезень є вибір ефективних транспортних засобів, які найкраще відповідають конкретним умовам. Технічні та експлуатаційні характеристики автомобіля визначаються організацією перевезення та сукупністю його експлуатаційних властивостей: вантажопідйомність, використання ваги, швидкісні характеристики, економія палива тощо.

Метою роботи є вирішення взаємопов’язаних задач щодо визначення спеціалізації та вибору пропускної здатності рухомого складу, що забезпечує низькі транспортні витрати та високу продуктивність автомобіля.

Виходячи з конкретних умов, можна встановити взаємозв'язок між відстанню перевезення вантажу, величиною його щоденного споживання, вартістю вантажу та оптимальною вантажопідйомністю рухомого складу, при якій сумарні витрати, що складаються з витрат на перевезення вантажу, вартості матеріальних засобів в обігу та капіталовкладень в рухомий склад й складське господарство, досягають мінімуму.
Generalidades sobre cardiomiopatía periparto
Authors: Garnier Fernández Juan Carlos , Pizarro Alvarado Gloriana , Orozco García Roberto
Published: July 2021

La cardiomiopatía periparto se define como: una falla cardiaca aguda secundaria a disfunción sistólica, que se presenta hacia el final del embarazo o en los primeros cinco meses después del parto. Tiene una incidencia de 1 en 1,000 a 1 en 4,000 nacimientos.

El factor de riesgo más importante es ser de descendencia africana, otros factores son la edad materna avanzada, multiparidad y los trastornos hipertensivos. La fisiopatología sigue siendo desconocida, y se han propuesto como los causantes de la enfermedad los procesos autoinmunes, factores inflamatorios, infecciones agudas, malnutrición, alteraciones hormonales, apoptosis celular, disfunción y estrés oxidativo endotelial.

La clínica es variada y presentan fatiga, disnea de esfuerzo, disnea paroxística nocturna, tos, ortopnea, edema con fóvea, palpitaciones, dolor torácico, taquipnea, taquicardia, presión venosa yugular elevada, estertores pulmonares, ritmo de galope y ascitis. El diagnóstico es de exclusión, y se debe solicitar un ecocardiograma, electrocardiograma, medición de péptidos natriuréticos (BNP y NT pro-BNP), y radiografía de tórax.

El tratamiento es similar al de otras causas de insuficiencia cardíaca e incluye mantener una adecuada oxigenación, restricción de líquidos y sal, frenar la progresión de la disfunción del ventrículo izquierdo. Los fármacos utilizados son diuréticos, vasodilatadores, inotrópicos, Inhibidores de la enzima convertidora de angiotensina, inhibidores de los receptores II de angiotensina, beta bloqueadores, digoxina, espironolactona y anticoagulación con heparina. La mortalidad es aproximadamente del 4%.
Digital-Based Media Organization Communication Strategy: An Ethnomethodology Study
Authors: Priyowidodo Gatut , Wijayanti Chory Angela , Vidyarini Titi Nur
Published: July 2021

The purpose of this study is to find out the strategy and communication model of techno-entrepreneurs or business actors in the field of start-up business in digital media. This research uses ethnomethodology method. Data analysis techniques are carried out through conversation analysis with the help of NVIVO 12 Software. The validity test of the data uses source and theory triangulation. The findings of this study cover two important aspects. The first communication strategy used in digital media management. Includes six things, namely management of communication, the use of communication channels, planning carried out by institutions, communication channels to drive the wheels of the organization, communication media used and who are the parties involved as communicators for both internal and external. The second finding is the factors that influence the formation of the strategy includes two aspects. First, it is the company's internal conditions. Digital-based business information must be supported by a combination of two core strengths. Those are professionals in information technology and professional management skills in the field of digital media. There are both relations with strong external parties. Business survival is determined by three important stakeholders. They are advertisers as sources of corporate income, sources as suppliers of production materials, and readers/subscribers as consumers.
"FINTECH" as a digital dimension of stable development
Authors: Rippa Maria , Rippa Serhiy
Published: July 2021

The subject of the article is a study of the formation, development and implementation of Fintech technologies in the context of ideologies of sustainable development and innovation DeFi (Decentralized Finance) [6], caused by the intensification of large-scale digital economy and global digitalization of all spheres of production and services. blockchain and prospects for the spread of the Internet of Things (IoT) in combination with artificial intelligence (AI). Results of work. Features of chronology and joint course of epochs of industrial evolution together with stages of development of the financial technologies based on a combination and integration of so-called, drivers of "Fintech for sustainable development" (FT4SD) are designated and characterized. The toolbox of FT4SD is shown to be a triad of blockchain, AI and IoT, which together provide a synergistic effect of "decentralized finance", creating a virtually unlimited investment resource for technological innovation in the digital economy within the processes of sustainable development. Conclusions. Despite the difficult economic and epidemiological situation in the world in general and in Ukraine in particular, it has been shown that the ideology of "decentralized finance" has had and will have a positive result.
Precision aging. Human lifespan has intrinsic limits but measurable outcomes
Authors:   Department of Comparative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA., Ladiges Warren
Published: July 2021

A recent article by Pyrkov et al [1] suggests that progressive loss of physical resilience to aging coincides with an absolute limit of human lifespan in the range of 120 to 150 years. Furthermore, the authors conclude that end of life is an intrinsic biological property independent of internal or external stress factors
MODERN VOCATIONAL AND ARTS EDUCATION: CONTENT, PARADIGMS, TRADITIONS, INNOVATIONS, PROBLEMS
Authors: Pichkur Mykola
Published: July 2021

The article specifies the content of vocational and arts education as an educational and educative, as well as a developing system of theoretical and practical training of would-be specialists of art specialties. It results in their mastering of pictorial literacy, formative competence, and art skills. The article proves the paradigm methodology of this system functioning that includes complex graphic, pictorial, forming, and compositional students’ educating while art training and using integrative academism and digitalization. Here it is necessary to account just the proportion of art and pedagogical traditions, and innovative studying methods. Proceeding from the above mentioned facts the following different unsolved problematic issues are described: organization and institution oriented problems lie in poor techniques, alternative art and educational services, unacceptability of distant education; program and content issues show imperfection of architecture and creative orientation of educational and professional programs, one-sided handicraft descriptive training that exclude current developmental tendencies of visual art; educational and methodological – methodological limitation of authorial art schools, preference of conservative art and pedagogical methods, lack of specific literature on digital descriptive art; information and technological problems demonstrate information addiction to Internet sources, poor computer and program equipment and some difficulties in mastering the appropriate technologies; personal and self-organizing prove narrowing of interpersonal coordination, art and aesthetic world-view and determined self-regulation, as well as inadequate self-appraisal of educational and formative students’ progress.
Keywords: vocational and arts education, paradigm, tradition, innovation, descriptive training, academism, digitalization, information technologies, would-be specialists of art specialties.
USING THE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND MODERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING ENGLISH
Authors: Boyko Yakiv
Published: July 2021

The predominance of English in the media, particularly on the internet, have been responsible for driving change in language education policy and there is a global trend towards introducing English language teaching into the system of education.The introduction of web 2.0 network services in language education is one of the promising areas of informatization of the educational process, which helps to foster a stable communication competence in the students and design formative assessment under the guidance of an experienced teacher. Modern digital technologies with the transition to a more communicative approach offer new forms of assessments that were not available to us even ten years ago. Students have the opportunity to record videos while interacting in groups or even working on a monologue or story. Students often practice uploading podcasts and audio files and creating diary and wiki entries.The article deals with the benefits of digital technology during teaching English, which opens new perspectives on the assessment. The research describes the stages of the organization of assessment in the classroom, emphasizes the importance of feedback on testing, examines some factors that affect the teaching of English in terms of its assessment, gives an overview of the benefits of using washback effect and lists the problems associated with the use of information and communication technologies. The author explores the potential of using formative and summative assessments as well as the feedback to improve students' academic achievement and progress. Digital technology and assessment help us to achieve some of our goals: improved motivation, autonomy or closer cooperation between students, and so on. In addition, feedback can even be provided by students themselves, which contributes to the formation of self-assessment. Consequently, it becomes obvious what should be changed in the course on the basis of the assessment of students’ progress during the learning cycle.There is a lack of professionalism in the use of some information and communication technologies, which negatively affects the effectiveness of assessment systems of English.
Keywords: formative assessments, summative assessments, information and communication technologies, digital technologies, feedback, self-assessment, motivation, self-reflection, English.
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES OF TEACHING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Authors: Veremchuk Alla , Khomiak Оlha
Published: July 2021

The article is devoted to the problem of obtaining vital competencies in need of additional educational support. It is noted that inclusive education in Ukraine is an innovative educational process and, at the same time, one of the international obligations. Changes in domestic legislation gave a significant impetus to the development of inclusive education in our country. For systemic implementation, the principles of inclusive training the national legislation was brought into line with international norms and standards, however, and for the organization of an inclusive educational environment, it is important for the establishment of appropriate conditions in the institution of education. It has been confirmed that special role in working with children with special educational needs belongs to the innovative technologies. It is determined that technologies of inclusive education are structural elements of a holistic pedagogical system and are divided into technology of individualization of the educational process, technology of joint teaching in the inclusive class, technology of overcoming educational and behavioural difficulties, and technology of adaptation of the educational environment. The introduction of these technologies will provide development and self-development of the student's personality with special educational needs, will contribute to the disclosure of their potential opportunities, attracting all students to one or another type of work during the lesson, diversify the forms and methods of teaching the educational material, the successful implementation of the individual attendance of the student, which requires additional educational support. It is proved that the system of inclusive education is a complex process that requires a society to be patient and aware of importance and common interest. The result of the introduction of this system is the realization of the rights of children to get education and increase the social level of the country as a whole.
Keywords: inclusion, inclusive education, technologies of inclusive education, children with special educational needs, individualization of educational process, joint teaching in the inclusive class, overcoming educational and behavioural difficulties, adaptation of the educational environment.
THE FORMATION OF RESEARCH COMPETENCЕ OF THE 7TH GRADE PUPILS BY MEANS OF THE SECTION “ANIMAL BEHAVIOR”
Authors: Shapoval Larysa
Published: July 2021

The article highlights the problem of formation of research competences of 7th grade pupils by means of the school course of biology, in particular its section “Animal Behavior”.The role of observation among the methods used in biology is revealed. It does not require complex instruments and tools, and that is why it can be used with great success by pupils at school and become a mean of developing their research skills.The State Standard of Basic Secondary Education is analyzed in relation to the expected learning outcomes of pupils, where research competences are identified and united into groups: intellectual, practical, valuable, self-organization and self-control.Research competence formation program of pupils in extracurricular activities by means of the section “Animal behavior” is offered. The purpose of the program is to ensure the formation of research competence of 7th grade pupils based on awareness of the biological basis of behavioral reactions, knowledge of the mechanisms of animal and human behavior, behavior research methodology, mastering skills and abilities of research activities.Criteria are defined to assess the formation of research competence of pupils. Based on these criteria, the levels of formation of pupils’ skills of research competence are developed.The results of conducting a formative experiment on the development of the 7th grade pupils’ research competences by means of the section “Animal behavior” are highlighted. Ways of further development of the problem of pupils’ research competence formation taking into account the State standard of basic secondary education are outlined.It is found out that in the process of pupils’ research competence formation during the biology course mastering it is important to take into account the availability of forms and methods of research conducted by pupils; correspondence of the research topic to the age peculiarities and personal interests of pupils; pupils’ need for knowledge and understanding of the value of research activities.
Keywords: 7th grade biology course, research competence, State standard of basic secondary education, section “Animal behavior”, observation as a research method, components of research competence, Research competence formation program.
THE INFLUENCE OF NON-TRADITIONAL METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES ON THE PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL STATE OF OLDER PRESCHOOLERS WITH APHASIA
Authors: Kolisnyk Liudmyla
Published: July 2021

In the article, the author reveals the positive impact of non-traditional methods and technologies on the psycho-emotional state of older preschool children with speech disorders, which is called aphasia. The research is done on the author’s advanced pedagogical experience. The advantages of introducing non-traditional technologies into the educational process are clarified. The author shares the experience of implementing the most effective non-traditional methods and technologies for the correction of speech disorders in aphasia (information and communication technologies, sand-play technology, Sujok therapy, oral folk art, theater) and the results of their positive impact on behavior, well-being, attention, memory, and psycho-emotional state of the preschooler.The author shares the results of the introduction of shadow theater as the most effective means of speech development of older preschoolers with motor aphasia. The finger theater of shadows removes the tightness of children, shyness, and evokes positive emotions. Theater often helps when a child is capricious, and loses his temper, and also encourages to provide speech activity spontaneously.The article reveals the advantages of sand-play technology among other non-traditional methods and technologies, which liberates inner feelings and encourages creativity; children get great emotional satisfaction and lays the foundation for further development of positive communication skills.The author shows the necessity and expediency of the innovative method of Sujok therapy in correctional work with older preschool children with aphasia, as the development of fine motor skills of the fingers stimulates the development of the central nervous system and speech development of preschool children.The article presents the important role of folk art and information-communicative technologies at the organization of correction of phonemic disturbances at children of senior preschool age. Such tools are close and accessible to children, relieve stiffness, isolation, depression, evoke positive emotions, faith in their strength and desire to cooperate.The author displays the need to continue the study of a number of innovative methods of speech correction and further education of older preschool children with aphasia.
Keywords: aphasia, non-traditional methods, technologies, psycho-emotional state, sand-play technology, Sujok therapy, correction, speech disorders.
Delineating the characteristics of saline water intrusion in the coastal aquifers of Tamil Nadu, India by analysing the Dar-Zarrouk parameters
Authors: SINGH Somvir , GAUTAM Param K. , KUMAR Prashant , BISWAS Arkoprovo , SARKAR Tandrila
Published: July 2021

Tuticorin, located in the southeastern part of Tamil Nadu, is a coastal aquifer on which Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) was conducted, thereby analysing the interpreted subsurface resistivity layer parameters covering around 112 km2 area of the study region. VES is an essential tool for investigating hard rock terrains of coastal aquifers and perceive an idea about the groundwater quality. In this study, Dar-Zarrouk (D-Z) parameters like longitudinal conductance (Sc), transverse resistance (Tr) and anisotropy (λ) are analysed as these are well-established parameters in delineating the occurrence and distribution of both fresh and saline water aquifers. These parameters are also very persuasive in investigating complex subsurface parameters (resistivity and conductivity) within saline water intruded coastal region environment. After conducting a thorough survey, the resistivity results reflect that the sediments are enriched with saltwater, clay with moderate freshwater and freshwater-bearing formations. The analysis shows that the D-Z parameters offer a helpful and assured answer in demarcating the saline, moderate fresh, and freshwater aquifers. Therefore, the behaviour and patterns of the D-Z parameters in space established the existence of saline water and freshwater aquifer structures in the coastal aquifers over a vast area.
Deformation-induced topographic effect due to shallow dyke: Etna December 2018 fissure eruption case study
Authors: VAJDA Peter , ZAHOREC Pavol , PAPČO Juraj , CZIKHARDT Richard
Published: July 2021

Gravitational effect of surface deformation is in 4D microgravimetry treated as the deformation-induced topographic effect (DITE). The DITE field is computed using Newtonian volumetric integration which requires high resolution digital elevation model (DEM) and vertical displacement field in areal form. If only elevation changes on benchmarks of the gravimetric network are available, instead of the vertical displacement field, the DITE on benchmarks can be evaluated only approximately, using a planar Bouguer or a normal free-air-effect (nFAE) approximation. Here we analyze the adequacy and accuracy of these two approximations in a case study for the December 2018 fissure eruption on Etna accompanied by significant surface deformation caused primarily by a relatively shallow dyke. The outcome is that in volcanic areas of similar morphology as that over the Etna summit area, and for surface deformation fields due to relatively shallow dykes, neither the Bouguer nor the nFAE approximation of the DITE is accurate enough. In such situations the residual gravity changes should be computed with both the Bouguer and nFAE corrections and interpreted as two marginal cases. In addition we analyze also a correction for the effect of benchmark elevation change based on the topographically modelled (predicted) vertical gradient of gravity (VGG) meant to approximate the in-situ VGG values at benchmarks. This correction does not appear suitable to approximate the DITE in conditions of our case study or in broader sense.
Transition as Cultural Revitalization
Authors: Willow Anna J.
Published: July 2021

This article explores the Transition movement for climate change resilience as a cultural revitalization movement that is unfolding in response to the unique problems and prospects of the Anthropocene era. Drawing on ethnographic research, I suggest that personal well-being and community cohesion are essential motives for environmental movement participation. As Transition participants work to generate more satisfying cultural options, they relieve existential angst, reclaim the possibility of a positive future, create a safe space for radical resistance, and engender a simultaneously local and global sense of community. Ultimately, I argue that embracing environmental and (inter)personal action as both complementary and inextricably intertwined is essential if we are to catalyze the broad behavioral changes needed to evade catastrophic climate change and socioecological collapse.
Narratives of Socioecological Transition
Authors: Ferreira Vera , Carvalho António
Published: July 2021

This article explores narratives and characteristics of sociological transitions displayed by members of the Transition Network (TN) in Portugal. It is informed by scholarly work on grassroots innovations, sociological transition narratives, and environmental engagement in Portugal. It furthers this research in three ways: (1) it analyzes an original case study—the Portuguese TN; (2) it identifies and defines the various socioecological narratives conveyed by its participants; and (3) it interprets the TN’s sociopolitical appeal as a grassroots innovation in the context of environmental mobilization in Portugal. Drawing on 20 semistructured interviews with current and former members of the Portuguese TN, three narratives of sociological transition were identified—utopianism, inevitability, and pessimism—as well as seven characteristics that motivated interviewees’ engagement with the TN.
Somatic mosaicism in the MAPK pathway in sporadic brain arteriovenous malformation and association with phenotype
Authors: Gao Sen , Nelson Jeffrey , Weinsheimer Shantel , Winkler Ethan A. , Rutledge Caleb , Abla Adib A. , Gupta Nalin , Shieh Joseph T. , Cooke Daniel L. , Hetts Steven W. , Tihan Tarik , Hess Christopher P. , Ko Nerissa , Walcott Brian P. , McCulloch Charles E. , Lawton Michael T. , Su Hua , Pawlikowska Ludmila , Kim Helen
Published: July 2021

OBJECTIVE

Sporadic brain arteriovenous malformation (BAVM) is a tangled vascular lesion characterized by direct artery-to-vein connections that can cause life-threatening intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Recently, somatic mutations in KRAS have been reported in sporadic BAVM, and mutations in other mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway genes have been identified in other vascular malformations. The objectives of this study were to systematically evaluate somatic mutations in MAPK pathway genes in patients with sporadic BAVM lesions and to evaluate the association of somatic mutations with phenotypes of sporadic BAVM severity.

METHODS

The authors performed whole-exome sequencing on paired lesion and blood DNA samples from 14 patients with sporadic BAVM, and 295 genes in the MAPK signaling pathway were evaluated to identify genes with somatic mutations in multiple patients with BAVM. Digital droplet polymerase chain reaction was used to validate KRAS G12V and G12D mutations and to assay an additional 56 BAVM samples.

RESULTS

The authors identified a total of 24 candidate BAVM-associated somatic variants in 11 MAPK pathway genes. The previously identified KRAS G12V and G12D mutations were the only recurrent mutations. Overall, somatic KRAS G12V was present in 14.5% of BAVM lesions and G12D was present in 31.9%. The authors did not detect a significant association between the presence or allelic burden of KRAS mutation and three BAVM phenotypes: lesion size (maximum diameter), age at diagnosis, and age at ICH.

CONCLUSIONS

The authors confirmed the high prevalence of somatic KRAS mutations in sporadic BAVM lesions and identified several candidate somatic variants in other MAPK pathway genes. These somatic variants may contribute to understanding of the etiology of sporadic BAVM and the clinical characteristics of patients with this condition.